(August 4, 2014 at 4:22 pm)Diablo Wrote: I don't know quite what to make of this. Personally, I wouldn't equate emotional well-being with pleasure. The former would include satisfaction, contentment, achievement of targets, the regard of others, and such things. Pleasure seems to be such a lonely thing, self-gratification mostly. Maybe you could summarise the difference by comparing making love with someone to masterbation.
As Cross says, small kindnesses are important, and so, for example, is the opportunity to help people in their careers, which I've been fortunate to be able to do.
Spread the love.
I think this is spot on. Perhaps the OP means pleasure in such a way that it includes satisfaction, the achievement of goals, etc. but that is not clear from the posts. Your distinction between making love and masturbating is apropos.
I encourage Mozart Link to step away from the anime long enough to read some Viktor Frankl. To paraphrase Frankl (who borrowed it from Nietzsche): A person can endure almost any "what" provided he has a "why." And Frankl was a Holocaust survivor -- a damned bit harder than watching videos, pulling on one's pecker, and moaning about a lack of "pleasure."
