“Know thyself” is the most famous maxim of all philosophy. Having accomplished this goal, I have found it to be a very bad idea.

Allow me to explain my knowledge of myself: I am a machine with a first layer of programming that goes “seek warmth, seek food, seek sex” and a secondary layer of programming that goes “engage in some balance of conflict and socialization.” Trapped within this machine is a “ghost,” which is the core of the above mentioned “self,” which is tortured every second by the programming of the machine it is trapped within, and by the systems of time and matter that the machine is in turn trapped inside.

The soul-self then seeks what? To overcome the restraints of the machine and the systems which restrain the machine. That means seeking immaterial, metaphysical things that exist outside of the programming of the machine, while only having access to the mechanisms of the machine and the systems it exists in. Attempting to do this leads to more advanced systems of torture than one would face if he were to simply ignore the ghost and simply follow along with the programming of the machine.

Time and matter are designed to destroy the machine and are always victorious. Therefore, the soul-self, if engaged, demands that the machine be overcome, because the soul-self does not want to end with the machine.

It might be easy enough to say “Jesus is the answer,” and I believe this. But if the answer was as simple as that, great Christian men in history would have simply embraced Christ and then lived in total peace. However, none of them (or a very remote few) appear to have done that, and instead were tortured by the machines they inhabited and the systems to which the machine is subject. This implies that although “Jesus is the answer” is a truism, “Jesus” is a complex answer. If Jesus were a simple answer, there would be no need for philosophy or theology or anything else, really. I hope that in the last minutes of my life, when the machine is failing in its battle against time and matter, “Jesus is the answer” is a very simple answer, but until the time of my death, it will be a complex matter, and a struggle to understand. In traditional Christianity, this attempt to understand often comes in the form of “pondering the mysteries.” I encourage this practice. In particular, I encourage an obsession with the nearness of death, of the inevitable failure of the machine. This should allow one to partially avoid the fear of the failure of the machine, which will allow one to act in a bolder and more meaningful way.

It should be noted: the ghost, the soul-self, cannot logically be an illusion, some by-product of “evolution,” given that it does not benefit the machine in any way. Without the ghost, the machine would act on the interests of the machine alone, the primary of which is procreation. Arguing against the existence of the soul appears to me to be stupid and ridiculous, and something that no one actually believes because a being with a soul cannot actually stop believing in the mechanism that provides it with self-awareness in the first place. This is without going into the mechanics of atheism, which claim that creatures evolve based on efficiency, and having self-awareness is extremely inefficient and damaging to the survival/procreation mechanism of the machine. No one without a soul could ever commit suicide. No one without a soul could be a childless incel (they would kidnap women and lock them in their basements). “Morality” in the sense of “social norms” exists in animals without souls, but it is much less complex than human morality. As the arguments against the existence of the soul are stupid, I do not need to spend more time on this.

The question is: how do we allow the soul to accomplish its objectives to the greatest extent within the constraints of the machine and the machine’s constraints? This is where the “know thyself” matter becomes applicable in a practical sense.

The first stage must, quite obviously, be overcoming, as best we can, the base functions of the machine. The saints often went into the wilderness for this purpose. This is extreme. But it is probably ideal. The most important thing to remember is that you are never going to fully accomplish the goal. It is impossible. The saints all died fighting a losing battle against the flesh. You too will die, and very soon. Even though it will feel like a very long time. And when you die, you will not have transcended the flesh, but succumbed to it.

What is clear is that Ted Kaczynski was right about technological society sucking people’s souls out of them, and you’re not going to find anything of any importance in this matrix system of urban doom.

King Solomon said that vanity was the core of the fleshy machine self, and thus vanity was what men should seek to overcome. “Vanity” might be better translated as “fleeting mist” or “vapor.” It describes the wants of the flesh. He concluded that the only joy is to eat, drink, and be merry. It was not an endorsement of hedonism, but rather the opposite: a call to disconnect from the bindings of the flesh and exist without pretense. That is, when we find the bright spots of clarity in the misery of existence, we are closest to God. And as Dostoyevsky said, “The darker the night, the brighter the stars.” If you understand life as misery, then the little twinkles of the stars, those times of eating, drinking, and being merry, can let you touch the divine. Or come close.

