What was the Owner of Follies Thinking when they used the word "Follies"
JuiceBox69
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Intro
Been Having fun thinking on what the founders of clubs was thinking when they name their clubs. So I will work with tuscl most notorious club aka follies. I believe it’s a amazing name for what it is and why people even show up for. It got me thinking what all I could find online and if it would spark a cool discussion. Below is some definitions, related words and even biblical ideas on this word. At the end I will give my own concluding thoughts of what I read and to maybe spark discussions.
Webster
Fol´ly
n. 1. The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
2. A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill.
- Shak.
3. Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
[Achan] wrought folly in Israel.
- Josh. vii. 15.
When lovely woman stoops to folly.
- Goldsmith.
4. The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
It is called this man's or that man's "folly," and name of the foolish builder is thus kept alive for long after years.
- Trench.
Related Words
absurdness, act of folly, asininity, battiness, blunder, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, daftness, desipience, dottiness, dumb trick, dumbness, eccentricity, error, fatuity, fatuousness, faux pas, fluff, foolery, foolheadedness, frivolity, frivolousness, gaffe, giddiness, goof, goofiness, idiocy, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, irrationality, kookiness, lunacy, madness, mindlessness, mistake, niaiserie, nonsense, nugacity, nuttiness, obtuseness, preposterousness, queerness, rashness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, sottise, stolidity, stolidness, stupid thing, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unwise step, wackiness, weak-mindedness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of garden ornaments usually associated with the class of buildings to which it belongs.
18th century English gardens and French landscape gardening often featured mock Roman temples, symbolising classical virtues. Other 18th century garden follies represented Chinese temples, Egyptian pyramids, ruined abbeys, or Tatar tents, to represent different continents or historical eras. Sometimes they represented rustic villages, mills, and cottages to symbolise rural virtues.[1] Many follies, particularly during times of famine, such as the Irish potato famine, were built as a form of poor relief, to provide employment for peasants and unemployed artisans.
In English, the term began as "a popular name for any costly structure considered to have shown folly in the builder", the OED's definition,[2] and were often named after the individual who commissioned or designed the project. The connotations of silliness or madness in this definition is in accord with the general meaning of the French word "folie"; however, another older meaning of this word is "delight" or "favourite abode"[3] This sense included conventional, practical, buildings that were thought unduly large or expensive, such as Beckford's Folly, an extremely expensive early Gothic Revival country house that collapsed under the weight of its tower in 1825, 12 years after completion. As a general term, "folly" is usually applied to a small building that appears to have no practical purpose, or the purpose of which appears less important than its striking and unusual design, but the term is ultimately subjective, so a precise definition is not possible.
Fool, Foolishness, Folly
TheOld Testament. Several Hebrew words are rendered "fool, " with nuances ranging all the way from the naive but teachable person ( Prov 14:15 peti [yit.P], derived from the Hebrew root meaning "open, " hence impressionable ) to the hopelessly incorrigible person who deserves no corrective efforts since such will be in vain ( Prov 26:3 kesil [lyis.K] ). In most cases the context will help the reader determine which of the many meanings is to be preferred.
The heaviest concentration of the Hebrew words referring to foolishness is in the Wisdom literature, where the fool is constantly contrasted with the wise. The fool is not so much stupid (except when the context demands such a meaning) as immoral and pernicious. The fool's problem is not so much intellectual as practical and spiritual. In fact, the terms "wise" and "fool" are used by the sages to designate respectively the faithful and the sinners. This characterization is well depicted in the competition between Wisdom and Folly for the attention and loyalty of the young man. Folly is a seductress who seeks to allure the young man away from the wife of his youth ( Prov 5:18 ). She personifies more than stupidity. She is immorality and adultery ( Prov 6:23-35 ; 7:6-27 ; 9:13-18 ). The fool is the naive person who succumbs to her amorous overtures.
A further insight into the nature of the fool is provided by the Hebrew word nabal [l'b"n]. This is the word used in Psalm 14:1, where the fool declares, "There is no God." Not only is the fool immoral, he is also godless. His mind is closed to God (as Nabal's mind was closed to reason 1 Sam 25:25 ). He conducts his life without any recognition of God and thus is corrupt and perverse ( Psalms 14:1 Psalms 14:3 ). He does not fear the Lord and hence knows nothing of wisdom ( Prov 1:29 ). The same Hebrew term is also applied to the nations. Wisdom is seen as the gift of God, expressed in the Torah. To be without itas the Gentile nations were ( Deut 32:21 )or to ignore itas Israel did ( Deut 32:6 )is to be foolish.
The New Testament. There are fewer Greek terms employed for the fool and these are essentially negative, indicating that the fool is lacking in sense and intelligence. The gravity of the condition of the fool can be seen in the warning of Jesus that to call a person such is to be in danger of "the fire of hell" ( Matt 5:22 ). The designation "fool" is considerably more derogatory than other terms of abuse. Clearly, to be a fool in this biblical sense is a serious matter.
