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OhforfSake
Promising
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posted February 09, 2013 12:55 PM |
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What are your temptations and how do you cope?
We all have temptations, as indicated by the bible. But we have different temptations, and different degrees of temptations.
Likewise we're not equally successful in coping with temptations, a typical example from Heroes Community is gaming addiction.
Reading through each others posts gives an impression of the temptations we've to deal with every day and in fact how different they are. Just today, spoken from memory, I read a post of JJ's stating he promised himself not to take part in meaningless discussion. Clearly there's a temptation here, and an attempt to cope.
On the same note, again from memory, I once read Sal writing about how silly these discussion parts of the forums are, because it's only talk, no action. All a waste of time. Therefore Sal obviously is not tempted the same way as JJ, but he probably have other temptations, such as strangling his students?
My own, most powerful temptation, is probably computer games. I stopped enjoying computer games in general many years ago, which is reflected by that I don't get new computer games. Not that I can't enjoyment by playing a computer game at all, it's just not a much, and much more hassle. However whenever I'm occupied with stuff I do enjoy, after getting tired, I tend to find my mind wandering, and it wanders towards computer games. Because in my mind, when I'm daydreaming, computer games are what they were when I found them very enjoyable. This tempts me to load up a game and use several hours, waiting for that part I was daydreaming about, to find it's not nearly as enjoyable as it was thinking about it.
Usually that doesn't happen, but occasionally I do fall for temptation. The way I cope is by trying to remember that how reality will be, and how I think it will be may be very inaccurate.
So what are some of your temptations and how do you cope with them?
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Living time backwards
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xerox
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
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posted February 09, 2013 02:49 PM |
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Why should I have to cope with them?
I live free.
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Darkshadow
Legendary Hero
Cerise Princess
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posted February 09, 2013 02:52 PM |
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Quote:
What are your temptations
drugs
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how do you cope?
by taking them
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted February 09, 2013 03:11 PM |
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such as strangling his students?
I got caught, Watson. I have a terrible urge to strangle some of them indeed, but with time I just learned the indifference mood. I need the money, they need their neck, everyone is happy.
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted February 09, 2013 03:31 PM |
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Drinking. During my twenties I drank like an Irish man, a Beat Generation poet and a rum smuggling pirate combined. Now that the thirties are here, I only drink like a day a week, sometimes not even that. Because if I kept on like that I would have died, or go brain-dead at least. Still, when I do drink, I drink till I drop. That's how I cope with it.
Laziness. I really really hate working. Give me a bed and a TV in front of it, I wont get up till I have to take a piss. How do I cope with it, I try to read more, so the time in bed isn't totally wasted.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted February 09, 2013 03:40 PM |
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Bed and TV = bad. Bed and nice chick in = much better. No bed nor chick, you gotta work = that's the way.
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted February 09, 2013 04:49 PM |
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Bed and TV = bad. Bed and nice chick in = much better. No bed nor chick, you gotta work = that's the way.
Most chicks are left in my twenties too unfortunately. It's hard to meet them nowadays because of life style, I don't go out much. Everybody started to get married anyway. There was this one girl who was the love of my life but it is kind of a doomed relationship and I'm all pessimistic about it now.
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OhforfSake
Promising
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Initiate
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posted February 09, 2013 06:58 PM |
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Funnily enough, I never tried drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, etc. Seeing how easily I do tend to get addicted to stuff, I can't help but wonder how dreadful a life I'd live, if I'd at any time tried any of those enough to become addicted.
Many former friends of mine used to do the same stuff as me, and they never found great temptation in video games, or procrastination, yet they're addicted to cigarettes. Alcohol, I don't know, it's culturally accepted to drink to you pass out here, so I don't think many is trying to quit alcohol.
On the plus side, I've never been tempted by food. Maybe a bit too insufficient though, as I'm very skinny, but I've never become an addict to "eating too much".
Edit: I just remembered some food was very tempting for me when I was just becoming a teenager, but after I stopped eating it, the temptation fell into the background, and when I tried eating it again, I found it was actually worse than the food I eat today. So that's a case of abstinence working, but I probably wasn't very addicted, plus the chest pain was a great motivator.
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Drakon-Deus 
Undefeatable Hero
CONTINUITY IS POWER
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posted April 15, 2013 02:30 PM |
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Does masturbation count as one?
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Horses don't die on a dog's wish.
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master_learn
Legendary Hero
walking to the library
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posted April 15, 2013 03:43 PM |
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The classic one:
Beauty of women.
Cope with it:
Making collections.
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"I heard the latest HD version disables playing Heroes. Please reconsider."-Salamandre
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Seraphim
Supreme Hero
Knowledge Reaper
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posted April 15, 2013 07:57 PM |
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The classic one:
Beauty of women.
Cope with it:
Making collections.
Dont all men make "collections"?
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"Science is not fun without cyanide"
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Corribus
Hero of Order
The Abyss Staring Back at You
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posted April 16, 2013 01:03 AM |
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Food of all kinds. But especially chocolate. And anything made of pork.
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I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later. -Mitch Hedberg
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Ghost
Legendary Hero
Therefore I am
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posted April 16, 2013 01:40 AM |
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OmegaDestroyer
Hero of Order
Fox or Chicken?
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posted April 16, 2013 02:58 AM |
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I'm pretty sure if I gave into the temptation to slap my clients I'd lose my job. I just bite my tongue, sit back, and watch it all burn.
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The giant has awakened
You drink my blood and drown
Wrath and raving I will not stop
You'll never take me down
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Ghost
Legendary Hero
Therefore I am
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posted April 16, 2013 03:10 AM |
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NoobX
Undefeatable Hero
Now, this is a paradox...
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posted April 16, 2013 07:28 AM |
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Does masturbation count as one?
Yes. I have the same temptation.
I usually do it once a day, but when I'm feeling extra horny I can do it even 4 times in a single day (would do more, but I've got almost no place to hide).
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Ghost said:
Door knob resembles anus tap.
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blizzardboy
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Nerf Herder
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posted April 16, 2013 07:31 AM |
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Noobx, I'm so sorry for ever calling you a sub-quality poster. That post was a masterpiece.
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"Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us."
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
CONTINUITY IS POWER
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posted April 16, 2013 11:37 AM |
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I don't think I've done it 4 times a day recently, 2 or 3 times max.
How do I cope... Does it even need coping?
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Horses don't die on a dog's wish.
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NoobX
Undefeatable Hero
Now, this is a paradox...
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posted April 16, 2013 01:24 PM |
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Just let the fluids of life flow out of you...
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Ghost said:
Door knob resembles anus tap.
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Ghost
Legendary Hero
Therefore I am
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posted April 16, 2013 01:51 PM |
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Edited by Ghost at 13:55, 16 Apr 2013.
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No spam! True health issue. When should reduce the risk of cancer, the ability to enhance the immune, testosterone increases so you can go to the gym. Used for muscle growth! But too much causes stress. Hm, if excess with a woman is more difficult situation. If you never so should not be a problem before the age of 30. Hm eat 3-4 eggs a week. Now the thing is over!?
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