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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: What is commitment? Comments on -Sex
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Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:51:04 EDT
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[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...
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