 So one very humorous and kind of pathetic thing that people say nowadays is if they're trying to cope with their behavior that is they know is bad or it's bad for other people bad for themselves if They're trying to cope or justify their own behavior They will often talk of themselves as if they're not actually people they will Dehumanize themselves they will say oh, I'm sorry. It's not my fault. I'm not really a human I'm actually a giant chemical reaction, and I can't control what I'm actually doing. That is one of the most I don't know. It's pathetic. I don't know how exactly to react to it But it's really common to see people nowadays who instead of owning up to their behavior We'll start saying things. Oh, well, you know, I'm just Addicted to this or I just have you know, I just have problems with things like this or you know I just got I got a dopamine addiction or You know, I have mental health issues and somehow like this excuses me and I just find it very funny now last year or so. I forget when exactly I did a video called Resisting temptation in fact, you might be able to call this video resisting temptation to Resisting temptation reloaded. I don't know. I'll think up some kind of name for it But either way I did that video ultimately on the fact that so many people will email me or ask me Oh, how do I quit this habit yada yada yada, and I will always tell them What are you talking about? Like this is something that is directly within your moral control, right? And I gave people some advice for you know, how to resist temptation, you know, how you know separate yourselves From a position of temptation and things like that But you know a lot of people it's almost like the default the worldview nowadays that people Refuse to be responsible like the idea of being responsible for your own actions and owning them is So alien to people that they will speak as if Like their behavior happens to them as if they don't choose their behavior, you know Common examples that people will get me, you know ask me about is I don't know like minor drug addictions or or Pornography or like all these kind of things like none of them I mean pornography just as to use that as an example Pornography is just not an addiction in any way shape or form. Okay, if you're addicted to some kind of Chemical right if you're chemically dependent on something if you don't have it you will you might start Dehydrating and convulsing and you need severe medical care Okay, you'll need a lot of what you got to put in an IV got to take care of this person as they recover from their addiction Pornography ain't an addiction in any way. I mean people describe it as that like colloquially But it's not I mean it's just that a habit that people are get used to doing that They just repeatedly do it and oh it feels good I'm gonna keep doing it and then people who refuse to take moral agency will use this this line of addiction as a kind Of a cope and here's how you know that it's not an addiction Okay, here's how we know that pornography and cooming is not an addiction because we can take you We will put we can put you in a room in a chair in the middle of nowhere Okay, with a bunch of people watching you and you will not spontaneously touch yourself You will not do that in front of other people because you do have that moral control to resist that and you have that at any time But you know it and if you don't consume pornography you don't start. Oh, I'm foaming from the mouth I oh I need my addiction. I need my fix that doesn't happen. It's fake. That's not a thing So people have used this line of addiction or the idea of oh, you know I'm like this dopamine robot that I know and I have to do these behaviors as a cope for them Really being weak-willed and probably not even being weak-willed What I said in the last video is this a lot of people will try to play both sides They will try to get fleeting enjoyment from things that they know are bad and things that they know will hurt them Or things that they know will hurt other people they will try to get those Enjoyments and then they still want to seem morally superior. So they will say oh, well, you know, I do these things Oh, but oh, I wish I could stop to oh, they're just so bad You know, I I try so hard to like not do this, but I just can't help myself Oh my goodness that that whole justification which you didn't see people people in the past making this is a very modern This is like a 20th 21st century cope, right? That can only be possible in a world of you know neuro science and and psychiatry They have given us this new verbiage to talk about human behavior as if it's not you making a decision But oh, well, we did we can describe it in chemical terms Therefore, it's the chemicals. It's not you. In fact, you don't actually exist So you can't be responsible responsible for anything You're just some passive observer to this robot that you live in that like that That is the the vision of the world that they are putting out there and a lot of people will fall for it Not because they really fall for it not because they actually believe it But because it is so convenient because it gives people this moral out they can say oh well I'm not responsible for the things I'm doing like no big deal So I I can have this duplicity where I'm enjoying things that I know are bad And I can still pretend like I know that they're bad, right? So that is absurd and you know the the shame is we don't like we do call some people on this like children will do this a 100% of the time children will always Confabulate reasons why they want the cookie and