Are we all hypocrites? (Some more than others)

Are we all hypocrites?

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We are all contradictions. There's no absolutely pure person besides baby I guess.

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William Huggins said:
There's so many layers and levels to hypocrisy, it's more of an issue when you intend to act in that manner and not something that is more accidental in nature.
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Yeah well said, that's true. If it's intentional it has more weight than something that's not intended.
 
I wish I could peel away all the layers that hide who I really am inside. It feels like we’re all shaped by our conditioning, our experiences, and even the traumas of those who came before us.

It’s like we’re all built on top of these layers of influence and history, and I just want to get to the core of who I truly am beneath all of that.

I am skeptical that I will ever fully achieve this in my lifetime.

And perhaps it is only in death that we find the opportunity to transcend the weight of ancestral scars.

Death, after all, marks the end of our current mode of existence, but not the cessation of existence itself.

It may be the gateway through which we escape from all the things that shape us and get closer to who we really are.

I don't believe we are inherently hypocrites... rather, we experience moments of hypocrisy.

Fundamentally, we are human beings striving to navigate our lives with the limited understanding and knowledge available to us.

Sometimes we misinterpret or act upon that information imperfectly, and that’s part of being human.
 
100% "yes" out of 5 voters.

whale, those 5 including meself were honest, at least, about being hypocrites.
 
subtlySteve said:
I wish I could peel away all the layers that hide who I really am inside. It feels like we’re all shaped by our conditioning, our experiences, and even the traumas of those who came before us.

It’s like we’re all built on top of these layers of influence and history, and I just want to get to the core of who I truly am beneath all of that.

I am skeptical that I will ever fully achieve this in my lifetime.

And perhaps it is only in death that we find the opportunity to transcend the weight of ancestral scars.

Death, after all, marks the end of our current mode of existence, but not the cessation of existence itself.

It may be the gateway through which we escape from all the things that shape us and get closer to who we really are.

I don't believe we are inherently hypocrites... rather, we experience moments of hypocrisy.

Fundamentally, we are human beings striving to navigate our lives with the limited understanding and knowledge available to us.

Sometimes we misinterpret or act upon that information imperfectly, and that’s part of being human.
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Shadow work......
 
I have tried to be self-reflective to avoid hypocrisy which I despise.

1. Driving. I avoid road rage. I make mistakes time to time as well. Smile and keep moving.
2. With Woke bullshit. If I am going to call something out for being woke, I want to make sure it truly is. Otherwise, I am being hypocritical, because I can't stand when people make something out of nothing. Like making Caitlyn Clarke about race when she is a great player. Or with politics when someone bitches about something their own party does all the time. I was watching Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, and they wedged in a little hint of a lesbian relationship....but it was hinted at and not in your face. Not woke.
3. With young people. I can't get mad at shit they do if I also did it at their age.
 
Yup.

We all do 100 things that are questionable every day.

Yet we’ll excuse ourselves but yell at others for doing things we get on our high horses over.

Wearing jeans or using a smart phone is contributing to the evil on the planet, but heh ho, I drive a Tesla so I’m a saint.
 
Britta Perry can call me a hypocrite all day... even though she's the worst.

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Yes, to a degree. But some people behave really close to what they call their ideals, though. Such people exist, and I would not call anyone who mostly sticks by what he says a hypocrite.
 
Life is complicated.

It is natural to occasionally find yourself in situations where circumstances may lead you to have to step outside your general morals or ethics.

I don't think it is necessarily malicious.
I think a lot of people TRY to uphold their values as best they can.
 
subtlySteve said:
I wish I could peel away all the layers that hide who I really am inside. It feels like we’re all shaped by our conditioning, our experiences, and even the traumas of those who came before us.

It’s like we’re all built on top of these layers of influence and history, and I just want to get to the core of who I truly am beneath all of that.

I am skeptical that I will ever fully achieve this in my lifetime.

And perhaps it is only in death that we find the opportunity to transcend the weight of ancestral scars.

Death, after all, marks the end of our current mode of existence, but not the cessation of existence itself.

It may be the gateway through which we escape from all the things that shape us and get closer to who we really are.

I don't believe we are inherently hypocrites... rather, we experience moments of hypocrisy.

Fundamentally, we are human beings striving to navigate our lives with the limited understanding and knowledge available to us.

Sometimes we misinterpret or act upon that information imperfectly, and that’s part of being human.
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I could read this as a monologue and it would make people weep. Many truths within. Well done Steve. 👏
 
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