Top 20 Paradoxes in everyday life to think about
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There are some things in life that we take for granted. We never noticed about these things because we never stop to pause and think about them. But if you will take a second look at them, you will know what I mean. Below is the list of 20 things that I had compiled about the things we take for granted.
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1.
If everything is possible, is it possible for something to be impossible?
31 points - added 2 years ago by guest - 9 comments
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Here is one i know..
The following sentence is false. The previous sentence is true.
O.o this one really confused me..
Added 17 days ago by guest, 2 points
Things are only impossible until they are not.
Added 20 days ago by guest, 0 points
If I hate haters does that make me a hater.
Added 2 months ago by guest, 7 points
By reading and thinking about the word "possible" so many times... It sounds so strange to me now.
Added 2 months ago by guest, -2 points
SOLUTION: It is possible and impossible for everything to be impossible and possible at the same time.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -3 points
If its impossible to be impossible then it's possible to be impossible,by being impossible to be impossible,But it's impossible to be impossible because it's impossible for something impossible to be possible. This is illogical because something specific has to be there to have "possible" or "impossible" attached to it. So that sentence is impossible. No, illogical. Just can't happen.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 5 points
Not everything is possible though.
Added 1 year ago by guest, -1 points
gone mad
Added 1 year ago by guest, -6 points
that just blew my mind
Added 2 years ago by guest, 9 points
2.
This sentence is false
A liar paradox according to Wikipedia.
28 points - added 2 years ago by guest - 11 comments
Comments:
"This sentence is false.
The previous sentence is true."
There is the real paradox.
Added 17 hours ago by guest, 1 point
It's a paradox there is no answer. ( quote from Glados)
Added 1 month ago by guest, 0 points
By quoting Wheatley true.
Added 3 months ago by guest, -1 points
SOLUTION: Then it is True and False in certain times depending on the reader.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -2 points
This paradox incomplete.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -1 points
Just becuase the sentence says it is false that doesn't logically mean that it cannot be true that it is false. The sentence can be true and false in that it is true that the sentence is false.
Added 4 months ago by guest, 3 points
Uh, true... I'll go true. Well, that was easy. I'll be honest , I might have heard that before, though, sort of cheated.
Added 9 months ago by guest, 13 points
well if the sentence is true that would impy that it was false. then if it was false the sentence would be telling the truth, making if false...
Added 1 year ago by guest, 3 points
How is this a paradox? There is nothing inherently truthful or false about it. Is there? Can somebody explain?
Added 1 year ago by guest, -10 points
No it isn't
Added 1 year ago by guest, -10 points
Yes it is.
Added 1 year ago by guest, -7 points
3.
What happens if Pinocchio says "my nose will now grow"?
Because it is actually a paradox.
24 points - added 2 years ago by guest - 14 comments
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when he tells the truth, it won't happen, but if he lies it will happen (only with the nose of course). so if he does say it, it won't happen, but if it doesn't happen, than that would make it a lie, thus making his nose grow, but that would then make his first comment true, so it wouldn't grow. it's like an infinite line. there is no true answer to this.
Added 10 days ago by guest, 0 points
I think pinocchio's will fall off and he will explode
Added 19 days ago by guest, 1 point
Or, the he will be telling the truth becouse the next time he lies his nose will grow.
Added 3 months ago by guest, 3 points
it will grow, because language is performative.
Added 3 months ago by guest, -3 points
SOLUTION: Pinocchio's nose won't grow because he isn't lying, he's just merely guessing or assuming. He doesn't have the ability to see the future thus making it impossible for him to tell what isn't or what's going to happen.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -2 points
The actual answer is,
He will turn into a real boy
Added 4 months ago by guest, 4 points
Pinocchio's nose grows when he's lying, we have no conclusive evidence that it only grows when he's lying. Initially, his nose will not grow and that will make his statement false, which will make his nose grow. Now that his statement is true, his nose will still grow because the truth doesn't necessarilly stop it from growing
Added 6 months ago by guest, 1 point
is it possible for his nose to grow without lying?
Added 7 months ago by guest, -4 points
Easy, Pinocchio will become a black hole.
Added 8 months ago by guest, 18 points
Any situation where a person says an action will happen now, is always lying.
Added 8 months ago by guest, -2 points
why we gotta do the math? :(
Added 1 year ago by guest, -4 points
Only what Pinocchio truly feels will happen, he can say anything but he may not mean it in his head; that will determine what happens to his nose.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 2 points
its like an infinite loop. if his statement is true that his nose will now grow, he will be lying. but then his nose grew making his statement true. BUT! his nose only grows when hes telling lies so the second statement is cancelled making it false therefor making him lie in the 3rd statement.. and so on and so on :)
lovely paradox
Added 2 years ago by guest, 9 points
best one on the list, the only real paradox
Added 2 years ago by guest, -3 points
4.
what happens when an imoveable object is meets an unstopable force
not the best paradoz but still
15 points - added 2 years ago by guest - 20 comments
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well it is false. both couldn't exist, if there was an immovable object then there couldn't be an unstoppable force. to have one means you could not have the other simple as that.
Added 2 days ago by guest, 0 points
an immovable object would mean that the object has infinite mass, which is impossible. an unstoppable force would have to have infinite delta V which requires infinite energy, which the universe does not have. so it is impossible, even for a hypothetical.
Added 10 days ago by guest, 0 points
the unstoppable force becomes the immovable force and vise versa
Added 1 month ago by guest, 0 points
I learned it from asapscience on youtube, they will pass thru each other
Added 1 month ago by guest, 0 points
The particles will pass through eachother
#Physics.
