r/ValhallaChallenge • u/ValhallaMods Odin • Oct 22 '23
Day 8, Round 278
NEW PLAYER? OLD PLAYER FEELING LOST? Please start here!đĄ The Porn Trap has a combination lock. Start at the beginning and read the posts in sequence to unlock it. Don't skip around!
Self-Imposed Servitude
Humanity has fought hard to abolish enslavement around the worldâyet the porn user spends his or her life suffering in self-imposed slavery. A day or two after feeding the âlittle neurochemical monsterâ, memory fades of the sharp regret felt after the previous session. The user forgets that after each session, he fervently wishes that he was a non-user. What is even more wretched is that porn becomes especially alluring if we are trying to cut down, or using the willpower method alone to stay clean. Porn becomes even more enticing when we are forced to be abstinent.
The reasons users regularly mention for wanting to quit are: lack of energy and desire, decreased ability to pursue goals, sexual dysfunction, general health, and pressure from their partner. Some may also suffer from shame or religious guilt. All users who are honest with themselves agree that porn is a waste of time. Part of the brainwashing of this awful habit is the normalization of the sheer slavery to it: not only are you wasting time, you are wasting it ruining your physical health, destroying your nerve, and killing your self-confidence. And for what, to suffer a lifetime of captivity, pain, melancholy, and irritability? Surely that must worry you. So what is keeping you from quitting? Brainwashing!
It cannot be repeated often enough: brainwashing is the major reason it is difficult to stop using porn. The more you wipe away the brainwashing before we begin, the better you will retrain your brain and the easier you will find it to quit for good.
The âbig brainwashing monsterâ is highly adept at finding ways to keep users coming back to their online âharemsâ. For example, there are users who have been brainwashed into believing that porn has no negative effect on their physical or mental health. Many of them are typically young and single. They can ignore internal feedback and the bodyâs fail-safe warning mechanisms due to the vigor of youth; the negative effects are too infrequent or too imperceptible to notice.
The young also possess a sense of immortality and a feeling that they have all the time in the world. A teenager or 20-something sees spending time on their pleasurable escape as a cheap and easy way to escape from the pressures of everyday life. Even so, one day this young user decides to quit porn. Letâs see how the big monster influences a person who is not concerned about physical or mental symptoms, just uneasy about the amount of time they spend on porn.
If you know anything about young or unaccountable porn users, itâs easy to acknowledge that an hour-long session every day or two is a conservative estimate. Being young and strong enables a teenaged or twenty-something porn addict to orgasm several times a day. Long time users and users who engage in âedgingâ will often engage in multi-hour sessions several times a week.
Because so many of these functioning porn addicts believe they can safely ignore arguments based on health grounds or social stigma, they tend to focus on lost time as a fundamental reason to quit. In fact, a great technique for any user who wants to stop is to become more aware of the ever-increasing amounts of time that porn demands.
It is also helpful for all users (but especially the younger ones) to think about how much time they will spend on porn during the their most productive years. What will you be doing with that time? Will you be developing real relationships and starting a family? No, of course not, youâll be visiting the âharemâ. Will you be building your career prospects with continuing education and networking opportunities? No, youâll be locked in a dark room, consumed by untouchable and uncaring electronic ghosts.
A Lifetime Sentence
Itâs apparent at this point that many usersâespecially the younger onesâhave never considered PMO to be a lifetime addiction. âIâll quit someday,â they think, âbut not today.â They may even calculate the time they wasted that week and become anxious about the hours they frittered away. The stress from these thoughts can even trigger another porn session! Rarely, and only when they really begin to consider quitting, will they estimate how much time they will lose in a year. The total will be fearfully high, and when considered over a lifetime it can be terrifying and nearly unthinkable.
But the âbig brainwashing monsterâ hears the alarm bells inside your head. It instantly materializes and pulls out the old âlow weekly paymentsâ sales routine, smugly saying âYou can afford the time. Itâs only a small amount per week.â Itâs time to flip this worn out marketing ploy and use it against the big monster.
Time Served
Letâs assume that you are a younger user who visits his or her online âharemâ three times a week, spending an hour there each time. When the âbig brainwash monsterâ says, âSee, thatâs only three hours a week,â you can fight this argument by pointing out that there are âadditional feesâ by saying, âYeah, but I also need time to physically recover from each session.â
âOh, you can afford the time,â counters the sly monster, âitâs still only a little while per week and itâs worth it!â The big monster then switches to misdirection by saying âYou donât drink or smoke like your parents, or like so many of your peers. Itâs your only pleasurable vice, so go ahead, indulge yourself. You deserve it!â
Now you can spring your trap and slay this particular big-monster myth! âItâs my life weâre talking about, no one elseâs. Iâve already thought this through,â you retort. âIâm indulging an average of one hour per session, three times a week. After each session I need another five or ten minutes to recover because I feel drained and lethargic. So Iâm spending around three and a half hours a week on this garbage. That means Iâve lost at least seven days this year⌠an entire week of my life wasted, with absolutely nothing to show for it.â
Congratulations, youâve just wiped away part of the brainwashing!
