STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING FOOLISH PEOPLE (2 OF 3)
Scripture: Proverbs 23:9
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Strategies for Managing Foolish People (2 of 3)
Series: Dealing with a Fool
David Ireland
Proverbs 23:9
1.0 Studying Fools is Interesting (Prov. 23:9).
Note: A fool is a person who repeatedly demonstrates the lack of sound judgment or basic common sense. The Bible uses the word fool, foolish, and folly about 240 times.
1.1 Don't try to MANAGE foolish people...
A) When you have no relationship with them.
1. Relationship is the entry point to helping people solve their problems.
B) When you're out of your depth of maturity.
Fools are blind to the impact of their actions.
Lawn Chair Larry: According to published reports, Larry Walters was employed as a truck driver in Southern California. On July 2, 1982, he fastened 42 surplus balloons to a lawn chair and launched from his girlfriend's San Pedro home. He carried various supplies with him as well as a CB radio and a BB gun to shoot balloons one at a time to descend. He didn't realize how powerful the buoyancy of the balloons was. When he cut a rope holding him to the ground, he took off with such a jolt that another anchor rope broke under the stress and he shot upward so quickly that his eyeglasses flew to the ground.
He floated around the L.A. basin for several hours and reached altitudes of up to 16,000 feet. According to an article in the New York Times the next day, Walters was spotted by pilots from both TWA and Delta Airlines. It was cold at 16,000 feet and he started shooting some of his balloons to descend, but dropped his BB gun and had to wait for his rig to come down on its own. He landed in a residential neighborhood in Long Beach where he got tangled in some power lines, causing a power blackout.
He was eventually charged with operating an aircraft near an airport ''without establishing and maintaining two-way communications with the control tower.'' The original $4,000 fine was reduced to $1,500 when the agency dropped the seemingly more relevant charge of operating ...
Series: Dealing with a Fool
David Ireland
Proverbs 23:9
1.0 Studying Fools is Interesting (Prov. 23:9).
Note: A fool is a person who repeatedly demonstrates the lack of sound judgment or basic common sense. The Bible uses the word fool, foolish, and folly about 240 times.
1.1 Don't try to MANAGE foolish people...
A) When you have no relationship with them.
1. Relationship is the entry point to helping people solve their problems.
B) When you're out of your depth of maturity.
Fools are blind to the impact of their actions.
Lawn Chair Larry: According to published reports, Larry Walters was employed as a truck driver in Southern California. On July 2, 1982, he fastened 42 surplus balloons to a lawn chair and launched from his girlfriend's San Pedro home. He carried various supplies with him as well as a CB radio and a BB gun to shoot balloons one at a time to descend. He didn't realize how powerful the buoyancy of the balloons was. When he cut a rope holding him to the ground, he took off with such a jolt that another anchor rope broke under the stress and he shot upward so quickly that his eyeglasses flew to the ground.
He floated around the L.A. basin for several hours and reached altitudes of up to 16,000 feet. According to an article in the New York Times the next day, Walters was spotted by pilots from both TWA and Delta Airlines. It was cold at 16,000 feet and he started shooting some of his balloons to descend, but dropped his BB gun and had to wait for his rig to come down on its own. He landed in a residential neighborhood in Long Beach where he got tangled in some power lines, causing a power blackout.
He was eventually charged with operating an aircraft near an airport ''without establishing and maintaining two-way communications with the control tower.'' The original $4,000 fine was reduced to $1,500 when the agency dropped the seemingly more relevant charge of operating ...
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