paradox sillyelly when the actual definition is the complete opposite of the literal definition 990506 ... drew more to the point, when the two meanings are completely opposite, yet simultaneously true. like shroedinger's cat, but you're looking at it. like the distance from 0 to 1 is measurable, yet there are infinite points in between. like socio-capitalism. mmm... sweet, sweet paradox... 990507 ... Divine Madnesss Paradox simultaneously drives us to new heights and frustrates us to the point of breaking something valuable. It is what we try to understand but never achieve, because through understanding of paradox comes and understanding of divinity. mmm..... paradox... sweet sweet paradox :) 000105 ... SomeoneElse The meaning of life. 000515 ... amorfus is better than threedox! 000515 ... typhoid some shoes? 000515 ... moonshine "its a paradox!"... "nonono! a paradox??No thats what i m wearing on my feet!" AHH!!! 000601 ... orb a paradox makes a mind complete 000601 ... paradox is..... Man is on an evolutionary stunt due to the fact that we realize that somthing major has to happen before we can evolve. 001026 ... tourist Thre of a kind beats a paradox a Full house beats three of a kind 001026 ... j_blue sometimes jokes, and even puns, get tired. 001026 ... evi "live and let live" is a paradox - if you really believe it you can't live by it 001126 ... Bell R Emilliardo Peacecraft eldest heir to the throne of complete passivism. Zeks Marquis Earth's greatest gundamn pilot, killer of thousands upon thousands. How is it that these are the same person... 010116 ... god it's got to do with rabbits breaking the sound barrier. 010117 ... Sintina Two opposing concepts in a single thought, or being. Ying and Yang. I used to call Peyton one. 010127 ... florescent light I want to spend all day, with my eyes closed - daydreaming/nightdreaming about the love of my life. Who isn't the love of my life. He is Josh. And I don't know Josh. Only vaguely. But since we spent a little bit of time together establishing how wonderful the other is - all I can think about is how I want to be with him. But rationally I know that I don't know him very well, and that I am blinded. And certainly I'm not seeing him for himself, rather for who I want him to be. But in my dreams he loves me. And makes me feel perfect. In life, I can't say how he feels since I am not him, but I can introspect that he is a little confused, and very hesitant. Though, maybe he's only confused and hesitant because I want him to be. But in either case, I have established expectations which will lead me to getting hurt. So I tell myself "******, (I blot out my name for privacy reasons) Stop thinking about him!" Seems easy enough to do - but it doesn't happen. I can't stop thinking about him even though I know I will get hurt, and be much more happy and productive with those thoughts out of my head. So I continue to think, and these thoughts interfere with my school work and my social life - making me unhappy. But I am not happy unless I am thinking about him. So I have created for myself my own little paradox. 010204 ... from me sometimes i think you think there are issues, things that i am thinking to lead me away from you. but really, i am just in between places... don't ever forget that. it is the evasiveness that works. 010324 ... from me the beam's rock steady and flickering. 010324 ... kx21 Created by MAN... Tell me one paradox which is not created by MAN and I will tell you how wonder you are... 010324 ... funkymotif 1. apparent contradictory aspects. 2. jesus dies so that others may live. 3. A Clockwork Orange: being forced to be "good" rather than having a choice, Alex is merely compelled to do so by external forces. 010604 ... Dafremen ok this isn't really so much a paradox as it is a logic statement, but it's a VERY unique logic statement that I call an oscillating logic statement, because it FLIP-FLOPS in it's logic forever. Here it is: - This sentance contains three erors. - - - Now I could just leave it to each to decipher the meaning of this "oscillating logic statement" on one's own, but that would be too easy and, more importantly, it would in effect disregard the vast majority of you who are now reading this blather with vacuous stares and vacant expressions. (I also can't bear to discriminate agenst yoo speleeng chalinjd tipes.) So we count the spelling errors and we find that there are only two. The word sentence is misspelled as sentance and errors as erors. In order to find our third error we have to realize that the number THREE is a word in the sentence and since the sentence only contains TWO errors, the word THREE should be replaced with the word TWO. So the word THREE is the third error. That makes the logic statement TRUE. However if the word THREE is the third error then there ARE 3 errors in the sentence and the word THREE is not an error anymore. That makes the logic statement FALSE. But if the word THREE is not an error then the sentence contains only TWO errors. This makes the word THREE an error again. Giving the sentence THREE errors. That makes the logic statement TRUE again. And so on and so on. Pretty neat huh? - - 010604 ... User24 Me like... ...mind you, "Rabbit are green" is not logically correct but is much less head-fucking, why? 010609 ... User24 kx21: life itself is a paradox; the earth will exist for aeons, but our lives will only last for a few decades, so there is no point to our lives, yet without life on earth there would be no point to earth. 010609 ... kx21 Who created the word:- Life? 010610 ... kx21 Who created the word:- God? Who created You? God or Your father and mother? 010610 ... kx21 Shit of ... engaged with Star of ... in a Hole!!! 010717 ... obnoxio the clown Would someone please stop teaching kids words like these? Hey... I know: let's go outside!!! 011217 ... oren I know a guy who is always jealous when he's not included in the conversations of his coworkers. He always pulls one of them aside to find out what they were talking about, then proceeds to tell him that they are all just stupid and he's glad he's above their silly conversations. I call him Mr. Paradox. 