24 Dec 18
@kellyjay saidDo you think that people who are "led by God" are less likely to experience compassion fatigue over natural disasters than people who are not"led by God" ...is about as binary as questions come. If it's not, then your notion of people being "led by God" must be an incredibly wishy-washy and perhaps literally inconsequential thing.
Not every questions answer is going to be binary.
24 Dec 18
@fmf saidBeing led by the limitless God always gives us what we need to do what He requires.
Do you think that people who are "led by God" are less likely to experience compassion fatigue over natural disasters than people who are not"led by God" ...is about as binary as questions come. If it's not, then your notion of people being "led by God" must be an incredibly wishy-washy and perhaps literally inconsequential thing.
24 Dec 18
@fmf saidOne might think, given the nature of what "religious belief/lack of religious belief" has on people's emotional makeup, that "compassion fatigue" would be an issue.
Compassion fatigue. And the influence of beliefs: a question posed n the wake of this latest and umpteenth mass-fatality natural disaster in this country.
With the 24 hour news cycle, there is virtually always some ghastly disaster unfolding somewhere on the planet.
People can and often do become numb to the numbers, the consequences, the frequency. I wonder to what exten ...[text shortened]... donesia - and, indeed, the relentless incidence of such tragedies across the globe year in year out.
And I think it is, but how would it be measured? Everybody's different. I think you'd have to survey everyone on the planet and quantify the results to find out.
24 Dec 18
@secondson saidNo pattern or tendency would emerge from which one could draw a conclusion until "everyone on the planet" had been surveyed? Are you sure?
And I think it is, but how would it be measured? Everybody's different. I think you'd have to survey everyone on the planet and quantify the results to find out.
24 Dec 18
@secondson saidIn what way - to your way of thinking - would "religious belief/lack of religious belief" be an issue in terms of compassion fatigue", assuming that some worldwide survey/measure had confirmed your expectation?
One might think, given the nature of what "religious belief/lack of religious belief" has on people's emotional makeup, that "compassion fatigue" would be an issue.
24 Dec 18
@fmf saidWell, all I know is that to the degree that people with or without religious belief would experience compassion fatigue, whether yea or nay, will have no affect on the frequency or magnitude of natural disasters.
In what way - to your way of thinking - would "religious belief/lack of religious belief" be an issue in terms of compassion fatigue", assuming that some worldwide survey/measure had confirmed your expectation?
24 Dec 18
@kellyjay saidSo you don't subscribe to all this stuff about the effect of the "indwelling Holy Spirit" and supernatural transformation and influence of Jesus at work that non-Christian people 'of the flesh' cannot possibly understand etc. etc. that posters like sonship and Romans1009 have written countless thousands of posts about?
"Being a believer does not turn us into a different species."
We are people, our weaknesses are common among us.
24 Dec 18
@fmf saidYou have a habit of taking something someone says and twists it into something
So you don't subscribe to all this stuff about the effect of the "indwelling Holy Spirit" and supernatural transformation and influence of Jesus at work that non-Christian people 'of the flesh' cannot possibly understand etc. etc. that posters like sonship and Romans1009 have written countless thousands of posts about?
completely different.
Context, but you knew that.
I'm down to two games from twelve I had going when I started posting again, I
think I can do without this for the remainder of my time here as well.