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Explain silence.

PHennings12PHennings12
edited June 2012 in Philosophy
Explain silence.

Comments

  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    Silence is a break from stress.
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    Silence is a break from stress.
    Almost.
  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    At first it was the space between the noise.

    Now it is the noise itself.
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    At first it was the space between the noise.

    Now it is the noise itself.
    YES!! Good job. Someone is enlightened.
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    Or not so far off from enlightenment.
  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    edited June 2012
    Silence is what happens for a few seconds when you hit pause.

  • ToshTosh Veteran
    Silence is the absence of conceptual minds.

    Fact! :D
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    edited June 2012
    Silence is the absence of conceptual minds.

    Fact! :D
    No. Fiction.
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    edited June 2012
    Silence is what happens for a few seconds when you hit pause.

    Haha clever. But no.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
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  • PHennings12PHennings12
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    Well said!!
  • SabreSabre Veteran


    Metta!
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    Haha @Sabre. I was waiting for someone to put that up. Good try but no.
  • ToshTosh Veteran
    Silence is the absence of conceptual minds.

    Fact! :D
    No. Fiction.
    Sound only exists in conceptual minds, remove the minds and what are we left with?

    Emptiness I guess; there'd be no sound for sure, which kinda infers there'd be silence - but I'm not sure there would be silence either if there were no minds to perceive that.

    My brain is bending!

    :D
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    Very good!! Your brain is not bending though your perception of it is. ;)
  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
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  • lamaramadingdonglamaramadingdong Veteran
    If a tree falls in the forsest and lands on a mime, does he make a sound?
  • ozenozen
    Silence is a bird cropping in the lovely meadow. :)
  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    Hello darkness, my old friend
    I've come to talk with you again
    Because a vision softly creeping
    Left its seeds while I was sleeping
    And the vision that was planted in my brain
    Still remains
    Within the sound of silence

    In restless dreams I walked alone
    Narrow streets of cobblestone
    'Neath the halo of a street lamp
    I turned my collar to the cold and damp
    When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
    That split the night
    And touched the sound of silence

    And in the naked light I saw
    Ten thousand people, maybe more
    People talking without speaking
    People hearing without listening
    People writing songs that voices never share
    And no one dared
    Disturb the sound of silence

    "Fools", said I, "You do not know
    Silence like a cancer grows
    Hear my words that I might teach you
    Take my arms that I might reach you"
    But my words, like silent raindrops fell
    And echoed
    In the wells of silence

    And the people bowed and prayed
    To the neon god they made
    And the sign flashed out its warning
    In the words that it was forming
    And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
    And tenement halls"
    And whispered in the sounds of silence

    -Simon and Garfunkle
  • TheFoundTheFound
    geez these guys are weak,
    silence is "**** you!"
  • pegembarapegembara Veteran
    Silence is ever present. All things arise from and end in it.
  • PrairieGhostPrairieGhost Veteran
    TheFound
    silence is "**** you!"
    This is true in a way.
  • PHennings12PHennings12
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    Yes. Very good.
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    If a tree falls in the forsest and lands on a mime, does he make a sound?
    Very good answer!!
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    Silence is a bird cropping in the lovely meadow. :)
    Good.
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    @person your first response was better the poem is not quite correct.
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    geez these guys are weak,
    silence is "**** you!"
    No they are strong. Your answer is not quite correct.
  • PHennings12PHennings12
    @pegembara you are right that it is ever present. But you are not so right with how everything arises and ends from it.
  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    Have I passed the test? Am I enlightened now?
  • ozenozen
    Silence is a bird cropping in the lovely meadow. :)
    Good.
    Not to be a grade grubber or anything, but I misspelled chirping somehow. It wasn't my fault. That should bomb up my grade, yes?
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