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When I started my spiritual path 35 years ago the word used was pride,now all we ear or read is ego.
Just googled and wikied both words and ego as such does not exist only as a beginning of a word,the real term is Pride .

Ego is not a word in my vocabulary because it does not exist ,it is only a root.Being modern is fine but changing the real meanings of words is another thing.

I expect a lot of rebuttals, and this is what I want.
But first be sure to check ,your references.

With love of truth
_/\_
a simple buddhist named
loong

Hello Loong,

How can you just delete a word from the language and say it does not exist because it is not in your vocabulary? Or am I missing the point? Probably.

Am interested in your response ... Freudians around the world will disagree with you I am afraid; ancient Romans too, but then I also know a couple of people who debunk Freud as a nobody who did nothing so I guess there is an argument for any standpoint in life! And anyway who speaks, studies, reads and enjoys Latin these days?

Cheers

Dear Lestie,
ego means I,period.

A simple buddhist named
loong

Dear Leslie,

It seems you have not given your references.I did not say that ego is not a word in itself,Wikipedia did.Read Wiki for ego and read Wiki for pride.These are my sources.What are yours?

With respect
a simple buddhist named
loong

Greetings, Loong.

You did say that ego is not a word because it "does not exist". Are you saying that the word ego is not in dictionaries? I say ego is a word that defines self. If you type "define ego" in your search engine, you will come up with many links that verify ego as a word with definitions. For instance:

Bing Dictionary:
Ego


Wikipedia, Ego is a Latin word meaning 'I'
..."often used in English to mean the 'self'


Merriam Webster Dictionary
Ego - noun
"the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that serves as the organized conscious mediator between the person and reality especially by functioning both in the perception of and adaptation to reality"

Answers.com
"Historically speaking, after Freud's death the notion of the ego eventually became the central preoccupation of psychoanalysis, to the detriment of the id."

I understand what you say that the word ego does not exist in your vocabulary, that is fine. Some words do not exist in my vocabulary either, yet they are in the dictionary.

Dear Phyllis,

If you read my last post on this thread ,i wrote that it did mean I.
However it seems to me that nobody understands what I am saying.
I, is neither positive nor negative.Yet people use I like it is something that is wrong.What is wrong is pride.That is what I meant in my first post. Check it out. Tell me please what is wrong with I? Checked your referrals they all say the same thing
ego=I,or is a root to further completion of words.

Pride used to be the bad guy,and someone ,some day, changed pride for an Innocent Word I, again I repeat is neutral.

With respect
_/\_
a simple budddhist called
loong

To Phyllis,

Please tell me where it is said ,that I and Self are bad.
Pride is.

With respect

A simple buddhist named
loong

To all,
Here is the definition of pride,as I know it ,has nothing to do with the word I or self which by themselves are neutral.

Pride:The "idealized self," the "tyranny of the should," the "pride system" and the nature of self-hate all point toward the intertwined relationship between neurotic pride and self-contempt. understanding how a neurotic pride system underlies an appearance of self-contempt and low self-esteem. (Cooper, 112-13).

A simple buddhist named
loong

I the nothing, I the nothing spirit the all.

Hello Loong,

Wiki and Wikied are not words in my vocabulary

Words not in my vocabulary do not exist

Therefore Wiki and Wikied are not words.

Cheers and disengaging...