In the mood

[andrewducker]

Several people have responded to the two sex posts saying "Well, it's not all the time, just when in the right mood, with the right people, under the right conditions."

Is there _anything_ this isn't true of? It's true of sex, of board games, of drugs, of movies - everything really. Human beings are not simple input/output systems - we have moods and feelings; of course our enjoyment of anything depends on dozens of different variables.

As Timothy Leary once said about drugs:

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key - it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures. The nature of the experience depends almost entirely on set and setting. Set denotes the preparation of the individual, including his personality structure and his mood at the time. Setting is physical - the weather, the room's atmosphere; social - feelings of persons present towards one another; and cultural - prevailing views as to what is real.

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[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

And as someone else once said about computers: "I gave up drugs for computers because unlike drugs, (and people?:), computers keep getting better and better."