Mwa – stwabation …

Lead the crowd in super funny pranks, like forcibly cutting the hair of anyone you suspect of engaging in sins against nature. If asked about such hilarity years later, giggle and pretend you don’t remember shearing those bleached blond locks. Especially if you’re running for president of the United States. Oh, and fire the illegals doing your yard work.
A few years ago, one of Utah’s news stations redesigned its set to (I presume) reflect and harmonize more with the local culture. The most prominent new addition is a huge window that separates the news anchors from a busy street in downtown Salt Lake City. The news team sit with their backs to the window. During every broadcast, locals (locos?) position themselves on the street side of the window and enthusiastically perform various dorkish antics that they believe are super cute and make them look attractive and intelligent.
Most jump up and down like children on a sugar high (think Stewart from Mad TV). Keep in mind that by and large, most of these people are, technically, adults. I’ve seen everything from chicken costumes to super heroes wearing tights (p.s.: You know who you are, and it’s not attractive. Rilly.).
What does this have to do with masturbation, you ask? Well, weren’t you wondering what Mormons do for fun?
Which is a perfect segue into Mark E. Petersen next helpful suggestion on how to suppress all natural urges and thereby conclude that wearing a chicken suit while dancing in front of a window = a super fun time; and forcibly cutting the gay guy’s hair is tooo funny!
From Mark E. Petersen’s seminal masturpiece, A Guide to Self-Control:
13. Change in behavior and attitude is most easily achieved through a changed self-image. Spend time every day imagining yourself strong and in control, easily overcoming tempting situations.
– Yeah. You heard him. Dress up like Batman and do the funky chicken on Channel 2.
Now write down these previous tips 100 times:
12. Set goals of abstinence, begin with a day, then a week, month, year and finally commit to never doing it again. Until you commit yourself to NEVER AGAIN you will always be open to temptation.
11. When the temptation to masturbate is strong, yell STOP to those thoughts as loudly as you can in your mind and then recite a prechosen Scripture or sing an inspirational hymn. It is important to turn your thoughts away from the selfish need to indulge.
10. Follow a program of vigorous daily exercise. The exercises reduce emotional tension and depression and are absolutely basic to the solution of this problem. Double your physical activity when you feel stress increasing.
9. Pray daily, ask for the gifts of the Spirit, that which will strengthen you against temptation. Pray fervently and out loud when the temptations are the strongest.
8. Pray. But when you pray, don’t pray about this problem, for that will tend to keep it in your mind more than ever. Pray for faith, pray for understanding of the Scriptures, pray for the Missionaries, the General Authorities, your friends, your families, but keep the problem out of your mind by not mentioning it ever — not in conversation with others, not in your prayers. Keep it out of your mind!
7. Put wholesome thoughts into your mind at all times. Read good books — Church books — Scriptures — Sermons of the Brethren. Make a daily habit of reading at least one chapter of Scripture, preferably from one of the four Gospels in the New Testament, or the Book of Mormon. The four Gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — above anything else in the Bible can be helpful because of their uplifting qualities.
6. Never read pornographic material. Never read about your problem. Keep it out of mind. Remember — “First a thought, then an act.” The thought pattern must be changed. You must not allow this problem to remain in your mind. When you accomplish that, you soon will be free of the act.
5. If the temptation seems overpowering while you are in bed, get out of bed and go into the kitchen and fix yourself a snack, even if it is in the middle of the night, and even if you are not hungry, and despite your fears of gaining weight. The purpose behind this suggestion is that you get your mind on something else. You are the subject of your thoughts, so to speak.
4. When in bed, if that is where you have your problem for the most part, dress yourself for the night so securely that you cannot easily touch your vital parts, and so that it would be difficult and time consuming for you to remove those clothes. By the time you started to remove protective clothing you would have sufficiently controlled your thinking that the temptation would leave you.
3. When you bathe, do not admire yourself in a mirror. Never stay in the bath more than five or six minutes — just long enough to bathe and dry and dress and then get out of the bathroom into a room where you will have some member of your family present.
2. If you are associated with other persons having this same problem, you must break off their friendship. Never associate with other people having the same weakness. Don’t suppose that two of you will quit together, you never will. You must get away from people of that kind. Just to be in their presence will keep your problem foremost in your mind. The problem must be taken out of your mind for that is where it really exists. Your mind must be on other and more wholesome things.
1. Never touch the intimate parts of your body except during normal toilet processes. Avoid being alone as much as possible. Find good company and stay in this good company.
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