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

[AL7JK John]

 "  I prefer experiencing contentment.  I'm content to be SOC."

Laughing so hard I allmost spilled my morning cup of coffee.
Yall have a great day !

73
AL7JK

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:50 AM Quikhooligan via SOC <soc at mailman.qth.net>
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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