"
"Against the rules?" I asked.
"Very much so. All that I can do is send an agent with a slight
understanding of the situation of history and physical existence to the
people, but he must make the judgments of how to proceed all on his own.
If I did tell you, it wouldn't be much different than going myself, and
then there would be no human resolution to human problems."
"Our lives serve as a spectator sport to the gods, then?" I inquired of
him.
"I am afraid not," he said, "It is much more serious than that. The
Greeks were not all wrong, you know."
"Who else, I wonder."
"Not many," he sighed, "But tell me, are you ready?"
"As I'll ever be."
"Then I will begin. The understanding of life begins with the
understanding of physical existence," Onan said, "And by physical
existence I mean the quality of being materially animated. Not to
confuse it with consciousness, which is the ability to think and reason,
it is rather the realm in which one has substance and continuity. I will
call the elements of physical being time and matter, those words
representing widely known concepts. Matter provides the raw substance
and time gives those lifeless objects a plane of being to exist in.
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