HOW TO MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF

More wisdom from the wisest man that

ever lived - king Solomon.

"As you enter the house of God, keep your

ears open and your mouth shut.  It is evil to 

make mindless offerings to God.  Don't make

rash promises, and don't be hasty in bringing

matters before God.  After all, God is in heaven

and you are here on earth.  So let your words

be few.

Too much activity gives you restless dreams;

too many words make you a fool. "  

(Ecclesiastes 5:1 -3 NLT)

Solomon carries it even  further in his book

of Proverbs; 

"Too much talk leads to sin.

Be sensible and keep your mouth shut."  

(Proverbs 10:19 NLT)

So, Solomon's advise is;

"Even fools are thought wise when they

keep silent; with their mouths shut, 

they seem intelligent."  

(Proverbs 17:28 NLT). 

But more importantly than even Solomon

is God's warning about the time everyone

of us is going to stand before him in judgment.

"And I tell you this, you must give an account

on judgment day for every idle word you speak.

The words you say will either acquit you or

condemn you."  

(Matthew 12:36,37 NLT). 

TODAY'S QUOTE

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“But God said to him, ‘You fool!  You will

die this very night.  Then who will get every-

thing you worked for?’   

Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly

wealth but not have a rich relationship with

God."
- Jesus Christ. (Luke 12:20,21 NLT)

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

To know is not to be wise.  Many men

know a great deal and are all the greater

fools for it.  There is no fool so great a 

fool as a knowing fool.  But to know how

to us knowledge is to have wisdom."

- Charles H. Spurgeon 

WHAT KIND OF FOOL

WHAT KIND OF FOOL DO YOU THINK I AM?

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If I told you the structure above just happened.

It took a long time.  Many years.  But it just

sort of grew there.  It has not finished developing

yet.  But perhaps another hundred years will be

sufficient to complete it's development.

You would tell me I am a fool.

And you would be right.

Or,

the airplane below.

It is more complex.  But it just happened.

It even learned to fly all by it's self.

No help from anyone.

Again you would call me a fool.

And you would be right.

But you want me to believe that the humming bird

below which is much more complex and even has

life came from nothing, but developed over time into

what it is just by chance.

WHO IS THE REAL FOOL?

LET'S GO SHOPPING

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"I have more than I can ever use.

That is why the next time I go shopping

for even more, I can be selective in my 

shopping."

We have never heard it stated this way.

But it is demonstrated nearly every day.

Some old English proverbs say:

1. "wast not, want not."

2. "a penny saved is a penny earned.

3. "a fool and his money are soon parted.

JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABAOUT. 

LOGIC OF THE FOOL

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"What can be more foolish than to 

think that all this rare fabric of heaven

and earth could come by chance, when

all the skill of art is not able to make 

an oyster?  To see rare effects, and no

cause; a motion, without a mover; a

circle, without a centre; a time,without

an eternity; a second, without a first:

these are things so against philosophy

and natural reason, that he must be a 

beast in understanding who can believe

in them.  The thing formed, says that

nothing formed it; and that which is 

made, is, while that which made it is

not!  This folly is infinite."

- Jeremy Taylor

"The fool says in his heart,

'There is no God."

(Psalms 14:1)

POOR RICH PEOPLE

"Watch out and guard yourselves 

from every kind of greed;

because your true life is not

made up of the things you 

own, no matter how rich 

you may be"

(Luke 12:15 GNT)

"Worldly wealth is the devil's bait;

and those whose minds feed upon riches,

recede in general from real happiness, in

proportion as their stores increase; as

the moon, when she is fullest of light,

is farthest from the sun."

-Burton

See the list of people below  They all had two things in common.

Robin Williams

Jonathan Wraith

Slim Black

Huibert Boumeester

Christopher Foster

John Lawrenson

Wayne Pai

Paul Castle

Peter Smedley

Howard Worthington

Rei Jane Huai

Michael Marin

Peter duf.

One: They all were very wealthy.

Two: They all committed suicide.

So much for wealth making you happy

"But God said to him, 'You fool!

This very night you will have to 

give up your life; then who will

get all these things you have kept

for yourself?'"

LIFE

"How short you have made my life!

In your sight my lifetime seems nothing.

Indeed every living being is no more

than a puff of wind,

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no more than a shadow.

All we do is for nothing;

we gather wealth, but don't

know who will get it."

(Psalms 39:5,6 GNT)

One time a man had too many crops to store and decided to 

build bigger barns to hold them.

