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Giving up masturbation

>>26424
You are not supposed to leave something that is already a sin.

Do protestants celebrate Lent? Born and raised Catholic I really have no clue about what they do for most things. Looking online it seems the answer is "it depends" but I'd like some more information than that. I should learn about Protestants in general. What even is a Baptist? I've only posted to this board once like 3 years ago so sorry for not lurking but I don't plan on being a regular.
>>26422 (OP) 
Saying a rosary during my commute and also really for real no fapping for good this time.

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>>26435
I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with using a season of prayer and fasting as time to rid oneself of habitual mortal sin, as long as he doesn't intend to take up the habit again as soon as Lent is over.

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>>26422 (OP) 
I'm struggling a lot with personal issues but still trying to do what I can for this time of the year.
>bible readings
Whenever I feel down I try to avoid sin and read passages to comfort myself
>praying to Our Lady
I used to be a very devoted prayer of the Rosary but sadly I couldn't keep the habit, so I pray with fervor when I feel it in my heart because I don't think praying while feeling "obligued" would please the Lord and Our Lady (it's more complicated than that but it has to do with faith crisis, mostly).
>fasting
I dedicate every moment of hunger to the Lord, eating once or twice a day
>no masturbation
Self-explanatory

I pray that all my brothers in Christ grow spiritually and in virtue, may all our brothers please the most high during this time of the year with their acts of penance, meditation and virtue.
Please, if you're reading this, I beg you to also pray for me, a filthy sinner going through hardships but still carrying my crosses and keeping my hopes alive, I give thanks to the holy trinity and the divine love of Our Lady for never abandoning me.
 Jesus Christ be praised.

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>>26091
>The new ones just look scary, maybe it has to do with a bigger budget and dipping more into uncanny valley,
Dunno if you're talking about the mid 2010s Netflix series, or the new stuff that just ended. Personally I feel like Vegetales' run post 2011 has been a pendulum swing, as making a project without big investors means going on a roller coaster. So they had to make "in the house" a show about vague educational values and not the gospel. Wikipedia says the creators haven't been in control since 2004 and stopped being involved altogether in 2021. So there's a reason for the oddness

>>26113
I remember watching the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything movie and being surprised there wasn't a single mention of God or really any moral lesson, just a generic kids action movie. Felt really weird to me that Christianiy wasn't in it at all.

>>26117
Supposedly they thought that the explicit Christian content of the Jonah movie limited the film's market. Ironically, Jonah was the more successful film of the two by a considerable margin.

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OP again, I saw this video on /v/ a few months ago and just remembered it.
Not really a fan of it, since it feels more like anger towards specific denominations and America in general. But there are some points I do agree with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiNrIM9KVE
thoughts?

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About good christian medias today I suggest Scrooge 2022
It's not the Muppets or the 80s version but really had a real and faithful understanding of the story

Here you can tell Scrooge would have all the reasons to hate Christmas as a day, being the day of great losses and personal tragedies
But with love and faith from the 3 Spirits and his surviving family he manages to realize life is a blessing and grace and shouldn't be wasted

According to the legend he made a blind girl able to see again, are there other miracles said to be by him?

His family were the only people of God left in the city, and they were being harassed by the sodomites who wanted to gangrape them. The angels delivered them from physical harm.

>>26050
But he offered the sodomites his daughters to rape in the place of the angels. 
I suppose they did turn out to be incestuous scum in the end who raped Lot, but still.

Maybe the angels didn't hear that offer of his, but if it was me, I would've gone "never mind" and ditched them all.

>>26059
Yes, but what else happens? The very daughters that Lot offered up to be raped went on to rape Lot, giving birth to the Moabites and the Ammonites enemies of Israel. So perhaps Lot was punished after all.

Lot paid for his poor judgement when he left his uncle to live with the sodomites. This is very dense Scripture, but I often think of it as a cautionary tale against compromising with the ungodly and their ways. Seriously, how can you raise children to love and fear the Lord in any major globohomo-infested ((( cosmopolitan ))) Western city?

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>>26305
>Seriously, how can you raise children to love and fear the Lord in any major globohomo-infested ((( cosmopolitan ))) Western city?
Based post

>>26024
This is an imageboard after all so one should expect to see some degree of caustic speech, but I would agree its not helpful.

>>26036
I'd say there are a few things we should separate. One is engaging on homosexual activity. That's wrong and disordered and, thankfully, I doubt I have to convince anyone here about that. We all know it's a heinous sin. Even in cultures like Ancient Greece, marriage was always between a man and a woman, homosexual relationships were more like a past time, always between people with a huge age gap and didn't involve anal penetration, which was seen as unnatural.

Now, people may also have homosexual temptations. That's no different from many other sexual temptations. You must not lust after a woman, you must not see her as a way to placate your desires; straight people also deal with a lot of sexual temptation. Straight people can also feel attracted to people they shouldn't date: maybe they're already in a relationship, or there's an age difference, or you've had the bad luck to fall in love with your cousin. Feelings can play all sort of nasty tricks on you, what matters is that you recognize what's right and what isn't and follow that instead of your feelings, no matter how intense they are.

