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Absolutely every substance that exists should be legal to possess and use. Choosing to put something in your body shouldn't land you behind bars and be branded a criminal for life, that's absurd. All the resources need to be redirected to proper (not propaganda) education to encourage people not to use them, and programs to help with addiction to help those who fall through and end up struggling with usage. Has prohibition or banning worked for anything, ever?

Just discovered this tool recently. Thought it would be useful to share in this sub-forum. It is called "I Am Sober" in the Google Play store. It's a free app that allows you to name and customize an addiction you'd like to quit or slow down on, and logs the time you've been sober from it even when you aren't using your phone! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thehungrywasp.iamsober&hl=en_CA You can track 3 things at once with the unpaid version, with a lot of support features. There is also a subscription if you want to get more serious about the number of things you track. It's an incredibly simple but effective tool. It's quite motivating to see yourself set streaks, and seeing the time stack up is very tangible. Hope this helps anyone struggling!

Love is like a thank you for someone accepting you, but it's reciprocal.

Try a simple reduction method with your calendar, literally mark it down. Give yourself permission to masturbate. But ONLY once per day on the allotted number of days. Try to only use porn every other day on the days you allow yourself to masturbate. Week 1 - 7 Days Week 2 - 6 Days Week 3 - 5 Days Week 4 - 4 Days Week 5 - 3 Days Week 6 - 2 Days Week 7 - 1 Day Week 8 - 0 Days This 2 months will give you plenty of time to slowly adjust and adapt your body and sex drive. As you complete each week and you gradually ween the frequency off, you will find you are much more capable and have a lot more willpower than you believe you do. Quitting cold turkey is simply not possible for 9/10 people trying to deal with any addiction. Don't be ashamed if you aren't apart of the small exception. Seriously give this a try. I know you can do it @mountain876!

I've seen it a long time ago, it's trash. Though men do have their issues, I have a plethora of hundreds of comments on my profile pointing out them out. Anyways she clearly only made the video because she's triggered and knows it's true Look at the like/dislike ratio between the videos and the comments.

What's wrong with draft dodging? Especially for a war as pointless as Vietnam was? I mean there are a lot things to grill Trump on for being a POS but I don't think this is one of them lol.

I mean say what you want about the guy, he became president of the most powerful nation on Earth basically by accident. Pretty impressive achievement you gotta admit.

The Liberals of today are the Conservatives of tomorrow. This is the general trend for nearly every society, across all of humanity. Liberals push for change, progress, and improvement. While Conservatives maintain tradition, order, and the status quo. Once that progress and improvement becomes "normalized" over many years (decades, centuries), it becomes the traditions of Conservatism. Liberals make society better, while Conservatives keep things stable and hold society back just enough so that the changes don't become too radical and chaotic. If you progress too fast people can't keep up and they backlash, which actually regress things and makes you worse off than where you started. This is why democracies have been so successful historically compared to every other system, because when you oscillate back and forth between Left and Right progress is healthy and actually attainable. If Conservatives won every single election for 25 years in a row society would stagnate to a halt and rot, while if Liberals won every election for 25 years things would nearly collapse because you would leave too many people behind which is a really bad idea, because obvious you can't just kick them out of society.

Here is a good way to get over it and dodge the bullet; If they extremely beautiful there is a high chance they are either crazy, neurotic, or very narcissistic (worst case scenario all 3). You have to realize they've spent their entire lives getting catered to by EVERY man they've come across, while not really having to do anything in return besides look pretty (and the little work to maintain that). This fosters a selfish attitude and outlook on life where they have delusional and unfair expectations in their relationships with men, who there are countless of trying to get with them. They get to pick the highest bidder from the lot, and the fool who offers and sacrifices the most to be with them can't ever slow down or slack off, or she's gone. They simply aren't worth all the work. You are giving up WAY more than you get in return. What you want to do is avoid that trap of temptation that the devil has set up and go for average/good looking women with awesome personalities. Or even a below average women with incredible personalities and integrity. Not only will it be less stressful in the long run, but you'll end up being happier when you realize looks don't really count for anything at all. It's just a thing for egos to flaunt to each other, "Hey look at this hot chick I'm with, be jealous." You think you want beautiful women, but you don't. What you really want is someone that loves and accepts you, first and foremost and regardless of their biological luck of the draw. People think this is a meme but it has truth to it. Come back to this reference when you lose your way;

@Psychic crocodile Throughout history people have defended or slaughtered others in the name of what they were convinced were "facts". Only to be mocked centuries later as being ignorant or insane as a new set of "facts" moved in to take their place. Beware of having such strong certainties of anything, you'll find that the results might not be desirable no matter how good the intentions seemed. You'll be very surprised how much more relativity plays into things than you currently think.

Oh boy what a dangerous place to be stuck in. Watch out.

We know Elliot Hulse is a meme, but we don't need to make a thread about everything he does lol.