#Biology
Added 1 month ago by guest, 1 point
*change *force immovable
Added 1 month ago by guest, 0 points
Actually, both an unstoppable force and an immovable object can both be described as things with no chang in velocity, so, theoretically, they can be the same thing, and, thus, the unstoppable force could transfer the energy required to be "unstoppable" to the immovable object giving the appearance of "phasing through" the immovable object, rendering the once unstoppable forac eimmovable until another unstoppable force transfers its energy to it.
Added 1 month ago by guest, 0 points
Child's play. The unstoppable force phases through the immoveable object. They cannot physically touch.
Added 2 months ago by guest, 1 point
Then it will be Batman vs Joker
Added 3 months ago by guest, -2 points
SOLUTION: The existence of an immovable object means there isn't an unstoppable force and VICE VERSA.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -2 points
All physics aside...speaking in theory...they would enilate each other..it is analgous to matter and anti.matter.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -1 points
The unstoppable force will pass through the imovableobject without effect to the object... like a ghost
Added 4 months ago by guest, 0 points
easy:
if there is a unstoppable force an immovable object cannot exist
Added 6 months ago by guest, 4 points
Easy: The unstoppable force stops and the immoveable object moves
Added 6 months ago by guest, -2 points
To the person who posted that infinite mass is impossible ... we can't actually say that for sure. Black holes are said to contain infinite mass, due to their heavy gravitational pull on anything that goes near them. Another reason is that light can't exit a black hole, and therefore there would have to be something infinitely large to attract something like light itself.
Added 7 months ago by guest, 0 points
Basically, space-time won't allow it, so the universe rips itself apart and we all are obliterated into elementary particles that were created in the big bang, and gravity pulls all of it back to the center into a pinpoint location that is heated beyond comparison. Then the universe is created again!
Added 8 months ago by guest, 0 points
first of all there is nothing such as immovable object....f=ma hence finite amount of force always causes finite acceleration. a body cannot exist in universe when it has infinite mass....it will simply collapse itself into nothing...............also it is now known that the universe is finite. so infinite force also doesnt exist
Added 9 months ago by guest, 0 points
What happens when Chuck Norris meets Bruce Lee?
That's really what their asking
Added 1 year ago by guest, 16 points
Had this one before, the unstoppable force has no rule against being reflected and changing direction, it is still unstoppable with a new trajectory.
The other outcome, it simply goes through each other.
Added 2 years ago by guest, 3 points
woops i ment paradox not paradoz
Added 2 years ago by guest, 1 point
5.
if you were all powerfull and can do anything,could you create a door you couldn't open?
it is unanswerable
15 points - added 2 years ago by guest - 14 comments
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well, if you were all powerful, and you created a door that you could not open, then you created another being that could open the door, than you would no longer be the all powerful one. the other being would have the capability that you would not have. so, it's like a paradox within a paradox.
Added 10 days ago by guest, 0 points
what if you created a person who can open the door you can't open, so indirectly you had opened it? So you yourself can't open it but you can cause a different force you had made to open it, therefore you have opened it-- if you wanted to make a door you can't open in the first place.
Added 2 months ago by guest, 0 points
What if the door is invisible?
Added 3 months ago by guest, 0 points
I just wouldn't
Added 3 months ago by guest, 0 points
SOLUTION: Yes. And because I am all powerful, I can create a door I could and could not open at the same time.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -1 points
its a paradox because if you could, then you wouldnt be allmighty. but if you couldnt, you arent allmighty in the first place because you cant make the door.
Added 5 months ago by guest, -2 points
Yes, I could. But then i wouldn't be allmighty, so I wouldn't do that. I don't get the paradox...
Added 6 months ago by guest, 0 points
dood if i was all powerfull i would not do something like that >:) i would do wwwwaaaayyyy more stuff :D not make a door that would just screw me over
Added 7 months ago by guest, 3 points
The ability to do anything does not preclude self limitation. If it did, then someone who could do anything would always be doing everything, an obvious absurdity. As such, to create self limitations is not a violation.
Lets say I am all powerfull.
I create a door I cannot open.
That is not to say I could not cause the door to open. Just simply that I cannot myself immediately open the door.
Possible explenations?
Added 1 year ago by guest, 2 points
A wall?
Added 1 year ago by guest, -6 points
How do you know I want to open the door?
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
if you could do anything then it would have to possible to create a door that you couldn't open. That much has to be true. The question is whether you could get that door opened and then does that refute the fact you can't make an unopenable door. The easy way is to combine the two statements. Could you create a door that you couldn't open but then later open when you wanted? if this is the case then yes you could create a door that couldn't be open because at a later time being all powerful would allow you to render the door opened.
Added 2 years ago by guest, -4 points
several weeks ago i came onto this page and clearly pointed out how each and every single one of these points was written by a moron. they have been mostly deleted.
You seem clearly ashamed of how unintelligent you have proven to be.
Added 2 years ago by guest, -4 points
...taken directly from the favorite paradoxes of the atheists: If God is ever-so powerful, can He create a rock big enough so He couldn't lift it....
Added 2 years ago by guest, 1 point
6.
Being Born is a Death Sentence.
When you are born, you are destined to die some day...
14 points - added 3 years ago by guest - 13 comments
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Your body regenerates itself quicker than parts die, to a certain age - it's how you grow and mature. Thus, you are not dying as soon as you are born, but dying possibly after puberty has ended. Otherwise, one could argue you are dying from the moment which follows sperm entering the egg, not just after birth.
