Besides the glorious fact that I've returned, I've been doing digging into my Mormon friends's favorite non-profit organization, "Fight the New Drug". At first the ideals and things didn't bother me that much, kind of like a boring moralistic "lets be clean" shtick at first. But over time I noticed their studies came from mostly Mormon family researchers (Red flag) and BYU (red flag). Then reading through their evidence against their target, Pornography, had only one consistent theme, its "addictive". Their whole reason for wanting to ban it was "addictive qualities"....which in my twisted little mind lead to the ironic study of the University of Utah about the state's undeserved golden boy of organizations, the Mormon Church. To paraphrase what I understood of said study, Mormonism acts on the brain like the addictive drug, cocaine. Taking these facts to one of my FTND supporting friends, she answered cheerfully;
"Well Church is a positive addiction!"
Positive addiction?
No addiction is positive.
Welll I guess the point of this post is "Don't take anything seriously if there studies excuse the same behaviors for tother things"
PT's faith in humanity has dropped considerably,

I was talking with my wife about this the other night and how when I was 25 and living on my own, I'd look at porn or masturbate or something and feel really bad about it (why couldn't I just have been a normal single 25 year old who never had any sexual desires?!?). At any rate, at the time I remember thinking, oh no, I must be addicted because I can't control myself.

But lack of self-control isn't necessarily the same thing as an addiction. There are plenty of things we'd like to do in life but don't have the will to do (this is why we set New Year's resolutions to eat better or exercise more). I'm not addicted to food or addicted to not using a treadmill. Eating disorders and compulsions are obviously real, but just because you can't resist eating cake doesn't mean it's necessarily an addiction. Just because you sometimes look at porn doesn't make it an addiction either.

An addiction can't be positive (since it's defined as something that has a negative effect). If you really like doing something good for you, that's not an addiction; that's a hobby.

You should send that into them....my point is addiction to anything is bad, and you cant pick and choose which ones are ok and not ok..
Off topic though, my new years resolution was different then losing weight, somehow though I've lost weight, reverse resolution psychology lol.

This all reminds me of an old Kids in the Hall sketch about a support group for men who won't be tyranized by their bladders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIAKFfZhNAc

Tell people that don't get triggered on Sundays and cringe when the phone rings still that mormonism wasn't an addiction.