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(DIR) Post #AI8vf71rL30TZjkmX2 by luke@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-05T15:24:23.617Z
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Don’t blame me! Soyence tells me I’m just an NPC!See the original video: https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/ts7vvbtonF7US9mHLksDwY
(DIR) Post #AI8xta5aI42jfMWTjc by ryo@video.076.ne.jp
2022-04-05T15:49:23.166Z
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I don't even understand why so many Americans make such a big deal out of pornography.Maybe they consider it morally wrong, but the entire rest of the world doesn't really care as much, yet they believe their moral compass is universally identical, and therefore they go on a desperate crusade against even a tiny bit too much exposure of the skin, regardless if the character in question is real or fictional.
(DIR) Post #AI8yubO72xKpwEEwXg by tufek@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-05T16:00:48.479Z
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Actually the act of justifying an immoral position or action by telling stories or getting away from them is not restricted to children and many adults also do this. This is pretty close to the "fudge factor" concept and some other mental tricks described by Dan Ariely in The Honest Truth about Dishonnesty (no virgin-neurbollocks out there only Chad experimental cognitive psychology).
(DIR) Post #AI8yyo3vrhH4PDo0p6 by tufek@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-05T16:01:34.348Z
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Actually justifying an immoral position or action by telling stories or getting away (physically or conceptually) from them is not restricted to children and many adults also do this. This is pretty close to the "fudge factor" concept and some other mental tricks described by Dan Ariely in The Honest Truth about Dishonnesty (no virgin-neurbollocks out there only Chad experimental cognitive psychology).
(DIR) Post #AI8zP8kvY9N87ATOPw by macoy_abz@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-05T16:06:19.704Z
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When I decided to quit smoking I thought it'd be wise to took the opportunity and cut the porn and cooming too. It was not that hard really. Now I'm almost a year without porn. I didn't get any superpower but I think I got my dopamine circuitry slowly coming back to normal after almost 2 decades of cooming.
(DIR) Post #AI914GBYvoHoz56R0K by supreme_neet@kraut.zone
2022-04-05T16:24:57.200Z
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Oh, another video from my favorite series!
(DIR) Post #AI9AKUhnc69sEnzt32 by splitshockvirus@videos.danksquad.org
2022-04-05T18:08:43.870Z
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Let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
(DIR) Post #AI9Gm1C3X0GGXceo9A by Hound8@101010.pl
2022-04-05T19:20:50Z
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@luke Hey Luke ! Great video ! I completely agree that almost every generic impulse can be resisted by our will. I also agree that too many people make mental illnesses an excuse for their bad behavior. Actual mental problems stem from things far more complicated and long lasting than simple temptation and although those problems do exist, the actual cure is often to lead an upstanding life. Straightening your paths makes you free. The particular specific conundrums of what "leading an upstanding life" actually means being up to debate. Bu the general direction is not.
(DIR) Post #AI9GvsMTDuda2rEFhw by Hound8@101010.pl
2022-04-05T19:22:35Z
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@luke Hey Luke ! Great video ! I completely agree that almost every generic impulse can be resisted by our will. I also agree that too many people make mental illnesses an excuse for their bad behavior. Actual mental problems stem from things far more complicated and long lasting than simple temptation and although those problems do exist, the actual cure is often to lead an upstanding life. Straightening your paths makes you free. The particular specific conundrums of what "leading an upstanding life" actually means being up to debate. But the general direction is not.
(DIR) Post #AI9KTNk5s0lOn3wmQq by nathandavis@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-05T20:02:18.081Z
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Abandoning yourself to sin is a very serious cope that, in the Catholic world, is known as despair. It is a vice and a deficiency in the virtue of hope that disposes the soul to not accept grace. We should all pray that God infuse us with hope, enlighten our intellects, and give us the strength to subordinate our wills to our properly formed intellects.According to the exorcist priest Fr. Chad Ripperger, demons can suggest things to your imagination. In the post-"Enlightenment" world given to us by midwit Freemasons and Humanists, the demonic is so baked into our culture that one could almost be forgiven for giving in to despair. But, even now, we won't be forgiven for it. Paul wrote in Philippians 2 to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.And, if you're not using RSS and letting the probably-demonic youtube algorithm guide your consooming, God help you.
(DIR) Post #AI9LhsCPWt1nG5fLvM by francis_lavoie@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-05T20:16:13.362Z
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I believe in you.
