Imbento

some people say that when you preach, it does not necessarily mean that you do what ever you preached. isn’t it ironic? if you keep on preaching something to people or a particular person, but then you don’t do it youself, it is very contradicting. why? you don’t do it yourself, so why do you impose it on other people? meaning, you do not have the right to preach something that you yourself do not believe or do not act on yourself. this is what i believe, this is my opinion.

for example. you say to someone, “you shouldn’t jump of a 10ft. platform, you’ll get hurt”. but you yourself are fond of jumping from such a height. do you actually think that the guy your telling this to would believe you? the guy would probably just say that you’re a hippocrit. you preach but you do not do. that in my opinion makes you look stupid doesnt it? i dunno. i just feel that the contradiction of what you do and what you preach just makes your preaching INVALID in other words nonsense.

another example, you say to someone. “don’t do premarital sex”… but everyone knows that you are fond of sex even if you are not married. do you actually think that if you say this to someone, that person would do as you preached? i don’t think so. why? because the person telling that to them is not an image of what has been preached.

instead of preaching something by directly saying “do” or “do not” or “you’ll be sorry”, why not just say something like, “i jump off a 10ft platform all the time… it hurts badly” or “i engage in premarital sex, but i do have responsibility over the things that i do. if you don’t have the responsibility, then you should think things over before you engage in it”… this way, they know that you engage in such acts which means, they feel that you are more credible, more believable. it removes the contradiction. it removes the irony. it doesn’t make you a hippocrit. you were honest and you showed wisdom from experience.

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