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Give me time to think. After much thoughts, I shall come back to answer the question.

Is getting run down by an ambulance a paradox?

oloyede252:
You,you and only you will read it.
No offIence TOO LONg

You, you, and only you will be ignorant.
No offence.

I would like to know if this, too, is a paradox:

A certain village was invaded with a plague of vermin, farmers complained of the damage done to their crops, houseowners lamented about how they had to battle with mice everyday. The king decided to find a lasting solution about how to get rid of the mice. He sent a message to the townspeople that they should begin to hunt the animals for a price. When you catch or kill a mouse, you shall be paid a certain amount of money. You would get twice the amount when you catch or kill two, and so on.

This was an idea meant to eradicate the invasion of vermin in the village. And because money was involved, villagers attacked any mouse with gumption. But instead of the mice to reduce, their number was actually growing, exponentially. Some villagers had to be smuggling mice into the village from other villages. Some were even keeping them and making them multiply so that they could receive more money.

In a few days after the king had promised a reward for every mouse caught or killed, the village was filled with ten times more mice than the initial number.

The solution to the problem turned out to worsen the problem.

AllNaijaBlogger, brilliant. Absolutely brilliant!

Sheikwonder, you're truly a wonder. I like how your mind works.

Sheikwonder:
Sadly,no....I do all my chess via my computer or on a board...no phones...

I don't think it's exclusive to phones alone.

Sheikwonder:
Are you registered on any chess site,besides chess.com?

I have an online chess application. It's called Chess Time. I don't know if you have it too. It's on Playstore.

Sheikwonder:
Because I am getting tired,I will post a link to it...quite simply,if an hotel with infinitely many rooms is full,can it still take in more guests?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel


Do you play chess online?

Okay. Thanks.

Not always. But I would play online with you if you could tell me what to do.

Sheikwonder:
I am well acquainted with the Grandfather paradox.

Have you heard of the paradox of the grand hotel?


By the way,on a scale of 0-10,how would you rate your chess?

Can you kindly explain the paradox of the grand hotel?

I would rate myself a definite 7.

Sheikwonder:
Cc Larrysun

You are right to assume that I play chess.

I realize though that the concept of paradoxes is highly confusing to many and despite my best efforts,I seem to fall short of properly explaining them. It thus gladdens my heart to see that there are a few folks out there who finds paradoxes fascinating.


The chicken and egg debate has raged on for ages.It is a quite uncanny one,even for creationists who believe the biblical creation story,thus opting for the chicken.

Paradoxes of entailment and infinity still rank high among my favorites.they help in promoting critical thinking.



As they say,it takes one to know one. You play chess too,yes?

In that regard, the Fibonacci sequence may be considered a numerical paradox.

However, there is one particular kind of paradox that always fascinates. It's The Grandfather Paradox.

It is a proposed paradox of time travel which results in an inconsistency through changing the past. It explains the age-old argument of preventing your birth by killing your grandparents.

For example, a time traveller goes back in time and kills his grandfather before his grandfather meets his grandmother.

As a result, the time traveller is never born. But, if he was never born, then he is
unable to travel through time and kill his grandfather, which means the traveller
would then be born after all, and so on.

Yes, I play chess.

A thread for great thinkers. The OP must be a good chess player.

One life for a thousand years, or ten lives for a hundred years each?

All is a logic of choice and belief. To be, or not to be?

Logically, which came first: The chicken or the egg?

Can the immediate question above be regarded as a paradox? There are paradoxical situations all around us. I extensively studied paradoxes when I was about to begin my 'The Paradox of Abel'. In my research, I arrived at the conclusion that paradoxes are basically spiral cats chasing their own tails.

Thanks, my Ishilove, for the mention.

12. The Tulip Staircase Ghost

The story behind this picture was that on Sunday 19th June 1966, an old retire couple from Canada – decided to visit the Queen’s house due to the much speculation and hype of being haunted. While he was standing near the Tulip staircase, the old man took a picture of it and when it was later developed, there was a ghostly figure ascending the staircase in pursuit of a second and a third other ghostly figure on top of staircase (which is not quite clear in the photo) The camera roll was examined by researchers and they found no evidence of any kind of tampering done with the roll. At the time the photograph was taken (between 5.15pm and 5.30pm) the old man’s wife claimed that was standing with him and confirmed there was nothing on the stairs. The staircase itself was closed with a rope and ‘No Admittance’ sign. Strange shadowy apparitions and unexplainable noises of footsteps have been constantly reported near the Tulip Staircase by both staff and visitors. There have also been sightings of a pale woman who is seen wiping blood from the bottom of the staircase. She is believed to be the ghost of a maid who came over the highest banister and died at the foot of the stairs 300 years back. One can also sometimes hear creepy disembodied chanting of children which seem to be coming from within the Queens House.

