Only time will tell

As Roosh discusses in the video, if you had told him what his future held, he'd have not taken the traveler from the future seriously.

In the male socio-sexual parlance as coined by Vox Day, gammas are fixated on proving their worth, but the manner in which they go about doing it only highlights how little they really have, because of the dynamic of time. Gammas simply don't have the patience to put in the hard work and then await proper recognition. It's not that they can't do the work, but that they want the recognition well before it's deserved. and when they don't get what they want, instead of "well I'll show you" vengeance-based display of genuine competence, they simply melt down emotionally.

Instead of fulfilling their claims, they declare in a huff that it would be a waste of time, which is what makes them a waste of time.

A delta, on the other hand, wants to put in the hard work first and is only jilted after they've already demonstrated competence and yet are still not recognized for having done a good job. The response for the delta is not an emotional outburst, however, but a concern that maybe the job wasn't done as well as they thought. Maybe there was something they missed or forgot.

The problem is that a delta can come across like a gamma when they don't understand what an actual demonstration of worth looks like. Instead of pursuing skills in things that are genuinely useful, deltas can be derailed into counter-productive behavior by existing gammas who insist that the delta who learns to act like a gamma will be super successful! The delta, in a Dunning-Kruger moment, does not immediately understand how wrong this is, and sets himself towards mastering the art of the gamma, and is thus jilted when realizing that they had invested in their own self-destruction.

To unlearn and relearn takes time, and thus why so few gammas, whether genuine or synthetic, rarely escape their own mental traps. Pride based in skills, even which hurt the practitioner, is a hard thing to overcome.

So, what does that have to do with Roosh and his book for women?

At a certain point in time, people can be right or wrong. A delta can act like a gamma. A gamma can fool someone into thinking they're an alpha. An alpha can net a high quality sexual partner. These behaviors describe moments in time, but moments alone don't tell us everything, thus the byline of this blog.

Roosh is a man who has learned lessons the hard way, over time, because nobody told him the truths that he now understands at a deep and intimate level. Better yet, he's trying to be a father-like figure, or at least a passive mentor, to try and share these discovered truths with others so that they can make better choices earlier in life, to avoid reinventing the wheel, to avoid creating further damage that the behaviors he engaged in for over a decade can cause in society.

Over time, what was before almost always changes, and yet how it changes tells us more about an individual than what they were at any one point in time. The trajectory of life is more significant than where it started from, or even how long anyone has been on a path.

Some people follow a path based on fate, a passive submission to whatever life throws at them. Others are much more intentional, seeking to shift the odds in favor of an outcome or circumstance they think desirable. Others still submit to those who may not know where an individual should try to reach, what destination they should strive for, but they can provide skills so that when that journey begins, the individual is well equipped to deal with all they will face.

In Christianity, this process is referred to as sanctification, and what matters most isn't how quickly you got on that path, but that you're even walking that path at all, because only those whose eternal fate has already been reconciled with God stay on that path over time.

There are times when Christians stumble, or are led astray, but if they've truly been saved, they can and will always return to that path.

Due to the obvious material consequences of Christian morality, it is possible for those who have not yet been saved to mimic this walk. To try and brute force the changes in their life, to find some way to emulate the same results, albeit by any other process than having bent the knee to Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

And while they can walk that path for a while, it won't last. In due time, the fruits of their labor are exposed, their true priorities laid bare, their genuine allegiance made clear, such that on judgment day, only those who have remained ignorant of what Jesus taught as recorded in Matthew 7 will be surprised by the final roster.

Roosh is on a path that leads to the most important decision in his life, he is searching out truths and actively investing in change to his mortal benefit, and we can pray that he also chooses eternally as well, but either way, his change and his current efforts are just a point in time. Today he's releasing a book, but what of tomorrow?

What path will he keep walking? Will he draw on the strength of Jesus Christ to continue resisting the temptations of the flesh, to truly conquer sin in his life, or will he succumb to the desires of this life?

In the same manner, will a gamma shut up and just do their job?

Will a delta who has been misled swallow their pride and admit they were wrong?

There is but one source of change which supersedes all others, and that's Jesus Christ. With Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we can remain on the path of sanctification, and in time the results will be glorious and magnificent, even if we can't see them now, or only get to witness them in eternity.

Do not let what someone was yesterday define who they can be today, and yet do not forget who they were yesterday either, because it is what they are in the moment, and the context that moment in time, that truly reveals to us who someone really is.

