Go cold turkey on entertainment. Just stop it, or entertainment will ruin your life completely, it is the worst drug.
In practical terms, that means primary to stop using any screens, no TV, internet, smartphone. These are the worst addictions known that make you into a zombie until you are dead.
You are here because you are extremely susceptible to this drug, therefore any kind of small reduction in dose makes no sense and will fail - you need to stop it completely, forever.
The transition will be hard, harder than quitting heroine addiction. Just like with alcoholics anonymous, you will repeatedly, again and again be tempted to use screens again for entertainment, especially in times when you are stressed, weak, hungry, horny or otherwise psychologically compromised: But know that these phases usually only last for maybe 20 minutes, if you can distract yourself and do sth. else, maybe sport, cooking or reading a book, you after that short time period can have more self control for a longer time again.
Get real: The entertainment drug, used for endless procrastination until death, is your most critical problem. You may have other problems, but none of those lesser problems have any chance at being solved if you not stop the number one destructive influence in your life: Electronic entertainment - this vilest of all evils is endlessly available, cheap, ubiquitous and able to provide you endless amounts of small pleasure, destroying yourself by making you a marionette of your brain's pleasure center.
Throw out/sell/destroy all screens you have. Only temptations you have not available are sure to not catch and overpower you in phases of weakness that will surely arrive because they are part of life.
If you cognitively see the reason in stopping electronic entertainment forever, there is no reason to keep the means for it accessible - just if your really want to diet and lose weight, there is no reason to keep chocolate cake in the fridge.
You must kill what kills you, or, well, it will kill you sooner or later. Remember how much of your life, success and potential already has been killed by electronic entertainment - it is your worst enemy. Do not keep your worst enemy around yourself, do not pay for your worst enemy - get rid of your worst enemy.
Hudson Clark
Varg disagrees
Stop watching porn/degeneracy.
Also I use internet for listening lots of podcasts.
Kayden Fisher
Just have some fucking discipline. This whole RUN AWAY, EVERYTHING IS CANCER AND MIND CONTROL, is honestly pathetic. You're preaching to a bunch of weak-willed faggots, what exactly are you hoping, remind them they're wasting time playing video games? Truly revolutionary shit.
Luke Morgan
>, remind them they're wasting time playing video games? Truly revolutionary shit.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM!
SUDDENLY YOU ARE 35, NO MONEY, NO JOB, NO FAMILY, VIRGIN, NO EDUCATION.
SUDDENLY GAMES FEEL LIKE A LIE AND REAL LIFE KICKS IN AND YOU FIND YOU HAVE NOTHING AND ARE NOTHING.
DO NOT THINK IT CANNOT HAPPEN TO YOU - IT HAPPENS TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE CURRENTLY.
Blake Mitchell
You sound like you're projecting.
With some self-control, this shit is harmless. Seriously, if your addiction to entertainment makes it so that you have no money, no family, no job, no education and a virgin after 35 years, there's already been something wrong with you that lack of entertainment wouldn't fix.
Isaiah Bennett
Hint: Pic releated, AVERAGE Americans watched in 2007 8h of TV - over their lives, say 75 years, they spend HALF OF THEIR WAKE TIME IN FRONT OF THE TV. This MEANS 25 YEARS SPENT ABSORBING NEUTRALIZING AND WORTHLESS INFORMATION.
Logan Russell
Entertainment addiction is 80% novelty addiction (else the same tv series would be endlessly entertaining), and chans are the terminal stage of constant novelty.
Liam Russell
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Jace Thomas
if a man can't hold the entertainment, he's a weak man. there's no need for weak men to get to the society.
Austin Martinez
plus - you are currently wasting time on this website. go do some really important shit that definitely helps humanity to grow.
Liam Rodriguez
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Brody Sullivan
Entertainment can be extremely useful when you look for meaning in it. It's when you watch tripe mindlessly that it's dangerous.
Brody Hughes
So you'll be leaving now then?
Nicholas Wilson
you're right. 100% of our time should be spent toiling, entertainment is for slaves.
Bentley Rivera
I compromise, usually do "entertainment" at night while I try ti grab what I can during the day. I come here at random when I get a bit bored from all the reading I do.
