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Proverbs 1:20-33New Living Translation (NLT)
Wisdom Shouts in the Streets
20 Wisdom shouts in the streets.
She cries out in the public square.
21 She calls to the crowds along the main street,
to those gathered in front of the city gate:
22 “How long, you simpletons,
will you insist on being simpleminded?
How long will you mockers relish your mocking?
How long will you fools hate knowledge?
23 Come and listen to my counsel.
I’ll share my heart with you
and make you wise.

Wisdom as a woman in the streets
 
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crazyheart said:
Proverbs 1:20-33New Living Translation (NLT)
Wisdom Shouts in the Streets
20 Wisdom shouts in the streets.
She cries out in the public square.
21 She calls to the crowds along the main street,
to those gathered in front of the city gate:
22 “How long, you simpletons,
will you insist on being simpleminded?
How long will you mockers relish your mocking?
How long will you fools hate knowledge?
23 Come and listen to my counsel.
I’ll share my heart with you
and make you wise.

Wisdom as a woman in the streets
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Elsewhere in Proverbs, Wisdom says that she was with God before he created the world, as well as after:

"And I was there by him, as one brought up with him. And I was daily his delight, rejoicing in the habitable parts of the earth, and my delights were with the sons of men."
 
Hi Gord, I was about to post my own thoughts about the choice Solomon gave the women, then God revealed to me this: compare the event to the prodigal son. A loving parent would will always choose to give over the adored child to evil, so that in the end when the child matures and reasons, the child will choose to return from it on his own. The evil woman represents sin. We are all prodigal children who were given over to sin, so that, once tired of 'feeding the pigs', we would return to Our Father in humble gratitude. Thank you for the post. This was my first time to visit here. Maybe I'll stay. :)
 
Waterfall said:
Interesting explanation, Candy, food for thought.

Welcome and I hope you do stay.
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Thanks for the warm welcome. I found out about this from an interesting ad in a gardening magazine that's many years old. I don't garden, so it's funny I even looked at it.
 
Candy said:
Thanks for the warm welcome. I found out about this from an interesting ad in a gardening magazine that's many years old. I don't garden, so it's funny I even looked at it.
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I ended on the original because of an ad in Today's Parent. I do parent, though there are days when I'd rather garden instead. :D
 
When I still lived out on my old farm and had big garden, gardening was a meditative exercise for me, my garden was my temple, and virtually all of my time was devoted to writing my book, growing my garden, and raising my grandchildren. I implanted into my grandchildren my love of books and raised them as readers and writers, but I also implanted in them my love of gardening. My proudest moment came when my granddaughter brought one of her friends out to the farm to stay for the weekend, and the first thing she showed her friend was -- my garden.

The flight of precious time will gladly pass
When something dearer ripens in its flight:
The precious flower which we grow in our garden,
The child we educate, the poetry we write.

-Friedrich Rückert
 
There are a lot of these dichotomies ... between facts and information ... between information and knowledge ... between knowledge and wisdom. I have no doubt that the differences are real but I am not sure the words mean the same things to different people. Notwithstanding that, in my own personal hierarchy of meaning wisdom is the highest attainment and we should constantly strive for it (whatever "it" is). In my opinion, "information" equals "facts+", "knowledge" equals "information+", and "wisdom" equals "knowledge+". Each is in turn leavened by additional insight, up to and including spiritual insight. This is the significance of the "+" sign.
 
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Candy said:
I like your tag-line Mendalla. I say 'The journey IS my home.' at least while I'm a foreigner on this planet.
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As a UU, I regard life as a search for meaning ("a free and responsible search for truth and meaning" as we put it in our principles) which translates into a journey of exploration for me, hence the tag "A seeker on a journey".
 
qwerty said:
There are a lot of these dichotomies ... between facts and information ... between information and knowledge ... between knowledge and wisdom. I have no doubt that the differences are real but I am not sure the words mean the same things to different people. Notwithstanding that, in my own personal hierarchy of meaning wisdom is the highest attainment and we should constantly strive for it (whatever "it" is). In my opinion, "information" equals "facts+", "knowledge" equals "information+", and "wisdom" equals "knowledge+". Each is in turn leavened by additional insight, up to and including spiritual insight. This is the significance of the "+" sign.
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Well said!
 
Hermann said:
When I still lived out on my old farm and had big garden, gardening was a meditative exercise for me, my garden was my temple, and virtually all of my time was devoted to writing my book, growing my garden, and raising my grandchildren. I implanted into my grandchildren my love of books and raised them as readers and writers, but I also implanted in them my love of gardening. My proudest moment came when my granddaughter brought one of her friends out to the farm to stay for the weekend, and the first thing she showed her friend was -- my garden.

The flight of precious time will gladly pass
When something dearer ripens in its flight:
The precious flower which we grow in our garden,
The child we educate, the poetry we write.

-Friedrich Rückert
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Nature is God's 'other' bible.
 
I think I'd describe "Nature" (The Universe & Everything) as Godde's Original Bible, and anything our pitiful anthropocentric human brains can imitate as symbols on paper (or pixels in a machine) as a distant copy.

I wish you still had your garden, Hermann; I would love to have visited it.
 
How smart are we when the combined intelligence and technology of the human race can not (and will never be able to) produce just one self replicating blade of grass out of nothing.
 
Given that fact possibly we should be extremely cautious as we live on this planet. We don't yet understand how it 'works' (fungi hold up trees by anchoring their roots, for example). It seems to me that we shouldn't break things - like the circle of life- unless we can mend them!
 
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