sandy whitelinger
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Ok, I see you've gone on back to your home planet.
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How Do You Measure Compassion?
- Thread starter sandy whitelinger
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Are feelings measurable? It's all subjective. You feel something and weigh yourself how important it is to deal with what you feel.
It exists as an electrochemical reaction in your brain. I suppose that could be measured, but how you experience it I suspect would still be subjective.
TheBannerofHomuraAkemi
Active Member
It can't be measured. Ether you have it or you don't. If you don't I suggest you try to gain it or imitate it unless you draw God's wrath.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
Ok, it can't be measured. That means it does not exist in the 4 dimensional universe. Where does it exist?
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
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 the same. Could I increase my compassion by watching my video over and over again?
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
If it can't be measured then it doesn't exist in a 4 dimensional universe. The question is then where does it exist? Does it exist in a higher dimension inside(?) our brain?
I don't know specifically for you but it does look like there is a possibility of being able to measure compassion.
In sum, the Vagus nerve appears to be intimately tied to experiencing compassion towards other people’s suffering, providing more evidence for Porges’s PolyVagal theory. More specifically, these studies show that what happens in your Vagus affects whether or not you can handle the feelings provoked by another person’s suffering—and whether or not you’ll feel concerned and motivated to help.
Measuring Compassion in the Body
dfnj
Well-Known Member
The problem with compassion is sometimes it takes effort. And sometimes people are not able to make an effort to have compassion. So I think it's important not to judge people too harshly for just being what they are capable of being.
The other problem with measuring compassion is men have a natural tendencies to be able to cut themselves off from all emotions of empathy and compassion. Once the testosterone kicks in men no longer feel pain. Men no longer feel anything. Although this drives women insane, it's just the way men are. A man can get punched right in the face really hard and not even feel it. I think it's some kind of genetic survival mechanism. I don't think women appreciate the nature of how men are sometimes completely cutoff from all emotions. But with a little of awareness and self-reflection most men learn how to access emotions without being crippled by them.
I think compassion can be measured. In any interaction or relationship with someone if by your actions you are able to increase the other person's enthusiasm for participating in God's creation then you have succeeded in having compassion. You've increased the other person's passion for living.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
So compassion boils down to good genetics?
Genetics is part of it. It's still a question between how much nature vs nurture affects your emotional makeup.
Compassion is seen as a survival trait. Societies which possess more compassion tend to survive better so the genetics for compassion is more likely to be passed on.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
Genetics, then, exists in a 4 dimensional universe yet there is something more; extra 4 dimensional that guides compassion.
Which I assume is handled by the 95% of the brain we don't have conscious access to.
I could be wrong but this explanation doesn't require a belief in anything supernatural.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
Supernatural is an old term. It's well accepted that we live in a more dimensional universe than 4.
Kelly of the Phoenix
Well-Known Member
Something like "benefit to other minus benefit to self equals compassion".
Sure, here's 10 known.
Here's a Visual Guide to the 10 Dimensions of Reality
Not sure what this has to do with compassion though.
TheBannerofHomuraAkemi
Active Member
Um what?
74x12
Well-Known Member
God maybe measures by drops. As in drops of sweat, tears and blood. If someone sweats(they work) for you then you know they have compassion. If someone cries for you then you know they really care. If someone bleeds for you then what more proof do you need of their compassion?