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[Oracle]

Hate is a very strong word and one which I use very rarely.
I hate the man who's ruined my life and I have very very strong feelings of anger towards the police and authority figures in the UK who allow women to be harrassed and even murdered by stalkers and allow it to happen. I am angry that laws are not passed to protect women, and maybe men, against these people.

When I said we'd hate everything I was using the word loosely and maybe meant the Germans. Do all Jews hate all Germans or do they attribute the blame where it lies? I don't know.

Whether I'm a hypocrite or not, or viewed as one on here, really has no relevance. As I've said before, most people on here are anonymous personnas who could be anyone. I'd find it a waste of my energies hating or even disliking them because they, and me, are all nobodies on here. I'd consider myself to have a very empty life if I cared what anyone thought of me on here or if I got so drawn in as to feel I had strong emotions about anyone on here. Other than me, you might all be one mad person with multiple personalities.

Precisely how I feel, which is why I can say what I really feel and it should be no bodies business but my own what kind of person I am in real life.

People should stick to countering posts and not worry about the personality behind the comments.

Particularly sickening are those forumers who insist on trying to find out personal data about me then post it on the forum without permission.

Again assumptions shouldn't be made about some-one's character based on what they choose to respond to. Such as whether they are filled with hate, just because the Cyprus Problem is the main reason for being on this forum, and so the focus is on the enemy.

But it is hard to broach hypocrisy and I am not surprised no one would admit to being one, under any circumstances.

[Feisty]

I am definitely a hypocrite in normal life.
One instance used to occur regularly in the city where my business was. There was a shortcut street that was supposed to be buses only. When I drove there I always used it. When I was a pedestrian I used to purposely walk in front of cars forcing them to brake suddenly and then prevent them from continuing by standing there and quite smugly pointing at the buses only sign.

Anyone who says they are not hypocritical I would say is fooling themselves.

[Magnus]

Just out of interest, what is the definition of 'hypocrisy' we are using here?

I only ask because there is 'hypocrisy' where you are aware that your actions conflict with your statements (e.g. 'do as I say, not as I do') and there is 'hyprocrisy' where you are unaware of the conflict (e.g. people that go to church and gossip about others but delude themselves into thinking they are going for worship)

Is ignorance of your own hypocrisy a let-off?

[Oracle]

Just out of interest, what is the definition of 'hypocrisy' we are using here?

I only ask because there is 'hypocrisy' where you are aware that your actions conflict with your statements (e.g. 'do as I say, not as I do') and there is 'hyprocrisy' where you are unaware of the conflict (e.g. people that go to church and gossip about others but delude themselves into thinking they are going for worship)

Is ignorance of your own hypocrisy a let-off?

Surely you have to allow for individual intelligence to determine the level of recognised hypocrisy.

A basal-level of self-awareness (as found in lower animals) is coupled to lacking the cognitive ability to distinguish between an emotion or instinct and its subsequent practice or action.

Same with a young child. But with developing intelligence and hence self-consciousness, you can expect an increased awareness level that can distinguish between emotion and attached action such that you can determine truth or hypocrisy more readily.

So if the ignorance is through self-denial then hypocrisy stands. If it is through low-intelligence, than it cannot be hypocrisy.

I believe the more you practice admitting to the hypocrisy that stems from simple awareness the more adept you become at sensing the deeper, hidden hypocrisies. It goes hand in hand with improving consciousness.

So ignorance of your own hypocrisy is a let off if you lack the necessary level of intelligence to be self-aware (as in child, imbecile, lower animal).

[RichardB]

So ignorance of your own hypocrisy is a let off if you lack the necessary level of intelligence to be self-aware (as in child, imbecile, lower animal).

Thats Good

I'm ok then