There's a third thing, and it's what is sometimes called "homosexual affection". I may be nicer to a girl cause she's cute and I find her pleasant, even though I'm not planing to date her, and I can do so without lusting after her. She's just nice to be around and I'm just being kind. Some people have an easier

Also, I'd love to hear testimony from people who are homosexual and practicing Christians (that is, they live chastely). If anyone could share their experience or knows of some good interviews, it'd be lovely. It's a topic that comes up a lot and people do have genuine sometimes honest questions about it, and not just the usual "but I like wrong why it has to be bad".

>>26053
If they're "chaste homosexuals", they're just chaste and confused, but at least they're not sinning. Ask God to show you the truth.
Matthew 7:7
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

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>>26052
>"But I can't choose what I'm attracted to!". Precisely, all the more reason to not let it define you.
100% truth, anon. That's the problem with hypersexuality, people who suffer it often let it define them. Ever noticed how people addicted to hentai are always freaking out about how much they like l*lis? Furries make their whole personality revolve around being an anthropomorphic animal, etc

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>>23868
If they actually pray to Jesus He would give them the grace of repentance and healing. 
But they are probably praying to what they want Jesus to be, some hippie idol.

>>23785
In situations where people put on airs and become dramatic, I do find that there are tiny minorities of genuine hearts in those groups every time; a little light in a dark room makes a huge difference kind of thing.

The popular approbation and grandstanding is tiresome on the whole though, but I hate being a negative nancy every time something potentially encouraging happens.

It all seems like this revival stuff boils down to boomer pride and pretensions.  I find myself pleasantly surprised however with the fruitfulness and levelheadedness I find even if it is only crumbs, but a little manna makes a lot of bread.

>>23825
I'm from Bongistan

Every institution hates God. We all sit here in envy and covetousness of your American excess two-week raves. It's proof that you believe in at least something even if that something is facile, and proof that the university is in no position to ban it like they would do immediately if it were occuring over here.

>>26283
Thanks for the daily reminder, Bong-fren. I actually grew up near that area. It has a long religious tradition. Quakers, Mennonites, Amish. Asbury is a pretty small, ostensibly Christian university. While this event was clearly squelched by ((( TPTB ))) during Current Year, the great revival that occurred there before during The Jesus Movement had a lasting impact not only on the general region, but also for the entire US nation. In some ways it changed history.

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>>23841
Chad
>>26283
I'll be praying for you brother
>>26285
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>>26361
Oh yes. Part of the reason the "EasyPeasyMethod" is kind of hard to read through, is because despite getting so many things right (like the DeltaFosB protein), it gets an equal amount of things wrong.
I _want_ to quit, and am quite successful when I remember who's behind making the Greek word for adultery (p*rnographia) free.
If something is "free", especially if it's widespread, chances are something's seriously wrong. And another thing; I was only ever interested in soft pron (not that I ever wanted to start getting addicted, some disgusting pedo hag indoctrinated me at school to believe it was "normal", lmao), and like 99% of what I saw in my life were static, anime/fanart images, even when I first got into it (though it was more real women in the first 2-3 years). And I'm a NEET and (like most people on here) NOT an atheist, so the book is kind of hard to read since I can't relate to a lot of what it's saying.

It's still a book with (what seems to be) good intentions, don't get me wrong, it's just hard to read through a lot of the jumping to conclusions about the reader that it does (of which only like 50% of it is right, so far). I'm not going to give up reading it, just giving some criticisms of it.

...I typed like 4x as much as I wanted to type, I can't be succinct for some reason

>>26363
>99% of what I saw in my life were static, anime/fanart images
That is, 99% of what I saw when looking for waifus with ill intent

>>26364
>Our bodies are the most sophisticated objects on the planet. Whether you believe in intelligent design, natural
selection, or a combination of both, our bodies are thousands of times more effective than man! We’re unable to
create the smallest living cell or the miracles of eyesight, reproduction and various interlinked systems present
in our bodies or brains.
Okay, based. Glad I read more. At least they seem to recognize intelligent design. I'm still reading it.

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>>26364
>Me: “Why do you want to stop?”
User: “I read in a pick-up artist’s blog that it’s good to stop for four days to amp myself up.”
Me: “Aren’t you worried about the health risks?”
>User: “No, I could step under a bus tomorrow.”
>Me: “But would you deliberately step under a bus?”
>User: “Of course not.”
>Me: “Do you not bother to look left and right when you cross the road?”
>User: “Of course I do.”
I'm liking this book more and more as I read, glad I didn't give up on it.

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>>26366
>(Here’s another thought experiment: let’s >say someone comes to you and says they >don’t necessarily want
>an orgasm but very much want to make >love, even penetratively. They want to do it >for as long and as far as
>you can go without an orgasm — but if it >happens then it’s fine. I assure you of a >phenomenal new sexual
>experience far better than any other, if you >ever get that offer. Try it.)
>Try it.
>Try it.
Uhm, I'm sorry ,what? That's sex outside of marriage (which is what p*rn means in Greek, as I have stated earlier). Am I missing something?

AI is made by humans. All it is is a reflection of ourselves.

