Wolfman
Active Member
Hi Phineas,
I think we are really on the same page. My comments were more reinforcing reflections of what you're already know and do. When I referred to white-knucking, e.g., I did not mean it the sense that you were doing this. Thank you for your thorough reply to my comments! It really helped me to understand your position better.
Congrats also on the 90 days! It looks like you have quite the system and thought in place behind your actions and intentions. Whereas PMO grounds itself mainly in immediate gratifications and the loss of control; its antitode is the much more rewarding (increasingly compounding) delayed gratification and the achievement of self-mastery through taking charge of one's life, doing the work that needs to be done. Ultimately, not for anything or anyone else than yourself (as you write in your reply). I see PMO reducing us to means and tools for someone's "other" gratification--because how can it not be so, if we become qualitatively worse through it (something either helps us more or helps us less). To have a system means to be committed to a principle, and commitment to a principle requires one has a real idea, and a real, working idea is something self-made, creative, enduring, coherent and rational (pornography, on the other hand, is merely ready-made, numbing, fleeting, perverse and irrational).
Keep building that system, Phineas! God be with you.
I think we are really on the same page. My comments were more reinforcing reflections of what you're already know and do. When I referred to white-knucking, e.g., I did not mean it the sense that you were doing this. Thank you for your thorough reply to my comments! It really helped me to understand your position better.
Congrats also on the 90 days! It looks like you have quite the system and thought in place behind your actions and intentions. Whereas PMO grounds itself mainly in immediate gratifications and the loss of control; its antitode is the much more rewarding (increasingly compounding) delayed gratification and the achievement of self-mastery through taking charge of one's life, doing the work that needs to be done. Ultimately, not for anything or anyone else than yourself (as you write in your reply). I see PMO reducing us to means and tools for someone's "other" gratification--because how can it not be so, if we become qualitatively worse through it (something either helps us more or helps us less). To have a system means to be committed to a principle, and commitment to a principle requires one has a real idea, and a real, working idea is something self-made, creative, enduring, coherent and rational (pornography, on the other hand, is merely ready-made, numbing, fleeting, perverse and irrational).
Keep building that system, Phineas! God be with you.