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254. The Wisdom Deficit · Your Enriched Self

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  Speaker 1: Every once and again, I hear something really funny on
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  Speaker 1: social media and there was a creator that was explaining
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  Speaker 1: his experience as a Nigerian with Nigerian parents, and one
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  Speaker 1: of the quotes that his parents would say to him
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  Speaker 1: when he was doing something that was, you know, off,
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  Speaker 1: would be that wisdom is chasing you, but you are faster.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's so funny because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times wisdom is trying to catch up to us in
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  Speaker 1: the race that we're in in what we're doing, and
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  Speaker 1: we are just surging ahead without wisdom. And in this life,
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  Speaker 1: we have information overload, and I think there's a gap
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  Speaker 1: between that information and the deep application of wisdom that
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  Speaker 1: we need to truly guide us in the direction that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go. And so that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: things I want to delve in to this week because
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  Speaker 1: it's an opportunity that I think we don't talk about enough,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to challenge your thinking about that. I
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  Speaker 1: want us to get into this space of growth mindset.
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  Speaker 1: So get ready to talk through something that's going to
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  Speaker 1: require you to go a little bit deeper than you
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  Speaker 1: typically do when it comes to these topics. Hello, my
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  Speaker 1: friends from all across the globe and welcome so that
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  Speaker 1: you're in rich Self podcast. I am your host Smi
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  Speaker 1: Lee Noir. I am an emotional wellness and empowerment coach,
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  Speaker 1: and what that means is I'm out here looking out
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  Speaker 1: for you. I want to make sure as you go
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  Speaker 1: through this life, as you go through the days and
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  Speaker 1: the experiences in this week and the coming weeks, the
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  Speaker 1: balance of the year, that you are doing it in
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  Speaker 1: an enriched space. And it starts with your thoughts. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts are the space that helps for you to
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  Speaker 1: realize and envision your next steps, your future, your desired outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that you do starts with your thoughts, and so
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  Speaker 1: I create the space so that you can cultivate the
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  Speaker 1: garden of your thoughts because you need time to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Listen for a garden to grow and grow properly, right,
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  Speaker 1: because you can have a garden and you don't take
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  Speaker 1: care of it, and weeds can take over it, or
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  Speaker 1: it's not growing in the direction you want it to
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  Speaker 1: grow in, or not producing fruit. Maybe it's just a
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  Speaker 1: plant that's non producing. And in life, you want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure what you're doing is producing. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: what we talk about on this podcast these mindset fusion
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  Speaker 1: topics to help you think through what you typically don't.
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  Speaker 1: We spend a lot of time doing and not thinking,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what this podcast is all about. So if
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  Speaker 1: you stumbled on this episode on this podcast, I want
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  Speaker 1: to thank you for being here. But I know that
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  Speaker 1: you were brought here on purpose for a purpose. And
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  Speaker 1: if you are a repeat listener, we have accomplished together
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  Speaker 1: over two hundred and fifty episodes because of you, your persistence,
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  Speaker 1: you showing up for yourself into and having these episodes
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  Speaker 1: to help you become more of your enriched self. So
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you for that. Now, if you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that I do each
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  Speaker 1: and every week is I make a deposit into the
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  Speaker 1: bank of you, and I do that by way of affirmations.
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  Speaker 1: Affirmations are a great way to start your day and
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  Speaker 1: to command your mourning. And this week's affirmation is I
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  Speaker 1: invite wisdom into my life, trusting in Divide guidance to
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  Speaker 1: lead my next steps. I invite wisdom into my life,
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  Speaker 1: trusting in Divide guidance to lead my next steps. I
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  Speaker 1: invite wisdom into my life, trusting in divine guidance to
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  Speaker 1: lead my next steps. Now, let's get ready for this
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  Speaker 1: week's episode of the Your Enriched Self podcast. Another beautiful
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  Speaker 1: day to be outdoors, to take in all that nature
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  Speaker 1: has to offer, the sounds, the breeze, peering out into
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  Speaker 1: in my space, a backyard filled with greenery and birds
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  Speaker 1: and all kinds of creatures that are abound in their
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  Speaker 1: own habitat. And it is beautiful to listen, to soak
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  Speaker 1: it in and to be part of it. And one
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  Speaker 1: would look around and think, Wow, the world is full
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  Speaker 1: of beautiful things, and we.
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  Speaker 2: Have so much abundance.
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  Speaker 1: However, as you look around in the world, like when
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  Speaker 1: you get away from the beautiful nature access that you
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  Speaker 1: have in your communities, in your own backyard, in the parks.
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  Speaker 2: In which you go, and you go out into the
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  Speaker 2: world and.
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  Speaker 1: You start experiencing people, and you start experiencing life, you
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  Speaker 1: recognize one thing that many have a deficiency in, and
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  Speaker 1: that is wisdom. And I've been studying the Book of
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  Speaker 1: James lately, and James talks about in James one, chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: verse five. It talks about if you lack wisdom, you
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  Speaker 1: can ask of God and He will give it to
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  Speaker 1: you generously without reproach. Right you will receive it, but
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  Speaker 1: you have to ask for it. But it starts off
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  Speaker 1: by saying, if you lack wisdom, and I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times in a lot of spaces, and you've
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  Speaker 1: been in conversations with people who do not want to
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  Speaker 1: admit they have lack In our society, we don't praise
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  Speaker 1: when people are truthful about what they don't have.
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  Speaker 2: We actually ridicule that.
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  Speaker 1: We make fun of them, We tell them that they're limited,
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  Speaker 1: and they feed into that narrative.
