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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.

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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.

>>11911718
It causes arousal and sexual thoughts. It is a negative influence even if you are just trolling. The benefits of abstinence far exceed messing around on that frivolous app.

No.

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.

>>11642240
>now I'm in a house with 3 other guys, all good friends, who love to game, cook, talk and watch movies together
You deserve this for living with them. The only sort of shared quarters that work is with chaste people. Carnally minded people are animals obsessed with lower interests. They want nothing more than to drag you down to their level.
Living with men who are 'sexually active' (any release, doesn't matter if they are single) is unbearable once you have won the battle over self. They either bring home women or defile themselves alone somewhere in the house.

Unchaste people... Beer and post-ejaculate piss. The whole apartment smells like piss if you go into a place occupied by 4 drinking and sexually active men. It's gotten much worse in the pornography era.
One thing I remember was that the only time my piss had any scent is either if I was dehydrated or for a few hours after ejaculating. That second smell is terrible and distinct. You'll notice that toilets shared with 3 others, the bathroom will stink horribly. I stayed in monastic settings and the lavatory had no scent.
Who knows, there might be some sort of evolutionary mechanism to pick up these scents so it drives one to compete for a woman. Another reason why shared quarters leads to ruin. It might even be better to be homeless and live in your car than with them.

After several months of abstinence, you have nothing but disdain for these people. They are disgusting and deserve to rot in their filth. You begin to rise early, want to read and better yourself throughout your waking hours. You see these disgusting, slothful oafs just lounging around, taking 4+ hours to get the day started, complaining about every little task. Whatever past friendship you once had, goes away. You see that they are captives to lower instincts and desire. They could never fast. They could never do anything great. They are anchors and anchors keep you fixed. Fixed in dirty, muddied waters to rot away and eventually sink.
You're better than that. Take flight and never look back. Find private dwellings or quarters in a community which has renounced all concupiscence. 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.

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.