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"Welcome back," Lana told her students. "I thought first I'd talk a bit about who the Jedi are and why we're studying them." Well, apart from the island's oddity. "The Jedi are an order of beings in my galaxy that follow the philosophy we'll be discussing in the use of the Force, which is the life force and being of everything in the universe. If you'd like to know more about their culture specifically, Dean Skywalker is a Jedi master, and would know more about that than I would, but I've lived and worked with a number of Jedi for years, and I hope I'll manage to do them justice.

"When I taught Sith philosophy, we went through the code a line at a time, so I thought we'd start that way with the Jedi code as well. The first line is, 'There is no emotion, there is peace'." In my experience, it means different things to different Jedi, unsurprisingly." Some more healthy than others, but she was trying not to judge. Too much.

"So, as the basis for a code of living, what would that mean to you?" she asked. "And what do you think of it - would it work for you, or not? How would you go about following it?"

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Peacefully!

Wonder how peaceful Anakin is.

Discuss! What does that line mean to you, and how would you go about following it? Or would you?

She's here! And not a Jedi.

G'night.

Charlie Gale

"I suppose if you don't have any emotions or feelings about anything, it might be more peaceful," Charlie said, "But where's the fun in that? How boring to just be calm all the time!"

Sakaki

Sakaki gave a not-entirely-unrelated glance to her hand, currently bandaged from an incident at the shelter yesterday.

"To me," she eventually offered, "I think it would mean that not letting your emotions take over is a sort of peace, to allow you to handle a situation without strong reactions and manage them more peacefully."

"Good." Lana smiled. "I do think that's a good interpretation of it. How would you go about practicing it? Or would you?"

Lana chuckled. "You would definitely make a better Sith than a Jedi. The corresponding line in the Sith code is 'Peace is a lie; there is only passion'. But do you think this line is saying you can't have emotions or feelings about anything?"

"No, it says you can have emotions, but then you won't have peace," Charlie said.

Lana nodded. "Also one way Jedi have interpreted it," she allowed.

Probably not the most healthy one.

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