To understand this post fully, please read the post about the difference between modern pride and archaic pride: https://www.inspirationparadise.org/forum/humility-pride/the-difference-between-modern-and-archaic-pride
It is often said that pride is the most difficult sin to detect in a person. This is because it is directly related to our sense of self, which is an incredibly deep and complex and the survival instinct does not just pertain to our physical body, but also to our psychological self-image.
Over time, I'll be listing many different and unexpected ways that pride can surface in our lives.
Let's begin!
Believing that we can know the future
I often hear people worrying about the future. Surprisingly, the actual solution for this is to understand that we cannot know the future. To realise that reality is for too complex for us to understand should make you feel appropriatley powerless. In comparison to nature, we are powerless. This realisation aids the aquisition of a balanced and harmonious worldview, where although we are capable of having a great affect on society like Steve Jobs, we are not capable of knowing the future.
This immediatley brings most unhappy people into the present, in which they have no problems. (Unless they're being chased by a polar bear)
Do not have the hubris to believe that you are more powerful than God in any way. What a foolish man is he who thinks he is smarter than the creator of intelligence. Prideful men lead themselves, because they were not raised to respect leadership, and so they fail to adhere to the natural laws. There is a great trap for people who follow themselves: many bad things seem good, and many good things seem bad. These men are driven into the ground by addictions of all sorts, obvious and subtle, all because they are too prideful to tell the world that they are subservient to God.
Men who do not know God think that the previous sentence means 'subservient to men.' In repsonse to this I would say that each man should follow those who are more virtuose than him, and refuse to follow anyone who is less so. There is such a thing as 'more virtuous' and 'less virtuous', however difficult it may be to accurately gauge it.
2. Believing that we are inherently better than other people