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Rothe@piefed.social 15 hours agoThe bible even has something to say about it:
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Comment on Wait bro, what if??????
Rothe@piefed.social 15 hours agoThe bible even has something to say about it:
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
Always loved that one.
The Parable of the Mote and the Beam by Domenico Fetti c. 1619
IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social 8 hours ago
What does the quoted passage mean and how does this painting relate?
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
“mote” as in a speck of dust
“beam” as in a huge plank of wood
Basically don’t point out small faults of your neighbor while ignoring huge faults of your own.
It’s a metaphor. No one has a beam in their eye. But it’s a metaphor that drops suddenly in the second half, because you can literally imagine a mote in someone’s eye.
a_person@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Its a bibpe verse against hypocrisy, essentially correct yourself before correcting others. Take the log put of your eye before you take it out of someone else’s. The painting shows a guy talking with a log his face.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
What the other person said but specifically take the tiny little thing out of your eye, before telling someone else to take the big huge thing out of their own.
Basically don’t criticise unless you’re perfect.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Wrong, you mixed it up and therefore got the final morale wrong.
It says “while you have huge issues to fix for yourself, don’t criticize the small issues in others”. Or in other words “don’t expect others to be perfect when you’re not even adequate”