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%SYMPATHY BEING TECHNIQUE 781111
Some people may regard sympathy as being a technique,
a way of acting. They seek to act sympathetically, to
perform actions which show their sympathy. People who
regard sympathy as a form of doing are likely to seek to
act, perform, show, and use techniques to demonstrate
their sympathy. Such an approach to people in need is not
likely to be healthful.
Meaningful sympathy is more a way of being than a
form of doing, although being sympathetic may occasion
action. Being sympathetic may be undermined by trying to
act sympathetically, trying to perform sympathetic
actions, or the use of approved techniques for showing
sympathy. Meaningful being must come before doing, and be
the occasion of the doing. Sympathetic acting,
performance, and demonstrations which are occasioned by a
sense of responsibility, duty, requirement, propriety,
expectation, etc. will not flow from being, but from law.
Sympathy which flows from law is not sympathy. Law can
not evoke feelings. Sympathy can not be a responsibility,
duty, requirement, etc. Sympathy may be evoked,
repressed, suppressed, respected, welcomed, accepted,
desired, etc.; but not required.
The technical person who witnesses acts which are
prompted by meaningful sympathy are likely to view the
acts objectively and analyze them to determine the
elementary constituent parts of sympathetic acts. Such
analytic objectification occasions perceptions of sympathy
which do not facilitate meaningful sympathy. Through such
analytic objectification sympathy appears to involve
sophisticated personal techniques. Such sophistication
and techniques are as much a product of the
objectification and analysis, as present in the observed
personal relationships. The perceptions are created as
much by the modality of approach to the relationships, as
by the relationships which are approached.
Sympathy may not be understood objectively or
analytically. Sympathy is not an objective reality which
may be viewed objectively. To be understood sympathy must
be participated in; thus undermining objective
understanding or sympathy. Sympathy is being, not doing;
even though doing may flow from sympathy.
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