/lit/ - Literature

>>17249163
Based and Christ Pilled

>>12627848
Frederick Ahl's Aeneid translation is god tier

>>12624014
Bless you too, anon

>>12181313
You know what, you're free to ignore it. There's something that bothers you fundamentally about these posts because you know if they're true, you're undermining your potential and that just eats away at you. That's the only reason why I can see someone so hostile, so venomous toward the idea of abstinence having a beneficial effect and those who advocate it. Well, I have some good news for you, I won't be visiting this website too often if at all in the future. I'm nearly better now. I've seeded this idea enough for at least a handful of people to take advantage of it. My work here is done.

STOP READING EROTICA

>tfw voluntarily celibate 32 year old quasi hermetic NEET recluse with no delusional dreams or foolish aspirations to distract my daily quest to know inner peace
Feels so blissfully good lads

>>11702783
>The key is to leave the option to fap available because if you bar yourself from it completely you'll want to do it even more.
Nonsense.
I don't have any desire to use opiates even though I "bar myself" from their use, even having had past experience with them.

It isn't a matter of barring" oneself; there is no allure from the higher brain regions to engage. It's a clearly harmful behavior to engage in that rationally speaking isn't even a good forbidden fruit. Most people have already done it 2500+ times. Keeping the door open to engage serves as inducement to fail.

The only time someone feels compelled to, is when arousal occurs and it's too late at that point. You need to prevent arousal occurring which necessitates it never be an option to contemplate. The moment you even question whether you should masturbate, the instinctual part of your brain induces a temporary hypofrontality to carry out what it thinks is procreation. It doesn't care about your life goals, motivations or anything. It will gladly throw these out in abandon. Erection sets in and prefrontal neurotransmission decreases.
What the hell is the point of even reading whenever all that is on your mind is getting off 20 minutes from then? You're going to be in a distracted unproductive state. You'll associate reading as a "chore" used to attain a reward rather than being a reward in and of itself.

And should release occur, it never is "just once". Your hormones will be out of homeostasis, causing a rebound in sexual desire for the next 1-2 weeks, making you a slave once again to this pernicious habit.

>>11683760
I'm from your mama's house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGmmxUQWig

>>11674227

>>11673086
Give examples

>>11631956
Why are these boomers dressed and acting like teenagers?

>>11630600
Amen, brotha'!

>>11625356
Realize the chaste ideal.
You become the best version of yourself when you renounce sexual arousal and activity.

>>11621820
To ascend.

>>11621682
Renounce the flesh. Temper your desires while lessening your appetite. Lessen your labors and remain in your cell. Do this and you will know peace.

>>11619455
Ok, so he isn't a philosopher in your eyes, can you debunk any of his arguments? No? Ok

>>11616550

>>11598468
>Literally just peanut flavored salt

>>11585718