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  • #136114
    Light
    @lightoverdarkness6
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      @godlyfantasy12

      (I am nowhere near finishing the scene…I’ve been having some writers block 🙁 But I did write about 500 more words in it a few days ago that I can share sometime today.)

      (And sure!) In which castle?

       

      #HugRikerSquad

      #136115
      TheArcaneAxiom
      @thearcaneaxiom
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        @godlyfantasy12

        If a question sentence is the question, what is it asking other than the question it is asking? Are prepositions the key to showing the broken logic of questions. Is the self referential question: ‘ “is false of itself?” is false of itself? ‘ a question where questions should never dare to go? Was that, as a question that had a question in it that was a paradoxical question, therefore a paradoxical question? And was that question as a reference to a question that may be paradoxical, therefore must also be paradoxical? And was that question… has the madness taken full root?

        He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.

        #136118
        Ava Murbarger (Solfyre)
        @kyronthearcanin
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          @thearcaneaxiom

          (Me trying to imagine why God would put us in a paradox, and then realizing that I thought that through way to far🤣😅)

          Can you daydream at night? How do you handcuff a one-armed man? How far east can you go before you’re really going west? If the sky is the limit, is space over the limit? And if you try to fail, and then succeed, have you succeeded or failed?

          (This forum is AWESOME 🤣. I will make an attempt to uphold the rules lol.)

          Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.

          #136120
          GodlyFantasy12
          @godlyfantasy12
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            @thearcaneaxiom will I ever be able to understand what you have posted? Or will my brain now forever be alphabet soup?

             

             


            @lightoverdarkness6
            (writer’s block sucks. You got this!! Maybe sharing some would help? Idk maybe not. Also 2.0 castle 😊)

            #IfMarcelDiesIRiot
            #ProtectMarcel
            #ProtectSeb

            #136122
            Light
            @lightoverdarkness6
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              @godlyfantasy12

              (Yeah, it does. Aww thank you! 😊 Yeah, it probably would help! I’ll try to post it in a few minutes. Okay! My cousin is here, so I’ll kinda be on and off sporadically.)


              @thearcaneaxiom

              (Whoa. How…just how)

              #HugRikerSquad

              #136123
              TheArcaneAxiom
              @thearcaneaxiom
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                @lightoverdarkness6

                (Phew, that’s good XD)

                If we think of the word opposite, could we perhaps think in a mathematical sense with negative numbers? If so, would we be implying that as a negative times a negative makes a positive would be the same logic applied here?

                Do staircases go anywhere, or are they static objects relative to the earth? Because I brought up relativity, would a observer walking up or down a stair decide that a stair goes backwards?

                If a bird that was not quite a chicken laid an egg, and a chicken came out of that egg, was that a chicken egg, or was that a not quite chicken egg?

                Would the shape of the sky be a sphere? Would it be a dome about the horizon? Is the sky just the atmosphere, or is it is only the blue we see?

                If color is defined by the light that bounces off an object, then would a mirror be every color that is present?

                 

                He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.

                #136139
                MineralizedWritings
                @mineralizedwritings
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                  @thearcaneaxiom

                  If we answer a question with a question, we will always have one question, therefore why do we ask a question? Is this not simply a cycle of infinity made to distract me from my math homework?

                  "And so I left this world just as I had entered it. Confused."

                  #136140
                  Gwyndalf the Wise
                  @gwyndalf-the-wise
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                    @thearcaneaxiom

                    1. …I don’t have synesthesia, so I have no idea.
                    2. Don’t you mean, Why was Gamora? As she no longer lives?
                    3. When it’s flat and the same level as all the other sand.
                    4. Who’s dogs are we talking about?
                    5. Somebody in the 70’s or somebody from sometime in the 1900s I don’t remember where specifically
                    6. Better yet, do the people who come to be shaved shave the barber? Although they can’t shave themselves, maybe they can shave someone else.
                    7. Yes.
                    8. A way of requesting clarification.
                    9. Whenever you ask.
                    10. On your post. and also in this comment but especially on your post
                    11. Yes.
                    12. Yes.
                    13. Not usually.
                    14. I like to ask questions but they’re not usually non-sensical, so probably not.
                    15. We may be capable, but I’m not sure.
                    16. No…or very few of my previous answers work as answers.
                    17. XD Where did this come from? I don’t understand…

                    "...I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek Me in vain..."
                    (Part of) Isaiah 45:19

                    #136142
                    Esther
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                      @thearcaneaxiom @godlyfantasy12 @lightoverdarkness6

                      (I am back)

                      (We need to the keep the parentheses and questions rule! 😂) (Optional is Yoda voice, though fun it is. 😁)

                      (Now to answer some ridiculous questions. *evil laugh*)

                      Did @esther-c already break the only questions rule unless in parentheses already?

                      (Maybe… In my defense, I did not see the rule until I had posted. 😅)

                      Who let the dogs out?

                      (Me or any member in my family, multiple times a day. 🤣 Except it’s only one dog. 😁)

                      If a barber’s job is to only shave all those who can’t shave themselves, does the barber shave himself?

                      (The barber goes to another barber to be shaved who also goes to another barber to be shaved and so on down the line, until you reach a little boy who has no need to be shaved and men are trusting him to cut their hair.) (Yes… that totally makes sense. *nods* 😂)

                      From a scale from one to ten, what is your favorite color of the Alphabet?