Asher Kelly
True, it's more redpilled to disassociate yourself from all electronic connection to the world, become a hermit stoic, find a redpilled wife who will have no problem with your weird lifestyle and become ignorant about politics, economy and culture because screens are "degenerate"
Jason Jenkins
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Zachary Harris
>itt screen worshipping cucks Something something stone idols are dumb something
Gabriel Morales
You think media is the reason there are winners and losers? Sorry to burst your bubble m8, but that's just how society works. The 1% didn't get where they are because they went cold turkey on "entertainment", they did it because they had what it took. Now you realize you don't have that, but instead of accepting that it's your own personal failing you come up with some stupid conspiracy as an excuse to make yourself feel better. Oh it's not your fault you never amounted to anything, it's not your responsibility, it's the reptilian illuminati keeping you down, controlling your mind through the media!
Eli Flores
>i cant handle the future so im going to go back to being a caveman and be smug about how not-bluepilled i am
Kayden Roberts
> trying to get people off Sup Forums Real clever Fuck off shill cunts
Owen Fisher
>wah he disagrees with me, he must be a jew not an argument
Yep, that's exactly how these people think
Gabriel Johnson
Gambling companies have spent decades researching addiction and the same addicting mechanisms they know about are certainly in every game now
which game in the last 3+ years DIDNT have some form of mystery random unlocks and in game currency that can be traded for real £?
And for sure TV/movies as well. We know about the obvious things like cliffhangers and graphic sex scenes but what don't we know about?
Angel Morgan
whenever I see someone preach anything, I automatically assume they are the weak ones who can't do shit alone.
Andrew King
>SUDDENLY YOU ARE 35, NO MONEY, NO JOB, NO FAMILY, VIRGIN, NO EDUCATION. I'm 22 making over 60k a year 3/6 aint bad for a generality
Jason Ortiz
>Stop using entertainment! >Your life will be much better
>Here's all the things that will improve once you stop using all media
>but me? I know this even though I'm still shitposting on Sup Forums
>I don't care about my own life, I can only tell other people what to do and not follow my own teaching
Cameron Hill
Idk Germany, Maybe I'm less affected by it. >The sphere of influence is meh at best
Want some advice to counter act negative media influence? >Read scholarly publications, philosophy, make your own social science experiments.
Colton Kelly
>which game in the last 3+ years DIDNT have some form of mystery random unlocks and in game currency that can be traded for real £? the game I'm working on doesn't have that...
Jordan James
I already do no smartphones since I don't own a mobile phone, internet is my problem, I'm fine with not using it for a month or two but it does make me cranky how I won't be able to get a non-biased news source. Western TV I do not give a legit shit about at all since I'm fine with just literature.
Thomas Richardson
Sounds to me like you're just a weak willed faggot.
Colton Taylor
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Caleb Johnson
shut your WHORE the internet's called free speech not entertainment.
stop using the brainwashing box your tv, your phone which is hand made tailored by microsoftcocks or mettalicock or jewgle to fuckign suck and be a brainwashing thing cuase it connects to those sites that send you spam.
like im not supposed to use my machine called acomputer to do work with casue of yuor stupd shit>really? i think your full of shit.
Jose Powell
My job requires internet and a screen (like 80 % of first world jobs). Oh, I forgot you are probably a larping weeb.
Leo Johnson
How many hours do you look at screens?
How many hours today, yesterday, this week, this month?
What, who, how would you be if you had invested that time in learning, working out, or just simple paid work?
But OK, say I am stupid. I'll check back on you in, say, five years, let's see what you have become. Sidenote: What would you have said to me telling you this five years AGO? Who/what/how did you hope five years ago to be today?
Christian Edwards
>plays vidya >26 >good job as paramedic >has gf >will own house soon
Get a job you dumb hippie.
Leo Rogers
the government doesnt own the television either but they fucked it over
anyone who "poisons the well" using this stupid shit over a screen will ONLY have scare tactics to back up their faulty retard logic
dumb scare tactics ..
