On Pride vs. Selfishness, I finally am able to lay this out more comprehensively on FB:
Not gonna play their Catholic game. I pick Self-centeredness / Selfishness. You can be selfish but not prideful, but you can NEVER be unselfish if you are proud. I'll just define pride here simply as: Thinking you are ALWAYS superior than others in certain areas. Greed is closer than pride to selfishness, depends how you define greed, but I'll still stick to self-centeredness to avoid confusion. Many think if they are humble they have prevented all 7 sins, but the root problem isn't pride, instead, by not tackling their selfishness, they've become more prideful (in a different way totally not to their expectation), more selfish, perhaps even more jealous. Leading to fake humility, individualism, idolizing family/children/spouse, offering the golden calf of philanthropy, unable to accept that a loser could overtake them, etc. all in the verbal mask of "thanks be to God".
The love of silver is really not about those who love collecting bitcoins, nothing wrong with collecting mountains of gold, it's the about bad motive behind it.
Once you return your SELF to God (viz. God-centered), then all is good.
From my phone's note on 3/17/2026: I know it's silly to have to define Pride, but American folks have been treating pride as the root of all sins that they really corrupted the definition. So here is my other definition for pride: A superstitious claim of one's own credit. Meaning that one does not believe that others' credit counts or simply ignores others' credit and counted them as one's own credit. Because of this definition, folks who are proud generally tend to avoid competitions, being judged, despite claiming or acting otherwise.