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The title is great.

Oh...and no shorts or flip-flops on campus.

"Standard #1: Shorts and Flip Flops

The most frequent question I get about the Honor Code at BYU–Idaho is our standard on shorts and flip-flops. We ask you not to wear shorts or capris on campus, including when you are walking to and from the Hart Building or the fields to work out. The same thing is true of flip-flops. They may be appropriate in other places, but not on campus."

http://www2.byui.edu/Presentations/Transcripts/Devotionals/2013_01_08_Clark.htm

no @enoch, THIS is the worst analogy evar. and I hope it is self evident.

this could not have been cheap to make. Religion has deep pockets. But I wish I could have been a fly on the wall in the meeting where a bunch of people got together and decided on this video. It would have been hilariously sad.

The way those two guys were eyeing each other knowingly towards the end tells me what this is really all about: A great excuse for older men to ask very personal questions and assert authority over much younger men.

I thought it was telling that the guy was masturbating/watching porn openly with the door open, like he was hoping that his room mate (or anyone) would come home and 'catch' him. The room mate comes in the door, sees him, and hangs his head as if to say 'not again Mike, my jaw's still tired from yesterday', and quietly turns away before he's roped into 'finishing' his room mate.
Then the knowing look near the end, as if to say ...'just wait until we get home, buddy. I'll let you 'catch' me tonight!'
Just too funny!
P.S. Is this what the "magic" underwear is about? Is it designed to make it hard (pun intended) to get your junk out and smack it around? I can't figure that one out, never having seen a pair.

Yes, repression is always the answer. Just ask Catholic priests.

...and married men should never masturbate. That's why God invented hos.

I ain't Mormon, but I know what is comedy and what is intended as comedy. And this ain't either.

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We must all be accepting of gays and their oddball practices, but Mormon? NEVER!

What I like is the subtle metaphor for the "Great War".

Gays aren't tell people how to live their lives bases on fairy tales.

Come on, Sifters, I'm disappointed in you. Not defending Mormonism as a religion but this ad clearly says the roommates addiction is internet porn addiction which is not the same thing as just masturbating and, having known a guy who actually had it, (he got fired eventually because he couldn't stop watching, not even at work) I can confirm it is a real illness.

This ad is asking people to not turn their back when someone is clearly suffering. And that's a message I happen to agree with. No, I don't think Mormonism is likely to be the answer to addiction but I can get behind the idea of not turning a blind eye to someone else's problems, which is the message that is repeatedly conveyed here.

That is exactly what i got from it too. I DESPISE religion in almost EVERY WAY, But this is a very good message. I think it would fit much better if it was about alcoholism, drug addiction, or depression though.

So they're basically saying no Australians are allowed there.

still obsessed I see. Just come out already

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its not so much the message. It's about the shitty analogies and their obsession with this stuff. And for lantern53 too. Here's the difference:

If you think masturbation or porn is fundamentally bad. I don't have a problem with that. I disagree that it's significant problem. Just like it's amusing how obsessed with homosexuals Lantern is, I find it very amusing how obsessed Mormons are with masturbation. and thanks to freedom of speech, I, and others are choosing to mock the way they are delivering that message in the way they compare masturbation/porn to a wounded combatant. In no way are any of us saying that Mormons should not be allowed to send that message.

If certain people DID have their way, they would enforce their religious standards on others. Oh wait, that's already happening.

One is mocking, one is legislation...big honkin difference. Religious freedom doesn't trump other peoples' freedom.

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title is misleading. The message is clearly about porn addiction. It's a very real and serious thing.

And yes, BYU-Idaho has strict standards. Everyone who registers knows about it and agrees to it before they attend. No-one forces those standards on you. If you don't like it there's plenty of other choices. Where you go to college is completely up to you.

I dropped off my niece for freshman semester and they sent her away at the photo-id desk because she was wearing flip-flops. She went back to her room, changed shoes, and got her photo-id.

I know that porn addiction is a real thing and can be a serious problem. But this video is just awful. The comparison they try to make is hilarious. Who is the "enemy"? What is the battlefield? What is the "Great War"? What strategies are they speaking of?

And another thing, I don't hear the words porn or addiction once in this video. Or anything specific in that matter. They don't even say what they want to say, without using horrible comparisons that make no sense. They want to convince someone to talk about his problems, but they don't have the guts to name the problem itself. And that doesn't give the impression that they are actually capable at all to talk about this topic.

'Fairy tales'

lot of directions a person could go with that one

Maybe you have selective hearing? Try starting the video at 0:29 where the narrator says:

A lonely confused young man gets addicted to pornography...

Well, at least no bogans.

Does that mean you won't ever follow any of my tumblr accounts?

If masturbation is the Great War then my bedroom was Hiroshima when I was in high school.

Ok that must have slipped my ears. But I still get the impression that they aren't actually capable to talk about this topic.

Maybe that young man is depressed? Stops going to church, going outside, withdraws from society, and wants nothing more than to blatantly masturbate in front of his peers. The solution is what, to talk about his porn? Is this not more likely a symptom of a bigger problem perhaps?

Anyway, I had this playing in the background looking at other stuff, and my selective hearing told me the soldier he needed to get out was his sperm, and he was in a desperate struggle to release them from their confinement. Talk to your bishop to help relieve this bitter struggle from your pants. I thought maybe they were talking about a new masturbatory video game. Help your friend get off today! Stop watching porn, and participate! Coming to your jock today, multiplayer action in your pants!
/sarcasm

...yes???

Sorry, I have no idea what that comment was in reference to.

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