Post your paradoxes here, then rate the one above you. Please do not double post and rate your own.
If you don't know what a Paradox is, then I was explain. A paradox is a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. For example:
If there is an exception to every rule, then every rule must have at least one exception; the exception to this one being that it has no exception. There's always an exception to the rule, except to the exception of the rule - which is, in of itself, an accepted exception of the rule.
That is a particularly complicated one. How about this one:
The following sentence is false. The previous sentence is true. That is a bit easier to understand. Well anyway, list any paradoxes you can think of.
Don't bother rating mine.
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Some sets, such as the set of all teacups, are not members of themselves. Other sets, such as the set of all non-teacups, are members of themselves. Call the set of all sets that are not members of themselves “R.” If R is a member of itself, then by definition it must not be a member of itself. Similarly, if R is not a member of itself, then by definition it must be a member of itself.
O.o It's Russel's Paradox
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Um, 6.5/10...
Consider all of the men in a small town as members of a set. Now imagine that a barber puts up a sign in his shop that reads I shave all those men, and only those men, who do not shave themselves.
Obviously, we can further divide the set of men in this town into two further sets, those who shave themselves, and those who are shaved by the barber. To which set does the barber himself belong?
The barber cannot shave himself, because he has said he shaves only those men who do not shave themselves. Further, he cannot not shave himself, because he shaves all men who do not shave themselves!
lol, I'm a cheatet XD I used google to find it XD
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7/10 (I am rating this on evilness)
Answer these questions yes or no, without lying:
1. Will you answer the following statement the same way you answered this one?
2. Are you obsessed with Scratch?
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Thats not a paradox, its just a truth. Here is one:
How to Entertain an idoit. See Below.
How to entertain an Idiot. See Above.
Last edited by TheSaint (2009-09-19 13:34:55)
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I love paradoxes, Me and my friend made a ton of these at lunch yesterday. I kept on repeating my "Yo mama" one and he yelled Shut up really loud XD
See:
Yo mama is so fat
Well If the other person plays it through thier mind and says the same it says Yo mama is fat, So it could go on forever until someone says like:
"Jack Walton of Chicago and Blonde hair with a scar's mama is fat", Making that more specific
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Wanna know how to keep a stupid person busy? Look at the sentence below.
Wanna know how to keep a stupid person busy? Look at the sentence above.
Not really a paradox, but whatever XD
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Go down one sentence
Go down two sentences
Go up two sentences
Go up one sentence
CHEATER!!!
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how to win
1. play videogames
2. do nothing but play videogames
3. eat videogames and look at rule 4
4. see rules 1, 2, and 3.
did I do it correctly?
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5/10, Not really a paradox, how about this one:
A man goes back in time and kills his parents when they were children. But that means that he was never born, so he could never have gone back and killed them in the first place.
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1/10 (I believe in the theory of alternate timelines, sorry)
This sentence is a lie
A man goes into the future, and meets himself, but then he is unable to go back in time.
it's a paradox, because he can't be in the past to be his future self when he meets his past self
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This isn't a paradox, though it makes you think.
Suppose you have a bag. Let's assume that each bag can hold five bags, scrunched up or something along those lines.
Now, you start with one bag. Pile five bags into it. So far so good, right?
Now assume that those five bags had five bags packed into them. It's getting cramped, right?
But there's the rule.
I know it's not much, but I think it's worth mentioning.
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8/10
I hate thinking about that! It makes me feel giddy. Cover half the distance... eventually you're advancing by millimeters and worse.
Hmm, the first paradox that came to mind was in your signature. I read it somewhere, but where is unknown to me.
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My signature is kind of a paradox.
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9/10! Very entertaining! *claps*
I have two, one's not really a paradox but here goes:
Everything i say is a lie.
How do you keep a nerd in suspense?
I'll tell you later.
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Hmm.
A man wakes up one morning and an old man is standing next to him. He gives the younger man insructions on how to build a time machine, and is never heard of again. The young man builds he time machine. when he grows old, he decides to use the ime machine to go back in time and give the instuction manual to his younger self. He does.
Now the question remains: Where does the information in the instuction manual come from?
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8/10
A detective is investigating a fire. He finds a time machine and decides to use to help with the case. He goes back in time and accidentally starts the fire himself. He dies in the flames. If he died because he came from the future, then how did he get to the future in the first place if he was already dead?
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You can't see me (highlight)
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Haha I LOVE paradoxes! THIS FORUM ROX!!! Here is my paradox:
An athlete is racing a turtle. The athlete runs at 1 meter per hour, while the turtle runs at 1/10 a meter per hour. The athlete thinks the turtle is puny, so he gives it a 1 meter head-start. Zeno says: After an hour, the athlete would have reached the point where the turtle was, but the turtle would have crept forward 1/10 of a meter. After a 1/10 of an hour (6 minutes), the athlete would be where the turtle was, but the turtle would have gone forward 1/100 of a meter. And after 1/100 of an hour (36 seconds), the athlete would have gotten up to that point, and so on...and so on...until the turtle reaches the finish. Oh, and Zeno is wrong.
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Proof that 0.99999...=1
Set x to 0.999...
multipling both sides by 10 we obtain
10x=9.99...
Subtracting x from both sides yeilds
9x=9
Divide both sides by nine and we get
x=1
Imput 0.999... for x and find that....
0.999....=1!!!
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6/10
If you can see what i typed below you are stupid (highlight)
If you can see this you are very smart
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