>>>>>By my way of thinking, there are only 2 continents:
>>>>>
>>>>>1.Americus (North and South America are connected land masses; therefore they are same continent)
>>>>>
>>>>>2. Eufrasia (Europe, Africa, and Asia are all connected land masses; therefore they, too
>>>>>are one continent.
>>>>>
>>>>> Australia, by my way of thinking, is too small to be a continent. It's just a big island like Madagascar, Greenland, or Long Island.
>>>>>
>>>>> Antarctica - get real.
>>>>>
>>>> > So there you have it. Two continents! That ends this thread!
>>>>
>>>>You think?
>>>>
>>>>This being UT, I doubt it.
>>>>
>>>>My response proves itself! <g>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Pertti
>>>
>>>Can a thing prove itself? Cogito ergo sum sort of thing? For those of you who don't understand Latin, that's "Can I eat some eggs?".
>>
>>lol. I thought it was "I don't understand this bill".
>>
>>But yes, a thing CAN prove itself. I know. I have to prove myself every day (often just pinching my arm is enough).
>>
>>Furthermore, regardless of the sound, even a tree that falls in the forest proves that it fell by laying flat.
>>
>>Pertti
>
>Nice try, but no cigar. If you pinch yourself and feel pain, that doesn't necessarily mean you're real. It may just mean that you're an extremely well detailed illusion.
>
>And just because a tree is lying flat, doesn't mean it fell. Maybe it was chopped and gently lain down by empathetic axemen with ropes. Or maybe it just got tired of standing for a hundred years, and decided to sleep for a bit.

Well, then, I guess it becomes down to the definition of "being". I think that if an illusion pinches itself and feels it, then the illusion is actually "being", not "illusioning". Illusions by definition are one-way-phenomena, they won't react on their own.

As for the tree -- whether it fell or was felled (in which case it still fell, strictly speaking, just not on its own), it may or may not have made a sound depending on was there an audience. But that has nothing to do with continents.

Next question is probably going to have to do with angels and needle tips...


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