Porn Question

[ndeparis88]

PSo i was playing with my playstation and noticed i can acsess the internet i thought oh **** another way porn can be seen. So i wanted to see if the browser was the type that could show jpeg images and flash. Well it turns out it could and i saw something i shouldnt have. Now i didnt linger on it but got it out of view quickly. Then i said well maybe it wont play video so ibl waited to see if it started the clip and it did i paused before anything happened and delated it. Am i in mortal sin. There wasnt anything nude in the video and i wasnt looking at any of the pictures but trying to avoid looking at them.

 

[StJudeprayforme]

PSo i was playing with my playstation and noticed i can acsess the internet i thought oh **** another way porn can be seen. So i wanted to see if the browser was the type that could show jpeg images and flash. Well it turns out it could and i saw something i shouldnt have. Now i didnt linger on it but got it out of view quickly. Then i said well maybe it wont play video so ibl waited to see if it started the clip and it did i paused before anything happened and delated it. Am i in mortal sin. There wasnt anything nude in the video and i wasnt looking at any of the pictures but trying to avoid looking at them.

Talk with your priest about it in confession, and be honest. Did you search for porn? Did you just google “flash videos” and porn randomly show up? If you googled “Porn videos and pictures” and then proceeded to click on a porn site and then click on a video to see if it would play, I would say you were probably willingly putting yourself in a near occasion for mortal sin, which is a grave sin in itself, and is mortal if you meet all three conditions.

If however, it randomly came up as a popup or it wasn’t something you foresaw, it would not meet the criteria for mortal sin.

Again, talk about it with your priest, and tell him the full story.

 

[migueltojose]

it takes two to porn…

is it porn when 3rd graders look at national geographics for topless tribeswomen
is it porn when 8th graders steal someone’s dads playboy mags?

when does it become porn … when there is intent… more so than curiosity

intent is what’s important

what was your intent?

 

[Aquila_Lucis]

PSo i was playing with my playstation and noticed i can acsess the internet i thought oh **** another way porn can be seen. So i wanted to see if the browser was the type that could show jpeg images and flash. Well it turns out it could and i saw something i shouldnt have. Now i didnt linger on it but got it out of view quickly. Then i said well maybe it wont play video so ibl waited to see if it started the clip and it did i paused before anything happened and delated it. Am i in mortal sin. There wasnt anything nude in the video and i wasnt looking at any of the pictures but trying to avoid looking at them.

Truthfully, it sounds a little dicey because you immediately jumped to the conclusion that you could view pornography via your playstation, and then proceeded to “check your browser’s capabilities.” Be honest with yourself: was that really all that you were meaning to do?

 

[nitesnake]

Am i in mortal sin. There wasnt anything nude in the video and i wasnt looking at any of the pictures but trying to avoid looking at them.

There’s an easy, concrete answer for this. Easy to recognize, but not easy to avoid. Did it bother your conscious? Did you know it was wrong but chose to do it anyway? Don’t feel bad if the answer is yes. I’ve done it myself. So you go to confession, do the best you can to avoid it in the future, and charge ahead.

If the answer is no, than you’re a much better man than I am.

 

[ndeparis88]

it takes two to porn…

is it porn when 3rd graders look at national geographics for topless tribeswomen
is it porn when 8th graders steal someone’s dads playboy mags?

when does it become porn … when there is intent… more so than curiosity

intent is what’s important

what was your intent?

My intent was to check if my PSP could display images, I wasn’t intending on looking at porn I was just trying to see if there was a way I could put security in place to block sites like that.

 

[ndeparis88]

Truthfully, it sounds a little dicey because you immediately jumped to the conclusion that you could view pornography via your play station, and then proceeded to “check your browser’s capabilities.” Be honest with yourself: was that really all that you were meaning to do?

Well I didn’t immediately jump to that conclusion, I was remembering what me and my priest were taking about how porn is really every where and we have to be on our guard all the time, so when I found out that my PSP has a browser I was like oh man. I didn’t really know if certain types of images can be displayed.

 

[DexUK]

Well I didn’t immediately jump to that conclusion, I was remembering what me and my priest were taking about how porn is really every where and we have to be on our guard all the time, so when I found out that my PSP has a browser I was like oh man. I didn’t really know if certain types of images can be displayed.

To be honest, I think you’re wriggling a bit.

If an image can be displayed on a PC’s web browser, then it’ll be displayable on a PS3’s web browser, otherwise why would Sony have put a web browser on the PS3 at all?

I think if you’re honest you would own up to being tempted to look so you did, and you’re trying to find an excuse for what you did.

