since many (most) teenagers people are not capable of making good decisions
Fixed that for you
I'm calling red herring. The subject of this thread is how most teenagers lack wisdom. Stop trying to redirect this.
It isn't a red herring; most teenagers lack wisdom because most human beings lack wisdom.
So, you equate the "wisdom" of a 13 year old with that of a 30 year old?
Really?
Wow. Are you ever going to be embarrassed if you ever return to these comments in a few years, when you are older,....and hopefully wiser.
I am saying age and wisdom having nothing to do with each other;
This is where you are most wrong. With age comes experience, and with experience comes wisdom. An 18-year-old like you cannot possibly have the experience of a 47-year-old like Liza. Maybe when you're 30-something you'll look back at this thread and recognize with the experience and wisdom you acquire by then how foolishly you spoke on this thread.
there are very wise children and quite foolish adults.
There are children who are very wise for their age, but they are still very foolish when compared to the wisest of their elders. There's also a reason we say that the most foolish of adults have not grown up yet: they still think and act like adolescents.
One can acquire wisdom as they get older, but getting old has nothing to do with getting wise.
I think you just showed in this last sentence the fallacy in everything else you've said in this post. One can acquire wisdom as they get older, which is exactly why growing older has everything to do with growing wiser.
Just look at the story of Job, where the only one of his friends God doesn't rebuke is the one who says:
I am young in years,
and you are old;
that is why I was fearful,
not daring to tell you what I know.
I thought, ‘Age should speak;
advanced years should teach wisdom.’
But it is the spirit in a person,
the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.
It is not only the old who are wise,
not only the aged who understand what is right.
You do catch the wisdom in this? It isn't the last verse in this excerpt that you need to reread to yourself. It's the one where Elihu explains why he kept silent for so long. "Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom." BTW, the absence of any statement in Job that God rebuked Elihu does not mean that God did not rebuke Elihu. It just means that the book of Job does not say one way or the other how God dealt with Elihu.
It is not only the old who are wise,
not only the aged who understand what is right.
James, it's probably better you think yourself a fool while others think you wise than you think yourself wise while others think you a fool.