Q is not a savior

In our current world, it's hard to get folks to operate outside a binary. As before, to go beyond a binary requires discernment and critical thinking, two skills which go hand-in-hand, and also two skills which people have not bothered to develop.

Resource abundance removes selective pressures, makes survival easier for everyone, and because we are naturally efficient creatures, we're not inclined to waste time and energy on anything not required of us.

For the same reason that we must fake physical strain and toil through exercise because our lives do not otherwise require such efforts, we must also synthetically apply intellectual struggle to separate out the good ideas from the bad. These are all externally motivated, because of the truth behind the phrase "ignorance is bliss".

So, all that said, when I bother to actually go look at the raw posts, and see something like #2526, it's a useful reminder that, just like Trump's Presidency, nothing is guaranteed in this life when it comes to human affairs. People make plans, but people are fallible, and so while they may be useful, you should not place your hope in them.

"A WORLD UNITED IS A BEAUTIFUL THING."

Really?

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. - Genesis 11:5-9 (NKJV)

If God didn't think too highly of a unified world, why should we?

"People are inherently good."

Really?

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. - Romans 1:20-23 (NKJV)

From a dialectic standpoint, these claims are just absurd, especially as Q has a penchant for using the framing of spiritual warfare, making overtly religious statements, and even citing verses from scripture and so forth.

It's because people are not inherently good that we were kicked out of Eden. Adam, because he was pussy-whipped and cowardly, and Eve, for being gullible and greedy enough to believe that equality with God could, or should, be attained. These two existed before propaganda, before the Frankfurt School, before (((mass media))), before death, before war, before sin had entered the human sphere.

And they still screwed it up. The belief that humanity is "inherently good" requires subscription to delusions which are destructive and suicidal, and this is magnified in that God never found human unity a good thing, because about the only thing that ever reliably unified humans was their opposition to God, taking up arms with their brothers and sisters in rebellion, convinced that this time, this time for sure, their efforts will be successful in overthrowing God.

But, all that said, Q is an avatar of rhetoric, so trying to use a dialectical measure is a bit stupid.

Q is trying to act as a unifying force for "the right", because it currently sits so fractured by arbitrary and irrelevant distinctions that it can be systematically destroyed, and this process was going to be so quick and decisive that "the left" had to go so far as to recruit actors to "play resistance" against them just so that the speed of the defeat was easier for people to stomach.

Oh, we sure fought hard, campaigned and donated as best we could, but in the end we lost fair and square, so let's welcome our new overlords with happiness and not get any ideas about rejecting the authoritarian system we all apparently wanted and needed.

About the only saving grace for "the right" is that, as discussed in the opening, because the resistance against "the left" was fake, their actual skills in undermining "the right", in directing the narratives, in having the patience to implement Fabian strategies, rotted away because they didn't really need those skills any longer.

Gone is the ability to craft a convincing narrative to distract people from what is really going on, because not having needed to be creative, their knee-jerk reactions to try and explain the disparities between what they claimed and what is being observed don't bridge the gap anymore. When the bad consequences of their choices was insulated, contained, always in someone else's city, or state, or neighborhood, it was easy for folks to continue to buy the narrative. To believe that, despite rumors to the contrary, what was claimed is what could be expected.

But the gap is too big now. The consequences are in everyone's face, and the ability for "the left" to weave their fables in a pleasing manner, the spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, is entirely absent. When a white person who has owned no slaves, and whose ancestors owned no slaves, is being told that they are implicitly racist and guilty of terrible crimes for which reparations are due, there is no "pleasing lie".

An example of a past "pleasing lie" could be seen with abortion. The lie was along the lines of "but what about rape/incest/life of mother?"

It didn't matter if 9 of 10 abortions were because the mother just didn't want to have a child, people could convince themselves that abortion remaining legal had justification.

Divorce is another example. "What about women in toxic relationships?"

Men often knew at least one guy, directly or indirectly, who treated their wives and families poorly, and so it didn't matter if 9 of 10 divorces were because the wife was bored and wanted to trade up on her husband for a new man that made more money or excited her more sexually.

Women's suffrage, legal immigration, the topics are numerous where a suitably convincing lie was told and people thought that they'd be perceived better for going along with the game instead of refusing to play, and since they wouldn't have to live with the consequences of the game, they'd figured they "got away with it".

It's in this same manner that Q is trying to exploit this same dynamic to create a unity that will last long enough to destroy "the left". Q is trying to foster unity for folks on "the right" who have been doubling down on their distinctions for generations, to get them to find common ground with each other long enough so that the plans of "the left" can be broken permanently, forcing them to start over again from scratch.

