Website owner: James Miller
Some thoughts and observations
On pride. Birds of a feather flock together. Just as birds of a feather flock together, certain personality traits tend to flock together. Take for example the trait of high pride. Where you find high pride you are also apt to find certain other personality traits. Let us name some:
● sensitivity. A very proud person is likely to be very sensitive, very touchy, very easily provoked and angered. Just the wrong word from you is likely to have heavy consequences.
● an inclination toward argument and strife
● a tendency toward maliciousness, spitefulness, vindictiveness, vengefulness
A proud person is very easily offended, very quick to take offense. He is prone to misinterpret words or actions, take them in the wrong way. He first considers himself slighted or wronged and then determines to have his revenge. A good natured man likes people, treats them well by habit, assumes other people have similar dispositions to his. He expects good treatment from people, habitually treats other people’s words and actions toward him in a positive way, not expecting rudeness or badness. He just assumes good of others unless he has good reason not to. The ill-natured person goes around expecting bad from others and generally finds it everywhere he goes. He goes about punching his way through life.
High pride, arrogance, haughtiness just naturally bring a negative response from others. It just naturally causes dislike. As a consequence of this the arrogant person becomes conditioned to expecting badness from others. He treats other people with presumption and arrogance, he steps on their feet, they respond negatively, and then he is angry.
Humility, amiability, good intentions, and good nature go together. High pride and ill-nature go together.
By pride cometh contention.
Prov 13:10
A proud man has many crosses.
A proud heart in a poor breast
Gives its owner little rest.
A proud man is always a foolish man.
When pride comes, then comes shame;
But with the humble is wisdom.
Prov 11:2
A man's pride will bring him low,
But the humble in spirit will retain honor.
Prov 29:23
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding:
But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Prov 14:29
Good temper is the most contented, the most comfortable state
of the soul; the greatest happiness both for those who possess
it, and for those who feel its influence. With "gentleness" in
his own character, "comfort" in his house, and "good temper" in
his wife, the earthly felicity of man is complete.
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than
to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his
victim.
Charles Buxton
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Bad people. Bad people caught red-handed doing what they ought not often react by going on the offensive. They decide their best strategy is an aggressive offense. Without Truth, Goodness, or Right to support them they become nasty and mean. They lie, become abusive, call you names, get vulgar. It is a tactic, a universal tactic, of bad people. Without the support of Reason and Truth they use those tools remaining to them to fight you. They go to war against you using false accusations, name-calling and abusive language. Is it not this very same tactic that we everywhere see the liberal left employing? Without the support of Reason and Truth, they become abusive, call people names, try to do damage to them by whatever mean trick they can think of.
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Losers. People who are losers, real losers, people who fail at everything they attempt, who have been failing at everything all their life, often start blaming others for all of their failures. In other words, in this kind of situation, there is a psychological tendency to try to shift the blame from yourself to others. Do I see this very same thing happening with certain loser minority groups? As a group, they come up looking very poorly on every measure: school performance, scholastic achievement, financial achievement, inclination towards violence and crime, percentage of out-of-wedlock children, etc. Then, instead of looking inward for the reason, examining their own outlooks, attitudes, values, and way of living for the answer, they try to blame others for their failures, shift the blame to others.
See: Mindset of the winner and the loser
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Oriental children. Why is it that children of people from oriental countries (Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, China, etc.) so strongly outperform white children scholastically here in America? I think the answer lies in the mind and mentality of their oriental parents. I think it is all oriental cultural mentality. Orientals value education. They really believe in it. Unlike white parents, the oriental parents are really serious about their children studying hard, excelling scholastically, and then going to college and becoming some doctor, lawyer, or other well-paid professional. They expect it and their children know they expect it. And they are willing to push their children hard. And that makes all of the difference. It is all about the outlooks, attitudes, and values of the home. And it is also about money. Orientals want their children to become professionals who make a lot of money. It is best for the children and it is best for them because they are expecting their children to take care of them when they get old (in the oriental tradition). Thus they have a selfish interest in the outcome. And it is not just children of upper class orientals who excel scholastically. My wife is a hairstylist who has worked with a good number of oriental hairstylists (Vietnamese, Korean, etc.). It is amazing! The children of all of those oriental hairstylists have gone on to become doctors and lawyers! Something is going on here! Americans would be wise to pay attention and try to learn how it is done.
See the following:
Why do American students do so much poorer than Japanese students in school?
Oriental children become doctors while American children become waiters
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