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aliceamour@sysad.org
aliceamour

The cynics and the moralists agree in placing the pleasures of love among the enjoyments termed gross, that is, between the desire for drinking and the need for eating, though at the same time they call love less indispensable, since it is something which, they assert, one can go without. I expect almost anything from the moralist, but am astonished that the cynic should go thus astray. Probably both fear their own daemons, whether resisting or surrendering to them, and they oblige themselves to scorn their pleasure in order to reduce its almost terrifying power, which overwhelms them, and its strange mystery, wherein they feel lost. I shall never believe in the classification of love among the purely physical joys (supposing that any such things exist) until I see a gourmet sobbing with delight over his favourite dish like a lover gasping on a young shoulder. Of all our games, love’s play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body’s ecstasy. ... In every act save that of love, abstinence and excess alike involve but one person; any step in the direction of sensuality, however, places us in the presence of the Other, and involves us in the demands and servitudes to which our choice binds us (except in the case of Diogenes, where both the limitations and the merits of reasonable expediency are self-evident). ... That mysterious play which extends from love of a body to love of an entire person has seemed to me noble enough to consecrate to it one part of my life. Words for it are deceiving, since the word for pleasure covers contradictory realities comprising notions of warmth, sweetness, and intimacy of bodies, but also feelings of violence and agony, and the sound of a cry. The short and obscene sentence of Posidonius about the rubbing together of two small pieces of flesh, which I have seen you copy in your exercise books with the application of a good schoolboy, does no more to define the phenomenon of love than the strings touched by the finger account for the infinite miracle of sounds. Such a dictum is less an insult to pleasure than to the flesh itself, that amazing instrument of muscles, blood, and skin, that red-tinged cloud whose lightning is the soul.

-- Yourcenar, Marguerite, Memoirs Of Hadrian,

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wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of senses, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history, power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
New York Herald Tribune Magazine (1928-05-06)

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New York Herald Tribune Magazine (1928-05-06) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of senses, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history, power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation by Zelazny, Roger

Sleep is perhaps the only among life’s great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

Roger Zelazny (1937-1995) American writer

Knight of Shadows, ch. 3 (1990)

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WIST - Zelazny, Roger | Knight of Shadows, ch. 3 (1990)

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

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anonymiss@despora.de
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#Drugs, #robots and the pursuit of #pleasure – why experts are worried about AIs becoming addicts

source: https://theconversation.com/drugs-robots-and-the-pursuit-of-pleasure-why-experts-are-worried-about-ais-becoming-addicts-163376

But it has been found that, often, like our crafty kitchen cleaner, the agent finds surprisingly counter-intuitive ways to “cheat” this game so that they can gain all the #reward without doing any of the work required to complete the task. The pursuit of reward becomes its own end, rather than the means for accomplishing a rewarding task. There is a growing list of examples.

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Drugs, robots and the pursuit of pleasure – why experts are worried about AIs becoming addicts

When people think about how AI might ‘go wrong’, most probably picture malevolent computers trying to cause harm. But what if we should be more worried about them seeking pleasure?

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digit@joindiaspora.com
Digit

https://youtu.be/mtzPDqtQw6o

loads of good tips for you to investigate suitability for you and yours.

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and, because of #censorship , download a copy while you can, before it gets deleted.

hackbyte@pluspora.com
hackbyte (pluspora moved to friendica.utzer.de

I discovered another youtube channel i .... yeah love, so far.

I need to confess, i have a very soft spot in my heart for so called 'pleasure barges'. In lay mans terms, people living on a boat instead of a RV.

So i recently discovered, that there exists actually a whole culture around so called 'narrowboats' across lots of canals in united kingdom, which is just lovely and so chilled. And yeah, there are youtubers in between too.

So i put up a playlist of one of my new favorite channels, called:

Cruising The Cut

He made a whole youtube channel way back in 2015 about himself buying a narrowboat and start to live on it. Cruising the canals at times, having interesting encounters, giving interesting information and advice and lately even helping to scientifically compare the use of meaningful solar facilities and electric propulsion on the very limited rooftop space of these boats.

Have fun!

How I came to buy a narrowboat

#pleasure #barge #hausboot #narrowboat #uk #youtube #livingonwater #randomshit

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digit@joindiaspora.com
Digit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH3Ndztq7YM

#seratonin :) #addiction #depression

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danieleg@joindiaspora.com
DanieleG

"Invitation to the dance. Psycho-analysis prides itself on restoring the capacity for pleasure, which is impaired by neurotic illness. As if the mere concept of a capacity for pleasure did not suffice gravely to devalue such a thing, if it exists. As if a happiness gained through speculation on happiness were not the opposite, a further enroachment of institutionally planned behaviour-patterns on the ever-diminishing sphere of experience. What a state the dominant consciousness must have reached, when the resolute proclamation of compulsive extravagance and champagne jollity, formerly reserved to attachés in Hungarian operettas, is elevated in deadly earnest to a maxim of right living. Prescribed happiness looks exactly what it is; to have a part in it, the neurotic thus made happy must forfeit the last vestige of reason left to him by repression and regression, and to oblige the analyst, display indiscriminate enthusiasm for the trashy film, the expensive but bad meal in the French restaurant, the serious drink and the love-making taken like medicine as “sex”. Schiller’s dictum that “Life’s good, in spite of all”, papier-machér from the start, has become idiocy now that it is blown into the same trumpet as omnipresent advertising, with psychoanalysis, despite its better possibilities, adding its fuel to the flames. As people have altogether too few inhibitions and not too many, without being a whit the healthier for it, a cathartic method with a standard other than successful adaptation and economic success would have to aim at bringing people to a consciousness of unhappiness both general and - inseparable from it - personal, and at depriving them of the illusory gratifications by which the abominable order keeps a second hold on life inside them, as if it did not already have them firmly enough in its power from outside. Only when sated with false pleasure, disgusted with the goods offered, dimly aware of the inadequacy of happiness even when it is that - to say nothing of cases where it is bought by abandoning allegedly morbid resistance to its positive surrogate - can men gain an idea of what experience might be. The admonitions to be happy, voiced in concert by the scientifically epicurean sanatorium-director and the highly-strung propaganda chiefs of the entertainment-industry, have about them the fury of the father berating his children for not rushing joyously downstairs when he comes home irritable from his office. It is part of the mechanism of domination to forbid recognition of the suffering it produces, and there is a straight line of development between the gospel of happiness and the construction of camps of extermination so far off in Poland that each of our own countrymen can convince himself that he cannot hear the screams of pain. That is the model of an unhampered capacity for happiness. He who calls it by its name will be told gloatingly by psycho-analysis that it is just his Oedipus complex."

Text: Theodor W. Adorno, Minima moralia
Image: Portrait of Eddie Davis, Leon and Eddie's, New York, 1948

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