In the most famous painting ever, Adam’s finger does not touch God’s. He is reaching. But that space will not close in life.

But few seek. Mostly, we are chasing after a fleeting mist. That is what we get up and do every day when we pour ourselves into the hunt for money, women, or in the case of many readers, some kind of political solution to personal problems. None of that is real. I have had sex with women several times. I don’t really remember much of it. It didn’t make me any better. I hit some meme coins and had some money. I didn’t have anything to spend it on. I fought a political war for nearly 15 years. Nothing much came of it. Ah, but something did come of it. Being exiled and isolated from the system, being forced to disconnect from the destructive and hateful culture I was raised in allowed me to see just how ridiculous it is, then compare it to the rest of the societies. There is no one happier than the poor. Not Western poor, not street junkies or trailer park meth heads, or the blacks, but poor cultures, where people don’t have any great and terrible ambition.

Very often, people say, “I want to travel,” and I say, “Why? To what end?” People will typically say they want to “see things,” to which I respond, “It’s all on YouTube.” “Traveling” is something to look forward to for millennials who don’t say “I want to get rich and really respected” like their baby boomer parents. It’s something to look forward to, to distract from the reality that we are always going to be nowhere other than inside of our own heads. If you’re living in a mansion or if you’re getting your dick sucked in a colorful bungalow in Goa, you’re still in your own head, you’re still alone, as you were born alone and will die alone inside of this fleshy prison.

“Traveling” is only interesting in exile. That is the only way it is going to help you figure anything out. The realization that I am no longer “American” in any meaningful sense, and only understand it as an observer, was very important to me. As an observer, I am able to see just how miserable of a hell that existence is, just what a terrible matrix of dehumanization people inhabit in these prison-like cities, searching for sex, money, politics, travel, or some other things that don’t actually satisfy any need of the soul. The flesh has you on a rat wheel.

Millennials and younger often mock boomers for their obsession with sports, while millennials just do politics as if they are sports. There is no real difference, other than that the political obsession is more extreme. Neither actually leads anywhere. Boomers sat in front of the TV watching sports, people younger than them doom-scroll for political conflict. It’s simulated conflict. Sports and politics are simulations of war, engaged in by people who will not see real war.

A real war would probably be good for you. Not a dumb fake war, like the Middle East wars the Americans did. Or, maybe being on the non-American side of one of those wars, like John Walker Lindh.

The cocksuckers who caught him might as well have been watching sports.

But a real war, that would be good for you. Being in a ditch, seeing people get their limbs blown off. It would push you, at least. It would push the limits of the flesh-machine, it would force you to recognize that your body is just a leaky bag of blood and salt, propped up by sticks, and that if that is the “you, you,” then you aren’t much at all.

Probably, the clarity that comes with war is why people crave simulation of it. I don’t mean to romanticize war, as it is the worst thing imaginable, physically. But the worst thing imaginable physically could be the best thing imaginable for the spirit, if the individual experiencing it is able to avoid going insane. Regardless, there is some reason that people seek these simulated versions of war, and apparently find some deep meaning in them, or rather, believe they will eventually find some deep meaning in them.

Having spent more than enough time thinking about politics, I can confirm you will never find any meaning in politics. “Who will rule the concrete and glass prison complex?” might seem like a meaningful question, but it isn’t really. Were people’s lives better under Obama than under Trump? The answer is obviously “yes.” So what is happening? The system is progressing, becoming less human, more of a rat trap for the flesh boxes.

The simple answer is what the Buddha said: “All suffering comes from desire.” Jesus said several things that mean the same thing, though the clarity of the Buddha’s statement is cutting. So that is the point at which a person should start to attempt to understand the self. It was only less than 200 years ago that the overwhelming majority of the human population, including whites, were living on farms, spending most of their time in fields, or relaxing with their families.