Q is going to say things that are wrong, superficial, or misleading, because when you are forming unity on more important things, there will be things you have to ignore at a "lower level" when trying to retain focus.

Given Identity > Culture > Politics, Q is going to say things that are trying to appeal to identity which may seem backwards or delusional at the cultural or political level, because it's not until there is unity at the identity level that any of those "smaller" issues could ever be dealt with in the first place.

It doesn't matter if Sessions supported asset forfeiture or marijuana laws if those things assist in breaking the plans of "the left" from coming to fruition. It doesn't matter if Trump executes civilians under martial law if it assists in breaking the plans of "the left". It doesn't matter if Whitaker should recuse himself and doesn't, if his prosecution of the evil assists in breaking the plans of "the left".

What folks need to realize is that the plans of "the left" were laid a long time ago, and until Trump came on the scene, they were well on their way to achieving their goals. Even so, Trump must either break their plans completely, or only end up being a pause button to the whole ordeal. Especially if Trump was approached by existing factions within the government who were already losing a cold civil war that they were fighting in secret, the goal for "the right" cannot be in trying to establish a more perfect political system, but to destroy the plans of their enemies.

I don't ultimately care what laws are broken by the Trump administration if he can successfully derail the demonic globalists plans. If he, and the people he is working with, and the folks behind Q, and so on, can effectively scuttle the globalist agenda, then AND ONLY THEN can the discussions about what our laws and our practices look like under normal circumstances take place.

Q is trying to warm people up to the idea that there is a war, people on the "other side" have already broken laws, and that "our side" has both the moral and pragmatic imperative to do whatever it will take to prevent these plans from coming to pass.

But people aren't ready for that yet. People don't see that we're already in a civil war yet. People are acting like discussions at the political level still matter, that discussing the merits and flaws between two largely similar political positions has a role.

People don't think we're at war, don't think the circumstances are that dire, don't think that their lives are endangered, and don't think that unity with folks they have minor disagreements with is all that important.

This is why Q is important, and useful, in that they are trying to bridge gaps with narratives people can buy into. The narratives may not actually be true, and the results of the choices may not be as advertised, but this is how people have been conditioned, by both nature and nurture, to react, to respond, to think. This is how people function, and so if we want results, we have to do what works, not just what we think should work.

The double-edged nature of this dynamic, though, is that everything Trump and the folks behind Q tries to do to foil the plans of the Neo-Babel globalists, should they fail, becomes another nail in the coffin. Another sin, another offense, another damning traitorous act against the prince of this world.

The harder you try to fight evil, the more evidence evil has that you are good, and the more passionate evil will be in trying to destroy you and everything you stand for. Evil knows its enemy and will act accordingly, and without mercy.

Q is not a savior, because Q isn't actually doing anything. It is a front, a propaganda piece, for those that are, and they are fallible humans with plans that may fail just as much as they seek to cause the failure of the plans of others.

Even if Trump succeeds, sin is still present among us, and will not be conquered until Jesus Christ returns again. So there will still be evil in the world, though its plans for our current age will certainly have been foiled, and the degree to which evil manifests could be curtailed. There will be those with silver tongues that re-learn the skills of deceit and manipulation, to hide their motives behind pleasing lies, and the process starts all over again.

Q is useful, but Q is not a savior, and so while we can cheer on the efforts of those behind Q, pray for them and our President to be successful, we should not place our hope in them, for they may fail.

Instead, we should place our hope in Jesus Christ, put our faith in his work, because we already know the ending of His story for our reality. We already know that Jesus Christ ultimately wins out against evil, and it's not even close. Evil is decimated, able to lay claim only those so foolish to have ignored the constant warnings and cautions that God had sent.

Evil does not win anyone over to "their side" at all, they capture no territory and hold onto nothing.

Good does win in the end, and should Trump and Q be truly aligned with God's work in this world, and should their success be part of the story that God seeks to tell through our times, then praise be to God.

Should their failure, and the expansion of darkness be part of the story God seeks to tell through our times, to demonstrate fully how pathetic and weak, feckless and delusional, humans are to believe that they can defeat evil without a complete reliance on God, then praise be to God.

Whether Trump or Q succeed or fail, you need to be right with God, such that regardless of what circumstances you will face in this life, your fate in eternity is never in question.

Put your faith and hope in Jesus Christ, declare Him as Lord, and call on His strength to repent.

