Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

On Shame

The Social Emotion

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Kenaz Filan
Jun 04, 2023
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BBC World Service - Witness History, Jimmy Swaggart's Fall From Grace
Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confesses to patronizing prostitutes, 1988

The modern world frequently conflates shame and humility. To be humble is to abase oneself before some big sky daddy and spend all your time apologizing for all of your life’s sinful pleasures. But the two are distant cousins at best. Humility is the opposite of pride, while shame is pr…

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