Not really, my natural indwelling pride received a death blow when I was changed back in 1980 but there's definitely plenty that remains.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
You keep proving that you have a great deal of pious and sanctimonious pride when you reply like this. It's the boomer attitude that you have lived long enough to know better than everyone younger and that you are therefore better for it. It's a familiar pattern I see in boomers. It's also one of their biggest delusions, but that's to be expected from a generation who played life on easy mode.
That would be pretty bad if I'm being a hypocrite, I don't mean to be.
(And I wouldn't "reply like that" to just anybody.)
I think with me it's more just natural pride rather than the boomer thing.
You do though have to admit that for the most part older people have some things they've lived through that younger folk haven't. Admittedly there are old fools.
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