The Struggle to do Good

[The Grand Nudger]

Tennis balls aren't exactly rare or hard to come by.

[possibletarian]

I used to view pornography, but I stopped because of God's prompting, and I believe this prompting, pull, or urge can be used as evidence for God's existence. I didn't grow up in a Christian home. I didn't even grow up in a religious home. And I've grown up during a time where pornography is no longer seen as a taboo. So, where did this very powerful urge to not view pornography come from? I've always believed in God, but this urge didn't come in the form of, "Do not look at this or you're going to Hell," or "Do not look at this because God says so!" This urge was voiceless, foundational, and powerful.

In an attempt to uncover the source of this urge, I remember asking myself various questions like if two consenting adults choose to have sex on camera and purposely disseminate the footage to the public, then in what way am I wronging anyone by viewing the footage in the privacy of my own home? Or perhaps an even better example would be an unmarried woman who photographs herself nude, and then purposely disseminates the photo to the public. Why am I being urged to not look at such material?

If societal pressures or my upbringing did not produce this urge, then what or who produced it? If I were an atheist, then I suppose my next step would be to look at nature itself or more specifically, evolution. But the urge doesn't seem to come from there either, because how would it benefit the survival of the species for its members to not gaze upon unmarried naked women? On the contrary, if evolution were truly unguided and chiefly about increasing the survivability of each species, then I'd expect to have a powerful urge to look at naked unmarried women without any inner conflict.

If upbringing, society, or nature isn't producing this urge, then is this not a signpost to God? More specifically, to the Holy Spirit? I believe so.

With that being said, if you feel this prompting to do good, then it is from God and you should listen. He's trying to guide you to Him.

Oh you must be doing the religion thing wrong, apparently your fellow believers love porn..

We examined associations between state-level religiosity/conservatism and anonymized interest in searching for sexual content online using Google Trends (which calculates within-state search volumes for search terms). Across two separate years, and controlling for demographic variables, we observed moderate-to-large positive associations between: (1) greater proportions of state-level religiosity and general web searching for sexual content and (2) greater proportions of state-level conservatism and image-specific searching for sex”…

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2019/10/...lt-states/

[GrandizerII]

Remember OP that Jesus is always watching you ...

[possibletarian]

Remember OP that Jesus is always watching you ...

Can't say if i were Jesus i would want to watch him.

[Little lunch]

Yeah, they come along, act half respectable, test the waters, get abused, get grumpy, turn into cunts and then fuck off.
I know a lot of you see it in the 'half respectable phase'.
I never cotton on until the 'turn into cunts' stage. :-)

[Abaddon_ire]

Yeah, they come along, act half respectable, test the waters, get abused, get grumpy, turn into cunts and then fuck off.
I know a lot of you see it in the 'half respectable phase'.
I never cotton on until the 'turn into cunts' stage. :-)

It is down to experience.

Like the cunt Johan in another thread. I knew he was a cunt from the moment he registered. Because...experience. He is a horror show all his own.

[Foxaèr]

I used to view pornography, but I stopped because of God's prompting, and I believe this prompting, pull, or urge can be used as evidence for God's existence. I didn't grow up in a Christian home. I didn't even grow up in a religious home. And I've grown up during a time where pornography is no longer seen as a taboo. So, where did this very powerful urge to not view pornography come from? I've always believed in God, but this urge didn't come in the form of, "Do not look at this or you're going to Hell," or "Do not look at this because God says so!" This urge was voiceless, foundational, and powerful.

In an attempt to uncover the source of this urge, I remember asking myself various questions like if two consenting adults choose to have sex on camera and purposely disseminate the footage to the public, then in what way am I wronging anyone by viewing the footage in the privacy of my own home? Or perhaps an even better example would be an unmarried woman who photographs herself nude, and then purposely disseminates the photo to the public. Why am I being urged to not look at such material?

If societal pressures or my upbringing did not produce this urge, then what or who produced it? If I were an atheist, then I suppose my next step would be to look at nature itself or more specifically, evolution. But the urge doesn't seem to come from there either, because how would it benefit the survival of the species for its members to not gaze upon unmarried naked women? On the contrary, if evolution were truly unguided and chiefly about increasing the survivability of each species, then I'd expect to have a powerful urge to look at naked unmarried women without any inner conflict.

If upbringing, society, or nature isn't producing this urge, then is this not a signpost to God? More specifically, to the Holy Spirit? I believe so.

With that being said, if you feel this prompting to do good, then it is from God and you should listen. He's trying to guide you to Him.

I don't struggle to do good, because looking at porn is not bad.

[Mr.wizard]

How much of it is really a "struggle" when you have an magical friend who can just yank the urge to do bad right from your mind.

[Foxaèr]

How much of it is really a "struggle" when you have an magical friend who can just yank the urge to do bad right from your mind.

Except that in reality even the theists know this to be false. They are ultimately in control of themselves, albeit simply while clinging to a belief system involving a deity that does not exist, and only their belief in a false doctrine of do's and dont's sadly guides them against their natural instincts.

[The Grand Nudger]

Meh, anyone who ever tries this moral argument, no matter how polite they phrase it, is a complete asshole. It's a derivative of divine ethnocentrism. Incapable of maintaining the idea of a chosen people as a single biological race, they refer to a spiritual race instead. A two tier system where the chosen people are the only ones who know right from wrong - the rest of us morally incapable savages. It's been used to great effect in the past to form categories of subhuman, and whatever that categorization helps us to justify.