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

[Dr Jim Kennedy]

When you want to be less intense,
And cannot send your very best;
Send CW at a slower speed, 
And then you will find that you have no need;
To use that new fangled FT8,
And have more time to procrastinate;
And can become more even more smug,
As you are a member of the Second Class Operator's Club

72/73,
Doc - K2PHD








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> On Jun 3, 2019, at 1:10 PM, AL7JK John <al7jk.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "  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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