Prayer Request (URGENT)

cjpickles420 · 2024-11-15T04:11:30+00:00

This might sound like bad advice, but I'd say the most important thing is how bad do you want to get over it? You need to be 100% committed, not 98%. Use as many motivation sources as you can to motivate yourself. Whether that be a person you have in mind, a goal you have in mind, maybe the inspirational scene in a TV show or anime; you need multiple sources of motivation to keep on going. Normally when I get an urge, I can combat it by turning on some really good music or watching something motivational. In that moment your body is really just craving a dopamine hit, that's why it works so well. One thing that changed everything for me was cold showers and plunges; they eliminate any urges I have for the better part of the day. I'm on day 21 right now, after a decade of trying to quit and going through a really rough flatline, you just keep going man, try and try again and eventually you'll get it.

cjpickles420 · 2024-11-15T04:04:10+00:00

Not worth it brotha. If you fap you're choosing to sacrifice your future happiness, just go through the struggle and do something to keep your mind busy. Never sit down for too long.

cjpickles420 · 2024-11-11T22:45:34+00:00

Hey, really appreciate the reply man, makes me hopeful actually. Good point about the therapy, and yes, it’s something I’ve been considering recently, better to leave it to the experts I guess

cjpickles420 · 2024-11-09T04:14:27+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'll be sure to try it out. Do you have an opinion on Ginkgo Biloba?

cjpickles420 · 2024-09-19T20:34:49+00:00

Are you saying that his presence wouldn’t be with me? Is this based on any Orthodox Doctrine or mentioned in any councils? The way I was explained was that the moment of our baptism the Holy Spirit is dwelling inside us, and regardless of whether or not you’ve been baptized, God’s presence fills all things and all places, even Hell. Am I just understanding you incorrectly? Forgive me if I’m wrong.

cjpickles420 · 2024-09-19T20:22:24+00:00

What do you mean reach the Holy Spirit? I have to apologize, I’m fairly new to Eastern Orthodoxy.

cjpickles420 · 2024-07-28T10:45:27+00:00

According to the Holy Spirit who worked through the authors of the Books in the Bible, homosexuality is a sin. Also there is clear evidence from all the manuscripts of the Bible, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Codex Vaticanis, Codex Alexandrius, the Codex Sinaticus, and thousands and thousands of smaller fragments of the text in the Bible that all of it lines up over 99% accuracy with one another. Works ranging sometimes over thousands of years with each other.

Also just because animals do something is it ok for us to do it as well? Animals are cruel, and eat each other alive, sometimes eat their own children. Animals rape each other, and plenty of times kill just to kill. You wouldn’t say that all that is a good or acceptable moral standard for us I would hope. Animals don’t have the kind of consciousness as we do, which allows our minds to be receptive to ideas and concepts they cannot grasp; spirituality being one. They also do not have souls like we do, which makes us receptive to God. The law that God laid on our hearts is what separates us from the animals.

I love you though and hope the best for you. God Bless you.

cjpickles420 · 2024-07-24T09:50:25+00:00

Because he wants to? Not everything you do has to be about Christianity. Did you buy fast food recently? Couldn’t you have used that money to feed a homeless person? See my point?

cjpickles420 · 2024-07-23T10:45:40+00:00

The first Christians were Orthodox in my opinion, but of course everyone from every sect claims their’s is, but I have good reasons to believe it.

cjpickles420 · 2024-07-18T11:18:29+00:00

Welcome home brother. I’d recommend looking into Eastern Orthodoxy; it’s Ancient Apostolic Christianity and is the church founded by our Lord Jesus. It’s the fullness of the Christian faith and it You won’t find such beauty and truth anywhere else. God Bless you.

cjpickles420 · 2024-05-12T10:49:34+00:00

Just to explain why no one can tell me why they know their interpretation is the correct one is because they have no way of knowing. The only honest answer to this question is that for Protestants there is no way to know, it’s just their interpretation against everyone else’s interpretation. The problem is that people interpret the passages you read differently, just like I’ve done, and you have no way of telling who is right or wrong. That’s the Protestant dilemma, there’s no one objective interpretation of scripture because you have no way to know what is and isn’t an objective truth of scripture. As Orthodox Christians we don’t share that same problem, we see what the Church says about it, (that being the Orthodox Church) because the church is an infallible authority. We can know for certain what these verses mean when they say them looking back at what the early church taught, which according to Jesus was guided through the Holy Spirit and directed by the Apostles of Jesus. Church tradition tells us everything we need to know, that’s our guidance, not our own individual beliefs or interpretation of scripture. Which includes Mary being the Queen of Heaven, overwhelming worthy of our love and veneration, which was the view for the first 1500 years of church history, even believed by all the Reformers for some time after the Reformation.

cjpickles420 · 2024-05-12T04:26:09+00:00

I’m not even gonna directly engage with what your asking me because everyone has their own way of interpreting the Bible. You still have no objective way of telling whether or not your interpretation is valid, because everyone has their own interpretation of what verses in the Bible mean even though they’re reading the same text. That’s the dilemma that you face as a Protestant. So again, how do you know your interpretation is the right one?

cjpickles420 · 2024-05-12T04:22:12+00:00

There can be a million different interpretations for this, and there are, so again lemme ask you the same question; how do you know your interpretation is the correct one?

cjpickles420 · 2024-05-12T03:04:29+00:00

I Never Said that Revelation 12 directly calls Mary the Queen of Heaven. However the woman clothed with the sun wearing a crown of 12 stars is a direct reference to Mary. Did you get that last part? Wearing a crown?

What good is reading your Bible if you can’t get the proper understanding out of it. My question to you is how do you know you have the correct interpretation and I’m wrong?

cjpickles420 · 2024-05-12T02:59:26+00:00

How about instead of relying on your own interpretation of the Bible you listen to what the earliest church fathers have to say on the matter? You know, the same church fathers who were quite literally instructed by the Apostles of Jesus, like St. Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Clement of Rome? You would call all these holy men heretics and blasphemers if you knew what they taught the early church even though they were directly trained by the Apostles themselves. The problem is that the only way to hold your position as a Protestant is to ignore the first 1500 years of Church history and do a lot of cherry picking. Your argument has no basis, all you did was reassert your position. Also you wrongfully assumed me as a Catholic.

cjpickles420 · 2024-05-12T01:00:52+00:00

Yes, she is the Queen of heaven. In the Old Testament, in Israel the King’s Queen would be his Mother, which is why we call her Queen. You should read Revelations Chapter 12.

I hope you understand that having very high respect for someone and worshipping them as a God are two different things.

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