As I use and understand the terms, words like "immorality", "evil", and "morality" , and even "moral goodness" are all just extensions of 'shoulds' and 'oughts', which themselves are superstitions that I don't believe in.
In other words, as I use and typically interpret the terms, to say "Bob Smith is evil" is to say, "Bob Smith does things he shouldn't do" and/or "Bob Smith shouldn't be the way he is". That's what it means; that's all it means. It's not the one leads to the other, but rather that they are just synonymous words.
If you somehow use words like "evil" and "immoral" in a different way, such that a thing can be "immoral"/"evil" even if it is exactly the way it should be and it doesn't do anything it shouldn't do, then you use those words totally different than I use them or can reasonably interpret them. That's fine, but then the rest of this post does not apply to you at all. So you can just hit your back button or the X button in the upper-right.
For those still reading, let met be clear, I don't believe in 'shoulds' and 'oughts'. Accordingly, I don't believe anything happens that shouldn't happen. I don't ever look at some aspect of unchangeable reality, and resentfully think, "It shouldn't be the way it unchangably is!"
I don't believe there is anything you 'should' do. Likewise, I don't believe there is anything you 'should' not do.
For example, I neither believe you 'should' drink coffee tomorrow, nor do I believe you 'should' not drink coffee tomorrow.
The same is true of myself: I don't believe I 'should' drink coffee tomorrow; and I don't believe I 'should' not drink coffee tomorrow.
I have freedom of spirit (a.k.a. self-discipline) because I don't believe I'm bound or enslaved by any kind of 'shoulds' or 'oughts'--things I believe are imaginary phantoms.
Instead, I believe in choice. When it comes to my choices, I always get exactly what I want, meaning what I choose.
Likewise, as someone who practices the principle of fully and unconditionally accepting that which I cannot change, I absolutely don't look at things I cannot change and engage in resentful judgementalism by tossing around judgemental words like 'should' and 'ought', such as by saying things like, "That thing that happened in the past shouldn't have happened! I wish I could change the past. The past should be different than it is!", or "That thing I cannot change should not be the way it is!", or "The weather shouldn't the way it is! It should be different!".
For more on this subject, the reading material I recommend most is my book itself. In fact, I recommend everyone read it it twice. The reason for reading it a second time is explained here.
For those who have already read my book, for even more on this specific subject (i.e. the unreality of 'shoulds' and 'oughts'), I encourage you to read through all of these other topics of mine:
- To believe in an all-powerful God and think 'should-not-have-ness' exists is to therefore believe that God did a bad job
- An elaboration on how judgemental moralizing and the superstition of 'moral law' infringes on free-spirited inner peace
- I lovingly and deeply pity those who think unchangeable reality "ought" to be different than it unchangeably is.
- The Six Dangerous Misery-Inducing Words: "Must", "Have to", "Need to", "Should", "Ought", "Try"
- My Advice: Cut the **** by letting go of the shoulds. #SelfResponsibility #Freedom #SelfDiscipline #FreeSpirit
- There is no "Is-Ought Problem" because there is no 'ought'.
- Don't should on me. If you are going to should on anyone, go should on yourself.
- How Unassertiveness Leads to Aggression and the Illusion of 'Shoulds' and 'Oughts'
- Dangerous Moral Busybodies | "A tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
- Letting go of expectation | How clinging to the superstitions of expectation and blame disrupts your inner peace
Friends, I give this all to you with love, that you may choose to enjoy the wonderful consistent unwavering free-spirited inner peace (a.k.a. true happiness) and graceful powerful confidence of waking up everyday and knowing 100% that you will not encounter anything that shouldn't be the way it is and that no matter where you look--left, right, up, down, back, forward--you will never see anything unlovable or anything that shouldn't be the way it is. Everything you see will be wonderfully acceptable. It's an acceptance so full and unconditional that it warrants the word love. Everywhere you look, everything will be love-worthy, beautifully love-worthy. Every day you will be happy, deep in your spirit, such that you are effectively invincible to external circumstance. Imagine the confidence! Imagine the bravery! Imagine the pure unadulterated spiritual joy of it day-in and day-out!
Once you let go of the judgemental and/or resentful superstitions like 'should', 'ought', 'immoral', 'evil', 'to blame', or 'blame-worthy', 'hate-worthy', 'resentment-worthy' and so on, you will find a duality-transcending happiness that is infinite. It is, in a way, perhaps to make the most of consciousness itself. It is to understand and enjoy conscious appreciation to the fullest. It is to most take advantage of that thing that you have that a philosophical zombie wouldn't, to put that incredible gift to the most use. It's so incredibly wonderful it even seems to transcend words. It's a liberation beyond words. It is spiritual freedom. It's like a happiness and joy not of the body but of the spirit, stored in a place nobody can get to, meaning nobody and nothing can take that wonderful invincible spiritual joy from you. Even freedom itself seems like a word too small. It's like a type of invincibility, a happy transcendental invincibility.
With love,
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
a.k.a. Scott
In addition to having authored his book, In It Together, Eckhart Aurelius Hughes (a.k.a. Scott) runs a mentoring program, with a free option, that guarantees success. Success is guaranteed for anyone who follows the program, both for the free option and the paid option.
