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3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. -
Proverbs 1
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I work at a large factory and have moved myself up to Lab Technician. Before that I was a sample maker and my company has sent me to Michigan to make samples and to Rhode Island for plating classes. While doing all of this I was taking courses that would earn me a couple of degrees in programming.
I have met people on my journeys... "So smart they won't even talk to you." I am not talking about management and hourly folk, I am talking about the research and development people who are very busy in their designing projects. If you meet them in the hallway they will just give you a strange look and keep on going. Like the quoted proverbs they desire to depart your presence.
For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. -
2 Thessalonians 3:11
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. -
1 Timothy 5:13
Additionally, professional people have no use for gossipy people and the sexual affairs of the time. As a matter of fact, they will drive you from their presence, sometimes with pink slip in hand, for such activity. And not to mention, it is not comely for a man or a woman to be caught in gossip and such affairs.
After Michigan's loss to Michigan State earlier this year the coach made the comment that the team was going to have put some 'steel in their spine' and get over it. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves to put steel in our spine and not partake of the foolishness of the time.
