...as a single guy I've asked GOD to take away my sex drive so that I wouldn't be driven to porn and sexual immorality - because HE gave me the drive that HE gives all men - but I was convinced and convicted that unless I asked GOD for the gift of celibacy/reduced sex drive, it would be a struggle. And guess what? HE gave me what I asked. Granted, at times I think it's weird that I don't even think about the subject - and there are those voices telling me that I'm missing out on that aspect of my life. Plus living the L.A. area - and you're CONSTANTLY bombarded with things related to lusts of the eyes - that's one of the reasons that I was driven to ask for such an "extreme" request - and I said "extreme" because it would seem an odd request to some. I am not saying that thoughts don't come up in my head, because they do. But I realize what they are, I ask the LORD to help get those thoughts out of my head, and I start focusing on things that are spiritually/Biblicaly based. You start thinking of Scripture and I guarantee you'll quit thinking in a sensual fashion.
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"HE gave me what I asked. Granted, at times I think it's weird that I don't even think about the subject - and there are those voices telling me that I'm missing out on that aspect of my life"
So, God gave you a thing knowing it would be inconvenient,
waited for you to notice,
took your advice, and removed it,
and yet it still haunts you occasionally.
Sounds like nothing happened.
...as a single guy I've asked GOD to take away my sex drive ...
Salt peter would do the job a lot more effectively than talking to yourself. You could always do the usual things guys do to take the edge off their sex drive---go for jogs, take cold showers, masturbate...
You start thinking of Scripture and I guarantee you'll quit thinking in a sensual fashion.
Yeah, I have trouble keeping an erection when I read Clive Barker's Books of Blood the Bible.
(You can find anything in that book!)
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow...
- Job 6, 9-10.
You know, Jesus said that castrating yourself was a good thing in Matthew 19:12. I guarantee that if you do, you won't have a sex drive.
"You start thinking of Scripture and I guarantee you'll quit thinking in a sensual fashion."
Except for the story of Lot's daughters, Absalom, the entire book of Song of Solomon, David and Uriah, Rahab the prostitute (Joshua's men spent the night with her--I highly doubt they failed to take advantage of her profession), Jacob's quest for Rachael's sweet lovin'...
Guess what? If you get married, you're fucked, metaphorically. Trust me. I did the same thing before I got married. I prayed and prayed and prayed for god to take away my sex drive, so I wouldn't have to struggle so hard against it. And guess what? It was taken away. At the time, I had no plans to get married, but I did end up getting married, and I'm trying to build it back, before it takes it's ultimate toll on my marriage. And no, it's not god that took away my sex drive, or took your away, it's psychological. Mind over matter, so to speak. So you seriously need to think about what you're doing before you do something so foolish.
I don't think this is fundie enough for FSTDT. I mean sure, the guy is nuts, but all the guy's trying to do is what is in his eyes, bettering himself. It's not monstrous, it's not bigoted, and it's not very funny.
"...as a single guy I've asked GOD to take away my sex drive so that I wouldn't be driven to porn and sexual immorality - because HE gave me the drive that HE gives all men"
If God didn't want you to have that sex drive, he wouldn't allow you to have one in the first place. But thus is exposed the hypocrisy of fundies. Four Words: Bristol Palin. Ted Faggard.
And yet we Atheists possess somrthing called Self Control. What does that tell you? And masturbation is a normal, healthy thing (with a little stimulus from Playboy or Penthouse can't do any harm, eh?). Indeed, scientific studies prove that masturbation decreases testicular/prostate cancer by at least 80%
@LOLWUT
"Perhaps you have never read the Song of Solomon?"
Jaybird74 clearly hasn't. The first time I did, I had to make a quick detour to the toilet. Racy stuff indeed!
it's great that you're happy with how this turned out.
kinda......odd imho, but then i'm a normal human that enjoys fucking
You start thinking of Scripture and I guarantee you'll quit thinking in a sensual fashion.
"A nd she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like the genitals of donkeys, and whose emissions were like the emissions of stallions." - Ezekiel 23:20
Just as a thought, while I don't think God would take away someone's sex drive, I don't see anything wrong with trying to swear one's self to chastity.
*I* swore myself to chastity. I did so when I was thirteen, because I learned that my aunt fucked up her life by having a baby at the age of fifteen. It was reinforced, because my grandmother sounded like some of the people commenting, here, who act as if such a feat is impossible.
I'm not particularly fond of the comments here that imply someone who doesn't want to -- or can't -- have sex is a crazy freak, or "too ugly to fuck anyway". It'd be petty and crude (not to mention borderline homophobic) to accuse a homosexual of claiming homosexuality because he's too ugly for the opposite sex to fuck, after all.
If he wants to be celibate, good for him. I don't see why that's so batshit. I really don't see what the big deal is about sex anyway, but as an asexual, I might be a bit biased.
On the other hand, thinking that praying to God somehow removed his sex drive, when it clearly didn't, is kind of odd.
You think it's weird that you don't even think about the subject...
...and yet there are voices telling you you're missing out.
...you're constantly bombarded with things related to lusts of the eyes.
...and you're not saying those thoughts don't come up in your head.
So...you DO think about it...pretty constantly from the sound of it.
Liar.
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