So, I am an empath.

sorry son but it's my thread now

 

You will have to kill me first.


And I don't fight fair.

 

Or I could just add you to my ignore list, so I don't ever have to see one of your posts again.

You're the first one!

I hope you feel honoured!

You have certainly earned it.

Farewell, good sir!

Travel well.

 

Well, that worked well.


It even removed the petty piece of negative rep he left me.

I guess I AM such a tool.

LOL.


Stupid fuckin trolls..

 

Boy, all the empathy in this thread just brings tears to my eyes

 

I don't fuck around.

 

:cheers2:

 

Might be there is a difference between sensitivity and caring.

 

Yeah, you won't last very long without caring if you are sensitive.

 

Isn't that the definition of "mysterious?"

You don't like the term "psychic?" Then let's call it something else, I don't care.

It seems pretty obvious you have the belief that there's no such thing as "psychic."

You seem to be starting from the assumption that I'm dense. I have a degree in biochemistry. I understand science just fine. All you need to do is explain your viewpoint. No need for exasperation.

You're assuming that psychic experience is a non-personal phenomenon that can be studied independent from human personality. I would submit to you that the basis for psychic experience is so highly complex and different from anything else we've yet discovered that we don't even know what questions we should be asking about it, and therefore it's too soon for any kind of meaningful scientific study. This isn't to say there's no natural explanation for it, just that at the current level of scientific knowledge, we're not yet capable of it. You don't think that science has discovered everything there is to discover yet, do you?

I suppose that's true, if the point you're trying to make is that you don't give a shit about anybody.

"silly and contradictory to reality" is just your opinion, and an ill-informed opinion at that. What you're basically saying is that if somebody doesn't agree with you, you're justified in treating them like shit.

Well I must say one thing: You sure are an interesting specimen to study.

 

My first cat--well ,kitten actually,was hunched up in the middle of a road on Maui dodging cars and trucks trying to keep from getting hit. I told the guy driving to stop so I could retrieve the poor little thing, which I did. Turns out it had already been hit and one eye was hanging out of it's socket.I took her to a vet and he removed the eye and I took her on home and named her Peeper. The girls I lived with had a couple of dogs that tried to harass my little friend,but she would stand her ground and swipe at them to teach them she meant business. She was an impressive ,brave little bugger and I admired her very much.

A month or so later,I was asked to come over to Oahu and nail some wood shakes on a few houses and I did that. The second day working on the roof--I laid my hatchet down ,had a weird feeling and said out loud to myself="something happened to peeper." I knew it.I just knew it.Don't know how or why ,but I knew it. I drove to a pay phone and called to Maui and as soon as one of the girls answered,she started crying and apologizing. She had started my car to go to town and peeper had snuggled up to a tire thinking she was safe from all the noise and had gotten run over. I ,of course was very sad about her demise,but on the positive side I have had many cats since.

How do these things-these mental messages come through like that? Don't know-don't care. They sometimes do and that's the way it is.

 

That's the crux of the matter. These kinds of things happen, whether we have an explanation for it or not.

I'm the kind of person who wants explanations, but I understand and reluctantly accept the fact that there are some things that I will probably never really understand - but just because I don't understand them doesn't mean they don't exist.

 

Well, certainly at a loss in caring for themselves. Comes out when they say, "some people suck my energy," blaming their unbalance on some one else.

 

Yeah Zen--I like explanations too,but obviously some happenings in life are ineffable (redundancy alert)and are not for us to know. I heard my name called 3 times years back and asked the person that was 30-40 feet away from me what they wanted.She said "I didn't say anything". I said "well that was Margaret then".A few years later when talking to an ex of mine,Margaret to be exact,we figured out that I heard her call me the day she was shot in New Orleans. Again--don't know-don't care. But there it was.

 

Belief and doubt are equal terms in that they are symbols chosen to represent an unknown variable.

 

What causes you to lean toward the probability of "never really understanding?"
Simply this moments understanding becomes the next moments prejudice because creation doesn't look back, it carries everything forward with it, throwing the die of probability anew in every instance. Each time wagering it all.

 

Good point, if I "understand" what you're getting at.

Rhetorical question to Self: If I could have instant knowledge that my wife is falling asleep at the wheel while trying to drive home, and scratcho could have instant knowledge of his ex calling his name from miles away, then why couldn't we have instant knowledge of how we can have instant knowledge?

So my filtering belief that there are some things I can never really understand becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

This particular filtering belief leads people every day to doubt whether they themselves are in fact real. We could see where that might discourage insight.

 

Well, then what's real?

 

I've said this before and granted --it's specious.But I can't resist.

Acquire one 3 foot 2 by 4. Grasp said 2 by 4 by either end. Lower same to ground directly to your front. Raise briskly until 2 by 4 makes contact with forehead. Repeat until change of attitude renders solipsism an inoperable premise. Seek chocolate milkshake and enjoy.