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Deep thought: If someone posts a question and nobody reads it, does it actually exist?

Posted - December 24, 2017

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  • 6988
    Yes, these days they have hidden cameras in the woods.
      December 24, 2017 9:00 AM MST
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  • 5391
    Like any other bodily function, its reality is regardless of a witness, no matter how bad it is. 
      December 24, 2017 11:33 AM MST
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  • 5808
    there's usually a copy in the Library
    that the witness made...
      December 24, 2017 2:06 PM MST
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  • 22891
    yes
      December 24, 2017 2:57 PM MST
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  • In my view, yes, definitely.
    One definition of a fact is that which continues to exist irrespective of awareness or knowledge.

    Merry Xmas! :) This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at December 24, 2017 10:54 PM MST
      December 24, 2017 3:50 PM MST
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  • 53509


      The best person to answer this has first-hand experience due to having the highest percentage, the highest ratio, and the highest number of ignored questions on this website, but never responds to anyone else's questions, so don't hold your breath awaiting an answer. 
    ~
      December 24, 2017 4:21 PM MST
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  • 13277
    And JA removed my Rosiematic machine question! Was there anything remotely offensive about that? Certainly none was intended.
      December 24, 2017 5:06 PM MST
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  • 53509
    By "naming" someone or by identifying someone, you touched the third rail. It's also possible that someone reported you, complaining that it was a "personal attack".  (Thats That's one of the favorite moves taken by that ilk.)
    ~ This post was edited by Randy D at December 24, 2017 10:43 PM MST
      December 24, 2017 5:10 PM MST
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  • 44618
    But we mess with you all the time in questions and none have been deleted. Wuttup wit dat?
      December 24, 2017 5:21 PM MST
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  • 53509


      I don't habitually whine and complain. Once, there was someone who directed a blatantly offensive racial remark when responding to me, and I reported the incident rather than engaging with the offender. Other than that, I take it in stride as an occupational hazard if and when someone takes me to task. In fact, I relish the repartee. :)

    ~
      December 24, 2017 6:53 PM MST
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  • 17599
    There is someone authorized to remove questions calling them personal attacks who, in my opinion based on experience, does not know what a personal attack is.  I don't spend my time on it though.  Seriously, there are things to worry about but that isn't one of them.  For me.  I came to a point in life where I realized I don't have to try to educate the world.
      December 24, 2017 10:46 PM MST
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  • 53509


      It is my opinion that the (usually baseless) claim of "I've been personally attacked" causes a knee-jerk reaction which in turn triggers deletions of posts. I have never had any of my posts deleted for the many dozens of members of this website, yet I have have approximately a dozen of my posts deleted that involved a particular member of this website. My crime has been that I offered a different opinion, an opposing viewpoint, and on occasion I admittedly used sarcasm. The ludicrous criteria by which a post is determined to be a "personal atttsck attack" is lopsided, flimsy and unevenly applied. It has been painfully obvious that special treatment has been afforded to certain folks around here, the ones (one?) who cries foul when not bowed down to. 
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    This post was edited by Randy D at December 25, 2017 8:43 AM MST
      December 24, 2017 11:20 PM MST
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  • I think I can guess who that is.
      December 24, 2017 10:55 PM MST
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  • 44618
    If people want to mess with me in a fun way in their Q&As, I don't have a problem...Some do. 
      December 24, 2017 5:23 PM MST
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  • 2327
    As long as it posts, yeah. 
      December 24, 2017 7:48 PM MST
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  • 17599
    It's OK to exile someone but don't use their name in a question.  Didn't you know?
      December 24, 2017 10:48 PM MST
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  • 53509


    Wow, deep. 
    ~
      December 24, 2017 11:20 PM MST
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  • 17599
    Is it?  It was spoken sarcastically but perhaps it lost or gained something when written.  
      December 24, 2017 11:29 PM MST
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  • 53509


    I took it as extremely profound. Well put, mon amie.


    ~
      December 24, 2017 11:32 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Answer:  Sometimes

      December 24, 2017 10:50 PM MST
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  • 13395
    It would be 'nobody' that does not exist. 
      December 24, 2017 11:40 PM MST
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  • To answer the question:  We are dealing with illusion, metaphysics and other so-called scientific findings. It's easy -When I do not see your post, it does not exist! And in reverse:  If you do not see my comment, it does not exist for you either.  Existance is in the eye of the beholder - so is beauty!!
      August 10, 2018 6:58 PM MDT
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