Frankie_J
Snowy Owl
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Location: UK
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 Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:36 pm Post subject: Sympathetic towards non-living things? |
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| Sometimes I feel slight sympathy.... or something mildly emotional/empathetic/compassionate towards objects. Does anyone else ever feel they get like this sometimes? |
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Hexagon
Snowy Owl
Joined: Jan 28, 2012
Age: 18
Posts: 138
Location: Bristol, UK
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| What, like calling my bike 'she' and 'baby'? And having a deeper relationship with Siri than with any other human? yeah, I get what you mean. |
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Sparx
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Age: 21
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Location: N. Sanity Island
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Yup yup yup. |
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Jory
Always in the wrong place at the wrong time
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Age: 29
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Location: Tornado Alley
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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Animals > inanimate objects > people.
In general. There are always exceptions. |
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Pandora_Box
Phoenix
Joined: Dec 13, 2010
Age: 25
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Jory wrote: | Animals > inanimate objects > people.
In general. There are always exceptions. |
lol same. |
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bumble
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Joined: Mar 27, 2011
Posts: 1390
Location: Norfolk, UK
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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yes
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Dillogic
boom bang pow
Joined: Nov 25, 2011
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Yes.
I feel sad for the poor toaster that is constantly tasked with self-combustion to heat up toast and other food products for uncaring and unsympathetic biological entities.
When it breaks, they throw it out and buy another.
It's so sad. |
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jagatai
Idiot
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Age: 48
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Location: Los Angeles
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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As a photographer, I used to feel sorry for the part of the film that I made a bad photograph on and how it must have been jealous of the part of the film that had a particularly favored image.
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Fnord
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Location: Stendec
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Sometimes I feel a small bit o'sadness when sending legacy technology to the recycling center. I mean, sometime in the past, these devices were some engineers' brian-children, and now they're not even wanted, much less needed.
I suppose someone could imagine a "Land of Misfit Tech" and write a song about it. |
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Alexender
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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I really like my shoes. I will feel said when I have to get rid of them. I spent a lot of time researching which ones to get.
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Ria1989
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep. It happened at my last job. I thought I broke a machine and then I felt bad for it. Still don't understand if it's necessary or unnecessary. |
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VIDEODROME
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Age: 36
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I feel glad when technology is properly recycled and not going into the landfill. |
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Verdandi
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Location: University of California Sunnydale (fictional location - Real location Olympia, WA)
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, I do feel sympathy for inanimate objects. |
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alessi
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I do. A lot of the time, I can't throw things away as it seems cruel to ditch something that has served me faithfully. |
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banana247
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Age: 21
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I used to have issues giving things away to the thrift store... I would feel so bad about "abandoning" the objects that I had chosen to get rid of. I thought that they must feel so rejected and heartbroken being stuffed in a bag and tossed out just like that. I always imagined them missing all their friends in my room and wondering what they ever did to deserve being thrown away.... I remember imagining other people getting their hands on my things and abusing them or breaking them, and I couldn't bear the thought of letting them go to a bad home.
I mostly did this with stuffed animals or other toys or knick knacks with faces, but I also remembering sometimes feeling this way about clothes and shoes. I would decide to thin down and start sorting through things and putting things in a big trashbag, but then after a while, I would start to feel sorry for one thing or another and fish it back out of the bag to put it back with it's "friends". Before I knew it, my bag was empty and I was even more attached to my junk that before :p
I honestly have never been fond of clutter, so I have managed to overcome this in order to maintain an orderly living space. I have gotten a good handle on it and don't really struggle with it anymore, but I do still have tendencies and have to be careful. Once I imagine myself interacting with an object or refer to an object as if it has feelings, most times I can't help but associate it with having feelings from that point on. (Again, this mostly applies to stuffed animals.)
For instance, one time I had this stuffed animal turtle that I gave to my dog. I had won it from a claw machine I think but I had too many stuffed animals on my bed and needed to thin down a bit. My dad walked in the room and saw my dog playing with it, and he said to me
"Hey isn't that yours?".
I replied, "Oh it's ok. I gave it to him."
Then my dad says (jokingly) "Aww poor guy! He was all happy on your bed and now Teddy's chewing on his head."
I immediately felt AWFUL and proceeded to pry the toy out of my dogs mouth and apologize to it or something. I had to stop and say to myself, "Wait banana, this is ridiculous. This is just a stuffed toy. It's not real. Your dog is the one with feelings" I still took me a little while to come to terms with this and feel okay with giving it back to my dog (who was quite upset about having the turtle taken from him). |
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