Kaczynski gets all the credit for Jaques Ellul’s ideas. I would recommend the Kaczynski book first, because it’s so much easier to read than any of the Ellul books. But if you are a reader, the Ellul books are worth the effort. In English, they are “The Technological Society” and “The Technological System.” (Those are the most important, though it might be better to start with “Propaganda” if you are not used to reading this kind of dense text, which very few people under the age of 60 are used to doing. But yes, the Kaczynski book is a good summary.) These are arguments that no one can really argue with, as they are just obvious, but there isn’t really any solution for the society.

Look. People complain about consumerism. You hear this a lot. But what else are you going to do in a city, other than consume? There is no answer to that. The city is designed for consumption. It is the flesh prison. It is designed as a place to find hedonistic sensual pleasures, which is all consumerism is. And all of the world economies are driven by consumerism, and if you don’t drive consumerism, you cannot compete with other nations, and therefore there is no real third option, other than some kind of ultra-militarized Marxism or fascism, which is possibly the best option for a state. Though that hasn’t worked great for North Korea, at least the state still exists.

The point that I’m going for here is that you are not going to find meaning in any of these worldly things, and as long as you are stuck inside of the system, you are not going to ever really find any meaning, you are going to chase money and pussy. I know that there are a lot of “trad” memes going around and everyone is saying they want a “wife,” but what they are talking about is sex, and that is natural enough, but it’s not going to happen. You’re not going to get a trad wife in a city that is designed for women to max out their fun time, while forcing men to compete for their attention. That is all stuff I’ve written too much about. Everyone should understand it now.

So the desire for “a wife and family” is still a desire and it will drag you. If you get your wife, what is she going to have you doing? Is she going to hoe the garden on your farm? No. No, she is not. Not if she knows the big world exists. She might say she’ll hoe your garden, if she’s in the throes of passion, but she won’t. You would need some kind of situation like in that film The Village. (It’s from the Sixth Sense guy, who always does the “big shocking twist” thing at the end. I won’t spoil it. You probably saw it.)

There is no meaning in striving for any of these things, and we waste our time, which is very limited. There is an essay by Seneca the Younger called “On the Shortness of Life” where he describes the way men work in the city and say that when they’re fifty or sixty (now it’s probably when you’re seventy or eighty), they’ll retire to some farm in nature and relax, but that by this time, their life is already ending, that they are wasting the best years of their lives, the years that should be used to lay the foundation of understanding life and the coming end of it, wasting time striving meaninglessly. He also notes that the wealthier and more powerful you are, the more of your time you end up wasting, and therefore seeking these things is a vicious cycle.

I’m not in a position to advise you as to how you should go about living your life. I made what are in retrospect very extreme decisions. Tucker Carlson can get up on stage and say the Jews run America and face minimal consequences, others are also making much money saying this now, but when I said it, there were very serious consequences. Maybe I should have been able to figure that out. But I was 25 and didn’t give a fuck. This forced me into something I hadn’t ever really planned on. It was for the best, for sure, but it was very extreme.

My situation was so unique that I can’t really tell anyone else how they should go about seeking to escape the matrix. I suppose I could say “just buy some land outside of the city and try to relax, alone.” Land is incredibly cheap in America. I think Americans don’t really understand how cheap it is, compared to really anywhere else in the world. There is good arable land in Mississippi and Arkansas. You could also try to join the Amish. At least with the Amish, you’d have work. I don’t think it would be good to live without work. My work is writing, so it’s much easier for me. You need work. Seneca the Younger was from a wealthy family, he got patronage for his writing, and he was also doing shady money-lending schemes, so it was easy for him to say “just go live on a farm and relax.”

