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Foolishness is the inability or failure to act following reason due to lack of judgment, stupidity, stubbornness, etc. [1] The things such as impulsivity and/or influences may affect a person's ability to make reasonable decisions. [citation needed] Other reasons of apparent foolishness include naivety, gullibility, and credulity.
Only after his death did the secret of his imitative foolishness come to light. Some inhabitants remembered his acts of kindness and reportedly strange and powerful miracles. Leontius's biography of Simeon is an important source for the study of urban life in late antiquity.
Foolishness for Christ (Greek: διά Χριστόν ... The yurodivy is a Holy Fool, one who acts intentionally foolish in the eyes of men. The term implies ...
Preaching is foolishness. Christians are called to be fools for Christ's sake. The Apostles are ridiculed as fools, 'a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men' (1 Cor.4:9)." [12]: 1 Hyers says themes of divine foolishness overturning human wisdom form the plot lines of many Bible stories and such reversals are familiar in comedy as well.
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) is a 2007 non-fiction book by social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.It deals with cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and other cognitive biases, using these psychological theories to illustrate how the perpetrators (and victims) of hurtful acts justify and rationalize their behavior.
The (yurodivy) юродивый, the Russian version of foolishness for Christ, is a peculiar form of Eastern Orthodox asceticism. [1] The юродивый is a Holy Fool, one who acts foolish in the eyes of men. The prototypical story of the Holy Fool is that of the young man who asks to accompany the prophet Elijah:
Gymnastics officials should be celebrating the talent that make Biles a once-in-a-lifetime athlete instead of throwing up barriers to achieve parity.
Augustine taught that the sin of Adam and Eve was either an act of foolishness (insipientia) followed by pride and disobedience to God or that pride came first. [d] The first couple disobeyed God, who had told them not to eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen 2:17). [147] The tree was a symbol of the order of creation. [148]