The Book of Happy faces

[_karl61]

Once a upon a time there was a man. He felt like he was a failure. He had a problem with pornography. Every time he went to see his Bishop, which was monthly since the "problem" was identified, he would need to bring up the issue with pornography whether it was once or twice or ten or twenty times since the last time he saw him. There was always this bad news when meeting with the Bishop.

Then one day he had an interesting thought that felt right. He made a book/folder and divided each day into 48 areas covering 24 hours. Each half hour that he did not look at pornography he put a happy face sticker in the small section. If he did look at pornography he had little stickers such as a monkey, or rhino or something of the like. In just a couple of days he had hundreds of happy faces. His feelings and self esteem began to rise because he only saw the happy faces when he opened the book. In one month he looked at pornography five times but it was difficult to find the area since the whole month was mostly happy faces.

The day came when he was to meet with the Bishop. He told the Bishop about his little revelation and that they were to look at his book. The Bishop scanned the pages and saw all the happy pages but was looking for a monkey or a rhino too. He told the Bishop that he was in the 99 percentile in happy faces when you average in all the other hours in the day, week and month. He explained that these were the new rules that they would discuss when meeting each month. For the first time when he left, he felt better, he felt happy.

[_Some Schmo]

Do wet dreams count as porn? And if so, which half hour block in the 8 hours he slept got the rhino sticker?

[_Rambo]

My Bishop told me to use a calendar as well. He said put a calendar in the kitchen and mark with an X everyday you did not look at porn/masturbate. He said try and see how many consecutive days you can do in a row and then try and beat it next time. All that calendar did was remind me of porn and it actually made it harder to stop looking at it.

[_Hoops]

My Bishop told me to use a calendar as well. He said put a calendar in the kitchen and mark with an X everyday you did not look at porn/masturbate. He said try and see how many consecutive days you can do in a row and then try and beat it next time. All that calendar did was remind me of porn and it actually made it harder to stop looking at it.

Try using a landscape calendar instead of Victoria's Secret calendar.

[_Hades]

That's screwed up.

[_Rambo]

My Bishop told me to use a calendar as well. He said put a calendar in the kitchen and mark with an X everyday you did not look at porn/masturbate. He said try and see how many consecutive days you can do in a row and then try and beat it next time. All that calendar did was remind me of porn and it actually made it harder to stop looking at it.

Try using a landscape calendar instead of Victoria's Secret calendar.

Yeah Hoops! That would help...

Although I don't have a porn addiction so I really don't need to do this. I have come to find out I never really did have a porn addiction. Damn that church for making me think I did.

[_Hoops]

Yeah Hoops! That would help...

Although I don't have a porn addiction so I really don't need to do this. I have come to find out I never really did have a porn addiction. Damn that church for making me think I did.

I'm sure you don't. What is a porn addiction anyway? How is that defined? And why?

Or, perhaps, another thread. I don't really know a lot about what you're talking about since I've never had a TR interview and, God willing, I never will.

[_karl61]

Once a upon a time there was a man. He felt like he was a failure. He had a problem with pornography. Every time he went to see his Bishop, which was monthly since the "problem" was identified, he would need to bring up the issue with pornography whether it was once or twice or ten or twenty times since the last time he saw him. There was always this bad news when meeting with the Bishop.

Then one day he had an interesting thought that felt right. He made a book/folder and divided each day into 48 areas covering 24 hours. Each half hour that he did not look at pornography he put a happy face sticker in the small section. If he did look at pornography he had little stickers such as a monkey, or rhino or something of the like. In just a couple of days he had hundreds of happy faces. His feelings and self esteem began to rise because he only saw the happy faces when he opened the book. In one month he looked at pornography five times but it was difficult to find the area since the whole month was mostly happy faces.

The day came when he was to meet with the Bishop. He told the Bishop about his little revelation and that they were to look at his book. The Bishop scanned the pages and saw all the happy pages but was looking for a monkey or a rhino too. He told the Bishop that he was in the 99 percentile in happy faces when you average in all the other hours in the day, week and month. He explained that these were the new rules that they would discuss when meeting each month. For the first time when he left, he felt better, he felt happy.

Do wet dreams count as porn? And if so, which half hour block in the 8 hours he slept got the rhino sticker?

No, those are freebies. I guess I say that is because Boyd K. never said we had to fight against those dreams. Sex dreams are cool. It may cause people to believe in fairies.

[_stemelbow]

I'm a fool, no doubt, to wonder this out loud, but why is porn such a hot topic of conversation around here?

LDS and many others think porn is bad. So what?

[_karl61]

My Bishop told me to use a calendar as well. He said put a calendar in the kitchen and mark with an X everyday you did not look at porn/masturbate. He said try and see how many consecutive days you can do in a row and then try and beat it next time. All that calendar did was remind me of porn and it actually made it harder to stop looking at it.

The happy face book is like a diary. If there is a monkey on a page, it is likely surrounded by happy faces.

If a young man is sick and suffering from anxiety and depression then the last thing he needs is to keep being reminded of his failures. This is a way to help the person. If 99 percent of a persons life is spent living in harmony with things positive and productive and only 1 percent is failing to live up to those standards and the person only focuses on the 1 percent then help is needed; or maybe the young man is okay and other people that influence him need help.