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Originally Posted by pickled_heretic
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it's literally a cardinal sin
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The negative version of pride (Latin, superbia) is considered, on almost every list, the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins: the source of the others- thus it is able to father directly and/or indirectly all sin. Also known as hubris (from ancient Greek ὕβρις),or futility, it is identified as dangerously corrupt selfishness, the putting of one's own desires, urges, wants, and whims before the welfare of people.
In even more destructive cases, it is possessing the irrational belief that one is automatically and essentially better or more important than others, failing to acknowledge the accomplishments of others, and excessive admiration of the personal image or self (especially forgetting one's own lack of divinity, and refusing to acknowledge one's own limits, faults, or wrongs as a human being).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Pride
pretty sure thats the definition I've always used to define pride in a sense when it's negative. though a lot of people have made two versions of pride
needless to say, putting the needs of ones self above others is pretty bad when your dictating what others must absolutely do in order to protect yourself............................. taking my life, or me taking someone else's life, because their or mine is better for example... its the root of all sin. And creates negative pain in the stream of consciousness, that oscillates back and forth. No side will ever win in eternity, and only peace and harmony will be reached if a steady even vibration or balance is attained. Sadly a flatline produces no feedback in a holographic system so life does not exist without fluctuation. The purpose of life is to achieve a vibrational state.
there's plenty people in the world who support me (for example), and plenty more, without dictation.
the problem is the right is knee-jerk responding to stuff like that and viola you have the conservative hate mongering machine
I never once in my life overtly lobbied for or fought for my own rights or political agenda. In fact when I did fight for selfish reasons I failed and had very bad ... karma? until I became aware that it was more important to fight for everyones right to be free and that's when my own personal healing process and realization of shame came in. I mean, I went through a lot of shit around 9/11 and such, would have been happy to have joined the end of times in warfare. But when I turned that around and started caring about the people I served with that changed the ballgame. I'm probably making some erroneous logical statement here. But the point is... when I loved my friends in arms, I began to love myself and want to see better for us all. So that "We" didn't have to keep suffering eternally.
I don't consider myself prideful. Or "superior". Just freerer and more wise to give words of wisdom and teach and to move towards a better world where people aren't ruled by their pride, whatever label it may take.
For a long time the LGBT pride thing was detrimental to me (if we're going to talk about pride in that sense).
Hell even being overly prideful about ones own definition of pride itself to the point of hurting other people because we may wan't them to have the same definitions. Well that's sinful. And a path to darkness. Pain and suffering.