It’s like having being fined for speeding in one car, getting into a new car and saying to oneself, “I don’t know if this thing can do 100 miles per hour, but I’d better find out in order that I can not do it in future by seeing what its top speed is” and then being surprised or aggrieved at getting another speeding ticket… You shouldn’t have done it in the first place. You didn’t need to know.

No amount of mental gymnastics is going to excuse you from speeding in the second car…

 

[Aquila_Lucis]

Well I didn’t immediately jump to that conclusion, I was remembering what me and my priest were taking about how porn is really every where and we have to be on our guard all the time, so when I found out that my PSP has a browser I was like oh man. I didn’t really know if certain types of images can be displayed.

What I’m saying is, when you discovered that about your PSP, you realized, quite quickly, that you *could *access porn, not whether you ought to (you seem to know that you ought not to). It still sounds like you’re rationalizing your choice, too (and bear in mind that you made a choice, which is a principle element of sin); namely, you wanted to know if you could put up browser security, so you went to “test” the browser. That was the most dangerous way to have performed that test if you know you have an addiction to pornography.

Think about this: you go into a science classroom at school and there is a large container labled “Undilouted HCl.” You would like to know if this substance is harmful, so you stick your finger in it…and the acid eats away your flesh.

What should you have done? You should have asked the teacher, “Is this substance dangerous?” and the teacher would have said, “Yes, it’s hydrochloric acid and is a very caustic chemical. Don’t touch it!”

How does this relate to your PSP issue? You stuck your finger in the acid when you ought to have gone to tech support FAQs on Sony’s website to find out about parental controls. For the record: support.us.playstation.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1504/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzU3NzQ4MTU0L3NpZC9qUXlMb1RmbA%3D%3D

Long story short, what I’m saying is, stop sticking your finger in the acid!

 

[sepgs2004]

Every advice above are correct.
I have done similar thing. This simply means, we are still in a situation, given an opportunity, would try to do bad thing. This also means, we are in short of Love towards our Saviour Jesus.
Let us spend more time to pray, read spiritual books and get closer to God, so that we would not even think of such things.
Good wishes to you Brother.

 

[Oxford_Cleric]

There’s an easy, concrete answer for this. Easy to recognize, but not easy to avoid. Did it bother your conscious? Did you know it was wrong but chose to do it anyway? Don’t feel bad if the answer is yes. I’ve done it myself. So you go to confession, do the best you can to avoid it in the future, and charge ahead.

If the answer is no, than you’re a much better man than I am.

This is 1000% correct. “Looking without really wanting to look” and “I have to know if I can do this now so I’ll be sure not to do it in the future” are nothing but games, and I too have played exactly the same ones. God, however, is not mocked. I know it. You know it. That’s why you asked. Let’s be honest.

 

[ndeparis88]

This is 1000% correct. “Looking without really wanting to look” and “I have to know if I can do this now so I’ll be sure not to do it in the future” are nothing but games, and I too have played exactly the same ones. God, however, is not mocked. I know it. You know it. That’s why you asked. Let’s be honest.

Well the reason why I was in doubt is because some of the interfaces for certain devices don’t even bring certain images up because of their technical type. On wii it uses Opera and it will only bring up pictures but not play streaming video it even has a hard time playing you tube.

What I wonder though is if I still am in the realm of venial, or is it mortal. I don’t like “testing” it out that way and I know I could have looked in the manual, but I mean I was going in not with a bad intention and that’s not me trying to cover up for myself, I was ready to literally close my eyes and hit the back button.

 

[edwest2]

Understood. God knows our hearts, and he knows I’m a sinner, and I do still catch myself doing the excuse thing. You and God know your intent. All you can do is be honest and talk to a priest.

Sadly, almost anything that can access the internet can access porn. Maybe I should have written anything, but like you, I’m not 100% sure because I only use my phone as a phone and have no game devices or other gadgets, so my actual experience is limited.

God bless,
Ed

 

[JaKael02]

Set up your router to route traffic through opendns.com and then block all porn through that website. This will prevent any device in your home from accessing bad sttuff, including cell phones, labtops, PS3, xbox, etc.

 

[Oxford_Cleric]

Well the reason why I was in doubt is because some of the interfaces for certain devices don’t even bring certain images up because of their technical type. On wii it uses Opera and it will only bring up pictures but not play streaming video it even has a hard time playing you tube.

What I wonder though is if I still am in the realm of venial, or is it mortal. I don’t like “testing” it out that way and I know I could have looked in the manual, but I mean I was going in not with a bad intention and that’s not me trying to cover up for myself, I was ready to literally close my eyes and hit the back button.

