@Galiant: Basically, this is how I feel:
I enjoy driving, but driving has a purpose. It brings satisfaction, but it also improves my skill and gets me where I need to go.
I work at a soup kitchen and I enjoy it, but it's not entertaining. Again, it brings me satisfaction, and it rejuvenates me for the following work week. It re-creates me, if you will. It improves me as a person.
I also enjoy the films Funny Games and A Clockwork Orange. They are very uncomfortable movies to watch, and far from entertaining to me, but they cause me to examine my worldview, and so to improve and solidify my beliefs.
But I also really like Dirty Harry, the Rooster Teeth stuff, System Shock 2, Halo, and Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies. The difference is that this "entertainment" hasn't improved me. I really enjoy it, but it hasn't changed me for the better; it hasn't been proper recreation.
Within everything I enjoy, I draw a line between that which improves me mentally, physically, or spiritually, and that which doesn't. If it adds to my skills or personhood, I consider it recreative. If not, it's entertaining.
Again, this is how I choose to examine and label the occupations vying for my time; I don't expect other people to agree or follow suit.
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