(DIR) Post #AI9PpByanRsqRKwq8m by chedieck@video.qoto.org
2022-04-05T21:02:20.200Z
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You're wrong here, Luke.For something to be called an addiction, it may be sufficient — but is not necessary — that it induces the type of behavior you described, cold turkey, shakes, etc.You can think of "gambling addiction" or "marijuana addiction" (I myself have been addicted to marijuana for over 5 years, and upon finally stopping I suffered no cold turkey whatsoever).Don't you think cigarettes are addictive? But take a look at Allen Carr's "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" book: he was a chain smoker for over 15 years and, upon stopping, felt no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. Are cigarettes "just a habit" then?You are also subestimating the power that porn & cigarettes, for example, have as a drug. Porn is something that brings no good at all and causes TONS of harm, if you think that 99% of men use it because they are weak willed, you are simply being arrogant. They use because they are addicted, and yes, addiction makes us come up with various lies to justify our behavior. They will lie to themselves saying they will use because of stress, or this, or that, and those are all lies — they use because they are addicted. It's the amygdala spawning false thoughs to get the dopamine fix it craves. Smokers will do the same.You are also dismissing addicts' problems with your strawman of somebody who accepts no responsibility, which really goes to show how little you understand about the subject. Addicts will cover themselves in shame, precisely because they feel responsible (when I was a porn user, for example, there were times I would flag myself with a belt to reprehend and take responsibility for what I did). This shame is useless, it increases fear and fear is what keeps addicts trapped — heck, even twelve steps recovery have its root on accepting that you can't stop by your own, check steps 3 and 7. It goes on the assumption that you have to have the humility to see that you addiction is not something under your control: that's why you can't moderate it — of course, you shouldn't want that because there are no benefits — but you wouldn't be able to do it anyway.Dismissing anything that doesn't make you shake upon quitting it as "just a habit" that "irresponsible" people use is simply arrogant. It's wonderful that you don't suffer from any of these addictions (and not from any addiction at all, for what I could grasp from your video), that shows that you are have very concrete, non-negotiable values. But please, if you want to help people (which I am absolutely sure you do), have more humility. Consider that you may not understand why people act as they do. Don't see as if ignoring Satan is simple and that we should mock those who listen to him as dumb or malevolent people, they are victims. We all have the power to follow the path of God, and we should do our best to take those deviate from it by the hand and show how this path is better in every way.PS: estev.in/anti-porn.html for those struggling with porn addiction.
(DIR) Post #AI9e7cU2Ng7PDmKyEi by zoraster@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-05T23:42:32.837Z
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@chedieck@video.qoto.org Luke is being empowering by telling people that they can have control over their life. You are implicitly thinking of people as subhuman when you you interject yourself saying that "they" can't help themselves or that they are held back by institutions or whatever ― you are saying that they are animals that can't control themselves. I'm not Luke but from the video the impression I get is that he thinks people has been mislead and doesn't hold much contempt for the people that have problems. God by his grace has given us free will.
(DIR) Post #AI9k1yNKfr156ZtLHM by chedieck@video.qoto.org
2022-04-06T00:48:45.720Z
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@zoraster> saying that "they" can't help themselves or that they are held back by institutions or whatever ― you are saying that they are animals that can't control themselves. I don't know where did you get that from, my point is that there is an evil power that acts on people; of course they can help themselves to make better choices, as I said: we all have the power to follow the path of God. But dismissing the power of an addiction as a simple matter of "taking responsibility" is simply naive and wrong, anyone who has struggled with addiction know that. And saying that porn isn't an addiction because it has no physical cold turkey shaking symptoms is also naive and wrong.
(DIR) Post #AI9kQ5iz09daqeWF5E by abdjag@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-06T00:53:07.030Z
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@ryo@video.076.ne.jp >anime pfp>literal japanese email>doesn't think poorn is a big dealWhen I initiate my jihad, Inshallah I shall make you appear on the list of casualties.
(DIR) Post #AI9lVxkZf9ELo9cvmS by abdjag@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-06T01:05:23.882Z
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Did you know that pooornhub was founded by one of the Chosen People?