Paul makes frequent ironic reference to foolishness, particularly in 1 and 2 Corinthians. He deprecates the wisdom of the world, which characterizes God's action in Jesus as nonsensical and scandalous. Human understanding erroneously takes God's wisdom to be foolishness and God's strength to be weakness since God's actions do not fit human reason or expectation. Indeed, from a worldly perspective God uses the foolish thing and calls the foolish person ( 1 Cor 1:27-28 ).
Paul characterizes his self-defense in 2 Corinthians as foolish. He is forced by circumstances to employ worldly methods of refutation of charges arraigned against him ( 2 Cor 11:1-6 ). He is forced to fight fire with fire. Further he recognizes that he is considered a fool by the world because of his suffering for the gospel ( 1 Cor 4:10 ).
Elsewhere in the New Testament foolish has a more conventional sense. Believers are urged not to be foolish ( Eph 5:15-16 ) and to distinguish carefully between heavenly and earthly wisdom ( Jas 3:13-18 ).
This negative attitude toward foolishness is understandable when its practices are observed. Among these practices are: relying on earthly wealth ( Luke 12:20 ); failing to recognize that the ministry of Jesus is God's visitation to claim his own bride ( Matt 25:1-13 ); turning away from the gospel of grace to legalism ( Gal 3:1-3 ); worshiping the creature rather than the Creator ( Rom 1:18-23 ); and abrogating the demands of God with meaningless distinctions ( Matt 23:16-22 ). Perhaps even more significant than the above characteristics is a failure to act on the words of Jesus by building a house without an adequate foundation ( Matt 7:26-27 ), and a failure to believe the good news of Jesus' resurrection ( Luke 24:25 here the foolish are described as "slow of heart" the Old Testament expression is "without heart, " without understanding, as in Prov 9:16 ). The believer is not to be foolish, but to "understand what the Lord's will is" ( Eph 5:17 ).
Carl Schultz
Bibliography. R. L. Harris, et al., TWOT; D. Kidner, Proverbs; A. Richardson, A Theological Word Book of the Bible.
Conclusion
Well for sure there is no way in hell this word can be used to the building it self lol and if so it’s a joke for any one that has seen this small dive bar looking club lol… so I would be shocked if the owners of this club offered this name with that in mind.
It had to be over the idea of people doing foolish behavior
Been Having fun thinking on what the founders of clubs was thinking when they name their clubs. So I will work with tuscl most notorious club aka follies. I believe it’s a amazing name for what it is and why people even show up for. It got me thinking what all I could find online and if it would spark a cool discussion. Below is some definitions, related words and even biblical ideas on this word. At the end I will give my own concluding thoughts of what I read and to maybe spark discussions.
Webster
Fol´ly
n. 1. The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
2. A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill.
- Shak.
3. Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
[Achan] wrought folly in Israel.
- Josh. vii. 15.
When lovely woman stoops to folly.
- Goldsmith.
4. The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
It is called this man's or that man's "folly," and name of the foolish builder is thus kept alive for long after years.
- Trench.
Related Words
absurdness, act of folly, asininity, battiness, blunder, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, daftness, desipience, dottiness, dumb trick, dumbness, eccentricity, error, fatuity, fatuousness, faux pas, fluff, foolery, foolheadedness, frivolity, frivolousness, gaffe, giddiness, goof, goofiness, idiocy, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, irrationality, kookiness, lunacy, madness, mindlessness, mistake, niaiserie, nonsense, nugacity, nuttiness, obtuseness, preposterousness, queerness, rashness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, sottise, stolidity, stolidness, stupid thing, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unwise step, wackiness, weak-mindedness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of garden ornaments usually associated with the class of buildings to which it belongs.
18th century English gardens and French landscape gardening often featured mock Roman temples, symbolising classical virtues. Other 18th century garden follies represented Chinese temples, Egyptian pyramids, ruined abbeys, or Tatar tents, to represent different continents or historical eras. Sometimes they represented rustic villages, mills, and cottages to symbolise rural virtues.[1] Many follies, particularly during times of famine, such as the Irish potato famine, were built as a form of poor relief, to provide employment for peasants and unemployed artisans.
In English, the term began as "a popular name for any costly structure considered to have shown folly in the builder", the OED's definition,[2] and were often named after the individual who commissioned or designed the project. The connotations of silliness or madness in this definition is in accord with the general meaning of the French word "folie"; however, another older meaning of this word is "delight" or "favourite abode"[3] This sense included conventional, practical, buildings that were thought unduly large or expensive, such as Beckford's Folly, an extremely expensive early Gothic Revival country house that collapsed under the weight of its tower in 1825, 12 years after completion. As a general term, "folly" is usually applied to a small building that appears to have no practical purpose, or the purpose of which appears less important than its striking and unusual design, but the term is ultimately subjective, so a precise definition is not possible.
