How Do You Measure Compassion?

[BSM1]

I was unaware that I was... lol

That's the great thing about compassion...

 

[YmirGF]

Other social animals besides humans display empathy and compassion. Clearly they must be reading their bibles if they've managed to receive such traits delivered directly from the stratosphere.

Indeed, one need only observe animals in the wild for instances where a female takes an infant, other than her own, under her care.

*Note: This statement is not intended to give harm to non-binary individuals.*

 

[sandy whitelinger]

I feel for you that you are not feeling well. Hope you get better soon.
I don't see it as coming from any god, but I do see it as a natural component of our type of consciousness. It's a personality trait.

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

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Thoughts and emotions aren't quantifiable, yet we clearly experience them.

Yet, if they can't be quantified, how can they exist?

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Other social animals besides humans display empathy and compassion. Clearly they must be reading their bibles if they've managed to receive such traits delivered directly from the stratosphere.

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

 

[Father Heathen]

Yet, if they can't be quantified, how can they exist?

Perhaps you should explain why you think it's a prerequisite for existence.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Perhaps you should explain why you think it's a prerequisite for existence.

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

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Thoughts and emotions aren't quantifiable, yet we clearly experience them.

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?

 

[Father Heathen]

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

So things that are functions of the mind, like thoughts and emotions, don't exist? Therefore god (who, btw, isn't quantifiable either)?

 

[Father Heathen]

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?

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Indeed, one need only observe animals in the wild for instances where a female takes an infant, other than her own, under her care.

*Note: This statement is not intended to give harm to non-binary individuals.*

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.

 

[osgart]

A skillful person lacking all compassion builds war, and fortresses against those whom doesn't serve their purposes.

A skillful person full of compassion builds a defense for love and propagates well being.

 

[YmirGF]

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.

Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about

 

[sandy whitelinger]

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

 

[sandy whitelinger]

A skillful person lacking all compassion builds war, and fortresses against those whom doesn't serve their purposes.

A skillful person full of compassion builds a defense for love and propagates well being.

Thanks for driving by.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about

It could be that compassion is not real.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

So things that are functions of the mind, like thoughts and emotions, don't exist? Therefore god (who, btw, isn't quantifiable either)?

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

 

[Father Heathen]

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

Why would the components and processes behind something diminish it? It still is what it is, regardless if it's the product of a gooey blob or the product of a sky wizard.

 

[Father Heathen]

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

Unicorns poop them out. Omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent unicorns.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Why would the components and processes behind something diminish it? It still is what it is, regardless if it's the product of a gooey blob or the product of a sky wizard.

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