[SOC] When I'm bored, I do FT-8

[Quikhooligan]

On 6/3/2019 11:02 AM, craig shaw via SOC wrote:
> Alan Watts on pleasure without skill... Relevant to FT8 and CW
> 
> Understand that there is absolutely no possibility of having any pleasure
> in life at all without skill. Money. Doesn???t. Buy. Pleasure. Ever. Look: if
> you want to get stone-drunk, and go out and get a bottle of bourbon and
> down it, you can???t do that except for people who have practiced the
> distiller???s art. You can???t even make love without art.
> 
> Where I live, in Sausalito, we have a harbor full of ever so many pleasure
> craft. Motor cruisers, sailing boats, all kinds of things???and they never
> leave the dock. All that happens with them is their owners have cocktail
> parties there on Saturdays and Sundays, because they discovered???having
> bought these things???that the discipline of sailing is difficult to learn
> and takes a lot of time. And they didn???t have time for it, so they just
> bought the thing as a status symbol.
> 
> So, in other words, you can???t have pleasure in life without skill, but it
> isn???t an unpleasant task to learn a skill. If the teacher???in the first
> place???gets you fascinated with it, there is immense pleasure in learning
> how to do anything skillfully.
> 

Alan Watts is too deep for SOC.  He's also wrong.  Having pleasure in
life without skill is what SOC is all about.  As an example, SOCers
experience pleasure in life constantly despite having no skill.  But it
might be said that there is skill in experiencing pleasure.  So maybe
Alan Watts is correct after all.

Why the emphasis on experiencing pleasure?  I prefer experiencing
contentment.  I'm content to be SOC.