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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 06:49 PM
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What is Xeno's Paradox?
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 07:29 PM
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1. That if someone explains it to you, it ceases to be a paradox.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 07:31 PM
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2. Seriously, though, it has to do with geometric summations
and the apparent paradox that, to reach any point, one has to first reach the midpoint... and then the next midpoint... then the next... and so logically, one can NEVER reach the final point.

Which isn't true, of course, but it's an interesting mathematical mind game.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 07:49 PM
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3. Well, now I need a drink!
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 08:19 PM
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4. Xeno? Or Zeno?
Here's Zeno's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes

Or did you mean Xenu?
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david13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 08:31 PM
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5. I thought a paradocs was very similar to a paramedics. Two
docs or two medics.
Or do you mean docks? That would be, out at the lake, where there are two docks, there you have a paradocks.
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