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As people become more dependent of their subconscious, free will dies, even in a collective sense.

>>755255

If by free will you mean the ability to make a choice free from influence, that never existed. Free will as in the ability to make rational instead of blind pleasure seeking choices, still exists. It's just no one uses it. However, if the demons granted dominion over places and generations are granted enough power that type of free will might disappear too, with a generation becoming completely unredpillable because they're all possessed. But that still hasn't happened if it ever will.

>As people become more dependent of their subconscious, free will dies, even in a collective sense.

You mean they become subservient to a culture a of amenities.

The subconscious doesn't become disconnected from their will.

Also there is another point, we may overestimate the amount of people that was i fact awakened in the past, no doubt it always has been a small portion, my priest yesterday just talked about how people forget their baptism and the lessons to carry out, they go to mass weekly as if some sort of obligation but don't behave as christian in their day to day lives.

>posted to quickly without finishing my point

But even though in modern society there is a strong tendency for people to get addicted to their devices, hooked on social media, there isn't a moment they are spent alone with their own thoughts and pains. It likely weakens further their will and spirit, but just more distraction and slaving to sin.

Its bad for society but not necessarily for ourselves, eg it makes the few ones that are conscious ever more precious and unique. And hopefully the end is coming soon, but literally everyone ever in pain was hoping for that.

Oh and yeah just saw this another post exactly about this >>753373

>>755537

>there isn't a moment they are spent alone with their own thoughts and pains

I think this is the case, people fall for the suffering = bad, and being alone = bad memes so they just look for any distraction to waste their time and take their mind off it. I don't think it's just in the current age, it takes some strength of character to willingly endure something mentally painful, because you know it can build you up. A lot of people are too afraid to do that, I sometimes fall into it too.

I think Fr. Ripperger said in one video that a lot of problems of people nowadays come from the fact that someone can't sit in a dark quiet room for 15 minutes and contemplate.

>>755568

Now that you speak about it, I'm afraid to do the same as well, been having a properly bad time this last month and I'm craving to just find stuff to pass the time with.

Now I've begun to occupy myself productively by reading/studying and doing stuff generally better, but I wonder what would be the point of just dwelling in pain?

Like if I was not already dwelling in it right now, how would sitting there spiraling down in bad thoughts and depression help?

Its like that saying "idle hands are the devil's workshop". Seriously asking.

I spend a fair amount of time alone. I can sit and think for a while, but I can also lapse into inactivity ,depression, or fapping. Moderation of activities isn't always easy to get the hang of, I certainly don't know how to do it, but the important thing is to have that time to just think while avoiding that pure inactivity.