frankafru Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 any good paradoxes? here ill start: by doing nothing you are doing something p.s. no "going back in time and killing yr grandparents" type paradoxes plz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fool on The Hill Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to Then He is not omnipotent. If He is able, but not willing Then He is malevolent. If He is both able and willing Then whence cometh evil? If He is neither able nor willing Then why call Him God? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homz Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 any good paradoxes? here ill start: by doing nothing you are doing something p.s. no "going back in time and killing yr grandparents" type paradoxes plz That's not a paradox. If you go back you go to another time line. Either one you just created or a parallel already existing one. You can't go back to the same time line in which you now reside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankafru Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 That's not a paradox. If you go back you go to another time line. Either one you just created or a parallel already existing one. You can't go back to the same time line in which you now reside. i konw, but i didnt feel like explaining it to ppl. thx for saving me some time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 If you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homz Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 My most relevant paradox is one of human nature. We see the problems of history and yet we continue to repeat the mistakes. Makes me question the very nature of humanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 If you chose not to decide' date=' you still have made a choice [/quote'] ahh! The Neil Peart paradox! Brilliant... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeRom Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 I have a para dockers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 My most relevant paradox is one of human nature. We see the problems of history and yet we continue to repeat the mistakes. Makes me question the very nature of humanity. No, that's just human hubris and stupidity! LOL! ;>) CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Allen Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 My most relevant paradox is one of human nature. We see the problems of history and yet we continue to repeat the mistakes. Makes me question the very nature of humanity. I agree! Mark Twain said, and I paraphrase, that history doesn't really repeat itself, but it does rhyme! Hysterical in it's truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepblue Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 "If you cut your bum in half, would you have a bum half, or a bum whole?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeezie Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 imaginable numbers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckomf Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 If God can create anything, and God is all powerful, can God create a rock heavier than he can lift? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 If 7/11s are open 24 hours a day 365 days a year, why do they have door locks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G u e s t Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 . . This is not a grammatically correct sentence. . and perhaps: RED WHITE BLUE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 If a person says "I always tell lies" are they telling the truth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matiac Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." From "Free Will" by Rush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 I just finished a few weeks ago a newspaper series and mag article on some interesting aspects of the Mount Moriah cemetery in Deadwood, SD - where Wild Bill Hickock is buried, etc., that got into this sort of thing and consideration of brane universes allowing apparent "ghosts" that aren't ghosts but merely something of a window into a nearly, but not entirely, parallel membrane universe. Hey, it made for an fun story to write. <grin> Anyway as to paradoxes from returning in "time," it appears that brane universes might allow some parallel that might allow such a concept to work - and perhaps to then travel both to universes in which it did, and didn't happen. That would require one's own current universe and a second one out of a time synchronization of some sort, it appears, but which otherwise would be parallel. Hmmmmm. Some of this new conceptual stuff in physics is neat and needs more sci fi messing with it, if nothing else. Note that David Drake's "With the Lightnings" series has "ships" that travel to meet something of the criteria of moving through brane universes (he calls them "bubble universes") and back again. (Drake's a classical scholar as well as an extremely fine writer of a wide range of sci fi. You can get a hint on line at the Baen Free Library.) There's also a new theory that the "big bang" arose from, in effect, two brane universes colliding. Consider too that the theist koan of God and the "rock" is somewhat irrelevant if one considers brane universes as well, since it is based essentially in Newtonian physics that apply quite well to daily life, but... ain't quite functional beyond that. That's not a "religious" comment but rather one from science. A theological argument can, and has gone much further. It's also a matter of limited human perception. As Lao Tzu noted, the way that can be described is not the true way - which is perhaps a perfect example of the intuitive expressing the inexpressible. Plato's parable of the cave is perhaps another way of describing our perceptions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave I'm not entirely a Wiki freak, but this one does a decent job of explaining the concept - and a lot of apparent paradoxes that aren't necessarily paradoxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axuality Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 If God is willing to prevent evil' date=' but is not able to Then He is not omnipotent. If He is able, but not willing Then He is malevolent. If He is both able and willing Then whence cometh evil? If He is neither able nor willing Then why call Him God? [/quote'] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axuality Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 "There is no Truth". If this statement is true, then it is false. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluezboy Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 I feel more like myself now than i did when i first got here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicked1 Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 As Lao Tzu noted' date=' the way that can be described is not the true way - which is perhaps a perfect example of the intuitive expressing the inexpressible.[/quote'] Ahh....the "Old Master" himself. On Wednesday when the sky is blue, I often wonder if it's true That who is what And what is who Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLiveSoundGuy Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Someone say Pair of Ducks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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