Hey John - I just changed the topic thread from:
"What a Woman Really Wants" - cause I don't think it's exactly
relevant to our conversation anymore...
As usual, I'm busy, busy, busy and I only have moments every so often to
comment on posts. I run 3 businesses right now and manage half a dozen other
scenarios involving elderly/disabled parents among other considerations.
you wrote: on a related note, on the news radio, top-o-the-hour broadcast
tonight was a pair of relevant stories concerning pre-school education.
First story was concerning recent research that any dvd or tv programming
was worse than useless compared to simple parental interaction as far as
toddlers are concerned and the second story was concerned a Manhattan Ma
suing her 19k per year preschool for it's inadequate ivy league prep.
yes, very interesting indeed and the last, ridiculous...
>>ll I dunno Margaret. We might be stuck with the same ol' palette, but
that doesn't really limit our artistic creativity now, does it?
nope - of course we can get very creative...and it's great when two
intelligent, willing people REALLY listen to each other and REALLY say what
they mean; but often,
we get stuck using the same ol' metaphors when it comes to relationships and
I
think this is one of the most interesting areas to explore philosophically -
especially in regards to dynamic quality.
I have a philosophy prof friend who is just getting a book published on a
topic
of her research on empathy (I might get a chance to provide the illustration
for the cover - yay).
But this topic - the interaction between people is of great interest,
("To know oneself is to study oneslef in action with another person." Bruce
Lee)
I have recently been considering the subject of empathy.
I often hear myself using the words: 'put yourself in XXXX's shoes' (to try
to forge some diplomatic mission or task with friends or relatives) and from
many people I get the:
"I can't possibly do that" answer. To which I reply, 'REALLY?' you can't
possibly try to imagine what conditions another person is experiencing?
I grew up with the "Walk a mile in your neighbor's moccasins" poem on our
kitchen wall at my grandparents house. But lately I get scoffed at by this
sentiment.
My attorney and I were discussing this and noting that perhaps 'empathy' is
becoming a lost art...could that be? Are we going to have to leave the
'empathy' skill to the attorneys in all of our transactions with each other
because we can't/or refuse to 'try' to 'imagine' being in another persons
shoes because it's not concrete enough thinking?
mm
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