I consider myself responsible for where I put my attention to. How I respond to something. This is my responsibility. I'd say that between stimulus and response lies responsibility.
If I get triggered by something. How I react to this is both my free will. A freedom of choice that nobody can take away even if they take everything else. But this is also my responsibility. I am responsible for my thoughts and emotions, my values and my attitude.
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Frankl of you, lol...! This is good stuff. Because you not only express the limitations of free-will (terms and limits apply), but you also show a very important dynamic in habit change, and that is the empty space
between cue and response, and that in that empty space is the key to our victory, our recovery, our reboot.
In that empty space, too, as you said, is our responsibility.
Spot-on, too, about the fun playground (prison) that the super-rich have created for us, tailor made toward our self-destruction. I've been musing on that for a while now, how that, like the porn industry, social media and big-tech have purposely designed their platforms specifically to cater toward our baser natures. They understand addiction and habit, and have designed these things to literally addict us to their wares.
It perhaps is no big surprise that my own victories of late are an (at least) indirect result of my habit-changes around use of social media, and of the iPhone in general.
Seeing the ejaculatory fluids as something precious, as life, as a part of our very selves is very interesting and important. In some circles, they'll use this 'stuff' for magical workings, and as you're aware in Hinduism (semen retention), and Taoism too, utilizes this.
Seeing this as sacred is another way of seeing yourself as sacred, as the Temple of the Sacred. And it will help in appreciating and enjoying the purity of walking in harmony with this truth.
