What's this thread even about?
Just you sucking your own cock?
madness00 wrote:What's this thread even about?
Just you sucking your own cock?
Reaper wrote:justonemoreperson wrote:Do you have any thoughts on this?
Seems to me that there are two aspects to this:
1. Having the feeling of sympathy.
2. Recognising it for what it is.
I'm no doctor, but common sense would tell me that:
1. To feel this, the tracks have to be already laid. In other words, the person must be capable of experiencing the effect so the synaptic pathways have to exist.
2. The person must have had experience of this emotion previously, maybe as early as childhood and possibly forgotten, to be able to recognise it for what it is.
Right, but that doesn't really tell me much. It doesn't explain anything. I don't remember ever feeling empathy or sympathy for anyone in childhood. If I did on some rare occasion and forgot about it, what relevance does that have?
Anyway, I did some searching and found this:
They concluded that psychopathy is not a simple incapacity for vicarious activation but rather reduced spontaneous vicarious activation co-existing with relatively normal deliberate counterparts.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0185106315000074
It seems to indicate that psychopaths do not lack the ability to experience empathy/sympathy, but experience it less often than the average person. If the research is accurate it makes me wonder why some of you here claim to have never experienced it, ever.
I find it interesting because I strongly suspect my experience relates to it, especially since I don't normally feel empathy or sympathy and only do on rare occasions. I strongly suspect I am a psychopath and every time I read something that relates to my own experiences it seems to confirm it, but I'm not accepting the label because I still believe in proper, clinical testing.
Why am I bringing this all up? Because I'm still trying to understand myself. I'd like better understanding of why I do some of the things I do. It's interesting to me.
Fool wrote:curious about your perspective...for the sake of argument and based on what you say, obviously you fill the criteria for the word, but why is that interesting? if you think it changes anything, what is it? and if it doesn't, why is it interesting? its like a shark deciding it isn't a fish, because it's a shark
Reaper wrote:Fool wrote:curious about your perspective...for the sake of argument and based on what you say, obviously you fill the criteria for the word, but why is that interesting? if you think it changes anything, what is it? and if it doesn't, why is it interesting? its like a shark deciding it isn't a fish, because it's a shark
It's interesting to me because I'm fascinated by the human mind and how it affects human behavior (I've always been interested in behavioral science), and my own mind and behavior is more interesting to me than anyone else's.
Fool wrote:if your own mind is the most interesting of all, why are you so convinced it's any different from everyone else?
why look for answers in the external world/from other people?
thoughts, habits, feelings etc will be different, but underneath, what's the difference you see between people??
Reaper wrote:
Right, but that doesn't really tell me much. It doesn't explain anything.
justonemoreperson wrote:Telling you anything is a pointless exercise.
Keep clutching at those straws, "Reaper".
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