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

[Keith Bower]

What if my only skill is in pleasure?
-- Epicurus, SV2/W0BAV

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 12:29 PM Dr Jim Kennedy via SOC <soc at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

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