#paradoxes

[twinscorpion33]

Gemini & Scorpio in Big 3

An attempt to ruth incongruity

Is a heavy existence worth its weight in ecstatic intensity?

Could a soul just as easily chose a less inimical vessel?

Being that one is a soul, rather than has a soul, and that each soul is given absolute free reign of design,

Why would one such soul willfully prefer a life

As a technicolor winged insect

Who barely breaks the surface tension of the lake, and yet also manages to sink to the bottom in stone boots

How would one even begin to interpret, let alone perceive, a creature born of, and to, paradox for paradoxes’ sake

They are light, brightening, and hopeful. They gleefully skim and tread curiously

They too are dampening, brooding, descending, and depth-full; perpetually afraid to drown

(They have never drown)

They are more afraid of not being truly understood than not being loved quite as well as they could’ve been

The latter situation is tragic, the former is doomed

#astrology #astroblr #scorpio #gemini #zodiac signs #poetry #mysticism #paradoxes #astrology observations #sun signs #moon signs #rising sign #creative writing #being seen #spirituality #soulmission

[random-xpressions]

Why be so concerned and worried about your own paradoxes when God himself has displayed such perfection in his paradox - nothing as furious as his rage, nothing as gracious as his forgiveness, greatest polarities centered in one...

Random Xpressions

#divine #paradoxes

[alicesoinions]

I have a supposition.

I think all ravens are bright pink.

This would, by contraposition, imply that if something is not bright pink, it is not a raven.

All ravens are pink, thus, if something is not pink, it can't be a raven. If it were a raven, it'd be pink.

If the statement "If something is not bright pink, it is not a raven" is true, then the statement "All ravens are bright pink" is true; if all things that weren't bright pink also aren't ravens, this means that all ravens are pink.

Look at this picture:

This is a tangerine.

As you can see, it is not bright pink. It is also not a raven.

Seeing it gives me more credence to my theory that "If something is not bright pink, it is not a raven." Seeing one thing that is both Not Pink and also Not A Raven supports my idea.

This, of course, means it also supports my theory of "All ravens are bright pink."

#paradoxes #alice observes the world

[justaravingwritingdesk]

#quotes #anime quotes #detective conan #edogawa conan #paradoxes #which is better?

[markeronacomputer]

Time Travel Paradoxes Are Objectively Cool (aka An Essay Where A Lame Bitch Gives You Ideas For Resolving Time Travel Paradoxes In Your Writing)

Hey guys, it’s me, ranting again. This time I wanted to try talking about time travel. Or, more specifically, time travel paradoxes.

I’ll go in-depth about what the paradox is, how it’s caused, where things get complicated, and potential “solutions” to it, all for the sake of your reading entertainment… or mainly just to give you a really hyperspecific form of writing advice.

I’ll talk about both ones I came up with myself and old-timey ones we’re all familiar with. Speaking of which:

The Grandfather Paradox

This one’s simple. Like, probably the simplest one on the list.

If you go back in time to kill your grandfather before he has any children (for whatever reason), you cease to exist as well, which means your grandfather exists since you are no longer around to kill him, which means that you exist since he’s around to eventually bring rise to you, which means that he doesn’t since you killed him, and so on and so forth.

This is, like I said, a simple problem with multiple simple solutions. For example:

Killing your grandfather is downright impossible up until he conceives one of your parents: wether because of horrible, reverse-Final Destination-style luck getting in the way or whatnot (the thread of time has to have self-preservation instincts, after all)

The most common solution: when you kill your grandfather, you create an alternate reality where you were never born, but since you’re from Reality A and not Reality B, both you and your grandfather are fine

My favourite solution: you succeed in killing your grandfather, but then your grandmother goes on to get with another man, who is now your new grandfather

The Bootstrap Paradox

Just barely lagging behind The Grandfather Paradox as the simplest one on this list.

The Bootstrap Paradox is what happens when an event causes itself. Let’s say you go back in time and give your grandmother (dear god why do these always have to do with grandparents) an item that she will later give to you in the present.