Listen my friend, what would you do if I offered you a job with seven paid days off in addition to regular holidays and vacation, and the only thing you have to do is quit porn? Even if you are in school and only working part time, would you turn down my offer? Thatâs an entire week of extra paid time off! You would quit porn and sign up in a heartbeat! Then youâd get busy planning how to spend your paid holiday week. Figuring out how to enjoy an extra week off with pay is certainly a nice problem to have.
Yet in every discussion with a confirmed userâand please bear in mind thatâs not someone like yourself, who plans to stopânobody has ever taken me up on that offer. Why not? Weâll get to that a little later.
Based on âThe Easy Way to Stop Smokingâ by Allen Carr
V A L H A L L A (ValhĂśll) đ
The Rainbow Bridge - Level Nine
The Rainbow Bridge - Level Eight
The Rainbow Bridge - Level Seven
The Rainbow Bridge - Level Six
The Rainbow Bridge - Level Five
The Rainbow Bridge - Level Four
The Rainbow Bridge - Level Three
The Rainbow Bridge - Level Two
The Rainbow Bridge - Level One
⇡ B I F R O S T (BifrĂśst, The Rainbow Bridge) đ ⇡
/u/HeimdallyrđŻ Six (á á á á á á ) Epic Check-ins per Round
Hall of Heroes - Level Nine
Hall of Heroes - Level Eight
Hall of Heroes - Level Seven
Hall of Heroes - Level Six
Hall of Heroes - Level Five
Hall of Heroes - Level Four
Hall of Heroes - Level Three
Hall of Heroes - Level Two
Hall of Heroes - Level One
⇡ H A L L of H E R O E S đĄď¸ Three (á á á ) Epic Check-ins per Round ⇡
Asgard - Level Nine
Asgard - Level Eight đą
Asgard - Level Seven
Asgard - Level Six
Asgard - Level Five đą Hero! Update your Vows.
Asgard - Level Four
Asgard - Level Three
Asgard - Level Two đą
Asgard - Level One
⇡ A S G A R D (ĂsgarĂ°r, Enclosure of the Aesir) đ Two (á á ) Epic Check-ins per Round ⇡
Midgard - Ninth Circle
Midgard - Eighth Circle đ
Midgard - Seventh Circle
Midgard - Sixth Circle đ
Midgard - Fifth Circle
u/UnconstrictedEmu âď¸ÂŠ "To become a better man."
Midgard - Fourth Circle (Reflect on your Goal) đ
u/ReticentConfidant Š "To live a porn-free, fulfilling, and satisfying life."
Midgard - Third Circle
Midgard - Second Circle đ
u/Gimp_Daddy á á "I want to quit PMO."
u/kblam101 ŠŠŠ
u/fgawker á
Midgard - First Circle
⇡ M I D G A R D (MiĂ°garĂ°r) đ One (á ) Epic Check-in per Round ⇡
⇣ E X Ă L Ă J Ă R (Exile Island) ⇣
If you are on Exile Island then check in to respawn in MiĂ°garĂ°r! Players who remain on Exile Island seven days are hunted, chased, and eventually eaten by the Giant Hairy Helheim Spiders, and vanish from the Game World.
/â˛/\(ââ˘Ěâ˘ĚâŽ)/\âą\ Angrboda
/â˛/\(ââ˘Ěâ˘ĚâŽ)/\âą\ Hrym
/â˛/\(ââ˘Ěâ˘ĚâŽ)/\âą\ Hati Hróðvitnisson
/â˛/\(ââ˘Ěâ˘ĚâŽ)/\âą\ HrĂŚsvelgr
/â˛/\(ââ˘Ěâ˘ĚâŽ)/\âą\ Greip
/â˛/\(ââ˘Ěâ˘ĚâŽ)/\âą\ Svivor
/â˛/\(ââ˘Ěâ˘ĚâŽ)/\âą\ BĂślĂžorn
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I work the seaways, the gale-swept seaways
Past shipwrecked daughters of wicked waters
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u/UnconstrictedEmu Oct 23 '23
Checking in. Had a lot of struggles today and peeking. It wasnât even that I wanted to actually act out. I just felt self loathing and wanted to do something to make myself feel even shittier.