Stupid People

Mar 21, 2004 21:32

It's so hard to be sympathetic in a world where people do the stupidest things possible and expect your sympathy when they suffer the consequences. My parents always told me that if I ever got arrested, not to bother calling them because they wouldn't come get me. My punishment would be to spend the night in jail. People need to be brought up ( Read more... )

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it's testing the strong ones... aclosesecond March 21 2004, 21:26:45 UTC
According to Webster's Dictionary (my very own copy of the third edition from Freshman year of high school)...

compassion: n. a feeling of sympathy for another's misfortune.

sympathy: n. 1.) agreement in feeling, as between persons 2.) harmony of taste, opinion, or disposition 3.) the ability to share the feelings of another esp. in sorrow or trouble 4.) an expression of compassion

I do believe that Jesus was both compassionate and sympathetic. They go hand in hand. Even in their definitions, sympathy is in the definition for compassion, and vice versa. It makes sense. I don't think you can feel sympathy towards another unless you are a compassionate person to begin with.

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Re: it's testing the strong ones... uhohlostaneye March 22 2004, 07:31:31 UTC
Good Point. You're smarter than me.

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Re: it's testing the strong ones... aclosesecond March 22 2004, 10:05:44 UTC
Point well taken.

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