The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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New Year's resolution check-in:
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @ThomasdelVasto and @falling-star?
Spending is $2,807.93 less than the same time last year. The home repairs got delayed a week due to weather. I assume that this will get worse in the next week or two.
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I can understand not liking Blood Meridian - it is awfully grim and gory, sometimes cartoonishly. But what is the proposed common theme it shares with The Dark Tower and Two Towers? To me, The Two Towers is very much fundamentally hopeful - the world has evil and dysfunction, but it can be and is meaningfully confronted with heroism. In Meridian, heroism is rare and stands no chance.
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I quit pornography as part of my new religious commitments around the same time.
I was not expecting how difficult it would be to go from cumming once or twice a day to once a week when the kid is finally in bed at a reasonable how and my wife isn't too tired. I was also not expecting to be wondering what fresh fetishes hentai artist might be coming up with, or where certain story lines ended up going. I was not expecting how hard it would be to delete my stash of 20+ years, despite the fact that ostensibly I'm never going to touch it again.
When I was reading Introduction to Devout Life, the chapters on attachment to sin hit like a ton of bricks.
Gosh, I thought I had a high sex drive, and yet I imagine I could count on the fingers of two hands the number of days last year where I masturbated twice.
Which religion are you, out of interest?
You know, if it's all the same, I'd rather not say. It's not a weird one, I just have conflicted feelings about turning my entire persona here into "WhiningCoil's newb experiences at church" or the like.
I completely understand, I was just curious.
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