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  Speaker 2: But if we were to be honest with ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: There are spaces that we lack, and that lack is wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: We live in an information age. We've been in this
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  Speaker 1: age of information for a long time and it's getting
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  Speaker 1: more and more failled with information with AI and ZIP
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  Speaker 1: you know the rise of AI meaning there's so many
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  Speaker 1: different iterations of AI, like what they could do like
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  Speaker 1: six months ago, even three months ago, they have surpassed
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  Speaker 1: that now, right, and so information is out there, and
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  Speaker 1: even with AI, there's so much conversation about how AI
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  Speaker 1: is taken over.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: It can't, at least not yet, because it hasn't learned
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  Speaker 1: all the things and it still has personalities of hallucination.
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  Speaker 1: If you study AI or you use it, you understand
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  Speaker 1: that what it produces or what it gives you as
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  Speaker 1: an outcome. Oftentimes, if you're not reviewing, it will provide
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  Speaker 1: you something that is not what you desire or not
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  Speaker 1: accurate based on what you're working on. So there still
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  Speaker 1: needs to be human intervention when it comes to AI
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  Speaker 1: out there in the world. But this all goes back
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  Speaker 1: to the deficit of wisdom, because yes, we have.
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  Speaker 2: Access to a lot of information.
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  Speaker 1: However, the application of that information, the application of the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge that we are getting, that we are gaining, is
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  Speaker 1: where the deficit comes.
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  Speaker 2: Because people have the information.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about how opposing to sides of any
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  Speaker 1: type of situation, whether it's political or spiritual, people will
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  Speaker 1: go out into the world. Right if you have a
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  Speaker 1: certain position about something, you'll go out into the world
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  Speaker 1: and you will, I promise you, you will find hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of articles to support or your position on something, and
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  Speaker 1: your opposing side will do the exact same thing and
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  Speaker 1: find hundreds of articles to oppose the thing as well.
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  Speaker 2: So you don't have a middle ground.
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  Speaker 1: You have this place where no one is going to
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  Speaker 1: agree because we have taken the information and we have
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  Speaker 1: not properly applied it, meaning the information is out there,
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  Speaker 1: but it's somebody's opinion, it's not really fact. We're not
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  Speaker 1: studying facts anymore. We are just running out there with
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  Speaker 1: what is placed in front of us. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: why I have been leaning into the Book of James
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  Speaker 1: about if you lack wisdom, because there's something about what
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  Speaker 1: we have in us that gives us that knowledge, that
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  Speaker 1: gives us that direction to go and find knowledge. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And it may be as some people say, I got
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  Speaker 1: a download, and now they're going to take the download
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  Speaker 1: that they've gotten from the spirit God and go do
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  Speaker 1: something with it, Go apply it, go learn a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about it, go get involved with it. And we
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  Speaker 1: often don't do that in society. We go with what
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  Speaker 1: somebody else's experiences or somebody else's position is, and we
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  Speaker 1: run with that. And I'm going to challenge you to
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  Speaker 1: befriend wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So I decided to go to the.
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  Speaker 1: Book of Proverbs, and I want to read in this
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  Speaker 1: episode the Proverbs. But I'm going to start with Proverbs
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  Speaker 1: chapter one, verse seven, and it says the fear of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and instruction. Isn't that the truth that we see
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  Speaker 1: people out in the world. You see these arguments and
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  Speaker 1: these places of error in conversation, and people despise wisdom
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  Speaker 1: and instruction. I mean, these proverbs could not be so
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  Speaker 1: close to the truth of what you experience. And as
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  Speaker 1: I read this to you, I don't know if you've
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  Speaker 1: ever read this, but I want to read this to
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  Speaker 1: you because as I read it, I think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to help you see above the water. I think we've
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  Speaker 1: been kind of under the water with wisdom. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: it is a space of deficit for many people. Right,
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  Speaker 1: whether you are a believer or not. I'm here to
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  Speaker 1: tell you need wisdom, and many people lack that skill,
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  Speaker 1: that tool, that willingness to admit there is lack of wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: So now I'm reading still in chapter one, verse twenty,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to read the balance of that chapter.
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  Speaker 1: Wisdom calls aloud outside. She raises her voice in the
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  Speaker 1: open squares, She cries out in the chief concourses and
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  Speaker 1: the openings of the gates in the city.
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  Speaker 2: She speaks her words.
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  Speaker 1: How long you simple ones, will you love simplicity for
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  Speaker 1: scorners the light in their scorn, and fools hate knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Turn at my rebuke. Surely I will pour out my
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  Speaker 1: spirit on you. I will make my words known to you.
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  Speaker 1: Because I have called, and you refuse. I have stretched
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  Speaker 1: out my hand and no one regarded, because you disdained
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  Speaker 1: all my counsel and would have none of my rebuke.
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  Speaker 1: I will also laugh at your calamity. I will mock
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  Speaker 1: when your terror comes, When your terror comes like a storm,
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  Speaker 1: and your destruction comes like a whirlwind, when distress and
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  Speaker 1: anguish come upon you. Then they will call on me,
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  Speaker 1: but I will not answer. It will seek me diligently, but.
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  Speaker 2: Will not find me.
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  Speaker 1: Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear
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  Speaker 1: of Lord, they would have none of my counsel and
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  Speaker 1: despise my every rebuke. Therefore they shall eat the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of their own way and be filled to the full
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  Speaker 1: with their own fancies. For the turning away of the
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  Speaker 1: simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will
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  Speaker 1: destroy them. But whoever listens to me will dwell safely
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