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Today is Wednesday, November 27, 2019.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about the gift of wisdom.

And we've already talked about how wisdom is like standing at the top of a mountain with God

and looking down on the world and seeing things through his eyes.

Yesterday, we talked about a little bit of confusing philosophy and the idea that God is the

cause for everything. He is the uncaused cause. Today, we are going to take a lesson from the

book of Proverbs and learn what the opposite of wisdom is. And the opposite of wisdom is

foolishness. Now, if you know, the book of Proverbs is about in the

middle of the Bible. It is right by the book of Psalms. And it is not a story. In fact, it is a whole

bunch of little wise phrases, phrases that we can use to live a better life. And there's two types of people

that Proverbs speaks about for the most part. It talks about the wise person and the foolish person.

Now, we know that there's two main ways. You can be wise if you are standing near to God,

continually trying to walk closer to him and see things through his eyes. Now, a fool we can also

realize is someone that does not draw near to God and that refuses to see things through his eyes, but instead

tries to see things only through their own eyes. Proverbs goes into this. It defines a fool

lots of ways. It says a fool is someone right in their own mind, meaning someone who thinks they're right in

their mind and refuses to be corrected by other people, even when they're wrong.

A fool is someone who gives into their temper.

A fool is someone who vents their anger.

A fool is someone whose only pleasure is in their own opinion and not in the truth. And finally,

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