[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":63},["ShallowReactive",2],{"stoicism-article-11/17":3},{"path":4,"stem":5,"title":6,"description":7,"meta":8,"body":23},"/stoicism/11/17","stoicism/11/17","Judge Not, Lest…","Meditation for November 17, 2021",{"quotes":9,"last_updated_at":15,"tags":16,"categories":19,"changeFreq":21,"backgroundImage":22},[10],{"quote":11},{"content":12,"author":13,"source":14},"When philosophy is wielded with arrogance and stubbornly, it is the cause for the ruin of many. Let philosophy scrape off your own faults, rather than be a way to rail against the faults of others.","Seneca","Moral Letters, 103.4b-5a","2021-11-17T06:39:00",[17,18],"stoicism","acceptance",[20,17],"meditation","never","/IMG_5553.jpg",{"type":24,"value":25,"toc":57},"minimark",[26,35,38,41,46],[27,28,29,30,34],"p",{},"My thoughts today are not directly related to the lesson, but have some relationship to the overall message. My thoughts\nrelated to the current political system. Political parties used to have a platform that they preached they would\naccomplish if elected. This no longer rings true. Political parties of this current era run with a platform that tells\nus of all the horrible things the ",[31,32,33],"em",{},"other"," party plans.",[27,36,37],{},"I would find it refreshing if political parties took a more Stoic approach. An approach to reflect on what would make\nthe individual party better. To work on their own faults.",[27,39,40],{},"This is all a dream of course. As a society, we have decided that it is easier to point out the culpability of others\nthen to think carefully about our own and how we can be better.",[42,43,45],"h3",{"id":44},"conclusion","Conclusion",[27,47,48,49,56],{},"We need to focus on making ourselves better. Once we have identified and corrected all of our faults\n",[50,51,52],"strong",{},[53,54,55],"span",{},"and only then",", we can feel free to start judging others.",{"title":58,"searchDepth":59,"depth":59,"links":60},"",2,[61],{"id":44,"depth":62,"text":45},3,1793716908206]