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THE truth is always simple, yet, paradoxically, (absolute) truth cannot be remembered or learned (from books etc).

What intellectual (educated) minds appear to possess is wisdom, but it is a false wisdom.

When the intellectual mind fuses or marries the soul (God) mind, our suffering will be over.

Bob
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Quote from Plato's Dialogue:

"Thoth/Hermes (trismegistus) is feeling very proud of himself for having invented letters, and he claims that the alphabet will make the Egyptians wiser and improve their memory.

Plato has the god Thamus, "king of all Egypt," speak to him:

"Most ingenious Theuth," said the god and king Thamus, "one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another;

And now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess.

For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory.

Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.

You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are

For the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."