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.
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IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social 4 weeks agoWhat does the quoted passage mean and how does this painting relate?
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grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks 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 weeks 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”
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Hm so people who are better than me can criticise me; I guess that makes more sense. I like both perspectives tbh
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I mean everyone has areas in which they suck. So you could also interpret it as “nobody’s perfect, so don’t judge others for small shit”
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Idk I can picture a jagged 2x4 giving me a Phineas Gage style impromptu lobotomy just fine.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Personally I went to Hunter the Parenting episode one when Kevin gets speared through the eye, don’t worry he got better.