Pride - self-respect, satisfaction, confidence, self-esteem (you should like who what where when why how you are, even if Catholics call it a sin, imo). what you've done and failed to do. all you think, say, do, and are and have been and will be. It's all good. Including the avarice lust anger gluttony envy and sloth.
Vanity- inflated pride, conceit. Bible says it's all vanity. Reality is all the God there ever is. All-ah. I am. (translated, in my bible, as synonymous with absurdity, frustration, futility, and nonsense). Camus, the absurdist, said we live in the midst of the "benign indifference of the universe."
Solipsism- the philosophical theory that the self is the only existing thing, and that the self can know nothing but its own modifications.
Selfishness- (excessive?) interest in oneself. concern for one's own welfare (in disregard of, or at the expense of, others). Assigning primacy to self.
Alienation, Isolation, Loneliness. (AIL, a kind of soul-sickness, we need each other)
Narcissism- egocentrism, self-absorption, love of one's own body, the disorder of exaggerated self-importance, and need for admiration, a preoccupation with power and prestige, with snobbish, disdainful, or patronizing attitude towards others. (NOT "the god in me bows to the god in you")
Conceit- feeling superior, of one's worth or virtue (can a "Lord" be egalitarian?)
Egotism- egoism, talking about yourself too much
Self-love- being your own best friend, in addition to masturbation. Being Super! With or without, supremacy or superiority.
All the world's a stage, and we but players
No-self. Part of Buddhist dharma. You are not your name. You are not your body - it changes. You choose which roles to play. Different circumstances evoke different identities. Multiple personality disorder, vs. the appropriateness of appearing different at different times and places, contexts. You are not your mind. You are not in control. There is no you. Other than DNA, I guess. But an identical twin is still not you.
I'm a million different people, from one day to the next.... (and all of them, without self, too!)
MY self, you choose the self you want to identify with? Different roles for different plays. Is my blog NUGATORY (of little or no consequence)? We create our own meaning.
I believe there is usually an element of shared mind and corporate-ness, to "self", whether you're a part of some group, or are schizophrenic, or take orders, or not. You know, dominance and submission, role models, parents and priests and bosses, bloggers like me, whatever.
