Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!unc!fsks 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 Article-I.D.: unc.98 Posted: Mon Aug 5 18:29:52 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 02:37:22 EDT References: <1266@eagle.UUCP><515@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 18 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