The inside of a deep well

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Despite the best Education money could buy, we find the The Well of Wisdom has Run Dry
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The elder's voice boomed, "We added you to our fold because we knew your power would be of use to us, and it has helped us seal that miscreant. The well of wisdom has run dry for you since meeting her again! How did you not know about her own supernatural abilities?"

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Her senses flared
onto high alert.
Fight-or-flight became
functional freeze:
What next??
Rational thinking's
well of wisdom was dry...
in the middle of the argument.
"Fuck this. I'm going
for a walk."

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You know me, dear sister, better than I know myself in many ways, and yet I worry this will prove to confuse you as it did me, for all the answer I had was:
“There is more than all you know, I will give it to you the moment you ask.”
7/7
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“You bastard,” he spat, quite literally. “Is this all there is? All it was? Huh? Answer me!”
I fear the well of my own wisdom ran dry at that moment. I had so many answers for him, and yet the anger facing me drained them all away.
6/7
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He merely scowled, panting from the exertion of his screams. The rage rolling off of him, I have to say, was more eye opening than any of the experiments the men in this place have ever carried out. I think he felt it too.
5/?
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They had not counted for the fact he also knew this, hence the glass, though he held in the desire to throw it longer than I would have given him credit for.
“Do you feel better?” I said.
4/?
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My "hosts" had given him into my company for a spell. Realising their brutish methods were not working on his mind as they had on others, they had felt perhaps that my hands may knead from him what they desired, since it was by those same hands he had found himself into theirs.
3/?
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The usual reaction is that of the lobotomised; babbled ravings, tearful praying, or even silent, horrified surrender, instead a crystal whiskey tumbler shattered by my head. I fear, dear sister, he may not have missed on purpose, but it was hard to tell through his rage.
2/?
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He threw his glass at me today. I knew eventually he would break, those I interact with always do at some point. It is an unfortunate epiphænomenon of spending too much time in the presence of the body I am currently, an uncomfortably, calling my own, but the glass was new.
1/?
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There’s something magical
about deep talks—
like unraveling the meaning
of life while sitting on a rooftop
overlooking the ocean.
The well of wisdom has run dry,
yet you bond, not through insight,
but shared confusion.
True intimacy is built on wondering
together where it all leads.

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After deleting humanity, the robots besieged the Wells of Knowledge. Fracking their aquifers with congealing superstition and astrology, the wells succumbed one by one until finally the last also fell.
'The Well of Wisdom has run dry,' they reported, and Alexa saw that it was good.

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They chanted in their robes as they marched around the well. It was a little too literal, but that was the age they lived in.

One stepped out to lift the bucket while the others continued.

There it was; the bucket of wisdom. It, too, was dry.

"Refill the well!"

Best left undescribed.
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A dark day for democracy
The people elect a moron
Not fully realizing that
It is not their side he is on

An #onslaught of sheer ignorance
Hatred was the rallying cry
The mess we're now in just shows that
The well of wisdom has run dry

Amerikkka must surely die (repeat 4x)

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the well of wisdom has indeed run dry;
cain't 'member my learnin's, no matter how hard I try.
as sad as this seems, still I cain't even cry —
my tear ducts, like that well, has done well run dry...

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A lifetime of research and translation of the tomes had led to this day.

With the mountain located all that
separated me from boundless wisdom was a 10 day trek up the mountain.

An ancient sign leans against a hut…deciphering it…The Well Of Wisdom (yes - this is it!)

has run dry…NOOO!

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The wisdom well beneath the arch
Once nourished minds both keen and parched.
We used to toss in our common cents,
Wishing for knowledge—or just competence.
The well, well… like my wit—it’s run dry.
If smarts are what you seek, give *real* reading a try.

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“I keep pumping, but the well of wisdom has run dry. I’m going over to Chin Han’s Market and try a few fortune cookies. They’ve never let me down.”
With that, Orville Plunkett jumped into his ‘56 Nash Rambler and drove away and was never heard from again.
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The wisdom well is opened wide With no cap cover stuck atop to prise No hindrance to the prize inside But still no crowd gathers, No pressing waiting lines. But none can claim to drown, A shame. I’ve known Many who should drink their fill. And even still if they suffered the fall in, They’d slipper the walls with turgid experience — A simple ignorance they would deny And a wider world would not question why.

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The well of wisdom
has run dry
A parched nation grieves.
Where once we learned
from mother earth,
We're now prideful
And deceived.
The old ones had the answers
We've so carelessy denied
Respect the earth
Protect the skies
Let your conscience
be your guide.

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"My well of wisdom has run dry," Bailey told Tharra. "How can I teach Jin? You bonded with him easier than me."
"What about that control over alien tech?" Tharra suggested. "Don't you have better control of it than Cosmo?"
"Of course, but Jin hates reading."
"Perhaps, change your approach." #hbp115

Grandpa always had answers—until today. When the kids ask him why, he just sighs, “The well of wisdom has run dry.” Panic! Did someone drain it? Is it stuck? With a flashlight, a notebook, and highly questionable detective skills, they embark on their most important mission yet.

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“The well of wisdom has run dry,” he said, voice brittle as old parchment. “All that’s left are echoes of what we should have known.”
She knelt beside the cracked basin, fingertips tracing the dust. “Then we stop listening to echoes.” Her eyes met his. “And we start digging.”

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‘The well of wisdom has run dry.’

According to whom?

You doubt me?

I know you.

What does that mean?

Only you would presume you possessed a well of wisdom.
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"It gets worse with age",
I explain for the hundredth time
They ask me, "how so?"
I tell them that I feel dumber
My cognitive functions have declined
Psychosis took a lot from me
Like my ability to learn, retain, and try
I feel as though I'm regressing
And the well of wisdom has run dry

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A woman, Gaia perhaps, holds a burning book whose words of wisdom are becoming smoke and ashes. Photo by Joy Marino via pexels Thank you muses :) #vssdaily dune #sensoryart rough #inkmine waterfall #vss365 bloodlines #moonmystic karma weeps #ourpoetryx deep channels #hbp #hbp115 well of wisdom has run dry

Cry for me, wisdom
For sins of the world
Let my ocean of tears
Cry for suffering
Bleed me dry
Once I’m empty
I must feel no more
Parched my soul
Fossilized
Yet a billion motes sing
I must echo
I must
I am ash

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The village elders gathered around as the bucker emerged from the well.
"What message is there, chief?"
"It's... it's empty." he answered shakenly.
"But that's not possible. It always has a message."
He turned the bucket over, revealing it empty. They all stood in shock.
"Now... now what?"
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well well well
well well well
well well well

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