Judge the Change

Change is relative. Especially with people. For example, DeOriginalMeow would say i have come a long long way from the childish, naive, greenhorn young me, and BouncingNinjaTurtle wouldn't say that i have changed much from my selfish self, but would rather say that i have changed my tactics or methods of getting what i want.

Haha, that's just an example ya! Not the reason why i'm writing today. How do you measure change? A 180degree turnabout from the person he/she used to be? Then i would say among my group of friends, not many people have changed? But then, some people would say, 'Hey! What do you mean by that? Some have changed okay?' So my question is,

WHO? and HOW?

Cos in my eyes, there's no change. Like BouncingNinjaTurtle says, he/she might have changed his/her methods to get to the same goal, which is essentially the same as before. But who cares about what i see? My view doesn't matter so much as compared to God's. So to me, i say, to each their own as long as you don't bug me and are going according to God's commandments la. Which leads me to think about Judging people.

Cos i don't like judging people, although sometimes i do. I judge people by the way they dress, i judge people by the way they act, i judge people who smoke, i judge people. Fullstop. No justifying it, i judge fullstop. And i have no doubt that everyone judges something sometime or another. But usually i only share my opinions on these things with my closest friend *could be called gossip* and i won't really take it up with the person unless utterly necessary, i don't like confrontations or scenes like that, cos i think who am i to judge or say anything, i'm not exactly the best example of a Godly person.

But why am i ranting like this? Because some people...sigh...just can't admit that essentially they're still the snobby bratty spoilt irritating annoying people they were (now still the same) when they were 13. Just so freaking tired of these people. Can't be bothered to put up with their fakeness anymore.

Sunday 19 Feb 2006
BouncingNinjaTurtle said...

What is change? Change happens internally. You change your belief. People dun always do wat they say but they'll live out their beliefs.
A change on the inside will be reflected on the outside. Like you say, external changes with the same motivation isn't real change.
External changes motivated by fear/discipline etc isn't true change either.

So unless one has changed their belief inside which will be reflected outside - may take time/ may be instant, then that is real change.

Anyway theres nothing wrong with judging. Just dun condemn them. Judge = making an HONEST APPRAISAL of person/situation.

If we're late, we're late, if we're rude, we're rude, if it wasnt encouraging or upbuilding. Tell it like it is! If Christians aren't living out their Christian walk and demonstrating Christ to others, say so! We're to point these things out to help one another. The chief motivation behind it must be - telling the truth in love. Otherwise shut up. The other key thing is to be teachable. Cuz whoever does not want to accept correction is a fool.
Proverbs is a great book on such things. Would make a good and practical bible study for many.

Funkymonkey me says...
But then you see right, let's say we do tell it like it is...people who do not know any better will say, who the heck are you to tell me this? Haaa...so unless everyone has a teachable spirit, then there's no point in telling certain people things like it is cos in the end, its just a waste of breath. Anyway, i was just ranting on certain people whose high and mighty antics and "i'm older and wiser so i know more shit than you do" crap have been bugging me for the past few weeks. And it's just ridiculous cos other people have been asking me why these certain individuals are bugging like that, meaning i'm not the only one seeing their crap and i'm not the only one being bugged by it.

I've been wondering whether i've been oversensitive about things like this, but i'm not. Cos I'm not the only one.