woW addiction

Awesome, this is how i Quit - one day I woke up and thought I was going to play WoW all day as usual because my life sucked - I was really emo - no guys liked me - so i played games all day to drown out my sorrows - then God was like "HEY LISTEN TO ME!!!"  - then i couldn't play games any more after that day.  He eventually told me to "forgive" all those guys in the past that did me wrong.  From that day on - i could no longer play WoW anymore.  Then all of these crazy Christian people started befriending me the next day from back in the day.  Life has been so beautiful and peaceful since

 

personally i think you're really weird and to be honest religion was created by humans which makes it very flawed and is the cause of so much hatred in the world.

 

Religion is the cause of as much hatred in the world as anything else. If you read what Jesus says and the morals of the bible(and other similar works of different religions) there's nothing that would incite hatred in them.
People like to bash religion because so many men used it as an excuse to do wrong in the world, both now and in the past, but the thing is, it's a bs excuse. How many people have been killed in the name of 'freedom' or for communism, or loads of other reasons?
Ultimately, anyone that kills in the name of religion knows very little of it.
PS: I'm a pragmatic atheist.

 

this may be true, but i'm still against organized religion in the way that it answers questions on morality that (i feel) have no right being answered by an organization such as the catholic church. i feel that we as sentient thinking beings should be able to think about matters like whether or not there is an afterlife or our purpose without the help and bias of religion.

 

if there was no religion, humanity wouldve killed itself off long ago.  think whatever you will about it, but if it werent for organized religion, there wouldve been hundreds more genghis khans.

 

A difference between being irresponsible and an actual addiction.

 

I agree that religions is part of humanity since the very first couple.  There is a reason and heart behind it though - it is the desire that everyone knows something is missing.  Religion/science/discovering life is the attempt to find out what it is that we are missing.  True religion - is love, genuine love - it isn't the kind of religion you talk about - it is the relational love you have when you know who God is and who you are as a person.  It is impossible, and all of our lives - we naturally are inclined to deny it, not because it doesn't make sense logically, but because we are at war and at odds with God - we are made this way - we have to have a choice.  It takes a lot of us different experiences - sometimes its shortly before we die before we are like - THERE HAS to be something after this death... because inside our hearts - we know there must be otherwise we should just jump out the window and kill ourselves because it is pointless.  The deer in the forest doesn't seem to have these kinds of inclinations - they kind of just accept life and go along with it based on instincts.  Humans all of their life fear death - 90+ percent of human beings have believed in some God throughout the history of mankind - is it the naivety of not knowing all the answers that we try to place it - "God must have done that" or is it the reality that there is a God and he loves you.  I choose the 2nd - the first runs into a whole lot of logical issues that books like the God Delusion fails to cover and address.  How did love develop?  Chemical bonds evolving from a non-relational and non-living organism into somehow living?  Or is it because Love binds this universe together and it is Hatred that is the exact opposite.  Hatred can't even exist without love.  My point, true religion is a relationship with Christ who attached you to God - and then we understand what love is - until that time - it is merely human wisdom that explains to us what love is.  Human beings have the full capacity of describing what love is in human terms because we were made to be able to be completely independent, but is it what is best for us?  And the answer is no.

 

A pretty good way to quit playing wow is to come to the realization that you actually want to do something with your life or to move on to something else that you're passionate about. Mine was simple growing and smoking marijuana or..... having sex with a woman... or getting an education so you can get a job and not end up turning down sex because you have a raid or an arena team to commit too. Basically it comes down to this most people come to the realization that you don't want to spend the rest of your life playing a video game and there are so many other better things that you can spend your time doing it just takes reaching a new low for people to see that eventually one of two things are going to happen the game will finally come to an end and you'll have to move on to something else or.. most of the kids on here will get really good ass from a chick and realize the ass completely outweighs playing a video game for 12+ hours a day hopefully they won't have a run on sentence that's this long when they explain how they quit ------->.

 

Break free from your chains of mental enslavement, don't give up on something you love doing because of social norms or other bs.

 

I was in a similar situation with WoW. I'm a bit different in that I actually used WoW as a substitute for a very serious addiction I had to Heroine (yes, I made some very poor life choices). I became so addicted to WoW that it took priority. I would attribute a large part of that to the fact that I desperatly wanted to take my mind off the Heroine, and WoW, being as consuming as it is, did that exceptionally well.

Strangely enough, after 3 years and a bit of being a pretty extreme WoW addict, I was able to fairly easily drop it once I had become bored with it.

 

GP (good post)

Sounds about my like my situation.

 

pretty interesting

 

so youre the only wow player on earth whose life improved through his addiction... n1

 

nice one on quitting.

Good post, but i don't understand one thing, and i am not having a go, I am being  deadly serious because i was never in this situation when i played:

How do you get that far into the game and not realise "what a waste of life, this is giving me **** all in return"? Do you not ever think when you are that into the game that you could be outside in the real world with real people doing real things rather than in a virtual world with pixels you don't know doing stuff that will get you pixels that make you look different and be able to beat giant balls of pixels?

 

Yes I would always feel bad but I would say to myself- ok 5  more minutes then i'll log off but that would never happen and I would just keep pushing the time back. If i had work i would do work for 5 minutes and then think to myself that I could just do it later and go back on the game.