Paradox Parade. 10 SBD for the most mind-numbing paradox.
I need a good solid zen smack to the head right now, and want some entertainment, too. In that spirit, let's turn this comment section into a "paradox parade."
I'll start:
Pinocchio says "My nose will now grow." What happens? ;)
Submit your paradox in the comments! If you are unfamiliar with just what exactly a paradox is, see here. Best paradox receives 10 SBD.
DISCAIMER: JUDGING FOR THIS CONTEST IS TOTALLY ARBITRARY. I'M JUST GOING TO PICK MY FAVORITE AND SEND THE SBD. A FUN WAY TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND FOR ME TO READ SOME NEW PARADOXES.
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
The more cheese, the more holes. The more holes, the less cheese. What follows from this? The more cheese, the less cheese.
When swimming makes slim, what makes blue whales wrong
Paradoxical is when a sweet girl reacts sourly.
A scale weighs a lot - but is not heavy.
Tear some holes in a net and it has fewer holes.
i like a good brie or camambert which has no holes. paradox solved?
Here's my Paradox.
I had a dream. in the dream I was due to travell to the far east for a while. I had quite an emotional farewell. I got there. it was a big city. I found my to and stayed in a hotel. The view from the 15th floor or thereabouts at sunset over this enormous city was incredible. deep red and like a cinematic view. I went to sleep. soundly I awoke refreshed. I was attending a conference. I had some time to kill. I visited the old town. there the road was made of very old and large square stone blocks, a bit like cobbles but set with metal which was worn. I had never seen anything like it. I got a bus to the conference hall. I met some westerners. we chatted. It was odd seeing European people in this Far away city.
We got chatting,
we had a lot in common. we were all attending the same conference. We went together. the seminars were long in big stuffy conference rooms. it was tiring but the food was good and by the time the talks were all over it was dark and the city was lit up like a fairground. It was exotic, warm, and humid. I went back to the hotel very tired. they had tidied the room. it was spotless. I was surprised.
I went to sleep.
I awoke late and had missed some of the morning talks. I opened the curtains. It was misty, eerie and spooky. visibility was no more than 50 feet. It was a surprise. Breakfast had been left for me as I'd obviously missed it at the restaurant. It was an odd version of breakfast but there was a croissant included, jam, cheese, some still warm tea and some oriental food which I did not recognise and was salty. Bleary eyed I got a cab to the conference. The days talks were hard going and I was not in the mood. I decided to go out of town. There was a cable car and it took me on a journey across the town over a series of greening hills. the city gave way to older buildings and became more rural. At the end of the cable car I stepped out into an older world. the air was fresh and the landscape seemed like a carefully nurtured version of nature.
I found a small eatery
and had soup which seemed to reflect the area perfectly well. It contained very tasty mushrooms I did not recognise and vegetables. I went back to the hotel and ran into some of the other delegates. They came to my room and brought some beers and wine. We stayed up late and got quite drunk. I don't remember going to sleep but I woke up really early. Everyone was gone and the lights were still, on the curtains closed.
I had a hangover.
I took a long shower and lay in bed for an hour or two dozing as the sun came up. I then went back to the conference. At the end of the day I went back to the hotel, collected my things, packed my luggage, including all the bits and bobs I had accumulated over the week, got in a taxi and dozed on the way to the airport as the lights of the city lulled me. I got on the plane, it was dark, quiet and I fell asleep. When I awoke, I was back in my own bed.
IT WAS THE NEXT MORNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had been asleep for 8 hours and experienced a WHOLE VIRTUAL WEEK of life and I was quite disorientated for a while when I awoke.. It was slightly unbelievable at first but I eventually reconciled it as just a dream.
I remembered the whole week
including the waking up and going to bed bits. and the blank consciousness in between. This dream was years ago, It's still so vivid I can remember it better than most holidays and trips I've been on. It still hasn't come true yet. I'm kind of expecting it to one day. In one night's sleep in my own bed I experienced a week's travel to a city in the Far East.
Explain THAT PARADOXIANS !!!
100% true story and that's not the weridest dream I've ever had by a long way.
That's spun out. A Mandela effect type experience.
Here's a good paradox that destroys post-modernism:
According to post-modernism, there is an infinite amount of interpretations to everything. All interpretations are equally valid.
In order for this to be true, there needs to be a finite amount of interpretations (just one) of what's true. (Paradox 1)
Also, the claim that there is a finite amount of interpretations and that these are NOT equally valid, must be valid as well. (Paradox 2)
Post-modernism destroys itself.
Great observation. You win. 10 SBD on the way!
statements by his bank
Bahahahahahah
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Nobodies mentioned the dichotomy paradox yet?!
Little jhonny is about to leave school and head home.
However before little jhonny can get to his house, he must get half way to his house.
But before he can get half way he must get half way to that point.
The preceding series continues on and on until you must ask, if you can always devide a distance in half, how is it possible for little jhonny to move the first distance towards his house?
Either our creator permits the suffering of the weak, or our creator IS the suffering of the weak.
Another option is the creator allows for weak to suffer. If in order to become strong, the person must go through some trial. Then, allowing them to suffer because of their choice, is what a creator would have to allow.
is that a paradox or is that simply 2 different options?
If God exists and is able to create anything, can God create a rock so heavy even he cannot lift it?
I believe this one has a relatively simple solution. The answer being no.
An omnipotent being, to be omnipotent, must be able to do only anything that is logically possible.
For example, I would not expect an omnipotent being to show me a circle with four sides because the nature of its existence precludes that it cannot exist.
The same is said for a rock so heavy an omnipotent being could not lift it. No such rock is logically possible because weight is irrelevant to an omnipotent being.
However, this does not show a restraint on the omnipotents power but a restraint on the nature of the universe.
you're hurting my brain...
If infinity is truly infinte, than how do we know it is?
This is where mathematics breaks down.
And so they came up with Calculus to cover over this enormous hole.
This derives from the assumption that you can always add one to a number.
If you have a collection of all of the atoms, adding one more atom doesn't have any meaning.
If you have 100 blocks, talking about the 101th block has no meaning.
But, math does this all of the time.
And so, when you play around with the rules of infinity you can get many equations where
1 = 0.
I love how my paradox got all mathematical, haha ^.^
Because we say it is, it's infinite by definition.
We can say it is, but we can never prove it. That's the paradox.
Well it depends on what you're describing, if you mean infinite as a math concept, then you don't need to prove it, in the same way you don't need to prove a "1" is actually a "1", you just say it's a "1" and use it in a problem.
If you mean infinite in our physical reality, like space being "infinite," the laws of physics don't allow that.
A simple one:
"This sentence is false."