Carter Foster
What happens if you do manage to go cold turkey from all this entertainment, then you get invited over to a friend or family's house and they have the tv on, how would you go against resisting it when its right there in front of you
Anthony Cooper
But I use my devices to work and socialise
Bentley Ortiz
>Set goals >Have a day planned out >do errands, do your work, exercise, read your books >accomplish what you had planned to accomplish >Sit down with your gf/wife to watch a movie
Somehow I am a degenerate
Luis Bell
-8 hours for sleep -1 hours for dealing with my doggo -1 hours for driving -1 hours for lunch time -30 mins for bathroom time
Only 12 hours and 30 mins a day on average.
David Ross
your gay buddies dont mean socialize your slave job you are now working outside of to brainwash people with isnt considered, "work" cause it doenst benefit society. s h i l l h i l l
Noah Ward
no see cold turkey also implies no more friends. all of your time should be spent meditating on how the rest of the world is retarded and you are the only one who truly sees the world at is it
Christian Mitchell
Weak troll is weak
James Cooper
>These are the worst addictions known that make you into a zombie until you are dead.
yeah, much worse than crystal meth and heroin, right?
Owen Ortiz
You would sperg out, of course. You would HAVE to tell them how TV is blue-pilling them. They want to play Super Smash with you? No way, you're outta there. Call a taxi if you have.
Dominic Sanchez
So, you don't have friends or a job
Josiah Kelly
I know that book!
Jonathan Brown
Not all screens are bad, you can actually grow intellectually using the internet. Not everyone spends their time on Instagram all day long, you know?
Hunter Watson
I actually think you are completely right OP. Best way to stop addiction is to kill the stimulus.
Jack Bell
you seem really upset by this thread
is something troubling you, friend?
Liam Rivera
Call it with what, a plastic cup and some string?
Cameron Walker
People with lack of self control projecting onto a straw man representation of media. It is a tool--you can use it for good or evil. Moderate amounts of entertainment are good for psychological help. Also >AA A good metaphor for you're bullshit--confusing a weak personality for a spiritual affliction.
Christopher Perry
Only TV is pure shit-tier time waste, with little to no exceptions.
Kevin Lewis
Speak for yourself nerd virgin
Jaxon Green
Social media is also horrible. And free to play games.
Tyler Long
Send them your messenger pigeon that you carry around for emergency situations.
Cameron Reed
Charlie, how long has that bird been in your pocket?
Ethan Fisher
>Everyone just turn of your phones, pull out your modem and plug your ears in case anyone is still in the know. Fuck off telling people to do that with all the shit going on is pretty blatant.
Chase Johnson
hi Sup Forums
Samuel Hughes
Das rite, two years ago I stopped playing LoL (I play once or twice a month, and never alone) and I have to say that entertainment it's an actual problem for society, the same goes for Netflix, most of my friends waste several hours a day watching stupid series one after the other non-stop, to watch SOME Netflix (Maybe 1 or two series a year) it's not degenerate, but watching every single new series that comes out it's an absolute waste of time with no reward, an actual drug.
Nathaniel Ramirez
all the while you spend 8 hours a day complaining online about how everyone is a sheep but you?
Logan Lopez
Didn't anyone tell you? It's the end of the world mother fucker, entertainment is all we got left to do
Joseph Martinez
No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'!
William Jones
For you. It's called moderation, addiction boy.
Ryder Parker
YouYou are completely right, top quality red pill. Fuck entertainment in general. The only thing I have to add it that I kinda need my computer to work (Excel, coding and such), I cannot throw it away.
Cooper Wilson
I can enjoy life at my own leisure or watch other to enjoy their lives while being mad about it. Guess what'll I choose.
Mason Miller
>no TV ok >no smartphone doable. can be replaced with an old phone with limited browsing capabilities(for emergency). this would at least reduce possible entertainment options. >no internet/pc/laptop/screen this is the problematic part. if you do this you will isolate yourself a great deal from the modern world.
the problem is we just don't have the mentality to use these "screens" as just tools for certain tasks. cars are for travel. dishwasher are for...well washing dishes. smartphones are for...
EVERTHING. you just can do so many things with it(useful AND useless). we lose ourselves in that world of possibilities.
we are burning ourselves with fire.
Luis Reyes
Well you ARE on Sup Forums so I'd say its an even 50/50.
