tree falls, anyone hear it? <--Stop Getting it wrong!!!!

Blackend · Post by **Blackend** » 21 Apr 2005 08:36

I hate this stupid question. There's always someone that says "since there wasn't anyone there to hear it, does it make a sound?" Of course it does! Just because we didn't see the dinosaurs doesn't mean they didn't exist. Philosophical riddles like these should go on a Hallmark card or stay in fortune cookies. I see the point in the question, but it's still redundant.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 22 Apr 2005 08:32

ugh. seriously. i can almost remember the first time i heard it...very young, probably in elementary school. some snot-nosed little kid thought he had invented the lightbulb, (of course it was probably his father, or some other kid that laid this bit of 'philosophy' on him) and decided to grace everyone else with what he thought was incredibly deep information. thats one of my pet peeves...people who think they have something REALLY original, and act like they are incredible for relaying some information that everyone has heard about a million times. i mean, i can be guilty of this myself, but its really hard to be original when nothing is original. at least i try not to act like i think im God's gift to mankind...all the time...

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 22 Apr 2005 11:54

This is getting off of track, but I've heard that too many times, "Nothing is original anymore". That's such a crock. The problem is that the people who say this aren't original and imaginative enough to believe or understand or CREATE new things. Originality isn't as unattainable as some people think :p

sPinko-Mania · Post by **sPinko-Mania** » 22 Apr 2005 15:31

^^^Over a century ago some politican in the UK I think it was, came out and said that we shouldn't bother trying to invent new things because surely everything that could be invented has already been done. That's what I think of when people say 'nothing is original', they have no scope.

In regards to the original question: koans don't have right answers to them in the sense most people here have been trying for. That's not their purpose.