why is wisdom foolish and foolishness wise?
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Doesnt matter... coz all of us go to a box at the end...
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sometimes smart people are just book smart and not street smart which is what most people call common sense. If you haven't read it in a book then you don't know how to solve it or do it. Make sense?
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Well, I was going to answer your question, but.......you've already answered it yourself!  I's all in the scriptures.\n\nTo quote just a part of Proverbs 4 - "Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding. Do not forget, and do not turn aside from the sayings of my mouth.  Do not leave it, and it will keep you. Love it, and it will safeguard you.  Wisdom is the prime thing. Acquire wisdom; and with all that you acquire, acquire understanding.  Highly esteem it, and it will exalt you. It will glorify you because you embrace it.  To your head it will give a wreath of charm; a crown of beauty it will bestow upon you.”
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Intelligence is knowing facts.\n\nWisdom is knowing what to do with the facts you have.\n\nHuman ~wisdom~ is folly; only God's Wisdom is worthwhile.
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In a way, yes. It is the wisdom of your experiences. If someone doesn't act in their own best interest, or if they don't understand the simplest wisdom, we say they don't have "common sense". Another way of putting it is "They just don't know stuff that normal people should know." The more that you communicate with your local community, the more common wisdom you will have and spread around. As we get more isolated behind books and computers, we lose a lot of our 'common' sense of things that even "common people" would know.
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There are a lot of different types of "smart". Just because someone doesn't portray the stereotypical intelligence, doesn't mean that they can't teach most wise people a thing or two. There are a lot of "smart" people that are not wise though...
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The beginning of real wisdom lies in realizing how little you actually know. Thinking of it as a journey, You have to have a starting point to begin. Now some of us come to this starting  point a whole lot sooner than others. I have been lucky enough to meet quite a few people who I would consider "Wise". They have ranged in age from 80 year old men and women to a child who though just born had the wisdom and love of the ages in their eyes. So who can say where true wisdom lies? I don't think age has a lot to do with it. Though I will say that part of the journey is not only learning from our own mistakes and triumphs but also learning from others. Because lets face it none of use have the time to make all the mistakes ourself. I'll say one last thing and then shut up. One of the greatest pieces of wisdom I was given came from my children. We were watching the news and on it was a story about the war in Iraq. My son looked at me and asked why everyone was fighting. I told him "To be honest I'm not really sure." He thought for a moment and said "Why don't they play dodge-ball then when they are all done everyone can get up and have ice cream?" to which my daughter said "And then we could all have a picnic."
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Because as Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:18 "the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." Also Paul adds in 1 Cor 2:14 But ﻿﻿a ﻿natural man ﻿﻿does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ﻿foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually ﻿appraised." \n\nMan in his fallen state cannot understand or comprehend spiritual things without God first making him alive to the spiritual world - Eph 2:5. Because of his sinfulness, man has "exchanged the truth of God for a lie" Rom 1:25 That is why the Bible seems unintelligent to him.
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FOR WESMEISTER:  Answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him.\n                                                 Proverbs 26:4
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Because wisdom comes with age, and it takes wisdom to know that there are many things you don't know.
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I think it is meant to be a paradox.. you are putting two descriptions together that are contradictory...by saying "smart" and then saying "a-s-s," you are saying they are not smart at all..
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idioms are a way of expressing oneself as in language speaking; proverbs are wise sayings with meanings which are at times hidden.
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Proverbs 14:6  A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.\n\nIf you will read all of Proverbs 14, you will see that it is talking about foolish people who don't fear God and listen to every other teaching under the sun and accept it as fact.\n\nThe Gospels of Matthew and Luke refer to a faith that pleases God. \n\nYour first example has been defeated.\n\nBy the way, you misspelled contradiction.\n\nMoving on.
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There is a fool and wise man in everyone. Its the individual who nurtures the wise or the fool. Parents and the society also has a major role in aiding this find.\n\nHence to anyone foolishess or wisdom is all within.
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I believe you mean things like pornographic magazines and books detailing sacrificial or demonic rituals?  One could argue that you could read even these kinds of books and learn from them, more than just was is written or pictured inside them.  The problem is, when you become wiser, you have more responsibility and more idea of what is right and wrong, but sometimes you do not know how to deal with this knowledge.  Perhaps you should read the passage from the Bible:  and I gave my heart to no wisdom and to no learning or folly.  And I perceived that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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It's possible to be so smart that simple things become difficult.  It's possible to be brilliant and have no common sense.  It's possible that ignorance is bliss.\n\nSide note:  God takes the simple things of this world to confound the wise, the Bible says. . .if that's true. . .wise people often make mountains out of molehills. . .or try.
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Wise people...everyone makes mistakes.   As long as you learn from them, and don't make them again, it's ok!