This is obviously a problem because it raises questions on how the item originally got there. (This isn’t limited to just items, of course, but let’s use that as an example-) Not only that, but also that, if the cycle started, how will it ever be broken? Can it be broken?

The reason why this is ranked as not being as simple as the Grandfather Paradox, if you ask me, is the lack of immediately obvious solutions. Granted, it’s not really something that needs to be solved: it’s just confusing.

Regardless, the item had to get there somehow. Someone, whether third party or not, gave it to one of you at some point. But if your grandmother truly was the original recipient, and you gave her an item that someone else was supposed to give to you, is there now a copy of it somewhere around there? Does she have both, and the reason why she gave it to you is because she already has a spare?

Oh, and speaking of copies:

The Time Travel Clone Paradox

You all knew this was coming, didn’t you?

This one doesn’t really need an explanation. If you travel back in time and meet your past self, what happens?

Well… probably the simplest solution I can come up with is just “nothing”.

There’s no grand cosmic plan in this universe. No one person has to always be in the same place at the same time: if that was the case, then why is time travel even possible?

There’s no reason for them to not be able to both exist at the same time. So why can’t they? Well… that’s a deceptively simple solution, so let’s just say that the, like… Gods of Time or whatever can’t allow that. Here’s a few other, more complex solutions:

The Futurama solution, where the time traveler is doomed to die if they don’t get out of there quick enough

Time travelers, for whatever reason, can only travel to points in time where they aren’t alive, preventing this problem altogether

When people make eye contact with their past selves, they’re instantly sent back to the present: there’s a timeline out there missing a person, after all

And when you think about it… this trope doesn’t only apply to people, does it? What if instead of seeing your future self… you saw your fate?

The Prophecy Problem

Now, THIS is what I made this entire essay for.

I know what you’re thinking. Prophecies of your own future can’t count as time travel paradoxes: most of the time they don’t even involve time travel!

And to that I say… do they? It’s a character making decisions based off of information that, at that point in their lives, they shouldn’t have. That’s time travel in a sense, don’t you think?

And sure, this is pretty boring when applied to the old “self-fulfilling prophecy” trope. But when it isn’t… well, here’s a situation I thought up.

A man is approached by an… entity of chaos, let’s say, who tells him that he will die later today. It tells him one small decision he makes later today that will inevitably result in his death… and nothing else. Not when he dies, not how he dies, it just tells him one thing he can do to potentially prevent it and then leaves.

Assuming that he, for some reason, knows that this isn’t a trick and believes it instantly, what does he do? The entity only told him one thing that could prevent it potentially, but he still doesn’t know how or when it happens, just that it does.

A man often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it. Even if he tries to avoid his fate, he might still meet it nonetheless. But if the entity knew that- which it likely did- why did it even bother telling him about his future?

Here’s how I would take this: It’s not like Futurama and its doomed temporal clones where any attempts for you to make a new timeline instantly go to waste. The new timeline has the potential to be both better and worse than the original: but regardless, it’s never going to be easy for you.

After all, you are making decisions based off of information you shouldn’t have. That alone leaves a major hole in the space-time continuum.

That’s All, Folks

Honestly, I didn’t put much thought into this essay before making it. There’s not a lot more I have to say… except for two last things:

No, I’m not including the Free Will Paradox. Its entire point is that everything you do was always destined to happen and that nothing you do matters: it doesn’t have a solution, it’s just incredibly confusing.

I considered including time loops as well, but really it depends on how it’s taken. If it’s a Majora’s Mask loop, it’s inevitable that it’ll be solved if you try hard enough. If it’s a Groundhog Day loop, it’s up to you to figure out the not immediately obvious solution, assuming it even has one.

#writing #fanfiction #ao3 #time travel #writing advice #paradox #paradoxes #time paradoxes

[conversationavecmonchat]

Addition salée

Sucette après sussurer 

Sans cesse pour se rassurer

Sursaute pour s’assurer 

Soucis pour s’assumer. 

