From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
There's no shortage of material in life.
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.