Paradoxes
Other than the conventional examples given in class,
are there any paradoxes that inundate your life?
Are they unavoidable / unexplainable?
Conversely, are there any paradoxes that you happily accept?
(whoa, that's a paradox too!...)
posted by D. Robin @ 9/07/2006
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I am not sure if this is a paradox, but the old saying that love is forever. In my opinion forever means until the entire universe no longer exsists, therefore it is virtually impossible to love someone forever. Yet, for some reason, though the divorce rate in the counry is near 50%, that remains the feelings of most people. Basically it still makes no sense to me, but I know it does for, well, half of our country. I guess I might be a little bias against it simply because my parents are divorced, so I have yet to see an actual example of love lasting "forever". Of course there are those couples that stayed together from high school until they died, but again I ask...is that really forever?
I don't really know if that is a paradox, but I just thought since I don't think it makes sense and alot of other people do it was one.
Hi Kelsey - The "love is forever" paradox links back to the whole idea of time. Time, itself, is a paradox due to the fact that it always both comes and goes (if, in fact, it is real...).
Usually, Ben Folds can solve these existential abstract issues with hi-octane piano rock:
"Sometimes I get the feeling
that I won't be on this planet
for very long.
I really like it here -
I'm quite attached to it;
I hope I'm wrong."
I've always held the feeling that we are all paradoxes. We want to do something but we don't. Why? We want to speak out but we don't. What's up with that?
Anyways, the whole rhetorical analysis... I think in a way we were always aware of it but didn't know how to explain it. Right now it's new to us and we're like little kids with big words: can't stop using them. My only regret is that I didn't know about this earlier. Do you know how much this would have helped me in AP Euro.? My essays would have been much shorter and much to the point. Documents this year for US are a piece of cake. Did anyone else see John Edward's appeal to pathos in his fire and brimstome oration? Rhetoric is everywhere.
Matt - well, no. You just explained it.
I haven't looked closely at 1984 this year, but as I recall, it is paradoxical to use one's individual fears to coerce them to agree with universal truth. Here, we have explained this paradox, but then again, all paradoxes can be explained (otherwise, they would just be nonsensical statements).
As for rats, despite all their rage... (if only people would stop to contemplate the free will of rodents!).
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