Often I hear people say, "C'mon, I don't need a filter, I have self control... Filters could be bypassed anyway, if you try hard, so what's the point?" Well, my friends at GuardYourEyes.com have a collection of over 700(!) testimonials from frum Jews who have been helped through their site. A large number of these cases could have been prevented had a proper filter been in place.
After reading their stories, a pattern emerges: The first encounters with shmutz are the ones that develop the taste for shmutz. These encounters could have been prevented by internet filters, because at that stage the temptation to view shmutz is not so great, and a person will not go to great lengths to view such material. Once it becomes a habit, you'll need more than just a filter. Why take the chance? Never say "It will never happen to me" - the statistics say otherwise.
אל תביאנו לידי נסיון.
Here's one testimonial:
"In my line of work, I am connected online every single day.
"I had always heard about the dangers of the internet and one day.my curiosity got the best of me. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and I googled a few bad things. I was shocked and absolved.never to do that again. But the yetzer hara is much smarter He convinced me that looking at certain things was not a problem, so why don't you do that? And that's exactly what I began to do. Until it led me to the very worst, even live meetings. I can't believe this happened to me! I was the tzadik! And now I had fallen. It went from bad to worse in a very short period of time. I've tried so many times to stop and always slipped back. Until I've found ur website. Gevalt. The first 30 days I had not one clean day!!!
"But today was one of the hardest days of my life. Today was my first clean 24 hrs. Oh aibishter, I hope I can get rid of this machla. My point in writing this letter is: I believe no matter how pure u are, if you log on to the Net, at first it will be the good sites, eventually you will fall GUARANTEED. This message must get out to Klal Yisrael."
"i am 25, so-to-speak religious (i'm actually a "chasidshe rabbi" with a black hat jacket and beard), married with children. I seem to always fall back into the pornography, especially when my wife isn't around. I have been contemplating on this website and it just seems too good to be true that such a website exists! no words can describe how i feel grateful to Hashem that He revealed this website to me. i keep pinching myself (כביכול) to double check that this is really happening. and it is. i'm just lost for words."
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