Topic: What is it like to feel empathy?
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q started this discussion 13 years ago #27,498
Can you describe how it feels to have empathy for me?
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 3 minutes later[^] [v] #411,458
i want to beat you up
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 12 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #411,461
op
> Can you describe how it feels to have empathy for me?
Maybe the same as the younger rag head bomber rolling over the older bro with the suv. My image of you is about the same as that.
> Can you describe how it feels to have empathy for me?
Maybe the same as the younger rag head bomber rolling over the older bro with the suv. My image of you is about the same as that.
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 8 minutes later, 24 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #411,463
@411,458 (B)
hi ninjj :3
rawr >:3
@previous (C)
Why are you so upset? Also, hi Leonidas.
hi ninjj :3
rawr >:3
@previous (C)
Why are you so upset? Also, hi Leonidas.
(Edited 1 minute later.)
Anonymous C replied with this 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 32 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #411,467
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 35 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #411,468
@previous (C)
I did not ask you to describe your empathy towards me, but for you to describe to me what it feels like to have empathy.
I did not ask you to describe your empathy towards me, but for you to describe to me what it feels like to have empathy.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 20 minutes later, 56 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #411,474
Broadly
Empathy is the capacity to recognize and possibly feel the emotions that are being experienced by another. One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to experience accurate sympathy or compassion. The English word was coined in 1909 by the psychologist Edward B. Titchener in an attempt to translate the German word "Einfühlungsvermögen", a new phenomenon explored at the end of 19th century mainly by philosopher Theodor Lipps. It was later re-translated into the German language as "Empathie", and is still in use there.
"I feel what you feel" - "I know what you are feeling" - "I feel for you"
Empathy is the capacity to recognize and possibly feel the emotions that are being experienced by another. One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to experience accurate sympathy or compassion. The English word was coined in 1909 by the psychologist Edward B. Titchener in an attempt to translate the German word "Einfühlungsvermögen", a new phenomenon explored at the end of 19th century mainly by philosopher Theodor Lipps. It was later re-translated into the German language as "Empathie", and is still in use there.
"I feel what you feel" - "I know what you are feeling" - "I feel for you"
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 15 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #411,487
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 55 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #411,489
Anonymous C replied with this 13 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #411,497
@411,468 (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
> Can you describe how it feels to have empathy for me?
> I did not ask you to describe your empathy towards me, but for you to describe to me what it feels like to have empathy.
Walter you Autistic.
> Can you describe how it feels to have empathy for me?
> I did not ask you to describe your empathy towards me, but for you to describe to me what it feels like to have empathy.
Walter you Autistic.
Anonymous D replied with this 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #411,504
@411,487 (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
Often referred to as having no fellow feelings.
I find it difficult to put into words but empathy is rather like those occasions when people burst into tears or screw up in embarrassment at a scene from a film; not in sympathy but rather from "feeling" or being in the place of, the character concerned.
Often referred to as having no fellow feelings.
I find it difficult to put into words but empathy is rather like those occasions when people burst into tears or screw up in embarrassment at a scene from a film; not in sympathy but rather from "feeling" or being in the place of, the character concerned.
kook !!32zdfdzi+ joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #411,506
Its a feeling of understanding their pain, because you've been through it yourself.
Anonymous E replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #411,507
@411,497 (C)
He's a psychopath not an autist. They show a holocaust film and he dances.
http://www.scatchan.net/topic/26119#reply_200787
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> Sounds like a reference to Nickel and Dimed.
>
> I was quite the cheeky little cunt during my middle school years, but that quickly changed during my high school years as I was allowed to pass the time with video games and music instead of bullying. And I had therapy treatment.
> 1. I let my dog loose on a girl because she was bitten by a pitbull as a child.
> 2. I went to court because my GF got mad at me and I won (she was mostly angry because I took her virginity and because I made angry calls to her phone to get her to stay away from my friends) (this was the only thing that falls on this list outside my middle school life)
> 3. I danced in class whenever a holocaust movie was played
> 4. I threw a chair at the school's crazy cat lady girl and tormented her throughout my middle school years to pass the time
> 5. I got into several fights in school and even snuck behind my enemy and punched him in the side of the head and he fell to the floor unconscious
> 6. Whenever I get in trouble, I don't feel guilty for doing wrong, but I do get worked up about getting caught
> 7. I got my first girlfriend by bullying her and isolating her and then complimenting her on some mundane shit and gave her some of my friends.
