387: Empathy vs. Punishment
Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo
Jessica Lanyadoo
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Content warning: this conversation touches on very sensitive subjects. Listener discretion is advised.
The extreme violence in Palestine and Israel has impacted the entire world and brought up a range of emotions and reactions in most everybody. A listener joins Jessica for an extremely vulnerable conversation about right vs. wrong, judgments, righteous punishment, as well as how and why his empathy has met its limits.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast, I'm your host Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium, |
| 0:06.7 | and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no bullshit |
| 0:11.0 | mystical advice for living your very best life. |
| 0:16.4 | Hey there, ghosties. In this episode, I'll be doing a live reading with one of my beloved |
| 0:21.8 | listeners. Every Wednesday, listen in on an intimate conversation and get inspired |
| 0:26.8 | as we explore perspectives on life, love, and the human condition. |
| 0:30.3 | Along the way, we'll uncover valuable insights and practical lessons that you can apply to your own life. |
| 0:36.0 | And don't forget to hit subscribe or at the very least mark your calendars because every Sunday I'll be back with your weekly horoscope and that you don't want to miss. |
| 0:45.6 | Let's get started. |
| 0:48.2 | This is a gentle content warning for this episode you're about to listen to. |
| 0:53.0 | In the reading we discuss topics related to the violence in Israel and Palestine |
| 0:58.6 | and complex emotions around the topic come up. |
| 1:02.0 | If this feels helpful, please listen on. If not, I'll talk to you in just a couple of days. |
| 1:08.0 | Andrew, welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. What would you like reading about? Thanks for having me. So the |
| 1:15.4 | context is that after the Hamas attacks on October 7th, I was really caught up |
| 1:22.3 | on it and having a lot of strong feelings because of so intense and because I was kind of like checking in on how I was feeling. |
| 1:30.0 | Something that came up was that I really wasn't having the same level of concern for Israelis that were killed or kidnapped or injured even in those days and that really disturbed me and it kind of fucked with me because it brought up something that I think I've known about myself which is that like I have these sort of righteous feelings of like these people are correct and these people right right, and these people are right in their values |
| 1:56.6 | and others aren't. |
| 1:58.2 | And in this context, the people that were killed were citizens, they were innocent, I don't know that they were actively |
| 2:08.0 | contributing to any kind of conflict, and there was children and all that sort of stuff and so it really kind of hit me differently when I realized that you know how can you be |
| 2:19.7 | concerned with the well-being of people before social justice. |
| 2:24.4 | You know, I say that like, I want an end to like cycle |
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