Comments on: Don’t ‘Should’ http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2007/12/27/dont-should/ Thu, 20 May 2010 00:42:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Suzette http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2007/12/27/dont-should/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Suzette Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:56:15 +0000 http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2007/12/27/dont-should/#comment-442 Yhea...I call it a "Declaration of one's Independence." I've been practicing it for the last several years. Not doing things out of obligation, I love the concept. Time is going going gone and you can't get it back, so spend it how you want to is my thinking. Yhea…I call it a “Declaration of one’s Independence.” I’ve been practicing it for the last several years. Not doing things out of obligation, I love the concept. Time is going going gone and you can’t get it back, so spend it how you want to is my thinking.

]]> By: Pete http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2007/12/27/dont-should/comment-page-1/#comment-429 Pete Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:06:10 +0000 http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2007/12/27/dont-should/#comment-429 I agree completely, and you definitely put it more accurately than I did. I like to boil things down, so while I meant everything you said, what I wrote was "Don't Should." The key here is to think about what you're saying and MEAN it when you say something (unless it's obvious that you're just messing around). That includes the commitments you make to other people. Of course I'm not suggesting you be a dick to people; there's certainly room for tact and consideration of others' feelings in this philosophy. I just want people to generally give more thought to EVERY aspect of their lives, and thinking about why they do what they do is just another area to think about. I agree completely, and you definitely put it more accurately than I did. I like to boil things down, so while I meant everything you said, what I wrote was “Don’t Should.”

The key here is to think about what you’re saying and MEAN it when you say something (unless it’s obvious that you’re just messing around). That includes the commitments you make to other people. Of course I’m not suggesting you be a dick to people; there’s certainly room for tact and consideration of others’ feelings in this philosophy. I just want people to generally give more thought to EVERY aspect of their lives, and thinking about why they do what they do is just another area to think about.

]]> By: Adam Donaghey http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2007/12/27/dont-should/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Adam Donaghey Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:55:44 +0000 http://www.cowtownchronicles.com/2007/12/27/dont-should/#comment-422 I suppose the specific emotions one materially presupposes upon the expression "should do" solely depends on that individual's existentialist understanding of self and environment, spirituality, and virtue. Philosophically speaking, if we simply haven't thought about what we really <i>mean</i> when we communicate with others, we've really done a disservice to our listeners. That being said, it seems that, to a thoughtful person, the ideas of "should do" and "want to do" can certainly coexist, in an environment where the existentialist issues stated above have been extensively contemplated. If one feels a sense of responsibility to be virtuous and true in an environment where he's dealing also with others and his physical surroundings, then it seems this person will likely be more drawn to "should do"--not in the crude sense, necessarily, that that's what he's expected to do--but because he's compelled to do the right thing because, for lack of any other reason, he wants to. I suppose the specific emotions one materially presupposes upon the expression “should do” solely depends on that individual’s existentialist understanding of self and environment, spirituality, and virtue. Philosophically speaking, if we simply haven’t thought about what we really mean when we communicate with others, we’ve really done a disservice to our listeners. That being said, it seems that, to a thoughtful person, the ideas of “should do” and “want to do” can certainly coexist, in an environment where the existentialist issues stated above have been extensively contemplated. If one feels a sense of responsibility to be virtuous and true in an environment where he’s dealing also with others and his physical surroundings, then it seems this person will likely be more drawn to “should do”–not in the crude sense, necessarily, that that’s what he’s expected to do–but because he’s compelled to do the right thing because, for lack of any other reason, he wants to.

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