Your favorite paradoxes

[EllaAlle]

I am one of those people who think in paradoxes, I love them. Here are just a few of my favorites:
"I know that I know nothing at all."
"It is opposite day today."
"There's always an exception to the rule, except to the exception of the rule ? which is, in of itself, an accepted exception of the rule."
"I'm lying."
"the first number not nameable in under ten words"

 

[Soulgaunt]

.....My brain just exploded.....again.

 

[Gerazzi]

"the only thing to fear is fear itself."
Yes my friends, this means that being afraid creates an infinite chain of fear.

 

[Bassman_2]

I've just finished counting to infinity.

 

[NeutralDrow]

My favorite paradox is the type that backhands mages in the World of Darkness, but I digress.

I guess I like Zeno's Paradox, but mostly because it's just so fun to point at it and laugh.

I am one of those people who think in paradoxes, I love them. Here are just a few of my favorites:
"I know that I know nothing at all."

Good ol' Socrates!

"It is opposite day today."

No it isn't!

"There's always an exception to the rule, except to the exception of the rule ? which is, in of itself, an accepted exception of the rule."

...is that a paradox, or just wordplay?

"I'm lying."

Needs context for it to be a paradox. It makes perfect sense just like that.

"the first number not nameable in under ten words"

...there are none, right?

 

[Xero Scythe]

The grandfather paradox:

if i go back in time, and somehow, kill my grandfather, is it possible? if i kill him, i do not exist yet so i cannot have killed him.

oh yeah, that new ... "Sarah" whatever movie.

B: I'm a guy! sometimes we say things we don't mean!
G: How do i know you don't mean what you're saying right now?

because, dear sarah, that would be a paradox. if he is lying at that moment like you think he is, then the above-mentioned statement is false. however, if the afore-mentioned statement is false, then it means guys never lie. but this statement contradicts itself because he the statement is false, and therefore it is a lie.

I too, love paradoxes.

 

[NotHisRealName]

Paradox Symposium Whirl. That's my favourite.

With a YouTube to demonstrate...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOLn3ccjjA

 

[Maze1125]

"I know that I know nothing at all."
"It is opposite day today."
"There's always an exception to the rule, except to the exception of the rule ? which is, in of itself, an accepted exception of the rule."

These aren't really paradoxes as they can easily be resolved by simply taking them to be false.

"The first number not nameable in under ten words."
Or
"The first uninteresting number."
Are quite nice, but they can be resolved too, by concluding that every number can be named in under ten words and that every number is in some way interesting.

In truth, the best paradoxes tend to be resolvable and so, unfortunately, aren't really paradoxes.
Most real paradoxes are something interesting at first but with no real merit, such as "This statement is false."

 

[ddq5]

Every one on this page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes] that I haven't read yet.

 

[oppp7]

The grandfather paradox:

if i go back in time, and somehow, kill my grandfather, is it possible? if i kill him, i do not exist yet so i cannot have killed him.

But it depends on how time works. It could just alter the timeline you're in, but the timeline you left would remain unchanged.

 

[Timotei]

Spoiler: Do you dare divide?

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Time travel is a paradoxical mindfuck unless you believe in the alternate universes theory.

I'm bored so everyone, guess what?

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man fuer UFOs aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn's so waer
Dabei war'n da am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons

 

[NeutralDrow]

Spoiler: Do you dare divide?

...I'm stealing that image for future use. I hope you don't mind.

 

[A Weary Exile]

I prefer the visual paradox.

Picture 1 [http://www.planetperplex.com/img/schuster_fork.gif]
Picture 2 [http://www.visualparadox.com/images/no-linking-allowed-main/opticalillusion.jpg]
Picture 3 [http://bite-dose.com/wp-content/uploads/optical_illusions.jpg]

 

[G1eet]

Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

 

[AkJay]

To be free, we must have rules and laws.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

I prefer the visual paradox.

Picture 1 [http://www.planetperplex.com/img/schuster_fork.gif]
Picture 2 [http://www.visualparadox.com/images/no-linking-allowed-main/opticalillusion.jpg]
Picture 3 [http://bite-dose.com/wp-content/uploads/optical_illusions.jpg]

Me too.

 

[feather240]

http://nothere.rit.edu/art/rmv/66

Loved this.