• mechoman444@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 months ago

    My mother does this. She asserts a random made up statement as fact and immediately believes it to be true.

    It’s infuriating! She has no actual evidence to back any of it up! Not even circumstantial evidence.

  • Frank Ring@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 months ago

    As I grow older, I trust more and more my intuition and energy.

    People can be deceiving. I don’t trust words as I used to.

    • realitista@lemmy.worldOP
      30·
      6 months ago

      Have you never met one of these self proclaimed “empaths” who are so busy telling you how you feel that they forget to actually listen to you telling them how you feel? I sure have met a few in my day.

    • settoloki
      22·
      6 months ago

      I think the point of this is you can’t know how they feel, only assume. Empaths assume and then trust their assumption so much they believe it to be fact.

      • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
        8·
        6 months ago

        to believe it to be fact

        Where does this part come from? Or do you talk about self proclaimed empaths?

        • settoloki
          12·
          6 months ago

          Well you can’t know how somebody else feels. You can take your best guess. But there is no way to actually know, without asking them. Empaths think they know how somebody feels and to them it’s a fact that this person must feel that way, In actuality they could be completely way off because what they are doing is imagining how the other person feels based on how they would feel in the same situation, which might not be true of the other person. So even though they have empathy, they are not an empath, such things can’t exist without the ability to mind read, and there’s no proof that anybody can do that.