You can't share what you don't have, teach what you don't understand.

Today I finally canceled all of my sponsorships of children through Compassion International.

I say finally because I had come to the decision to do so many months earlier, but being a coward and lazy, I allowed other life circumstances to crowd out taking the rather small amount of time required to do this. I don't know what made today different. Perhaps it is just that I am tired of inaction in my own life, tired of the cowardice fueling inaction, and I wanted to take a small step towards changing that downward spiral.

Regardless of the reason why I finally did it, I did.

The short version of "why" is that I don't care what is done "in Jesus' name."

If you read Matthew 7, you'll find that doing something "in Jesus' name" doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. This is because applying a label, or slapping "in Jesus' name" onto something, doesn't take a lot of effort.

"We're eating this food, in Jesus' name!"
"We're building a new church, in Jesus' name!"
"We're reinstating temple prostitutes, in Jesus' name!"
"We're toppling governments and creating world unity, in Jesus' name!"

It doesn't matter what you do "in Jesus' name" unless Jesus wants you to do it in the first place.

Similar to how there is no scriptural support for "The Crusades", people still try to pretend that because they were done "in Jesus' name", that they had anything to do with Christianity, instead of the political reality that Christian nations were fighting back against the Muslims that had been busy conquering large portions of Europe until that point in time.

So, when did Jesus ever command Christians to be material saviors of the world?

When did Jesus say that it was the responsibility of Christians to run around the world and alleviate the consequences of sin?

At this point in human history, knowledge on agriculture is not exactly hard to find. We know that if you put plants in good soil, provide a source of water and sunshine, then the plants will grow. Some plants, in growing, produce things we can eat. If we focus on growing those things, we can have sources of food.

This isn't complicated, and yet "world hunger" is still an issue? How is that even possible?

Because for the same reason that people would deny God's gift of salvation through the death of Jesus Christ, people will reject truths that would lift them out of the depths of squalor and poverty. It is arrogance, pure and simple.

People don't want to admit that they are wrong, that they could do things differently in a way which would be better, and so they'll keep doing the wrong thing and boast loudly about how much better their way is.

It is not "bad luck" that condemns one to poverty, but arrogance and pride.

And this arrogance and pride I am no longer interested in subsidizing.

The Compassion International charity claims to provide for material needs of children, to "lift them out of poverty", and then throws in that because they work through churches, the children also get a chance to hear about Jesus.

That is not the correct priority. Offering material salvation first and then eternal salvation afterwards does not make acceptance of the Gospel more probable, and this is seen most clearly in the type of "Christianity" that exists in some of these places, where there is little more than a "Christianese" coat of paint over animism, shamanism, occultism, and every other demonic practice under the sun.

The reason that this is what happens is because these charities cannot offer a salvation they themselves do not possess. One cannot spread the Gospel if one has not heard and accepted it themselves, as those who genuinely do find the material struggles of this life to be insignificant in comparison, let alone necessary as part of the sanctification process.

When we make bad choices in life, bad consequences follow. When someone comes along and offers to absorb the cost of bad consequences, we'll take it rather than correct our own behavior. This unfortunate reality about human nature was captured in the prayers by Jesus Christ in the garden before his death, and indeed was what necessitated his sacrifice on our behalf:

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.” And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”

He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”

Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.” And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.

So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then He came to His disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand.”

The people who had seen the miracles, had the parables explained to them, who witnessed the ministry of Jesus Christ firsthand, couldn't even obey a simple command from Jesus Christ, that he made three times in a row right to their faces.

If they couldn't do that, realize that what Jesus Christ was asking is if there was any other way to reconcile man to God. Is there any other way, other than doing all the work, is there any middle ground whereupon humanity would realize its own folly and repent?

God's answer? NOPE.

This isn't about intelligence, or the lack thereof. This isn't about education, or the lack thereof. This isn't about opportunity, equality, fairness, or the lack thereof.

Humans are arrogant and prideful creatures who will not "get it" unless their own horrible nature and the consequences it naturally brings about are shoved in their faces, and even so some would rather die in that arrogance and pride than admit that anybody, let alone God, has any place to tell them to do anything differently.

Just like how Israel, despite their favor and intimate connection with God, frequently turned away and rebelled, humanity lacks the ability to be obedient to God on our own. We can't do anything on our own strength, it took God doing all the work and leaving us with just a choice.

