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BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
According to who's definition? I have never boasted about personal wealth except in non-material terms. Can you honestly say the same? Talking about your wife's business is a form of boasting about personal wealth.
Oh no? You don't think so BethAnne? What about your precious Solarium that you're always going on and on about.
BethAnne said:
I have no wealth to boast of.
BethAnne said:
Is it? You're assuming that wealth is coming from the store after its first eight months in business? Having a business (and I don't have a business) doesn't necessarily equate with having wealth.
BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
Yet you assume much more than that about the rest of us.
If you have a roof over your head you have personal wealth. If you have employment of any nature you have personal wealth. If you can feed yourself you have personal wealth. If you have clothing to wear you have personal wealth.
So, Jae, that means you are guilty of the boasting that you claim to not like.
revjohn
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Pr. Jae said:
Boast is defined as:
Dictionary.com said:
If BethAnne or Pr. Jae were to somehow believe themselves better than others simply because one has made some home renovations and another has a spouse who is an entrepreneur then boasting is occurring.
I haven't noticed anything of the like happening so I am not convinced either is boasting.
If I was asked I would note that I observe envy and false pride at play in the conversation though it is not a trait that appears to be shared.
Compared to what some people have, true. However - one can still be poor while having those things.
BethAnne said:
I've never boasted of having those things BethAnne. I've spoken in the past of times when I've enjoyed them. There is a difference.
You, however, seem quite bent on sharing with us all the wonders of your luxury home with its custom-crafted Solarium. If that isn't boasting - what is it?
Mendalla
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Precisely. I have never seen anything that suggests BA has been "boasting" about her solarium, simply talking about the hail damage and contractor issues. If I talked about the work I'm getting done on my rotting kitchen floor, will I be accused of boasting about my kitchen??
revjohn
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And one not with just a floor but a "rotting" floor. Must be rotting because of all the pride he has been swimming in.
BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
As they say "pride goeth before a fall" and a rotting floor will definitely lead to a fall.
revjohn
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As they say "pride goeth before a fall" and a rotting floor will definitely lead to a fall.
Great! Next he'll be boasting about his fall and what a great one it was and how nobody has fallen like him and the neighbours all said it was like lightning falling from heaven when in reality it was just like anybody else tripping over uneven pavement.
What nerve.
BethAnne
Rebellious mystic from Alberta
And I'm sure there will be injuries and scars boasted about too.
Apples and oranges Mendalla. A kitchen isn't considered a luxury in Canadian homes. A solarium is. Now if what you had was, say, a sauna or a home theater...
revjohn
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No doubt the worst of their kind ever with even more impossible complications because only normal people hurt themselves normally and recover from those normal injuries normally.
Yes you have - making sure always to include the damage to your solarium - a luxury in a Canadian home. It doesn't take rocket science to grasp that the rest of your place must hence be luxurious as well.
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Is there such a thing as religious pride or is that just the avarice of lyres and lyons ... and thus they lie it on thick ... without a Shadow of doubt whether the institution will change ... without remits and remittance to the greater powers of legalism?
Legalism: sometimes known as forensic science of things passed and thus down the tubes of the imaginary mind ... a deep well overseen by the Aquarian lady? It is rumored she has Hur own Loch, stock and barrel to confine her men ... so they can't see what's been done to them in the night ... St Joan, female genre of John ... another common-Eire ... spatial fallout or alternate descent!
revjohn
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Luce NDs said:
There is no end of things for which a person can take pride in. Religion is certainly one such thing.
Most interesting are those who boast that they have nothing to boast about without realizing that they are boasting just the same.
False humility is not the same thing as genuine humility.[/FONT]
Mendalla
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A solarium is not necessarily a luxury item or part of a luxurious home. It's a discretionary item, to be sure, but I've seen $100,000 homes (which is dirt cheap these days, at least where I am) with them and million dollar homes without them. Perhaps some previous owner built it themselves. Perhaps it's an older home that had one built and went cheap for whatever reason. You simply cannot judge BA's home or circumstances based on this one item. BA mentions it because people have shown interest in the problems she has had with the contractors, not to rub it in your face.