Confused

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My only question, OP, is how you have the opportunity to notice everyone around you doing aveiros, to the extent that you'd like to change the common interpretation of the halacha for yourself and move out.

I notice when people do something wrong if they advertise it. Otherwise, I can't say I notice aveiros going on left and right.

But then you want to change your appearance to a less-religious look and not be judged for it.

I think I've gotten myself confused now too.
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Posted: Sun, Apr 22 2012, 1:13 pm Post subject: re: Confused

I apologize in advance, since I only read the first couple of posts, but all I can say is that I come from a MO background and moved far-right in response to the hypocrisy that I saw growing up. OTOH, ds got turned off to our derech by the hypocrisy that he saw in school.

in other words - hypocrisy is all over, since people are people - flawed and imperfect. the bottom line is that you need to choose a derech that you can believe in and feel comfortable with all the way down the line, and then you try to be as true to it as you can.