Comments on: Making Purple http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:50:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: matthew http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2486 matthew Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:06:12 +0000 http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2486 I am feeling a bit better, thank you Sunflower. Having a study date last night sure helped :) I am feeling a bit better, thank you Sunflower. Having a study date last night sure helped :)

]]> By: Sunflower Desert http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2485 Sunflower Desert Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:52:58 +0000 http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2485 Hi Matthew, Well, it's a few days after your post, therefore I hope you are feeling better! Congratulations on being twitterpated. :) Hi Matthew,
Well, it’s a few days after your post, therefore I hope you are feeling better!

Congratulations on being twitterpated. :)

]]> By: matthew http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2408 matthew Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:02:52 +0000 http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2408 I do miss all my California friends. And that includes you J. I do miss all my California friends. And that includes you J.

]]> By: JPennStar http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2403 JPennStar Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:55:09 +0000 http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2403 Yeah. One is of sympathy as in, "I feel sorry for you," or "I'm sorry such a bad thing has happened." While empathy is that of experience and you feel what the other person is going through because you've been there yourself. When someone tells me they are having an allergic reaction to peanuts I can associate because I am allergic also. That's how I've always understood it. :) I honestly don't doubt you're ability to feel the pain of others even though you've not been there, many people can do it, I'm just being an ass about words because people, including yourself and my wife, always do it to me...lol... Do hope you two get better soon. Yeah. One is of sympathy as in, “I feel sorry for you,” or “I’m sorry such a bad thing has happened.” While empathy is that of experience and you feel what the other person is going through because you’ve been there yourself. When someone tells me they are having an allergic reaction to peanuts I can associate because I am allergic also. That’s how I’ve always understood it. :)

I honestly don’t doubt you’re ability to feel the pain of others even though you’ve not been there, many people can do it, I’m just being an ass about words because people, including yourself and my wife, always do it to me…lol… Do hope you two get better soon.

]]> By: matthew http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2402 matthew Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:46:48 +0000 http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2402 Weirdo I've always thought the difference between sympathize and empathize was one of experience. I'm capable of putting myself in others shoes and understanding their hurt whether or not I've actually experienced the full specifics of their situation, and I've called that empathy. Whereas sympathy always seemed to me to require a similarity of situation, such as you assume here. Looking up online I find empathy and sympathy to be direct and undefined synonyms, therefore putting the lie to my assumptions. So in the future I shall have to define myself a different word, perhaps a new word, to mean that I understand and feel similarly without exactly following your pain in its specifics. Weirdo

I’ve always thought the difference between sympathize and empathize was one of experience. I’m capable of putting myself in others shoes and understanding their hurt whether or not I’ve actually experienced the full specifics of their situation, and I’ve called that empathy. Whereas sympathy always seemed to me to require a similarity of situation, such as you assume here.

Looking up online I find empathy and sympathy to be direct and undefined synonyms, therefore putting the lie to my assumptions.

So in the future I shall have to define myself a different word, perhaps a new word, to mean that I understand and feel similarly without exactly following your pain in its specifics.

]]> By: JPennStar http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2376 JPennStar Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:17:25 +0000 http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2376 Correct me if I'm wrong here Matthew but to 'empathize' with John who is a married man would you not also have to be married? Maybe I'm splitting hairs but you are a man of your words. So either you are thinking of an occurrence with a girl, hopefully your girlfriend, or shall I say it... I shall... Your mother. Oh alas I've said it the unforgivable statement, but it is so plainly in my grasp I could not refrain. Yet knowing the nature of Matthew, at least of whom I knew, he would not do such things with girls as he is an upright man and would care for himself and not bathe in the caring affections of a woman only a wife would give; as I said he's an upright man. Which still leaves me with the later. What a conundrum! Therefore, I am left with the hope that Matthew has indeed embraced the prior. PS: Just hav'n fun you know. :) Correct me if I’m wrong here Matthew but to ‘empathize’ with John who is a married man would you not also have to be married? Maybe I’m splitting hairs but you are a man of your words. So either you are thinking of an occurrence with a girl, hopefully your girlfriend, or shall I say it… I shall… Your mother. Oh alas I’ve said it the unforgivable statement, but it is so plainly in my grasp I could not refrain. Yet knowing the nature of Matthew, at least of whom I knew, he would not do such things with girls as he is an upright man and would care for himself and not bathe in the caring affections of a woman only a wife would give; as I said he’s an upright man. Which still leaves me with the later. What a conundrum! Therefore, I am left with the hope that Matthew has indeed embraced the prior.

PS: Just hav’n fun you know. :)

]]> By: matthew http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2357 matthew Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:06:09 +0000 http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2357 I empathize with you John. I empathize with you John.

]]> By: john http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2355 john Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:47:20 +0000 http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2355 "I’m sick." Me too. Gosh, I really hate being sick. And worst of all my wife isn't here. Who is going to take care of me while I act like a baby. “I’m sick.”

Me too. Gosh, I really hate being sick. And worst of all my wife isn’t here. Who is going to take care of me while I act like a baby.

]]> By: JPennStar http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2332 JPennStar Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:32:14 +0000 http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2332 "I wack the hornet's nest for fun!" PS. I made dinner last night. mmm mmm good. :) “I wack the hornet’s nest for fun!”

PS. I made dinner last night. mmm mmm good. :)

]]> By: matthew http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2307 matthew Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:27:02 +0000 http://www.ipandora.net/2007/09/04/making-purple/#comment-2307 Careful now Analyza, ain't he wantin' you to be barefoot in that kitchen makin' grub fer hisself? It was a fun day watching that thread. Careful now Analyza, ain’t he wantin’ you to be barefoot in that kitchen makin’ grub fer hisself?

It was a fun day watching that thread.

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