Jokes aside, as far as the porn avoidance thing, I managed to get two weeks clean and I fell into temptation, not in a moment of weakness, but in a moment of happiness. I was happy I accomplished a significant step toward building my own business and I happily fell into it.

The devil is quite literally in the details, to a degree that you may not realise at first. Porn is indeed a tool used by Lucifer to control the minds of men, and unfortunately it has proven successful beyond the wildest dreams of the daemons who created it. Catholic priests who have performed exorcisms upon the poor victims of daemonic possession have reported that, during the casting-out process, the daemons within the tormented people would gleefully tell them that they entered their hosts through porn, their greatest invention.

The only way to stop being dependent on that stuff is to go cold-turkey, entirely. It will be far more effective if you have actual women in your life to approach and romance. Porn cannot and will never be a substitute for a real woman providing real warmth and companionship and sex; like all things Luciferian, it is nothing more than a twisted and perverse mockery of those good things.

You are entirely correct on all of these points. I have maintained for years that one cannot understand Russians, therefore Russia, without understanding that every single invasion of their country, except for those by the Mongols, came from their Western borders. And the scars that the Great Patriotic War left upon them linger to this very day. The Russians resolved long ago that no one would ever harm the Motherland to that extent ever again, and that attitude has guided their foreign policy thinking ever since.

*shakes head* there's just no pleasing you lot…

Knowing the devastatingly heavy losses the Soviets suffered in that war and knowing the Nazis came within a few miles of Moscow and threatened to do to it what they had done to Leningrad (once and again St. Petersburg), puts a fresh light on why the Warsaw pact happened and why the Soviets insisted on a hard buffer zone of the Eastern European Communist bloc following WW II. And why the Soviets said "no united Germany" for a long time.

The Russians were, and are, determined that WW II is never, ever going to happen to them ever again.

Well, I do have to aree with you that Ella Orton is SEVERAL cuts above the usual monday hose-beast.

It was a comment on Youtube on a video and I just had to copy it. It was too good not to share it.

Jokes aside, as far as the porn avoidance thing, I managed to get two weeks clean and I fell into temptation, not in a moment of weakness, but in a moment of happiness. I was happy I accomplished a significant step toward building my own business and I happily fell into it.

Come to think of it, a lot of self harm or societal harm comes from being enthusiastic or willingly happy to do something that is cloaked in literal or metaphorical 'sugar'. The devil really is in the details.

Ella Orten…. I came. I saw. I came. Ahem.

Way, WAY TMI, bro. Whatever happened to your no-nut pledge – came to nuttin', didn't it?

Just kidding, man – busting your balls, so to speak.

I'm guessing the ostrich with the attitude reflects the Karen situation

Weirldy, the ostrich was actually a random image selection. I went looking for "monday ostrich", DuckDuckGo came up with that as one of the results, and I rather liked it and picked it on the day I published the post. It was only afterward that I realised that it was a highly appropriate image for the post.

It's one of those rather happy cosmic accidents that happens from time to time, really.

I'm guessing the ostrich with the attitude reflects the Karen situation. So far I met two Karens i my life. One was crazy and the other was one of the kindest people I met in my life. Normally, there is some loose association with names and attitude, but Karen seems like it's dabbling in duality.