011217 ... tanya rabbit rabbit octopus 011217 ... cube i see the first use of atomic weapons as a paradox - to unleash mass destruction in order to forego greater destruction. (talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place) ... 011217 ... florescent light you can't completely understand anything until you've seen the paradox involved how do I know I am really seeing the paradox in the situation if I can't see the paradox which is defining the paradox etc, etc. 020111 ... sphinxradio there are three errors in this sentence. (replying to a post from several months ago) the version i've seen actually has no spelling errors at all. the error is in the message; there aren't three errors, there's only one: the sentence is false. the idea being that we need to look at the big picture. i saw it on a t-shirt. it made me happy to figure it out. 020114 ... optic discretion Life is a paradox in itself. 020127 ... josie .. my paradox concurrs.... i was walking today thinking of myself lying in your room, listening to your voice blended with your guitar... gazing at your artwork.. the one you tore up that night. it rings through my head painfully. 020714 ... blake All gareth's fault. But I guess you knew that. I really don't like that song much - I suspect you only like it because you were there when I wrote it. 020716 ... Ahmad so what haf u got,.. on one side of a piece of paper there is writen, the other side of the peper is true. on the other side of the paper, it is writen that the other side is false. what is going on? 020808 ... Ahmad a paradox is what drives a human mad, we must understand to succeed, and what we do not undestand we will never conquer. they will always be abouve us 020808 ... Ahmad excuse my spelling... 020808 ... J paradox=balance 020912 ... kx21 Which came first? Zero or Infinity? 020913 ... Matt The Paradox of our Time The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've split the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships. These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition. These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete. ^^^^i didn't write this but I wish I had 021013 ... Webley Life isn't a paradox, our perception of anything paradox's everything 021018 ... puppet Life isn't a paradox, our perception of anything paradox's everything 021018 ... screwing for virginity this sentince is false. does anyone know the word for something that is the opposite of a paradox (something that makes no sence at first glance, but once examined makes perfect sence) 021018 ... One Extra Vegetable Simply being, inside out, not only going forward and backward in my thoughts, but also taking time to step out of it, you know out of time? 021108 ... Carson We are all each other swimming through the paradoxical sea of uncertainty. JCC 030110 ... kx21 Man ~ Machine, given Human_Cloning... 030110 ... ? I am sure everyone has heard this be4 but it bears repeating.. so if you don't want to hear it again... scroll down... 2 words: Microsoft Works. 030401 ... a penguin i think Microsoft Works is more of an oxymoron than a paradox, kind of like Jumbo Shrimp. 030401 ... niska to make peace, we must prepare for war. 030401 ... asbestos S: S - G 1. -S 2. -S - (S - X) 3. S - G 4. S - G = S 5. --S 6. S 7. S - (S - G) 8. S - G 9. G G is proved with no premises. Anything is provable. 031025 ... asbestos Hmmm, I guess "greater than" signs don't appear. Well, about three quaters of those dashes are supposed to be arrows (actually, they're SUPPOSED to be horseshoes, but they are even harder to ascii). I'll leave it to you to understand which ones. 031025 ... Piso Mojado watching 'old school' while reading joyce carol oats 040208 ... Piso Mojado oates 040208 ... pete Tao is a paradox. Well, trying to explain Tao is a paradox. It is to be experienced, not understood. 040330 ... Syrope i miss our talks you called me the other day and i was too busy i promised myself i'd call you back but i haven't. i want you to believe i'm alright 040330 ... andru235 when one lives in dimensions of two paradox will seem quite true visit three or seventy-nine other concepts rule divine 041229 ... J squared I saw a movie called Pirates of Paradox. 041230 ... andru235 i tried to steal a paradox once; in doing so, i became the dunce. as soon as 'twas before my eyes the owner won it as a prize 041230 ... no reason one minute i say i_want_to_be_friends_with_everyone the next i say i_hate_people am i a paradox? or just insane? or something else entirely? 050323 ... mikejohnson only you can understand you. but if this logic works... it's only natural to want to feel connected. connections created and nursed the universe. therefore wewanttobefriendswitheveryone. but the universe does random things and one of those is to make us struggle to survive. to survive we are willing to step over others. to break connections, or to HATE. therefore it is natural to wanttobefriendswitheveryone, and it is natural to hateeveryone. it is paradoxical, but finitely so. we must want to connect more than we want to disconnect. this is a natural issue as well. is the part of the brain which seeks to destroy stronger than the part of the brain which seeks to connect? if all were equal, our strongest impulse would be to love and hate simultaneously. does the part of our brain which consciously wants this connection of connection and disconnection outpower the unconscious part which seeks to desire? the matter is then scientific, and not paradoxical. but only if is good enuf at math. 050324 ... z i am lying before time began the universe is infinite and expanding singularity 050324 ... ~gez~ Mr. A: 'Mr. B always lies' Mr. B: 'I am lying' thats how two guys escape from this logical alien robot thing in some old science fiction program i saw, although i can't remember what its called 050612 ... P the D A sign of obviousy falsity, or... a sign of hidden truth? 061114 ... Gah! "obvious falsity" 061114 ... jane paradoxymoron 080129 what's it to you? who go blather from