Do you have self-pride when you answer questions in this forum?

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Knowing the answer to a question is one thing, thinking that you are better than everyone else because you know the answer is when it becomes sinful.
 
I think as long as one is intending to convey good, useful knowledge for the benefit of the other, long answers are not a problem. If it’s just unnecessary information, then that doesn’t seem to be modest.
 
There was a thing in Knox’s “On Englishing the Bible”, when he talked about the difficulties a translator runs into.

One part that stuck in my memory went:
The first sentence of St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans has ninety-one Latin words in it. The second sentence in his epistle to the Ephesians has a hundred and eighty-two. I admit that these figures are exceptional, but it is the clear fact about St. Paul that he thought in paragraphs.
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And that’s true for a lot of us on the Internet: some people think in emojis, other people think in paragraphs. 🙂
 
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How do you become humble without feeling proud of your long answers?
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Don’t get me wrong, and look I know I can be the worst offender, but yeah I admit I can be, what’s the word…verbose? Yeah. Verbose. Too many verbs means verbose? Anyway, long answers give me a chance to share with you my incredible viewpoint, from humble yet slightly proud , give me a chance to shine, to steal the limelight from others. After all, I spent so many years in the background, like a nobody, a know-nothing. But that’s not me! I’m much better than that. And I have read Revelations in the Bible. I mean how many people can say, they did that? Not that I understood much but still. So yeah, you could say I’m proud of my long answers.
 
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OKComputer said:
thinking that you are better than everyone else because you know the answer is when it becomes sinful.
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Thinking that you are better than everybody else will come later after knowing the answer to a question.
 
goodcatholic said:
So yeah, you could say I’m proud of my long answers.
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I guess you should not feel too guilty about it since this is a forum after all and we are encouraged to chat a lot. Otherwise this forum is dead.
 
I think the problem might really be with the English language only having one word to refer to two different states and calling them both pride.
I think if a person did have genuine pride,and not just joyous satisfaction at doing well on a test,there would be no harm in that because it’s like when parents say they are “proud” of their kids for being hardworking or kindhearted etc.

It is the other kind of pride (haughty,arrogant,feels smarter or above others,treats others as being lesser etc) that is the problem.

At least that’s how I understand it but I could be wrong.
 
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When you are so full of yourself, there is no room for God. How do you become humble without feeling proud of your long answers?
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If we had to completely separate pride from all human endeavor…we’d do nothing; we’d accomplish nothing. Complete humility is virtually impossible in this world, in our fallen state. But this in no way means that our actions are meaningless or performed with totally impure motivations; we’re a mix, even the most saintly of us, of the holy and the profane, spirit and flesh.
 
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Nah. Being "humbled"is the political fad now, and I always mix politics with religion.
 
It’s when I keep on obsessing over how “wise”
or “good” my post is that I need to humbly pray
to God for forgiveness on dwelling on MY answers
and forgetting to consider how that might affect
others.
 
The reason I dislike Memories from the Past so much is that my spelling is so glaring it is embarrassing. I guess that is pride on my part. However, signed up for the free Grammarly Program and am doing much better. And that is that.
 
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