>>26353
Humans are made by God. All it is is a reflection of Himself (through us).

>>26328
You didn't watch the video attached to >>26326 did you?

>>26327
>I made points, which have been ignored and not responded to [...]
Tracing it back:
>>26241
>Why wouldn't it fall under Christian liberty to offer a sacrifice which was outside the bounds of God's law (Lev. 10:1-3)? It was not wrong to offer sacrifice, but it is wrong to worship God in a manner of our own design rather than His.
I answered this here >>26243. Your analogy (equating Christmas with animal sacrifice) is too weak to support your argument because celebrating Christmas is not an active rebuke of his salvation like animal sacrifices are.
>anything which was not abrogated is in effect, and that certainly includes our duty not to add to the divine religion.
The OT has examples of assemblies, sacrifices, thanksgivings, and collective oaths by the better kings of the southern kingdom that don't appear to be expressly commanded in the law, yet apparently were not met with God's displeasure. If you want to classify these as some of the broader thanksgiving offerings permitted under the law, then believers can include Christmas under a thanksgiving offering/celebration, or under the numerous NT admonitions to charity, hospitality, and/or thanksgiving.
>We collectively remember what Christ did in the Lord's Supper. On Christmas we remember our love of material things.
His incarnation is remembered at Christmas. There's nothing wrong with taking a day to remember the incarnation as a history-defining miracle in itself: that God would take on flesh and dwell among us.
>That's not a holiday.
Well, that's how my church did it last month. We called it "Christmas" and everything.
>There's no scripture which commanded them to do this, but scripture was not the only means by which God spoke to the Church at that time. Given the fact that they indeed met on the Lord's day we can infer that they received a divine command to do so which is also inherited by ourselves through this text.
That's begging the question - a type of circular reasoning. You're attempting to prove that "anything not commanded is forbidden", and when presented with an example of them doing something not commanded in scripture, you allege it must've been commanded outside of scripture since "anything not commanded is forbidden" and the apostles wouldn't have done anything forbidden. You're assuming the truth of the premise you're trying to prove.
>It sends a message to the one who informed you that it's ok to worship idols.

>>26331
>Perhaps it's wrong for us to celebrate Christmas because it's causing you to stumble.
Good luck with that. I certainly don't think it's wisdom -- Biblical or otherwise -- to demand that every.single.individual. on the planet discontinue communally celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ (whether accurate timing as to the season or no), simply b/c an anon on a Taiwanese Basket Weaving Forum is dogmatic about it.

>>26330
>>26326
I decided to summarized the points in this video, since most people don't seem to be watching it. 

Christmas Trees:
The first mention of Christmas Trees in the historical record is the following
>"In 1561 an ordinance posted in Alsace declared that each burgher was allowed only one Christmas tree and that his tree could be no more than 'eight shoes' in height". - Tanya Gulevich, Encyclopedia of Christmas & New Year's Celebrations. p. 170
It is unknown where the Christmas tree came from, but in the presenter's opinion the most likely explanation is the following (which was also proposed by Tanya Gulevich):
>In the middle ages Dec 24 was the feast day of Adam & Eve, which was celebrated with a play
>During the seasonal period which Dec 24 is inside, the pine tree is the only tree avaliable due to being an evergreen
>consequently, pine trees were gathered for the play and decorated with apples which were an early form of ornament
>Afterwards the apples were eaten
>most historians that have written on this topic agree that Christmas trees likely morphed from these trees
The date of December 25:
>"The offical calendar of Julius Caesar marked [the solstice] at the 25th... The traditional pagan Roman calendar had left this period as a quiet and mysterious one, and flanked it instead with a festival of preparation and one of completion: the former was the feast of Saturn, the Saturnalia, in the days after 17 December, the latter the New Year feast... from 1 to 3 January." - Ronald Hutton, Stations of the Sun, p. 2

>>26343
I did watch the video, sorry for not commenting. Interesting points. What he said about people repeating a theory they heard online - that was me for awhile. Years ago I was convinced by a layman's website that Christmas celebrations evolved out of pagan traditions. The site's argument wasn't based on historical sources - just superficial comparison of traditions.

>>26334
I only meant the notion as a possibility. I didn't mean to suggest we should stop celebrating Christmas. Under certain unique circumstances, though, I might abstain for that reason (if I lived in Puritan New England, for instance). I'd bet Paul didn't openly work on the sabbath in Jewish neighborhoods during his missionary journeys.

>>26307 (OP) 
POTD

It is all rather amazing. By and large we've become such dullards b/c of our own iniquities that we can hardly even grasp the very-obvious blessings that are right in front of our eyes -- indeed on every hand about us.

Thanks for the wonderful encouragement (on today of all days), that's both much-needed and much-appreciated! Cheers.  :)

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Amen. It's just too easy to take our blessings for granted, and sooner than we the think we're petitioning with arrogance, tempting the Lord and drowning in blasphemy. Thanks for reminding me of this simple truth, I'm completely unworthy of the Lord's attention... let alone His mercy.

Amen.

>>26315
But anon.. my tent is smaller than the diaspora's in the picture and I'm bitter about that