I think that I may be much older than you, and I have fought this Balrog for decades (and if you get the reference, good for you!), so forgive me if I seem a bit intense about this. Why even bother “going in” to “test” “interfaces”, or any of the rest of it? Why go there at all? If the browser wouldn’t let you look at porn, then you wouldn’t see it anyway. If it would let you look at porn, you shouldn’t be looking at it anyway. Why do you have to KNOW? Just leave it all alone, man! Imitate King David (a man who knew a great deal about God’s attitude toward sexual sin), who in Psalm 100 sang “I did not set before my eyes any unjust thing” (DR). Or let’s use the book of Proverbs for what it’s for: "To give…to the young man knowledge and understanding (1:4): Proverbs 3: 5-8; 4:14-15; 6:27-28; 22:3. Look them up, and pray about them.

Surely you know the conditions for mortal sin: 1) grave matter (which porn is); 2) sufficient reflection (you thought about what you were going to do); 3) full consent. Here’s where it gets tricky. I am willing to believe that you were not licking your lips with anticipation at a night of lustful enjoyment. However, you have admitted that you squinted your eyes, gritted your teeth, and jumped in. At the very least you knowingly and willingly placed yourself in a near occasion of sin.

I’m not qualified to rule on your sin. Confess it and ask for advice. Then follow it without question or hesitation. Again, I beg you - just drop all this and walk away. God told Adam and Eve not to eat the apple. Would it have been mortal or venial, in your opinion, for Eve to have said, “Well, I’m not sure I’ll die - I’m not sure if it’s one of those apples - tell you what. I’ll just take a tiny bite - I won’t even taste the juice - and I’ll spit it right out”?

 

[dshix]

PSo i was playing with my playstation and noticed i can acsess the internet i thought oh **** another way porn can be seen. So i wanted to see if the browser was the type that could show jpeg images and flash. Well it turns out it could and i saw something i shouldnt have. Now i didnt linger on it but got it out of view quickly. Then i said well maybe it wont play video so ibl waited to see if it started the clip and it did i paused before anything happened and delated it. Am i in mortal sin. There wasnt anything nude in the video and i wasnt looking at any of the pictures but trying to avoid looking at them.

If what you told us is literally true, then there is no mortal sin. However, since it is easy for hidden intentions to be inside you, take this to your priest and talk it over with him.

 

[april32010]

i thought oh **** another way porn can be seen.

i have to ask,why do posters think its cute to skirt the ban on profanity ?

 

[dshix]

i have to ask,why do posters think its cute to skirt the ban on profanity ?

I never do so I wouldn’t know…

 

[TheRealJuliane]

My intent was to check if my PSP could display images, I wasn’t intending on looking at porn I was just trying to see if there was a way I could put security in place to block sites like that.

I think you can bet on any electronic device that can access the internet being able to display porn images. Just assume that to be true, and prepare accordingly.

 

[ndeparis88]

I think that I may be much older than you, and I have fought this Balrog for decades (and if you get the reference, good for you!), so forgive me if I seem a bit intense about this. Why even bother “going in” to “test” “interfaces”, or any of the rest of it? Why go there at all? If the browser wouldn’t let you look at porn, then you wouldn’t see it anyway. If it would let you look at porn, you shouldn’t be looking at it anyway. Why do you have to KNOW? Just leave it all alone, man! Imitate King David (a man who knew a great deal about God’s attitude toward sexual sin), who in Psalm 100 sang “I did not set before my eyes any unjust thing” (DR). Or let’s use the book of Proverbs for what it’s for: "To give…to the young man knowledge and understanding (1:4): Proverbs 3: 5-8; 4:14-15; 6:27-28; 22:3. Look them up, and pray about them.

Surely you know the conditions for mortal sin: 1) grave matter (which porn is); 2) sufficient reflection (you thought about what you were going to do); 3) full consent. Here’s where it gets tricky. I am willing to believe that you were not licking your lips with anticipation at a night of lustful enjoyment. However, you have admitted that you squinted your eyes, gritted your teeth, and jumped in. At the very least you knowingly and willingly placed yourself in a near occasion of sin.

I’m not qualified to rule on your sin. Confess it and ask for advice. Then follow it without question or hesitation. Again, I beg you - just drop all this and walk away. God told Adam and Eve not to eat the apple. Would it have been mortal or venial, in your opinion, for Eve to have said, “Well, I’m not sure I’ll die - I’m not sure if it’s one of those apples - tell you what. I’ll just take a tiny bite - I won’t even taste the juice - and I’ll spit it right out”?

Actually I gritted my teeth to jump out.