Would you be willing to admit it if you've been a hypocrite? (page 4)

minimus

Hillary, Could you give a personal example?

VeniceIT

I would never admit to it, but I think everyone else should!!!

Ven

Earnest

Craig,

They taught things I didn't believe, but I went to the meetings and, by my presence there and by my "non-answers" I in essence supported something that I didn't believe.

I don't know that I would consider that hypocritical. I take the view nowadays that I am an observer and a guest at the KH and do not consider that I endorse everything that is said by my presence. If I am affronted by something that is said then I get up and walk out.

I do think I was a hypocrite at times when I was reader at the Watchtower Study or book study. I felt very uncomfortable but did not have the courage to skip the passages I could not accept. I no longer "enjoy" that "privelege" so it is no longer an issue.

Earnest

Mr. Kim

Yes! I admit that I am a hypocrite at times. But then, I left the influence of the Borg!

Big Tex

When I was a Witness, I believed (foolishly) with my whole heart. I look back on that and feel embarassment that I believed so completely. When I stopped going, I still believed many of the teachings. I stopped going because of the two witness rule, but I still believed it was "the truth". I believed for many years afterward that I would die in Armageddon because I did not go to meetings, and I believed that I deserved it. It's only been in the last 4 or 5 years that I broke away from that thinking.

Now I'm not sure if that makes me a hypocrite. Stupid? Unbelievably naive? Amazingly dense and thick-headed? Okay, sure. But I don't see that as hypocrisy.

Now teaching my children not to swear and dropping the occasional F-bomb is hypocritical. I'll plead guilty there.

minimus

Your hypocrisy, opinion or viewpoint that you've apologized for........Hillary.

nowisee

oh, to live with integrity, when your every thought, behavior, decision, and action align with your conscious beliefs; very difficult to achieve in our imperfect condition, but something for which to eternally strive.

there have been times when i have lived hypocritically: when i was still a jw and yet disagreeing with various doctrines, pretending to be the sheeplike follower; when i owned my new age bookstore, feeling forced to continue running psychic fairs and the like, in order to keep the store financially afloat, long after i had been convinced that it was garbage; i can think of other instances which i will not discuss.

it is a hard thing to come face to face with yourself and your flaws, but better to do that and change than to live in denial and unconsciousness. living with integrity may not be easy or even possible to do l00%, but it does bring peace of mind.

thanks, craig. you always make me think.

best wishes, nowisee

hillary_step

Minimus,

Your hypocrisy, opinion or viewpoint that you've apologized for........Hillary.

You go first.....

Actually I have never been a particularly creative hypocrite, so most of my ethical blemishes are probably quite similar to yours or any other poster on this Board. Why you should require me to give an example is rather puzzling.

HS

PS - I have thought the better of it and decided to give you an example. This one is to do with a mistaken viewpoint that I changed.

Recently, I berated my cat for sitting in a newly upholstered antique chaise lounge. My wife asked what all the fuss was about and I informed her that my cat, whose name by the way is Gerald, sat in a chair that she ( yes, I understand the gender and name issue - that’s just the way we are in our home ) was not allowed to. My wife asked me what was at issue, and I explained that the cat was an animal, and these chairs were reserved for humans. She then remarked, "We are all animals really". I agreed and apologized and now Gerald gets to sit in my seat.

Is this the sort of thing you mean?

KGB

I think there is a little hyprocrasy in all of us in one way or another. We are not perfect without fault even though we may say or believe in something of a sort but our human nature is to fault. So does that make us a hyprocrite? I don't know, imperfect ? Yes can I admit imperfection ? Yes.

I believe in God and Jesus but to be a Christian does not make me perfect, it was the sinners that Jesus went to. I continue to profess what I believe in but still I am imperfect and I stumble and sometimes fall flat on my face. Does that make me a Hyprocrite? No just human....

Would you be willing to admit it if you've been a hypocrite?

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