There are no age restrictions for paying or entering any college or university. Any limitations are ones you create in your own mind. My mom went to nursing school at age 51.

That is the cost of selflessness.

Objectivity doesn't exist, it is always created. Of course it's always being created with a completely all consuming bias. Imagine being the rapist for a second, from their POV it's great! They get exactly what they want, nothing wrong with it from their perspective. Now you're upset and you're asking the universe to pick sides between the victim and the perpetrator about which perspective is "correct" and "objective", as if the universe is a person that can make distinctions. How absurd.

You are trolling, right? I like the approach, but the content could use improvement.

I have no fears. I am true to myself.

I don't want this, nor have any leanings towards any party (I'm Canadian). So don't ban me for my prediction haha. But yea Trump will win again sadly. - He will dumpster Biden in the debates. Have no doubt about that. It will be worse than vs Hillary. - The BLM protests and riots are making regular people sway right. Just pay close attention to the culture war and you'll notice it. - Bernie lost AGAIN and many of those lefties will not want to settle for Biden. - Self-fulfilling prophecy; Everyone is scared of Trump winning a second term, it will come true. - Most political parties win because they offer a vision for the future that people want, the Democrats and lefties general attitude and plan is more about making Trump lose then giving America a proper direction. This kind of approach almost always loses. People want something to vote FOR, not AGAINST.

I know you don't like me from that other thread but anyways; Marriage is an antiquated idea. The brutal truth is anybody can leave any relationship, at any time, for any reason. No piece of paper, institution, or words will EVER bind that freedom. This renders marriage a farce, because there is an overwhelming social pressure that forces people to be naive to this truth. This can open up a whole host of problems that can rot the integrity of ANY marriage - because if either partner ever gets a sliver of doubt at any point it can make them feel trapped, resentful, and that they have to stay in the relationship because they made it "official". This negative motivation will not sustain things, only positive motivation can. Of course by all means if you've been in a relationship a long time with someone, and your life trajectories line up it can be an amazing thing! Just know that marriages that last until death especially these days are incredibly rare, you have to look around and ask yourself. Can you really pull it off? The fact you haven't been in a relationship yet means you probably shouldn't commit to that idea yet until you've had some years experience, so you can really know what you want for yourself. However I don't see why people who are in love can't commit to each other for life without having to sign some government document and throw a $15,000 party. The idea that it doesn't "count" unless you get married is a ridiculous social standard. If it goes south you are fucked. The possessions and finances are never split fairly, and it's a stressful nightmare dealing with all the paperwork and legal stuff. Speaking for myself, but I don't need anyone nor the government to tell me if I'm truly committed to someone. If my companion and I want to stay together for life we will discuss and it and then do it.

It's just an observation of something blatantly obvious. Nobody intellectually honest would look at the modern sex industry and say it's not overwhelmingly male-centric in it's interests. As @Moon said though with the advent of OnlyFans and other online alternatives the landscape is changing and the power is shifting.

They don't make that stuff often because the market is too small for it. The majority of porn is produced and consumed by the common denominator - piggish selfish men who just want to get off, they don't care for things like intimacy or emotional connection. Ironically those things are exactly what they need and what they really want deep down, they just don't know it. In the future as society evolves we will start to move away from Stage Red/Orange misogynist male-centered porn, and a more accepting Stage Green "feminine-gratifying" porn will move in to take it's place. This will also be paired with the legitimization and decriminalization of sex workers, and women in these industries getting more rights and being treated better more broadly in social culture.

@Leo Gura Probably hard to answer this, but how worthwhile do you think this investment has been? Have they made you feel incredibly healthy compared to what you felt before, or what you would have without them?

Had sort of a realization, just wondering if it means anything or leads anywhere. Basically I had the thought after reflecting on what Leo has said about "everything is pure imagination". Which I understand conceptually, but haven't directly. Still, after sitting on it for a while I noticed something; Isn't the ability of complex organisms like human beings to imagine things essentially direct/pure evidence of getting a taste or fraction of what being God is? Of course our imaginations don't appear to be that powerful, as the imaginations remain in our heads and don't manifest in what we traditionally call "reality". It took billions of years just on this particular planet for life to evolve to a point where there are living things that have "imagination". While all of what we consider non-living things don't have this ability (as far as things appear). This process of evolution seems to be moving in a linear fashion >>>>> From nothing being able to imagine >>>>> To more and more things being able to. If this line reaches it's conclusion eventually we (or something else) become so powerful at imagination that a singularity is reached, and there is an inflection point where God basically holds a mirror up to itself through it's own imagination (us), then once the "gig" is up so to say, it starts the process all over again? Is this what you meant @Leo Gura when you said "God is so powerful it tricks itself into forgetting what it is."? So what we call reality is simply an infinite oscillation of God forgetting and remembering? Sorry if this is all over the place, or I don't know what I'm talking about. It's just hard to articulate these things through only language.

You are good looking to me mate!