#Zeno's Paradox

[mollyjames]

If I had to travel a distance, and knew I first had to travel half that distance, then half the remaining distance, and so on such that I might never reach my destination, I would simply travel to a location in the direction that was twice as far as the first

[eriquin]

WIP Weekend

Tagged by @hbyrde36 and @turinspeachjam.

Rules: Send me an emoji in an ask, and I'll write & share 3 sentences for that WIP!

👑 Crown of Thorns

🔮 The Oracle of Roane County

🐈‍⬛ Cat's in the Cradle

💭 Zeno's Paradox

I have my progress graph:

And snippet from Zeno's Paradox behind the cut.

“Jesus Christ,” Eddie muttered. He leaned back on the couch and rubbed the side of his face that wasn’t covered in bandages. “So we don’t actually have any money yet, but we’re gonna?”

“So they say.” 

He let out a little laugh. “Well, then I guess this was all worth it.” He gestured at himself as he said it. 

Wayne shook his head. “Now, don’t you start that,” he said. “I’m telling you ‘cause I ain’t sure we should take it.” 

Eddie let himself slouch down. His head was starting to hurt and the trailer was cold. He furrowed his brow and let out an involuntary shiver. Wayne got up and pulled the crochet blanket off the back of the couch, tossing it over him. It helped a little. 

“You think we shouldn’t take the money?” he asked quietly. “Why?”

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Crown of Thorns

Cat's in the Cradle

The Oracle of Roane County

Zeno's Paradox

[athelind]

Zeno's Paradox

06 May 2025, 16:11 PDT:

07 May 2025, 06:51 PDT:

07 May 2025, 07:34 PDT:

It's like calculus, or Achilles and the Tortoise, or something

[geekysteven]

Zeno tries to walk into a bar, and while he keeps getting incrementally closer, finds that entering a bar is impossible.

[sepdet]

So I've been decluttering/cleaning the garage.

This morning, I dreamt that I came across a canister of rice.

For some reason,instead of just throwing it away or putting it in the kitchen, I had to get out a large chessboard and sort the grains of rice into pairs and take photos of myself with them for their (yes, the rice!!!) photo album.

Which is a modern spin on an ancient parable about a sneaky fellow asking to be paid in rice on a chessboard in which the amount of rice doubles each square, but either way, I think my subconscious is making fun of how I tend to Zeno's paradox every task I tackle.

HAHA VERY FUNNY SUBCONSCIOUS YES EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION DO BE LIKE THAT

and then, on top of that, it's taken me two flipping hours to write this because of arthritis/fibromyalgia micro-naps, which seem worse post-covid. To think I used to be a writer!

it's funny, but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I miss being a functional human being.

I guess I should just thank my min/maxxing lucky stars I'm a (undeserving & privileged, but I don't deserve to have been born with arthritis either) trust fund baby with inherited UBI, because otherwise I'd be screwed.

[jeffmumm]

A high-quality print is now available of this comic!

[etakeh]

Is 3:00 in the morning and I'm sitting here thinking about how badly Zeno's paradox has fucked me up.

Nothing is ever actually clean. It's only half as clean as it was before. It can only ever be half as clean as it was before.

No job is ever complete. It's only half as complete as it had been. It's only ever going to be half as done as it had been.

Nothing is ever completely finished. Ever. Because it's ever only going to be half as much as it had been. And then half as much as that. And then half as much as that. And it never gets to absolute zero.

In conclusion: fuck off Zeno I hate you forever.

[lexezombie]

THE KIDS R MEETING!!

Info below for ppl confused

(front to back)

Cluhsandra Puzzles - Billford; Puzzles AU + Portal Paradox AU (specifically her adult form here)

Billie Cipher - Billford; Simulacrum AU + Portal Paradox AU

Silas Cipher - BillRosa (oc x canon); Portal Paradox AU

Hypatia Pines - BillFidAuthor; 3-Sides AU

Zeno Pines - BillFidAuthor; 3-Sides AU

[caesarsaladinn]

LibriVox glitched and set me back at least an hour, so now I have to listen to Augustine pontificate about what the conjugation of “to die” in Latin can tell us about the nature of heaven, again

[chiarrara]

sorry not sorry, I love jjk but the power system doesn't make any sense. it's a lot of hand waving over vague intellectual concepts the author doesn't actually fully understand which makes it sound really smart, complex, and deep. But really it's ricocheting between an ode to classic shounen power systems and a straight up recreation of them with a new coat of paint.

And that's fine! It's cool to get inspiration from philosophy and mathematics and physics, it's fine to use that inspiration without having a deep theoretical understanding of the concept, and jjk is nothing if not an ode to and a new iteration of the essence of the shounen genre.

But it doesn't mean the author's explanations of that power system--in the text itself or in additional materials--make any more coherent sense than the quantum physics in marvel movies. Trying to make sense of this stuff is a futile effort because it's not fully developed to that scale, and I think that leaves a lot of people either filling in the gaps themselves and misremembering that as text, or deciding the author is actually way smarter than them and they would need a lot more information to understand it, which is not true, because it doesn't actually make sense.

Complex ideas can be explained at very accessible levels in very simplistic ways when they are deeply and fully understood. If someone actually knows more than you, they won't make you feel like you can't understand the things they know. If they do, it's because they don't understand it well enough to explain it.

[eriquin]

Zeno's paradox for wip Wednesday? Hoping you're not stuck on a train this week but has all the creative cylinders firing!

I'm on a train again next week! But today I am free.

Wayne huffed. “I trusted him to know what to do with them. Do you see either of us getting arrested? No. He took care of it.” He crossed his arms. “‘Sides, Ed, ain’t like you can go back to selling again.”

It was Eddie’s turn to huff. “You don’t know that,” he said, glaring at his uncle. “What, you think I’m not gonna earn my keep once I heal up?”

(make me write)

[fluffybunny35]

Zeno's Razer

I would like to propose a new logical Razor

If something is only possible after an infinite number of steps is perfomed, then it is impossible. The reverse is also true.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Reblog for a bigger sample size

[memoriesofthingspast]

zeno’s paradox - 9 - sorites paradox - eubulides of miletes

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[gangler]

Purgatory is a longrunning comic that can get infinitely close to completion without ever actually completing, because it spends more time recapping and restating plot points that just happened the closer you get to the finish line.