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    … wha?

    I jork it fairly often and I find nature beautiful, love a good hike, eat a healthy diet, and am working at developing my skills at the hobbies I pursue.

    … whaaaa?

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        Idk what sort of volume you’re pushing out to coat a whole cliffside in cum but you could absolutely be getting paid for that

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    Sounds like they just stopped dopamine saturating themselves. If you’re constantly seeking dopamine-producing activities, your receptors straight up stop being able to uptake more dopamine, and I’ve heard that dopamine overproduction can wear out your pituitary gland so that it stops producing enough (this is mostly noted in drug abusers). So there’s a school of thought that engaging in less dopamine-inducing activities helps you have a healthier baseline where your brain experiences more enjoyment out of regular activities.

    I have only ever encountered these talking points in passing so i have no clue if it’s true.

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      It’s overly simplistic. It does help, but it’s more about changing habits and developing new ones.

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    The feel-good (and still very fake and gay) greentexts were always the worst, and largely because of these cringe messages. Implying becoming Christian was the first step. I wouldn’t be surprised if these types of posts are just grassroots conversion attempts from various evangelists.

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      I refuse to believe anybody actually reads the Bible. It’s not really laid out in such a way as to be readable, it’s just a bunch of events that ostensibly happened that you’re supposed to gleam some sort of lesson from. It’s really boring actually.

      It doesn’t really form a compelling narrative.

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        I’m not a Christian, but I think you’re misunderstanding how “holy” texts are supposed to work. They aren’t designed to be a riveting story, or even to make any sense in order. They’ve been translated so many times that they are a labyrinth of words compared to whatever the original intent was. The only way they function now is like sifting through word salad to find the occasional insightful line that resonates with you.

        That isn’t necessarily bad—it can actually make the kernels of wisdom more impactful when you’ve been using your interpretive brain to get through the rest of it—but the problem lies in people finding meaning or justification in the horrible bits.

        I actually think Jewish scholars have the right idea in a way: they treat the Torah as a story, a mathematical puzzle, and a secret code all at the same time. The wisdom is in the interpretation, not the literalness of it. People are supposed to question it because there is no predefined truth to swallow from it.

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          The New Testament is basically just a collection of witness accounts and letters. Papyrus was expensive so some things do have to be kept short and sweet.

          Although they generally have only been translated once. Modern Bible translations go directly from the original greek.

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        It also jumps around a bunch, with several people telling, supposedly, the same story but it happens differently each time.

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          That’s how a lot of eye witness accounts go, and the writers of the Bible aren’t even eye witnesses. It’s no wonder that everybody has a totally different version of events.

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    Anon gives themselves purpose, somehow still mentions that they don’t masturbate.

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      I’m so full of purpose I don’t even notice the need to masturbate which gnaws at my consciousness every moment, which always sings its endless siren’s song of sin, I go the entire day without paying a single thought to my aching cock which throbs urgently for release by any means. It’s so great bros

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    If you’re a Christian and meditate 15 minutes every day, you’re doing it wrong!

    Unsupervised meditation will put your soul at risk of the devil’s temptations!

    Instead, rely on the good old cathomaxxing method: 666

    • 6 hours of mass and prayers
    • 6 hours of work in silence
    • 6 hours of masturbation mixed work and prayers