Regardless, it seems some level of rural isolation, maybe with some family and community, is the only clear path in this satanic world. But I don’t have any idea what you want. I am also not enlightened, and cannot guarantee anyone enlightenment, I’m simply on a path to it, and I think I’m probably further along than anyone trapped in an American rat cage.

What I can tell you is that knowing the self, understanding the nature of the soul that is trapped in this machine with all of these desires, is an extremely painful and arduous process, and it is one that you undertake while knowing you won’t actually ever truly finish it.

For me, I want to write more about these sorts of things, as I work through them. I’ve been writing a lot of different stuff since I mostly stopped with the Stormer site, and trying to figure out how to come at it. What I can say is that I no longer care about how many people read it, as I no longer really have a political agenda, as I have concluded that political agendas are futile. I was the best political writer, and as we can see now, the most influential of the century, but I now view that as akin to being the champion of the hot dog eating contest. I would rather be the best at writing something else.

My strong faith in God is in some ways a curse as much as it is a blessing, as there is a large part of me that would have preferred to simply run around the rat cage looking for dopamine hits. The fleshy encasement seeks to avoid suffering, and in order to actually develop the inner self, one has to, like Christ, embrace suffering as the only way out. And then look for those places where you can eat, drink, and be merry.

For me, writing is the only thing that creates an oblivion in my mind, and brings me to my self. That, I see now, is why I continued with the site every day long after I’d concluded that politics were a waste of time in the same way that working to buy a race car or working to get a woman to sleep with you is a waste of time. What I’ve realized since breaking up with you on Valentine’s Day is that I can write every day without publishing every day. I was already writing for myself, as everything I do is inside of my own head, because that is where we always are, from the day we come screaming into this life until the day we succumb to death’s sweet embrace.

The first thing to do is read the Book of John.

People talk a lot about Christianity. They don’t really seem to understand that the first principle of the religion is to “die to the world,” which refers to the denial of the fleshy desires outlined above.

I always hated my life. It was very nice to hear that Jesus said you’re supposed to, and that this is the path to enlightenment and eternal salvation in the life to come.

Saint Paul is more angry and less mystical than Saint John the Apostle, but this material is also very useful.

The concept of being crucified with Christ and living only through the spirit of Christ is something that should be pondered deeply. The true self inside of you is one with Christ, and was linked to Christ when you were born, and it is the desires of the flesh that separate you from this true self, this oneness with Christ. But as stated, it is only through death that one can ever truly escape the flesh prison and become one with Christ. Until then, we are all simply doing our best to prepare for that.

And then there’s Saint Augustine, who said, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.”

This is what one should ask of their life actions: “Is this preparing me for death and unification with the divine creator or not?” I don’t think a life in a city, with all of these cellphones and microwaves everywhere, can possibly be the ideal place to make that happen. In the ultimate sense, you are still just in your head, regardless, so anything is possible, but you need a really good excuse to live in one of these cities, as you are not going to have an easy time escaping desire in a rat matrix designed for the sexual satisfaction of women.

Author’s Note: Much of what I am working on right now is this sort of thing, just less stream-of-consciousness, more structured. It’s difficult work, to try to move toward structure, especially in longer work, and I’m doing a lot of reading to try to get good at it. I am also still working on some loser stuff and some fiction. I’m not promising any dates. Anything is going to be released when it’s done and no sooner. Until then, I’ll post whatever I feel like on here, with no clear schedule.

This Sunday’s article is a follow-up to last Sunday’s article. I wrote about the fact that no one can actually change the world unless they are the ruler of a country, and that people shouldn’t spend time stressing out about things they can’t change, and instead focus on things they can change. It was a version of Reinhold Niebuhr’s serenity prayer:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next.
Amen.

(Note: I am wholly opposed to Alcoholics Anonymous, which is a cult that destroy’s people’s lives. That’s an article for another Sunday. I also don’t support a lot of what Niebuhr, who was not a member of AA, believed. But this is a good prayer based solidly in Christian principles. I also do not intend to explicitly promote Stoicism or Transcendentalism, or any other philosophical framework that has established terminology.)