(DIR) Post #AI9nb9nMVUrWWMXGC0 by zoraster@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-06T01:28:44.727Z
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@chedieck@video.qoto.org Institutions? I meant to say drives and/or brain chemistry (freudian slip). Though people not making changes with the excuse that someone is "just going to stop me anyway" is a thing that I see a lot. Classically (and still in modernity through Kant?) ― free will is literately what differentiates us from machines and animals. The idea that we have the ability to impact the world around us and move how we please. It is the foundation of all ethics because people can be held accountable for their actions.When you start talking about "addiction" then you kind of just reduce a person to a a thing that can be controlled like a machine. You give this chemical to this person which causes him to do that ― you are not talking about something that has agency at this point. This is why I said that you are being dehumanizing.Also don't be too quick to assume that I haven't had my own problems with substances. You don't know me or my past. Luke's first video on this actually helped me a lot getting off my ass.
(DIR) Post #AI9oo4C4kC0wrpoZSi by zeev_dawid@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-06T01:42:17.421Z
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Kidults. Love it. I would love to hear your thoughts on Sam Harris' book "Free Will". Your text about the problems with utilitarianism and Harris' book "The Moral Landscape" is by far the best response I've read or heard online or offline on that specific topic. Would be interesting to read your thoughts about free will.The previous video on "fleeing temptation" really helped me overcome all of my additions. Yes, even the internet. Your text "Modern Freedom Means Being a Slave to Impulses" did the final cut for me. I've never really thought about it that way. It clicked like nothing else, that I've ever heard on the addiction and how to live meaningful life, before. Thank you. P.S. I have translated the text. Would you be interested in having an option of changing the language of texts you have on your website? Original text is always the best, but this way I could not only make my friends read the text, since some of them don't have as advanced English skills as needed, but also check your website at the same time.The language is Serbian. Greetings from the Orthodox Christian State of Serbia. Also my group of friends and myself gave you a, Serbian Orthodox baptismal name - Luka Kovačević. Luka is a common name over here and kovač means smith. Suffix "vić" goes for our last names.
(DIR) Post #AI9qJe8pF2rTHuutuq by neet@video.076.ne.jp
2022-04-06T01:59:10.706Z
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will use the term kidults now
(DIR) Post #AIASEGLe4c5MIxlzP6 by chedieck@video.qoto.org
2022-04-06T09:03:26.544Z
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@zoraster> When you start talking about "addiction" then you kind of just reduce a person to a a thing that can be controlled like a machine. You give this chemical to this person which causes him to do that ― you are not talking about something that has agency at this point. This is why I said that you are being dehumanizing.No. You can talk about addiction an still see a person as a person. We have free will, but it's not like we are gonna be 100% unbiased on our choices, right? If somebody punches you in the face just to prove this point, you are gonna feel very much inclined to punch back, even though you didn't have to. You have hormones that say how is your mood gonna be, thinking that none of that matters or of that acknowledging it is reducing people to machines does not make any sense.
(DIR) Post #AIAkvtpKxwm8NDcOzQ by josh_bergman@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-06T12:33:31.210Z
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Thanks for calling me out as much as in the last one, genuinely appreciated
(DIR) Post #AIB0K2JWYuNkxQhnxA by bruma_hobo@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-06T15:26:01.754Z
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Back when I was a coomer I realized that porn sites were tracking what I was watching despite some of my measures to remain anonymous, and I immediately thought of stopping watching porn sites. Then I realized that I was being a moron: we're ALWAYS being watched, and not by a mere mortal. Heck, even fedora-boys who believe in no "sky daddy" would agree that they're also being judged by *themselves*.
(DIR) Post #AIBADrL9RrUGj99ycq by nathandavis@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-06T17:16:58.042Z
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@chedieck@video.qoto.org So it's a lack of humility that causes Luke to take this approach on this issue, and not any other cause? How did you come to this conclusion? Maybe a more charitable interpretation is that he thinks modern society coddles people enough and sometimes a kick in the pants is called for. Or maybe, reading esoteric books written by ancient and medieval writers has given him a different view of what a human person fundamentally is than what reddit pharmacucks preach.I don't think there was some cringe 12 step program that helped St. Augustine stop cooming. Stop listening to what self help gurus and psychologists have to say, and give pre-modern writers a chance.
