No it's not.
I'm not sure you can disprove empathy anymore than you can disprove love.
Looks like a false equivalence to me. One is real, the other isn't- I'm just warning people about the one that isn't. I don't need to disprove anything.
It's downright popular these days though. Almost as popular as autism, attention deficit disorder, PTSD and introversion combined.
I think you and he are talking about different kinds of empathy.
It's pretty crazy because if you look up the coining of the term, it was about someone projecting their feelings onto a piece of artwork. I think now, it's just people conjuring up feelings that they think someone is feeling and projecting them onto that person, and then saying "I feel what they feel". Except they don't. Like if somebody says "My cat died, and I am sad"; I can feel my sadness for the cat's death and that person's misfortune; but it's not the same as that person's sadness. Even if I ask creepy probing questions about their relationship with their cat to determine just exactly how sad they are in order to copy their sadness, it's still not the same.
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure tourist is talking about a different kind of empathy than that. But he thinks you are talking about his kind, so he is disagreeing with you.
If you're sleepy, shittim; then take a nap. I know the original text wasn't in English; but even the English versions were written before the term "empathy" was coined in the early 1900's. The term has only become used commonly very recently with the explosion of pop-psychology. I think there's only one version of the bible that uses the word "empathy" and they just replaced where it is normally translated "sympathy".
A lot of people call that empathy these days, but technically it is telempathy, the ability to feel what somebody else is feeling. This ability presupposes either a miracle, a mutation or a magical spell. A lot of people sure do claim this ability though.
As long as he doesn't let the sun set on his wrath he shouldn't; unless it's a bio-chem issue; but more often with Christians it is failing to turn over their indignation to God- so it turns to sorrow in their sleep, and then they can't figure out why they are so sad, even when it seems like nothing bad is happening.
the definition of love above is so monstrous in meaning. that's quite neat.The word "love" most often used in the new testament means, "seeking the highest good of the other person and doing what is possible to do to meet that need".
That is empathy. Any Christian should know this.
Jesus' command to His disciples, and if we call ourselves Christian we are His disciples, after accepting Christ as savior is to heal, cleanse, cast out, preach, etc.
Not merely to attend church once a week.
Sympathy merely feels sorry, compassion and empathy will move to alleviate the trouble.
blessings
The word "love" most often used in the new testament means, "seeking the highest good of the other person and doing what is possible to do to meet that need".
That is empathy. Any Christian should know this.
Jesus' command to His disciples, and if we call ourselves Christian we are His disciples, after accepting Christ as savior is to heal, cleanse, cast out, preach, etc.
Not merely to attend church once a week.
Sympathy merely feels sorry, compassion and empathy will move to alleviate the trouble.
blessings
Hi friend, in the Greek one word might require a paragraph to define the meaning, The word "I will" that Jesus used when the man asked "if you would, I could be healed", or thereabout, I have heard it taught the meaning of "I will" translated as "it is the very nature of who I am that you be well, whole, healed and restored".
