Prideful Thoughts
the prior table shows how you became prideful, this shows what goes through your head.
This is by no means a detailed statement on this. Many types of pride have multiple results. There is "cross-pollination" between the different types.
Prideful - tend to ask who, what, when where, and a superficial why. Seldom a deep why. This strategy is a staple of the "gossip industry."
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Pride whats you to think: |
Result |
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that you are better than someone else |
arrogance, ignorance of past |
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that you are smarter than someone else |
don't need to learn any more -> ignorance, biting sarcasm, ignorance of past |
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that you are wiser than someone else |
ignorance, sarcasm |
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that your way of life is better than another |
colonialism, neo-colonialism, indifference to other's predicament |
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that men are better than women |
rape is not just sex, but power isn't it? |
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that women are better than men |
feminism turning into anger. This is an overreaction to men's pride. |
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that your religion is the one right way |
Crusades, forced conversions, inquisition, arrogance, exclusivity |
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of vanity / beauty |
obsession with looks at expense of other parts of character, needless plastic surgery. Anorexia, bulimia |
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that your skin color (and/or ethnicity) is better than others. |
racism taken to an extreme form = genocide, overt and subtle bias when treating others |
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that your country is great (nationalism and extreme patriotism) |
war |
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of ignorance |
indifference and hypocrisy |
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that you can defy / disrespect nature (directly or indirectly) |
ravaged environment |
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Parental pride - too many expectations. Don't let children be who what they are "naturally" inclined to be |
Then children rebel. Parents blame children. Maybe they should blame themselves |
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Parental pride - too much into self. |
Ignoring and neglecting of children. |
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that you are important |
Impatience rudeness (cell phone users!) |
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that your body is a temple |
prudishness. There is no shame in naked human body or sex. Did we learn nothing from the metaphor of naked Adam & Eve? |
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that you hold more power than others |
self-corruption / lies / deceit, paranoia (Howard Hughes would be a good example. Just read the tabloids....) |
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that you are always right |
hypocrisy -> lies -> self-deception |
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that you DEserve more of anything |
Power --> greed ---> corruption of the mind |
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that you DEserve the best |
bigger is better |