#poésie #poème #alliteration #femme #sexualité #paradoxes #poètes sur tumblr

[dragonfireartstudios]

Teasers for mobile view (how it looks whilst scrolling through the comic!)

#original art #digital illustration #digital art #artists on tumblr #original comic #comics #comic art #webtoon recommendation #webtoons #webcomix #webtoon #webcomic #web cartoon #web comic #fantasy #supernatural #magic #paradox space #paradoxes #space #outer space #galaxy #cosmos #galaxies #sketch #original characters #existence #existential crisis #books #booklr

[turiyatitta]

Voicing the Vastness

The Paradox of Expressing the InexpressibleIn the realm of human experience, the concept of expressing the totality of existence, often referred to as “The All That Is,” presents a fascinating paradox. While our minds and souls may feel intimately connected to this infinite expanse, our means of communication, especially spoken language, often fall short of capturing its essence. This dichotomy…

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#Artistic Communication #Expression #Human Experience #Infinite Existence #Language Limitations #Paradoxes #Self-Understanding #The All That Is

[erisianmage]

There once was a great hero who sailed through the known world, slaying great monsters and murderers.

He was the owner of a legendary ship, known throughout the land as a hero's ship that outlasted many dangers.

Those dangers would often end up damaging the ship, such as that it needed to get repairs or replace old parts.

By the time the hero returned to his hometown, every single part of his ship had been replaced at one point or another.

His countrymen questioned him; they asked, Hero, is that still your ship? No part of it is the same as the ship that departed these shores.

And the hero responded to them, Well, I'm damn well sailing the thing, ain't I?

And so it was that they honored the hero's great ship for centuries after his death.

#stories #paradoxes

[gear-project]

When using the Backyard's magic, does Backyard magic always have an affect on a person's age and appearance? Because despite that Happy Chaos was corrupted from the knowledge, he definitely looks so youthful in his appearance, almost the same age as Asuka, if not younger.

Hm... now that you mention it, despite the horns and black halo, Happy Chaos is actually in peak physical condition for his age.

He certainly looked very different when he was still the "Original Sage", probably a bit older in that original appearance as well.

What we know for certain is that beings, especially "Backyard Residents" (I have to use Izuna again as the rare example here), typically get amalgamated in to what they are from the Backyard's data.

Even for Zato=ONE's case, the knowledge and data he absorbed (from the Backyard) was far beyond what he originally had as a human, based on his behavior and intelligence alone.

It's also been suggested that Asuka R. Kreutz was "nowhere near as powerful" previously until he began to study the Backyard at length. This is evident because in previous timelines, he was captured and imprisoned by the Gears themselves (meaning he couldn't have been able to put up any form of resistance against Gears, and yet now he can rival the likes of Sol and Happy Chaos with no issues).

I would also make the remark that Happy Chaos' and Asuka's mortalities were influenced by the Universal Will in some capacity, because of their long-standing conflict with one another.

The Universal Will was a body of data unaffected by time and space... so the passage of time meant nothing to it. And even becoming a physical incarnation (Ariels) seemed to not do much in terms of aging or lifespan. Ariels was basically immortal as well.

At first, you could say that Asuka sought to "keep up with the immortals" he was surrounded by, by retrograding his age and restoring his youth through genetic manipulation.

But in Asuka's case, he could only get "so far" with that method... obtaining a youthful body (and more power) to compete with other more powerful beings was the only way he could possibly continue in his current state.

Hence why Asuka absorbed the Tome of Origin in to his very being. Most likely the Tome itself (aka the Sage's Testament) even if it was something that Happy Chaos originally WROTE... was also an archive of sorts to the natural functions (Magic) of the real world... meaning it likely also bears the KEY to immortality within its pages (though that would take time to decipher).

By taking that book in to Asuka's body... Asuka basically turn his OWN body in to a body of controlled information, a walking index of what the Backyard is truly capable of.

However, unlike Asuka, Happy Chaos was "transformed" in to his physical state because he had absorbed all the Negative mental energy that created I-No and was taken inside the Universal Will's "body".

He was also likely influenced by the Universal Will's (Merciless Apocalypse's) negative emotions towards HIMSELF!

