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Originally posted by irishcream
hmm...this is an interesting debate...
I mean, if i've known someone for a long, long time, i can usually understand why i'm so empathic to their situation.
Example of something that happened just this evening.
A friend of mine and I had an argument, over something really silly. I've known this person for nearly three years, and i can just tell as soon as they walk in the room, that something might not be right, if it isn't.
So, we had this row. But when we'd calmed down, i felt terrible, and i could tell, without even looking at him that he was feeling as terrible as i was!
I put that down to having spent enough time around him to have learned what makes him tick.
Now flip the coin.
Someone i've known for not even half that time. Someone i've never met. Yet i can sense what they are thinking 80% of the time, to the point that i've thought it before they've said it.
I feel their emotions with the same intensity they feel mine...
And this is the bit i can't explain.
So, what is Empathy based on?
The Power of Knowledge? or can there really be such deep connections between people, that have no real explanation, but they are nevertheless real?
Yes... I don't know what people are so insistent upon skirting around the more parapsychological explanations. It is almost not supernatural anymore, what people can sense about other people.