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egelante -> RE: Empaths and Instant Reecognition (3/12/2008 5:21:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord
Please don't get caught up in this psychosis. It can be gratifying to think that you have magic powers, but it's really just a delussion that people try to justify to keep themselves happy.
This one amused me... I don't think magic has been mentioned yet...
It's true that some people are speaking in "spiritual" terms, and that others are speaking in "behavioural" ones (for want of a better word), but from my perspective these are simply two roads to the same destination. Or to ways of looking at the same object. We are what we are, and we have to understand that for ourselves: not everyone will accept a purely behavioural analysis, not everyone will accept a purely spiritual one, and so there is always going to be some disagreement in the terms used. Whichever way you look at it, some people are more acutely aware of the emotions, thoughts, and sub-lingual communication of others. Here those people are being called empaths, else-where they might be described as being able to read people better than average. Take your pick, but don't dismiss a real trait simply because the word "magic" has been applied to it somewhere. There was a time when a light-bulb was thought magical; now that the principles of electrical energy are more widely understood, it is regarded as commonplace.
To dismiss is to limit your own understanding and attempt to curtail everyone else's.
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