#Paradox of Change

[raulf-o]

The Paradox of Change

Change happens with you or without you

Change, a thing that we have grappled with over the years, hell, since we’ve ever existed. Whether it’s politics or philosophy, whether we applied our thoughts regarding change or not, that one thing has always been debated, for better or for worse. But, as I developed my sense of the world and the sense of morality, for me change is a given. Whether you look at the history of man kind, the history of nature or even the universe, one thing is constant, change. This applies to people as well, whether we are talking at a global scale, a national scale, a societal scale, the scale of friendships and families over the years, and even at a very personal level, change is there constantly. You can fight change, you can try to keep the same, it won’t work. Change is going to happen with or without your consent. And I’m not even talking politically. You clothes, if you wear them they will degrade with time, that’s a change. You phone, the more you use it, the more it will degrade whether you want it or not. It all depends how much care you take of it. The same applies to your body as well. Yes, you can not control the prices of food, the external pressures or the actions of others, but you can still try to exercise, try to eat the best you can, incite a revolution, socialize, go out for a walk, topple the government, get a pet, you know… Stuff that might keep you healthier for longer. But even if you try your best to stay in the best shape, your body will change with or without your consent, for now, and you have no choice regarding that.

On a grander scale, this is what makes change scary for most people. This is one of the many dumb reasons people find conservatism so soothing, it’s the illusion of keeping things as they are, even if they do not care or want to participate in the violence of said system. These people have it well enough that change scares them into thinking that they might lose the peace and stability they have. They never had to think of change, because things always worked out for them and the changes they had to make were within the boundaries of said system. Yet it doesn’t make sense, because even those systems changed drastically. (The reasons they changed and how is a topic for another day.) Things improved, things changed, things were invented that made life easier. And inventions usually are changes to the world as we know it, especially those that have a broad impact. Like sliced bread, LSD, pornography or the internet, these inventions changed the world in some aspects, which we can’t take back anymore. And I doubt that any sane person would argue today that we should abolish these things and go back to the way things were before. So change is inescapable at every single level of your life. You progress whether you want it or not, you change whether you want it or not. The only thing you can do is either be a bystander and let it all go by you… Or be part of the change and have a positive impact…

Otherwise the world will leave you behind if you won’t participate in it, and this is not a hyperbole. If you never change, the world will change. Those around you will change and will leave you behind. And usually people like that will victimize themselves and will find solace in other people that are like them, stuck. Change is going to happen to you whether you want it or not. So there’s no reason to resist it. If you won’t change willingly, you’ll change unwillingly, that’s the paradox of change. If you remain the same person you were 3-5-10-15 years ago, as people around you progress, you will regress, which is still a change. And there is no positive connotation for regression. As I said, you can either be active in that change and take control, or you can let it be and regress as the world changes and progresses without you. And if you do not believe me, look at the things you feel good about in your life. They are the things where you’ve changed, you’ve gotten better at, you’ve truly learned about in depth. They won’t be the things you got stuck in and never changed. Because there is no such thing as no change… Everything changes… If you won’t… You’ll be worse for it…

#Nobody The Blog #Paradox of Change

[mrpsychokiller]

this is how people talk about you online when you dont use they/them pronouns

#getting really soooooo sick of getting they/them'd and so many of my friends who dont use they pronouns also getting they/them'd #paradoxically its like people have been taught that using they/them is best bc its neutral so its better than assuming someones pronouns #and potentially misgendering them #but just forget that youre supposed to use they/them when you DONT know the persons pronouns and once you learn them you change to the #correct pronouns. it really shouldnt be that hard to take a second to check someones bio for their pronouns and use the correct ones #its like people dont take into account that they/them may be ''neutral'' but not everyone identifies with them or likes being called them #or that it might still feel like misgendering even if its not he or she #sigh...

[luxvinova]

I had a vision... an idea...

#hear me out #HEAR ME OUT #It may change in the future #pokemon #Pokemon gijinka #pokemon sv dlc #Walking Wake #Past Paradox #my art

[alibonbonn]

Athena’s pet liar

Sketch for a silly little comic I wanna make

#so get this：Athena appears in Odysseus dream to tell him about the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise (for fun) #that’s it that’s the idea and it doesn’t change the outcome of the Trojan war #obviously Athena doesn’t experience time linearly she’s a goddess #wip #Odysseus #Athena #the iliad #tagamemnon #alidraws

[chikinan]

paradox. [twt + insta + ptrn on bio]

#adventure time #adventure time fanart #at fanart #betty grof #golbetty #illustration #tarot art #vintage art #fanart #mati draws #the fact that golbetty has both betty and simon's eyes #quite literally harmony forced upon chaos #a paradox in itself. no growth no breaking out of the cycle and yet. #the cycle starts anew forever changed #this happened in stakes also hey

