The greatest most common paradoxes in the world

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  1. Votorx Still egotistic... Valued Senior Member

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    Paradox #1: "It's opposite day."

    I just love that one

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  3. Votorx Still egotistic... Valued Senior Member

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    I lie when I say "I'm a hypocrite".
     
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  5. chunkylover58 Make it a ... CHEEEESEburger Registered Senior Member

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    Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
     
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  7. %BlueSoulRobot% Copyright! Copyright!! Registered Senior Member

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    If God is omnipotent, can he microwave a burrito so hot that even he himself cannot eat it?!

    Dun dun duuun
     
  8. AvatarOfWoe Registered Senior Member

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    Can cvatch 22 be considered a paradox if it can, Catch 22 is the greatest paradox.
     
  9. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    I don't get this. Perhaps you aren't a hypocrite, which would make your statement "I'm a hypocrite" a lie.
     
  10. Votorx Still egotistic... Valued Senior Member

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    Exactly, so what don't u understand? Do u know what a hypocrite is?
     
  11. Votorx Still egotistic... Valued Senior Member

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    I lie when I say "Im a hypocrite". What that means is, the statement "I'm a hypocrite" is false, but by saying im hypocrite without actually being one makes me a hypocrite, but how is this possible if im lying?
     
  12. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    I think a hypocrite is someone who pretends to have moral virtue, but doesn't. Being a hypocrite doesn't mean that everything you say is a lie.

    You could modify it to be "I lie when I say that I always lie" but that still leaves you with the same problem. Perhaps you don't always lie, but you lied when you made the statement 'I always lie.'
     
  13. X-Ide Registered Member

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    My personal favorite is: "This Statement is a Lie."
    It goes along with the hypocrite statement, but is much much simpler.

    X-Ide
     
  14. Circe Registered Senior Member

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    Paradox arises when we reach limits of our undrstanding. It also demonstrates how limited language is when it comes to describing reality.


    Like the empty sky it has no boundaries,
    Yet it is right in this place, ever profound and clear.
    When you seek to know it, you cannot see it.
    You cannot take hold of it,
    But you cannot lose it.
    In not being able to get it, you get it.
    When you are silent, it speaks;
    When you speak, it is silent.
    The great gate is wide open to bestow alms,
    And no crowd is blocking the way.

    Cheng Tao Ko
     
  15. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    How about a set of all sets that do not contain themselves as subsets?
     
  16. Votorx Still egotistic... Valued Senior Member

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    Nasor, I believe a hypocrite is someone who pretends they are something they're not. Now apply that to my paradox.
     
  17. chunkylover58 Make it a ... CHEEEESEburger Registered Senior Member

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    hypocrite

    \Hyp"o*crite\, n. [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. ? one who plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See Hypocrisy.] One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.

    n : a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold [syn: dissembler, phony, phoney]
     
  18. tablariddim forexU2 Valued Senior Member

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    It ain't half hot...
    Can't live with them, can't live without them...
    MacDonald's Happy Meal...
    War against Terror...
     
  19. patty-rick Registered Senior Member

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    im not sure but wouldn't they be considered oxymoronic rather than paradoxes???
     
  20. alain du hast mich Registered Senior Member

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    another oxymoron, military intelligence

    a war against terror would be possible, if people were armed with food for the poor, instead of guns

    chunky lover has seen too much simspons (too much simpsons is an oxymoron tho)
     
  21. tablariddim forexU2 Valued Senior Member

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    Hmm... hard to define... maybe they're oxymoronic paradoxes?

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  22. Votorx Still egotistic... Valued Senior Member

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    Ahh i love oxymorons, but yes that not really a paradox...Here's a good paradox though...

    Where there is something there is nothing.
     
  23. water the sea Registered Senior Member

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    "I have a missing tooth."

    How on earth can you HAVE sonmething that is missing?!
     

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