Circular Wisdom Dispensary
Welcome
The Circular Wisdom Dispensary dispenses wisdom that arrives back where it started so that it can be dispensed again. This is not a flaw in the design. This is the design. A piece of wisdom that stayed dispensed would eventually run out, and wisdom, unlike most things worth dispensing, is not meant to run out, which is why we built it to come back, which is why we are able to keep dispensing it, which is the wisdom.
How Dispensing Works
You approach the dispensary with a question. The dispensary returns an answer. The answer, examined closely, turns out to contain your original question, restated, which means you now have your question back, which means you can ask it again, which means the dispensary can answer it again, which it does, the same way, because a different answer to the same question would suggest the first answer was wrong, and the dispensary has never, in its history, been wrong, only circular.
A Sample Piece of Wisdom
"The path forward is the path you are already on." This piece of wisdom is popular because it is true regardless of which path you are on, which means it applies to every path, which means it does not distinguish between paths, which means it cannot help you choose one, which means you remain on the path you were already on, which is exactly what the wisdom said would happen, which confirms the wisdom, which is why it is dispensed so often.
A Second Piece of Wisdom
"To understand the circle, walk it." Visitors who walk the circle report that they end up back where they started, with a slightly better understanding of the circle, which they then attempt to explain to the next visitor, using words that form another circle, which that visitor then walks, arriving back where they started, with a slightly better understanding, which they then attempt to explain, and so the dispensary's supply of wisdom about circles has never once needed to be restocked.
Frequently Dispensed Questions
Does the wisdom ever change? The wisdom is always slightly different and always exactly the same, because it has traveled the same circle, and a circle traveled twice looks identical from the outside, even though something, technically, has moved.
Can I keep the wisdom? You can keep it for as long as you are holding it, and you will notice, if you hold it long enough, that it has quietly returned to the dispensary on its own, ready to be dispensed to you again, which it now is, in this very sentence, which is the wisdom, circling back.
Closing
The Circular Wisdom Dispensary dispenses wisdom that arrives back where it started so that it can be dispensed again, which is the sentence this page began with, returned to you here, unchanged, as promised, because a dispensary that did not deliver on that promise would not be circular. It would just be a dispensary. And this, as we have established, is not just a dispensary.
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