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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8x14cLGh5o&eurl= http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Empathy 1. the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another. 2. the imaginative ascribing to an object, as a natural object or work of art, feelings or attitudes present in oneself: By means of empathy, a great painting becomes a mirror of the self. Words words words Which meaning is meant?
Why not Sympathy? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Sympathy 1. harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another. 2. the harmony of feeling naturally existing between persons of like tastes or opinion or of congenial dispositions. 3. the fact or power of sharing the feelings of another, esp. in sorrow or trouble; fellow feeling, compassion, or commiseration. 4. sympathies, a. feelings or impulses of compassion. b. feelings of favor, support, or loyalty: It's hard to tell where your sympathies lie. 5. favorable or approving accord; favor or approval: He viewed the plan with sympathy and publicly backed it. 6. agreement, consonance, or accord. 7. Psychology. a relationship between persons in which the condition of one induces a parallel or reciprocal condition in another. 8. Physiology. the relation between parts or organs whereby a condition or disorder of one part induces some effect in another. –adjective 9. expressing sympathy: a sympathy card; a sympathy vote. I pity the poor fool who doesn't know the difference between PITY and Sympathy. Stay current: Don't be the kid (immature person) left behind. I can empathize with someone who thinks that Pity and Empathy are the same thing because that condition is contradictory, duplicitous, contrary, disagreeable, and leads to internal and external conflict. I can empathize with someone who thinks that Pity, Empathy, and Sympathy are one and the same thing because I’ve been there and I’ve done that and it was a pitiful existence. I can now sympathize with someone who knows better because there is much harmony, much agreement, and much more reason to be reasonable once agreement is agreeable. Freedom from confusion is a sympathetic cause for agreement. Kids can be trained. Kids can be trained to think for themselves. There is a difference. Are you Empathetic to my condition? |
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