"To let be be and not be not be; that is all," she said. "After Parmenides...," the professor added. "If you don't understand now you may never know the truth when you hear it spoken." She stood at the front of the class full of empty, vacant, overwhelmed eyes. She knew what it was like sitting there lost in a classroom before meeting with the goddess of the proem.
"The law is not philosophy, but truth resides in both. One as knowledge and the other as opinion. Which is which is for you to figure out." Then she opined, "But this is not a game, a language game, based on meaning and semantics but a struggle for justice and order." She began, "The world is full of brave men and madmen and you must choose to navigate accordingly."
"To reiterate from the start...as from experience. To let what is pass and become the past and what is not, what has never happened, what cannot be, in truth, and leave what is nonexistent in the realm of what will never occur, then we may understand the difference between opinion and truth. As you sail past our galaxy, confined within a hermetically-sealed, isolation capsule, you may have dreams, like others before you, as if this cell were hell itself, but this figment of an exacerbated mind, your imagination heightened to an extreme because of stress...well, this course is to help alleviate the self-torture of consciousness floating in space to a destination unknown by your own mind. I am here to train you to realize the thoughts that create dreams may turn viscous like an autoimmune response and the way to turn off the repetitive cycle of nightmares is to envision dreams as a problem-solving activity that may be without solution itself but the difference is mind is simply a vessel where thoughts take place. Thoughts may create feelings and emotions that enter into dreams. Do not be afraid of your mind. It does not create the content of dreams. Though dreams may become your reality as you float, all alone, through outer space. Your journey will take time but you will be hooked up to life-support systems. You are not in control of your vessel but your destination will come on time. At this point, the earth is uninhabitable. And you are old enough to leave on a solo voyage."
"Let me know if you have any questions."
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