PORN! Oh.

First Posted 12-Feb-2015

I’m not done talking about Pornography. Sean Hannity was talking about something else related to Obummer. I can’t remember what Sean said but it rattled about my head and came out, “Satan will always leave you hungry and God will leave you full.”

The reason I like my cobbled paraphrase of Sean’s words is that it connects to a thing I used to obsessively repeat. I used to love to say that I was suspicious of things offered to me that were long on benefits and fuzzy on price or consequences. I’d go further and say that Satan’s bargains are like that. He’d offer something really nice but not be clear on what he wanted for it. My flip side was that God tended to put the price up front, make you pay first, and was fuzzy on the benefits. I was so impressed with that little epiphany. My friends got tired of hearing me say it..

Sean Hannity made his comment that I missed and I filled in the gaps with the paraphrase I started with. Here is the point, if there is one. Porn, along with other pleasures on offer, has too short a half-life. The first video of . . . ok, I know that the pantheon of perversions is vast. There are some really twisted filmmakers who make videos of any fantasy you can think of. I don’t have time in 500 words or so to allow for all of it. So, for this post, we’ll stick to hetero sex. Ok, the first video of hetero sex–amazing. Every video after? not so much. You have to find more intense emotional highs to get that same first rush. Ditto alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy . . . whatever. All have a half-life that means you have to chase more to get the same euphoria you got last time. Name a hurt, habit or hangup and that same problem is there–you are always left hungry.

This is the other half of the premise–God will always leave you full. Though, God is annoying because at least with me, he has this nasty habit of waiting until the last possible moment to come through for me. He’s also annoying because again, with me, what I think will make me full and what he’ll give me to make me full is often different. God is a pain in the ass. I love him dearly and each time I’m given a choice I keep choosing Him. I tripped the light fantastic. I had my fill. I know what’s on offer by Satan. I know how I’ve been blessed by God. I keep choosing God.