> 8. When I found a mouse stuck on a sticky pad in my friend's house, I killed it by pouring lye on its face. It died of the fumes but man was the squirming funny
> 9. I would always report the black kids for drug use at school
> 10. I got my first suspension because someone reported me for calling a black kid a nigger. I convinced my mother that such was a false accusation but I took advantage of the suspension because that was better than being in the shitty middle school
> 11. I would get in trouble on the bus for making fun of the half-blind slut
> 12. I swiped my friend's money because he left it on his desk and had to go to the bathroom. I gave it back and called him an idiot for leaving it out there
> 13. I loved to start fires. I would be overjoyed to be allowed to chop wood because I knew that would go to the camp fire. Building a fire from the kindling to the coals to the firewood was just plain fun.
> 14. I kicked the door down to the house because I had to go pee
> 15. I nicknamed a black kid Donkey Kong because my first girlfriend liked to call him a nigger and that would get her in trouble
> 16. I tried to get affiliated with the anarchists at school but I grew to hate their anti-racist nonsense so I befriended the skinheads and the jocks
> 17. My grandfather skipped out on my father and his mother because he wanted to drink and play pool all day
> 18. My great-grandfather fought in the Wehrmacht
> 19. Me and my classmates locked the Chinese math teacher, and she was young and had a thick accent, out of her room a lot. We'd raid her closet and steal her money and her candy rewards and we threw her car keys out the window. A kid smoked a bowl in that class and she was completely clueless. She never returned for the next year.
> 20. I hate my brother. He is an abusive, drunken shithead that used to beat me and treat me like shit. He went crazy from schizophrenia and medication and he tried to kill himself in the garage by running the van until he suffocated. I don't know why I saved him, because now I may have to share inheritance money with him when my parents finally die off
> 21. Most of my family members are alcoholic sociopaths and it seems like I will be no different :(
> 22. My grandfather got arrested for incest
> 23. My great-grandfather used to be an alcoholic marine that abused his family members and was pretty much hated by them until he quit alcohol
> EDIT: looking through this thread, my post seems to be the only one that could be classified as "edgy" LOL
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He's a psychopath not an autist. They show a holocaust film and he dances.
http://www.scatchan.net/topic/26119#reply_200787
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> Sounds like a reference to Nickel and Dimed.
>
> I was quite the cheeky little cunt during my middle school years, but that quickly changed during my high school years as I was allowed to pass the time with video games and music instead of bullying. And I had therapy treatment.
> 1. I let my dog loose on a girl because she was bitten by a pitbull as a child.
> 2. I went to court because my GF got mad at me and I won (she was mostly angry because I took her virginity and because I made angry calls to her phone to get her to stay away from my friends) (this was the only thing that falls on this list outside my middle school life)
> 3. I danced in class whenever a holocaust movie was played
> 4. I threw a chair at the school's crazy cat lady girl and tormented her throughout my middle school years to pass the time
> 5. I got into several fights in school and even snuck behind my enemy and punched him in the side of the head and he fell to the floor unconscious
> 6. Whenever I get in trouble, I don't feel guilty for doing wrong, but I do get worked up about getting caught
> 7. I got my first girlfriend by bullying her and isolating her and then complimenting her on some mundane shit and gave her some of my friends.
> 8. When I found a mouse stuck on a sticky pad in my friend's house, I killed it by pouring lye on its face. It died of the fumes but man was the squirming funny
> 9. I would always report the black kids for drug use at school
> 10. I got my first suspension because someone reported me for calling a black kid a nigger. I convinced my mother that such was a false accusation but I took advantage of the suspension because that was better than being in the shitty middle school
> 11. I would get in trouble on the bus for making fun of the half-blind slut
> 12. I swiped my friend's money because he left it on his desk and had to go to the bathroom. I gave it back and called him an idiot for leaving it out there
> 13. I loved to start fires. I would be overjoyed to be allowed to chop wood because I knew that would go to the camp fire. Building a fire from the kindling to the coals to the firewood was just plain fun.
> 14. I kicked the door down to the house because I had to go pee
> 15. I nicknamed a black kid Donkey Kong because my first girlfriend liked to call him a nigger and that would get her in trouble
> 16. I tried to get affiliated with the anarchists at school but I grew to hate their anti-racist nonsense so I befriended the skinheads and the jocks
> 17. My grandfather skipped out on my father and his mother because he wanted to drink and play pool all day
> 18. My great-grandfather fought in the Wehrmacht
> 19. Me and my classmates locked the Chinese math teacher, and she was young and had a thick accent, out of her room a lot. We'd raid her closet and steal her money and her candy rewards and we threw her car keys out the window. A kid smoked a bowl in that class and she was completely clueless. She never returned for the next year.
