Question for Shannon About AM/SM

[SargeMaximus]

The way forward is to stop seeking outside yourself for your needs to be met. Find them within you. Master yourself.

What about food? What about shelter? What about water?

Questions like this tell me that you are seeking attention instead of success. It is an easy way to avoid the growth you face that frightens you to face. I can point the way, but I cannot do this for you. You know what you need to know to succeed. Now it's up to you to decide to do what it takes. If you're intelligent enough to try this avoidance ploy, you're intelligent enough to use what you know to find the goal.

Except that it's not an avoidance ploy, but you are definitely avoiding answering it.

You mentioned sex being among the things we can supply to ourselves via masturbation. My question is: where is the line? There ARE some things (like food and water) that we DO need to be supplied externally. So, where is the line? I don't believe it right now because you can not explain this simple thing. How do you know WHAT is/should be internally supplied vs. what is/should NOT be internally supplied?

The only thing I can think of is death (in the case of food and water), but people can and do die from lack of love as well. In fact, monkey babies who were given plastic mothers in a closed environment died in an experiment despite being given the proper food and nutrition to live healthy lives.