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  You never see anything of yourself from the neck up either. Why ears specifically?
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  Evander Holyfield and Vincent Van Gogh have entered the chat. 💇 >
  
  Mr Orange would like a word… >
  
  🎵Clowns to the left of me
  Jokers to the right🎶 >
  
  Elephants coming in. >
  
  Oh you wish that were true but everything can be cut of/out and shown to your eyeballs. >
  
  except the both of your eyeballs >
  
  Well pull one out and point it at the other. >
  
  but that’s your eye not your eyeballs >
  
  Then what r your eyeballs if not your eyes? >
  
  yh but eyeball is for when it’s out of the socket right? (im not english so sorry if im mistaken) >
  
  I think eyeballs can leave the socket and still be attached to the optic nerve in some cases, so it's technically possible. >
  
  Definetly possible and not so uncommon in medicine.
  For example it happens in some industries that people get metal splinters into their eyes and they can wander to the backside of the eyeball. In the hospital they then scoop out your eyeball and remove the splinter before putting it back in >
  
  I imagine it like a charging cable >
  
  i did not need to know this information in my life >
  
  I’d argue that things that are reflected are still “seen”.
  Everything you see day to day is refracted to some extent, and we still consider that we can see things properly.
  I don’t see why reflection should be treated differently. >
  
  Well... reflections are... 
  ... wait for it ...
  ... reflected through the plane of the reflecting surface, so it's not really the same as direct vision, with refraction. >
  
  Sure, but at the end of the day it’s all just redirecting the path of a photon - refracting is no more direct.  Let bouncing and bending live together in peace. >
  
  Photons work that way, but your eyes/brain really don't. 
  So I suppose it's all a semantic argument, except in this case it's "does 'seeing' mean the semantics or  mechanics" :-). >
  
  All we perseive is light reflecting so... >
  
  Except for actual light sources, it's true... adding a second reflection still adds a... reflection... though. >
  
  You better hope that remains true because otherwise you will have quite problem >
  
  Quiet problem >
  
  r/angryupvote >
  
  That’s not true.. somebody could always cut them out and show them to you..
  What you will never use is both your eyes at the same time >
  
  Did anyone else try pulling their ear in front of their eyes >
  
  I was so sure I was going to be able to see it.. >
  
  If you go close enough to a black hole, or any sufficiently curved spacetime, light from your ears can take a "straight" path to your eyes. >
  
  I suspect that there are people who've stretched their ear lobes with earrings, etc. that could see part of the lobes. >
  
  Yeah, or your eyes or face, so what?
  I think it's at least more impactful that we never see our own face vs our ears. One is a lot more important for a lot of things, including self-image.
  Also looking into a mirror is not much different from looking directly, although mirrored image of course, if it's a decent mirror. But our own image could be considered a mirrored image, which doesn't matter all that much when talking about most people's ears, but does matter when talking about our face. >
  
  Related shower thought: you never see anything except photons. >
  
  ...the same is true for so many parts of our body
  What's your point? >
  
  There could be a tiny vampire on my ear and i’d never see it >
  
  nah, you'll be fine. we don't use silver in mirrors anymore. >
  
  I didn’t know that  was ever a thing and also why is that what makes you not able to see them. I am not up to date on vampire lore sadly >
  
  silver has anti magic properties. it kills werewolves also. the vampires image gets destroyed by the silver backing of the mirror.
  or something like that. >
  
  that’s actually pretty interesting. I have learned something today >
  
  This post is stupid. A reflection isn't seeing something? Why? All you do is make a stupid claim and don't have a single ounce of reasoning to back it up.
  Is it because light travels as a finite speed so you're seeing your ears in the past? Well guess what - by that logic you never see anything in the whole universe because the light is actually a tiny bit old when it gets to your eyes. So let me write your next stupid shower thought for you
  "You never actually see anything ever. Even if you're looking right at it or at a reflection of it" >
  
  I mean, a double mirror isn't even mirrored anymore, so you could get an perfect view