Added 1 month ago by guest, 2 points
Being cleaned after bath is a Dirty sentence
Added 3 months ago by guest, 0 points
Being Born is a Death Sentence is Irony, not paradox...
Added 3 months ago by guest, 1 point
This is true, as Iron Maiden said "As soon as you're born, you're dying"
Added 3 months ago by guest, 1 point
SOLUTION: Wrong. Fertilization is because it's where life begins. This isn't a paradox rather an information.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -2 points
No! If your born you have to die!
but i dont get how this is a paradox.
Added 5 months ago by guest, 3 points
of course! we are all sentenced to die the minute we're born b/c we don't live forever in our flesh
Added 8 months ago by guest, 3 points
I don't get this being a paradox
Added 11 months ago by guest, -4 points
When you die your brain is not active therefore you will not think or have any senses so technically you will not exist.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 0 points
no one knows where we hav come from ???...and where are we gonna go when we die....
Added 2 years ago by guest, -3 points
and also every step you take leads you to the place of your death AND if i may continue onward;
a breath is like a death-clock counting down to you final breath (it inescapable because if you try and stop breathing to pause the clock you will die anyway - this is the curse of humanity)
Added 2 years ago by guest, 4 points
If you don't believe in God that is........just sayin'
Added 2 years ago by guest, -5 points
so when your not born you're alive?
Added 2 years ago by guest, -3 points
7.
If everyone is unique, what makes a person really unique???
We usually say that we shouldn't compare ourselves to other because everyone is a unique individual. So, if everyone is unique and we are ALL unique,,what makes us really unique? gets????=)))
9 points - added 2 years ago by guest - 9 comments
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good question. if we are all unique, then saying everyone is unique is like saying that it is normal, but then saying that someone is normal is like calling them unique, but then that is like calling them normal, and so on and so fourth.
Added 10 days ago by guest, 0 points
Nice one!!!! I think everyone is unique in their own way
Added 1 month ago by guest, 0 points
SOLUTION: This also suggests that a person isn't unique because there are other persons. Everyone is Unique having different kinds of uniqueness.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -2 points
maybe not being unique
Added 10 months ago by guest, -1 points
We are all the same in that sense but we have different qualities
Added 11 months ago by guest, 0 points
Its their personality
Added 1 year ago by guest, 1 point
If their the same :)
Added 1 year ago by guest, 0 points
Unique is simply unique. One can not be REALLY unique or a LITTLE unique :)
Added 1 year ago by guest, 1 point
Everyone has a unique thing about them, but not everyone has the same unique trait therefore this is not a paradox at all
Added 1 year ago by JohnDixon, 0 points
8.
Why do you park in a driveway and drive in a parkway
this is genius
9 points - added 2 years ago by colbydawg14 - 9 comments
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that's more of a riddle, not a paradox :/
Added 10 days ago by guest, 0 points
''Im gonna park in the driveway'' sounds better than '' im gonna park in the parkway''
Added 21 days ago by guest, 0 points
SOLUTION: Because you do.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -3 points
its because an idiot invented those words
Added 5 months ago by guest, 1 point
why do you cook bacon, and bake cookies?
Added 6 months ago by guest, 11 points
Why is cargo stuff carried on a ship, and a shipment something carried by car?
Added 7 months ago by guest, -3 points
What's a parkway?
Added 1 year ago by guest, 4 points
This is a George Carlinism
Added 1 year ago by guest, -2 points
nice
Added 2 years ago by guest, -3 points
9.
What happens if your wish for the Glodenfish is to have an infinite number of wishes?
5 points - added 1 year ago by guest - 6 comments
Comments:
You spelled "Goldenfish" wrong. What is a "Glodenfish"?
Added 1 month ago by guest, 1 point
SOLUTION: then you have an infinite number of wishes. What do you expect? Spaghetti on an iPad?
Added 4 months ago by guest, 10 points
to the second guy*
Added 4 months ago by guest, 0 points
To the first guy: don't bring up the laws of the universe because a "wish" just defies all laws of the universe :p
Added 4 months ago by guest, -2 points
Why want an "Infinite" number of wishes if neither you or the "Goldenfish" will exist forever. The laws of the universe wouldn't allow that. There's not an infinite amount of mass or energy to sustain the existance of you or the fish to exist forever. I think for that to work, you and the fish would have to be ghosts.
Added 7 months ago by guest, -2 points
Then you get an infinite number of wishes. Duh.
Here is some thing better. I WISH TO NOT HAVE THIS WISH COME TRUE! There.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 16 points
10.
Why do we work to enjoy things we don't get to enjoy because we're working to get these things that we'd like to enjoy?
A concept I find strange considering society governs itself with mandates and dated dcotrines.
4 points - added 6 months ago by guest - 2 comments
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that's not a paradox, just a sad fact of life.
Added 10 days ago by guest, 0 points
SOLUTION: yay!
Added 4 months ago by guest, 1 point
11.
"I will never tell the truth"
Is it paradox?
2 points - added 1 year ago by guest - 7 comments
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saying that is lying, so if the statement was a lie, than he would tell the truth, but if he was telling the truth, than it would be true that he would not tell the truth, making him lie, and it just goes on and on and on.
Added 10 days ago by guest, 0 points
You are saying you'll never say the truth. That means you are lying when saying that, which means that you are telling a lie, so you'll always tell the truth.
Added 4 months ago by guest, 0 points
SOLUTION: You are simply stating to us that you will never tell the truth. It has to be more like: "This sentence isn't the truth."
Added 4 months ago by guest, 1 point
This is not a paradox. The key word is never. This sentence is a lie. You will SOMETIMES tell the truth.
