Obiwan wrote:Yes, pornography is inherently bad and destruction. As someone who's been affected by pornography, I can testify it's effect, because I want to be better than that. I was exposed at a young age, and it's effected me my entire life.
Obiwan:
You lied to me. I asked you at one point about you having some kind of "issue" with porn, and you told me that you were talking about some other relative/acquaintance of yours. Why would you lie? I don't understand.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
3sheets2thewind wrote:Currently on DS news is an article title "Pornography hurts relationships, employment and well-being"
From the article:
"We conducted our own research with almost 600 women along the Wasatch Front," he said. "Fifty-four percent of those women say they know somebody who struggles with pornography."
So is the issue nudity or is the real issue people who can not moderate?
Actually, I think there are more issues than you bring up in your question. First - '600 women along the Wasatch Front' is hardly an unbiased sample. Second, 'pornography' has a different meaning in the LDS lexicon; I've heard everything from the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition right down to bestiality referred to as pornography. And third, the word 'struggle' is overused by the LDS, often applied to people who are not facing a challenge, but who are not living up to an ideal set by the person applying the label.
H.
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
jon wrote:Hmmm, your point of view makes it kind of hard to understand why Joseph Smith married women who already had living husbands....
Because they were "sealings" not actual marriages..... They were Religious Ordinances, not marriage.
Oh, Obiwan, all you have to do is pick up a book and read it to know that this isn't true.
H.
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
Obiwan wrote:Yes, and also obviously addiction will make things worse, but what creates the additiction?
What creates the addiction is the Mormon obsession with porn. Black and white thinking leads to abstinence violation effect, which leads to addictive porn usage.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.