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10000 Xs this. I was this guy till I became Catholic. Lust hollowed me out till there was nothing left of me. Those little things in life that used to bring me joy were gone - all I wanted was sex.

The good part about being socially awkward and broke is that I really couldn't act on anything so it was all internet filth for me. It still hollowed me out.

The fight back has been hard. I quit masturbating pretty quickly after converting (God had started working on me years before though). But regaining my life has been slow going.

Lust is a prison, but like you said, you don't feel the bars until you try and leave.

Fornication may feel good in the moment, but it's not worth it.

I've never associated the two, not being individual-freedom-obsessed, but I agree that this is probably *exactly* how the average person, who is (or at least with the feeling of having individual freedom, even if, strictly speaking, he objectively lacks it), actually sees it. Thus, the aphoristic way that you have written it is rather profound.

To the base man, sin (degeneracy or 'fun') is indeed simply tied in with freedom. Freedom, contemporary Western culture says, is borderline or universally good, therefore all things 'transgressive' (i.e. degenerate, not that degeneracy actually is transgressive outside of these people's minds) are also good. Being 'transgressive' proves that you are free or some such thing.

But that's just the first part of what you say: anyone who studies opioid addicts knows that these people, practically to a man, regret ever having started down that road. When you realize that you can never get off of opioids, that you will likely always be taking buprenorphine or methadone to manage opioid use disorder, that you will die of severe withdrawal symptoms without an opioid of some kind being present in your body at all times, you realize that you have become completely *un*free, completely enslaved, in that particular respect.

What is amusing about the Redditard's post is that there is absolutely no way that 'xxx' and 'coom'-ing actually does anything other than make his mental problems worse over the long term, even if it might seem to relieve them in the immediate present.

Indeed, there are so many parallels between his life and that of a drug addict: falsely conceives of (or *ad hoc* rationalizes) what he is doing as being long-term beneficial because of some perceived short-term, fleeting benefit (exactly like opioid-induced euphoria and anxiolysis), will find it borderline impossible to quit should he ever try, etc.

You can already tell that the idiot probably since realized that he made a massive error: the post was made five years ago, and it now reads: 'Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it'. The comments are overwhelmingly in alignment, so it could not have been that he deleted it because of ridicule.

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/oly48h/the_best_part_about_being_an_atheist_is_that_i/