I've done my share of ... and still doing my share of pornography/masturbation/lust. And I'm not fully convinced of how my fellow believers handle scripture in this area. As I've been across the internet, and read this and that, I find that we believers go from one extreme to the next. Some are in the middle and try to even justify looking at porn and masturbating. Firstly I want to openly say that is not what my topic is about. My topic, and question is how to safe guard one's self online from falling into porn. I for one, have always used a filter of some kind. Lord knows that it doesn't change the fact that I'm firstly single and have my fair share of urges. Even now, I still feel the best way to break an addiction is for not allowing it to even get a start on you.
I'm using a 3G/4G Modem. Not by choice mind you! But because here, where I live, it just so happens to be the only logical choice. (There is no cable services, and there are no DSL services provided)
For my Dial up years, I went with an ISP that filtered the internet for me. They used a thing called X Stop. It worked great for me! And then the dial up became too slow. A friend on a Christian Social Site told me about Verizon Wireless. I knew something had to be done. So I did my research. It seemed at the time, I could drop my ISP, and switch to the Wireless way. I knew I would also need to switch my filtering software, since my ISP would no longer be doing that. For 4 years, I used the K9 filter. I simply set it up, created a very long password. Then gave that password to an online friend. Now temptation was controlled. It of courses wasn't non existent. Since when does sin become non existent? It seems that the bible teaches we must all figure out ways to master sin.
This year, my computer started blue screening. It took a long time, and a process of elimination to discover something was going wrong with the porn filter. (I realize my story is already long so I won't go into anymore details) But here is what I discovered so far: K9 on a 3G/4G will either slow things down or it will make the computer blue screen. Cyberpatrol will cause issues constantly. I'm talking about Windows Explorer crashes, and constantly nagging you to restart cause some third party software is not getting along with it. Lastly I tried openDNS. It too is incompatible with the newer 3G/4G Networks.
My question is not so much of religion, but of technical. Does anyone on here know of a good filter, I could try?
*Please forgive me but I'm going to stop you all on one point. Some of you are going to use words like "Self-Control, and It's a heart Issue" I don't dispute either one of these. But they are not apart of this question. We Christians have got all sorts of scripture ideals on how to go about those things. But what I need is a filter for now. And God and I will work on the self-control and heart issues together. For Christianity is a Relationship.
I'm using a 3G/4G Modem. Not by choice mind you! But because here, where I live, it just so happens to be the only logical choice. (There is no cable services, and there are no DSL services provided)
For my Dial up years, I went with an ISP that filtered the internet for me. They used a thing called X Stop. It worked great for me! And then the dial up became too slow. A friend on a Christian Social Site told me about Verizon Wireless. I knew something had to be done. So I did my research. It seemed at the time, I could drop my ISP, and switch to the Wireless way. I knew I would also need to switch my filtering software, since my ISP would no longer be doing that. For 4 years, I used the K9 filter. I simply set it up, created a very long password. Then gave that password to an online friend. Now temptation was controlled. It of courses wasn't non existent. Since when does sin become non existent? It seems that the bible teaches we must all figure out ways to master sin.
This year, my computer started blue screening. It took a long time, and a process of elimination to discover something was going wrong with the porn filter. (I realize my story is already long so I won't go into anymore details) But here is what I discovered so far: K9 on a 3G/4G will either slow things down or it will make the computer blue screen. Cyberpatrol will cause issues constantly. I'm talking about Windows Explorer crashes, and constantly nagging you to restart cause some third party software is not getting along with it. Lastly I tried openDNS. It too is incompatible with the newer 3G/4G Networks.
My question is not so much of religion, but of technical. Does anyone on here know of a good filter, I could try?
*Please forgive me but I'm going to stop you all on one point. Some of you are going to use words like "Self-Control, and It's a heart Issue" I don't dispute either one of these. But they are not apart of this question. We Christians have got all sorts of scripture ideals on how to go about those things. But what I need is a filter for now. And God and I will work on the self-control and heart issues together. For Christianity is a Relationship.
