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.
Corpus Jess-T: my body of writing; my body of flesh
GOD: Gathering of Data
dogs and cats, gods and tic-tacs, (TIC, tongue-in-cheek), 101 uses for a dead cat, all dogs go to heaven, Mouse (matrix character), cats toy with their prey, sometimes. Go Panthers, Wildcats, Cougars! (Burlingame, St. Ignatius, St. Stephen's). Penthouse pets. Cumfort animals. Hepcats at the pet cemetery in Los Gatos. Chai tea and tai chi and i.e. (id est). IBYC? The Pope, Popeye, and poppies (and puppies)! Poopy peppy puppies! Dogs, deputy attorney generals (dags), DOGE, and Doug. Me llamo Yanomamo! yo mama is SO fat... Sonya from Sony. Frank the freak.
Seers. The Holy See. of the Past. of the Present. Of the Future. Pristine pure? With ears to hear, and eyes to sigh?
Grumpy Cat died, in 2017, urinary tract infection. Ned the snail (with a left-sided coil) died, just recently. They have much to teach us. Rest In Peace, beloved animals!
Bad Aachen means "bath" not the English 'bad'. Westernmost city in Germany. Alemán is German, in spanish. 30+ German kings crowned there. Other fun encyclopedia factoids: 'A' comes from proto-sinaitic, the first alphabet. Alpha started out as an ox head ('alp' meant ox head. The alps (mountains), however, is from Albus, meaning white. Different derivation, etymology. 'Trump', in cards, is from "triumph". Unrelated to 'trumpet', believed to be from the sound a trumpet makes.
witchy, itchy, and bitchy! Richie Rich :-)
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