Chester's Paradox

[tpbaxter]

Hello Ladies & Gentlemen,

I have created this thread to discuss chester's various avatars that of a paradoxical nature. Our latest installment is that of a chicken crossing a road, or so it seems...

http://www.lost.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=938&stc=1&d=1248308207

The only clue I have to go on for this one is that chester said according to Zeno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes) the chicken never makes it to the other side. I have no idea what that means but perhaps other posters can help me on this one.

God speed!

[wiley]

Hello Ladies & Gentlemen,

I have created this thread to discuss chester's various avatars that of a paradoxical nature. Our latest installment is that of a chicken crossing a road, or so it seems...

http://www.lost.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=938&stc=1&d=1248308207

The only clue I have to go on for this one is that chester said according to Zeno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes) the chicken never makes it to the other side. I have no idea what that means but perhaps other posters can help me on this one.

God speed!

The chicken is observing traffic laws, he can't cross a solid yellow line.

[chester]

I can't see the pic. Is it supposed to be the chicken avitar?

[tpbaxter]

I can't see the pic. Is it supposed to be the chicken avitar?

Yeah. It's just a copy of your avatar. Try the attachment to this one?

http://www.lost.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=939&d=1248309373

by the way, it reminds me of this album cover for some reason:

http://www.mortesubita.org/sinfonias/artigos/The%20Fat%20of%20The%20Land.jpg

[Here'sLOCKEing at you,Kid]

So... One might really ask...did the chicken actually CROSS the road or did the road perhaps move BENEATH the CHICKEN, in which case, said chicken, in effect, never really moved at all! AH! Now we are on to something....
(put that in your pipe and post it on your simple minds thread, Chessie):D:D

[boutte]

If the chicken crosses the road because he wants to be on the other side he can never accomplish that goal because the act of reaching the other side means that he's not there because it's not the other side anymore is it?

[Here'sLOCKEing at you,Kid]

The OTHER side can be quite elusive...

[stargazer]

Sigmund Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying insecurity.

[LincolnEcho06]

Here's one, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for.

http://thetvaddict.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/lost_brain.jpg

[chester]

I think the chicken was crossing the road because it was being chased by the photographer's accomplice. But, on the way accross it got to thinking about Zeno's arrow and just froze in mid air. Blurry feet and all.

[Here'sLOCKEing at you,Kid]

Here's one, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for.

http://thetvaddict.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/lost_brain.jpg

cool. how'd you do that?

[bunnydixon]

I think the chicken was crossing the road because it was being chased by the photographer's accomplice. But, on the way accross it got to thinking about Zeno's arrow and just froze in mid air. Blurry feet and all.

the real question here folks - where the hall are the hedgehogs?

[tpbaxter]

the real question here folks - where the hall are the hedgehogs?

huh? :confused:

this forum is getting confusing.

[bunnydixon]

huh? :confused:

this forum is getting confusing.

leotard too tight?

[DarkPhoenix-24]

I think the chicken was crossing the road in order to get to an available tv to watch LOST......

[sj256]

I was under the impression that it was the toys crossing the road to get to the chicken on the other side.

[JohnQ]

I crossed that road and only found chicken turds. :D

[chester]

I crossed that road and only found chicken turds. :D

Hmmm, so maybe it was food it was after then?

[JohnQ]

Hmmm, so maybe it was food it was after then?

It was looking for a nice omelette.

[Here'sLOCKEing at you,Kid]

Lockeing's paradox.....
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll308/lockekid/jackjuliet.jpg
get it???

[JohnQ]

Nice pair ya got there Mrs. Linus. :D

[chester]

Here's one.

http://www.bestactever.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/pinocchio-paradox.jpg

[LissaMarie]

Is Pinnochio thinking of a lie that is going to cause his nose to grow? Simply stating that his nose will grow without telling a lie would in fact be a lie, causing his nose to grow....hence the paradox, I suppose! Clever as always, Chester!

[chester]

Ummm, yes that's right. I think. Pinnochio says, "My nose will now grow". If it does grow, then he wasn't telling a lie and his nose should not have grown. If it doesn't grow then he is telling a lie and his nose should then grow, but then it wouldn't be a lie, etc.

[bunnydixon]

based on the assumption that the rule of lie = nose growth hasnt changed ;)

[chester]

based on the assumption that the rule of lie = nose growth hasnt changed ;)

:p

And based on the assumption that the meaning of all the words in the sentence haven't changed too, I guess.

[bunnydixon]

:p

And based on the assumption that the meaning of all the words in the sentence haven't changed too, I guess.

well no - thats just silly :rolleyes:

:D

[tpbaxter]

For future reference, this is chester's latest avatar at the time of posting this.

http://www.gifford.co.uk/~principia/Illusions/images/dalmatian.gif

After digging around this appears to be some kind of dalmation (http://www.gifford.co.uk/~principia/Illusions/dalmatian.htm)? Only after reading it is a dalmation did I start seeing a dog in that picture. Before that i thought it might be some kind of alligator.

My question is, does this avatar contain some sort of paradox?

[Here'sLOCKEing at you,Kid]

For future reference, this is chester's latest avatar at the time of posting this.

http://www.gifford.co.uk/~principia/Illusions/images/dalmatian.gif

After digging around this appears to be some kind of dalmation (http://www.gifford.co.uk/~principia/Illusions/dalmatian.htm)? Only after reading it is a dalmation did I start seeing a dog in that picture. Before that i thought it might be some kind of alligator.

My question is, does this avatar contain some sort of paradox?

NO, NO, NO! It's a horse!
and THIS is a paradox~~ http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll308/lockekid/jackjuliet.jpg get it pair o' docs? heehee

[1hourisntlongenough]

OMG, that's hilarious!!!:D:D

[rachelskid]

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?


Plato: For the greater good.

Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration,
as a chicken which has the daring and courage to
boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom
among them has the strength to contend with such a
paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the
princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its
pancreas.

Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered
within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and
each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial
intent can never be discerned, because structuralism
is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!

Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment
would let it take.

Douglas Adams: Forty-two.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road
gazes also across you.

Oliver North: National Security was at stake.

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its
sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a
fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while
believing these actions to be of its own free will.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt
necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at
this historical juncture, and therefore
synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself,
the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the
objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came
into being which caused the actualization of this
potential occurrence.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed
the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-
nature.

Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing
events to grace the annals of history. An historic,
unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt
such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to
homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.

Salvador Dali: The Fish.

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from
the trees.

Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.

Epicurus: For fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken
was on, but it was moving very fast.

David Hume: Out of custom and habit.

Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored)
reason.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

Ronald Reagan: I forget.

John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the
transportation, so quite understandably the chicken
availed himself of the opportunity.

The Sphinx: You tell me.

Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!

Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow
out of life.

Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Molly Yard: It was a hen!

Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.

Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.

Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.

The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that.

Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings.

Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.

Othello: Jealousy.

Dr Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have,
you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the
Need to resist such a public Display of your own
lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.

Mrs Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning.

Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph.

Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in
town ought never expose one to such barbarous
inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a
road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the
chicken in question.

Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade
insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.

Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome,
filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume
to question the actions of one in all respects his
superior.

Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.

Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of
misplaced concreteness.

Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter)

Hamlet: That is not the question.

Donne: It crosseth for thee.

Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey.

Constable: To get a better view.

[Jelena]

NO, NO, NO! It's a horse!
and THIS is a paradox~~ http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll308/lockekid/jackjuliet.jpg get it pair o' docs? heehee

That's brilliant Lockeing!