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by Cthulhu_ 261 days ago
Other people's? Like, I don't get meltdowns myself but I've seen others that do.
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You misunderstand, their sentence is in the first person, you cannot experience anything in third person.
You have experienced other people's lives? How? Are you a discorporated entity that possesses the living?
There's this concept called empathy, and people can share how they experience things. We can also relate our own experiences. So, it might not be a first-hand experience, but we can put ourselves in their shoes. If we see a friend experience something, it becomes a shared experience. When our friends laugh, we laugh too. When they grieve, we grieve with them. Etc