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Blind Judgement: A Fecal Matter

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Blind judgment.


Every day he would clean the vile walls of the putrid smelling containers filled with the excrement of the people who did not appreciate him. '
By Citizen Correspondent Evin Boyle
Date Posted: 09/30/08
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Words are symbols, and if we don't question our history of those symbols we will have a hard time seeing everything fresh and new.

We are born, and we learn languages with which we can communicate to other people in our region. We learn the language at a basic level from people who are close to us. Our families and guardians show us what they see as appropriate language they have learned up to that point in their lives. Mostly everything that we can conceive of has a label attached to it called a Word or a phrase of words.

Now, how can we start to see the reality of something or someone instead of judging and labeling them with the history of generalizations that have piled up in our minds?

Think of an office worker in his busiest month of paperwork. There is paperwork being tossed on his desk every 10 minutes by a boss. Faxes are being spit out until the machine runs out of a new stack of fresh paper. Post-it notes are sticking all over his computer monitor, and clients are calling every few minutes.

The man has been taught to organize the information and order it in what he perceives to be priority first. He stacks the papers in order of subject. There is too much information to be processed. Some information will never be seen. Most of the information will be glanced at, and some information will be dealt with. But because this man is so busy some of the information will not be verified as true.

It is so with the overwhelming influx of information in our lives that each word has a ¨stack of papers¨ in which we will never read intensely. We will order and generalize instead of examine every detail when we get a chance.


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Re: Blind Judgement: A Fecal Matter

By Heather Wallace, October 2, 2008 at 12:11

Thanks for sharing this story Evin.

Heather Wallace
senior editor
Orato.com

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