2006-07-15 03:51:20 · 9 answers · asked by klunk 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes, if your have a genuine contrite heart and true sorrow for you sins. Most of us will backslide, but at the moment of reconciliation your desire for redemption and penance is real.
2006-07-15 04:10:47 · answer #1 · answered by andrewtm78 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Any behaviour which is addictive is nature is an outward symptom of a need within which you are not able to fulfill internally. So an addiction is healed when address the need. Once the need is gone, so is the behaviour.
Like your behaviour is not the problem; you are not addicted to it, you are addicted to the way it makes you feel, find out why you need to feel that way externally, where are you not fulfilling your need internally. Once you start doing that internally the addiction would be gone.
First notice how it makes you feel when you indulge in that behaviour, so that next time when you try to fool yourself into it you can immediately pull out and remind yourself of the consequences. So once the fun of that behaviour is gone, you will start loosing interest in that old friendship of yours.
Find what are you gaining by indulging in it again and again, so that you can then fulfill the same need through other means.
Addiction ends when the need gets met on the inside. Problem arises if you try to change through self control, which really is actually suppression, which sooner or later backfire as it only makes the addicted part, which is actually a hurting part of you more angry, hurt and twisted.
Constant self nurturing especially during the circumstances that trigger your behaviour is an excellent means to heal those addictions, as you would be soothing that the hurt part of you which rises up each time you get hurt in some way.
2006-07-15 11:23:37 · answer #2 · answered by Abhishek Joshi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Always worth a shot, and hey if you go back to the old behavior, at least you tried
2006-07-15 12:47:18 · answer #3 · answered by Katy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because it will result in two wrongs which we all know does not make a right. You would be hypocritical as well as a cad.
2006-07-15 13:20:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is too difficult.
It's better to just give up before you try.
No worries.
2006-07-15 12:26:42 · answer #5 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
....refrain tonight and that will lend a kind of easyness to the next abstinence, and the next more easy, for use can almost change the stamp of nature.
Hamlet
W.S.
2006-07-15 11:04:43 · answer #6 · answered by meta-morph-in-oz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. If you have no honest intention to change, why stress yourself out?
2006-07-15 10:54:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, for it is your only hope. If you give up, you know that you lose the battle. Don't surrender.
2006-07-15 12:28:04 · answer #8 · answered by lucky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure-just work on hiding it better.
2006-07-15 10:54:48 · answer #9 · answered by R J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