Exe-mentality and closed ears

You started listening with the exe-mentality, sifting through the words to glom onto anything that looked like judgement. Our perceptions are coloured by our biases. I find it strange that I can sit through a mission meeting and hear nothing but the glorification of Jesus, and I can talk to my sister or my mother abotu the wonderful things we have heard, and yet an exe can sit through the same meeting and hear nothing but "evil speakings". It is as if their ears are closed.