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  1. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Ok now, it let's say I get this sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortune of others by watching an event on television and you get it by volunteering at a hospital. Compassion being nothing more than a defined set of chemical reactions, this means my compassion and yours are...
  2. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Ok, it can't be measured. That means it does not exist in the 4 dimensional universe. Where does it exist?
  3. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Ok, I see you've gone on back to your home planet.
  4. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Who said anything about diminishing anything. Where do these concepts of yours come from?
  5. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Why do we have these thoughts? Do they come from a higher dimension, ie. 4th, 5th, ect.
  6. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    It could be that compassion is not real.
  7. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Thanks for driving by.
  8. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Sarcasm aside, this means that compassion is nothing more than a sequential firing of neurons.
  9. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    This could also just be an anthropomorphic attribute that is only the result of a long string of causes and effects. If true then any action, compassionate or uncompassioate, is nothing more than the inevitable result what came before.
  10. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    That's true. So if they do not exist in the four known dimensions then where do they originate? More important, why do we experience them?
  11. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    To exist means something must have objective reality, meaning it has to exist outside of the mind.
  12. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    That other animals show this may only be a construct from our own experience. On the other hand, this is irrelevant to the op.
  13. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Yet, if they can't be quantified, how can they exist?
  14. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    As a personality trait, you have just transferred one unmeasurable concept into another. Being unmeasurable, do they exist in our dimension?
  15. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Should both have the same source, it would seem that the Budda nature would also come from a higher dimension, perhaps different from the source of dualities, ie. virtue/unvirtue.
  16. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Thanks for driving by.
  17. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    I've never I've never heard of a translator needing a translator. This can only be blasphemy.
  18. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Its always good tp make the first move.
  19. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    The reason being that he would then treat all things the same. This is the greatest compassion...if we were to measure such things.
  20. sandy whitelinger

    How Do You Measure Compassion?

    Yes, language is tricky. It seems that Plato was saying that evil is just a distortion of good. This would mean that at their source they are both the same.
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