Question and Answer
Question: If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?
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Answer: What kind of ridiculous question is that? Of course it makes a sound! We’re not the only animals in the universe with eardrums to hear the crash.”
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Question: Does it really make a sound, or is this a construct that exists only when we observe it?
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Answer: Are you daft? Any parent with a pregnant teenage girl can answer that one.
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Question: I do not follow your logic.
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Answer: If frogs are mating in a forest and a human isn’t there to watch them do it, can they really have a baby?
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Question: You believe it is the same thing?
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Answer: If no one is around to watch the sperm go into the egg, can it really make a baby? Of course it can, numbnuts!
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Question: But they are observing it together.
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Answer: If one person watched a tree fall and heard the sound, would anyone believe it?
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Question: Why do you ask?
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Answer: What species in their right mind is so arrogant that an event couldn’t possibly have happened unless they saw, heard, or felt it? If a question doesn’t ask a question, is it really a question? What? No answer?
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ME: Would you both SHUT UP already? I’m trying to sleep.
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Question: Did the tree say something?
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ME: I’m a human, not a tree, and neither of you exist! You’re simply my D@*%&d mind talking to itself!!
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Question: If we believe we exist and a human says we don’t, do we make a sound?
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Answer: Good question.
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©Joelle (sarcasm is my middle name) LeGendre
What interesting conversation you have with yourself!
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Sometimes I have to step in and stop the kids from fighting. 🙂
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That’s a good one!
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You just proved God a little.
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I’ve often wondered if insomnia was God’s way of saying, “I’m trying to tell you something! Listen!”
Unfortunately, I’m still a poor listener. 🙂
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I cracked up at that last question!
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Thanks. 🙂
It was fun to write.
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Hilarious! I think I should mention I understand the concept is from some philosopher-type, and troubled comedians quote it. A version was also recently quoted on the show criminal minds.
Cheers H
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It is a very famous philosophy question, and astute for its time. People love making fun of it, but at its roots (don’t forgive the pun) there is a lot to think about. So many branches of thought — it leaves you wondering. 🙂
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