they have to have the cookie and they have to do this and they have to Do this that or the other but for whatever reason Some adults quote-unquote adults kid ults right can get away with this kind of behavior and people don't call them on it immediately because there's this entire edifice of You know pseudo psychiatry and psychology that justifies it to people it makes it sound Intellectual to just you know do whatever you want. Okay, and it's it's totally silly Now I do want to add something else In that last video on resisting temptation. I did give people some advice You know although you do have ultimate moral authority over the things you do there are some heuristics There are some rules of thumb you can take to make making those decisions easier, okay? Because you know things that you have as a habit they are a little more difficult to overcome I mean you can still easily overcome them, right? It's it's an issue of will But you can easily make things better by separating yourselves from the temptation, right? one thing that I didn't really pound on in that in that video, but I want to talk about now is You know, there's something I omitted and it's actually yet another biblical recommendation, right? So in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus makes this passing remark people often often quote quote it But it'll say okay. Well, you know that adultery is bad Okay, but if you look at a woman with the intent of possibly committing adultery with her That's basically just as bad. Okay now. He doesn't go into big detail about why that is But let's think about this what I see a lot of the times is I mean to use the example of pornography again Okay, a lot of guys will say oh, I don't want to watch pornography And here's what their brains will do their brains Well now I'm talking about it in third person, but you know what? I mean in they think they're very smart They will think things like this. Ah, see I don't want to watch pornography, but you know, maybe I'll just oh You know, I have sexual needs. Maybe I just need some stimulation. It's natural. Oh, I need this So I'll just look at you know pictures of girls and bikinis or something like that, right? You know, oh, I I'm addicted. I can't quit told cold turkey because that's hard quote-unquote because a Soiantist told me that which is nonsense But oh, so I'll go like instead of doing the whole thing I'll go 90% of the way there and when you're doing that you have more or less already consented to do it Right, so that that's Jesus's point like if you're if you're tempted by sexual temptations the easiest way to stop You know committing those sins is not to go night You know not to you know pick up a girl in the club hang out with her take her back to your house and then say oh well You know, I'm not gonna do it with you like that's a very stupid way to resist sin It's just not do not start going down that path. It's much easier to prevent Bad behaviors prevent yourself from falling into temptation Not by going 90% of the way and then stopping but stopping at the very beginning right saying okay You know, I'm just not I'm not even going to like look at women in a way to size them up for sexual exploits I'm just gonna stop there I'm you know if I see pictures of girls like this on the internet on a random web form or something I'm just gonna scroll by I'm gonna minimize. I'm gonna block that account whatever right so that is the real way to resist these things and because Really, you know if you are consenting like if you're starting to walk down that path You've already tacitly said that you want that and you're doing exactly what I talked about You're doing the thing where you say oh, well, you know, I'm trying to resist this right? Oh, but it's so hard and here. Let me get closer and closer and closer and closer to the temptation Oh, what was me? I can't do it right. It's it's utterly the thing is You are not deceiving anyone but yourself you really are not deceiving anyone and everyone else around you Who's going along with it? They know that you're full of crap, too They're just like okay. Yeah, like It's so annoying when you see people like this nowadays when you're like, you know People will do impulsive things that anyone can resist and they will just make up these reasons. I don't know It's just kind of frustrating to be honest So that's about it. Do not trust anyone who talks about humans as if they are not Humans may I don't know. Maybe you are an NPC. Maybe you can't control your behavior. I don't freaking know I'm gonna guess you're not okay, but that that's kind of the irony of it like modern society gives you the verbiage to make you an NPC to make you feel like you don't actually have control over your own behavior And that's the thing that's most upsetting but don't trust anyone who's like that Don't even don't try not to ever talk about humans In terms of oh, we're just chemical reactions and we can't you know, there's no I mean, even if you believe in mere materialism, okay It is still legitimate to talk about a complex system at multiple layers of abstraction It's still appropriate to talk about humans as if they have will even if you don't believe in a soul, frankly But don't trust those people who try to justify human behavior by talking about it as if it's just something beyond your control If it's not in your control, whose control is it in? I'm sorry. Like this is just stupid Yeah, and resist temptation at the beginning not at the end. Those are the points. That's what I gotta say Resisting temptation reloaded. I don't know what I'm gonna call this one