RE: Is Everything Blindly About Balance?

[baah]

You're mistaken Bias with Judgement. Bias is "dogs are scary" because of your history with dogs. Judgment would be that dog is scary, if that dog indeed is scary. Your predisposed viewpoints on things are biased and that's not judgement, judgement is synonymous with Discernment, I discern that you were referring to Bias from the context and the meaning applied, I judged in other words that you didn't use the correct/accurate term to refer to what was "happening" or what "was", and equally judging if something is good and bad isn't about it being TRUE. Judgement at most times is a Value judgement, or opinion, and some opinions might be valid "that dog is scary" and some might be only Biases "all dogs are scary, or dogs are scary".

It's kind sad because clearly the point krnel made was that judgment is contrived to mean what you think it means, the meme of "don't judge me".

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[ura-soul]

From a good book on this subject:

Judgments do not open space for improvement because they substitute criticism and the rigidity of labels for good advice and discernment.

Judgment is not the same thing as discernment. Discernment can
draw on past experience, but it also notices the differences.

Past experiences are a source of wisdom, but judgments give false wisdom
because they do not see the situation for what it really is. Judgments also
say that the next experience will be the same as the last experience. This
is the same as saying that nothing has been learned, and also that there is
nothing to learn that could change things for the better.
Judgments are rigid thought forms attached to the thinker. If you judge your experiences rather than understanding and accepting them, you lock the energy into rigid patterns of perception that take your focus away from what could help you grow. Each time the judgment is made again, and the emotions around it remain unmoved, or intensify, the thought form intensifies. For example, 'Tm not a nice person," is a judgment and a label in place of compassion and introspection that could realize why you could have this judgment against yourself.

Intense judgments are usually made amidst a wave of strong emotion when a person's usual sense of things is overwhelmed, and there is a feeling of needing to push back, "make sense of the situation," or define it. While judgments do label and structure the situation, and therefore, can give a person a sense of making sense of things, they are also limiting. In this way, feelings of not having enough understanding, or personal power, are compensated for by imposing misunderstandings and judgments that bring an illusion of understanding, power and control.

Judgments are not necessary steps on the way to understanding. Judgments obscure the ability to use discernment. Discernment in observation and evaluation, learning and experiencing can all take place without judgment. Judgments simplify and rigidify. Judgments are outside of time. They exist after the experience in which they were made, and when the judgments remain, they have the power to influence future experiences to conform to the judgments. This limits your possibilities.

[ura-soul]

Putting something in a dictionary does not make it the most accurate understanding regarding the concept being defined.

[ura-soul]

Language is living and evolves along with understandings. If some people hold different understandings regarding concepts it is not right for them to be held back from updating definitions due to the rigid 'voice of authority' among those publishing books. Books can open the mind, but they are not much help if we are tied to them in a rigid way.

As you can see from the etymology of the word prejudice - prejudice is ultimately a word that means 'prior judgment'.

Bias refers to a similar form of judgement based thought that is closed and that denies aspects of reality as a result.

By noticing that prejudice IS judgement and that bias is essentially similar - we can see something more of the nature of judgements.

[ura-soul]

It's not possible for my reply here to have value while you are judging so heavily here ;)

[ura-soul]

I am concerned with the mechanical construction of thoughtforms and hold the intention of being as accurate as I can be. I therefore release judgments when I find them and so that includes aiming to be unbiased and unprejudiced.

Here's an example: If we look at a piece of wood and wonder how many centimeters it is in length, we could judge it to be 5 or we could measure it and find out it is 6. Given that judgments always deny an aspect of reality, I intend to not participate in their use or creation.

If I was invited to a 'beauty contest' and was asked to judge 'who is the most beautiful' - I would, through describing the causes of their beauty and why I personally prefer those forms of beauty, be maybe able to state a preference, but I would not need to judge that 'she is more beautiful than the others' - beauty is subjective and much more deep than can be assessed in a beauty contest, so I would not belittle beauty itself by guessing at who has the most.