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Anonymous No.937986465 >>937986673 >>937988332 >>937988812 >>937989421 >>937990298 >>937995073
Stop abusing yourself.
Anonymous No.937986673 >>937986826
>>937986465 (OP)
Why?
Anonymous No.937986826 >>937988284
>>937986673
It is damaging to your soul, and spills over into all aspects of your life.
Anonymous No.937988228
Anonymous No.937988261 >>937988602
i just need healthy outlets in life ...
Anonymous No.937988284 >>937988879
>>937986826
Why?
Anonymous No.937988332 >>937988668 >>937989203
>>937986465 (OP)
Tried many times to quit porn, fapping, etc. It never works. I realize now that the devil rules this nightmare world, and as long as I live in this modern Sodom I will never be free from the temptation of evil. Jesus is not going to help me, either. He's dead, and so is God.
Anonymous No.937988602
>>937988261
You don't "let out" your passions by engaging with pornography and wrongfully stimulating content, you instead let them in.
Anonymous No.937988620 >>937988705
Are you people fucking retarded? If u wanna rub one out, either do it, or don’t. The devil isn’t real, neither is god, but if you go around thinking ur conjuring Baal by spanking ur shit, then maybe you are possessed. Fucking geeks man I tswear
Anonymous No.937988668 >>937988723
>>937988332
It doesn't work because you're trying to do it yourself, apart from God. You have no power yourself. And you even go so far as to blaspheme Him. Lord have mercy.

You may feel He is not real in our world because of "modern" "Christianity" common in america. This is not true Christianity. Look into Orthodoxy. Find healing in the unchanging faith.
Anonymous No.937988705 >>937988723 >>937991203
>>937988620
God is real and you know it just as well as you know the opposite, evil, when you see it. Don't lie to yourself and certainly don't lie to others.
Anonymous No.937988723
>>937988668
Fuck off kike
>>937988705
You're the log nigger larping aren't you?
Anonymous No.937988741 >>937988808
What did God mean by this?
Anonymous No.937988808 >>937988818
>>937988741
Means that a stand must be taken.
Anonymous No.937988812 >>937988911 >>937988961 >>937989068
>>937986465 (OP)
I'm gay so I have no reason to find or want the Christian god in my life. I have tried to find god when i was in a dark place and I found that he didn't answer and left me alone. So he either isn't real or doesn't give a shit about me.

Also I can't stomach the idea that wanting to kiss and cuddle a dude is a sin worthy of being stoned to death for
Anonymous No.937988818 >>937988896
>>937988808
You're killing /b/ dude
Anonymous No.937988879
>>937988284
Because that's the nature of sin. It is a separation from God. God is truth, goodness, perfection, purity, love, righteousness, justice, and all virtue. If you do things that separate yourself from Him, only bad results can come of it. It's like a human wanting to stop breathing oxygen. You can try to deny reality, but it will only lead to suffering, suffocation, and death.
Anonymous No.937988896
>>937988818
I would laugh at this notion if it weren't so sad.
Anonymous No.937988911 >>937989150
>>937988812
>sin worthy of being stoned to death for
Well, Allah is the imaginary friend of a 7th century murderous pedophile, so no wonder you didn't find God in Islam.
Anonymous No.937988961 >>937989150
>>937988812
Just because you think one thing now doesn't mean your opinion can't change upon receiving new information.
Whether you look for Him or not has no bearing on the fact that He is our Creator and Master, and loves mankind. And He doesn't want to see you hurt and abuse yourself in ways of life that are detrimental to your soul and separated from reality.
Anonymous No.937989068 >>937989150
>>937988812
>So he either isn't real or doesn't give a shit about me.
there is a secret third option, you didn't understand an answer that took a form outside of your expectations. I noticed you used the past tense,
>was in a dark place
as if to say you are no longer in a dark place. So who can be sure if you were answered or not? Maybe he does give a shit about you and knew that you didn't need help that was more hands-on.
Anonymous No.937989147
God is the canvas, the paint, and the artist. If you are seriously religious, like you believe all that shit about demons n shit, ask yourself what the painting ur tryna be a part of is going to look like when it’s done
Anonymous No.937989150 >>937989288 >>937989314 >>937989420
>>937988911
>Well, Allah is the imaginary friend of a 7th century murderous pedophile, so no wonder you didn't find God in Islam.
I meant Christianity but yeah the same applies to Shitslam
>>937988961
I think masturbating excessively is a bad thing yes, and could be construed as "abuse" like abusing drugs or whatnot. I will also agree that porn is really bad for your mind. But I don't think being gay inherently is a sin.

