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Feb. 5th, 2003 11:39 amJust posted this in
challenging_god and wanted to echo it here for posterity.
This is inspired by the conversation between
neven and myself as a response to my last post here.
I think I need to back up a little bit and describe where I am coming from.
"Compassion" is not a feeling. Compassion is an attitude and approach -- perhaps even an epistemology of sorts -- towards other people that regards every other person, and the entirety of their experience, as having the same importance as one's own being and experience.
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I think I need to back up a little bit and describe where I am coming from.
"Compassion" is not a feeling. Compassion is an attitude and approach -- perhaps even an epistemology of sorts -- towards other people that regards every other person, and the entirety of their experience, as having the same importance as one's own being and experience.
( Read more... )