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thechadmaster
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12 Jan 2011, 12:03 pm

ruveyn wrote:

I am not a hypocrite and I feel pretty good.

I am an equal opportunity, non-discriminating s.o.b.

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*chuckles* we are ALL hypocrites, some people are just better at lying to themselves than others.


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13 Jan 2011, 11:56 am

NobelCynic wrote:
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But in a sense, these hopes are hypocritical for someone who doesn't care for religion, religious debates, (and secretly) people who are excessively religious.

I still don't see the hypocrisy there unless you pretend to religious people that you don't believe in God.

Religious people give God a bad name because they talk about what they don't know, then form these organizations to convince themselves that they do. This is the worst kind of hypocrisy for they are the victims of their own deceit.

You are being honest in admitting that your hope is only a hope. There is nothing wrong with that. Hope is good.


::Sniff:: Not according to Sand. ::Crosses his arms and pouts:: Heh, I appreciate the sentiment Nobel. Thank you.



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13 Jan 2011, 6:13 pm

I have to agree that you're not a hypocrite.

"Spirituality" is just having some kind of metaphysical belief. Most of us do. I do.

"Religion" to me is the urge many people have to be externally validated. It is also the desperate desires of humanity to have some kind of answer, a form to follow, and rituals to perform. It is a way of feeling in control in a world where nothing is ever under our control. I understand that more than people think.

I choose to make individual moral judgments every day of my life without guidance. That path isn't for everyone. I think very, very carefully about how my actions affect others. Considering I have Asperger's, this task occasionally feels Sisyphean.

But I do it because it is the right thing to do.