Paradoxes: temporal, logical and otherwise.

[XJ-0461]

I like the one from the end of the last series of Doctor Who.

The Doctor is trapped in the Pandorica, but is freed by Rory.
Rory got the information to free the Doctor from a time travelling Doctor that went backwards in time after he was freed from the Pandorica.
But he couldn't do this unless he was freed from the Pandorica.
Because of this, he has to go back in time in order to make sure he's freed by Rory.
As such, the information never really "starts" anywhere.

I find it slightly confusing, but highly enjoyable.

 

[Kjakings]

I like the one from the end of the last series of Doctor Who.

The Doctor is trapped in the Pandorica, but is freed by Rory.
Rory got the information to free the Doctor from a time travelling Doctor that went backwards in time after he was freed from the Pandorica.
But he couldn't do this unless he was freed from the Pandorica.
Because of this, he has to go back in time in order to make sure he's freed by Rory.
As such, the information never really "starts" anywhere.

I find it slightly confusing, but highly enjoyable.

The last couple of episodes with Tennant proved that time obeys the Doctor, not the other way around. Time Lord.

 

[Zaverexus]

There is one barber in a town who cuts the hair of everyone who does not cut their own hair. Who cuts the barber's hair?

Himself, you never said that he only cuts everyone else's hair.

That's the paradox. The barber cuts the hair of everyone who does not cut their own hair. So therefor if someone cuts their own hair he does not cut it. So if he cuts his own hair he can't cut his hair... and on and on

or his hair is cut by a guy who is not a barber that cuts his friends hair and vice-versa thus eliminating all three characters from the equation.

ah, but the barber cuts the hair of EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT CUT THEIR OWN HAIR. So if a friend cut his hair he would not be cutting his own hair and therefor he would have to cut his own hair... and so on

 

[Carboncrown]

I think OP's pic is overthinking, the rope is sraight. I doesn't become any longer, just because it looks that way if you look into the portal. It's space being bent, not the rope.

Turtles all the way down.

Or - the Unmoved Mover. Aristotle's philosophy on how the world was set into motion. Goes like this:

1.There exists movement in the world.
2.Things that move were set into motion by something else.
3.If everything that moves were caused to move by something else, there would be an infinite chain of causes. This can't happen.
4.Thus, there must have been something that caused the first movement.
5.From 3, this first cause cannot itself have been moved.
6.From 4, there must be an unmoved mover.

The question is - can there be?

ah good old prime mover, always nice to give the religous folk a fighting chance

*cough*Hawking*cough*

dude im athiest, but its no fun rallying against something if they have no argument at all xD

I got that, just couldn't help my self ;D

 

[FalloutJack]

Truth is, I actually used this forum as a paradox. I made a topic whose point was to be Off-Topic. I did this to be Off-Topic in the Off-Topic forum. Ergo and logically, I was somehow On-Topic and not at the same time, which is thoroughly impossible, because one of these must be wrong and it can't.

 

[Czargent Sane]

time LINE? *sigh* time does not go in lines. it goes in circles. that is why clocks are ROUND

lolwut.

I don't understand your logic. Please elaborate.

Just to clear things up, you're basing the theoretical physical shape of time based on a clock? What's the relation? And if we accept the whole time as a circle hypothesis, you're saying that if I wait long enough I will eventually end up at the exact same point I started waiting? Essentially having negated the entire time I have waited. So, I would be eternally young in that case.
Clocks, I presume, are only in circles because it makes it easier and less of a manufacturing mindfuck. If you made it in a straight line, you'd have to construct that line to last until eternity, and then sell it. Circles reset, I think that's the only reason to design them that way.

OT: My favorite has already been ninja'd.

"The following statement is true.
The previous statement is false."

my statement was serious, and thats why it made sense.

 

[Czargent Sane]

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[subject_87]

I may very well have been ninja'd, but I don't feel like reading all the entries:

Anyway, if a married person goes back in time a few hundred years and remarries, does that constitute polygamy, even though their other spouse won't be born for years?

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Fry went back in time and fucked his grandmother, thus becoming his own grandfather. I've just won this thread. You may now shower me in praise and tacos.

 

[lithiumvocals]

It's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff

"Yeah, that thought got away from me..."
You win. Just so much. That episode scares the fuck outta me.

EDIT: The premise of that entire conversation confuses me.

 

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

my statement was serious, and thats why it made sense.

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Sarcasm >.>

I only assumed it wasn't 'cause it wasn't funny at all.

[small]Or maybe I just didn't get it?[/small]

 

[Czargent Sane]

my statement was serious, and thats why it made sense.

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Sarcasm >.>

I only assumed it wasn't 'cause it wasn't funny at all.

[small]Or maybe I just didn't get it?[/small]

assuming jokes you dont like are serious statements is not a good policy.