                      (This one I shall come back too, for I have an answer, but I can’t find it yet… 😏)

                      When does a heap of sand become not a heap?

                      (This depends on how many grains of sand are in the heap to begin with. Then, one can determine when it is no longer a heap.)

                      What shape is the sky?

                      (The shape of the Earth. XD)

                      What color is a mirror?

                      (It depends on what is reflected in the mirror.)

                      Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende

                      #136144
                      TheArcaneAxiom
                      @thearcaneaxiom
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                        @kyronthearcanin

                        (Me here having way too much fun to be ok. Well, there is an actual serious question there to be had. Not sure if many have caught this, but I’ve subtly used what is called Russell’s paradox a few times. I used that in the self referential question I asked Godly, and the barbers question, as well as the one I asked you when you first got here. Russell’s paradox has more to do with what is called Set Theory in mathematics. It is one of the most successful modern fields in mathematics, starting with the simple axiom that you can have a set of objects of any kind, and that would be defined as a set. This was made with a goal to unify all fields of mathematics using baseline logic. Eventually it was proposed that there could be a set made from sets, which fit the axiom, so that was ok. But then it was proposed that you could have a set that contained itself. This also didn’t look like a problem, until Bertrand Russell saw a big issue. If a set could contain itself, then what about the set of all sets that don’t contain themselves? Does this set contain itself? If you work through the logic, you show that it contains itself if and only if it doesn’t. His colleague that has been developing this theory the most at the time, and has dedicated it as his life work for the past decade or so, no joke went into shock once he read Russell’s letter asking this, then was hospitalized because of it. The theory was still wildly successful, but it had to have an exception that you cannot have a set that contains itself. What this still shows though is that logic seems like it may have a limit. I like to reference the incompleteness theorem, which is very similar, in fact it may just be the same thing, just presented in a different way. It actually states that a mathematical system cannot prove every statement within that system. This means that everything within that system does have an answer, but we cannot know it. What this means for us is that if we believe that our universe is made through mathematics as a tool through God, we must accept that we mathematically cannot understand it to its fullness, even if we had an eternity to try figuring it out. I sometimes wonder if this is a handicap that God has put on reality so we can’t know everything in this life, but also I don’t think he would need to. Either way, the true nature of reality is only something we will come to even be able to begin to understand only in the next life when we return to Him. This is a really long not question, but you touched on something I contemplate in very long intervals.)

                        If the definition of a daydream is ‘a series of pleasant thoughts that distract one’s attention from the present’, then could one daydream a night about things that happen in the day, like daydreaming?

                        Could you handcuff him to a pole?

                        Is that how directions work? Does moving east mean the continual moving to the rightwards on a map, or is it being inside of the eastern hemisphere? Does your question make more sense in reference to north and southwards? (Yes, to which the answer would simply be at the point you pass a pole, your then going the opposite direction.)

                        What is the sky a limit to? Is it a limit to the possibilities of what you could achieve in life? If so, would that mean you can’t be an astronaut?

                        And if you ask for coal for Christmas, but your naughty, does Santa give you coal?

                        (Excellent! I’m glad you like it!)

                        XD XD

                         

                        He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.

                        #136145
                        Esther
                        @esther-c
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                          @thearcaneaxiom

                          If a question sentence is the question, what is it asking other than the question it is asking? Are prepositions the key to showing the broken logic of questions. Is the self referential question: ‘ “is false of itself?” is false of itself? ‘ a question where questions should never dare to go? Was that, as a question that had a question in it that was a paradoxical question, therefore a paradoxical question? And was that question as a reference to a question that may be paradoxical, therefore must also be paradoxical? And was that question… has the madness taken full root?

                          (My brain is now fully twisted… 🤣)


                          @kyronthearcanin

                          Can you daydream at night?

                          (Oh definitely. I’ve done it plenty of times. XD Like when I’m in my bed and not being able to go to sleep cuz I’m brainstorming my story. Lol)


                          @thearcaneaxiom
                          @kyronthearcanin @godlyfantasy12 @lightoverdarkness6 @gwyndalf-the-wise

                          (Thinking along the lines of Frozen 2 here…)

                          When you go into the unknown, at what point is it no longer the unknown?

                           

                          Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende

                          #136146
                          Ava Murbarger (Solfyre)
                          @kyronthearcanin
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                            @thearcaneaxiom

                            (It blows the mind lol. I’ve been reading a lot about the Mandelbrot set, and it’s crazy how it just continues on forever!)

                            Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.

                            #136147
                            TheArcaneAxiom
                            @thearcaneaxiom
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                              @mineralizedwritings

                              If your contemplating infinity, then are you not transcending your math homework? What type of math is it? If it’s something like logic theory, do you think this would actually help with your homework?

                              He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.

                              #136148
                              Esther
                              @esther-c
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                                @thearcaneaxiom

                                And if you ask for coal for Christmas, but your naughty, does Santa give you coal?

                                Does Santa actually exist?

                                Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende

                                #136150
                                TheArcaneAxiom
                                @thearcaneaxiom
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                                  @gwyndalf-the-wise

                                  Did I get it from here, or did I get it from there? Did I maybe get it from myself? Did I get it from perhaps everywhere?

                                  He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.

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