#Paradoxes

[prophetic-memory]

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[brokenheartedartichokes]

Paradoxical Standard

I’m watching the sand run out

All over the floor

And I can’t save time anymore

And I’ll never save the world from the comfort of my couch

But I can’t stand change and the way that everything always stays the same

And I hate the way the air hurts my face but I couldn’t imagine leaving this place

I’m in between everything I love and hate

But I never stopped to look that way

I’m running far to fast to catch onto a detour like that

And they’ve tried to slow me down

Angry hands pulling me to the ground

But I can’t shake this need to leave

I’ll be the slowest getaway you’ve ever seen

They said reach for the stars

But I can’t see them through the glare of the sun

I guess this is all to say

I have no idea where I’m going

I’m stagnant change

Slowly chaos

Burning into oblivion

Always the same

I’ll clean up this sand and be on my way

Save it all in my pocket for the next rainy day

So when you say you have no time

I can give you some of mine

[mil0xxx]

"Run Achilles, you can reach the turtle...."

Achilles and the tortoise paradox.

[random-xpressions]

And then we became like one soul breathing in two different bodies and it all made perfect sense - this union despite the separation, this proximity despite the distance, this flourishing love despite the absence...

Random Xpressions

[theravadin]

it's hard to overstate the usefulness of koans in practice! people often misunderstand their purpose. koans are paradoxical, but are not meant to be resolved logically. their lack of logic is perfectly intentional. they're not actually asking you the question they're asking you. what they're actually doing is saying, "look beyond logic for a minute. doesn't this make perfect sense once you transcend logic for a blissful moment?"

this is very difficult to explain without spoiling the surprise, the bliss that comes from such a realization in studying a koan. and there is an additional surprise and bliss when you realize: everything can be a koan, everything is a koan, the only way to resolve the often paradoxical nature of reality is to forfeit knowledge and accept a deeper understanding.

[novelties-and-notions]

FLOSTRE: Enough of this tittle-tattle! Can we just talk about logic for a bit?

SOCRATES [Peers at audience]: Do you think that will go down better? If you ask me, you should bring on the dancing girls while you're ahead.

FLOSTRE: I'm not asking you. All I want to know is what do you know about logical matters?

SOCRATES: All I know is that I know nothing.

FLOSTRE: You never actually said that until just now, did you?

SOCRATES: I don't know. All I know is that I know nothing.

FLOSTRE: Is that a paradox?

SOCRATES: Only if it's true. How about this one: I only know one thing?

FLOSTRE: And what's that?

SOCRATES: That I only know one thing.

FLOSTRE [and audience]: And what's that?

SOCRATES: That I only know one thing.

A MATHEMATICIAN IN THE AUDIENCE: Apply a fixed-point function!

FLOSTRE: I'm sorry mon ami. I left my fixed-point function in my other suit. It was one of those Y-shaped chrome-plated ones designed by Haskell Curry, with the attachment for taking stones out of horses hoofs. But hélas, I do not have it with me. Now where were we?

SOCRATES: That I only… Oh, forget it. When do the dancing girls come on?

FLOSTRE: Later. There is much to discuss before then.

SOCRATES: I was afraid of that.

FLOSTRE: Talking of paradoxes, did you know that there's a village where the barber shaves every man who doesn't shave himself?

SOCRATES: I've been there. It's no paradox.

FLOSTRE: Comment ça?

SOCRATES: Because the barber is a woman. [B-boom on the bass drum.]

FLOSTRE: That's the Theory of Types for you, folks.

[ladyfingerpress]

z_xx. In Polydactyl, we say: "look at this, this is like that, and they're under these."

We open with the famous ship of Theseus question.

The phantom limb shows a part's existence can remain after physical destruction. Its behaviors can still act, as if reaching out from the past.

What if a plank of HMS Theseus is like a phantom limb: exhibiting continuity of influence of the whole?

The woodwork is the ship is rechristened a network.

The network is redefined through not only its connections, but also its tensions.

This conceptual leap is easily graspable within the harder sciences. For example, in mathematics' tensor.

We go on to argue import in the human realm. If network continuity can be proven, what does it mean for our continuity? What does it say to (or ask of) our inner child?

