I have discerned a difference between pleasure and bliss. Plea-sure, a word composed of two semantic structures I equally recoil from, seems to involve a profit, which entails a loss, thus setting up a dynamic of exploitation. Bliss seems to bypass the winner-loser scenario and cut to the chase, discarding illusory perceptions of value and worth in favor of the real deal. Plea-sure seems like a mechanism of control rather than the liberating experience of bliss, a state of consciousness I would deem to be of great value and worth. Last time I checked, pleading meant entering evidence of one's 'winnerness' in an argument, and simultaneously claiming the 'loserness' of the other, in the dispute. And being sure of things has only taught me how little I really know. I see pleasure like a poison smeared on the neck of a starved super-model, while bliss has similarities to a cozy cuddle or a loving back massage. Pleasure = Profit with an attached loss (i.e. exploitation) ; Bliss = that old serpents hiss.