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		By: Let there be truth		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2021/03/25/empathy-is-not-a-sin/#comment-112139</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2021 21:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[‘Apologist’.]]></description>
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		By: Let there be truth		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2021/03/25/empathy-is-not-a-sin/#comment-112138</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2021 21:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[‘Apologist’.]]></description>
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		By: A.Stacy		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2021/03/25/empathy-is-not-a-sin/#comment-111766</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A.Stacy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With all sincerity, this is another reason you will not see me in any neo-cal, modern reform church.

&quot;It&#039;s not about you&quot;... ya right.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With all sincerity, this is another reason you will not see me in any neo-cal, modern reform church.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not about you&#8221;&#8230; ya right.</p>
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		By: Headless Unicorn Guy		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2021/03/25/empathy-is-not-a-sin/#comment-111721</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Headless Unicorn Guy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2021/03/25/empathy-is-not-a-sin/#comment-111594&quot;&gt;Ellie is still here in 2021&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;blockquote&gt;Of course, empathy is good. If it did not exist, then it is doubtful 
that the human race would be where it is, or here at all. &quot;Survival of 
the fittest,&quot; doesn&#039;t necessarily mean the strongest, or the quickest.  &lt;/blockquote&gt;
Darwin himself defined &quot;fittest&quot; in this context as the likelihood of reproductive success over many generations. NOT the ones who wipe out all competition.



And memes can transfer similar to genes, extending &quot;fittest&quot; as meaning those whose skills or personalities are beneficial to long-term survival of their group. Whether through competition or encouraging cooperation.

&lt;blockquote&gt;I believe he called it Glenn Beck has Notsee Tourette&#039;s.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
That anything like Dr Strangelove&#039;s arm?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2021/03/25/empathy-is-not-a-sin/#comment-111594">Ellie is still here in 2021</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Of course, empathy is good. If it did not exist, then it is doubtful<br />
that the human race would be where it is, or here at all. &#8220;Survival of<br />
the fittest,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean the strongest, or the quickest.  </p></blockquote>
<p>Darwin himself defined &#8220;fittest&#8221; in this context as the likelihood of reproductive success over many generations. NOT the ones who wipe out all competition.</p>
<p>And memes can transfer similar to genes, extending &#8220;fittest&#8221; as meaning those whose skills or personalities are beneficial to long-term survival of their group. Whether through competition or encouraging cooperation.</p>
<blockquote><p>I believe he called it Glenn Beck has Notsee Tourette&#8217;s.</p></blockquote>
<p>That anything like Dr Strangelove&#8217;s arm?</p>
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		By: D.J.		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[D.J.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when psycopathy is glorified by a culture and given prominence. It&#039;s extremely dangerous thinking and BEYOND dangerous theology.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is what happens when psycopathy is glorified by a culture and given prominence. It&#8217;s extremely dangerous thinking and BEYOND dangerous theology.</p>
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		By: Headless Unicorn Guy		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2021/03/25/empathy-is-not-a-sin/#comment-111653</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Headless Unicorn Guy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2021 23:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2021/03/25/empathy-is-not-a-sin/#comment-111587&quot;&gt;Tacitus&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;blockquote&gt;I&#039;ve only seen enough of James White&#039;s content to know he likes the sound of his own voice.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Just like The Pious Piper and that Jerk with his Kirk in Moscow, Idaho.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2021/03/25/empathy-is-not-a-sin/#comment-111587">Tacitus</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve only seen enough of James White&#8217;s content to know he likes the sound of his own voice.</p></blockquote>
<p>Just like The Pious Piper and that Jerk with his Kirk in Moscow, Idaho.</p>
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		By: Headless Unicorn Guy		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Headless Unicorn Guy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2021 23:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;What the theodudes seem upset about is that they seem to believe empathy
 puts the person who understands another’s feelings and experience on 
the same level as the person who is being understood. They want to be in
 authority.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
When your mind can only see reality as Power Struggle, there are only two possible states:
Their boot stamping on your face or your boot stamping on theirs. And the only way to avoid the first is to make sure of the second. Forever.
Top or Bottom, Dom or Sub, Hold the Whip or Feel the Whip, Kill or be Killed, Eat or be Eaten.


&quot;When you play the Game of Thrones, you Win or you Die. There is NO middle ground.&quot; -- Cersei Lannister


These theodudes have just appended &quot;GOD SAITH!&quot; to that.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>What the theodudes seem upset about is that they seem to believe empathy<br />
 puts the person who understands another’s feelings and experience on<br />
the same level as the person who is being understood. They want to be in<br />
 authority.</p></blockquote>
<p>When your mind can only see reality as Power Struggle, there are only two possible states:<br />
Their boot stamping on your face or your boot stamping on theirs. And the only way to avoid the first is to make sure of the second. Forever.<br />
Top or Bottom, Dom or Sub, Hold the Whip or Feel the Whip, Kill or be Killed, Eat or be Eaten.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you play the Game of Thrones, you Win or you Die. There is NO middle ground.&#8221; &#8212; Cersei Lannister</p>
<p>These theodudes have just appended &#8220;GOD SAITH!&#8221; to that.</p>
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		By: Jim Roberts		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Roberts]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 22:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We have a former bank robber in attendance at our church. He was driven to that act out of desperation, and I&#039;ve had the opportunity to talk with him about it. I empathize with the things that he felt drove him to that point - they&#039;re familiar struggles, ones I&#039;ve faced myself, and that I&#039;ve also handled poorly, though not feloniously - but that doesn&#039;t mean that I approve of what he did. That men who claim to be wiser than me claim that this is impossible ... says more about them than it does about me, I think.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have a former bank robber in attendance at our church. He was driven to that act out of desperation, and I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to talk with him about it. I empathize with the things that he felt drove him to that point &#8211; they&#8217;re familiar struggles, ones I&#8217;ve faced myself, and that I&#8217;ve also handled poorly, though not feloniously &#8211; but that doesn&#8217;t mean that I approve of what he did. That men who claim to be wiser than me claim that this is impossible &#8230; says more about them than it does about me, I think.</p>
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		By: Rick Thornton		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think Ted Lasso frames it up nicely. And I think Whitman might agree that “curiosity” can serve as a proxy for empathy, too. 



https://youtu.be/oZ4YSXv6Xkg]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Ted Lasso frames it up nicely. And I think Whitman might agree that “curiosity” can serve as a proxy for empathy, too. </p>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/oZ4YSXv6Xkg" rel="nofollow ugc">https://youtu.be/oZ4YSXv6Xkg</a></p>
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		By: OrthoAnabaptist		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[OrthoAnabaptist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m not sure they&#039;re explicitly thinking this or not, but I suspect that because so much was made of their dear leader&#039;s Lack of empathy, and because they believe that everything their dear leader has said &#038; done in the last 4-5 yrs was holy and righteous, therefore Lacking Empathy is Good and having it is Bad. What has happened is a rewiring of their moral compass. I don&#039;t see this crowd coming out of this reversal anytime soon... in order to stay on the dear leader&#039;s train, they must proclaim good thing to be evil and evil things to be good...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not sure they&#8217;re explicitly thinking this or not, but I suspect that because so much was made of their dear leader&#8217;s Lack of empathy, and because they believe that everything their dear leader has said &amp; done in the last 4-5 yrs was holy and righteous, therefore Lacking Empathy is Good and having it is Bad. What has happened is a rewiring of their moral compass. I don&#8217;t see this crowd coming out of this reversal anytime soon&#8230; in order to stay on the dear leader&#8217;s train, they must proclaim good thing to be evil and evil things to be good&#8230;</p>
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