>>>>>>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.
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>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.

Ah, I take it you're not big on Phil Dick. Otherwise, you'd never say such a thing. ;)

>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.

But the point wasn't about whether or not it made a sound. It was about whether you could tell it fell by the fact that it's lying down. My point was that if it was laid gently down by someone (let's say it's not a very big tree), then it didn't fall, but it's still lying down.

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

My best guess is that Angels don't use needles. They're naturally high.