Yes the song by Frank Sinatra, I like it.
A week before Christmas, the time when shopping was on its peak and traffic was hell, I wrote about two fools arguing in the middle of a busy street as to who of them was uncircumcised, unmindful of the traffic that they did not cause anyway.
If it makes you think I am a fool to want to write about fools, then think that you might be wise. Remember one who thinks he is wise is a fool.
Think of this:
He who knows not that he knows not and knows not he knows not that he knows not is a fool. let him alone. And he who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a child, teach him. While he who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep, please wake him up. And he who knows and knows that he knows is great. Hear him. I got this from an Iranian guru. Becoming more complicated? Confused? Breath easy. Remember we shall talk about fools and fools make easy things complicated, yet with some fun. While talking to a self-confessed wise is most of the time a bore.
Even the bible did not clearly define fools. Please check Proverbs 22:3 7:6-7 1:4 10:23 and Psalm 1:1
Fools are not necessarily insane or mentally ill. But most of the mentally ill looked like fools and real tomfools.
Simple fools are what the bible referred to as simpletons. They are the most easily deceived even by lousy tricks because the lack good discernment and weak in thinking. A silly person is also a fool. He is unwise and also weak-minded. Yet his mouth is bla, bla.bla no end and most of things he said gets him into trouble. The Epicurean fools are the pleasure seekers, the eat and drink now because tomorrow you die -type. They defy advice from parents, authorities and even God. The contemptous and senseless fools can easily detect peoples thinking are against them. And the like things not acceptable to society and even to God. And not far behind are the dangerous fools who are the stupid, the wicked, the abominable and the corrupt who seemed not capable of doing anything good. They are dangerous because they invite and attract others to join their evil ways. So fools are not necessarily insane or mentally ill. Lest you forget God also created fools maybe because He knows the world is less lively uninteresting, boring and senseless without fools. He knows the world is populated by normal humans and not by angels and where angels are afraid to go fools rush in.
This coming Mothers Day, think of the mothers, your mother or just anybody's mother who took good care of his young boy for 20 years to become a real macho man, Yet it took only 20 minute for the harlot woman to make him a fool.
Who is the fool? Don't look at me.
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