one thing i want to say real quick
i don't believe in pride i've never really realized it until now, but basically- i don't believe in pride pride is very dumb in my opinion in a lot of ways look at eugenics for example.. notions of racial superiority.. why do they continue to pervade our societies today? pride.. people LIKE to think they are better than others so they continue to teach that bs i'm not saying every racist is a broke-ass loser, but a lot of those extremely racist people are losers and so that's why they love racism.. because it gives them a belief that they have value or superiority i've noticed a lot of people just don't see the downsides or absurd beliefs that come with pride in general another example would be when a person achieves a lot and becomes proud.. but there are so many people who have helped them to achieve whatever it is they have accomplished.. people talk about pulling themselves up by the boot straps but the Bible says God gives us the power to obtain wealth any person who is standing on a mountain top beating their chest really needs to sit down because they could've been aborted, they could've been born with a debilitating disease, they could've been born in a third-world country, the list goes on.. the fact is God has blessed you and had a lot of mercy on you to allow you to have some measure of success i've noticed recently that this is one area where i differ from a lot of people in beliefs.. a lot of times i can't relate to people in certain conversations and this is why.. because I DONT BUY INTO PRIDE sometimes people say things that don't make sense to me like "don't you want to show off your (insert whatever thing here)?" i'm like "no" and then we have an odd conversation where we just don't see eye to eye i now realize its because i just don't buy into all the hype.. i'm not into self adulation.. parading things around i think a lot of that stuff is superficial nonsense.. i'll give u an example of what i mean u've probably seen this happen before.. say you know a woman who is down to earth.. then one day she meets a great catch type of guy who has a high status and makes a lot of money he proposes to her and gives her a ring and now every time you see her she is showing off her new ring and she isn't down to earth anymore.. she now has an aire of superiority and you don't even feel comfortable around her anymore she doesn't greet you warmly anymore, she doesn't give eye contact anymore, she makes snide remarks, she makes you feel small now my take on her? i'm sorry but she is on that bullsh*t she needs to just stay humble because last time i checked divorce stats in america they were pretty damn high i've been like this for a long time.. i even remember having a conversation with my friend when i was like 14 and we got on the subject of success and i started to sense he was equating it with superiority.. so i said to him "yeah you might have more money but that doesn't make you better than anyone else" and i remember he said "i beg to differ" so that just told me that he bought into that sort of thought process but i think that way of viewing is a huge fallacy i'm not even proud to be "black".. every skin color is just as valid as the next.. i can never understand why people say they are proud to be a skin color.. its a physical trait.. you never hear people say "i'm proud to have attached earlobes" or "i'm proud to be a human" like wtf does "i'm proud to be white" or "i'm proud to be black" even mean!? especially when races are man-made categories placed on people anyway, after all that- u might be wondering.. ok james.. what do u believe in then? i believe in gratitude i believe in being thankful for what God has done in your life, i also believe in thanking those around you who have helped you to achieve when it comes to pride.. that ish is just nonsense don't be out here tooting your own horn and smelling yourself because if you actually start to believe your own hype you will be in for a rude awakening God is good to us and He is the reason why any of us have anything good that we have i think its ok to be grateful, i even think its ok to be pleased with whatever you've accomplished, but when you start to become prideful and you begin to feel superior to others, you are in delusion's territory
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