March 25, 2008

• Paradoxes have been popping up all over the place recently, so I think I’ll do a paradox marathon. (Or perhaps it should be called a parathon, or a maradox.)  I’ll only do one a day beause paradoxes are a mental delicacy, so it’s best to consume them like you would food at a fancy sit down restaurant: nice and slow.  Also, I’ve heard OD’ing on paradoxes isn’t good for your brain.  It could explode or something.

  The first paradox is making fun of someone based on their age.  Lots of seniors in high school make fun of the freshmen for all their intellectual and social shortcomings, like they are the parvenus of the school.  Or some make fun of the elderly because of mental deficiencies or physical handicaps they may have acquired, or something of the like.  The paradox arises when you consider that your life is ultimately the timeline of you living from birth ’til death.  Assuming you live to old age, your life will have been you living at every stage of life.  Thus, when you make fun of someone based on age, you are invariably making fun of yourself. 

  For a given person, then, based on what they have said about people younger or older than them, certain parts of their life must be condemned.  If they make fun of freshmen, they must condemn themself when they think of themself as a freshmen.  Eventually, because they made many derisive pronouncements at different ages about those younger and older than them, a person’s entire life may end up being completely self-condemned. 

  See ya tomorrow!

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