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    Default If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tr...ls_in_a_forest
    So does it make a sound?

    I think it does, even though nobody was around to hear it there is still a sound....what are your thoughts?

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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    My thoughts are that you have too much time on your hands.
    I believe you Dottie and you have my support

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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    BS3:

    I think that you are destined to walk the Earth, like Caine on "Kung Fu"...

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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    Yeah, I can't believe this is a thread.

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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    Yes. It sounds like 049gfja0dsf98u&^^%*&!!!!

    Not that I'd know.
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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    Quote Originally Posted by sun child View Post
    Yeah, I can't believe this is a thread.
    this entire thread belongs in the 'Random Thread'.

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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    Quote Originally Posted by BlackSheEp3 View Post
    I think it does, even though nobody was around to hear it there is still a sound....what are your thoughts?
    "Look it cannot be seen - it is beyond form.
    Listen, it cannot be heard - it is beyond sound.
    Grasp, it cannot be held - it is intangible."

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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    is BS3 the second coming of Kikin?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Budai View Post
    "Look it cannot be seen - it is beyond form.
    Listen, it cannot be heard - it is beyond sound.
    Grasp, it cannot be held - it is intangible."

    --Tao Te Ching #14
    Thanks for the input Budai.

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    I think Whirlz would be best to advise us here.

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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    well, the thought is certainly no stranger than Schrodinger's cat.


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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    Okay, I play along...

    Yes, it does make a sound, but since there's no one around, nobody cares. On the other hand, no one being around refers to someone being able to perceive the sound, and this someone is suppose to be a person. What about animals though? They will perceive the sound, be it audible or physically through the wave.. so, conclusion, the world around us will do the same thing it always does, because it is bound by simple physics and it doesn't really care if we're around or not... thus, we are "unimportant" to it... but, I'd like to think I am important anyways... I only hope the world doesn't prove me wrong by dropping said tree on my head one of these days.

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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    this thread makes me laugh and I like laughing lol

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    Time for you to read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams... it will answer these questions and more. Some you did not even know you have, like what happens when your a human sperm donner and there is only one human woman in the world, and she wants a baby..... but your light years from each other, let alone that you don't even know another human currently in existence...
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    Quote Originally Posted by thing View Post
    Okay, I play along...

    What about animals though? They will perceive the sound, be it audible or physically through the wave.. so, conclusion, the world around us will do the same thing it always does, because it is bound by simple physics and it doesn't really care if we're around or not...
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    ^^No he is reading books on quantum physics I'm sure of it... Trust me on this I'm a Doctor....
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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    Quote Originally Posted by cherryripeboyII View Post
    ^^No he is reading books on quantum physics I'm sure of it... Trust me on this I'm a Doctor....
    A cynical one at that!

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    If I am alone in the forest, and begin to masturbate, when I moan, am I actually making a sound, or is it all in my head?


    Blacksheep, If you are asking this question as an honest inquery for information....you need...something. A life, a dictionary( which by the way, urbandisctionary don't count)...

    Anyway. Does the tree knwo someone is around? What if you are in camo? What if your in stealth mode and the tree doesn't know your around? Then maybe it will feel safe enough to fall without a sound. I think trees only make a sound when they fall to warn people that are around. If noone is around, then the tree chooses not to waste it's energy making a sound. Trees are just conciderate like that. They don't wanna hurt anyone when they fall down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    If I am alone in the forest, and begin to masturbate, when I moan, am I actually making a sound, or is it all in my head?
    Oh, I'll be around.. I can sense when something like that is going on...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    Blacksheep, If you are asking this question as an honest inquery for information....you need...something. A life, a dictionary( which by the way, urbandisctionary don't count)...
    It's his quest for meaning in this kooky world of ours. Think of it in terms of a natural rite of passage...except sometimes, reading along with it feels like a the passage of a kidney stone.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    If I am alone in the forest, and begin to masturbate, when I moan, am I actually making a sound, or is it all in my head?
    Nope, Kaylinn!
    That's not you moaning. It's me, hiding behind the next tree over...

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    No. It makes no sound. In fact, none of us make a sound. We are all illusory. It is all fanciful. Nothing truly exists except as our illusory consciousness would have us believe. We don't exist, even our allusions to illusions.

    I mean, if we're going to take phenomenon out of the any realm of relevance, let's go whole hog.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Zeno View Post
    No. It makes no sound. In fact, none of us make a sound. We are all illusory. It is all fanciful. Nothing truly exists except as our illusory consciousness would have us believe. We don't exist, even our allusions to illusions.

    I mean, if we're going to take phenomenon out of the any realm of relevance, let's go whole hog.
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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    Haha, indeed.. take the red pill, party pooper.

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    Argh, don't remind me. I watched #2 and #3 out of duty. #1 was cool and self-contained, and they should've left it alone.

    I was actually thinking more of transcendentalism than spinoffs of pre-medieval Christian legends.

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    Default Re: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound

    Quote Originally Posted by Budai View Post
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