Property Vs. Reality

Property. A great, great mystery to me. While it is ingrained in most of us that either we own something or we don't this is far from the truth. You see everything has properties, like color, smell, and texture. For example an apple has a red color, it has a weight of 10 grams, and dimensions 3 x 4 X 3 inches, etc. It is important to note that these properties are subject to change. While i have not thought through all the possible properties or whether there is a common set of properties for all objects it seems that most properties are related to our senses, not completely but at least retaliated.

Now consider ownership; is ownership a property of an object? Before i scream no lets consider that all objects have some property of ownership. When we look at an object can is there a general/common way to see who it belongs to? Is there any common way to tell the owner through smell or touch? Using our senses there is no way to tell who it belongs to... if it is in an isolated environment. In a non-isolated environment the ownership of an object could be deduced by its surroundings... but i think this cannot be considered a method of finding an objects property.

Now we are still considering that there is a property that shows ownership but lets dive deeper to see if we can find it. What about our emotions. Now i claim that emotions are just another sense, in this case the argument above would show that our senses cannot lead us to finding the ownership property, but lets consider that its not. if you look at an object is there any way to "feel" that it belongs to a certain person? It could be argued that yes, you can "feel" who something belongs to but it is important to consider why this may be true. In this case any "feeling" would be there result of a memory, that this emotion is being dredged up because of some memory. Meaning that it would really be the result of memory and not emotions.

So last on the list... memory. Do our memories hold the property of ownership for objects? before answering lets review... our senses cannot tell us about ownership, our emotions cannot tell us about ownership and if memory cant either then this would mean that nothing belongs to anybody. Memory is complicated because no one remembers everything. Additionally are we considering an individuals memory or the collective memory of everyone? However the answer is simple because how would one remember that an object belongs to one person? Through an initial experiences where they used there senses. thus if our sense and our senses give us no information out ownership then there is no way to initially remember what belongs to whom.

So now I've shown that there is no way for any person to know what belongs to who. that includes the things they think they own. For example, one person my think they own a car, but why? because they mislead themselfs and now because of there memories they conclude that a priticular car belongs to them. What does this mean? Can we all just go take anything we want because it doesn't belong to anybody. Well this all depends on what else you believe. I believe that there is only one god, allah. because of this my take on ownership extends into my relgion. thus i believe that all objects belong to god. also this conclusion works well with my belief because god holds the ownership property; god knows what belongs to who. Now i believe that everything belongs to god because he created it and everything i "own" has really just been lent to me, but there is no way for any human to know what belongs to another human. this is also interesting because my relgion believes that if you find something (say for example you find a quareter on the ground) you are to just leave it because as a human we have no knowledge of who it belongs to and what will happen to it in the future.