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    How to Answer a Fool: Answering Foolish People Wisely- a Guaranteed Stress Reliever
    How to Answer a Fool: Answering Foolish People Wisely- a Guaranteed Stress Reliever
    How to Answer a Fool: Answering Foolish People Wisely- a Guaranteed Stress Reliever
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    How to Answer a Fool: Answering Foolish People Wisely- a Guaranteed Stress Reliever

    By Marlon Carson and Marquinn

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    This book will show you forty-six God-inspired communication principles that will teach you how to answer a fool effectively, because knowing how to answer a fool effectively and wisely will be a guaranteed stress reliever.In Proverbs 15:23 we learn,"A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth," which simply means that knowing how to answer foolish people wisely can become an art that is easy for you, rather than a struggle. Then you will be free to focus all your attention and energy on fulfilling your God-given purpose without being deceived, manipulated, and distracted by foolish people.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 3, 2011
    ISBN9781456768430
    How to Answer a Fool: Answering Foolish People Wisely- a Guaranteed Stress Reliever

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      How to Answer a Fool - Marlon Carson

      © 2011 Marquinn and Marlon Carson. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 4/28/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-6842-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-6844-7 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-6843-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011906764

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      This book is dedicated to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for giving us the wisdom and the understanding to write this book.

      Also to our wonderful mother and father, who both went home to be with the Lord in the year 2009.

      Special thanks to our wives and families for all their love and support.

      Also to our pastor, Bishop MacArthur Jackson, for giving us the opportunity to teach and preach and grow as ministers of the gospel.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter One Justifying Your Motives

      Chapter Two When Foolish People Express Their Desires for the Wrong Reason

      Chapter Three It Ain’t the First Time

      Chapter Four When Foolish People Pretend They Don’t Know the Answer

      Chapter Five When a Foolish Person Pretends He or She Can Judge Your Ability by Your Appearance

      Chapter Six When Foolish People Encourage You to Make Decisions That Are Not in Your Best Interest

      Chapter Seven When a Fool Pretends You Don’t Have Enough Ability to Win

      Chapter Eight When Foolish People Pretend They Have a Reason to Do Wrong

      Chapter Nine When Foolish People Pretend They Can Live Your Life Better Than You Can

      Chapter Ten When Foolish People Pretend They Can Find Something Good Before They Can Find Something Bad

      Chapter Eleven When a Foolish Person Pretends That Your Sense of Self-Worth Is Based on Your Ability to Avoid Making Mistakes

      Chapter Twelve When Foolish People Pretend the Ultimate Goal of Your Personal Choice Is to Get Their Cooperation

      Chapter Thirteen When Foolish People Pretend They Can Judge the Freedom of Your Free Will by Your Status

      Chapter Fourteen When a Foolish Person Pretends They Can Convince You of a Lie with a Deceptive Action

      Chapter Fifteen When Foolish People Pretend They Can Criticize You for Going the Extra Mile to Reach Your Goal

      Chapter Sixteen When a Fool Pretends You Should Change Everything about You That Doesn’t Meet Their Expectations …

      Chapter Seventeen When Foolish People Pretend Their Respect or Good Will toward You Is the Source of Your Future Success

      Chapter Eighteen When a Foolish Person Pretends He or She Can Dishonor Who You Are by Having the Wrong Interpretation of Your Action

      Chapter Nineteen When a Fool Pretends to Know the Truth of Your Situation So He or She Won’t Have to Ask

      Chapter Twenty When a Foolish Person Pretends That What They Believe Determines What I Believe

      Chapter Twenty-One When a Fool Pretends We Can Choose Good without Choosing Bad

      Chapter Twenty-Two When a Fool Pretends You Are Not Smart Enough to Choose Your Own Goals and Preferences

      Chapter Twenty-Three When a Fool Pretends You Have to Have Good or Bad Action in Order to Have Good or Bad Character

      Chapter Twenty-Four When a Fool Pretends That the Bigger Your Problem Gets, the Less God Can Do about It

      Chapter Twenty-Five When a Fool Pretends He or She Can Cause You to Overreact by Selling You an Obvious Lie

      Chapter Twenty-Six When a Foolish Person Pretends You Don’t Have the Right to Be Proud of Yourself If You Had to Get Some Help to Win

      Chapter Twenty-Seven When a Fool Pretends He or She Can Downgrade Your Action to Nothing

      Chapter Twenty-Eight When Fools Underestimate Your Ability Because of Their Own Doubt and Unbelief

      Chapter Twenty-Nine When a Fool Pretends You Are Using Your Gifts and Talents to Calculate Your Success

      Chapter Thirty When the Foolish Pretend That High Status and Position Give Them the Right to Bend the Rules

      Chapter Thirty-One When a Fool Pretends There Is Only One Way of Winning

      Chapter Thirty-Two When the Foolish Pretend They Can Neglect Their Responsibilities Because of Your Strong Points

      Chapter Thirty-Three When a Fool Pretends Your Reactions Can Only Be a Reflection of Your Successes or Failures

      Chapter Thirty-Four When a Fool Pretends You Don’t Have Any Physical Proof or Evidence That You Can Be a Winner

      Chapter Thirty-Five When a Fool Pretends That Their Ideal about What Is Good or Bad Should Be Your Ideal As Well

      Chapter Thirty-Six When a Fool Pretends That a Small Issue Should Be the Main Issue

      Chapter Thirty-Seven Don’t Blame Yourself for What You Don’t Know

      Chapter Thirty-Eight Making Sense for the Wrong Reason

      Chapter Thirty-Nine Don’t Blame Yourself for Things That Are Outside Your Control

      Chapter Forty When Foolish People Pretend You Will Choose Something Worse before You Will Choose Something Bad

      Chapter Forty-One When a Fool Pretends What You Have to Offer Is Not Worth Anything

      Chapter Forty-Two When a Fool Pretends a Good or Bad Sign Doesn’t Mean Anything

      Chapter Forty-Three When a Fool Pretends You Care More about Hurting Them Than Hurting Yourself

      Chapter Forty-Four When the Foolish Pretend They Can Solve Their Problems through Their Emotions

      Chapter Forty-Five When the Foolish Act Like They Can Discourage You by Strongly Expressing Their Dislikes

      Chapter Forty-Six When a Fool Pretends You Must Be Controlled by a Good or Bad Situation

      Conclusion

      Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

      −Proverbs 26:4

      Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

      −Proverbs 26: 5

      Introduction

      God in his infinite wisdom thought it so important that we understand how to deal with foolish people, and how not to become foolish ourselves, that he gave us over eighty scriptures to help us with this process. The reality

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