If it is, then God is a sadist and probably enjoys watching me suffer, or maybe... *gasp* he isn't real, and the Bible is just a book of long-winded contradictions.
>>937989068
>So who can be sure if you were answered or not? Maybe he does give a shit about you and knew that you didn't need help that was more hands-on.
Oh i think my language wasn't clear, i actually am still in a dark place with suicidality and depression, so it's clear pleading to god didn't help me and actually my life has gotten worse since i did.

In fact I used to pray quite often asking God to save me from my horrible life. But since God isn't real, my prayers obviously were not answered.
Anonymous No.937989203
>>937988332
>Tried many times to quit porn, fapping, etc. It never works.
just don't look at porn, dude. Why doesn't it work? You keep fuckin' touching yourself.
>I will never be free from the temptation of evil.
no one is free from temptation.
>Jesus is not going to help me
no, he's going to forgive you for giving in to temptation because he understands that you are imperfect and only human.
Anonymous No.937989288 >>937989383 >>937989531
>>937989150
Everything sinful has negative consequences. Don't blind yourself to the obvious negative consequences. I think you are smart enough to know what they are and don't need me to list them for you in a way that would be condescending, that's not my intention.
Anonymous No.937989314 >>937989420 >>937989531
>>937989150
>i actually am still in a dark place with suicidality and depression, so it's clear pleading to god didn't help me
and yet you endure with what you imagine is no help! CURIOUS!

What's so bad about your life, my homosexual friend? Other than the whole being gay thing.
Anonymous No.937989383 >>937989486
>>937989288
I hope you practice what you preach as well padre, but seeing as your here, on fucking 4chan, talking high and mighty about sin and righteousness, I’ll assume your either A. Schizophrenic, B. Trolling or C. Cult bot
Anonymous No.937989420 >>937989429 >>937989453 >>937989531
>>937989314
>>937989150
All of the homosexual people I know are chronically over the edge of mental illness. Lord have mercy on them.
Anonymous No.937989421
>>937986465 (OP)
my relationship with god or lack-of-god isn't anyone's business but my own
Anonymous No.937989429
>>937989420
you sound like a deranged liar
Anonymous No.937989453 >>937989540
>>937989420
Maybe if you treated them with the same kindness you show your own penis, they’d feel a lot better, you fucking animal
Anonymous No.937989470
Idiots. Porn is not soul damaging. Damaged souls seek addiction. Maybe if you worked at healing people souls instead of condescending to them about how damaged they are the the punishment for being damaged, you'd be a little less fucked and a bit more successful.

Then again, the fuck sort of merciful God sends those suffering so much they seek to end their lives to hell. Fuck that shit
Anonymous No.937989486 >>937990757
>>937989383
Jesus preached among the tax collectors, harlots, and the sinful people considered "untouchables" at the time, and the Pharisees said the same thing about Him as you are saying. As if it is a bad thing to go to the place that people need help.
Believe me, I confessed today. I don't need a reminder that I am a sinner, I got the biggest reminder already.
Anonymous No.937989531 >>937989611 >>937989614 >>937989681 >>937990021
>>937989288
What is the consequence for homosexuality other than AIDS which now is basically cured with pREP? Also i have never had sex btw
>>937989314
Well I have been horrifically mentally abused my whole life by my mother, i've been bullied most of my life at school, then after high school I became extremely isolated and mentally ill and very suicidal. I have no friends or companions, or anybody who really truly cares about me either, besides my father, and never really have. I've been alone most of my life. I'm also slowly failing out of college and i've dropped many classes already, and i'm behind at least a year on my degree I think at this point.

