(updated) YOU HAVE NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT - YOU DIDN’T CREATE YOURSELF.  You did not determine your ethnicity, birthplace, birth-circumstances, stature, physical abilities, looks, intelligence, nor did you create your propensities, tendencies, proclivities (tenacity, perseverance, willpower, self-control, innate abilities, talents, and interests).   Everything was given to you: body, mind, emotions.  Everything that mandates cultural and societal success was either yours from birth, or was lacking.  You can HIJACK credit for who and what you have accomplished, but the credit is not yours.  Taking credit, when none is due, is like a cat boasting about its ability to catch mice, or a snake claiming it invented slithering, or a woman stating she invented boobs.  Where much is given, much is expected, due and fitting.  To be vain and prideful just pisses off the Gods.  They expect humility, and gratitude, not a self-aggrandizing blustering asshole strutting around like a deranged Peacock.

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO GLORY IN, AND EVERYTHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR.  YOU HAVE NO REASON TO BE BRAG, BE PRIDEFUL, VAIN, SELF-VAUNTING, , BLUSTER, BOAST, AND YOU DO NOT HAVE A SINGLE REASON TO CLAIM CREDIT FOR WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU ARE, AND WHAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.  YOU HAVE NO REASON TO BE SELF-AGGRANDIZING, A RESPECTER OF PERSONS, OR THINK YOU ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS, BUT YOU DO HAVE EVERY REASON TO BE HUMBLE GRACIOUS, BENEVOLENT AND GRATEFUL.

THE INTELLIGENCE THAT IS LIFE DESERVES OUR THANKFULNESS, RESPECT, GLORIFICATION. AWE, VENERATION, REVERENCE, DEVOTION, WORSHIP, AND ABSOLUTE TRUST THAT IT SEEKS KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND WISDOM (JOY AND PLEASURE) FOR ITSELF AND THE WHOLE OF CREATION, EVEN AS HUMAN PARENTS DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN, AND CARE FOR THEIR OTHER CREATIONS.