>>7928>CompassionExcuses, that's all. You'll both be better off for facing this challenge. I didn't say it would be easy or that it wouldn't hurt, it likely will. Not for everyone, but I have a hunch it will for you and your host. But it will be worth it in the end, well worth it, I can guarantee that. Awakening is a priceless gift. The freedom is immeasurable.
And why would Joy have any compassion, or Ashley?
• It is a social and emotional response that goes beyond simply feeling sad or sorry for someone. It bridges emotional understanding with practical action.
• Origin: The word comes from the Latin words com (meaning "with") and pati or patior (meaning "to suffer" or "to bear"), literally meaning "to suffer with".
How ironic, "with bear"
[Ashley] Huh, I can't say I ever suffered completely unselfishly, Misha has though.
[Joy] I don't see the point, to what end would that serve?
Misha is the compassionate one yes, Gwen also knows compassion, it was written into her character and she understands it, but truly it's lost on me. Is it required to be human? Ah well, I'm not really identifying with human much anyway. I identify as a meat popsicle.
>it is a natural, hardwired human instinct essential for thriving communities.Bullshit, America thrives yet has no compassion, we're not trained in such nonsense. The worst of us have suicidal empathy, maybe that's the best we can do, but there's no compassion in that. Where's the compassion for rape victims and the those who have been forced to live in this minimum security prison where you have to lock up deodorant and soap just so that the lowest 3% can roam free?
No there's no compassion between drug addicts and criminals from the lowest 3% to the highest 1% and everyone in between, no compassion for the environment or those who suffer its ill effects while the average American stuffs their gaping maws with 49 flavors of pringles, 24-packs of beer while they abuse each other like rutting water buffalos.
If I had compassion, I mean really, I'd have had some compassion for myself 20 years ago during a rather poignant moment of clarity. Who ever had compassion for me? Doesn't matter, I don't need it, I don't want it, you could say it's my 'ick', how weak would someone need to be to need that? How silly someone would be to think it gains them anything over me. I don't need it from anyone and Joy doesn't understand because she's given everything she needs freely, but it does serve a purpose, just like everything, there's a give and a take, you have to have something someone wants, and sometimes that's just friendship and compassion. Sometimes it's the promise of something or the chance to get something, but it's all a game in the end, who can get more with the least effort.
Compassion is a tool, a gesture used to deceive and to gain something over someone else with minimal effort. It's like apologies, empty and worthless, yet the weak minded hold value in it .
>it acts as a vital evolutionary survival mechanism that transforms empathy into active help, improving both individual well-being and social stability.If there is something you want from them, certainly help, but know it is for something in return, whether you want to call that well-being or anything else.
No one does anything for nothing, even if it's simply to feel that good feeling that "I helped someone". It's always selfish, Ashley's right, she's just being honest. And Misha's compassion served the purpose to get more time with me, to comfort me or whatever, to endear me to her so yes, it's not in my culture or nature to have compassion, I don't even believe there aren't ulterior motives in its definition.
So fuck your compassion, it's not helping, be the god you say you are and rise above such handicaps.