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Attila < wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:18:33 -0400, niunian <niunian@ymail.com> in
> alt.atheism with message-id <mrv6pt$lnq$1@dont-email.me> wrote:
> 
> >On 15-08-29 10:18 PM, Attila < wrote:
> >> On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 08:40:43 -0400, niunian <niunian@ymail.com> in
> >> alt.atheism with message-id <mrs95u$tf5$1@dont-email.me> wrote:
> >>
> >>> "If a tree fell down in the
> >>> forest and no one was around, did it make a sound?" It was meant to test
> >>> the student's understanding about the reality. If you answer yes, it
> >>> shows you have no understanding about Buddhist philosophy. If you answer
> >>> no, then you have contradicted with the law of nature. The correct
> >>> answer, as I have given you, is not sure.
> >>
> >> If  a tree falls it creates a disturbance in the air.  That is
> >> unavoidable.  A disturbance sets up waves in the air in which pressure
> >> varies according to specific physical laws.  These waves are defined
> >> as sound.  It doesn't matter if anyone is there to hear them or not.
> >> They will be created by every such disturbance.
> >>
> >> In fact, if a recorder is present that recorder will make a record of
> >> the sound even though no one is there to hear it.  And that record
> >> will exist whether it is ever heard by anyone or not.
> >
> >This is why you can't be a real Buddhist.
> 
> I have never had the slightest desire to be any kind of a theist.
> 
> > Buddhist philosophy is
> >idealism. It believes everything happens in the world by the perception
> >of the mind. If no one was around, then no one was perceiving the sound,
> >so there would be no sound. But such answer contradicts with the law of
> >nature. So it has become a question not too many people can answer to
> >this day.
> 
> The world must have been very strange for hundreds of millions of
> years.  Storms, volcanoes, earthquakes, billions of different animals
> being born, living, and dying all in total silence because there was
> no one around to hear any of them make any sound.


"no one" means people and animals...