Added 10 months ago by guest, -4 points
Don't speak
Added 11 months ago by guest, 0 points
To make this a paradox we must assume that a person either always lies or always tells the truth. Otherwise they were just lying at the moment they said it.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 3 points
I never tell lies.*
Added 1 year ago by guest, -4 points
12.
Billy Joel: Piano Man
A pianist is playing Piano Man by Billy Joel,
On the first time he plays the song, he gets it perfect
On the second time, he gets one note wrong
The third time he gets two notes wrong
and so on, until he gets the entire song wrong
at what point is the song that the pianist playing no longer Piano Man by Billy Joel?
0 points - added 4 days ago by guest - 2 comments
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on the time you get all notes wrong
Added 44 minutes ago by guest, 0 points
Even if you play every note in the song wrong (which is actually pretty hard to do in most songs), it would still be the song as long as the performer identifies the song as that song. I often "try to play" a song and get most of the notes wrong, however, because I say it is that, it is.
Added 3 days ago by guest, 0 points
13.
If sometime to come a time machine is invented and they came back to the past, wouldn't the past have a time machine too.
This may prove that the time machine was never and will never be invented.
0 points - added 1 month ago by guest - 4 comments
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time travel doesn't work like that. think of time as an arrow. then, you travel outside of the spacetime continum, and land on a farther back portion of the arrow. it's kinda like that.
Added 10 days ago by guest, 1 point
This is actually a very clever paradox.
Added 1 month ago by guest, 1 point
Plain and simply, you would only be able to travel back to the time the time machine was first invented.
Added 1 month ago by guest, 2 points
what if by then we transfer to an alternate universe and then we will never know???
Added 1 month ago by guest, 0 points
14.
21. Quitting
If you quit quitting does that make you a quitter?
0 points - added 8 months ago by guest - 3 comments
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SOLUTION: You're a quitter even before you quit it.
Added 4 months ago by guest, 0 points
Yup. That's because if you quit quitting means quitting- you have done that earlier atleast once. So that makes u a quitter too.
Added 7 months ago by guest, 3 points
What would you be quitting before you quit quitting?
Added 7 months ago by guest, 2 points
15.
Here is a question. Why do we consider a paradox reason for impossibility.
Obviously something cant be two different things. I am not talking about paradoxes of negation. I am talking about circumstantial paradoxes. Such as the grandfather paradox. (I go back in time and shoot my grandfather). What about such a paradox makes time travel impossible. It seems rather contingent to say that time travel is possible given we dont kill our grandfather. That make my will somehow influence the effectiveness of my time machine in a very improper way.
Conversely, Lets cop to that notion. Let us say the grandfather paradox does not preclude the possibility of time travel. (notice even if time travel is practically impossible due to power constraints or some matter of fact, it can still be thought of as conceivable). Then what? If its possible for time travel to take place barring practical concerns, what happens if I shoot my grandfather?
Thoughts?
0 points - added 1 year ago by guest - 7 comments
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you wouldn't exist in the first place if you killed your grandfather, which means you didn't kill your grandfather since you don't exist.
Added 2 months ago by guest, 1 point
SOLUTION: The very fact that you we're born means that somewhere, sometime, somehow, you failed to kill your grandfather meaning all of us can't kill our grandfathers, or fathers, or even time travel.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -3 points
the key to the grandfather paradox is that if you shot him,you would create a parallel universe.
Added 5 months ago by guest, 0 points
One interpretation of time travel is that a new split is made in the multiverse, so you'd essentially be screwing over another copy of yourself.
You could also argue that because you are already born, therefore the repercussions of your actions (and inactions) are already being felt, and you therefore did not kill your grandfather.
Added 7 months ago by guest, 0 points
you may or may not exist depending n the time you shot your grandfather, because you can still time travel and shoot your grandfather after your dad was born. and if you shot your grandfather, he will get hurt or worse-die.
Added 7 months ago by guest, -1 points
tl;dr
Added 8 months ago by guest, -2 points
what?
Added 10 months ago by guest, -1 points
16.
The set of all sets that dont contain themselves
Because it is amazing.
0 points - added 1 year ago by guest - 2 comments
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This is a common Russelian Paradox which prompted the change in the definiton of a set, allowing it to contain itself because it applies to itself.
Added 1 month ago by guest, 0 points
Solution: There can always be at least a single set that contains a set of all sets that don't contain themselves.
Added 4 months ago by guest, 0 points
17.
If you make a new years resolution to not keep any new years resolutions would you keep it?
If you made a new years resolution to not keep any new resolutions would you be able to keep it because by not keeping your resolution you are keeping it.
0 points - added 1 year ago by guest - 4 comments
Comments:
this is like the Pinocchio paradox. if your resolution is to not keep your resolution then in fact you'd keep it. which would mean you didn't, and so on into adinfintinium
Added 3 months ago by guest, -1 points
SOLUTION: Starting when?? Time is the key to this puzzle.
Added 4 months ago by guest, -1 points
not a paradox it is an impossible thing to do unless you only have 1 new years resolutions
Added 5 months ago by guest, 1 point
Yes, you would, by not keeping any ones that you've made in the past, you be keeping the one you just made. Simple as that.
Added 7 months ago by guest, -1 points
18.
Existance is a paradox in itself
Following that law of physics that says every positive affect has a negative effect, existance itself breaks this law, because it is impossible for matter to not exist (you can break something into smaller pieces, but those pieces will always be, they cant be erased, only broken down). So existance has no negative form, no duality. therefor all life is a paradox. THOUGH this may be what a black hole is, Nature's way of balancing out existance with the 'non existance' made from the black whole, but if the black whole made non existance, than does non existance exist? Another paradox?
