NonSociety – Live Differently. Julia Allison Internet Enthusiast

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Aug 17, 10 12:45am

“Judge not, lest ye be judged.”

I admire TJ’s honesty here - many of us are in complete denial about our own hypocrisy in this regard.  We have no problem with the judgments we pass on a daily basis about others, but we’d be FURIOUS were we to hear the same judgments about us.

When I was STAR mag’s Editor-at-Large, I thought about this frequently.  I was on television talking about celebrities I didn’t know, speculating about their private lives and personal decisions - in other words, passing judgment.  (Gossiping masquerading as “entertainment news.”)  Honestly?  The entire enterprise was - and is - BULLSHIT.  And I have to say, being judged on the internet really curbed my inclination to dish out any sort of opinion about the lives of people I didn’t personally know.

That’s not to say that I don’t still have my moments - but they’re certainly fewer and further between than they were back in 2007.

tjkelly10:

Judgment…Easy to dish out…..Hard to swallow