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Matthew 7:5
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Matthew 23:13-15
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!
Matthew 23:23-30
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things. Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too.
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed. Then you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would never have joined them in killing the prophets.’
originally posted by: Profusion
What's your opinion of hypocrisy?
originally posted by: peppycat
a reply to: Profusion I quit smoking tobacco and snapped at a young fellow for smoking in a no smoking area... so then I realized we worked together and I started smoking again and we laughed about me being hypocritical and I became friend with him and his girlfriend.
Being a hypocrite is funny.
Like being a teetotaler in public going home and drinking... or looking at pretty ladies and snubbing my nose at a guy I'm with for looking at them...silly really.
Not sure if I got the expression, snubbing right.
Hope you and your friend work things through.
originally posted by: schuyler
Ultimately it may be necessary to do the same thing you did (which I agree with, btw) and simply sever ties. Lessening the negativity you have to deal with is probably one of the best things you can do.
originally posted by: deignostian
Hypocrisy is preaching against but secretly participating in something.
I find hypocrisy most prevalent in religion. Such as preaching that paganism is evil and participating in Christmas and Easter.
Both are Pagan holidays sold as Christian but having absolutely nothing to do with Christ.
originally posted by: geezlouise
a reply to: awareness10
I'm sorry to hear about your bad experience.
For what it's worth I've been there plenty of times. I still tell everyone everything, tho.
And I just want to say that telling a story or sharing your life experiences with other people are never invitations to be trolled/abused. Ever. But, some people will try. But did that stop Joanne Rowling? I don't think so! Or what about Stephen King for that matter? Vonnegut, Palanhuick, Asimov and Anne Rice?
&I'm still here, too, btw. I just keep on telling people things.
originally posted by: geezlouise
a reply to: awareness10
I agree with everything you just said.
I think what helps me are the connections made with others (you know like that deep friend connection feeling). They make up for all the trolly people who are mean and abusive. And I feel like you can't form those connections if you close up entirely. So you have to risk getting hurt whenever you open yourself up and just know beforehand that yeah, some people might turn into D's on the way but you also gotta know that you'll live through it, no matter how embarrassing and etc it might turn out to be, and you also gotta know that you'll find others who won't be D's and they will make up for all the bad experiences because feeling connected is maybe the best feeling in the world. And even if it lasts for only a moment, it's worth it. To me anyway.
originally posted by: geezlouise
a reply to: awareness10
I agree with everything you just said.
I think what helps me are the connections made with others (you know like that deep friend connection feeling). They make up for all the trolly people who are mean and abusive. And I feel like you can't form those connections if you close up entirely. So you have to risk getting hurt whenever you open yourself up and just know beforehand that yeah, some people might turn into D's on the way but you also gotta know that you'll live through it, no matter how embarrassing and etc it might turn out to be, and you also gotta know that you'll find others who won't be D's and they will make up for all the bad experiences because feeling connected is maybe the best feeling in the world. And even if it lasts for only a moment, it's worth it. To me anyway.
The hypocrisy in my opinion comes from the duality.. The mask you put on your face as a scholar to lead the sheep..