Thanks so much for the helpful responses. I've fallen a few times but I'm working to improve. Sorry if late response, I don't use Zig Forums regularly anymore, and am working at cutting out the internet. (Only here to see responses.)
I disagree with the go wild part. I'd rather be in a marriage where I can emotionally connect with the person rather than rely on sex. I personally view my strong libido as my enemy. Thought of chemical castration but I'm certain it'd be better to not do that and conquer my lust a new way.
This is a good idea. I try to keep myself busy. But sometimes I get frustrated with what I'm doing and it makes it worse!
I hear you. I've tried multiple times from abstaining from internet and video games and such awhile ago. I left Zig Forums all together last year but would come back at least once or twice a month to ask certain questions that had been eating me, questions I've felt too shameful to ask. Truth is I don't come here anymore. Been five or more months off any chan before I made this post. don't want to use the internet anymore, either. It's very difficult though! The internet is all around me, and it's a useful tool. However, since I was happiest cutting the internet to a bear minimum, I'll be sure to do that.
>>would you still worry if there were no such thing as sin?
Yes, absolutely, I would given this moment. Lust is such a far distance from real love and emotional connection with people, in my eyes. It's perverted and clouded my actual wants in terms of emotional fulfillment for so long. However, there use to be a huge feeling that God absolutely despised me, and it made me feel like I couldn't do any good if I wanted to.That feeling was more of a guttural reaction.
Thanks to some reflecting, although I still fall into porn, the guilt is less, because I've realized what I actually want is in line with Christ's teachings. And I want to live a Christian life. It's the only way I can picture myself as happy or good.
Both. As I said, I believe strong lust and pornography takes away from natural affection, in an emotional sense. It has for me. It's like a carefully crafted lie that distracts you from living. I don't care about the physical effects in the slightest. I also want to live as Christ has commanded deep down. I think I'm beginning to understand your line of questioning. I've never been properly raised in a Christian home, have had a huge athiest phase, decided slowly I wanted to come to Christianity, but am still new. What I've read from The Bible has been life altering, but I am definitely new.
An explanation I would personally give is that lust takes us away from the important things in life, it creates the person as an object, it's inherently selfish and cruel and entirely materialistic. It denies the soul, and likens man to a mere animal, unable to see the ultimate worth of people as children of God. Strong carnality is always incredibly selective and selfish.
I appreciate the effort, but I don't know about forgetting about psychology. I don't believe pure ocd is a death sentence as much as a unique difficulty. Also look up William James, considered to be the father of modern psychology, was a Christian, and argued the faith from both a philosophic and psychological point of view. Though I agree pure faith is far better.
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