I tried to hang myself multiple times in the past year, but i chickened out of it because i'm scared of the idea of choking myself to death. The idea of death appeals to me though.

I'm not sure what God could do now to save me at this point. My life just keeps getting worse and worse, I can feel my brain getting hazy and I get stupider with more brainfog every day as a result of my depression.
>>937989420
Because we aren't built for this world, our sexuality doesn't align with what's normal in society and we are treated harshly for it. We can't be who we are without hatred and scorn and being murdered, and carrying that burden causes mental illness that your average person doesn't have to experience.

I genuinely think many aspects of what gays do are wrong, like constant hookups and removing sex from love and intimacy. You can be gay and emulate a somewhat happy, normal life by copying straight people and practicing monogamy.

In fact to prove my point that this isn't a choice or unnatural; many studies and brain scans show that gay men have neurological wiring similar to women's. So for us to be happy, we need male compansions, just as women need the same to be happy as well.
Anonymous No.937989540
>>937989453
What makes you think I don't? We aren't baptists. Sinful people need help, and we are all sinful one way or another and to varying degrees. Sin in the Orthodox understanding is an illness, a disease.
Anonymous No.937989611 >>937989792
>>937989531
>never had sex

How do you know you're gay? Porn is a shit measurement. Go out and get plowed, see if you're still a faggot. Its different when you actually do it.
Anonymous No.937989614 >>937989792
>>937989531
>keep scans show gay men have brains similar to women
That is not true.
Anonymous No.937989681 >>937989792
>>937989531
>What is the consequence for homosexuality other than AIDS
Well you listed one here:
>that burden causes mental illness that your average person doesn't have to experience
and here:
>I genuinely think many aspects of what gays do are wrong, like constant hookups and removing sex from love and intimacy
You got close to a realization saying this:
>You can be gay and emulate a somewhat happy, normal life by copying straight people and practicing monogamy.
And it's true. It is just an emulation though, a pale shadow of what human beings are made for. The big thing you left out is having children. There are many more that you can come up with if you ponder it more.
As for your comment about aberrant brain wiring, you should ask that if you were born with any other deficiency, be in mental or physical, would you do everything you could to wallow in that deficiency and reject the fact that you are injured and need all the help and support you can get? Or would you do everything you could to overcome it?
Anonymous No.937989792 >>937989820 >>937989977
>>937989614
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/study-says-brains-of-gay/
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5176866&page=1
>>937989611
I know because I have crushes on men and I daydream and fantasizing about relationships with them, and I don't have these fantasies about women.

I'm not really sexually aroused by the female body, nor do I want to kiss women or be in romances with them. That's how I know.

I also knew i liked men before i even started looking at porn. The reason i started looking at porn in the first place is because i wanted to see dudes naked.

>Go out and get plowed
I don't want to, not unless I get a loving monogamous relationship with a man first.
>>937989681
>>that burden causes mental illness that your average person doesn't have to experience
I said that this is a burden because it's caused by the evil treatment by other human beings, not because it is inherently destructive to my mind
>. It is just an emulation though, a pale shadow of what human beings are made for. The big thing you left out is having children. There are many more that you can come up with if you ponder it more.
I know it's an emulation, but it's the closest thing i could get to true happiness. I can't have a normal life with a woman, because

1) i won't be sexually aroused by her so she will feel unwanted and the marriage will end as a result
2) i don't think i could satisfy her as a result
3) i have too much mental illness to be able to be a good parent
4) i don't want to have children in these evil world.

> reject the fact that you are injured and need all the help and support you can get? Or would you do everything you could to overcome it?
There's nothing i can do to overcome it. Whatever your position is on the matter, if you think i'm "injured," maybe I am but I can't change my brain wiring, and I want to live a happy life, not like some retarded monk in Mount Athos and forfeit all the happiness and pleasure of life
Anonymous No.937989820 >>937989843 >>937989909
>>937989792
you're obviously mentally ill
it's no more complicated than that
Anonymous No.937989843 >>937989909
>>937989820
i don't mean being gay, i mean your whole public persona/presentation
you need professional help
Anonymous No.937989909
>>937989820
>>937989843
>you're obviously mentally ill
>i mean your whole public persona/presentation
>you need professional help
What about my persona is so bad? i do agree i'm mentally ill though and i need to get help for it.