-1 point - added 2 days ago by guest -
19.
nothing is impossible
if nothing is impossible then the possibility of something being impossible doesnt exist, or is impossible
-1 point - added 1 month ago by guest -
20.
1=.99999...?
if 1/9=.11111...
then 9(1/9)=9(.11111...)
therefore 9/9=.99999...
finally 1=.99999....
i know you can round but taking the numbers as they are...this is a paradox
-1 point - added 7 months ago by guest - 3 comments
Comments:
Vi Hart from YouTube has a video about this
Added 25 days ago by guest, 0 points
The problem with your logic, is that decimals don't really exist. If it is an irrational number, it must be expressed as a radical number or fractions. 9 * (1/9) equals 9/9 which equals 1
Added 6 months ago by guest, -1 points
Nothing paradoxical here. 1 can also be expressed as 1/1 and it is still the same value. You actually proved the equation yourself, though another proof is: 1/3=.3333333. . . So .333333. . . X3=.9999999. . .
Added 6 months ago by guest, 0 points
21.
If a convict is already on death row, why do they still need to use sterilized needles to inject the convict?
Because of Human rights?
-1 point - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 7 comments
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SOLUTION: where's the paradox?
Added 4 months ago by guest, 0 points
This is the actual reason. If the prisoner is pardoned after the needle is inserted, but before the poison is given, the state is liable if it becomes infected.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 7 points
they use sterilized needles because when you buy a pack of medical needles they are pre sterilized.I personally don't know any hospitals that stock unsterilized needles.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 3 points
if there was somesort of misshap ie: the injector as i will call him/her was to suffer from a sudden stroke or other medical flaw they could fall and inject themself with the needle causing their demise , but i for one have to admit this would be irony at not its funniest but quite humerous.
Added 2 years ago by guest, 1 point
The needle goes blunt, and so would be more painful after it has been used.
Added 2 years ago by guest, -1 points
if you were the one giving the needle, would you rather it be clean or dirty?
i wouldnt want to have to handle a needle thats been used several times already. besides they go blunt/
Added 2 years ago by guest, -1 points
Someone's gotta make a buck here or there.... democracy at work - Lev
Added 2 years ago by guest, 1 point
22.
When an alarm goes off it switches itself on
Simple logic. We say alarms go "off" when the alarm switches itself on. Not really a paradox but still an interesting flaw in the English language.
-2 points - added 1 year ago by guest - 2 comments
Comments:
The alarm goes wow ow
Added 3 hours ago by guest, 0 points
SOLUTION: The state of the alarm holding itself to not work is the "ON" state.
Added 4 months ago by guest, 1 point
23.
In the movies, why do the Japanese Kamikaze pilots need to wear helmet when they crashed into the American ships?
-2 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 10 comments
Comments:
Added to the last comment, they needed to reach their targets in the first place, so the helmets prevented them from dying via gunfire.
Added 1 month ago by guest, 1 point
Kamikaze pilots wear fur helmets because the higher you go up the colder it is
Added 2 months ago by guest, 1 point
SOLUTION: Where's the paradox?
Added 4 months ago by guest, 1 point
because they have a less fashion sense?
Added 4 months ago by guest, 2 points
Simple, because if they get seriously injured on their head before they hit a boat, they can't steer the ship towards it, since, he is incapitated/unconscious/dead.
Added 6 months ago by guest, 3 points
safety first
Added 6 months ago by guest, 3 points
how about if they get shot down before hitting the ship, he wants to increase his chances of surviving the fall so he can go back and try again
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
several possible reasons.
1-they look more like pilots
2-ww2 cockpits got pretty damn cold
3-the pilots probably wanted them anyway for various reasons
Added 2 years ago by guest, -2 points
So that the brain-washing headphones would stay on during the entire flight...?
Added 2 years ago by guest, 3 points
So that the helmet would add more damage to the ships
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
24.
can a man die the pool of eternal life?
-3 points - added 1 year ago by guest - 3 comments
Comments:
Well... yes and no. In most myths, you must drink the water in the Fountain of Youth to attain eternal life, so by definiton, if the man drowned, he died via water in his lungs blocking the body's ability to breathe, and yes he would die. However, the man had ingested the water, so, in order for the man to live, the effects would have to take place posthumously (after death). If the effects are cut off after the death of the drinker then the man would indeed die, but if the drinker could be affected after death, he/she could indeed drown, then come back to life eternal.
Added 1 month ago by guest, 1 point
depend on how stupid the man was
Added 7 months ago by guest, 2 points
It depends. (a lot of things do) If the effects of eternal life are instant then no. But if they take effect over time yes. Then there is the variable of what's in the pool, how deep it is , can he swim,etc. So there are three different possibilities . 1. Yes 2. No 3. Unknown.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 2 points
25.
In order to get somewhere you must first travel half of that distance, but first you must go half of that distance, and even before that you must go half of that distance ,ect.
-5 points - added 3 years ago by guest - 7 comments
Comments:
Simple you are bigger than the halfway distance eventually and move more than it
Added 14 days ago by guest, 0 points
Actually, this is one of Zeno's Paradoxes. The solution is that, if you wanted to cross said distance in a finite time, you must cross an infinite amount of distances in a finite time which is considered impossible.
Added 1 month ago by guest, 2 points
You can get close enough...
Added 1 year ago by guest, -1 points
The reason this is not a paradox is because although you must go halfway, you can also go MORE than halfway in one movement.
