/lit/ - Literature

Hitler
Heidegger
Hegel

>>13615536
>What if we were chads and girls were constantly lining up to take the D from us ? Would we still feel the same way ? Wouldn't our minds promptly and with ease convince us that it is a very natural thing and our right, nay our duty even, to indulge in these carnal delights. One has to wonder.
You're mistaken. I am attractive and such was my lot in life. In point of fact, being a chad makes the situation all the worse as you are tempted in person all the more by harpies pulling on your coattails and heartstrings as Augustine said:

>It was, in fact, my old mistresses, trifles of trifles and vanities of vanities, who still enthralled me. They tugged at my fleshly garments and softly whispered: “Are you going to part with us? And from that moment will we never be with you any more? And from that moment will not this and that be forbidden you forever?” What were they suggesting to me in those words “this or that”? What is it they suggested, O my God? Let thy mercy guard the soul of thy servant from the vileness and the shame they did suggest! And now I scarcely heard them, for they were not openly showing themselves and opposing me face to face; but muttering, as it were, behind my back; and furtively plucking at me as I was leaving, trying to make me look back at them. Still they delayed me, so that I hesitated to break loose and shake myself free of them and leap over to the place to which I was being called--for unruly habit kept saying to me, “Do you think you can live without them?”

The more available it is, the more of a problem it becomes as you are but a slave to the next bit of meat to excite and stimulate you. It does nothing. It just kneecaps the more recently developed parts of your brain for a bit of pleasure and this feeds all the more into the point I was attempting to make. Even if you had total access to sleep with every woman in existence, it would not profit you at all. In fact, it further hammers the point I was making that it reinforces a primal drive and makes it the primary driver of the will to the point where you and your faculties are just a vehicle for it to be carried out. You, surrender your seat as conscious driver to a passenger to whatever distraction happens to be next.
>It's easy to take the moral high road for us.
I didn't take the high road. I advised others to. People waste their entire lives and I wasted many years on frivolous pursuits that yielded nothing other than transitory pleasure.

>>13114831
Not to mention it surrenders your will over to a passion that uses your faculty of reason to justify its continuance rather than the other way around, reducing you to a mere passenger in this ride of life, rather than a driver. Gratifying and reinforcing sexual passions makes slaves of men. It should be noted, that unlike virtually all other people in this thread, I'm an atheist, and the implications of there not being a God make this all the worse. Waste life following the pleasure of a blind instinct? Surrender your agency to something that really does nothing. I consider it to be worse hard drug use, as the decision to take them is deliberate, willful, and not primal although the pleasure gained from them is rooted in similar systems. There is no deliberation in sexual matters. Just a cosmic game of pinball only to be set-off and thrown off course by the next arousing distraction.

People worry about their devices breaking but they never consider that they're actively destroying their own mind with every single sway toward the insatiable pit of gratifying behavior which know no depth.

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>>12885639
>I have books but hard to read if you can't enjoy a good meal.