> 20. I hate my brother. He is an abusive, drunken shithead that used to beat me and treat me like shit. He went crazy from schizophrenia and medication and he tried to kill himself in the garage by running the van until he suffocated. I don't know why I saved him, because now I may have to share inheritance money with him when my parents finally die off
> 21. Most of my family members are alcoholic sociopaths and it seems like I will be no different :(
> 22. My grandfather got arrested for incest
> 23. My great-grandfather used to be an alcoholic marine that abused his family members and was pretty much hated by them until he quit alcohol
> EDIT: looking through this thread, my post seems to be the only one that could be classified as "edgy" LOL
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Anonymous D replied with this 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #411,509
You won't find a great deal of empathy on these Forums. lolol
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 19 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #411,517
@411,506 (kook !!32zdfdzi+)
I can feel some empathy then. I just can't feel sympathy.
@411,507 (E)
*sociopath
Thanks.
http://voices.yahoo.com/sociopath-vs-psychopath-there-difference-1906224.html?cat=72
I can feel some empathy then. I just can't feel sympathy.
@411,507 (E)
*sociopath
Thanks.
http://voices.yahoo.com/sociopath-vs-psychopath-there-difference-1906224.html?cat=72
Anonymous D replied with this 13 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,520
@previous (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
You probably can. I am sure there are situations where some one you love including an animal is hurt or sad or in trouble where you feel bad for them or want to hold or hug them.
You probably can. I am sure there are situations where some one you love including an animal is hurt or sad or in trouble where you feel bad for them or want to hold or hug them.
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 43 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,521
@411,504 (D)
I cannot feel empathy for that, but I can feel empathy for those whose scenarios I can relate to.
I cannot feel empathy for that, but I can feel empathy for those whose scenarios I can relate to.
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) double-posted this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,523
@411,520 (D)
That would be empathy, because we have all been hurt. That I can recognize and, to a limited extent, feel. I can't feel sympathy.
That would be empathy, because we have all been hurt. That I can recognize and, to a limited extent, feel. I can't feel sympathy.
Anonymous E replied with this 13 years ago, 18 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,529
@previous (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
Nagato (Japanese guy) said that you can only truly understand someone else when you've experienced the same pain they have.
Nagato (Japanese guy) said that you can only truly understand someone else when you've experienced the same pain they have.
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@411,517 (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
> I can feel some empathy then. I just can't feel sympathy.
>
> *sociopath
> Thanks.
> http://voices.yahoo.com/sociopath-vs-psychopath-there-difference-1906224.html?cat=72
I'm guessing you pulled that response from Sherlock, but regardless, you're retarded.
They mean the same thing (Source) , so don't bother correcting people about it. And you're neither.
Walter, you exhibit attention-seeking behavior, and are trying to be edgy by playing the cold, rational man, when in fact you just want to feel special like the characters you imitate.
> I can feel some empathy then. I just can't feel sympathy.
>
> *sociopath
> Thanks.
> http://voices.yahoo.com/sociopath-vs-psychopath-there-difference-1906224.html?cat=72
I'm guessing you pulled that response from Sherlock, but regardless, you're retarded.
They mean the same thing (Source) , so don't bother correcting people about it. And you're neither.
Walter, you exhibit attention-seeking behavior, and are trying to be edgy by playing the cold, rational man, when in fact you just want to feel special like the characters you imitate.
(Edited 31 seconds later.)
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,532
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) double-posted this 13 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,533
I had to go through years of therapy to be able to grasp the basic concepts of empathy, and yet I still can't feel it naturally.
Anonymous E replied with this 13 years ago, 9 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,539
@previous (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
Do you have any bloodlines of European royalty? David Icke says that the royal families of Europe, Asia, and North Africa had empathy bred out of them, he literally said, "bred out of them".
Do you have any bloodlines of European royalty? David Icke says that the royal families of Europe, Asia, and North Africa had empathy bred out of them, he literally said, "bred out of them".
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 6 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,542
@411,529 (E)
Pretty much.
@411,530 (D)
What need is there to say such an empty word? I just say it out of reflex because it was drilled into my head as a child along with 'please' and 'thank you'.
@previous (E)
I may have some knightly ancestors, but I have absolutely no royalty.
Pretty much.
@411,530 (D)
What need is there to say such an empty word? I just say it out of reflex because it was drilled into my head as a child along with 'please' and 'thank you'.
@previous (E)
I may have some knightly ancestors, but I have absolutely no royalty.