Several people responded by claiming that I was “preaching defeatism” by telling people they do not have the ability to change the policies of the US government. I want to be perfectly clear: if you have the ability to change the policies and behavior of the US government, you should definitely do that. It would be really great if someone would change the policies of the US government, so if you can, please do it.

Anyone with the power to change the behavior of the US government has an absolute moral responsibility to do so. Therefore, if you have that ability, you need to do it immediately. Everyone should do the right thing in their personal lives. Changing the government, if you have that ability, is the right thing to do.

However, the reality is that most of you do not have that ability. In fact, I don’t think any individual on earth has the ability to change the behavior of the US government. When Donald Trump was president, he couldn’t even give orders to his subordinates. If the US president is the most powerful single individual on earth, as is claimed and is possibly in the range of the truth, then I suspect you, dear reader, do not have that ability either.

What I see in my role as host of a website that speaks of what is happening in the world is that people become obsessed with world events, that they lose their ability to properly function in their personal lives because of this obsession. This is a very bad thing. It’s bad for people on a personal level, it’s bad for the people around them, their family and friends, and further, it’s bad for the society at large. If people are going to change Western governments for the better, most of them are going to be well-adjusted individuals with functional personal lives.

I would never tell people to disregard what is happening in the world or to stop paying attention to it. My job is to tell people about what is going on, so obviously I think it’s important that you know. Knowing is, after all, half the battle. There may come a time when it is necessary to take action, together with others, to change the way things are going. I have no idea what that will look like, and I would certainly never endorse offensive violence of any kind. And it’s possible that this will not happen in your lifetime anyway. We don’t know what is going to happen. The best we can do is do our best.

If you wake up every morning and strive to do the right thing, there is no reason to be carrying around a burden of things you cannot control. This should simply be obvious, but I have seen so many people become obsessed, and it appears that there is some kind of psychological mechanism at work, whereby people feel that their own personal anguish is a form of resistance against the system. I was shocked by the number of replies I got to last Sunday’s article, claiming that I was “preaching defeatism.”

What I am preaching is that your life has meaning beyond what is happening in the world. You have a purpose in your life, a purpose laid out for you, a great man that you could become if you follow the correct path. Becoming obsessed with politics and things you have no ability to change only weakens your ability to focus on following the correct path and becoming the best man you can be.

Look at the situation in Springfield, Ohio. No one who lives there can do anything about it. People are doing the right thing, organizing and protesting the city, documenting what is happening, turning the town’s plight into a national cause for action. But that’s all they can do. They can’t start killing Haitians. If they did, they would go to prison, and then the media and the government would point at them and say that this is a reason for more immigrants. They would pass laws named after the Haitians that were killed, using it as a platform to bring in millions more Haitians and people from everywhere else. You all know that’s what they would do. We’ve seen it many times before. When Brenton Tarrant killed dozens of immigrants in Christchurch, New Zealand – all adult men who some might have considered to be enemy combatants and therefore valid military targets – the female prime minister of the country turned the killings into a major cause and used it to ban guns and bring in many more immigrants to “stop hate.”

Therefore, if you are in Springfield, and you’ve complained to the government, you’ve documented the Haitian behavior, you’ve organized protests, and nothing happens, you don’t even have the option of sacrificing yourself for the greater good and going out in a blaze of glory, because doing so would only empower the enemy. The only thing you can do in that situation is pack your things and move somewhere else where there aren’t Haitians. You take your family and you get out. You’re going to be in a better place to do that if instead of going around worrying about things you can’t control, you’ve focused on making money.