Added 1 year ago by guest, -2 points
Infinate Series. Not a paradox, though a great math subject.
Added 1 year ago by guest, -2 points
well, the paradox is really more like this. pick a number, lets say 1, then divide by 2. so now we have .5. keep doing this until you have the lowest possible number. it isn't possibly because there is no number so small it can not be divided even lower.
Added 2 years ago by guest, -2 points
Using "0.999..." to show that the nines go on forever, I will now demonstrate why this is not a paradox.
n = 0.999...
10n = 9.999... Because you just move every number up one step; with infinite nines you'll still just have nines.
10n-n = 9.999... - 0.999... = 9 = 9n
9n / 9 = n => n = 9/9= 1
1 = n = 0.999...
Added 2 years ago by guest, 0 points
26.
Banks always charge interest on the amount of money that is overdrawn in your account.
Where do they think the money to pay the interest will come from? If you have the money, wouldn’t it be true to say that you would have used the cash already?
-5 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 2 comments
Comments:
I always like to use an anecdote in this circumstance: If we were both on a deserted island and you had the only money on the island, let's say a $5 bill, and I want to borrow this money, but you say you want interest to be paid on it. How do you pay interest when there is a finite amount of money to begin with? Obviously there is the possibility to print more money in our economy, but that devalues the currency if it's over-printed. The current debt crisis is due to banks constantly charging interest when technically it shouldn't exist, each year the economy gets worse because the banks are greedy. Eventually we'll hit a global collapse, because right now, even if the US sold every item in the entire country, they wouldn't come close to paying off their debt. Mark my words, there'll be a major overhaul of the banking system in the coming decades.
Added 7 months ago by guest, 1 point
Banks are stupid to begin with. The reason there is so much debt is because if you borrow money, you owe that amount back PLUS interest. There is always interest. They're always getting more money back than they loaned. Which is why the world is in an economic crisis.
Added 9 months ago by guest, 0 points
27.
Good cannot exist without evil and vice versa
One cannot be defined without the other e.g. you can only define up in comparison to down.
-6 points - added 2 years ago by guest - 9 comments
Comments:
For starters, good and bad is down to perspective. But, there's always neutrality - you don't have to be good or bad, just indifferent
Added 1 month ago by guest, 1 point
This paradox is just a debate of whether humans are the only ones who perceive good and evil. After all we did invent the words good and bad, and they are indeed defined by their opposites, yet, good and evil are just matters of opinion. Example: Hitler thought that he was cleansing the world while everyone else thought he was a maniac.
Added 1 month ago by guest, 0 points
As Shakespeare said, "There is no good or bad, thinking makes it so." It's just a comparison of opposites.
Added 2 months ago by guest, 0 points
That isn't a paradox but it is true. Cold can't exist without warm, dark can't exist with out light, even compassion and love can't exist with out selfishness and hate. Everything we are is based on hate. We shouldn't try to eliminate all the evil from the universe , because then there would be no good at all there would just be. Sometimes this balance changes , but with out change... Reality would't exist either. Oh, and I'm 12 and lonely... And mexican... still fun figuring this stuff out by my self.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 3 points
There must be an opposition in all things.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 4 points
Cold is the absence of heat. Darkness is the absence of light. Evil works the same way. Evil is only the absence of good.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 4 points
evil and good are made up terms... dont take it literaly anyway oxford diction states eveil is the oposite of what you find moral and vice versa
Added 2 years ago by guest, 0 points
evil is definitely not the absence of good. A simple example would be walking down the street and seeing a neighbor. You could A) do the nice thing and say hi, maybe a conversation, offer to then help mow his lawn. B) keep on walking (the absence of good) or C) pick up a rock and throw it at him . So doing B is in a way the absence of both. Evil is not absence of good. Is good the absence of evil then if you go by the previous statement?
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
pretty sure that evil is the absence, not the opposite, of good.
Added 2 years ago by guest, 1 point
28.
Can you dream within a dream?
And if so, would you be able to dream within that one? Could this lead to a never ending series of dreams within dreams?
-6 points - added 2 years ago by guest - 11 comments
Comments:
You ever seen those tv shows where they just keep waking up, dream after dream until finally in reality? Yeah, you can have a dream in a dream. I've had one. It was weird. I had a dream that I was dreaming about telling my friend I had a dream inside of a dream in which I told her about the dream inside the dream...
Added 3 days ago by guest, 0 points
I have! No lie it is weird feeling!
Added 1 month ago by guest, -1 points
Maybe that is just what life is?
Added 3 months ago by guest, 0 points
dream on
Added 6 months ago by guest, 2 points
A dream within a dream?
INCEPTION!
Added 1 year ago by guest, 14 points
I don't know about never ending series of dreams within dreams. But I have had up to 5 dreams within each other! usually they were all quite simple dreams!
Added 1 year ago by guest, 0 points
According to Edgar Allen POE, "Is all that we see or seem, but A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM"!
Added 2 years ago by guest, -2 points
PERCEPTION IS NOT REALITY..U CAN PERCEIVE JUST A SIMPLE ROPE AS SNAKE ESP AT NIGHT. BUT WITH TORCH LIGHT=REASON YOU CAN DECIDE WHAT IS REAL
Added 2 years ago by guest, 0 points
I've had dreams in my dreams
Added 2 years ago by guest, 3 points
Watch the new movie called "Inception"
Added 2 years ago by guest, 3 points
Perception is reality
Added 2 years ago by guest, 0 points
29.
The wise saying goes like this” If at first you don’t succeed, try again until you do.”
Obviously the guy who came up with this saying never tried Sky diving!