I just dislike keyboard warrior christians
Anonymous No.937989977 >>937990259
>>937989792
>I said that this is a burden because it's caused by the evil treatment by other human beings, not because it is inherently destructive to my mind
How do you know? The effects are the same and the reality of the situation isn't changing anytime soon, and this is despite unprecedented normalization efforts. You will likely spend the rest of your life in mental illness if you persist regardless of if the cause is internal or external.

You have a low view of happiness sadly... Our culture teaches us that to be happy means more stuff, more vacations, more food, more entertainment, more stimulation. All these things are fleeting and never truly satisfy, which is why you always need more. It applies to pleasure too, in all its forms. Pleasure in the proper context has a purpose, but if abused even in a monogamous marriage it can and will end in disaster, or at the very least dopamine addiction... which is still going to end in disaster. That's why one of the universal virtues (identified by the Church Fathers, but also by secular/pagan philosophy like Aristotle) is temperance, or self-control.

The man in the OP, Fr Seraphim Rose, struggled with homosexuality in his early life. He went on to becoming one of the most influential men in American Orthodoxy, and many consider him to be a Saint and are waiting for his canonization. He brought innumerable people to healing in the Church, was an astounding intellectual and professor, as well as started a monastery in Platina, California which continues today to provide some of the most needed translation work of ancient texts into the English language.
Do you think he lived a happy life? Do you think he lived a meaningful life with purpose?
Anonymous No.937990021 >>937990259
>>937989531
damn, dawg. You ever hear the phrase "You don't know what you got 'till it's gone"? Even with your struggles, you've got some opportunities with your school, the resources to even be in college, a dad who loves you, your youth, and what I imagine are most if not all of your brain cells. You seem like a good kid and I wish you luck.
Anonymous No.937990259 >>937990449 >>937990461
>>937989977
>You will likely spend the rest of your life in mental illness if you persist regardless of if the cause is internal or external.
My mental illness is because i was abused (not sexually) most of my early life, not because i am gay. Some gay guys are very happy and clearly lack any kind of mental illness like Tim Cook or Anderson Cooper.
>You have a low view of happiness sadly
My idea of happiness isn't sex, i just want to be loved genuinely by another person, and I want it to be a man. I don't really care about the sexual aspects that much

>Do you think he lived a happy life? Do you think he lived a meaningful life with purpose?
I don't know what was in his head, and I can't tell anybody if their life was meaningful or not. It's a pity he probably hated himself, though.

I just know I wouldn't be happy living like that. I don't want to be a monk or live in a monastery or be celibate and lonely. I know 100% I would not be happy like that. You probably can't truly empathize with other people or understand they have self-agency because you're applying your idea of a well-lived life to everybody else.
>>937990021
Everything in my life will be gone soon, anyway. I have no ability to continue my studies, and i barely coasted by through cheating. I honestly am increasingly feeling guilty over the cheating and I don't believe I even deserve my degree at this point.

>a dad who loves you
He does, he accepted me for being gay or whatever, but i haven't told the rest of my family, and i have lost the need to.

