This statement is false. (paradox thread)

post your fave paradoxes

Two Doctors walked into a bar, and the bartender saidā€¦ :wink:

I think i understandā€¦

literal metal bar?

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?

then youā€™re probably playing WoW.

Lol just got off of wow to see that.
My fave is the haystack paradox.
If you have straw and stack the straw one strand at a time when does it become a stack?

ummmmā€¦ dunno

ā€œThis statement is false.ā€ hahaha, thatā€™s a good one.

I think my favorite would probably be the omnipotence paradox, it goes something like this:

Can an omnipotent being create a rock too heavy for itself to lift?

If yes, the being is not truly omnipotent.
If no, the being is not truly omnipotent.

A dyslexic guy walks into a bra.

he he

K strauss is a yoyoer ::slight_smile:

Love I6ifyā€™s paradox.
People should at least google paradox though lol
Also for people who donā€™t understand mine.
One can assume that if you take away one straw of hay from a stack you still have a stack.
And if you add one straw to one straw you donā€™t have a stack.
So if you continuously take away from a stack youā€™ll get down to 2 straws which means it is and isnā€™t a stack.

By definition, this is impossible. For something to be defined as ā€˜unstoppableā€™, nothing must be able to stop it. Therefore, there cannot be an immovable object.

Weā€™re talking about paradoxes, here. This is the entire point of them.

every thing I say is a lieā€¦

Ok, so there is a town. In this town, there is one barber, and one barber only. This barber shaves people with a straight razor; however, he only shaves people who DONā€™T shave themselves, and refuses to shave people who DO shave themselves. Does he shave himself?

Two of my favorite are Curryā€™s Paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curryā€™s_paradox) and Russelā€™s Paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russellā€™s_paradox) because they are mathematically amusing to think about.

Another really interesting one is the Sorites Paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox)

If you canā€™t tell, I really enjoy logic.

I love Catch-22ā€™s more.

There is no absolute truth.

Waitā€¦

Isnā€™t this more of a riddle than a paradox?

[quote=wikipedia]A paradox is a seemingly true statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which seems to defy logic or intuition.
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[quote=wikipedia]A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.
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