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tarheel4lyf Offline
#1 Posted: Sat, Oct 18 2003, 10:06 AM EST
Joined: 09-23-2002
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hy·poc·ri·sy

(n. pl. hy·poc·ri·sies

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
An act or instance of such falseness.


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[Middle English ipocrisie, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrisis, play-acting, pretense, from Greek hupokrisis, from hupokrnesthai, to play a part, pretend : hupo-, hypo- + krnesthai, to explain, middle voice of krnein, to decide, judge; see krei- in Indo-European Roots.]
chipslave Offline
#2 Posted: Sat, Oct 18 2003, 12:44 PM EST
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I think thats the oath that my doctor made....


Nope... thats Hippocratic oath ;)
JonR Offline
#3 Posted: Sat, Oct 18 2003, 1:08 PM EST
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Isn't " hy poc ri sy " just another way of saying " li ber al " ? JonR
Tobasco Offline
#4 Posted: Sat, Oct 18 2003, 1:09 PM EST
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You do have a valid point there Jon...hehe!

Mag
xibbumbero Offline
#5 Posted: Sat, Oct 18 2003, 7:19 PM EST
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That's funny,I see it hy-poc-ri-sy=con-ser-va-tive,LOL. X
Homebrew Offline
#6 Posted: Sat, Oct 18 2003, 7:22 PM EST
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LMAO@everybody,
I love this place.
Later
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)
wekikther4wer Offline
#7 Posted: Sat, Oct 18 2003, 9:25 PM EST
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Posts: 408
hy·poc·ri·sy = politicians
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Oct 19 2003, 2:18 AM EST
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Magnafide

no mag, he has a 1 track mind,
BMW Offline
#9 Posted: Sun, Oct 19 2003, 6:07 AM EST
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Hippo Crisy, I thought that was a Disney character.

Barry
jd1 Offline
#10 Posted: Sun, Oct 19 2003, 8:20 AM EST
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Yes, Barry, it is.
sketcha Offline
#11 Posted: Sun, Oct 19 2003, 12:24 PM EST
Joined: 03-26-2003
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What wekikther4wer said. I think it's pretty universal. Republicans say they want less govt., yet they pry into peoples personal lives. Democrats say they want personal freedoms, yet are tax and spend socialists by nature and on and on and on.
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