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ORIGINAL: SixFootMaster

Empathic stems from empathy, and it isn't nearly as mystical as Deep Space Nine would have you believe. Most people are empathetic to some degree - in fact, a lack of empathy is often found in coincidence with psychopathy.

You can look at it as a combination of instincts, body language, and emotional insight with perhaps a touch of metaphysical.

Can subs recognise a dom on sight? I would depend on the dom. There are certain body postures, attitudes, tones of voice and the way people approach each other that are indicative but not conclusive of dominance or submission. In my experience though, people generally drop their eyes and possibly blush because they are shy and interested. This doesn't mean they've identified you as a dominant and that they themselves are submissive, but simply that they found you cute or attractive in some way. Be careful of projecting your own thoughts onto people, and then reading them back.

Six.

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ORIGINAL: egelante

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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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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord

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ORIGINAL: egelante

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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.

For me, the word "empaths" refers to people who can magically know and sense how others feel.

Of course, there's empathy- where you can feel for a person, and often pick up on how they feel or otherwise determine it- but we're talking about "empaths and instant recognition", aren't we? That's magic.

You can say it limits my understanding, but I say assuming it exists limits yours. However, the limits imposed on yours limit you to flawed thoughts which rely on the existence of superstitious things.

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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord

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ORIGINAL: egelante

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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.

For me, the word "empaths" refers to people who can magically know and sense how others feel.

Of course, there's empathy- where you can feel for a person, and often pick up on how they feel or otherwise determine it- but we're talking about "empaths and instant recognition", aren't we?  That's magic.

You can say it limits my understanding, but I say assuming it exists limits yours.  However, the limits imposed on yours limit you to flawed thoughts which rely on the existence of superstitious things.