Ian Cook
my point about the >scare tactics was like what u guys are saying
like i dont want electricity cause its on the grid but you assume its cause backwards redneck shit and yo8u actually encourage that
was what i was thinking of scare tactics. this bud immigrant commercial
HAHA you think everyone was on shore going get back ? wtf, and if they where i would of hated them. so FUCK YOU. assholes
Camden Moore
KNEW it was nothign but a bullshit topic anyway SAGE
Ian Thomas
so the correct approach imo is to develop the mentality that treats these "screens" as like how a handicraft would treat his tools. just tools to get a -useful- job done, whatever that might be. nothing more nothing less.
but good luck with that.
Camden Turner
English as a second language detected. Deportation is imminent.
>inb4 he is actually former Texas governor Rick Perry.
Thomas Roberts
This is actually hitting home pretty hard, and should hit home for most of Sup Forums.
When I was 16 I would read about dudes on here on Sup Forums and Sup Forums, who were in their early 20s and still a virgin. I kind of laughed and thought, I have so much time to change, I will never end up like them.
I am turning 27 at the end of the month, and still a kissless virgin. I amuse myself going from board to board, when one dies, I move somewhere else. I have been doing this for over 10 years now.
The only redeeming quality is I have a good job for my area, and that may be the only thing helping me find a decent wife in the last couple of years I have left to lock down someone that isn't a single mother. Even then I only have this job because my parents pushed me, and threatened to kick me out if I didn't obey.
Listen to the OP everyone, this is the best advice on this website.
Jaxon Miller
This. Please be a good goy and do nothing but work, produce & consume.
The life of leisure, relaxation, and entertainment is a trap!
Ian Rivera
Not really, but wasting 8 hours a day on fucking Netflix is beyond retarded, content is either crap, or useful, when I'm on the internet I tend to consume useful content (learning new languages, watching documentaries, watching videos about science, or about politics/history/religion, arguing over meaningful topics on /pol) but that doesn't mean that everyone is a sheep but me, that means that I actually care about how I spend my time.
Easton Bell
I haven't watched TV in 9 years.
The things i've learned and clarity of mind are immeasurable.
Andrew Barnes
>an action packed trip to detroit
Well, I mean, you'll be mugged by nogs, so I suppose that -is- action.
Jace Stewart
>Reddit spacing
Austin Sanders
You are right in saying it is a sin to preach, but not live how doth preach. This is the dilemma of our life.
Juan Roberts
>Fuck readable text and proper punctuation Does it matter, really?
Chase Reed
How do I drop the Dota 2 blue pill?
I am not interested in video games anymore for the most part, but competitive, easy to pick up, and engaging games like Starcraft, Age of Empires, and Dota 2 often take up my entire day of free time outside of work. I have 3k hours in Dota 2 currently. 4 entire months of my life, an entire year of my waking life.
>HEY OPPOSITION YOU HAVE TO QUIT BECAUSE I WANT BE THE ONLY VOICE HERE. I SWEAR TO ALLAH YOUR DOMINATION OF MEDIA IS KILLING YOU, PLEASE STOP.
Daniel Watson
A little ridiculous, but still a valid subject and a bretty based thread. Have bump
Parker Cox
>77 Kek approves this lifestyle
Daniel Moore
Hope this thread is still up when I'm back from work
Robert Johnson
I said at my leisure, meaning at my pace while I don't give a shit about others, wouldn't say I'm too mad about it, the world is going to shit but I have 1/3 of life behind me and rest of 2/3 will probably end before worst shit reach me.
Luke Reyes
But i need to use screens for mandatory quizzes and assignments for uni, what do desu
Sebastian Williams
I do that but I always reinstall. Fuck. I'm so weak.
The only thing that worked was uninstalling Steam but I even caved then after about a month cause I wanted to contact some friends.
Joshua Stewart
>You are here because you are extremely susceptible to this drug, You are here because you are not, amirite?
Alexander Gray
You are 100% correct.
However I require it for my livlihood.
Luis Gray
you first shithead mudstink
John Jackson
Install linux and the temptation to pc game will be severely limited
Jaxon Walker
me too. my work is right here on my computer at home
Adrian Green
You have to fill your spare time with something else, go to Church or something.
James Gutierrez
>Reading a book >Apparently not entertainment
Your ideology is inconsistent and fucking stupid.
Leo Bennett
Reading, say, Harry Potter is just as blue pilled as watching cartoons. You need to buy red pilled books to enlighten and sharpen the mind.