Paradoxes.

[Welknair]

Pretty simple. Post paradoxes. They can be of any sort you want. I'll start:


This sentence is a lie.


"I wish for you not to grant this wish," the man said to the genie.


If you drop a pencil, it needs to get halfway to the ground before reaching the ground, right? Well after that, it needs to get halfway again. And again. And again. And again. If there are infinite half-ways to the floor, it should never reach it. Yet it does.

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[keonesan]

Pretty simple. Post paradoxes. They can be of any sort you want. I'll start:


This sentence is a lie.


"I wish for you not to grant this wish," the man said to the genie.


If you drop a pencil, it needs to get halfway to the ground before reaching the ground, right? Well after that, it needs to get halfway again. And again. And again. And again. If there are infinite half-ways to the floor, it should never reach it. Yet it does.

Keonesan's head exploded.

[Tom Gunn]

[Roknrollwill]

This post is a lie.

[Welknair]

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This is the point at which he catches fire.


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This post is a lie.

This sentence is a lie.

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[Trop]

If you drop a pencil, it needs to get halfway to the ground before reaching the ground, right? Well after that, it needs to get halfway again. And again. And again. And again. If there are infinite half-ways to the floor, it should never reach it. Yet it does.

Does this one mean that you let go of the pencil as it is on the ground? I'm just thinking, you know... halfway from zero to zero is zero and... I'm doing something wrong here, aren't I? :\

[*Magick* Mage]

Paradoxes are mathematical. Most of these are just literary fallacies. :c

[ffuRuff]

[-mind forget paradox-

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[Welknair]

Paradoxes are mathematical. Most of these are just literary fallacies. :c

The colloquial term is Paradox. Though I believe you are correct.

Do you think I should change it to "Literary fallacies"?

[sir dooble]

A man travels back in time and kills his own father before he himself is concieved.  But then he was never born, so he never went back in time to kill his father, so his father concieved his son who was born and went back in time and killed his father before his conception, etc, etc...

Classic.  

[Tyler66]

Lag.

[Tom Gunn]

The colloquial term is Paradox. Though I believe you are correct.

Do you think I should change it to "Literary fallacies"?

Don't, it might confuse the ones who don't understand that.

[Welknair]

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Ah ah.


If you use the multiple-parallel universe theory of time travel, when kill your father, you create a new, divergent universe and thus when you go back to your time, you are returning to YOUR universe, where you didn't kill him.


Along the same lines, the pencil one is incorrect. There's a thing called the "Planck length". It is the minimum distance and cannot be divided. It's like a pixel.

Don't, it might confuse the ones who don't understand that.

That's what I thought.

[Tom Gunn]

[sir dooble]

Ah ah.


If you use the multiple-parallel universe theory of time travel, when kill your father, you create a new, divergent universe and thus when you go back to your time, you are returning to YOUR universe, where you didn't kill him.

But in that case it becomes a literary fallacy, as you no longer killed you own father, you killed another person.
Since your father is still alive in your universe. So, surely, it's not possible to kill your own actual father who is going to concieve you.