Some people hate hearing that they should run away from diversity. They will say that if everyone runs, eventually there will be nowhere left to run. This is a good philosophical argument, but it doesn’t actually speak to the reality of the world we live in. People will talk about “making a stand,” but as I just explained, even if you were willing to sacrifice your life and go kill a bunch of foreign invaders before the cops came to kill you in defense of the invaders, it would do nothing but make things worse. So what does “taking a stand” actually look like? Well, it is only possible if everyone else is doing it. If everyone was doing it, there wouldn’t be a need for violence (at least not illegal violence). But that time is not now and you can’t make it happen. You can’t force everyone to take a stand. The only thing you can actually do is protect yourself and your family. And the better off you are in your own head, the less you waste your personal soul energy on worrying about things you can’t control, the better off you are going to be when the time comes for a change.

Things have to change. That is just a fact. This system cannot go on forever. It is too unnatural, too evil, too entirely based on lies. The lies that serve as the basis for this system are not even good lies. They are stupid lies. It is unsustainable. Something is going to happen and this system is going to end as all systems inevitably do. You absolutely should do whatever is in your power to make that happen. But the reality is, very little of it is in your power. All you need to do is distinguish, in your own mind, the things that you have the ability to change from the things you have no ability to change, and your life will all of the sudden become a whole lot easier.

Furthermore, you should enjoy your life. King Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived, and after seeking enlightenment his whole life, he concluded that the best thing a man could do in this life is eat, drink, and be merry. When the real revolution finally comes, it is going to be fun. It is going to be a lot more fun than a bunch of people flipping out and getting angry on the internet, I can tell you that much.

Life is short. It is too short to be angry and stressed out all the time.

Please, just try to relax, and focus on the things you can control.

I have written recently about the plague of pornography and its effects on the souls of men. I have also acknowledged that all men are de facto addicted to it, because they are infected with it at such a young age.

• Dear Coomers: Masturbation is Literally the Worst Thing Ever
• Pornography Should be Banned Because It is Sexual Exploitation of Men

At the end of the second piece, I give some advice on how to quit, and here I will elaborate.

If you are like most modern men, you use masturbation and pornography less as a substitute for sex and more as a drug. Sexual stimulation to the point of ejaculation leads to a large dopamine release in the brain, in the same way that heroin leads to a dopamine release in the brain.

If you are addicted to pornography, this can be identified by a brain scan.

People who are addicted to pornography masturbate to it several times a week, if not more.

Even if you were initially to get into pornography as simply a substitute for sex, it would quickly become used as a drug, because of the addictive nature of the material, and the ease with which dopamine can be released.

Masturbation to pornography is also more stimulating than actual sex itself, due to a number of factors, including the novelty of the women, as well as the way you are able to cater the experience to your own desires.

So this needs to be understood: you need to look at it as nothing more or less than a type of drug addiction.

You are ensnared by Satan himself.

You will absolutely have withdrawal symptoms when quitting. You will feel an extreme desire to go back to it. You will feel depressed in the first stages of being away from it, because your brain has wired itself to rely on it in order to stimulate its pleasure centers.

This is all deadly serious.

Be ready to suffer in the same way that anyone quitting any drug suffers. The withdrawal period will last several months. You will know when it is over, because you will feel generally better, more energetic, happier and not have a desire to masturbate.

Ask God

As sociologists have documented, pornography use breaks your relationship with God by making you less religious and less prone to believing God exists. So the first step in freeing yourself from the addiction is to ask God for help. Tell him that you want to stop, and tell him that you understand you cannot do it without him. 

From there, you move into the realm of simple, pragmatic strategy to overcome this scourge.

Avoid Triggers

If you know that certain websites contain pornographic imagery, or even the names of pornographic films, you should do everything you can to avoid going to those websites during the initial phases of your withdrawal.

For example, most Bittorrent trackers have pornography. They have pornographic ads, which you can block using an adblocker such as Ublock Origin. Brave Browser automatically blocks ads. But even with ads blocked, you might see the names of films, which could trigger you into clicking them. So you want to avoid that.

Many imageboards also allow pornographic imagery. Avoid that.

Also avoid sites that show especially sexualized imagery, even if it is not hardcore pornography.