[blaiddraws]

in the reblog tags of my paradox reshie and zekrom post, @spicy-sweet-herba-mystica got me thinkin about paradox kyurem. well. here we go! ghost/dragon type. it's just straight up paradox. both future and past because. all that. and all that being, with a past paradox zekrom and a future paradox reshiram, it'd be weird if i chose either of them for kyurem. so. both it is! ghost type, plus it being Both, relating to the whole kyurem Lore stuff.

anyway whipped this up pretty quick TEE BEE ECH so the design, if i ever come back to it, is likely to change

#design subject to change especially considering the fact the other designs i literally started months before i posted #pokemon #kyurem #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarvi #pokemon bw #pokemon black and white #pokemon b2w2 #etc etc etc man idk #paradox pokemon #paradox fakemon

[wandeel]

Funny how every DC team could fight anyone for the sake of their Speedsters but they very easily forget that Speedsters can DESTROY THE UNIVERSE with a jog

#DC #Speedsters #Justice League fights for Barry = Barry changes the universe #Titans fight for Wally = Wally changes the multiverse #Young Justice fights for Bart = Bart screws up the timeline #They are the worst #Flash #Barry Allen #Wally West #Kid Flash #Impulse #Bart Allen #They look like adorable babies but are the most dangerous characters in the universe...Speedsters are living paradoxes

[avephelis]

THRASHING TYKE (fairy/dragon) and IRON ROVER (normal/ghost)

so, as some of you may recall (since i asked for your input), i've been designing paradox fakemon !! i really like when new forms are given to middle-stage or under-utilised pokemon, so togetic and furfrou were easy choices.

thought it'd be fun to imply togetic took a while to get airborne, so thrashing tyke ended up being sort of an inversion of usual togetic qualities! and iron rover is, of course, inspired by laika (hence the ghost typing).

anyway, pretty happy with them for a first go at fakemon rendering 👍👍

#avepharts #fakemon #pokemon #paradox pokemon #paradox fakemon #togetic #furfrou #if i did it again i'd probably stand by changing togetic's legs to be more raptor-ish (like the rex sketch i showed) #but that's more a personal taste thing than it not fitting existing design conventions #and fun fact togetic IS one of my fav mid stage evolutions and ive always really liked furfrou too (and wish it didn't get done so dirty) #actually more rambling i imagine iron rover would bounce around like it's in zero g and thrashing tyke would have one of those like #cartoonish flintstones runs

[wildheartscantbebrokenx]

Enjoying some me time 😙

#making silly faces w my mutuals 🥴 #as much as I want to change things #paradoxically you can look back but you can only move forward. #me

[s-aprua]

stray cats - erzi

#paradox live #paralive #iori suiseki #yohei kanbayashi #hello yoio/iohei fans i come bearing food #read a fanfic so good i thought abt it for months and then reread this today and drew this #the pining! the averted gazes! the things left unsaid!!!! absolutely incredible #also used the wrong brush size bc my program crashed and i forgot to change it before the bottom panel oops #also idk if the author will see this but im sorry if this isnt what you envisioned #i have like 0 literacy skills 😔 #my art

[paradox-n-bedrock]

I'm rewatching Partners in Crime and everything about these babyfaced wonders is getting to me.

Donna is so bright and hopeful when she's talking to Wilf about the Doctor and it's like a punch right to the chest. She says wistfully and with such deep conviction that she's going to find him even if it takes a hundred years.

It's just further driving home how important their ending is. He found her this time, if by chance, and she gets to have that brightness back. He's the one staying with her, even if he hasn't promised forever. I was yelling about the symmetry between the 60th anniversary specials and The Runaway Bride, but with Partners in Crime, it's the inversion.

Also, do we all remember Donna in suits??? Fitted blazers and pencil skirts. Button-ups and pinstripe trousers. Because it wasn't quite so sharp in my mind and now I'm having a religious experience. As if her £120K UNIT job offer isn't perfect enough, the mere idea of Donna, in a suit, storming headlong towards trouble again is such a lovely little bonus gift.

#doctor who #doctor x donna #fourteen x donna #donna noble #fourteenth doctor #doctordonna #dw 60th #it's such a change to feel like these two are tearing me apart via joy #paradox liveblogs #dw musings

[000marie198]

I don't know if anyone else has talked about this already but, oh well!

So anyway, let's talk about the Chaos Council. It's made up of five different versions of Eggman.

