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#12: If You Record It, Will They Listen?

eric — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 07:28:37 +0000

“But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will.”

Teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it?

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish.

Show notes:

This episode we’ll be talking about:

In a free hour, when our power of choice is
Untrammelled and when nothing prevents
Our being able to do what we like best every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided
But in certain circumstances and owing to the
Claims of duty or the obligations of
Business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be
Repudiated and annoyances accepted.

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#10: These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish

eric — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 07:24:58 +0000

“But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will.”

Show notes:

This episode we’ll be talking about:

In a free hour, when our power of choice is
Untrammelled and when nothing prevents
Our being able to do what we like best every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided
But in certain circumstances and owing to the
Claims of duty or the obligations of
Business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be
Repudiated and annoyances accepted.

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#9: Will give you a complete account of the system and actual teachings

eric — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 07:13:09 +0000

“But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will.”

Show notes:

This episode we’ll be talking about:

In a free hour, when our power of choice is
Untrammelled and when nothing prevents
Our being able to do what we like best every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided
But in certain circumstances and owing to the
Claims of duty or the obligations of
Business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be
Repudiated and annoyances accepted.

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#8: Complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings

eric — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 07:10:39 +0000

“But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will.”

Show notes:

This episode we’ll be talking about:

In a free hour, when our power of choice is
Untrammelled and when nothing prevents
Our being able to do what we like best every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided
But in certain circumstances and owing to the
Claims of duty or the obligations of
Business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be
Repudiated and annoyances accepted.

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#7 Because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil

eric — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 07:05:23 +0000

“But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will.”

Show notes:

This episode we’ll be talking about:

In a free hour, when our power of choice is
Untrammelled and when nothing prevents
Our being able to do what we like best every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided
But in certain circumstances and owing to the
Claims of duty or the obligations of
Business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be
Repudiated and annoyances accepted.

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#2: Seven books every creative should have read

eric — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:39:43 +0000

“But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will.”

Show notes:

This episode we’ll be talking about:

In a free hour, when our power of choice is
Untrammelled and when nothing prevents
Our being able to do what we like best every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided
But in certain circumstances and owing to the
Claims of duty or the obligations of
Business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be
Repudiated and annoyances accepted.

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