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3. Owning Property

1. Natural man does not own property.

2. Natural man does own tools, caches of food, clothes for the cold environments he may inhabit.

3. Owning property is a burden because natural man will stay on it when it is no longer adequate for his family or group.

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ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

I SAW THE LIGHT

If I were a blind creature I could still see the clouds.

I would see them as they warmed and cooled my skin.

The first time I saw them they would a broken vertical line extending in front of me. But if I moved my body left or right I would know they had form. At least two dimensional form.

If I were a blind creature I could still see the trees.

I would see them as they progressed into shadow as the sun passed.

The first time I saw them I would think it was a growing line that grew in front of or behind me. I later, over a period of time would know they had shape as they grew each day.

Yes I would know math. I would know what grow means because change and grow is the same. I would know there is an ever changing environment.

It would not look like the environment the humans perceive but then is the environment they perceive the real one? For sure it is not. They are limited just like me, the blind creature.

I would know math really, really well. Because knowing the difference between night and day would be my first perception and every cell in my skin would become mathematically tuned to the day night change.

If I were a blind creature I could find shelter from excessive sun or lack of. I would not call it “no sun” I would just call it lack of because I would know the sun is eternal. Well at least during one half the cycle span.

I would be religious because I would perceive the sun as god and the lack of sun was because a demon ate it during each half the cycle span.

The seeing humans religion is not different than mine. They know there is a God (the sun) and a devil (lack of sun) so they also make up stories to explain the reasons god isn’t always with them. Of course the answer must be a demon or devil interferes with him.

Seeing humans know E=MC². Big deal, I know that S (sun)+L(lack of sun)=D(demon).

Of course as I said earlier my math sense is far greater than seeing humans because they are so involved with things they see.

I , as a non seeing creature, also do not perceive three dimensions. My would is flat with only length and width. When I see the clouds they are flat. When I see the trees they are flat. But I am very cognizant of change. Seeing humans can sense change but are not cognizant of it because the math change function is confused by excessive visual stimuli.

As a non seeing creature I know that my position in space/time is the key to the knowledge that I have. Because, when I move around to different positions the trees have shapes and are not just vertical lines. The clouds also become more than just broken vertical lines. However, as I move positions to see more, the trees and clouds, become distorted. The quicker I move the less distorted they become. If I could move faster than the speed of light (note I said faster) then they would almost look real. How fast would I have to move. It is all relative to how large my environment is. If it is very large I would have to move perhaps millions of times the speed of light to perceive it nearly real. Even at millions of times the speed of light by the time I finished perceiving reality my starting point would have changed or evolved.

Proof of the seeing humans inability to concentrate on the math change function is their inability to accept evolution.

I , as a non seeing creature, see the leaves fall and the trees die and new ones take their place. Some of them have different shadows. With different leaves, different shapes of trunks.

And sometimes as summer comes (Yes I can perceive summer)(Remember I have a very developed math/change function) the trees never return. They are replaced by little pointed objects that seeing humans call grass. And sometime they are replaced with nothing.

Since it is such a boring world with only god and the devil to stimulate my math change function I just move on to find more stimulation. To a place where there are clouds and trees.

Seeing humans are so overwhelmed with data and cannot get down to their basic math/change function that they can see their environment dieing all around them yet they do not know to move on.

I like it as a non seeing creature that can still see the clouds and trees. I am not overwhelmed by visual data and can see the basics of my species existence without being confused.