I'm just planning for when i'm going to swan dive off the next roof, i guess.
Anonymous No.937990298
>>937986465 (OP)
you have a small ineffective penis
this is why porn enrages you
Anonymous No.937990449 >>937990554
>>937990259
>Rim Cook or Anderson Pooper.
ftfy
but please don't kys, it would break your dad's heart
my son's a young adult now, and i'm afraid of almost nothing (not even my own death), but the thought that something bad might happen to him is really the only thing that terrifies me
Anonymous No.937990461 >>937990495 >>937990554 >>937990598 >>937990652
>>937990259
Fr Seraphim Rose did not identify as homosexual, he struggled against it and overcame it. He was one of the most joyful people who ever lived, which is characteristic of the Saints. Literally nothing gets them down, because they live in Christ. You don't have to be a monk to find healing... even though monks are not lonely. They have brotherhood, and most of all they have more time than any of us to be in contact with the Lord Jesus Christ, whose love is beyond understanding and when felt in full can only bring the manliest of men to tears. I'm sorry for what you suffered early in life and what you're going through now. But I know and can't tell you in good conscience that you will have any shot at peace the way you are going. You should visit an Orthodox Church. God bless you.
Anonymous No.937990495 >>937990566 >>937990579
>>937990461
to struggle against your nature is to deny the divine
what an impoverished reality you inhabit
Anonymous No.937990554 >>937990694
>>937990449
>but please don't kys, it would break your dad's heart
I just don't want to suffer in this world anymore. Also, he pays for my college tuition, so me dying would ease the burden off of him.
>>937990461
I see being homosexual as nothing to overcome, in my rational, scientific worldview, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it, and it itself is not a cause for misery to me. My misery is with this evil world and with the evil people that inhabit it, including Christians and other religious people.

If the Orthodox are really God's people, I don't want to know god. I've seen that video of a priest blessing one of Putin's missiles being sent to Ukraine.
Anonymous No.937990566
>>937990495
you conflate your desires with your "nature" when the truth is that it is in our nature to struggle with our desires.
Anonymous No.937990579
>>937990495
Pseud.
Human nature is broken, and until you witness an example of a healed person, transcending this broken nature, it's no surprise you think that way.
Anonymous No.937990598 >>937990739
>>937990461
what do you think about the fact that scholars of the New Testament and early Christianity agree that Jesus never claimed to be God, and that Mark, the earliest gospel, seems to hold an adoptionist view, that Jesus was not born the Son of God but was adopted at his baptism by John?
how about the fact that the Trinity is mentioned nowhere in the Bible and it's doubtful that the earliest church fathers believed in it, as it seems to be a later development derived from influence by Neoplatonism?
Anonymous No.937990652
>>937990461
You're such a faggot holy shit, you're killing /b/ my dude
Anonymous No.937990694 >>937990720
>>937990554
Well my priest doesn't bless missiles, so i dunno what we in america have to do with someone across the world.
You will persist in your worldview until forced to change, or dissolve in it. It's human nature, we are stubborn. You should still go and see.
Anonymous No.937990720 >>937990757
>>937990694
You are moral fagging on 4chan my dude, kill yourself this instant
Anonymous No.937990739 >>937990768 >>937990872
>>937990598
"Scholars" as you say, don't know God and can have any motivation whatsoever. They are not an authority worth putting trust in, same as other people and groups attempting to deconstruct the foundation of our culture and civilization.
Anonymous No.937990757 >>937990797
>>937990720
see
>>937989486
Anonymous No.937990768 >>937990854 >>937990920
>>937990739
So how many little boys does the church rape on a daily business
Anonymous No.937990797 >>937990856 >>937990879
>>937990757
This is 4chan, not the fucking place to be doing this shit my dude
Anonymous No.937990854 >>937990918
>>937990768
The Orthodox are not Roman Catholics. Orthodox Priests and Deacons get married and have children instead of being impressed into pedophilia.
If you don't want to reveal your ignorance, you shouldn't speak.
Anonymous No.937990856
>>937990797
to him you're a "sinner"

