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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (71176)7/31/2003 1:22:09 PM
From: Lane3  Respond to of 82486
 
Wouldn't it be more sympathy then empathy?

I don't think so because I am not identifying with what the spider feels--he probably doesn't feel anything--but with what I would feel were I in an analogous situation. It's an interesting question, though. I surely had never given it any thought until this discussion. I always figured I just never outgrew that part of my childhood sensitivity, in part, and in part because I'm a Buddhist at heart. <g>



To: TimF who wrote (71176)7/31/2003 1:24:36 PM
From: Solon  Respond to of 82486
 
I know where Karen is coming from, but I think you are technically correct here...

What she is really feeling is not empathy for the bug but empathy for the sense of the universal "desire" to survive. In the case of the bug...there is an "urge" to survive even if it is foreign to our sense. Perhaps Karen taps into this primordial yearning.


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