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[Sally, la reina]

::rubs some of Lg's puddles and Bun's cinnamon syrup into Mark's face::

[mark]

Sally wrote: "No thank you. I prefer to learn through conversation...."

i find this doubtful. i defined empathy and so did Amber. you felt our definitions were incorrect. points were already made in a conversation. it is on you to learn further, if you truly are interested. i am not a teacher and i don't feel the need to define something more times than i already have. although i'm sorry that you are feeling confused and are getting your definitions mixed up!

[Félix]

I don't believe you're really sorry.

[mark]

Sally wrote: "::rubs some of Lg's puddles and Bun's cinnamon syrup into Mark's face::"

what are those things that begin and end that sentence above? punctuation matters, Sally! snark snark.

[mark]

Félix wrote: "I don't believe you're really sorry."

i have a lot of sympathy for Sally! also a little empathy. does this mean there is a God?

[mark]

Sally wrote: "Very well said, Mark."..."

wait a sec, are you serious? if so, then thank you! i'm surprised!

[mark]

Sally wrote: "::rubs some of Lg's puddles and Bun's cinnamon syrup into Mark's face::"

perhaps deservedly. i think i was reading & responding to some of these posts out of order and got to the Very well said comment above last. so excitable! sorry.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I think Sally told Dutch to simmer down.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

And Phil told Heidi to simmer down. After Heidi had issued a threat to hobble someone's kneecaps if they messed with Clark.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

And RA told Scout to simmer down.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Then Bunwat told Sally to simmer down.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I think Sally told Dutch to simmer down."

Or maybe Sally just called Dutch a troll.

[mark]

i like that last paragraph, BunWat. i'm not sure i agree, but that analogy is just really interesting.

here's the Webster's definition of Empathy:

1: the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it

2: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this

Examples of EMPATHY

He felt great empathy with the poor.

His months spent researching prison life gave him greater empathy towards convicts.

Poetic empathy understandably seeks a strategy of identification with victims …
—Helen Vendler, New Republic, 5 May 2003

Origin of EMPATHY

Greek empatheia, literally, passion, from empathēs emotional, from em- + pathos feelings, emotion — more at pathos
First Known Use: 1850

[mark]

what sticks out for me is "He felt great empathy with the poor."

a sympathetic response would be "He felt great sympathy for the poor."

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Dutch: I get a baaaaad feeling that people are thinking I'm a weirdo.
Sally: Then simmer down.

[Félix]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Dutch: I get a baaaaad feeling that people are thinking I'm a weirdo.
Sally: Then simmer down."

I love this.

[mark]

but now i'm reading the Webster's definition of Sympathy and it is not really fitting what i've been going on and on and on about. argh. ah well. damn you Webster's, false friend.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio...

[Félix]

Oh what the hell.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Félix wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Dutch: I get a baaaaad feeling that people are thinking I'm a weirdo.
Sally: Then simmer down."

I love this."

Classic Sally.

[Félix]

And classic Dutch.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "I think Sally told Dutch to simmer down."

Or maybe Sally just called Dutch a troll."

It was Scout who called Dutch a troll.

[Sally, la reina]

mark wrote: "you felt our definitions were incorrect. points were already made in a conversation"


I didn't think either of your definitions were incorrect. I myself am unclear and was unconvinced by your explanation, izz'l.


Beer?

[Sally, la reina]

Mark posted me a link to a dictionary!




:jumps up and down with glee::

[mark]

yes, cheers!

and now that Webster's has turned on me, i am also unsure about, oh, everything. God help me now!

[Félix]

Hey! I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!

[Sally, la reina]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "I think Sally told Dutch to simmer down."

Or maybe Sally just called Dutch a troll."

I never called her a troll.

[Sally, la reina]

Wait, maybe I did. I don't want to talk about it.

[Sally, la reina]

I maintain my internet presence like a bonsai.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I maintain mine like a squirrel burying a nut, then digging it up and reburying it in 47 different places.

