Maybe you should read things a little more closely. The claim was 'I am an empath'. Different from being empathetic and different from empathy.
I am well aware of all three versions and their differences. I did however learn during this round of exchanges that evidently if one is a true empath, they feel everything without filtering. I have a hard time accepting that, but I'm not going to quibble with this technicality. Just saying that to feel everything is either impossible or disabling.
You can easily look up the word empathy if you're not sure what it means.
Maybe you should read things a little more closely. The claim was 'I am an empath'. Different from being empathetic and different from empathy.
I am well aware of all three versions and their differences. I did however learn during this round of exchanges that evidently if one is a true empath, they feel everything without filtering. I have a hard time accepting that, but I'm not going to quibble with this technicality. Just saying that to feel everything is either impossible or disabling.
the problem with most empaths is that they only feel what they want and ignore the rest.
but that is also true of most people.
Contrary to this theory, empaths feel everything. If we only felt what we want to feel, life would be divine! An empath feels energy being pumped out at them from everyone around them. All kinds of energy. Sort of like walking into a swarm of bees. We cannot select which bee stings to feel! Thinking, on the other hand is highly selective. We do chose what to think.
Wrong, Kurt, that would not make you & others who support Trump misogynistic, racist human train wrecks....just that you support someone like that for the office of the presidency. I might consider you misguided, but that's just IMHO.
What should you call "people like you "? You might also consider me misguided since I don't support your candidate. Fair enough.
Nazi's? That's a pretty worn out epitath, wouldn't you agree?
Saviour's? I know it's Easter, but that's hardly relevant to the discourse. You're an adult and any saving that might be in order (and I'm not saying there is by any means) is between you and your higher power, as you understand that to be.
I'm sorry you think those of us who revile Trump would wish death upon his supporters. I would think after all these years you might know most of us here better than that. I'll just assign that to the anger you feel at what you see as the state of the country that seems to be at the root of Trump's campaign among his supporters. Fair enough, things are indeed messed up. We likely disagree at who is responsible for that, but nonetheless share the notion.
Please forgive my old school, hippie-looking-through-rose-colored-granny-glasses sentiment when I say...peace, brother.
Hitler and nazi's have been tossed around here like candy and beads at Mardi Gras lately. I am only expressing thoughts that have been widely posted lately.
I am not saying all that oppose Trump wish his supporters dead, just some based upon thoughts expressed.
There is a world of difference between being misguided and deliberately hateful and intolerant, imho.
As I have been told repeatedly here by many, oppose policies, not personalities.
Wrong, Kurt, that would not make you & others who support Trump misogynistic, racist human train wrecks....just that you support someone like that for the office of the presidency. I might consider you misguided, but that's just IMHO.
What should you call "people like you "? You might also consider me misguided since I don't support your candidate. Fair enough.
Nazi's? That's a pretty worn out epitath, wouldn't you agree?
Saviour's? I know it's Easter, but that's hardly relevant to the discourse. You're an adult and any saving that might be in order (and I'm not saying there is by any means) is between you and your higher power, as you understand that to be.
I'm sorry you think those of us who revile Trump would wish death upon his supporters. I would think after all these years you might know most of us here better than that. I'll just assign that to the anger you feel at what you see as the state of the country that seems to be at the root of Trump's campaign among his supporters. Fair enough, things are indeed messed up. We likely disagree at who is responsible for that, but nonetheless share the notion.
Please forgive my old school, hippie-looking-through-rose-colored-granny-glasses sentiment when I say...peace, brother.
Mexico is mounting an unprecedented effort to turn its permanent residents in the U.S. into citizens, a status that would enable them to vote — presumably against Donald Trump.
Officially, Mexico says it respects U.S. sovereignty and has no strategy to influence the result of the presidential race. Yet Mexican diplomats are mobilizing for the first time to assist immigrants in gaining U.S. citizenship, hosting free workshops on naturalization. "This is a historic moment where the Mexican consulate will open its doors to carry out these types of events in favor of the Mexican community," Adrian Sosa, a spokesman for the consulate in Chicago, said before an event on March 19. In Dallas, about 250 permanent residents attended the consulate’s first "citizenship clinic" in February and another 150 in its second in March. In Las Vegas, the turnout topped 500.
When asked this week about how he would approach foreign policy, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told MSNBC, "I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain, and I’ve said a lot of things." He also announced his lineup of little-known foreign policy advisers, including Joseph Schmitz, a former Pentagon inspector general with ties to the Center for Security Policy, who was forced out of his job amid accusations that he protected high-level officials in the George W. Bush administration who were suspected of wrongdoing. We get reaction from The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill, who notes Schmitz is a radical Christian supremacist with an "insane worldview" who was a former executive with Blackwater.
