Fools...Folly...Foolishness

[Soodna]

What in your opinion constitutes a Fool....Folly...Foolishness?

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines a fool as:

1. a retainer, formerly kept to provide casual entertainment.
2. one who is victimized or made to appear foolish: (a) to make a fool of; (b) to deceive, to meddle, tamper or experiment with, esp. thoughtlessly or ignorantly.

Folly:
Lack of good sense or normal prudance and foresight.

Foolish:
1. marked by or preceeding from folly
2. a: absurd, ridiculous b: marked by a loss if composure.
3. Insignificant, Trifling, Humble.

What would you call one who preys upon the vulnerable, and/or those predisposed to foolish behavior.

What one perceives as a fool and or foolish behavior may in fact be viewed/perceived differently by another.

[Ines]

Everyone is a fool just to a different degree or on different subjects.

[Soodna]

LOL Dix,
Me thinks ye like playin' hardball too! Laughed at yerself lately?? I try to laugh at myself at least once a day...but it usually happens more frequently than that! I'm one of lifes greatest fools...gives me plenty of entertainment

[SecretaryPartTwo]

Lol! Looked in the mirror lately?

We are all fools like she said in one way or another

You have heard the saying "People who live in glass houses....


and the one "Those without sin cast the first stone"? or something to that effect

[SecretaryPartTwo]

Lol Dix!

[Legs]

Originally posted by Soodna
What in your opinion constitutes a Fool....Folly...Foolishness?

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines a fool as:

1. a retainer, formerly kept to provide casual entertainment.
2. one who is victimized or made to appear foolish: (a) to make a fool of; (b) to deceive, to meddle, tamper or experiment with, esp. thoughtlessly or ignorantly.

Folly:
Lack of good sense or normal prudance and foresight.

Foolish:
1. marked by or preceeding from folly
2. a: absurd, ridiculous b: marked by a loss if composure.
3. Insignificant, Trifling, Humble.

What would you call one who preys upon the vulnerable, and/or those predisposed to foolish behavior.

What one perceives as a fool and or foolish behavior may in fact be viewed/perceived differently by another.

Fool= Make your normal growing up mistakes in life

Folly= to keep repeating the same mistakes

Foolish=^ Look above to the definition ( Kind of like the Def of Libs????ROFLMAO

[justoleme]

I would rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.