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Judgment. People always say they don’t like to be judged, yet that’s a lie. Either to others or to themselves. In one form or another you get judgment, and you cast judgment. Critique is a form of judgment. Praise is a form of judgment. Most people enjoy getting praise. All that is, is positive judgment. So you’ll accept positive judgment and not negative? What a nice hypocrisy you got there. It closely relates also to my views on religion but I will not get into that can of worms right now.

It’s not that you don’t want to be judged by other people, you just don’t want to be judged poorly. You want others to think highly of you, even though you swear up and down that you don’t give a fuck what other people think. You say you’re secure in yourself and the thoughts and opinions of others have no affect on you. Hmmm.. I call bullshit on that one.

I judge people. I do it all the time. I also accept the judgments of myself by other people, even if I don’t agree with them. It’s a fact that you have to deal with. I have tried to cease in my efforts to stop the inevitable. What I’m working on now is trying to figure out the difference in what is and what isn’t inevitable. What I have discovered that can’t be altered at this time, I come to grips with it instead. You most likely judge people as well. You say that you’re a non judgmental person and you accept others for who and what they are, but you most likely judge them anyways. Maybe you really do accept them, yet you still hold your judgments in your head.

I’m a judge of character. Quite a good one at that, as long (take heed of these words) as long as I am not deceiving myself. As long as my emotions don’t get in the way of my rationale. This is not always possible. In fact, sometimes you need to embrace your gut instincts, your emotions first, and then throw in logic later. This in of itself is logical. You just got to figure it out. I try, I know others who try. Here is the million dollar question, will you try?

I cast stones. Remember that. However, my aim is mostly true and my throws well deserved, for either good or ill.