-6 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 4 comments
Comments:
Or unless you work in the bomb defusal team...
Added 1 year ago by guest, 4 points
so basically, the more times you fail, the more chances you have of getting it right. NOT
Added 1 year ago by guest, -2 points
Maybe he was a minesweeper... a very lucky one... but then he was also a sadist wanting people to suffer ? -Lev
Added 2 years ago by guest, -2 points
or tried to slam a revolving door...
Added 2 years ago by guest, -2 points
30.
Researches show that 1 out of 4 people suffer from a mental ailment of some sorts.
Think about this, you have 3 normal friends and you are the 4th person, so are you the crazy one?
-6 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 10 comments
Comments:
how can the researchers be sure they're not crazy as well? And if they were tested then who tested the one that tested the tested? It's an endless cycle of "who's crazy and who isn't?" because we all might or might not be crazy in our own way since we all have different perspectives and cannot know what another being thinks or feels completely.
Added 2 months ago by guest, 1 point
maybe you are all normal, and there are two crazy people somewhere else
Added 11 months ago by guest, 1 point
We're all the crazy ones. Is that bad?
Added 1 year ago by guest, 2 points
mental ailment is a umbrella term
Added 1 year ago by guest, -2 points
I think there's a theory going against that. I believe all statements of this sort to be false because you can take 4 people out of a crowd that you are CERTAIN have no mental disorder. Therefore, none of the four would prove this fact.
Added 1 year ago by guest, -1 points
2 out of 4 is the equivalent of 1 out of 2.
Added 2 years ago by guest, 0 points
You are picking 4 people, the researchers took a random sample.
Added 2 years ago by guest, -2 points
THIS IS NOT A PARADOX!
everybody is minorly insane but this phrase doesnt mean you are the crazy one;
and i qoute "Think about this, you have 3 normal friends and you are the 4th person, so are you the crazy one?" so called normal people can be insane to becuase being normal (boring) and nothing else is a mental disorder.
Added 2 years ago by guest, -2 points
Does that include insanity wards in hospitals... ??? -Lev
Added 2 years ago by guest, -1 points
I think the count is low - should be 2 out of 4
Added 2 years ago by guest, 0 points
31.
They say evolution adapt our body according to the environment.
Why does the catfish need over 27,000 taste buds??? What is so tasty at the bottom of the pond?
-7 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 2 comments
Comments:
i was gonna say the comment above me but he/she beat me to it , anyway this isnt a paradox
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
It's a sensory organ used to analyse its surroundings.
obviously....
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
32.
Scientists say that Aids comes from monkeys and is transmitted through the exchange of bodily fluid.
How did it spread from monkeys to man???? Going back to the Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution…..?!
-7 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 4 comments
Comments:
Some people dont care about race ;)
Added 2 years ago by guest, 1 point
wrong. AIDs was created at Portland down in britain. The myth comes from it being code-named Green Monkey Desease.
Added 2 years ago by guest, 1 point
It got to man through bodily fluid, yes. Evidence proves that very primitive humans would use monkey blood in ceremonial drinks and food. The virus AIDs evolved and became effective towards humans.
Added 2 years ago by guest, -4 points
Some things are better left unknown.
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
33.
Why does Superman, who can stop bullets with his chest, ducks when the gun is thrown at him?
-7 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 9 comments
Comments:
He can't die, but he can feel pain.
Added 4 months ago by guest, 3 points
Because while Superman is invulnerable to most everything, the actor portraying him is not.
Added 4 months ago by guest, 2 points
This isn't a paradox.
Added 1 year ago by guest, -3 points
Just because it's funny, DC Comics is a Tautology. "DC" stands for "Detective Comics", so why do people say comics twice?
Added 1 year ago by guest, 1 point
Superman wasn't created by Stan Lee and isn't even apart of the Marvel Universe. He was created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel who wrote for DC Comics...
Added 1 year ago by guest, -1 points
Human stimulus, to dodge things thrown at him????
Added 2 years ago by guest, -1 points
maybe he suffers from some sort of metallophobia as well as his debatable incoherent weakness to kryptonite ... i do have a love for marvel but but superman isnt stan lee's best work (though definetly a classic)
Added 2 years ago by guest, -3 points
Is the gun made of kryptonite ? -Lev
Added 2 years ago by guest, -1 points
because gun is bigger than bullet :P:P
Added 2 years ago by guest, -2 points
34.
The pope travel around in the bullet proof “Pope Mobile”.
Why does he need a bulletproof “Pope Mobile”? Blind faith…or 3 inches of bulletproof glass?
-9 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 2 comments
Comments:
this isnt a paradox
Added 2 years ago by guest, 3 points
haters are always around.
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
35.
Tarzan in the movies is supposed to live in the wild.
How come he never had a beard?
-9 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 8 comments
Comments:
Chuck Norris stole it.
Added 3 hours ago by guest, 0 points
This isn't a paradox.
Added 2 months ago by guest, -1 points
Because he's a fictional character...
Added 6 months ago by guest, 6 points
some people simply cant grow a beard
Added 11 months ago by guest, -2 points
tricotrillomania
Added 1 year ago by guest, -7 points
@person who was saying about the hair disorder if he did have that he wouldn't have hair on the top of his head duhhhh
Added 1 year ago by guest, -1 points
it's a movie?
Added 1 year ago by guest, -3 points
This is most likely Alopecia Areata which is an Auto Immune Disorder where you are alleric to your own hair follicles and are rejecting them. and this is NOT a paradox...
Added 2 years ago by guest, -4 points
36.
