Gigi (nprofile…s2s2) taught me about paradox, and the world doesnt look the same since. Just so I'm sure i'm not plagiarizing work of his - credit to that bugger - he's a good 'un. .
Paradoxes reveal deep truth. And when the truth is close by, it is so exact and profound - it divides all affairs into extremes, and things are at their most extremely contradictory, often sad and amazing at the same time, when you are closer and closer to the truth.
I find it easier to attribute it to a failure of language. Where our ink scratchings and honks and hisses are too low fidelity to capture what we see and feel.
A fool will dismiss a paradox as proof of a failure of reality. But language is subordinate to natural law and universal truth. We do not judge the superior with the means of the subordinate.
A real paradox, when found, is simply a gate to pass through.
BenGunn / The Ben Gunn
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2025-05-31 06:47:13
in reply to nevent1q…0ac6
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