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Title: Empathy and Our Nation's Future
Source: Truthout
URL Source: http://www.truth-out.org/empathy-and-our-nations-future61878
Published: Aug 10, 2010
Author: Eric Weltman
Post Date: 2010-10-24 00:09:11 by lucysmom
Keywords: culture, morality, psychology
Views: 7987
Comments: 15

A recent University of Michigan study is a call to action for those seeking the latter. Researchers found that college students today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts from the 1980s and 1990s. Present-day students are less interested in the perspectives of friends and are less concerned for the unfortunate.

Empathy is the ability to recognize, appreciate and respond to the feelings of other people. It is a fundamental building block of a healthy society. Empathy helps us understand our differences and our common ground. It enables us to go beyond the superficial to identify shared interests and accomplish collective goals. In an increasingly heterogeneous society, empathy is essential for cooperation and social cohesion and the pursuit of our nation's highest ideals, including fairness, justice and equality.

The Michigan study joins a growing body of research that has found Americans growing more individualistic and isolated. Other studies have documented intensifying narcissism among college students since the late 1980s. Our society is becoming more disconnected and lonely, Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz, Harvard psychiatrists concluded in their book "The Lonely American."

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#2. To: lucysmom (#0)

Empathy is the ability to recognize, appreciate and respond to the feelings of other people. It is a fundamental building block of a healthy society. Empathy helps us understand our differences and our common ground. It enables us to go beyond the superficial to identify shared interests and accomplish collective goals. In an increasingly heterogeneous society, empathy is essential for cooperation and social cohesion and the pursuit of our nation's highest ideals, including fairness, justice and equality.

Empathy is more than that.

It's the ability to read minds and project ideas.

And nothing is more powerful.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-10-24   10:24:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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Empathy is more than that.

It's the ability to read minds and project ideas.

And nothing is more powerful.

Ex:

You can tell the GoM is a continuing epic fail by the reports that are streaming out and the Imperial City's determined ignorance of same.

Same with Iraq/Afghanistan.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-10-24   10:26:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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As America heads to the polls in November, let’s hope we don’t get fooled again. We’ve had an elegant sufficiency of “Big Lies,” now what we need are real citizen leaders who are willing to tell us the simple truth about all of these unsustainable programs.

the above a post from happyquanza.

Note the Total misdirection:

That gov't is not really aiding and abetting the Kleptocracy of Finance/Military.

That you have a choice, and you are not a serf.

AgitProp.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-10-24   10:29:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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Title: Moochie 0bama to meet with Indian whores Source: Economic Times URL Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com ... -plans/articleshow/6797379.cms Published: Oct 24, 2010 Author: Economic Times Post Date: 2010-10-24 08:24:51 by Happy Quanzaa Keywords: wookie, sasquatch, bigfoot, hookers, whores Views: 7

Barack and Michelle's Mumbai darshan plans

Again:

A Total Misdirection from HQ.

The reality is that the US is desperate to counter balance the BRIC, mainly China, by seating India at the UN Security Council.

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And how fittingly that this is the 'lord's day'.

"Kurt Wise doesn’t need the challenge; he volunteers that, even if all the evidence in the universe flatly contradicted Scripture, and even if he had reached the point of admitting this to himself, he would still take his stand on Scripture and deny the evidence. This leaves me, as a scientist, speechless. I cannot imagine what it must be like to have a mind capable of such doublethink. It reminds me of Winston Smith in 1984 struggling to believe that two plus two equals five if Big Brother said so. But that was fiction and, anyway, Winston was tortured into submission. Kurt Wise—and presumably others like him who are less candid—has suffered no such physical coercion. But, as I hinted at the end of my previous column, I do wonder whether childhood indoctrination could wreak a sufficiently powerful brainwashing effect to account for this bizarre phenomenon."

-R Dawkins

And that's why EMPATHY is impossible with creationists/organized religion.

There is extreme cognitive dissonance. That Society is paying them to understand a MEME which is not real.

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EMPATHY and BACTERIA:

Trust your gut. 8D

"Lyte’s team concluded that the vagus nerve, which extends into the colon, was probably transmitting the news of a gut infection to the brain areas involved in emotions. Reporting their results in the August 2007 Brain, Behavior and Immunity, the team also conjectured that the anxiety often exhibited by victims of bowel disorders may operate on the same network, which is not under conscious control."

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-10-24/deep-thought-oct-24

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I'm reading your stuff James. Keep on posting them.

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