God doesn't make that choice for us, and "steps back" when we make the wrong choices and lets us experience the consequences. Unfortunately for humanity, this dynamic isn't just temporal, but eternal as well. God will not "override" the choices of those who have rejected Jesus Christ, who have died unrepentant, who till their last breath cursed God for being God instead of them being God.

So how does filling someone else's stomach accurately reflect this dynamic?

How does free education accurately reflect this dynamic?

How does using the wealth and technology developed or accrued by those who were obedient to God to alleviate the consequences of sin "spreading the Gospel"?

How does "saving" someone from the consequences of their own decisions, without them choosing anything, going to "prime" them for understanding that the choice to follow Jesus may cost them everything in this life?

God's love is unconditional, but God's wrath is not, and in preaching only about God's love, we have diluted the reason why God's love matters in the first place. In acting only in love, we have reduced God to a cosmic vending machine of blessings, happy to reward others who do not hoard what God has granted them.

In preaching salvation, and yet acting as material saviors, we have ignored what we need to be saved from in the first place.

And a people who don't need saving can't be saved. So instead of preaching eternal salvation and sharing the Gospel, "Christians" provide for the material needs of others and invite them to join a social club, as if the acceptance or rejection of the invitation was only of incidental consequence, because the "Christians" will still be providing salvation regardless of what the individuals choose in the end.

Many are guilty of believing that they can be even more patient than God. That they will find a way to save people that Jesus Christ did not already afford, did not already make available. That somehow it's people's understanding or awareness which is the hindrance to their choosing God instead of themselves.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of why people ultimately reject God. People do not reject God out of a lack of understanding, but because they understand all to well that the Gospel brings news of is that they are not God, and they simply cannot bear to live with the ramifications of that.

Spread the Gospel, not comfort. Spread the Gospel, not health and wealth.

And that is why I will no longer support charities whose primary purpose and behavior does not center around spreading the Gospel. The rest is, quite literally, just a distraction from the most important role we can play in this material life.

I am not God, and neither are you, but God wants to have a relationship with us, and the price of reconciliation was already paid by Jesus Christ on the cross.

What will you choose?

Daily Bible Study: Proverbs 9:10-12

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
For by me your days will be multiplied,
And years of life will be added to you.
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,
And if you scoff, you will bear it alone.”

Proverbs 9:10-12 (NKJV).

Simply put, to understand reality will mean that you are best prepared to deal with the circumstances that reality will bring your way. To know that you are not God, to know who God is, and to make choices in how you live your life to reflect such facts will always work in your favor, not in that you will never have difficulty or strife, but in that regardless of what difficulties you face, you'll be ready.

Survival for the finite is selfish, and you really need to come to terms with that fact in order to understand the latter portion of this passage. What I mean by this is that, unlike God, we are contingent beings, we rely on circumstances working out in our favor in order for us to continue existing on this material plane. God does not have such a relationship with existence, in that while even the reality itself that we exist in is contingent on God, God does not have any external contingencies.

If I eat a portion of food, nobody else can eat that same portion of food. Now, the total quantity of food that can or could exist is not based on my having ate that one portion, so it's not a "zero-sum", but that particular finite resource is now "gone", it's a "sunk investment" into my continued existence and it cannot (easily) be recollected and used to support anyone else's existence.

This does not prevent us from growing more food, or exchanging currency for food that others have already grown, but even if I repeat the ingredients list, it's not the exact same food, and even if I provide the same meal to someone else, it's not the same exact food, it's just like the food I already ate.

Our choices work out in similar fashion. When I make a choice and commit to act, there is no way to "undo" what has then been done. Even if others may face similar choices, or find themselves needing to make choices in reaction to the decision I have made, reality is still going to operate on the decision I have made and the consequences will flow from that.

This is why wisdom is ultimately "for yourself", in that while others will experience the byproducts of living wise in physical or relational proximity to you, the wisdom is of benefit to you.

God does not benefit from you being wise, nor does wisdom gain anything from more or less people listening to her, it's specifically in the lives of those who heed wisdom that the benefits are seen. Your life changes for the better, and from the possible surplus your having applied wisdom in your own life can benefit others.

There is a catch to this though, seen in the "messianic complex", where we try to believe that we are able to completely extricate ourselves from the equation and that all of our choices will benefit only other people. The ideal is that we could sacrifice to only someone else's benefit and doing so would reflect well on us.