that means OP is going to shove godcock down your throat until somebody punches him like a nazi
Anonymous No.937990872 >>937990919
>>937990739
>"Scholars" as you say, don't know God and can have any motivation whatsoever
their motivation is seeking the truth, unlike the people clinging to a 2,000 year old heretical jewish movement based on a failed apocalyptic preacher who got executed by the Romans for being a rabble rouser
Anonymous No.937990879 >>937990952
>>937990797
It's exactly the place and I told you why in the quoted post.
Anonymous No.937990918 >>937991003
>>937990854
Okay faggot, I still shouldn't be preaching moral bullshit on a fucking image board you mong, there are literal children starving in Africa right now that could use you, fucking kike
Anonymous No.937990919 >>937990952
>>937990872
>their motivation is seeking the truth
so the man on the TV says...
Anonymous No.937990920
>>937990768
the Church reserves the right to rape in Jesus's Name
Anonymous No.937990952 >>937991029 >>937991075 >>937991076
>>937990879
Still doesn't make sense though you kike
>>937990919
What's wrong with questioning things?
Anonymous No.937991003 >>937991063 >>937991383
>>937990918
I can donate to the poor on the same computer that I post here on, at the same time no less. Technology is a wonderful thing, sometimes.
Anonymous No.937991022 >>937991104
reminder that these threads are mostly the logfag playing good cop bad cop with himself
Anonymous No.937991029 >>937991102
>>937990952
>What's wrong with questioning things?
nothing, that's why it's weird that you're mad he's questioning your scholars.
Anonymous No.937991041 >>937991130 >>937991217
About to go to bed and don't have time to talk but God Bless and hope you have a great night.
Anonymous No.937991063 >>937991188
>>937991003
Alright look, you're not some fucking godly man trying to stop the big porn demons on 4chan. You're a larping faggot who spends his days trying and failing to shitpost like the retarded nigger you are. Keep it up faggot I'm sure everyone will continue to ignore your reeing
Anonymous No.937991075
>>937990952
>kike
not him but why aren't you questioning the racist bigotry you're been indoctinated to spread in a public forum?
Anonymous No.937991076
>>937990952
>What's wrong with questioning things?
Nothing, you should keep asking questions. But you won't get very far if you are myopic and limit yourself to propaganda-approved talking points, and similar secular-oriented worldviews that deny anything metaphysical. Which is, by the way, incredibly new in human history such that almost no one before us conceived of the possibility that there does not exist anything beyond what we can see and measure.
Anonymous No.937991102
>>937991029
Yep, It's official. You're the log nigger larping as yet another moral fag, go kill yourself right now you log nigger spook gook chink wop greaser spic kike faggot tranny gypsy piece of shit
Anonymous No.937991104 >>937991169
>>937991022
>smelly cop versus stinky cop
what's the difference
Anonymous No.937991130
>>937991041
oh lol no no no no
you don't get to sneak out of here godshit

my cock has a bead of semen at the tip of it
I'm going to cum thinking about a nice twink's ass and you can't do shit to stop me
Anonymous No.937991169
>>937991104
not much really it's just pathetic his shit is that boring he has to play both sides
Anonymous No.937991188 >>937991231 >>937991267
>>937991063
>I'm sure everyone will continue to ignore your reeing
You are having trouble ignoring it though.
Anonymous No.937991203 >>937991275
>>937988705
Saved to the Kot file
Anonymous No.937991217 >>937991263
>>937991041
God bless you in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, good night
Anonymous No.937991231
>>937991188
>thee thy thoo thy thoo thy
that's literally what your christ shit gibberish sounds like lol
Anonymous No.937991263
>>937991217
>god bless you in the name of the made up bronze age false god(s)
lol m'kay
Anonymous No.937991267 >>937991321 >>937991398
>>937991188
Answer this one, are you the log nigger spammer or not?
Anonymous No.937991275
>>937991203
behold
https://youtube.com/shorts/nD-u0IgPr0k

it may be risky posting a video called "ortho bunnies" on /b/ given the connotations, but i assure you it is not pron
Anonymous No.937991321 >>937991415 >>937991439
>>937991267
No. I know who you're talking about (or what, idk if it is a bot set up, probably has to be given it's 24/7) but I don't frequent /b/ unless it's to do this thread. I mostly stay on /pol/ and /his/ and occasionally /v/
Anonymous No.937991383 >>937991483
>>937991003
interesting
i didn't realize that the Orthodox crucifix says INBI instead of INRI
presumably for the Greek word βασιλΡύς instead of the Latin Rex for king
Anonymous No.937991398
>>937991267
logfag makes all the religious retardation here too
see that's why it's considered a "problem spammer" it doesn't just flood the board with shit threads
it makes the "can't define atheism" cringe too

jesus fucking christ if a jannie is doing this they need to be forced into being a black bull's bitch