Also avoid non-pornographic entertainment media which includes sexualized imagery. And yes, that includes anime. If you are an anime fan, you are probably aware of some kind of system which labels which anime contains sexual imagery, and while you are in the withdrawal phase, you should avoid it. Also avoid HBO/Netflix shows which contain sexual imagery until you are completely free of the habit.

Eventually, once you are through with the withdrawal and your brain has stabilized itself, you will be able to stumble upon pornographic imagery and it will not phase you. You will be able to simply click past it. But in the initial phases of quitting, you need to be careful.

Avoid Pointless Interactions with Women

Although I am generally opposed to pointless interactions with women as a rule, you need to be especially careful with this during the withdrawal phase from pornography addiction. As I have stated, pornography addiction is a separate phenomenon from sex, but obviously it is related to sex. And having flirty interactions with women, whether they are waitresses or girls at your school or whatever, can lead to increased thoughts of sex, which can lead to a desire to masturbate.

You should also avoid places where you know attractive women will be dressed provocatively. This can lead to a build up of sexual thoughts which can result in masturbation.

Once again, once you are free from the addiction, you will be able to be stone cold around women. And when you’re not a masturbator, you will also feel more comfortable and confident around them. But during the withdrawal period, stay away from them as much as you are able.

Break Patterns

You probably have specific times and places where you are prone to masturbating. Do your best to avoid being in these situations.

If you live with other people, then your masturbating is presumably done in your bedroom alone, and you should consider simply not bringing a computer into your bedroom at night (or whenever it is you are prone to masturbating).

You may also inject other activities into your routine to replace the masturbation activity. You can go outside and go for a walk, go to the gym, go to a coffee shop – or you can do something less ambitious, such as play video games. Forcing yourself to do anything during the period when you would normally masturbate will help you to avoid masturbating, because the brain tends to function on routines.

Create new routines which remove the masturbation activity from your routine.

Get Involved in Physical Activity

I know that I would personally sink into depression if I was not in the gym several times a week. This is because physical activity creates endorphins in the brain. This is a healthy way to compensate for the loss of dopamine in the brain that quitting pornography creates.

Quitting pornography and starting a gym routine should go hand in hand.

If you are already active in the gym, then change your routine to something more strenuous. Push yourself harder.

Seek Support

I know it is embarrassing to admit that you are addicted to pornography, but if you have someone you feel like you can tell that to, you should tell them.

If you do not have such a person, you should still try to rely on social activity as part of your strategy for breaking the addiction. If you start to get an urge to masturbate, calling someone on the phone, and just talking to them for a while about whatever will likely cause the urge to pass.

For example, you can call an auntie, or some elderly relative, who is probably looking for someone to talk to about anything, and just ask them how their day was. Older female relatives in particular are usually excited when their nephews/grandsons/whatever call them, because they are often just sitting around the house not doing much.

If you get off the phone and still have an urge, you can say a prayer and play a round of Dota or do some pushups.

If You Fall, Get Back Up

The worst mindset you can have is that if you break a streak of not masturbating, and do it once, that you might as well just give up because you’ve failed.

If you have a “relapse” incident, it does not negate the previous streak. You still went for however many days you went for without doing it, and that remains an accomplishment, even after you’ve gone back to it. Forgive yourself, and be proud of how far you made it. Know that the next time, you will do better.

Remember the Goal

Always keep in your mind that you are making yourself into a better man. You are doing it for yourself, you are doing it for the people you love. You are doing it for your future children.

When you are through to the other side, you will be more content, you will be more confident, you will be stronger, you will have more energy, you will be more masculine and you will have a stronger connection to God.

Always keep your mind on that goal.

Always remember that some day you will die. And know that when you come to the time to die, you will look back on your life, and you will look at the things you did right, the things you accomplished, and you will look at the things you did wrong, and the things you could have accomplished and failed to do.

In all things you do, you should be looking forward to the time when it will come for you to die.

When the time comes to die, you want to be proud of the life you lived. And to truly be proud of the life you lived, you must become the man that God intended for you to become.