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Here is a variation of an old question. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there, does it make a sound?

If humanity no longer exists on earth to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch anything of the physical world, does the earth itself continue to exist or does it become non-existent because there is no one to see, hear, smell, taste, or touch anything of it?

Many say no but just as many say yes.

The ‘experts’ infer that the mind perceives matter and invests it with meaning, and that without the mind to observe it, matter has no meaning, and as a result, technically does not exist. Therefore what cannot be perceived by any of the five (or some say six) senses cannot exist.

What say you?

River Time

River Time

As the dawn rises early

A new day is born.

I creep slowly from bed

My night must be shed

I drag across floor

My hand is up, open the door

As I finally am able, to really stand up

I get to the kitchen, and grab my cup

Fill it full, all I can find

Now it awakens, awakens my mind

Now the time of waking is nearing an end

My River Time just round the bend

Departure from house

And out into flow

The River Time calls me

The River Time, I see

The River Time comes, that flowing stream

A wonderful place, just as in dream

This is my place, my special shrine

This is my place, my River Time.