Penny for Your Thoughts discussion

Paradox. It can be as complex as to take up an entire episode (or two) of Star Trek, or as simple as the Pinnochio Paradox: "If Pinnochio were to say 'my nose will now grow,' then what would happen?" Paradoxes hurt your head, as they're meant to.


The below is true.


The above is false.

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to here it, does it make a sound?

Shaystar wrote: "If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to here it, does it make a sound?"
I'd like to think so.

Shaystar wrote: "What came first, the chicken or the egg?"

Neither. A circle has no beginning.

I think it does, but that's why it's a paradox. Like a rubix cube!

I hate those...

Me too! But it's a real-life example of a paradox, right?

Magdalena (Maggie or Magtail) wrote: "Shaystar wrote: "What came first, the chicken or the egg?"

Neither. A circle has no beginning."

I agree

Shaystar wrote: "If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to here it, does it make a sound?"

Yes.

This statement is false.

Zeno's paradox:
In order to walk to the door, you must walk half way. In order to read halfway, you must walk halfway of the halfway. In order to reach halfway of the halfway, you must walk halfway of the halfway of the halfway. That continues, so basically you have to walk for infinity before you can reach the door.

Magdalena (Maggie or Magtail) wrote: "Paradox. It can be as complex as to take up an entire episode (or two) of Star Trek, or as simple as the Pinnochio Paradox: "If Pinnochio were to say 'my nose will now grow,' then what would happen..."

But..how is that possible? *brain implodes*

Shaystar wrote: "If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to here it, does it make a sound?"

Yes. Sound is little more than vibrations (that is, until they reach the ear,) and the fallen tree would still make vibrations even if no one was around to hear them.

I have one:

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Nothing. One hand clapping is nonexistent. To clap, according to the dictionary, is to strike the palms of one's hands together. Meaning, you need two palms to clap. Meaning, one hand clapping cannot exist. And also you can't clap any other part of your body.

:)

Iviana (The Sign Painter!) wrote: "Nothing. One hand clapping is nonexistent. To clap, according to the dictionary, is to strike the palms of one's hands together. Meaning, you need two palms to clap. Meaning, one hand clapping cann..."

I found an article once that read "One-Armed Man Applauds Helpful Teens"

Is applaud the same as clap or are they different?

The same, I believe. "Applauding" someone is sort of like "lauding" someone--giving them praise, whereas "clapping" could mean something totally different, like 'clapping someone on the back.' "Applaud" can also be figurative, but it's still funny.

How is it funny?

I thought we were supposed to stick to the discussion of paradoxes...? :(

I can't think of any

If spiders are blind, why do they have eight eyes?

That's not really a paradox.

Why not? The point of eyes is that they help us see.

They evolved differently. Some fish have eyes, but they can't see either.

Good point.

Why do the Flinstones celebrate Christmas if they lived a thousand years before Christ?

How is Tarzan beardless if he doesn't have any razors or doesn't know how to shave?

They're cartoons. They're not meant to be realistic.

Tarzan's a book.

It's both. Either way, it's fiction.

But the chicken had to come from and egg, Thera!

Where did the first chicken come from? Its egg. Where did that egg come from?

Don't bring in religion. -_- Some people are Atheist, and supporting "fact" with religion no longer makes it a "fact".

-_- If anything, the chicken was a mutation from some dinosaur that eventually grew into the wild chicken which we domesticated and overfed in some sadistic way. That chicken, hatched from an egg.

From cells that multiplied. From here we start going into theories on how the frik anything actually came about, and nothing is certain. But the /chicken/ came from an /egg/.

Peace miladies!
Life can be traced to billions of years ago
1. Possibly a dino evolved into a chicken (the first chicken)
2. Or a dino egg evolved into a new egg, from which the first chicken came
3. Maybe both the above are false. Chickens still exist..which means that there must have been a hen AND a cock at the beginning.

Maybe the chicken evolved from the said archeopteryx.

Er... I dont think we should involve religion. Different people have coflicting religious views.

Lets leave the chicken riddle to the Sciences.

I agree with Thera. God made everything, including chickens.

That's your opinion, Larissa.

Some of us don't believe that there's a god. Some of us are Atheistic.

Iviana (The Sign Painter!) wrote: "Some of us don't believe that there's a god. Some of us are Atheistic."

Buddhist, right? Or am I thinking of someone else?

The paradoxatuar is a mythical being that can only exist to those who don't believe in it and those who believe in it don't know it exists. If you found one in a clearing, what would happen?

Magdalena (Maggie or Magtail) wrote: "Iviana (The Sign Painter!) wrote: "Some of us don't believe that there's a god. Some of us are Atheistic."

Buddhist, right? Or am I thinking of someone else?"

Yes, I'm Buddhist. But I also consider myself an Atheist.

Rudyards wrote: "The paradoxatuar is a mythical being that can only exist to those who don't believe in it and those who believe in it don't know it exists. If you found one in a clearing, what would happen?"

our existence would be destroyed Non-believers would be like, "Oh shit, it exists" and Believers would be like, "HAHAHA. WE'RE NOT INSANE."

But then their positions would switch, and both would forget.

And it would keep switching. That's the outcome.

OH GOD WHY DID I ASK! MY BRAIN JUST IMPLODED.

GLEPF.

LOL YOU AI.