!KThEOwLwbU joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 50 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,554
so is this your new shtick then
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HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,569
Fuck right off.
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postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,585
It's a weird feeling in your stomach, like you're feeling someone else's feeling but swallowed and at about 50 percent. Almost like if you dream about falling down, that feeling, is like empathy for someone else falling down. Like you're aware of the feeling, but it's obviously not the same as the real one.
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 31 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,590
@previous (postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs)
http://minichan.org/rules
Never use the board while drunk, "high", very tired or in any other way "unfocused" or "out of your mind". Also, never let anyone else use your ID. You are solely responsible for what is posted using it, and it is far from sure that you will be believed when you blame a troll post on your "stupid little brother" or "idiot friends".
So put down the bong and go to sleep before you fucking post such drug-induced drivel.
http://minichan.org/rules
Never use the board while drunk, "high", very tired or in any other way "unfocused" or "out of your mind". Also, never let anyone else use your ID. You are solely responsible for what is posted using it, and it is far from sure that you will be believed when you blame a troll post on your "stupid little brother" or "idiot friends".
So put down the bong and go to sleep before you fucking post such drug-induced drivel.
postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs replied with this 13 years ago, 14 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,593
totally sober, for real.
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,594
postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs replied with this 13 years ago, 14 hours later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,697
@previous (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
No, I'm trying to explain internally what it feels like. It feels like having the same experience someone else is, but much less so, like in a dream.
No, I'm trying to explain internally what it feels like. It feels like having the same experience someone else is, but much less so, like in a dream.
Anonymous I replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,699
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #411,723
@411,697 (postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs)
So it is like feeling their emotion but not as strongly. That seems rather odd to try to imagine.
So it is like feeling their emotion but not as strongly. That seems rather odd to try to imagine.
postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs replied with this 13 years ago, 18 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,730
@previous (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
Just like experiencing something in a dream. That's completely foreign to you?
Just like experiencing something in a dream. That's completely foreign to you?
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,735
@previous (postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs)
The thing is that I experience my dreams in first-person. I feel pain in a dream as if it were real, until I wake up that is. I guess this would be like trying to describe the color red to a blind person.
The thing is that I experience my dreams in first-person. I feel pain in a dream as if it were real, until I wake up that is. I guess this would be like trying to describe the color red to a blind person.
postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs replied with this 13 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,736
@previous (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
Your dreams sound scary as shit. My dreams are usually 3rd person, and very detached. But you're right, it's something you need to experience to really grasp.
Your dreams sound scary as shit. My dreams are usually 3rd person, and very detached. But you're right, it's something you need to experience to really grasp.
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HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,761
@411,736 (postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs)
I am often fooled by my dreams. They feel very real to me, and I often wake up being stung by bees in my dreams.
I am often fooled by my dreams. They feel very real to me, and I often wake up being stung by bees in my dreams.
postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,773
@previous (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
I've had a lot of bee sting dreams, especially when I was a kid, my dreams were much more realistic then. Do you ever have a hard time distinguishing real life from the dream world?
I've had a lot of bee sting dreams, especially when I was a kid, my dreams were much more realistic then. Do you ever have a hard time distinguishing real life from the dream world?
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 54 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,774
@previous (postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs)
I cannot discern the dream from reality while I am dreaming. It feels completely real.
I cannot discern the dream from reality while I am dreaming. It feels completely real.
Anonymous E replied with this 13 years ago, 25 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,784
Anyone else have alien abduction dreams?
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,786
@previous (E)
http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictionarysearch.pl?method=exact&header=dreamsymbol&search=alien
http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictionarysearch.pl?method=exact&header=dreamsymbol&search=alien
postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs replied with this 13 years ago, 45 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,791
@411,774 (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
Your life is scary, good thing you're a sociopath otherwise you'd probably shit yourself with fear.
Your life is scary, good thing you're a sociopath otherwise you'd probably shit yourself with fear.
HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,792
@previous (postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs)
Oh, please. My life is easy. Shitting yourself with fear comes from traveling through Detroit, Southfield or Pontiac.
Oh, please. My life is easy. Shitting yourself with fear comes from traveling through Detroit, Southfield or Pontiac.
postmortem !nZ1lBgbHQs replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #411,812
@previous (HaikerensGuide !0VegJ9Jl.Q)
I'm glad you don't take yourself too seriously. Yeah, there are some places downtown here where cops just are on the outside advising people to just not go in there.
I'm glad you don't take yourself too seriously. Yeah, there are some places downtown here where cops just are on the outside advising people to just not go in there.