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The Principle of Communication
The Tree of Knowledge is the sum total of human understanding and it is shared knowledge. Because this knowledge is shared, it exists only because of communication. The Tree of Knowledge is by nature dynamic and the knowledge within the tree must flow. Speech is communication in all forms. It is how the data move. It is the motion of the sap of the Tree of Knowledge. It is those data and it is the connections that carry those data. To speak freely is to do the dharma of the Church of Reality. Thus the Church of Reality recognizes that in order to pursue the understanding of understanding, we must be able to speak freely. To be silenced is to be oppressed.

The Principle of Communication is also the principle of free speech. What good is knowledge if it isn't communicated?

Since speech in the Church of Reality also includes the technological systems that carry, store, and distribute speech, the Church of Reality considers the development of better technology to enhance communication within the Tree of Knowledge to be our Sacred Duty and we therefore, as a Church, honor all communication technology that makes up the Golden Router and the Internet which is the heart of the Golden Router. The Internet is our Sacred Network. Conversely, the denial of technology isolates individuals and prevents communication between people who wish to communicate and this denial becomes a form of oppression.
 
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