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Is a feeling of self the self .the feeling of emotion represents awareness or lack of awareness. Conceit is therefor lack of awareness that loves its self as ignorance.

Part of it maybe. But all awareness has limits, and self-awareness is the most limited.
Those with low self-esteem perhaps are unaware or ignorant of their value and potential. Those with too much self-esteem may be acting on inaccurate feedback; been encouraged by doting elders who saw more potential than there really was. It's almost impossible to have a really accurate assessment of one's own worth.
Socially, it's more advantageous to err slightly on the low side - people appreciate modesty more than bombast. In competition, over-estimation of one's fitness to lead is more likely to succeed in attaining the position... and more likely to result in bad leadership.

Yeah leader ship from an ego self.ends up being a dictatorship.

jackles wrote:Is a feeling of self the self .the feeling of emotion represents awareness or lack of awareness. Conceit is therefor lack of awareness that loves its self as ignorance.

You have to appreciate what drives human ambition . The world that we see is a world constructed on ego.

Yeah leader ship from an ego self.ends up being a dictatorship.ego self is feeling with event identity dominating it the feelings motivation and there for descision making judgements.or its alow scence of meaning outside the event identity of the feeling..wars are caused by feelings having different event identities.

I can't disagree with that, because I don't know what it means. Suspect wars are caused by complex sequences of events involving many persons.

Yes that pretty much what i was saying.but event identity is the identity a child gets put on it by the local event.ie the local event id of africa is african.the real id is what you are at birth which is existance with out id.

jackles wrote:Yeah leader ship from an ego self.ends up being a dictatorship.

Ego allows a person to believe that they can and should lead. A humble person will not share these beliefs about themselves. Those with an ego should not dead but they are the ones who end up leading because everyone else lets them. The well qualified but humble person does not wish to impose his ideas onto anyone else, but they should.

Yep an egotistic person trys to exalt them selves in any way they can.so as you say lets hope the meek inherit the earth.if not it will end one hell of a place to be stuck on.

Fatheads rule, 'coz nobody else wants to. We're in deep ungawa, comrades.