Stupidity brings happiness to senseless fools,...
-Proverbs 15:21 cev

Senseless fools are those who are unwilling to put forth the effort to think right thoughts. Such fools think with their feelings. Such thinking is only an amplification of what the fool feels about a matter. Much like a dog performing tricks for treats. We often see this stupidity in others that are interviewed on news shows, politicians swaying voters, or our friends who talk with their feelings.

"What were they thinking?" is the often repeated refrain of those who are forced to watch what such fools have done. Trouble is, two individuals may be senseless fools merely feeling that the other is the fool. There are many a smart man or woman by the standards of this world that are in reality the greatest of stupid fools. Not every fool in love with stupidity is inarticulate.

Our point today is not that fools prove themselves to be fools, for that is a given, rather, being stupid is what makes a fool feel happy. Happiness for a senseless fool is in thinking themselves into stupidity. It is a trained stupidity, an enforced dullness that starts first in the soul of each person and manifests itself later in speech and action. Finally, in the end, only stupid people go to hell.

Such individuals are happy because they train themselves to be stupid. They are happy in their stupidness and to further their happiness they seek to become more stupid. After all, mankind naturally does what increases personal happiness. Again, like the dog that learns a new trick for another treat.

This happy stupidness comes from being senseless. But senseless towards whom or what? Find out and you will be a long way towards overcoming your love for stupidity.

The senseless man does not know, fools do not understand,
-Psalm 92:6 niv