Now remember my theory on how all the alternates are basically shattered parts of the original? That they're the aspects of the main characters taken to the extreme? Well, I believe the presence of the Chaos Council proves that theory. Cuz when you notice, there are no alternates of Eggman anywhere else throughout the Shatterverses but there are alternates of everyone else. This means all the Eggman alternates are in one place, aka New Yoke, as part of the CC. Why does that serve to prove that the alternates are shattered parts of a whole? Well, for many reasons but I'm gonna talk about three major ones.

Firstly, something that Mister Dr. Eggman said struck a chord while I was rewatching the premiere episode. While introducing the Chaos Council to Sonic, he said,

"One makes five, five makes one."

This dialogue literally and very clearly hints at them being 5 parts of a whole. A major clue or a foreshadowing if you will.

Secondly, their personalities. They all clearly reflect a certain major trait of Eggman. Introduction wise, Dr. Done-It is an aged man who likes to yell orders and complain.

He is literally, as Sonic would put it, a grumpy old man. That's the part of Eggman which gets annoyed at all the failed plans and groans in agitation and yells at his creations and curses out Sonic. Also the part that keeps urging to get a move on.

Next, there's Dr. Deep.

If his name and mannerisms aren't hinting enough, that's the part of Eggman that sometimes comes up at the end of the adventure when he's standing alone somewhere. The philosophical part, the part that expressed his feelings on Gerald, the part that would sometimes save Sonic because it wouldn't be a victory unless he's the one defeating his opponent. But this is not all, Deep is also the part which holds all of Eggman's battle prowess and drip. In short, he's the right-brained part of Eggman.

As for Dr. Don't, the emo teenager.

This is the guy who points out a clear cut obvious answer instead of dawdling . And he controls some remote features of the headquarters. He's constantly playing videogames and answers questions without even looking up. His brain is probably in constant activity, figuring things out, forming deductions and conclusions. This is the scientist side of Eggman. The one that holds 300 IQ and internally goes, "I'm surrounded by idiots." The one which is unable to get along with anyone because no one can think on his motive and level.

And then there's Babble, aka the angry baby.

One would think why someone like Eggman would have a baby as a part of his personality, right? Well, this baby is the most like Eggman out of all of them. Hear me out! Dr. Babble represents the anger and ruthlessness in Eggman. Babble, out of all of them, is Eggman's evil side. Babble loves torturing his victims and enjoys it, he demands that they harm their opponents and is merciless. Babble represents the part of Eggman that... destroyed the moon (get out of my head Snapcube dubs), unleashed the Metal Virus, Roboticizes mobians, all the mean stuff. And finally, the baby whines, a lot. All of Eggman's whining is squeezed in this one tiny baby.

Finally, the main member, Mister Dr. Eggman.

In my opinion, this guy is the aspect of Eggman that gloats and showboats. The one who gets absolutely smug and giddy if the plans are working, the part of Eggman that lets out those loud evil cackles and monologues. The face, so to speak. He is the part that makes Eggman go overconfident or reveal his plans or manipulates or banters, the part that makes him put his face as a logo on everything, the part that makes him build showy mechs and aircrafts and stuff.

Now that these people are discussed as various aspects of Eggman, let's get to the third and final major reason which indicates why the alternates are aspects of the originals; the Prism shards. When the Paradox Prism broke, it was broken up into five shards; yellow, red, blue, green, purple. There are five shards and five Eggman alternates.

But wait.

Why are there five alternates of Eggman when we have only come across three for the rest of the characters? Why don't the numbers add up? Well, good question. And my theory is that since the Prism broke up into five shards, there should be five sets of everything! Five shards, five Shatterworlds, five sets of alternates. There are already five of Eggman. This means there are still two shards missing and two sets of alternates we haven't seen. We know the purple shard belongs to The Grim because its gateway was purple and its entrance was in the shape of the purple shard. And we haven't seen Rouge's main alternate like we've seen Nine, Thorn and Dread. That's going to be the world where the yellow shard resides.

But this all leaves another mystery. Five shards means five worlds and five sets of alternates, right? We already know about all five alternates of Eggman, we already know the colors of the five shards (Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Purple), and we know about four of the five worlds while the one associated with yellow shard hasn't been shown in the series yet. That world would contain its own set of alternates. That makes four sets of alternates. What about the fifth? Where are the alternates that, logically, should belong to The Grim? Where are they? Excluding yellow, what happened to the fifth world and its alternates? Where is the purple Shard that is associated with The Grim? What happened to this world and its inhabitants?

