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I once heard the question: "If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Uh...duh...wha...what kind of rediculous tomfoolery is that?????? How egotistical can you be?? Just because the auditory recepticles connected to your immensly complicated inner auditory structures connected to your philosophically challenged grey matter isn't there to receive and interperet said sound waves, what makes you think there are none produced??? This question is designed to get you to think? To philosophize?

Nay, hence, and get out of there!

You should remember the words of the great comedian Stephen Wright:
"The other day I was walking in the forest and a tree fell down right in front of me,
and I didn't hear it."
That guy is an absolute genius.

Humorous reference #2
The immortal Ted Theodore Logan (a.k.a. The Duke Of Ted):
"All we are, is dust in the wind, Dude."