Anastacia H

Anastacia H

You're Poison. I'm Addicted. From Nevada
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    Does anyone else have a dog that acts like a crackhead when you come back into the room after being gone for like two seconds? I know I can't be the only one.
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    Yep. My new puppy is like that too.
    Anastacia H
    If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
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    S Surfergirlgeek qhile I understand where you are coming from, in this case I have to disagree. I don’t think there is a paradox here at all, because what are you failing at? You cannot fail at nothingness.
    1. You succeed if you fail
    2. Nothing’s stating that to fail you must succeed, as you cannot, because you already stated your goal as being to fail, and so you would have to change said goal to create that. You also cannot have failure without something you’re failing at. And if you say “ok, then I’ll fail at succeeding “ then you once again must ask the question “succeeding at what”. This goes on forever, until you establish something outside the circle.
    3. The “loop” never starts.

    Showing it works:
    1. The person fails
    2. Because they failed they succeeded
    3. Nothing happens beyond this point because nothing implies that your success changes the previous failure.
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    Surfergirlgeek
    Idea I see what you mean but while you failed, you succeeded and you don't want to succeed ergo you failed to failed which is still success, which is failure in of itself which is success and on it goes.
    I do like your idea of the Loop never starting becase I concur, while a circle has no beganing or end you must touch the pencil to the paper at some point.
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    "you succeeded and you don't want to succeed"

    But nothing says you don't want to succeed. Wanting to fail does not mean you don't want to succeed, because they are referring to different things, and for that same reason you never failed to fail.

    To fail you have to fail at something. Let's call that something X to not loose generality.
    To succeed you have to fail at X.
    So you fail at X. This doesn't mean you didn't succeed at failing at X, because you did fail at X and nothing is changing your failure of X.
    But what if have X be "succeeding at failing at X".
    Now you have that, to succeed at failing at X, you have to not succeed at failing at X. This isn't a paradox. It's just a contradiction. Just nonsense.

    So either way, you never have a paradox or an infinite loop. Either the loop never exists because the chain stops at the first iteration, or the loop never exists because there fundamentally cannot be a chain.
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