I have oil money I'd help pay for it
shit I'm drunk I'm not suposed to say that lol
Anonymous No.937991402 >>937991510 >>937991635
God made man in his image. Man is a sexual being, therefore God is a sexual being. There is nothing wrong with sexuality, only the stigma you put on it. We were made to relish in the emotional extacy of sex. If not we would not have survived as a species finding procreation a laborious and messy affair.
Anonymous No.937991415
>>937991321
Dont lie to me faggot, you are the log nigger spammer and you will stop this larp you're doing
Anonymous No.937991439
>>937991321
why are you posting a mosque?
Anonymous No.937991483
>>937991383
Yeah, given in the Gospel it says it was posted in three languages, it's accurate.
Unfortunately in the Passion of the Christ movie, directed by Mel Gibson who is a roman catholic,the sign is written in Latin and Hebrew, but conveniently excludes Greek. :/
Anonymous No.937991508
poor choice of words
>the proper use of anything requires a bit of abuse.
Anonymous No.937991510
>>937991402
Sexual purity harkens back to a time when people died young and women died in childbirth. Of course recreational sex would be frowned upon, especially homosexuality as they needed all hands on deck to be "fruitful and multiply."
Anonymous No.937991635
>>937991402
>God made man in his image
Yes. Perfect, in the beginning. But we were changed by the Fall.
>God is a sexual being
A gross ignorance. God is pure.

>Now, we both know and confess that God is without beginning and without end, everlasting and eternal, uncreated, unchangeable, inalterable, simple, uncompounded, incorporeal, invisible, impalpable, uncircumscribed, unlimited, incomprehensible, uncontained, unfathomable, good, just, the maker of all created things, all-powerful, all-ruling, all-seeing, the provider, the sovereign, and the judge of all.
+St John of Damascus c. 750AD

>There is nothing wrong with sexuality
In the proper context, yes. That context is God's design for us, in monogamous marriage, upholding the virtue of temperance/chastity.

>We were made to relish in
We shouldn't 'relish' in anything.
Anonymous No.937991836
thank you for helping me bump this thread, it burns the demons by interrupting their vile and wretched filth permeating and pervading the catalog.
Anonymous No.937991861
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HX3ZLGhpj0
Anonymous No.937992015 >>937992115
I’ve had a thought recently.
As a kid when going shopping for clothes I would turn and look away from the women’s lingerie because it was inappropriate. Fair enough.
I’m an adult now. When I went to buy clothes for work recently, I noticed I did the same thing without thinking.
At some point I was supposed to become a being with sexual preferences and urges but I’m just not there, or I’m not comfortable or interested.
I don’t have a β€œtype” or a body preference and I just don’t feel the desire to talk up women to try and build a relationship or even a friendship.
I know this isn’t right but I don’t know what went wrong. Porn? Corporatization? Anti-Social Behavior? Probably all of it.
Anonymous No.937992115 >>937992239
>>937992015
There's something inherently wrong with displaying something private for all to see. Our culture is so steeped in this.
Anonymous No.937992239 >>937992789
>>937992115
I know I don’t want to be the kind of person leering at others or lusting after them, but I think I’m on a path of loneliness and I’m concerned about how I don’t seem to be worried about it. With work and school I don’t see myself really making friends. Being a loner isn’t a good thing right? We’re social creatures and need to develop networks.
Anonymous No.937992789
>>937992239
You're right, and there are more and also less ways of developing relationships and engaging in our natural inclinations in healthy ways. That's why Church is so important. Not solely because of the community aspect (but that is a big portion, even for monastics who forsake marriage they live in community intentionally), but because we need direction, and communion with the one who knows us better than we know ourselves. Have you tried an Orthodox Church? It's much more traditionally minded and healthy than this modern culture of dating and hookups.
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Anonymous No.937995073 >>937995821
>>937986465 (OP)
no
Anonymous No.937995821 >>937995834
>>937995073
if it feels good to do something, do it
Anonymous No.937995834
>>937995821
i am. but op won't notice me :c

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