Catholic, Church of Latter Day Saints, numerous Protestant, an unlimited list of historical from any culture you care to identify, so I'll pick....
Ancient Greek.
HUBRIS: (As identified in Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary) Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
There are two ways we accumulate knowledge. We read books or articles, we listen to fact or opinion through various media, we watch movies, shows or documentaries concerning an infinite number of subjects. And then we live, we collect knowledge through life experience.
What have I learned through life experience?
Dealing with the oldest children in any brood can be as frustrating an experience as life can offer.
Why, you ask?
HUBRIS.
Always right. Never wrong. No yield. Unwilling to compromise. And people wonder why siblings fight? Why do younger children learn to antagonize and push buttons? Where does that behavior come from?
If our descendants learn anything from these posts, if preserved, they'll see HUBRIS and laugh.
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