Cravings

[granpa]

Addictions are the result of cravings.
Cravings are not the same as desires.
Desires are normal and healthy.
You desire things that are desirable.
You can crave things that are not desirable.
Cravings are unhealthy.
You are drawn toward your desires but you are driven toward your cravings.
One pushes and the other pulls.

When you crave an addictive substance you feel an urge to have that substance.
This urge that you feel is your body poking you with a sharp stick
and refusing to stop until you have done what it wants.

Afterwards your body punishes you for doing what it urged you to do.
It shames you and makes you feel guilty (and does other things to you that I cant talk about on a PG rated forum)
(The wages of sin is death)

Your body is a psychopath.
Your body is thinking only of itself
You are its slave


You HAVE a body. You HAVE an ego.
You are not your body.
You are not your ego.

Your ego is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.

 

[granpa]

our bodies could be and should be vehicles housing us and protecting us and even running errands for us but mother nature doesn't care how things should be. Mother Nature only cares about what passes on the genes best to the next generation. If turning your body into a psychopathic killing machine means that you work a little bit harder and pass your genes on just a fraction of a percent better then that is what she's going to do