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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: A Question for the Women(Color Analysis)
Message-ID: <98@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 18:29:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 18:29:52 1985
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

Chris Andersen writes:
>
>Perhaps that is what vanity is.  Striving to look good so that
>others will like you instead of first trying to like yourself.

"Vanity" is related to the word "vain".  When you do something
in vain, you are doing something that is of no consequence.
In the middle ages, trying to look good was deemed vanity because
it just didn't seem as important as service to God, king, and country.

Conclusion:  trying too look good to please yourself (as opposed
to pleasing other people) is equally vain, perhaps even more so.

Besides, this constant harping about the importance of pleasing
oneself (and to H*ll with what other people think) sounds pretty
egocentric to me.

	Frank Silbermann