09-12-2008, 08:14 PM | #11 |
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Out of curiosity, what goes through your mind as you sit with these women?
Is it rage? pity? awkward tension? What do you talk about? that is a horrible experience for these women, so i am sure the emotions must be all over the map for them.
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09-12-2008, 08:26 PM | #12 |
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ANyone can feel the spirit IMO, and Triplet makes a nice explanation of why this si true. However, I think it lkeaves BDB's quesiton unanswered. Is the sort of subconscious awareness of dnager, or an urge to flee, spiritual or instinctual? Are we saying that ALL people feel the spirit at those moments ALL the time?
Some may be the spirt, some may be insticnt. It hink we are hard wired to perceive certain sensory input as indicative of elevated risk. One might suppose God created us this way (as I do) but leaving faith out of it, I thihnk this sort of sense of danger is somethign that we come equipped with whether or nto we are seeking the spriit, whether or not we are feeling like we need the spirit and whether or not we are living the gospel. That being said, I also believe that some persons in some circumstances recieve more specific urges and psiritual promptings that tranascend our normal reactions, but that could only be decided subjectively on a case by case basis.
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As far as what we talk about, I have to really play it by ear. Some of the women really want to talk about what happened. For others they're really numb, and they don't want to talk much at all, but they're generally pretty inclined to sit there and listen to me ramble on about anything and everything that comes to mind. Some women just want to be distracted, and they're really eager to chit-chat about their family, their job, music, tv, etc. I've heard that occasionally you'll get one that is cracking jokes, or one that is really enraged, but I haven't encountered either of those responses thus far. |
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An interesting issue, BDB. I would want the notion of "instinct" refined a bit. If it accounts for the subtle, often semi-conscious awareness of non-verbal communication, than I think instinct plays a role. I find people are often describing subtle non-verbal communication when they use the spiritual language of "countenance."
In that sense, trust your instincts.
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