[ExI] humility

[William Flynn Wallace]

re arrogance:  do people who have accomplished a lot deserve to be
arrogant?  Or does arrogance include qualities we don't like?   Is it
really the opposite of humility?  Can a humble person be very confident
sometimes?  bill w

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:06 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] humility
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> On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 16:40, spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> > >...This is partly correct, but the part about assigning a greater
> importance to others is but one event in the multi-event humathlon... spike
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> >...Don't forget Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield...
> BillK
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> Sure, great book, but I just couldn't get past Dickens' ripping off the
> British rock band for the name.  It isn't like the guy couldn't think of a
> name on his own.  But karma caught up with him: he became synonymous with
> pain.  Example: I have a urinary tract infection and it hurts like the
> dickens.
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> Fun aside on that: I saw a billboard with Uriah Heep doing another album.
> Mick Box is one of the originals (the only one left) so his rock n roll
> career spans over half a century.
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> I will hand it to the Brits: at the internationals, the UK team are a
> formidable powerhouse in competitive humility.
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> The fun part about this apparent paradox is that even if you reverse it, a
> new paradox emerges.  Suppose we try to have a contest to see who is the
> least humble?  The fans listen to the arrogance competitors and begin
> discussions among themselves: oh these guys suck at arrogance.  I can outdo
> all of them combined!  The judges overhear this and give the medal to the
> fan.  But then the guy beside him challenges him and wins, pretty soon it
> is chaos.
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> spike
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