Plato's Cave For Sale

Plato's Cave For Sale 


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"The unexamined life is not worth living."


Socrates 


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To not know oneself 

Is to not know anything 


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If you teach 

Children to think 

To question 

You give them

Tools to 

Build 

Life


Teach them 

Walk in straight lines

Follow orders

Ignore their 

Inner voice

You kill 

Spirit 

Within


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Takes courage 

Walking

One's lonely 

Path 

Find live way 

To answers 

Only we 

Can know 

No one can 

Tell another 

Their meaning 

Purpose

No one can 

Tell another

Right wrong 

One person's truth 

Another's falsehood 

One person's trash 

another's treasure 


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Cast Away 

Veils 

Ignorance 

Filters blind 

Ideology 

Poison

Shackles  

Cast Away 

Spells


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"You cannot step in 

the same river twice." 


Heraclitus 


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All in flux 

Change 

Only 

Constant 

Rigid falsehoods 

Assumptions 

Riga Mortis of Mind

Dearth of spirit

Deep hiding 

Many never 

Pull out 

Sleep


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Plato's Cave 

Leave shadows

Upon Wall

Time to sell 

Plato's cave 

Seriously 

Sell the 

Cave 


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Written by David Penn Arndt on May 31, 2012



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