Paradoxical Questions!

[Monkeyduels]

Here's a good one:
Running down a spiral staircase and ending up on top.
And another:
The next statement is true. The previous statement was false.

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

This statement, is a lie!

[Monkeyduels]

I always tell the truth. I am lying.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

You go back in time and kill your grandfather so you were never born so your grandfather lives so you are born so you go back in time an kill your grandfather.

[John]

What the what now?

[Laszlo, The Professor]

What?
Oh, and can you check the 'Complaints' topic, please?

[John]

Sure.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Thank you.

[Prof. River Song/ Xochil]

In Spain during the count down on New Year, you have to stuff 12 grapes(the huge ones with seeds) in your mouth.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Ok. Not to be rude but, so?

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

Laszlo wrote: "You go back in time and kill your grandfather so you were never born so your grandfather lives so you are born so you go back in time an kill your grandfather."

I mantain that time is a stable loop, so this kind of thing simply can't happen. Anything that is going to happen happens, and anything that isn't won't.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

But that is not time! Time is non-linear!

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

Time is linear. Straight line.

I look at the entire universe as an unfolding story. Everything has it's place in the story. However, I do not beleive it's being written. It has already been written. We are merely the characters moving through it, completing our pages as we are destined to do.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

We, my good sir, have different perspectives on time.

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

I'd imagine that we have different opinions of free will to go with that.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Free will?

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

*looks around*
Where?

[Allison]

LOL

[Laszlo, The Professor]

What is free will?

[Allison]

It's basically the opposite of slavery.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Right.

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

Are you asking me to define in order to get my opinion, or out of genuine befuzzlement?

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Opinion.

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

Right. I tend towards being a determinist. This means a few things. One; I don't beleive in chance. Oh, I acknowlege that I can't no some things outcomes, and that by those outcomes my current situation may change, but I don't beleive that there is any scenario that with enough knowlege and time where the outcome couldn't be figure out. Dice rolls, for example, a merely physics, just incredibly hard to work out.

Two; I don't beleive in free will. We don't have choice. All our actions are the results of our genetics, and our enviroment. Sure, we may seem make choices, but that is merely an illusion caused by wanting to beleive we are in control.

That also goes some weigh to explaining my view on time.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

I agree with number two. I am not arguing, though.

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

Not in this thread, anyway?

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Yep.
I have this friend named Zelda and... never mind.

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

Now I can't stop picturing you as Link.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Look at my profile picture. Go to my profile and click on it.

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

Meant to be noticing anything in particular? Or is that just to try and get the Link image out of my head?

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Let us just say that is me. I will not say if it is really me, though. It may be.

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

Oddly specific denial there, Lazzy.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Your mind games won't break me! You will never know that is how I look in real life!

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

Badgerlord wrote: "Oddly specific denial there, Lazzy."

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Ahhhh! You broke me!

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Well, know you know how I look.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1344...

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

I really don't think you would cave that easy. It doesn't matter that I know how you look, anyway. From now on, you'll look like this to me;

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Why did I look that before Zelda?

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

You didn't. It was the Zelda comment that made me draw the comparison. This is Zelda in the Steampunk group, yes? I seem to remember a Zelda being moderator there.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Yep. Don't ask why I mentioned her, please.

[Badgerlord, Marquis de Badger]

Ok.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Good.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Oh my God I just had a breakthrough in Physics!

[Allison]

Well tell us!

[Laszlo, The Professor]

All different dimensions occupy the exact same space but we can only perceive some. For us it is only the second dimension.

[ℂᖺαᖇᒪἷ℮ ⊰1017 &Tardis⊱]

In what way? (I'm intrigued)

[Laszlo, The Professor]

In the way that we don't see 3-D.

[Prof. River Song/ Xochil]

I can't see 3-D without my glasses on because I have two different prescriptions. My right is near-sighted and my left is far-sighted.

[Laszlo, The Professor]

Actually, nobody who lives in a 3-D universe can see 3-D, only 2-D.