Your favorite paradox

Or maybe one movement. What makes them individual is you.

 

Yes its all time.

 

Even if it is one movement, that movement is composed of different moments.. different positions..

 

don't really have a favorite that i like more than others. i like paradoxes in general. but one i'd mention would be, is the universe infinite or finite. neither version makes any sense.

 

Zeno's paradox, specifically his "Achilles and the tortoise".

 

Not a paradox either, just Xeno's inability to understand rates of decay, how they relate to iterative processes and or calculus.

 

There is no present, past or future. It is said all time is the same...everything that has happened and will happen is happening now, like an infinite line never ending. We just happen to remember "time as it progresses" because it gives us a frame of reference. (That is the way it has been explained to me. :mickey

Time itself is a paradox (to me) - because the more time that passes, the more things are seen from a different perspective...but wait...time is supposed to be a illusion and we are back to ^ (first paragraph).

 

The secret of staying young is to live healthy, eat slowly, and to lie about your age.

 

Spoken like a true mathematician.

 

Happiness. Muhah.

 

Goodman's paradox- Why can induction be used to confirm that things are "green", but not to confirm that things are "grue"?

Hot water under certain conditions freezes faster than cold water, even though it must pass the lower temperature on the way to freezing. I don't know if this "paradox" has a name or if it even is one but i figured i would mention it.

Paradox of free will- If God knew how we will decide when he created us, how can there be free will?

I can't think of anymore of the top of my head.

 

Oh, I have a good one. Everything that the British Fascist, Enoch Powel says is nonsense. That means that everything that Powel does not say is not nonsense. That being said, blacks must therefore be racially superiour to white people.

Right?

 

Now I understand.

 

Ah but it is a great lesson in how you can succeed on the basis of non stop failure, just by buying out anyone who was better than you.

If you can't win cheat, the basis of capitalism on Earth, and of course how to always win at Monopoly.

 

duck sophistry.. past and future require a present. or they do not exist

 

Wow a lot of people are dabbling in determinism here.
If absolute determinism is . what is free will?

If absolute determinism IS. Then reality is not an event.. as the totality is inherent in the start conditions. Like a toaster oven.. it will be only one thing. a THING.
It can be nothing but the result of the initial condition.
Free will is but a fantasy we robots imagine in our little lives. To give us an illusion of control.
But why not make the end result.. and bypass the billions of years of deterministic bushwah?
god knows

Make determinism with a +/- indermininate of just .005%
Then . when i choose.. it wont be a HUGE FUCKING LIE

This is what qmechanics is all about

Prill

 

I'm absolutely determined not to dabble in determinism . . . wait, is that a paradox?

 

Your mum. No go on think about it? Did you get it?

Also less esoteric paradox, are for example I always lie, my mother always lies about me being her son, I am of course her son.

Last week I bought something from a shop, and it was actually worth what I paid, and wasn't just reduced because it would self combust in 3 minutes after I got it home.

There's no such thing as a free lunch. Obviously if you just go out your door and kill something and eat it, you paid nothing for the privilege. There is of course no such thing as any trite homily or idiom that will make sense.

You can for example have your cake and eat it, if you eat it, it's in your stomach, and you still own it, it is yours and by definition hence no one else has the right to claim your cake as theirs, of course that might change if someone else eats your vomit. But I digress... there hence is nothing paradoxical about having your cake and eating it. Most paradoxes are just lazy.