Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: What is commitment? Comments on -Sex Message-ID: <1133@peora.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:51:04 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1133 Posted: Sun Jun 30 00:51:04 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 08:05:19 EDT References: <2814@decwrl.UUCP> <2880@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 25 [Referenced article is a very wise and accurate (my opinion) discussion of marriage and commitment.] People use this word "commitment" in strange and wondrous ways. I think that is a big portion of the problem. What DOES "commitment" mean? "Commitment" is, in my opinion, a word characterizing one of those dualistic personality properties we talked about awhile back with regard to the Myers-Briggs test. "Commitment" is a J-word. If you goto the dictionary (something I usually don't do when dealing with semantics, but this is a slippery word) you find only "to pledge, as to a principle", or "to give in trust", as definitions of "commit," and "commitment" is just the noun. This is not a whole lot of help, since that makes "commitment" a synonym for "marriage". So, let's try to define "commitment" before we start trying to arbitrate human behavior in terms of it... -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Real ists don't use Kodachrome."