What's the difference between turning the other cheek and being a slave?

[Nicholas]

I agree sometimes sometimes the smacketh has to be layed down. Get hat otr del in line. Now I'm not talking violence. But a real mirroring to that person. Show them what ere putting out. I've met a couple older people around me, that I can tell never had a good mirroring. They obscure the line of self correction and growth, and talk non stop about everyone else around them.,..the level of this gossip is crazy. Literally all I hear all day from this group of individuals is about Bobby down he street, and Lisa next door, and this and fucking that. I do not have a position to stop or change this. Nor is it my responsibility. However sometimes I just wanna screammmm "so fuckin what?"

I completely understand how you feel there. For years beyond necessity I lived with my mum as it was much more affordable and it gave me greater financial freedom. But there was one catch, and that meant consistently listening to her stories about other people. It all went south when she turned on my partner and the "smacketh" did become physical.  As APW says, to listen with ears of compassion rather than judgement is, although more challenging, the wiser and non hypocritical option. 
  
But it's cool to vent here if you are not ready to find the love in such moments 

I love this take on it.

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.

The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
“That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.”
Her husband looks on, remaining silent.
Every time her neighbor hangs her wash to dry, the young woman makes the same comments.
A month later, the woman is surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and says to her husband: “Look, she’s finally learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this? ”
The husband replies, “I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows.”
And so it is with life… What we see when watching others depends on the clarity of the window through which we look.