(December 29, 2010 at 2:07 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: I think you have sussed the flaw. You can't be surprised and not surprised at exactly the same time. But maybe all paradoxes are really contradictions it's just we haven't been able to unravel them yet? Something either is or isn't.... so how can paradoxes really exist?
What if time X was a day, like a birthday. So you expect a surprise party on your birthday, but nobody throws you a surprise party therefore you aren't surprised by the party. You are surprised that nobody threw you one, so you were surprised on your birthday so this proves that expecting to be surprised will beget a reaction of surprise therefore it is a self fulfilling prophecy. Ergo it is paradoxically impossible to not be surprised when you expect a surprise because surprise in inevitable either by the expected surprise manifesting itself or surprise at its absence manifesting. You know, if you say the word surprise enough times it stops feeling like a meaningful word. Surprise!
