Instructor: RainTurtle
Date: November 20, 2003 (Thursday)
<RainTurtle> Good evening, all. The topic for this evening’s seminar is “Empathy”
<RainTurtle> If you are not here for a class on rudimentary psionics, you might find that you’ve mistyped the chatroom name….This is not a gaming room, and we are not about to start an RPG
<RainTurtle> There are two basic meanings for the word “empathy”, and several variants within each.
<RainTurtle> The first is a psychological phenomenon, reacting to the expressed or assumed situation of another person, “feeling for them”,….very like “sympathy” in rough terms
<RainTurtle> Not being a Psychologist, I am not going to be lecturing on Psychological Empathy, tonight….
<RainTurtle> Instead, we come to the second meaning: “the telepathic perception of another person’s emotions”. Depending on the variant of the definition which you happen to favour, this may also extend to influencing the emotions of other people, in addition to sensing same
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