I (32m) started seeing prostitutes when I was 20 and have done it on and off up to my current age. I find the lack of sexual and emotional connection lures me into to seeing them even when I say I’m going to stop. Whenever I am doing decent financially I end up going back to seeing them. I try to be a spiritual person and read the bible and not lust over women but it can be a struggle and mental battle. Does anyone else have this same bad habit?

  • @[email protected]
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    54 days ago

    Do you think only the religious can be moral? That morality only comes from religion? That people cant simply respect others’ lives and live their licpvss according to a moral code?

    • Flax
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      -174 days ago

      No. We are inbuilt with a moral code by God. However, people can desensitise themselves to things or lie to themselves. This is why you need a moral code given by God. You cannot have an moral code without God.

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          84 days ago

          If you believe that an omnipotent God designed everything to be exactly how it is, then its a perfectly logical statement. But then you also have to accept that God gives kids cancer.

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        34 days ago

        Why do you assume that a god is necessary for morality? What led you to this conclusion? What falsifiable evidence do you have?

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            64 days ago

            Morality matters, friend, even for atheists like me. The trouble with the “only believers can be moral” standpoint is that believers can end up doing the most heinously amoral things in the name of their god. Like burning people alive for example. Stoning sinners to death.

            • Flax
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              But why does it matter? You can still be moral and be an atheist, but it involves adopting someone’s moral standard without any rational basis.

              • MrsDoyle
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                13 days ago

                We live in a society. I believe that a predisposition to empathy, compassion, love, all those good things, is inbuilt in us to help maintain a stable, cohesive society. They are taught to young children, who learn to share, care, co-operate. It seems like some people never grow up, and still need a “parent” to guide them.

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                  I believe it is inbuilt in us as well, but by a Creator. However society can easily override that (such as what happened in Nazi germany)

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            13 days ago

            No, it doesn’t matter to the universe. Morality can still matter to you. This is the idea that existentialism is built around: you have to make choices for yourself.