{"id":5294,"date":"2017-08-28T04:55:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T04:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/28\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud-2\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T04:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T04:55:58","slug":"how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/28\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did We Get to be So Proud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Recalling our miserably indigent origin in&#0160;the wombs of our mothers and the subsequent helplessness of infancy, how did we get to be so arrogant and self-important?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In a line often (mis)attributed to St. Augustine, but&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Bernard_of_Clairvaux\" target=\"_self\">apparently<\/a>&#0160;from Bernard of Clairvaux,&#0160;<em>Inter faeces et urinam nascimur<\/em>: &quot;We are born between feces and urine.&quot;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">So inauspicious a beginning for so proud a strut upon life&#39;s stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Pride, result of the Fall, comes before a fall &#8212; into the grave.<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/08\/a-christian-koan.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/noimg_106_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/08\/a-christian-koan.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">A Christian Koan<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recalling our miserably indigent origin in&#0160;the wombs of our mothers and the subsequent helplessness of infancy, how did we get to be so arrogant and self-important? 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