Your Paradox.

[reg42]

Can the almighty God create a rock which he cannot lift?

That's all I got at the moment.

yes he can create a rock that he cannot lift and will lift it anyway sorry had to answer that one,

its the same as "can God create a sandwich so big that not even he can finish, the answer is yes he can and will finish it anyway"

and about the paradox's just go play the soul Legacy of Kain games, they are chalk full of them

That doesn't make sense. You can't do something which you're incapable of doing. I can't explain it more than

 

[somethingprofound]

Pinnochio says 'my nose will now grow' ...

 

[FactualSquirrel]

Olber's Paradox

The universe in infinite, and there are countless stars in the sky.
This means that at every point in the sky relative to earth, whatever it's position, there is bound to be a star emitting light.
So how come we have night?

Spoiler

Well when he postulated the question is was unknown, there is interstellar dust and gravity wells that stop all light reaching Earth, but, not as much as would be required to block out enough light from each star as to dim the sky to only seeing dots, so the paradox does still stand to modern science as I remember it

I'm pretty sure it was explainable thanks to the universe expanding, or something like that.

 

[Communist partisan]

I'm not even sure on what a paradox is.

 

[Aurora219]

Pinnochio says 'my nose will now grow' ...

Artist drawing it gets confused and Pinnochio's nose explodes on his face, scarring him for life.

 

[BlueTomfoolery]

Schrödinger's cat [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat] walks into a bar, and doesn't.

It's my favorite joke.

 

[FranzTyphid]

I'm not even sure on what a paradox is.

Is something you do in the past that will fuck up the future like if you killed hitler then in the future you would have no reason for going back in time because he would already be dead.

 

[Nhilus]

English man: "the English always lie"

 

[megalomania]

Olbers Paradox

The universe in infinite, and there are countless stars in the sky.
This means that at every point in the sky relative to earth, whatever it's position, there is bound to be a star emitting light.
So how come we have night?

Spoiler

Well when he postulated the question is was unknown, there is interstellar dust and gravity wells that stop all light reaching Earth, but, not as much as would be required to block out enough light from each star as to dim the sky to only seeing dots, so the paradox does still stand to modern science as I remember it

There are a couple of possible holes in that argument, but it is still a good one! If you assume the mass in the universe is homogeneously distributed then it could be true however it has been established that the matter in the universe is clumped up into galaxies and such like with large areas of nothingness in between giving the potential for 'gaps' relative to Earth. Also it assumes that light moves linearly without being extinguished - however if a suitably massive body is in between the Earth and the light source nothing will be seen (i.e a black hole! Which I just realised you mentioned) A final, more subjective argument is that we may simply not be able to observe all of the stars that are lighting up the sky because the amount of light from a spherical emitter arriving at a given point decreases with the square of the distance between the source and the observer and if this drops below our detection limits (of eye or telescope) we simply wont observe the star!

Fun one though! I actually had to think about this

 

[Exocet]

If a crocodile steals a child and promises its return if the father can correctly guess what the crocodile will do, how should the crocodile respond in the case that the father guesses that the child will not be returned?

It is opposite day today.

[It's gone]

I love that sophisme!
I have it in my paradox book which is not 1 meter away from me.


OT:
Suppose every man in a village is well shaven everyday.
A barber claims he shaves every man in the village who doesn't shave himself.
Question:who shaves the barber?

It may not seem like a paradox at first,but think about it a bit and imagine the possibilities.

 

[DragonChi]

If you get this message, call me; if you don't, then don't worry about it.

 

[riskroWe]

No paradox is unsolvable. Except the old "This statement is false." That's a one dimensional self-contradiction. Classic.

I go back in time and murder my grandfather. Because he doesn't exist I am never born, so I can't go back in time to kill him, which means he will survive and I will be born. And repeat.

You fool! You already killed him how can he survive? All you've done is altered the past by replacing your grandfather with a future version of yourself, who still exists in that altered timeline. What you've essentially done is created a divergent universe.
So now there are two timelines: One where your grandfather is born and you are eventually born, and you gain access to a time machine, then disappear. And another timeline where you spontaneously appear sometime before your father was born and you murder the man who would have otherwise become your grandfather. There's no paradox. (Beyond the violation of the first law of thermodynamics. Destroying matter in one universe and creating it in another, tsk tsk.)

The universe in infinite, and there are countless stars in the sky.
This means that at every point in the sky relative to earth, whatever it's position, there is bound to be a star emitting light.
So how come we have night?

1. Light bends with gravitational force. Just because a star exists doesn't mean its light will reach us.
2. Skyglow. The bright stars obscure the dim stars. Same reason we can't see them during the day.
3. Obstacles: Planets, nebulas, black holes, CLOUDS!

No need to bring up an expanding universe just yet...

Can the almighty God create a rock which he cannot lift?

God's will is what determines reality. If he wanted it to be unliftable, it would be. If he wanted to be able to lift it, he could. God controls the very nature of the universe, a rock once unliftable doesn't have to remain unliftable.
So the short answer is yes.

 

[Goes]

Nothing is ever completely and always true.

 

[Tomster595]

This statement is a lie.

 

[Redingold]

Olbers Paradox

The universe in infinite, and there are countless stars in the sky.
This means that at every point in the sky relative to earth, whatever it's position, there is bound to be a star emitting light.
So how come we have night?

Spoiler

Well when he postulated the question is was unknown, there is interstellar dust and gravity wells that stop all light reaching Earth, but, not as much as would be required to block out enough light from each star as to dim the sky to only seeing dots, so the paradox does still stand to modern science as I remember it

No, your logic is faulty. Eventually, any absorbing matter would heat up until it glowed. The correct answer is that the stars were not always shining, so their light has not reached us yet.

 

[ZeLunarian]

Can the almighty God create a rock which he cannot lift?

That's all I got at the moment.

yes he can create a rock that he cannot lift and will lift it anyway sorry had to answer that one,

its the same as "can God create a sandwich so big that not even he can finish, the answer is yes he can and will finish it anyway"

Wow, god actually sounds badass there

 

[HitsWithStyxx]

Okay, say that there are an infinite number of parallel universes, and in these universes every single possible configuration for existence occurs an infinite number of times over, including a universe to which there are no parallel existences.

[EDIT] I know there is a topic which discusses this, and I understand the logic is flawed, I just thought it was an interesting concept and paradox.

 

[muckinscavitch]

Not exactly a paradox, but a neat idea:

If you have a Ship, and you replace one bolt, you still have the same ship (because you certainly don't have a new ship).
Now, if you slowly replace every piece as such, and keep all the old ones, you would have the same ship, and a pile of pieces. Now, you take the pieces and put them together, you now have two of the same ship.

 

[Gotham Soul]

Fine. Here's a simple one. Time paradox.

I go back in time and kill myself. Therefore my future self ceases to exist. But if my future self ceases to exist to dying in the past, how does my future self go back in time to kill myself in the past in the first place?

 

[Redingold]

Not exactly a paradox, but a neat idea:

If you have a Ship, and you replace one bolt, you still have the same ship (because you certainly don't have a new ship).
Now, if you slowly replace every piece as such, and keep all the old ones, you would have the same ship, and a pile of pieces. Now, you take the pieces and put them together, you now have two of the same ship.

So you basically disassemble a ship and rebuild it, then build another one.