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Still figuring it out ..........

[Sam @DrFeruke]

It is good for us to know that empathy is not a virtue, charity is. And they are not the same thing.

Empathy is “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person by imagining yourself in their situation" per Cambridge Dictionary.

Charity is “to will the good of the beloved” per the great sage Aquinas. Aquinas is simply condensing what Jesus taught and exemplified, which Paul says with many more words in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 and John says in his first letter.

To be sure, being able to understand another person's feelings can fuel charity in some cases. It helps to ease the sting of the sacrifices you have to make for love when you can feel how hurt the other person is and put yourself in their psychological shoes.

Empathy could also pervert charity by distorting your vision and taking your eyes off what is good for the person and focusing on how they are feeling. Empathy could make you irrational by optimising for reducing suffering or maximising pleasure instead of pursuing what is good for the person and others involved in their lives.

You may have heard that empathy is such a virtue that Jesus even came in the flesh to experience what humanity experienced and this qualified Him to be a perfect advocate. But this is a gross misunderstanding of who Jesus is. Jesus, our God, did not aquire new information about human experience by becoming a man since He is omniscient. To “learn obedience” was not the writer of Hebrews asserting a limitation in God. His coming as a man enabled Him to experience Humanity for the sake of being fit by nature to suffer the punishment due to humanity. Only a man should suffer for man.

Therefore, as a man He experienced all our temptations but did not sin. As a sinless man He could bear the punishment for mankind. But more relevantly for this conversation, His experiences give us an example of how a true man can live for God's glory. His incarnation was all for our benefit and not an iota for His. He did not learn human feeling by becoming man. He endured human feeling so that he can qualify as just substitute for human sins.

Jesus did not come as a man to learn our feelings in other to be able to do us good. He had been doing us good from the garden of Eden. He made the decision to do us good even before He took on humanity.

You can do people good without experiencing their feelings. You do not need to be in people's psychological shoes before you can tell what is good for them. You just need to know their being and what is good for them and pursue it.

Empathy has this terrible feature of being easy to manipulate. People who are prone to entering the sensations of others are especially easy to stir about by projecting sensations and move the empath’s will in any direction the manipulator pleases.

A manipulator just needs to act and project certain emotions suggesting they are in deep anguish and the “empath” will believe the manipulator is the victim or that sacrificing justice to alleviate their suffering is good.

But justice is the good and perverting justice to make someone else feel better is proper evil. Perverting justice because justice will increase the suffering of a sufferer is satanic.

Empathy without charity leads to a justice system where verdicts are given based on the emotions projected and magnified by the people involved. It leads to a justice system where the wicked will keep escaping by shedding tears and the stoic innocent will suffer in the wicked’s place.

Empathy is not a strength in itself. It can be a weakness. Empathy does not cost anyone. It's a natural predisposition that people have. Charity is costly. We are not born with it. It takes effort to cultivate and costs us our comfort to implement.
Empathy is useless if it is not serving the good but merely serving an awareness of people's feelings.

Empathy is not a virtue. Charity is the virtue, that is to will of the good of people. A charitable psychopath is better than a foolish empath.

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[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

I will say what will get me dragged regarding Lindsay, the woman who killed three children of hers including an 8 month old.

Western women have only shown her empathy and martydom.

What about the man? This man lost three children. No one is even thinking about him.

They are making up all sorts of excuse for the woman. They say it was psychosis.

Well, is she in her right mind now after the act? Is she sane now?

There's hasn't been an sorrowful outburst to killing her children.

Like, if she was not in her right mind when she killed them, now she is, where is the agony of losing your three beloved babies?

It appears there's none.

Now women are marching in thousands, saying, "Same, Lindsay."

Practically, they are saying their emotional state can make them potential murderers of their children.

Really?

100 years of liberation movement fighting for the autonomy and agency of women, and this is the culmination?

That women cannot control their own seemingly murderous impulses around children?

Is that it?

In fact, some women are blaming the man. They are saying he did it.

It is almost as though when women are in the wrong, they automatically lack agency.

It is the same when an OnlyFans girl called 1000 men to have sex with her. She filmed and monetized it.

Guess whom women blamed? The men.

It is staggering to me. This is not something we can normalize or empathize with.

This was a monstrous act. And Lindsay meticulously planned the killing of those children.

It was premeditation. It was not the maniacal, rash action of a hysterical psychotic.

This is why I don't want African women, particularly Nigerian girlies, to adopt this Westernization of women.

Western women seem irredeemable at this point. Irreversible moral erosion.

I don't want to see my African women plunged into a similar abyss.

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[William Haun @whaun]

You probably already saw the news, but my son Trey represented Ghana 🇬🇭 and became Vice-World Champion of Flatland Unicycling. Here are some highlights of his performance in the finals!
We thank God & all of you who have supported his efforts in this extreme sport over the years.

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On 17th April 2026, I purchased a Dzire stock and rechargeable fan from Melcom, North Kaneshie branch. The rechargeable fan has served me very well through the recent weeks of persistent dumsor.

[César Azpilicueta @CesarAzpi]

Dear football,

Today, I want to share with you that this season will be my last as a professional footballer. After so many years living my dream, I feel it’s time to start a new chapter in my life.

Being honest, even though I have been preparing myself for this moment, I found it hard to write this letter. After 20 seasons , many people have played an important role in my career.

When I first kicked a ball as a child in Pamplona with my schoolmates, I never imagined the amazing journey ahead. I’m grateful for every moment: the wins, the tough losses, the challenges, and most of all, the people I’ve met and the friendships I’ve made along the way.

To my teammates, coaches, and every staff member at all the clubs I’ve been lucky to be part of, thank you for helping me grow as a person and a player every day. Wearing the shirts of CA Osasuna, Olympique Marseille, Chelsea FC, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla FC, and representing my country at the biggest stages has been a true privilege. Every moment has meant so much to me…

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