Proverbs 10
Verse 10:1 opens the fortune cookie chapters of Proverbs:
The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise son makes his father glad,
but a foolish one fills his mother with sorrow.
These next few chapters are what is considered antithetical parallelism, or the one line is positive and the other is the negative. Interesting how the wise son makes dad happy, but the fool falls on mom. I like this one since it highlights why wisdom is important, to make your parents happy. Each of us have done things that have gotten our parents to get angry or be filled with sadness … and some are still doing it in their 50’s.
Verse 10:4 talks about work:
A slack hand produces nothing but poverty,
but an industrious hand soon takes hold of riches.
Most Proverbs must be read and dwelled on for some time to see how they apply to your life. Unfortunately they tend to become “one-liners” and cliché’s rather than helpful adages. Think if you worked with a slacker and just out of the blue shared this Proverb. Would the reaction be positive or negative? What if you were the slacker, yet did not perceive it that way? Solomon wrote these to get YOU introspectively reviewing your actions, not to barf on others who desperately need them.
Verse 10:32 is the last in this chapter of gems:
The lips of the right-living understand what is proper,
but the mouths of wrongdoers twist and pervert the truth.
As with most of these one verse Proverbs this is a gem. Also, it cannot be used “against” or “on” anyone else but oneself. I look at politicians today and both parties can use this against the other, and I believe both would believe in their heart they were “right-living”. Maybe in tis example the “right-living” are not in politics? See this is where introspective thought is necessary! We are all wrongdoers on some level, the problem is do we twist the truth to our advantage.
I do often, without thinking. If I am caught, it’s a reflex action to hunker-down in CYA mode. Katy catches me and I can never give a solid answer to why I do it. I honestly don’t know when in my life I developed that reflex, but it’s amazing how easy it is to engage. Fortunately, I am not good at it so now I tend to be honest, except for stupid things like answering why I went to QT. We must remember, twisting the truth be it where you were last night or the candy bar you got at QT have the same eternal consequence.
asked 1st, you know the rules. Missing data doesn’t imply that all of the other data is wrong.
If that’d be your point then we wouldn’t be having this conversation, but when desert scribbles are more likely to you, we have a problem.
You have done it when I haven’t asked for it. When you have been asked you just simply ignore it. Your sources might be searchable, but then again all of the pages I stumble into are not credible, so I want to see the exact site.
You get the point, I just mistyped it for you.
Just tell them how your text starts off… F.E. : “It starts like +Joa Lampela "Got proof?… But whatever, this is fairly irrelevant.
That is why I didn’t want to get into it. I have to use "what ifs” and you missed the point of the entire sentence that you proved by missing the point.
So it is just a conclusion. You should’ve said so (if you did I’m sorry I didn’t notice). I could’ve disregarded that as your personal opinion straight away instead of asking for a hypothesis on it.
Well for now we could say science is wrong and let theories be scrutinized as much as people want to try. I am all for improving the world by correcting science and I have nothing against the idea of a god, but it just seems illogical in the light of evidence.
But if it reflects absolute knowledge then where did they get that knowledge? If they get it from god why is it so imprecise?
OK I want a link. All it literally takes is opening a new tab and searching for it, clicking your link of choice and [ctrl C] + [ctrl V]. I typed this in the time it would take for you to do that.
I think it is because Tesla got a bad reputation and asked for loads of money. He was also attempting to build a sky-laser that would hold the pace by threatening everyone. The pigeons too…