Fool, Foolishness, Folly
TheOld Testament. Several Hebrew words are rendered "fool, " with nuances ranging all the way from the naive but teachable person ( Prov 14:15 peti [yit.P], derived from the Hebrew root meaning "open, " hence impressionable ) to the hopelessly incorrigible person who deserves no corrective efforts since such will be in vain ( Prov 26:3 kesil [lyis.K] ). In most cases the context will help the reader determine which of the many meanings is to be preferred.
The heaviest concentration of the Hebrew words referring to foolishness is in the Wisdom literature, where the fool is constantly contrasted with the wise. The fool is not so much stupid (except when the context demands such a meaning) as immoral and pernicious. The fool's problem is not so much intellectual as practical and spiritual. In fact, the terms "wise" and "fool" are used by the sages to designate respectively the faithful and the sinners. This characterization is well depicted in the competition between Wisdom and Folly for the attention and loyalty of the young man. Folly is a seductress who seeks to allure the young man away from the wife of his youth ( Prov 5:18 ). She personifies more than stupidity. She is immorality and adultery ( Prov 6:23-35 ; 7:6-27 ; 9:13-18 ). The fool is the naive person who succumbs to her amorous overtures.
A further insight into the nature of the fool is provided by the Hebrew word nabal [l'b"n]. This is the word used in Psalm 14:1, where the fool declares, "There is no God." Not only is the fool immoral, he is also godless. His mind is closed to God (as Nabal's mind was closed to reason 1 Sam 25:25 ). He conducts his life without any recognition of God and thus is corrupt and perverse ( Psalms 14:1 Psalms 14:3 ). He does not fear the Lord and hence knows nothing of wisdom ( Prov 1:29 ). The same Hebrew term is also applied to the nations. Wisdom is seen as the gift of God, expressed in the Torah. To be without itas the Gentile nations were ( Deut 32:21 )or to ignore itas Israel did ( Deut 32:6 )is to be foolish.
The New Testament. There are fewer Greek terms employed for the fool and these are essentially negative, indicating that the fool is lacking in sense and intelligence. The gravity of the condition of the fool can be seen in the warning of Jesus that to call a person such is to be in danger of "the fire of hell" ( Matt 5:22 ). The designation "fool" is considerably more derogatory than other terms of abuse. Clearly, to be a fool in this biblical sense is a serious matter.
Paul makes frequent ironic reference to foolishness, particularly in 1 and 2 Corinthians. He deprecates the wisdom of the world, which characterizes God's action in Jesus as nonsensical and scandalous. Human understanding erroneously takes God's wisdom to be foolishness and God's strength to be weakness since God's actions do not fit human reason or expectation. Indeed, from a worldly perspective God uses the foolish thing and calls the foolish person ( 1 Cor 1:27-28 ).
Paul characterizes his self-defense in 2 Corinthians as foolish. He is forced by circumstances to employ worldly methods of refutation of charges arraigned against him ( 2 Cor 11:1-6 ). He is forced to fight fire with fire. Further he recognizes that he is considered a fool by the world because of his suffering for the gospel ( 1 Cor 4:10 ).
Elsewhere in the New Testament foolish has a more conventional sense. Believers are urged not to be foolish ( Eph 5:15-16 ) and to distinguish carefully between heavenly and earthly wisdom ( Jas 3:13-18 ).
This negative attitude toward foolishness is understandable when its practices are observed. Among these practices are: relying on earthly wealth ( Luke 12:20 ); failing to recognize that the ministry of Jesus is God's visitation to claim his own bride ( Matt 25:1-13 ); turning away from the gospel of grace to legalism ( Gal 3:1-3 ); worshiping the creature rather than the Creator ( Rom 1:18-23 ); and abrogating the demands of God with meaningless distinctions ( Matt 23:16-22 ). Perhaps even more significant than the above characteristics is a failure to act on the words of Jesus by building a house without an adequate foundation ( Matt 7:26-27 ), and a failure to believe the good news of Jesus' resurrection ( Luke 24:25 here the foolish are described as "slow of heart" the Old Testament expression is "without heart, " without understanding, as in Prov 9:16 ). The believer is not to be foolish, but to "understand what the Lord's will is" ( Eph 5:17 ).
Carl Schultz
Bibliography. R. L. Harris, et al., TWOT; D. Kidner, Proverbs; A. Richardson, A Theological Word Book of the Bible.
Conclusion
Well for sure there is no way in hell this word can be used to the building it self lol and if so it’s a joke for any one that has seen this small dive bar looking club lol… so I would be shocked if the owners of this club offered this name with that in mind.
It had to be over the idea of people doing foolish behavior
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n. 1. The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
When married men go in here it can be a foolish act for what they're risking. Weakness or derangement of mind can be to blame for seeking extras while you took an oath not to.
2. A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
Just like #1 pretty much. Weak or light minded conduct. That's what women would call all us PL's actions in the club.
The rest of the definitions have been touched on by the above posters.
Great topic, Juice! When you hear club names it's usually something obviously sleazy sounding unless it's a corporate name. But Follies doesn't really sound scandalous or sleazy, yet it makes sense.