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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (11322)	4/14/2001 2:15:42 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

A loud enough sound wave can be felt through the skin Not as sound, though. Not all vibrations create hearable sound. (If I jiggle my finger on my cheek, I create vibrations. If no human (or animal) can hear anything, is it still sound? Are we back to the tree falling in the forest??) Sound can be measured in many ways, even by people that can't hear it, But they don't know that it's sound. They know there is something, but they don't know what. And you can write "that's sound" to them but it's meaningless to them. Sound simply doesn't exist for them. Vibrations do, but not sound. If a deaf person who had never been told that sound exists were introduced to a hearing society, that person would deduce very quickly that other people were using and responding to an unknown form of stimulus, and it would not take very long to get a fairly good idea of exactly what that stimulus was. You have been exposed for many years to a society that responds to the unknown (to you) stimulus of the existence of God. Do you therefore have a fairly good idea exactly what God is, and do you believe that God exists on the basis of the response of other people to God? When people kneel down in a church to pray to God, do you accept that as proof that God exists??