Could be funny, please run with it - or kill it (obviously don't kill it)
The problem with paradoxes
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Can we all just agree that the phrase "problematic paradox" is a redundancy?
I grabbed my shotgun and went hunting for a paradox. They were flying north over Cutter's pond. I blasted one and the other got away. I ate the one that got away.
Paradox is not a word in my vocabulary ... 
Ah ha! I knew there was a working paradox!: A veridical paradox produces a result that appears absurd but is demonstrated to be true nevertheless. Thus, the paradox of Frederic's birthday in The Pirates of Penzance establishes the surprising fact that a twenty-one-year-old would have had only five birthdays if he had been born on a leap day.
Ah ha! I knew there was a working paradox!: A veridical paradox produces a result that appears absurd but is demonstrated to be true nevertheless. Thus, the paradox of Frederic's birthday in The Pirates of Penzance establishes the surprising fact that a twenty-one-year-old would have had only five birthdays if he had been born on a leap day.
I'll have to look back at Dr. Sleep but I don't have it with me right now (at whup)
This rightward pointing dock is false.
Be sure to never meet yourself when engaging the flux capacitor.
I like paradoxes. Can Q make a rock so big even he can't lift it? Sure. Doing that, and then the next task, being able to lift it, are two separate tasks. Omnipotence does not require all things to be done simultaneously.
