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

[Carl Strode]

I have no Skill.
Got my circular saw at WalMart.
Made my radio myself.
Didn't use the saw.

Carl WA7CS


On 6/3/2019 9:50 AM, Quikhooligan via SOC wrote:
> 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.
>
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