The problem is that even Jesus "got something" out of his sacrifice on the cross, in the glorification and honor bestowed upon him by God the Father. Jesus does not denounce this title, the place at the right hand of God, but accepts the honor due unto him. Think about that. If even the greatest demonstration of "love", of sacrifice, still brought reward to the one who made the sacrifice, why does anyone here who is not living a sinless life think that they can make choices which will only benefit others and not themselves?

Are they going to be a better savior than Jesus Christ? Thus the "messianic complex" label.

Do not believe that there is anything you can do which is entirely self-sacrificial, on your part or anyone else. You cannot help anyone else from a position of weakness, of foolishness, of death.

Rejecting wisdom hurts you and you alone for all the same reasons that it benefits.

So, make peace with the fact that the wisest choice for you in any circumstance will indeed help you first and foremost, and that from that place of strength and provision you will then have the opportunity to help others as well.

Daily Bible Study: Proverbs 1:20-27

Wisdom calls aloud outside;,

She raises her voice in the open squares.

She cries out in the chief concourses,

At the openings of the gates in the city

She speaks her words:

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?

For scorners delight in their scorning,

And fools hate knowledge.

Turn at my rebuke;

Surely I will pour out my spirit on you;

I will make my words known to you.

Because I have called and you refused,

I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

Because you disdained all my counsel,

And would have none of my rebuke,

I also will laugh at your calamity;

I will mock when your terror comes,

When your terror comes like a storm,

And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,

When distress and anguish come upon you.

Proverbs 1:20-27 (NKJV).

To say something real quick on the topic, I am not going to spend a lot of time right now on the genders amidst advice. Why Solomon is providing this wisdom to his "son" and why wisdom is personified as "she" are not irrelevant topics, but they are not my focus right now, unless there's something gender-specific given as instruction or command (like with fathers and mothers).

The next time I pass through this scripture may be different, but that's well into the future.

Now, wisdom can be loosely connected to "common sense" in that you do not need an advanced degree in anything to start grasping what it offers and start applying it to your life. Where finite element analysis is somewhat more difficult, the multi-variable vector calculus often left to computers, and the material physics that it draws from in practical application are all a bit more esoteric in contrast, wisdom is universal in its application.

Whether you are an erudite or a dirt farmer, or even without any dirt to claim as your own, wisdom calls to you and is a worthwhile companion. There is no discrimination, no limits, no barriers to entry, and thus the scorn against those who reject wisdom is given justification.

If you are offered knowledge without any cost to you, and you still reject it, the traditional response to to leave you to the consequences and hope you learn through them. In our modern context, great effort is expended to eliminate the negative consequences of bad decisions, from the sympathy expressed over "bad luck" to the active efforts to eliminate the lesson from making a bad choice (shotgun weddings, abortions, divorces, etc), we have bought into the idea that people should only learn voluntarily, and that when people refuse to learn, we adjust the system to accommodate them instead of watching them hit the wall and, dazed and confused, reach out for help.

Much of the wisdom in the Bible does not preach infinite patience.

Even God, in both the Old and New Testaments, describes that at a certain point people are given over to their desires and they will bear the full cost of their sin and God will not remove it from them.

Popular are the universal ideas that God's efforts will eventually bring all into reconciliation, that God doesn't "give up" on anyone, despite almost all the drama and excitement in the Old Testament with Israel coming from God having turned away from them, given up on a generation (or many) and only after their sins have been punished sufficiently does God return them to a place of favor and begin working with them again as they draw closer to God.

There will be no innocent people in hell, and God has already, through Jesus Christ, done all the work necessary to reconcile mankind to himself. Like wisdom, salvation is a gift, not of works or specific applications, but a universal offer, a universal opportunity, though the hardness of many people's hearts out of envy and hatred of God will not allow them to accept it.

In the same manner then that wisdom turns away from those who reject her, how she adds insult to injury, realize this is not a trait unique to wisdom, but is a reflection of the heart of God to mock and to belittle those who would not humble themselves but would instead defiantly claim that they are gods or that their gods are more powerful.

God is content to take people at their word, to not treat boastful declarations in some sort of divine sarcasm, and this gets back to why wisdom is so important, and calls out to everyone, and why the alleviation of consequence is so damaging to an individual.

The decisions you make in this life matter, whether within the context of this life in regard to wisdom, or in the context of eternity with salvation. Do not believe that your actions are not unnoticed. Do not think you've gotten away with anything. Do not believe that there will always be someone to save you from your sin.

Reconcile to God, through faith in Jesus Christ. Listen to wisdom, and take her lessons to heart and apply them. You life matters, now live like you understand that.