Think about this now. How long do you think you could go without judging someone? A day? Week? Month?
About 20 minutes. That's about the frequency with which the President attacks the free press, commits an act of treason, rolls back a regulation meant to protect the environment, gives a tax break to the rich, disrespects our allies, sucks up to a dictator, tells a lie, encourages the KKK, disrespects women, tells another lie, makes it harder for people to get health insurance, tweets something stupid, tells another lie,...
We can't get out of judging others, I try to keep it to a low degree.
When Religion say, do not judge, for let he be judged. Is a load of Hippocrates crap, the Religious are the most judgmental people I know.
If I lived off the grid with no one else around and no radio and tv then that next day I'd be judging myself for not finding a female companion to join me. If I did find a female companion to join me then I could go a lifetime without judging another..
@HardBlues69 I'm easy. It would work out just fine. It's the other things, materialistic, that complicated matters.
Interesting question this one, as I've fairly recently made an enormous effort to grow out of my lifelong habit of judging people — something I inherited from my fairly awful parents and have spent almost 50 years doing.
I've tried hard to drop everything from looking at overweight people with disgust to objectifying pretty people... Just stepping back and observing what I'm thinking/feeling and why. And I was astonished just how much of my daily interactions with folks came down to making judgements rather than feeling any kind of compassion or respect.
Tell you what though: since adopting this approach, my head is so much more peaceful and happy. None of the nastiness.
EDIT: Just reading what @kauva said below: dropping the immediate judgement of people who disgust me was fairly easy and felt positive... Suppressing the sexual response to an attractive person lead to a weird depression and detachment from my most basic nature. So that one, I have had to wind back and accept. But I at least try to ogle compassionately. ???
I try avoiding people I don’t know as much as possible. However, humans judge other people on first sight. We look at how they look, what they’re wearing, their posture, etc. If you mean consciously judging someone, I see how they talk and what the subject they choose to talk about and how they treat others around them. But I judge rather quickly.
I try not to judge, but however I think in my subconscious I judge every person that I meet even if I don't realise that..
I try not to judge at all. Who am I to judge someone?
It’s perfectly normal to initially judge people, but you don't have use that judgment when interacting with them.
Growing up as a christian, I was taught to avoid peopke with “gay” personalities, my grandfather would make racist comments about mexicans and black people.
To this day, their words ring in my head when I meet people, but they influence nothing about how I treat people.
It's hard for human beings to not judge. I was at work the other day, person asks for $2 on pump #5, I accidentally put $5. She comes back up and says thank you and doesn't have the money. I said my bad. If you can come back at a later time and pay. She then offers some material (religious). I say keep it as it will go into the garbage. She then says "Well you better worry on what you'll say before god on Judgment day" and walks away