Interested in a bit of light reading? Check out Wikipedia’s List of Paradoxes, I’ve been reading through this now for an hour or so. Some of the ones I found interesting:

• Omnipotence paradox – Can an omnipotent being (ie: “God”) create an object so heavy that he/she could not lift it?
• Control paradox – “Man can never be free of control, for to be free of control is to be controlled by oneself.”
• Grandfather paradox – If you go back in time and cause the death of your grandfather before he bore children, your father/mother would not exist to bear you, thus you would not exist, thus you could not go back in time to cause the death of your grandfather.
• Epicurean paradox – “Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?”
• Predestination paradox – “A classic example occurs in the film Somewhere in Time, in which a pocket watch is given to a young man by an older woman, only for the younger man to travel back in time, then give it to that same woman’s younger self, who then goes on to give it to him. At no point is it ever revealed where the watch came from.”

And there’s a tonne of others, but I’ll be forever if I try and list all the ones that caught my interest.

Wikipedia has this effect on me, the effect where I can’t tear myself away from reading trivial information. Just ask anyone that knows me, they’ll tell you that I’m just bursting with useless knowledge, the kind of things that some people know, that most people don’t, that one day you’ll wonder about, and I’ll be there with an answer. What can I say, I thrive on knowing those things that just might impress someone some day… most of the time though I just get a funny look.