A question for thoughts...

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   JakeFrostposted 12 years ago

   A question for thoughts...
   
   If a tree falls but nobody is around, does it make a sound?

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   Georgie Loweryposted 12 years ago

   Yes! Have you seen the photo making the rounds on Facebook of a bear having, uh, his morning constitutional in the woods? That's what your question made me think of.

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   duffsmomposted 12 years ago

   Why yes. My husband asks a similar question:  If a man speaks, and his wife is nowhere near to hear him--is he still wrong?

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      JakeFrostposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Aha, very good question there... One that even I don't know how to answer

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      Georgie Loweryposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Haha! Why yes, yes he is. (Not man bashing, I love men. Just being silly.)

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      lone77starposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      LOL. A man who cannot be humble doesn't deserve his wife. And my wife is all kinds of humble, teaching me slowly every day.

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   edhanposted 12 years ago

   Sounds can be heard though you maybe thousand miles away. I do have some sort of feeling of uneasiness when certain things happened without my knowledge. It is the inner thoughts.

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      whonunuwhoposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Yes,edhan, those of us who have this gift of a strong sense of our surroundings and seeming to be an  extra sense that we may possess, may well have these perceptions in our environment. It seems rare and not very common, yet some people have these.

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      edhanposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Yes. Sometimes people call it as six-sense.

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   whonunuwhoposted 12 years ago

   Please read my hub on "Echo in the Wilderness". It may answer your question.

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   lone77starposted 12 years ago

   Yes! A sound is merely compressive waves in matter. Just as light is wave-particles of energy! Either one will have an effect on the objects they strike -- warming them up, vibrating them, causing movement in some cases.
   
   You don't have to have an ear receive the sound for it to exist.
   
   Just as you don't have to have eyes see the blue flowers in the field on the 4th planet out from Psi 5 Aurigae, for those flowers to exist. http://www.ancientsuns.com/extrasolar-p … ntrich.php

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   ginjill ashberryposted 12 years ago

   Yes, it makes a sound. Loud too. Too bad for the tree; nobody is around to 'hear' it.

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   kessposted 12 years ago

   The ear was created for the sake of sound
   sound was created for the ear.
   
   without a hearing ear  sound does not exist.
   without sound the ear does not exist.
   the two always walk together or not at all.
   
   in the same respect, even the tree and the forest cannot exist... except
   
   in the statement made by the observer in whom all of these things do exist and are each given their substance.

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