Statistics say there are billion of stars in the universe. Regardless of whether this is true or not, we believe this statistics in blind faith.
How come whenever we see a sign saying “WET PAINT” we still want to verify this?
-10 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 3 comments
Comments:
Because , unless you just saw it put up, you don't know how long the sighn has been there.
IT MAY BE DRY!!
Curiosity man.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 4 points
NOT a paradox
Added 1 year ago by guest, -3 points
we can SEE the billions of stars you tool!!!
Added 2 years ago by guest, 6 points
37.
Why soap bubbles are always clear regardless of the color of the soap?
-10 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 3 comments
Comments:
this aint paradox
Added 24 days ago by guest, 1 point
the bubble is so thin that the color of the soap is transparent in the bubble.
Added 2 months ago by guest, 0 points
Very thin film of soap renders it clear.
Added 2 years ago by guest, -1 points
38.
The logic of Catch-22
-11 points - added 3 years ago by guest - 2 comments
Comments:
The logic of a catch-22/paradox isn't a paradox.
Added 2 months ago by guest, 0 points
A catch-22 is a logical conundrum in which a person is trapped no matter what they do. So, its logic reasons of a so-called "paradox." The logic of paradox is a logical conundrum in which a person is trapped no matter what they do.
Added 2 months ago by guest, 0 points
39.
You have a Roasted Almond candy bar. Why does the wrapper say it may contain traces of almonds?
-11 points - added 3 years ago by guest - 4 comments
Comments:
Just think about it. These are paradoxes.
Added 1 month ago by guest, 2 points
This is starting to get irritating. THE MAJORITY OF THESE ARE NOT PARADOXES!
Added 1 month ago by guest, 2 points
umm.... artificial almonds... duh
Added 6 months ago by guest, 2 points
Legalities
Added 2 years ago by guest, 4 points
40.
How come glue in a tube does not stick on the tube itself?
-13 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 6 comments
Comments:
Black Magic
Added 1 minute ago by guest, 0 points
Best paradox yet.
Thank you Josephling67.
Added 1 month ago by guest, -2 points
It is not because of air it is because of the moisture in the air which causes glue to harden.
Added 1 month ago by guest, -1 points
Really?
Added 1 year ago by guest, 1 point
This is a horrible paradox. Its because the glue is not exposed to air in the tube. Therefore it does not harden or stick.
Added 2 years ago by guest, -2 points
Because it stays wet in the tube...
Added 2 years ago by guest, -5 points
41.
Isaac Newton came up with the concept of gravity when an apple fell on his head.
How come nobody ever ask what happened to the apple? If the apple was so important, why didn’t anyone tired to preserve that legendary apple?
-14 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 8 comments
Comments:
Because it became applesause.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 5 points
The comment below mine is AWESOME!! : D
Added 1 year ago by guest, 5 points
He was actually sitting in Woolsthorpe Manor looking out the window at the apple. He made up the story of it hitting him on the head later in life to seem more clever.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 7 points
the story is an urban legend.he did observe an apple falling from a friend's tree which sparked his train of thought which led him to research the concept of 'gravity'
Added 1 year ago by guest, 1 point
it's not true, besides, he did not come up with he concept. it was already there. he didn't even discover it, he just looked at it and created a way to analyze and understand it.
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
How did he suddenly realized that apple have fallen due to some force .... while he never had the same feeling for his **** in the commode ... hope it never elevates ???
Added 2 years ago by guest, -1 points
Not a paradoxe but a bad understanding of discovery process. In retrospect, it sounds like the Eureka should be immediate, but for a scientist experiencing a breakthrough, realization of the significance comes slowly and by packets. At a time the theory was formed, sure the apple was long gone. At the time collegial and societal recognition of the significance of the finding, much more so!
Added 2 years ago by guest, -5 points
he ate it...?
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
42.
They say the end of the world will come one day. Ok I can accept this.
Which day??? +0 GMT or EST time?
-16 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 5 comments
Comments:
to the person who said timey-wimey stuff... Doctor Who! I got you.
Added 7 months ago by guest, 3 points
To the person who said that the galaxy that's going to collide with ours in 2 million years: The galaxy you're referring to is the Andromeda galaxy and it's going to happen in the next 4.5-5 billion years, not 2 million. The collision would take place over hundreds of millions to a billion years, and unless we chance upon the unlikely event of colliding with another star in the Andromeda galaxy, the collision won't have a severe side effect, other than the very nice light shows and pictures you'll have of the changing skies (Imagine the significant changes in the night sky as you go through your immortal life.)
Added 7 months ago by guest, 0 points
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 7 points
I like the comment below , and I agree " time doesn't exist " but actually the galaxy right next to us is going to combine with ours, destroying the earth in the process. It will happen in 2 million years . I'm going to become immortal so I actually have to worry about that. Sucks for me... :/
Added 1 year ago by guest, 0 points
this isnt a paradox and time doesnt exist as we percieve it so the likely hood of a cosmos comforming to our misguided counter is very low
i dont know which day ... or why you would post this on a paradox thread dumbo :@
Added 2 years ago by guest, -1 points
43.
We always revere those who highly educated and are well informed especially researchers.
But if they are so smart, why do they still need to research?
-18 points - added 3 years ago by josephling67 - 4 comments
Comments:
because they're curious
Added 7 months ago by guest, 1 point
its theyre job , in this economy they need money for food , and the human organism needs energy from food so that our organs function properly.
Added 2 years ago by guest, 1 point
intelligent does not mean informed
Added 2 years ago by guest, 2 points
To become even more educated thus leading to more praise
Added 2 years ago by guest, -1 points
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