#also #did you guys know that Nine is the only character with Neutral alignment on the main Fandom wiki page? #everyone else is either good or evil but Nine is neutral #officially #if a character has that much knowledge and can change the tides AND is aligned officially as neutral u know he's a v imp character #sonic the hedgehog #sonic prime #sonic #sonic prime spoilers #chaos council #mr dr eggman #dr dont #dr done-it #dr deep #dr babble #paradox prism #sth #analysis #fan theory

[iphigeniacomplex]

disco elysium (2019) | you want it darker - leonard cohen

#another one .. another one. i have things to say about this game that arent the final dream i just adore how the final dream has #your actual thoughts betraying the set-up format #much like how the game betrays its own format in high-pressure high-impact scenes like the pigs the tribunal and ruby #because you SUCCEED. you WIN. but you can't change what has already happened #and what will always happen #you could put the entire stanza this bit is from with various parts from disco elysium and it would make sense. how i wish i could draw #like yk what mr cohen there IS a lullaby for suffering AND a paradox to blame #YOU WANT IT DARKER? WE KILL THE FLAME! #it speaks! #disco elysium #leonard cohen #web weaving

[uruwashinonightingale]

so! the new paralive stuff that got released today ! just wanna say i’m really excited to see where ampule is going after this !

i mean look at them

like they’re smiling omg! and even the song name reflects (hopefull) a change in dongha’s attitude. really hope he continues to gain more confidence in himself individually and we get to see him start to learn himself more and stuff :D

speaking of , 1nm8 looks happy in their visual too , but i’m a little scared . . . maybe they’re too happy . . . or maybe i’m just a bit too nervous wwww

(also let’s. let’s have a talk about how freaking adorable shiki is here. my bbg aaaaa)

and the ryu too!!! glad to see him so comfortable and happy :D and as planarico said, i love the hand parallels too ! they look so cute matching like that

#mallow speaks! #paradox live #i can still recall the utter bless i felt when i saw that shiki picture for the first time #1nm8 #the cat’s whiskers #amprule #yeon dongha #baek chungsung #shiki ando #ryu natsume #maybe the hand is just reminding me of the whole “shiki reaching out for nayuta after he fell” image #and how he’s changed to reaching out but not toward the past; rather #toward a future with his friends he can grasp with his own hands

[arolesbianism]

I am once again being haunted by "a paradox" holy fuck Olivia what the fuck is going on here what did you get yourself involved with and what did you do after it speak to me Olivia I can't keep living like this

#rat rambles #oni posting #the second half fills you with the horrors so you forget that the log opened up with that b111-1 bomb #for the record a paradox is one of my favorite lore logs of all of them because its the log that made me go Oh Shit and go reread all the #olivia logs I initially only skimmed through and begun the olivia brain takeover #the second part rewired my brain irreversably like its so fucked I love it #in particular one thing that makes me so fucking glad that the old olivia jackie logs were scrapped is that originally jackie was the one #who printing pod ified olivia to save her from the end of the world or smth #but the change to make it self inflicted? fucking amazing ten million times better and more interesting #especially because it implies she did it on purpose! #which opens up so many doors and I fucking Love it #because the teleportation technology was what she knew of as a method of doing this but either A shed have to have kept using teleporters #anyways and either just count on her not dying or counting On her dying #or shed have to know the link between it and the neural vaculators #which is very possible considering Stuff™ but does raise the question of how she used it #now the boring answer is that her brain map was already taken from the neural vaculator tests but god. that answer is boring. #the most interesting possibility to me personally is that she could have well. tinkered a bit with existing technology. #unlikely? maybe. fun to explore for my purposes? yep. #also I need the peace of knowing that jackie never got the satisfaction of knowing what happened with olivia's dissapearance #or if she did only after the fact #I need this to have been completely out of jackie's viewpoint at the top and I need it to fuck with her and shatter her worldview #I need to see the desperation and paranoia of a woman who is realizing that she has lost control over her technology #I need to see her try to cling onto her past ambitions and sense of control while falling apart at the seams #and I need olivia to have never thought jackie would give a shit until all else but her is dead and gone #do you see my vision do you see it do you see how much more fun it is if it was extremely deliberate instead of only lightly so

[tricorderreading]

Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan

During the review meeting for the Kobiashi Maru, Kirk needles Saavik hard with another impossible situation, with interesting results

I must note: spock wonders afterwards if Kirk intentionally gave this scenario due to saavik's past, but it also echos Kirk's struggle with the Tarsus IV massacre

Both of these can be described as "lifeboat ethics," which is a real thing!

#'rickoverian paradox' is apparently not a real thig either #kirk wanted to sound smart i think lmao #saavik you should tell this to the police i think its something they need to hear #star trek #books #tos #the original series #kirk #exerpt #star trek tos #movie novelization #the wrath of khan #twok #saavik #also - i know saavik had a different actress in twok but all i can see when i read this is the adorable long/curly haired saavik of tsfs #sorry not sorry shes so cute #everyone else gives boring answers to the 'what would you do differently' question #saavik is the only one to say she would change nothing #and when kirk (an authority figure) questions her choices she doesnt back down #very impressive indeed