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I know that probably isnt the right use of that apostrophe but meh.

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I'm trying to find word paradoxs' to confudle people with. The only one I've come across is "the liars paradox" which goes like this,


I'm lying, even now.


I've gotten two confused looks from two of my stupider friends but I need better ones to get the smarter ones so thats where you guys n' gals come in. Can you think of any others you've heard or made up?


*Edit* Actually, any paradox you can think of would be sound, I don't know why but I love thinking about them too much.
 
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Personally I'm a temporal (time travel) paradox kinda guy, so here goes:

You travel backwards through time, approximately two generations and you kill your grandmother.

This prevents the birth of your mother and concordantly your birth also.

If you were never born, then how could you have killed your grandmother?

Also the creation paradox:

You travel back in time and visit Albert Einstein. You tell him all about his theories and the breakthrough he made with E=MC2.

Eventually he tells the world what he has discovered, although he never actually developed the theory himself.

So, who infact discovered E=MC2?

Hehe...
 
JCBeastie said:
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Personally I'm a temporal (time travel) paradox kinda guy, so here goes:

You travel backwards through time, approximately two generations and you kill your grandmother.

This prevents the birth of your mother and concordantly your birth also.

If you were never born, then how could you have killed your grandmother?

Also the creation paradox:

You travel back in time and visit Albert Einstein. You tell him all about his theories and the breakthrough he made with E=MC2.

Eventually he tells the world what he has discovered, although he never actually developed the theory himself.

So, who infact discovered E=MC2?

Hehe...
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Woah! That Einstein one is ace.
 
Imagine this

Due to placing a metal pop corn container in a microwave (after removing the do not microwave lable) and being in close proximity to a supernova you are flung back in time to 1947 where you kill your grandfather and knock up your grandmother fathering your own father!!!!

A tricky one that sounds like it's out of a mad scificomtoon ;)
 
Steve said:
Imagine this

Due to placing a metal pop corn container in a microwave (after removing the do not microwave lable) and being in close proximity to a supernova you are flung back in time to 1947 where you kill your grandfather and knock up your grandmother fathering your own father!!!!

A tricky one that sounds like it's out of a mad scificomtoon ;)
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That's not a paradox? Infact the equation actually resolves itself nicely...

To be a paradox it has to be contradictary.
 
Agreed that Albert Einstein one is great! Me and Gordy R are sad like that and like to ponder on quantum physics and space, things like that every now and then. We have discussed the paradox about killing parents via time travel but had never thought about the Albert Einstein one???? The mind boggles! :confused:
 
JCBeastie said:
That's not a paradox? Infact the equation actually resolves itself nicely...

To be a paradox it has to be contradictary.
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But at the beginning You didn't exist to father your father so he would never be born so not fathering you so you couldn't go back in time and father him so as to father you....

...I think :p
 
Steve said:
But at the beginning You didn't exist to father your father so he would never be born so not fathering you so you couldn't go back in time and father him so as to father you....

...I think :p
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Yes you did, or the the whole thing doesn't work. You said you went back in time and killed your grandfather (which would have been a paradox as I already mentioned earlier), but then you became your own grandfather which resolves the paradox and makes everything OK again.

Strangely enough, logically speaking there's nothing to prevent you from fathering your parent...
 
JCBeastie said:
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the explanation is correct, but you can't just use it whenever you like to leave lett'rs out of w'rds! ! ! ! ! better than the usage in the OP though i guess. dirtydog is right, it is "paradoxes"
 
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the explanation is correct, but you can't just use it whenever you like to leave lett'rs out of w'rds! ! ! ! ! better than the usage in the OP though i guess. dirtydog is right, it is "paradoxes"
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:( sorry


Anyway, these are brilliant.

The one about fathering your parents is a little dodgy but if you get it in your mind that you haven't been born so technically your not "in the family yet" then your fine.

Having said that its still rather a nasty concept.
 
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