psilocyberin said:

So basically, the line is drawn with what you personally dislike. A lot of people dont like Al Gore for various reasons, so they revel in calling him a hypocrite, and justify not heeding his advice because of this.....
While i wasnt going to ruin a good thing and call my girlfriend out for being a hypocrite, cause I like teh blowjobs.

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i like how you put it. i guess peoples attitude towards certain hypocrites does have a lot to do with their own beliefs and wants.

i never put it into context with the blowjob situation. but thats why i post stuff like this i guess. !

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its about context. if some one smokes cigarettes and says "dont ever start smoking them, look what its done to me" then it isnt hypocrisy. but im talking about some getting up on stage or even some one just talking to you person to person talking about something they think is wrong to do, but still do it.

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Yes but then why would that person hide the fact that he/she is smoking, where he/she could just say look I smoke but I know it's not healthy and I advice you not to smoke.
If one omits to say the one smokes and goes along giving advices, I have the right to wonder about one's intentions, right? When we keep asking ourselves about one's intention, there is obviously a lack of confidence . How could that facilitate human connection?

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example: i know a person in my friends group that i dont particularly like, but she said a few months ago "nobody in out group of friends can have fun without drugs anymore." and now she smokes pot chronically, drinks every weekend, and basically doesnt laugh anymore without weed. thats what im talking about. just because some one cant hold true to their beliefs doesnt make that idea or belief any less important or true.

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In that case she didn't really hide the fact that use uses drugs on regular basis, so you can say that all she did was observing what's happening with the group, including her. Since I suspect that everybody who was taking part at that discussion knew about her drug use and she knew they knew too...  . We need to be able to make the proper differences from case to case and distinguish every nuance and aspect of the situation. That way we can come to a much better reasoning about the purpose of the conversation and the statements one makes.

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actually when she said that she was acting like she was all high and mighty and better than everyone else, because she hadnt smoked weed in a while. then she started again shortly after saying those words. thats the kind of hypocrite in talking about in the first post.

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it doesnt make her words less true. (because they were never really true in the first place because she was just all sour grapes cause her boyfriend got caught smoking and had to stop for a while) but had those words been true, i would have paid attention and considered what she had said even today.

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Again, what does the truthfulness of her words have to do with the fact that she was lying? Anything, if augmented right, has some truth in it. Let's not confuse things here. This does not replace the integrity of a person

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but i dont think that words are any less powerful because of the person saying them. it doesnt matter what kind of hypocrite. and you are making too many assumtions about my examples. just take them at face value cause they are examples and i dont want to come up with any good ones.

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i dont think it only does if the person being told that smoking is bad lets it be that way. but this thread isnt about human connection really. its about how people disregard things people say because they dont do what they tell other people to do. words are words, and people are people. the only connection is that people make words. but words dont make people.

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it makes me think less highly of the person who is preaching such things if the person cant follow them, but again, the words are still just as meaningful

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