[mark]

Sally wrote: "Mark posted me a link to a dictionary!

:jumps up and down with glee::"

i gave in. it is very hard for me to maintain constant disagreeability. "disagreeability"... is that even a word? i should check that judas, Webster.

[Sally, la reina]

judas, Webster

[Phil]

Sally wrote: "I maintain my internet presence like a bonsai."

Or a kamikaze. Whichever fits the moment.

[Sally, la reina]

!!!

[Félix]

[Kevin]

i like how i can say something and three years later LG can recall it, know where i said it and paste the quote back into a diff thread. three years from now (God willing and the creek don't rise....if there is a God or a creek mark) i want LG to remember this:

i don't know nothing bout birthin' no babies miss scarlet

in case this comes up in convo in a future thread

[Félix]

How could anyone forget that line?

[[deleted user]]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "whenever i read mark's comments i feel like i am in that scene on animal house where they all are high and talk about how our whole universe could be an atom in a giant's fingernail"

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

[[deleted user]]

Lobstergirl wrote: "And Phil told Heidi to simmer down. After Heidi had issued a threat to hobble someone's kneecaps if they messed with Clark."

She's my guardian angel or fallen angel or something I can't quite put my finger on.

[Jammies]

Clark wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "And Phil told Heidi to simmer down. After Heidi had issued a threat to hobble someone's kneecaps if they messed with Clark."

She's my guardian angel or fallen angel or somet..."

Destroying angel? ;)

[Jim]

Clark wrote: "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. "

It's worked for me so far!

*Yes, I know it is a quote from Animal House*

[Cheri]

Am I the only one that thinks it is incredibly weird that the group is bulling the new guy about his capitalization in a conversation about empathy and sympathy? Welcome, Mark. It's a tough crowd.

[Kevin]

or lack thereof. hello. it's i after e EXCEPT after c. geesh

[Sally, la reina]

lack thereof what?

[~Geektastic~]

Cheri wrote: "Am I the only one that thinks it is incredibly weird that the group is bulling the new guy about his capitalization in a conversation about empathy and sympathy? Welcome, Mark. It's a tough crowd."

*hugs Cheri*

Exactly!

[~Geektastic~]

BunWat wrote: "Sometimes I feel like people seriously overreact to the grammar and spelling and punctuation thing. On both sides. I mean come on, it's not like we are accusing one another of felony offenses here!..."

Also right on the nose. My initial complaint was about the rudeness of the delivery, rather than about the topic. LG was obviously teasing, but other people were just being unpleasant. I welcome the corrections as well, when its useful or funny, not when it belittles my ideas. Tobasco Tabasco, anyone?

[mark]

Cheri wrote: "Am I the only one that thinks it is incredibly weird that the group is bulling the new guy about his capitalization in a conversation about empathy and sympathy? Welcome, Mark. It's a tough crowd."

ha! i was hoping someone would notice the irony of that.

but it's no biggie, i've experienced it before, am sorta used to it, and i'm sure it will happen again sometime. i think the combination of my lower cases and my writing style just automatically gets under certain folks' skins. not really sure what i can do about it and i'm not actually sure i want to do anything about it. i just hope that folks who enjoy doing that kind of thing to a newbie at some point find themselves in a similar situation and get treated the same way (he says bitterly). yeah, that'll learn 'em!

anyway, thanks.

[Sally, la reina]

Oh for heaven's sake. Such a fuss for three or four posts about the lack of attention to conventions of the English language. I do not think it is out of line to gloss a post because it is written sloppily.

[mark]

i really don't think my posts were written sloppily, Sally. but hey, thanks for that! you just don't know when to stop, do you?

[mark]

[[deleted user]]

mark wrote: "i really don't think my posts were written sloppily, Sally. but hey, thanks for that! you just don't know when to stop, do you?"


At least she's not confusing you with Phil me.