Tuesday, May 31, 2016

The Man With 21 Names

There is a man who's name will not be mentioned. This man had twenty one identities. Someone stole his identity so he had only 20 left. He tried to find himself after this incident. There was another person who was also him. So now he had 20 identities, and a duality. He was two places at once, and he was twenty things at the same time. So the other person was also 20 things at the same time, and two places at the same time. And that other person was also himself, so he was twenty two things.

The man who lost himself went to the police and filed a report. He also lost 220 dollars. The officers filed the report for him, and the 220 dollars he lost was returned to him. However, he never received his identity back.

He came to ask himself, what was that identity am I? Who was I? Who am I now? I suppose I am nothing. But "I" asked the question. Nobody asked the question. The question was unasked. There are no thoughts and no feelings.

He tried far-reaching attempts to build himself up, like playing music and getting the best job he could get. He worked hard, but he was left entirely without any satisfaction.

Two views on conserving the Seminal Energy

Greetings.

There are two popular online communities involving the Seminal Energy. I am not sure the current favorability of the PUA (pickup) community, but that one involves dispersing the energy into extensive efforts to find random women to bang. The other community is the nofap community which involves Purity of Essence (Dr. Strangelove's POE). The real question is guilt/shame. If there is no shame about lack of partner, then PUA is not a big deal. If there is no shame about lack of pure essence, then nofap is not a big deal. I think this comes with age. At a certain point shame becomes tiresome. Without shame the world is friendly, albeit annoying.

Nofap Seminal Energy conservers, or Fapstronauts as they call themselves, speak of superpowers that are associated with nofap. I say association because it is clear to me that there is a third, confounding variable that causes things like lower voice and more women to look at you. When you don't lose the Seminal Energy you are likely drinking more water and not drinking as much caffeine during that time. Since your diet's better because you already feel a boost in self esteem from accomplishing your goal, you feel the benefits of the improved diet.

Edit: Upon revisiting this topic again and again, there are a few other notes to make. First, it seems that there is a nocebo effect. Every time the placebo of the fap is eliminated, its waning produces a noticeable effect. It is deeply psychological and in effect very real. Also, people do actually respect nofappers. One issue is that if their philosophy, which is not metaphysically certain to them, is questioned, they often falter. There needs to be metaphysical certitude and also balance to achieve this quite difficult aim.

Here's another point: losing Seminal Energy, by itself, is meaningless. Still, there's something wrong with pornography use. Healthy sexuality is important, but repression still never leads to anything good. The adage is true.