Polydactyl: A poetic cycle in double dactyl on connections, complexity, and continuity from Ladyfinger Press : Morgan Stern : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[hcperson]

The Jevil Paradox

We all know Jevil’s iconic phrase, "I CAN DO ANYTHING", right? Well what if I told you that phrase is the start of a paradox I have named... The Jevil Paradox. Creative, I know.

So, it begins with a simple claim... "I CAN DO ANYTHING!" That one, yeah. And this claim has one weakness, our paradox. You see, if jevil can do "anything" well...

Can they find something they *cant* do?

You see, if jevil can do anything, as in EVERYTHING, there's nothing they can't do.

But if they can do anything, they can find something they can't do... right? ...right?

You see, this is what The Jevil Paradox is. If one can do anything, they can't find something they can't do, but then, they can do anything? A paradox.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[half-facedfig]

New book alert guys

[poeticmusingsblog]

I am perfectly imperfect. Persistently hopeful. Hopelessly loving. Gently strong. Quietly bold. Fiercely soothing. Unapologetically real.

I am the storm and the chaos. I am the peace and the calm. I am a paradox, a labyrinth - not one that leaves you lost, but one that helps you find the parts of yourself you never knew were gone.

I am the ache and I am the balm -

the lyrics of a healing psalm.

[communistmishka]

Smash

[jamesyyalbert]

The “answer” to all logical paradoxes, is any answer in a state of quantum superposition.

“It is both this true thing, and that contradictory true thing, simultaneously.”

Sure, paradoxes are fun word games, but they are also so much more than that.

[starryknight-dragonarts]

Daydreaming

I was just daydreaming a scene in my head of some sort of modern or near-future setting fantasy secret world that's encroaching on the contemporary normal world The Kid heroes have gone on a quest to find some kindly elder dragon who's they can think can save the day if they can only get him to help them, but the Dragon refuses their call. Frustrated one of the kids complains that they came all this way, they are not just going to leave with a No as their answer, and try to appeal to the dragon that so many people will be hurt if they don't help. The Old Dragon solemnly explains that he's not looking to try to be a hero or save anybody, he is just a guy who wants to be left alone. If he starts using his immense power to solve every problem for humans, then they will either grow to become reliant on him, or to resent him for imposing his own order on the world through force. Then eventually somebody may find another dragon or conceive of a clever scheme to trap or kill him, and then you have an entirely new problem that renders your walking weapon obsolete. He's seen it though history and read many stories over his many years; Having the biggest weapon isn't always the automatic win you think it will be, bigger weapons only lead to an arms race. Perhaps your weapon may win a battle, but next time the enemy will expect your weapon and have come up with a counter to it. He also doesn't like the idea of being treated like a weapon. He may be big, scaly, and powerful but he's still a Person. As soon as Humans start seeing him as a weapon they'll want to be able to control him, and if they can't control him even allies might start to see him as a threat.

The kids ask him then, if he can't help then what are they supposed to do...they can't beat the bad guy themselves? The Elder Dragon asks them why they think Humans have trouble using magic....He then explains that Humans have always had trouble accepting Paradoxes, anything they believe MUST be an impossibility. As a child you see a Magician pull a Rabbit out of a Hat and it is Magical because you couldn't see the rabbit while looking down the hat, you didn't know how the rabbit got there, or how it goes away, but you see the rabbit come out of the Hat anyway. That is a Paradox. You could learn how the trick works but then it stops being magic, because all the mystery is removed and the paradox is entirely removed from the moment. Humans are inherently curious, and there is nothing strictly wrong with wanting answers, but many humans see this ability as secondary to being able to Imagine and Dream. To take an impossible premise and believe for a moment it could be real. Before you can cast any spell you must first believe that an impossibility can be possible. How can you learn to fly if you can't first believe that a Rock can be as light as Air? How can you transform if you can't first believe that a Human can be a Wolf? How can you detect things unseen if you can't first believe that you can see with your eyes shut?

[cupofcoffeyy-blog]

Although you may not think the list above would make any difference in yourself overall .. I dare you to try it 

[basib00]

okay. looking for someone who’s as into theoretical science as me.

can time really be changed? if you think about it, whatever you change would have always been like that anyways.

dm if you don’t understand because quite frankly i cannot word this