Things like the "fear of Gears" and the "knowledge of Gear Cells" are probably not entirely different in terms of what Negative Human Emotions are capable of creating within Backyard space.

I state this, because that is what created I-No in the first place: the Crusades were a grudge generated from Mankind's hatred of Gear-kind (along with the Gears' rebellion against that grudge). And all of that information is what "broke" the Original Sage and transformed him in to Happy Chaos.

I-No is literally the embodiment (detritus) of all of those desires and hatred... but moreso, it was Happy Chaos whom decided to take on that burden in her place.

So in that regard, Happy Chaos is the result of his attempt at being a true "savior" or "broken messiah" to the world.

Does that make him a God (or Anti-Christ) in absolute terms? Not exactly... and it would be folly to guess his goals and ambitions at this phase.

If Immortality was something "like" the manifestation of Mankind's "fear of Death"... then perhaps the end result is something of a glitch or mutation from within the Backyard's (now distorted) code.

That also seems to prove true of all Demihumans (Youkai): that they are the result of the contradictory nature of humans... paradoxical desires made manifest.

When a human decides to confront that paradox directly, in some way, shape, or form, they cease to be human altogether (or so it seems).

The desire to live in a better (or perfected) world, is in and of itself a great paradox as well. While somewhat justified, that's also the reason why someone like Axl Low whom existed in the distant past, still exists in this future of a world.

What makes humans "still human" is their own egos and desires and limits that come with all that... To surpass that is to surpass Humanity.

Whether by choice or by fluke, some people surpass being human...

Whether that turns them in to Heroes or Monsters, is another question entirely!

#Immortality #Happy Chaos #Asuka R. Kreutz #The Backyard #Demihumans #Youkai #Desires #Paradoxes #Human Nature

[smiling-sakura]

" I'm almost never serious , and I'm always too serious . Too deep , too shallow . Too sensitive , too cold hearted . I'm like a collection of paradoxes . "

#quoteoftheday #quotes #spilled ink #thoughts #beautiful quote #relatable quotes #spilled thoughts #spilled words #random quote #unknown #sensitive #serious #paradoxes #collection of paradoxes

[jlhynde-insanitybrilliance]

So I watched the Cloverfield Paradox last night and it gave me some ideas for what to incorporate into UDLTTOM in regards to multiverses and breaking realities. There’s this great scene where they’re talking about entropy and linear time and how you ordinarily can’t uncook a chicken—And I just realized I’m talking about Russian Doll on Netflix. Scratch the chicken bit that’s not in that move. But what is in that move is a lot of freaky projections of objects/parts of objects from one timeline to the other (like i.e. the rotting tangerine-clementines in UDLTTOM) and that gave me ideas 💡

#udlttom #tomarry fanfic #time travel au #author thoughts #cloverfield paradox #russian doll #these are both really great films/tv series #alternate realities #breaking time #paradoxes #I really love time travel stories

[dearchose]

~~~Philia~~~

Here is Philia, one of my friend Dremnderr on DeviantArt original character.

I'm doing a cola. with him that consists of me drawing his characters. Link to his DA here

#paradoxes #art colab

[talefoundryshow]

Just how many ways of messing with the space-time continuum are there? We'd have to use a time machine ourselves to detail them all, but we can name a few! Our video on time travel paradoxes is up now on our Nebula channel.

#tale foundry #back to the future #grandfather paradox #time travel #bootstrap paradox #paradox of free will #free will paradox #writing time travel #wibbly wobbly timey wimey #writing inspiration #writing #writing community #writeblr #writers of tumblr #writers on tumblr #paradox #paradoxes #paradoxical

[xxfickdichxxeinfachxx]

Ich werde niemals verstehen wie du so mit mir umgehen konntest, obwohl du sagtest das du mich liebst!

#you broke my heart #broke boys #you broke me #broke girl #schizofrenia #paradoxes #toxisch

[ghostgirlhaunting]

does anyone know any paradoxes that I can think about until my head explodes?

#paradoxes #serious question