Post a Paradox...

a raven says, "all ravens are liars"

if truth doesn't exist then the statment, "truth doesn't exist" is a truth therefore proving itself incorrect.

ohh and just incase your wondering a paradox means an infinite not an oppistie. it means to repeate... so the statment,"fighting for peace is an oxymoron, such as jumbo shrimp, not a paradox.
a paradox is like i state above. a raven says, "all ravens are liars"

 

post 1900 french army

not a complete paradox, but think about their time in ww1 and ww2

 

i don't understand that one^ please explain. that is not a paradox.

 

mmmkay fine (edited it)

 

Main Entry: par·a·dox Pronunciation: \ˈper-ə-ˌdäks, ˈpa-rə-\ Function: noun Etymology: Latin paradoxum, from Greek paradoxon, from neuter of paradoxos contrary to expectation, from para- + dokein to think, seem — more at decent Date: 1540 1: a tenet contrary to received opinion2 a: a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true b: a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true c: an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises3: one (as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases

 

hmmm

this gun has its safety on umm where's the safety so i can put it on

 

Trust me, I'm a liar

 

Virgin ****.

 

Catholic prostitute

 

Holy Asasin*
if thats how you spell it

 

My brother and I are each smarter than each other.

If you go to the future and buy an invention, go back to the past and claim it as your own, and you never put it in the shop you bought it from, you ned bought it, and never claim it, so the shops still there, so you did buy it...

 

You guys are posting oxymorons not paradoxes.

Oxymoron - Jumbo Shrimp (A statement that contradicts itself, but is not necesarily false)

Paradox -

if 2x0=0 then 2/0=0
if 3x0=0 then 3/0=0
if 4x0=0 then 4/0=0, etc.

Thus "x"/0=infinity

(a statement that cannot be true, in order for itself to be true. Or one that contradicts a fundamental law of mathematics, logic, etc.)

Learn the difference

 

If asking oneself "Am I dreaming?" in a dream proves that one is, what does it prove in waking life?

 

If your trying to fail but you succeed are you failing or succeeding?

btw I don't think this is an actual paradox but it's more or less the same kinda thing.

 

I only have one rule; THERE ARE NO RULES!

 

Everyone is unique.

 

emi, thats an oxymoron not a paradox

 

Slow and steady wins the race, but the fastest finishes first.

 

The Ferret is right, those are oxymorons, which is a "contradiction in therms".

Some of the oxymorons I like are:
Military Intelligence
Business Ethics
Victimless Crime
Christian Scientist

As for paradoxes, I don't know any except the time paradoxes which have already been mentioned.

 

People can make decisions based not on what they actually want to do, but on what they think that other people want to do, with the result that everybody decides to do something that nobody really wants to do, but only what they thought that everybody else wanted to do.