Carl-Richard

The last time I ever bought vodka, I legitimately think I caused irreparable damage to my brain It was bad. I was dressed like Walter White at a Halloween party in 2019, grew out a perfect replica of his goatee over the course of a month, and had bought an insane amount of vodka with the intention to share it with everyone at the party. Turns out the party had about 60 people cramped up in a house across three floors, and there wasn't enough room to sit down and chat with people. So I ended up walking around with a huge vodka bottle in my hand, from person to person, giving them vodka while I drank the same amount as them. For some reason, I forgot to keep count of how much I had to drink, and I was constantly showered with compliments for my outfit, so my energy levels became pretty unhinged (I was also on some kind of nofap streak lol). I ended up blacking out while being unable to walk or use my phone, and the moment it dawned on me was when I fell down some stairs and was knocked back into consciousness for a second. In that moment, I was like "oh fuck...". Not long after that, the police arrived because of a noise complaint, and I somehow managed to walk right past them, but I literally couldn't stand upright outside. My friend wanted me home and ordered me a cab, I was shoved into the cab, and then I literally teleported home while puking in the cab (rip 300 dollars). I couldn't even pay for the cab, named the wrong home address many times, and I emptied out the contents of my wallet all across the neighborhood, and I had to collect it from the neighbors the day after. I couldn't unlock the door to the house, because it had a very similar password to my moms house, and I must've either mixed them up or just dialed it wrong. I had to bang on the door like a gorilla to wake up my roommate so he could open (I got very desperate because it was cold and I was dehydrated as fuck and thought I was going to die). He was stunned lol. The entire week after that incident, I couldn't think straight, and I felt like absolute garbage. Yay, vodka

Psychiatric diagnoses exist for the purposes of helping people with their problems. Without psychiatric diagnoses, we have no way to systematize which treatments should be used in which cases. If you want professional help, there is no way around it. The reason people take psychiatric diagnoses so seriously is because they're associated with real problems. That doesn't excuse the stigma, but it partially explains it.

Cute mouse ?

I don't think so. That means you misunderstood what the work is about. What is the teaching doing in your mind and not your body? You didn't master riding the bike, only read a lot about biking. It's about implicit learning, inarticulate wisdom, integration.

@StarStruck Save that one somewhere

No he didn't lol. His Red is dominant, but he also has strong Orange and Blue: male-only polygamy, "escape the Matrix", "build an empire of strong men".

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/1874574?utm_source=Silverchair Information Systems&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JAMAPsychiatry:OnlineFirst05/28/2014#Discussion It's not a longitudinal study, so you can't say anything about causality, so the statement "porn causes decay in the grey matter in the brain" is misleading. The study only shows a correlation between porn consumption and grey matter volume. Maybe it's the other way around; that low grey matter volume causes increased porn consumption. That correlation is also not very strong (r = -0.432). A strong correlation is generally in the range of r = +- 0.50-1.00. Also, there were very few under-1hr watchers in the study (only 11 people). I consider myself in the 30 minute to 1hr range, so the results of the study aren't very specific to me. Besides, the 0 hr watchers alone (only 3 people btw) covered half the range of the values provided.

@Oeaohoo You actually agree with me kinda

Where? LOL. Have you visited Catholic.com? Nofap forums: the pinnacle of scientific inquiry.

@Bobby_2021 I just think you're dealing way too much in hypotheticals and not any actual data.

You're the one who is incessantly insisting that there are serious downsides to it. Why are you asking me about what those are? ?

Idk. You tell me. You're the porn inquisitor.

I think that's a bit dramatic. Smoking a pack a day vs. watching porn twice a week are not at all in the same ballpark. I like toasted bread. Toasting it is nothing but harmful. I only do it for taste. It's a trade-off I'm willing to accept.

Look at the channel that posted it.

Nothing in life is fully harmless.

Like the literacy obligation in Judaism?

I don't need advice. I have zero problems with brain fog or energy.

I didn't get that impression. Leo looks like he had a pretty wild psychedelic trip. DP/DR is pretty different territory.

Are you kidding? Of course it is. Ever heard of supertasters? And yes, genetics impacts everything. You wouldn't be able to exist without genetics. But you're not talking about statistical anomalies in a diverse set of people. You're talking about a group of people, and the primary thing that unites these people is a common culture and history. Therefore, if this group excels over some other group, the first way to explain it would be by looking at it culturally and historically, and there we have many good explanations (look at my link). Unless you believe that genetics were somehow the main cause of those group differences, you don't have a case. Ok, let me rephrase it: invoking genetics in a discussion is meaningless unless 1. you're referencing empirical data that go into specific numbers, or 2. you're making a specific argument for why genetics is particularly relevant in this case. For example, what selection pressures are you referring to? Which hormones do Jews have more of? Hearing about a group that excels at something and then saying "uh, must be genetics" is vacuous.

Personal experience. You can find evidence, not just experimental scientific evidence. People talk about having precognitions or weird dreams all the time. I remember Bernardo Kastrup once talked about an experience his wife had that he had no way of refuting: 1:33:57

It is though In what context? In what way? Sources?

Psychic powers can still exist even though you can't prove their existence in a scientific experiment.

If you go for a very long time without fapping while believing very strongly that fapping is not a good thing, and then you finally do fap, of course you're going to feel like shit. The longer you go, the bigger the crash, and the more mental energy you invest into that project, when the project fails, of course you'll feel bad. On the other hand, if you find a stable and healthy rhythm of fapping and you also don't waste any mental energy thinking about it afterwards, it's completely different. I promise you that this will help for the escalation problem: learn how to differentiate between "the organic feeling of sexual energy" vs. "short bursts of arousal driven by mental images". The organic feeling is in some way present all the time, and it builds up progressively day by day, while the short bursts of arousal go up and down quickly based on the mental images in your mind. If you can learn to pinpoint exactly where your organic feeling is usually at a high point and where going any further starts to become disproportionally uncomfortable (for me it's every 3-4 days), in my experience, that is where you'll find the optimal fapping frequency with respect to brain fog and energy issues. I promise you, it's so much better than the alternative for so many reasons. Also, one big thing is that when you actually do fap, you'll not be overwhelmed by lethargy and brain fog, but instead you'll be sitting blissed out for 1-2 hours while your mind is crystal clear. It's actually amazing how much your body rewards you when you do the right thing at exactly the right time. If you keep hitting the optimal balance head-on; straight in the bulls eye, every time; that is what health is, and it feels amazing.

This is circular reasoning. Everything is impacted by genetics, so when you do something, it is impacted by genetics. Questions about genetics are completely uninteresting unless you're able to quantify exactly how much of it is genetics vs. environment.

If I were to give my biased summary of that entire debacle: I value being aware of self-deception mechanisms more than I value single lines of consistent logic, and Thisintegrated does the opposite.