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paradoxes | however you answer it, you are correct
2008-03-19 06:54:00 mysticism points to the very fact that often many (perhaps all) of the life's most profound mysteries are paradoxical in their nature. talk about pre-destination and role of will, why there is suffering, the fact that the very idea of happiness require the presence of unhappiness, light needs darkness to be realized - everywhere you will see the paradox ingrained.wherever you turn you can discover this paradox. even in the Divine Love and undefinable phenomena that we call love. Rumi says:Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love,Yet all of creation can not seem to stop thinking about it. while going thru the book, Walking with God by James Keeley, i came across a place where the author talks about his experience:Albert Einstein said: the most important question one must answer is whether or not the universe is friendly... I was once sharing this quote from Albert Einstein with a class. One of the students said - the most interesting part of the question of whether or not the un...
Three Little Truth Value Paradoxes
2008-03-02 16:40:00 The “truth value” of a proposition is just whether it’s true or not. The truth value of “2+2 is 4″ is true, and the truth value of “2+3 is 6″ is false. The truth value of “Hilary Clinton will be the 44th president of the United States” is currently unknown;
By: Big Ideas
My Three Favourite Paradoxes
2008-02-23 16:55:00 Ususally, I write about website development - PHP, MySQL, Javascript, etc. But, I'm going to write about paradoxes for two reasons: a) they involve logic and really challenge the mind, and b) because they challenge what we know and believe. A paradox is basically a statement that seems to be true and logical, but simply can ...
By: Making the Web
Paradoxes Versus Truisms
2008-01-17 10:57:00 Excepting the occassional creepy, nearing-thirty year old lurker such as myself, Yahoo Answers - or at least, judging by the general immaturity - is populated by teenagers.I often visit this website to guage the opinion of the demographic which I no longer belong to. One particular question posted by an inquisitive young man on Yahoo Answers wasWhy do people hate Jews?The response to this question, posted by a (presumably) teenage female, that lodged in my memory wasIt's called anti-Semitism - Educated yourself.Maybe I have nothing better to worry about in my life that I became particularly rankled by this reply:The youngster who started the thread asked an intelligent question, a question with no readily apparent answer. Without an answer to this question, it is impossible to understand the most important historical event of the 20th Century - World War II, its preamble and consequences. To which, some haughty young strop, with an assumed air of intellectual dominance, gave an unw...
By: Sementivae
Counterpoint: The Gujarat paradoxes- Hindustan Times
2007-12-08 23:12:00 Counterpoint: The Gujarat paradoxes- Hindustan TimesVir Sanghvi concludes his usual anti-Modi rant with the following:Even if this costs the Congress the election, it is a price worth paying. Who would respect the Congress if it defeated Modi but adopted his policies and took the help of his former partymen? If the Congress betrays the values that it represents, then it will become a party that stands for nothing except for a lust for power. Better for the Congress to lose an election than to lose its soul.[Excerpts only - full article at the source]Comments: Perhaps some day Vir Sanghvi will write about the wonderful values that Congress represents. Please do mention pseudo-secularism, castism, corruptions and all else that you as an eminent journalist would have undoubtably observed!
By: Indian Politics
A Flat World of Paradoxes
2007-12-04 19:49:00 Photograph Source: Time MagazineThis post does not qualify under the head of ?Public Relations?, ?digital media? or ?trends in communication?, that the readers of IPRB may be used to. The author however in her attempt to observe the underlying currents of all these heads, in this inaugural post, seeks your indulgence :)I have been mulling over for some time now on the bit in The World is Flat where Friedman talks about the challenges of dual identities that we face today. As a consumer we want the best products at the cheapest rates (the labour conditions and environmental protection then not highest on our priority). However as a citizen we are concerned about how we treat people and our nature.I feel the same duality everyday when I read newspapers ? as a PR professional/Friedman?s consumer I reverently look at the mainstream media as a tool that enables me to connect my client with its audience. However as a common reader/citizen, I am less reverent and more critical of the same ...
By: IndiaPRBlog!
The Paradoxes of Cultural Confidence: Is Western culture in decline?
2007-08-08 19:01:00 Speech by Theodore Dalrymple on Cultural Confidence and Cultural RelativismMy subject is the importance and paradoxes of cultural confidence at a time of great conflict, both within and between societies. The subject is of particular interest for countries such as Great Britain and France, but also for Canada where, I believe, demands for the institution of Sharia law have not only been made but taken seriously in some quarters.Great Read.H/T Daimnation
By: BlazingCatFur
Software Testing Paradoxes
2007-02-03 15:09:00 I've found an interesting article in MSDN magazine. It describes several paradoxes that can occur during software testing process. 1. Simpson's paradox demonstrates that conclusions of several data sets can differ from conclusions of a combined data set. Thus, the test result summary does not necessarily represents the same as the original uncombined data. 2. Braess's paradox may arise during
Paradoxes of Relativity Part 3c - Ladder Paradox (iii)
2007-01-04 11:09:02 In Ladder Paradox (ii) we viewed events from the perspective of the box. When the events are viewed from the arrow's inertial frame, figure 4 of the p...
Paradoxes of Relativity Part 2c: Twin Paradox (concluded)
2006-12-25 05:01:01 In this 'engineer-friendly' mini-series on the famous "twin paradox" of relativity, where Pam sets off on a long, fast space journey and on return fin...
'Paradoxes' of Relativity Part 2B - Twin Paradox (
2006-12-18 10:46:01 An 'engineer-friendly' solution to the famous "twin paradox" is given in terms of relativistic Doppler shift. In the previous post (part 2A), the 'par...
'Paradoxes' of Relativity Part 2A: The Twin Parado
2006-12-14 16:37:02 The "Twin Paradox" was born in 1911, after Paul Langevin restated Einstein's time dilation of traveling clocks as an interesting variant: one of two t...
'Paradoxes' of Relativity Part 1: The Sagnac Effec
2006-12-11 16:29:02 The Sagnac effect is observed when coherent light travels around a closed loop in opposite directions and the phases of the two signals are compared a... |
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