[Yosemitest]

You have made one of the wisest statements I've read in a long, long time.
The lesson to learn in this thread can be found here.

[American Constitutionalist]

Yes, but, the lesson I have learned in life has not come easy.
Perhaps ? that's the reason why God has to send us trials to wake us up, to stop listening to the foolishness of man, stop listening to the voice of man, the only voice worth listening to is God.
Don't get me wrong though, there are some people that God sends into our lives to give us wisdom and guidance, but, we need to learn how to discern that carefully.
I think the same thing goes for God's people, Christians, stop being to busy worrying and listening to what the world has to say, what man has to say, what the main stream media has to say and start listening to what God has to say about your life.
Turn off the dang TV and main stream media's babble and voices.

[American Constitutionalist]

1 Corinthians 2:9

But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

For the natural man receives not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness to the natural man for they are spiritually discerned.
The natural man as far as God is concerned is spiritually dead.

The spirit of God searches the deep things of God and reveals it to our spirit.