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Elegran, exactly, it is not possible to feel another's pain so the expression means nothing, just empty words .

From "No politics" you have as usual managed to turn this into an anti- Corbyn thread Annie Unfortunately for you most people are now coming to realise that you constantly repeat the same old sad phrases and produce the same old reasons for your opinions.
You don't think people can share pain, but you are a Christian and the point of the son of god being born as a man is surely that he shares the human condition and therefore shares pain. There are a number of Christian writings about this.
So if you are saying one person cannot share another pain you are in fact rejecting much of the Christian belief- St Paul said-
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. (2 Cor 1:3-4)
that is as God shares our pain, we share the pain of others.

Well, not completely empty, it is a way of saying that you can remember or imagine just how much the other person is suffering, and you feel very unhappy yourself that such a thing has happened to them. That is worth saying anyway.

Because it is not possible to feel another persons pain, one can ache for someone suffering grief or illness but not feel the pain,,imagine it yes, feel it no.

Annie they have done the research; people can. Where is your proof that the research is incorrect?

"They"? who? Can you cite the research, please?

Also, "people can". Which people? All people or only a few?

I have never directly felt someone else's pain though I have often felt sympathy for someone in pain, either physical or emotional.

Trisher, on Good Friday I always end up in tears, try hard not to but hearing the words from the cross are too strong. I hurt, I ache, I feel such sorrow, I do not feel the pain of nail hammered into my body or thorns being rammed on my head or a spear thrust into my side.

God feels our pain, I am not God, you it seems are

So a husband who has sympathy pains with his wife in labour has gas and air or an epidural GG?

Where is the proof?

Yes Elegran, but it doesn't explain why someone who said deeply saddened is accused of being cold dies it?

Annie, Bags do you not read anything other than your own posts? (Rhetorical question - you obviously don't) It is already on this thread and I am certainly not doing any more work for you.

Any more work for me GG? I didn't know you had done any

She had, ab, in posting the information earlier (see page 12).

Don't believe God Annieso I can't be an imaginary being. I am merely quoting what others have said about Christianity
Interestingly there have been experiments about this that disprove your opinion
scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2009/12/17/feeling-the-pain-of-others/

This article is about the subject of feeling another person's pain. British neuroscientists contribute.

Feeling someone else's pain

Thank you Devengirl

Sorry, I got distracted writing my last post and trisher posted the same link.

So when I saw the the tower on fire and felt sick, I wasn't realy feeling sick I was feeling their pain? No way sorry

Ah, yes, synesthesia. I had heard of that. The study referred to in two of the links is from 2009 and mentions a "significant minority" which doesn't mean very much. There is also the degree of synesthesia to be measured and large samples to be looked at for many more studies. I'm going to look for some.

I don't think the research invalidates what ab and I have been saying about ourselves.

No, but it neither does it give you the right to question someone else's experiences.

Realy? No one has the right to question a claimed experience is true?

As it is something that is possible and an experience that it has been proved some people have then no you haven't. Well you may question it but your opinion has no validity unless you can actually prove it. (and you can't)
Interesting that someone who says she believes in God expects us not to question this, simply because she says so, but then is unwilling to even give others the benefit of the doubt, when they make a statement that's been proved to be true for some people.

Expects you not to question belief in God? Pathetic, ask anyone who believes in God expects not to be questioned on their belief, good grief it happens on this forum more often than rain in Wales

So if I say you don't believe in God does that make it true Annie? Of course not! Any more than you saying it is impossible for someone to share another person's pain is true. QED

Realy? No one has the right to question a claimed experience is true?

As you are basically calling the person a liar when you do so and you have no way of substantiating you are right and they are wrong - I would say not Annie.

I would also say that you owe Jen an apology but as no pigs have flown over today I shan't hold my breath.

As you like to refer to literature let me offer you a quote:

There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.