"But God said to him, 'You fool!  This very night you will
have to give up your life; then who will get all these things
you have kept for yourself?'"
"And Jesus concluded, 'This is how it is with those who
pile up riches for themselves but are not rich in God's sight."
(Luke 12:20,21 GNV)

WHERE ARE YOU RICH AT?
Here or earth, or with God?

THE BUILDING NOBODY BUILT

NOBODY BUILT THIS BUILDING

It just happened.

Around eighty miles from my home is a building that

just happened.  No body built it.  It was there before 

any of us come along and none of us know of a builder

related to it.

This has been verified by the following;

Mark the scientific mason.  Mark has been in rock and

brick work all his life.  As a young man he helped his

father do this type of work and decided to continue in

this line of work with a top education.  Mark knows how

to split and shape the rocks so they fit together best and

the best bonding materials to use for their work.  Mark

throughly understands the field of masonry and can 

completely explain any faze of it.  Mark says that in a

complete structure that way there is no way anyone

could have built it.  It just happened. 

Frank the scientific framer.  Frank now has twenty

years of experience as a framer.  Frank knows the best

way to place the wall studs, the correct angle of the nails,

and the best lengths of studs and plates to use.  Frank

has been making a close study of framing during those

twenty years of framing work.  This makes him an

expert in this field.  This was all there of course before

Frank came on the scene.  After studying the framing

on this building carefully Frank says there is no way 

this building could have had a builder.  It just happened.

Earl the  scientific electrician.  Earl of course has complete

knowledge of; volt, ohms, amps, watts, resistance, wire

size for various loads etc.  Earl says that with the knowledge

he has on the subject and his ability to understand it,

there is no way there could have been a builder.  It

had to just happen.

Paul the scientific plumber.  Paul has a life time of 

plumbing experience and a complete knowledge of 

pipes, pressures, regulators, valves and anything 

else related to plumbing.  Paul like the rest was not

here when the building went up.  But because Paul

is able to completely understand how the plumbing

works in this building, he too states that it is not 

possible to have had a builder.  This building just

happened.  And we will just have to work with it.

"The fool has said in his heart,

'There is no God.'"

(Psalms 14:1 NKJV)

THE TALE OF TWO CELL PHONES

Once upon a time two cell phones were on a shelf side by side.

One was brand new.  Never used.  Never even turned on once.

The other was old, used and abused.  It had experienced many a

phone call.  It had been very useful and appreciated by it's owner.

The new unused, not even once, cell phone decided it was smarter

than the old used one.   After all, the old cell phone talked about 

sending and receiving messages.  Unseen messages at that.  It also

mentioned things like radio frequencies, radio waves or signals,
UHF band and such foolishness.

Now the new cell phone knew that was an utter absurdity.  After 

all, it had been in existence for several months now.  And in all 

that time it had never, even once, seen one of those radio signals.

It had not felt, tasted, weighed or measured one of these so call

radio frequencies.  What foolishness.

"The fool says in his heart,

'There is no God."

(Psalms 14:1 RSV)

BRAIN DEAD

Have you ever wondered why people do the things they do?

It is simple.  

On their part there is no thinking.  No thoughts.

Have you ever seen a thought?

Of course not.

Even with your best pair of glasses on you cannot see a thought.

You cannot see a thought with binoculars or a magnifying glass.

In fact, you cannot take a picture of a thought.  Try it.

Scientist using the very best microscope or telescope have never

seen a thought.

So, thoughts are simply a myth, fable or legend.

Ask your friends if they have ever seen one of your thoughts.

If there were such a thing as "thoughts", certainly you could

measure them, or weight them.

How deep or wide is a thought?  You do not know because

there are no thoughts to measure.

Pressure and vacuum gauges cannot measure thoughts, because

thoughts are nonexistent.

Testing so far only shows that thing we call a brain is simply

a vacuum chamber.

Get out your ohm meter.

Your volt meter.

Or your amp meter and measure a thought.

Can't do it can you.

Because there is not such thing as a thought.

You might hear your stomach growl.
Or one of your joints pop.
But no one can hear your thoughts because there are none.

So what do we do when someone's action seem to indicate
they may have given thought to something.

Simple.
We do what "scientist" do.
We create a hypothesis that suits our thinking.
Then spend the rest of our life trying to prove it.

Speaking of things we cannot see, touch or measure
with all our fancy test equipment;

"Fools say to themselves,
'There is no God!'"
(Psalms 14:1 GNB)