Your favorite paradoxes

[Beowulf DW]

"The teacher teaches the student who teaches the teacher."

 

[Valate_v1legacy]

That Fry is his own grandpa. I always thought that was funny.

 

[cobra_ky]

Russell's paradox. Suck on that, Frege!

 

[A random person]

Old, but a classic: The following statement is a lie. The previous statement is true.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

This statement is a lie. That one's funny, and I believe it's what you meant when you wrote " I'm lying".

 

[Kuchinawa212]

My personal favorite is the one in Star Trek TNG: All good things. That crafty Captain Picard

 

[TheDoctor455]

War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.

 

[PuppetMaster]

I like it when people say "unthaw" with a perfectly straight face

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

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]

Now we need something from M.C. Escher and everything will be complete.

 

[Ashtovo]

Pinochio saying "my nose will now grow"

 

[Icehearted]

Deceased. This word seems to imply that one is no longer ceased, and yet it's used to refer to the dead. Not so paradoxical I guess as nonsensical.

 

[bcponpcp27]

Is a non self descriptive word (forget the actual word) non self descriptive.....?

Seriously though, read Godel Escher Bach if your into that sort of thing. The entire book goes about explaining what he calls "strange loops," in extremely complected and amazing ways. It touches on so many subjects, and always manages to swing it back into a paradox.

One example, for a Djinni to grant a wish, it has to confer with it's GOD.

GOD stands for GOD over Djinni.

That Djinni's GOD is the GOD over Djinni over Djinni.

In other words, the accronym appears in itself, forming an unending chain of hierarchy within the djinni community. It just keeps going and going and going.

 

[lozfoe444]

Oh Happy Day!

 

[Shoes]

"The Truth is a Lie"

"Yes means No"

"Women who are pregnant or may become pregnant shouldn't take this"
Technically cant all women become pregnant?


True Story:
One time in 7th Grade my class was forced to be assertive, not sure if thats a Paradox as much as it is an Oxy moron but I share it none the less.

War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.

Ignorance is strength

 

[muckinscavitch]

I like it when people say "unthaw" with a perfectly straight face

yeah, others to add to that list

Pre-heat an oven; how do you heat it up before heating it up?

and

Hot water heater; why are you heating water that is already hot?!?

Note: Maybe by unthaw they mean freeze

 

[Baby Eater]

if you die and wait for game over to switch to time paradox

 

[Crabturtleking]

Pinochio saying "my nose will now grow"

If that would have happened, the universe would of just turned him into a real boy to break off the curse, and consequently the paradox, destroying most of the plot it had. Genius.

The Barber paradox is an interesting one, Along with the Crocodile Dilemma

 

[hagaya]

The Rule 34 Paradox. I'm not sure if going into detail breaks the rules, so better safe than sorry. That one is varied into a variety of subjects, but I like the way it's put in that particular instance.

It's an edit of the "do I exist because I think, or do I think because I exist" paradox.

 

[Sephiwind]

I'm not sure if this techniqly counts as a paradox but I all ways thought it was very contradictive.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late.

 

[AlexFromOmaha]

In other words, the accronym appears in itself, forming an unending chain of hierarchy within the djinni community. It just keeps going and going and going.

Recursive acronyms aren't paradoxical or rare. For example, GNU means GNU's Not Unix. Bonus points if you can figure out how Microsoft's new search engine got its name.

EDIT: Typo fixed!