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🗓️ 28 October 2020
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Seventeenth-century, philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal argued that "there are two opposing secret instincts in men."
The secrets confuse us and lead us to a search that can never be satisfied.
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0:00.0 | Porn Free Radio, Episode 2.43. Have you ever found yourself staying up late at night and you're |
0:07.4 | already fatigued and tired and you know you need to go to bed, but something in you is compelled |
0:12.4 | to get on your computer or pick up your phone and do a search? And the next thing you know, |
0:17.8 | you spend two or three hours going down the rabbit hole with porn, and then |
0:21.9 | you collapse in the bed, more tired, more fatigued, and you're like, why did I do that? |
0:29.4 | Or how about this? Have you ever spent a few hours trying to circumvent the safeguards and filters |
0:34.8 | that you set up in your environment to keep yourself safe from porn. |
0:38.8 | Like something in you is driven to try to find the loophole or the workaround |
0:43.8 | so you can get to something illicit or stimulating. |
0:48.8 | Do you find yourself easily prone to distraction, going to escape, avoiding things, or procrastinating. |
0:56.2 | Even when things are important, you put them off. |
0:58.8 | How about this? |
0:59.8 | Have you ever been watching porn and you're suddenly aware that you're actually bored? |
1:06.4 | You're bored at what you're watching, but you keep watching it. |
1:09.8 | How about this one? This is a little more vulnerable. |
1:11.9 | Have you ever been sort of in the zone with porn all in? |
1:15.6 | You've created sort of that safe bubble and you're just pursuing things and clicking on things |
1:21.3 | and watching things. |
1:22.9 | And oops, you accidentally orgasm and you're disappointed. You're like, that's not how I wanted this to end. |
1:31.9 | The bubbles popped. The fantasy kind of dissolves. And you're just sitting there. |
1:37.9 | Or how about this? Last question. Do you ever feel entitled? |
1:42.9 | Like you just need a break? |
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