(DIR) Post #AIBbqqz1PHX3fzcxDk by zoraster@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-06T22:26:32.947Z
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@chedieck@video.qoto.org A machine is something with a definite function. You input (x) and get out (y). When you start talking about how someone must behave when exposed to a substance or stimulant you are (by definition) talking about a machine. Input(punch) -> Output (punch back). What makes us different is that we have the ability to resist this causality and choose our own path. We have the ability to restrain ourselves (to resist temptation) and cannot be reduced to a function.The essence of what something is is not its components ― few people understanding this is the heart of the problem actually. We are not reducible to chemicals or atoms ━ we have parts of us the are incorporeal not reducible to parts― and how things are related is not a direct casual relationship that smaller parts can be meaningfully added up together to produce a larger whole. Your hormones do not say how your mood is going to be.Atoms and molecules or quantum states don't exist outside the realm of which they are useful. If the laws of physics were completely redrawn chemistry and biology (and the studies of larger scale) would not change at all.
(DIR) Post #AICJRiSyKboK0NSavI by z@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-07T06:35:01.471Z
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Yo, Luke, you’re being too clinical about words! You of all people! If you’re being pitnicky, just differentiate “addiction” from “dependence”. The German word for “addiction” is “Sucht”, cognate to German “Seuche” (*plague*) or “sickness” in English, but by its phonetical similarity, it also has a connotation with “suchen” (*seeking*). For that reason alone, I view it as incredibly apt to describe “a sickness of seeking certain pleasures”, that is an addiction. I find that people use “addiction” in English in exactly the same way. Wikipedia offers a broader definition of the term (whilst slightly contradicting itself) and calls a dependence on a substance characterised by withdrawal symptoms a, well, “substance dependence”, which I find more fitting if you’re being nitpicky about it. Video game addiction and gambling addiction are nowadays clinically recognized as addiction.In reality, I’d argue, there is an almost smooth descent from habit to addiction, but not entirely seamless, sort of like a phase transition; and another one from addiction to dependence. And like matter, substances and behaviours will vary in their melting and boiling points. Liquid helium only freezes at temperatures barely above absolute zero! People have the tendency to argue where they fall on that spectrum to judge whether they should worry; many may even say that an addiction that cannot develop into a dependence cannot be that bad. But the thing is that being on that spectrum is already bad in itself, and the further down you are, the worse you are off.If people say stuff like “pornography addiction isn’t a thing”, porn addicts in denial will go “See? Watching pornography is all healthy, you can’t get addicted because there are no withdrawal symptoms!”. No, Luke. Tell them they are addicted, tell it like it is. Of course, not everyone watching pornography is addicted; to many it really *is* just a bad habit (which they often don’t realise to be bad, it’s just a habit). But others clearly are addicted: They pathologicaly seek it out, despite knowing it is harmful to them. In the same vein, people can be addicted to all sorts of other things, like gambling or smoking weed or browsing the web without being dependent on it.
(DIR) Post #AICLKIRorxdjBuVjcm by z@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-07T06:56:05.840Z
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However, the essential point you make is great: Don’t bargain with the devil. He is not a courteous visitant. Do not let him in and do not let him stay. Once you let the devil into your mind, he will bite on to it and begin eating on it until he has consumed it all. Removing the devil is harder than keeping him out. And in fact, the devil is actually not a single parasite, but an entire tribe of parasites that will multiply.And this is why I have yet again another qualification to make: To remove the bugs inside your mind, you have to be very meticulous. You have to remove all of them; and their eggs. Quitting your bad habit at once is just cleaning out your mind. It may work – if the devil hasn’t infested you too heavily. But maybe he has. You can still get lucky, but I wouldn’t count on it! Your chances seem higher if you conceive a plan about cleaning out your mind more thoroughly and carry it out in stages. And even after you have removed it all, it isn’t over: Now you have to be very vigilant and stomp out every single bug you see as soon as you seet it with absolutely no excuses. Only if you do that, after a while, you may actually totally eradicate the disease.That is to say: It clearly can help to quit an addiction step-by-step, provided that you have made a clear plan upfront for a short frame of time to which you have to stick tenaciously. This is very different from leaving some bugs inside and saying “Yeah, I’ll remove them later, what harm can they do?”. This is to avoid convincing yourself you have removed all bugs when in reality you simply coudn’t in one session for the sheer amount of them. Then you cannot allow any thought of your addiction manifest, lest it will fester. If you do that, you will appreciate the cleanliness in your mind and will find that refraining from your habit is actually *easy*.
(DIR) Post #AICLj7tLFn6NgwDwgq by z@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2022-04-07T07:00:34.916Z
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Also, I see you coming back to pornography as an example. The point can more generally be made about sexuality as an example. There is an [excellent talk by C. S. Lewis on sexual morality](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RkZXZx6HCI); I highly recommend it.