Source: http://inyminy.com/22-creepy-photos-real-ghosts-will-make-skin-crawl/

11. The Healer White Lady of Worstead Church, Norfolk,
UK.

In 1975, Diane and Peter Berthelot along with their 12-year-old son visited the Worstead Church. Peter snapped a picture of his wife praying in silence on one of the church benches. After development, off course, a friend of Mrs. Berthelot was shocked to see a white shadowy figure sitting right behind her and
pointed it out. The figure in the photo appears to be wearing light-colored, old-fashioned clothes and a bonnet. The following summer, The Berthelots would return back to the Worstead Church with the photo and inquire about it with Reverend Pettit, who happened to be the church vicar. He told them about the legend of the White Lady who is known to be a healer making an appearance near someone who needed healing. Diane suddenly realized that the time the photograph was taken, she was quite ill and taking strong antibiotics. The ghost of the White Lady dates back well over 100 years. According to one story, on Christmas Eve of 1830 a man boasted a challenge to the White Lady. He said he would climb to the top of the church’s belfry and kiss her if she would appear. So up he went. When he failed to reappear after a time, however, friends went to search for him. They found him in the belfry, cowering in a corner, terrified. “I’ve seen her,” he told them, “I’ve seen her….” And then he died.

10. The Backseat Driver

In 1959, Mable Chinnery went to the cemetery to visit the grave of her mother along with her husband. She took some photos of the gravesite and then turned and took this picture of her husband sitting alone in the car’s passenger seat. The film was developed and this came out: Somebody sitting in the backseat wearing glasses, clear as day. Mrs. Chinnery swore that the "backseat driver” was none other than her own mother whose grave site she was standing next to when she took the picture!

9. The Ghost of Freddy Jackson

As a squadron of the Royal Air Force assembled together to take a group photo in 1919, no one realized that they would find Freddy Jackson accompanying them in the picture taken by retired RAF Officer Sir Victor Goddard. Freddy Jackson was a mechanic for the Royal Air Force who served on-board the H.M.S. Daedalus. He was brutally killed two days earlier by accidentally strolling into a spinning propeller blade; which caused instant death. His funeral was held the very next day. But eerie as it may sound, Freddy Jackson returned just two days later as a ghost for one final time to be a part of the group photo. Several of the other men in the photo confirmed that it was in fact Jackson’s face in the background of the picture.

8. The Cemetery Ghost Child

This picture was taken by a woman named Mrs. Andrews while on a visit to her daughter’s grave at a cemetery in Queensland, Australia in the 1940s. The daughter, Joyce before the age of 17. Mrs. Andrews saw nothing unusual while taking this photograph of her daughter’s tombstone. But when she got it developed, she was shocked to see the apparition of what looked like the ghost of a young girl sitting on the grave. Mrs. Andrews was unable to recognize the child nor believed it to be the ghost of her daughter in her youth. Upon further investigation, paranormal researchers found the gravesite of Mrs. Andrews daughter to be near the graves of two infant girls. The ghost in the picture seems to be aware of Mrs. Andrews presence as she is seen looking directly at the camera. Poor soul…so young.

7. The SS Watertown Ghosts

The SS Watertown ghosts are classic examples of real ghosts caught on film. The story behind the photograph dates back to December 1924. The SS Watertown was making its way to the Panama Canal from New York City. Crewmen Seaman James
Courtney and Michael Meehan were assigned to clean out a cargo tank of the oil tanker as the ship sailed through the Pacific Ocean. But as tragedy has it, the seamen were overcome by gas fumes during the task and died before help could reach them.
Following the tradition of the sea, their bodies were committed to the ocean on December 4th. The following day, just before dusk, the first mate reported seeing the faces of the two men in the waves off the port side of the ship. They were seen for 10
seconds but then faded. For several days after that, the crew reported consistently seeing the phantom-like faces of the doomed sailors in the water who seemed to be following the ship every now and then. The entire ship was in uproar. Once the ship arrived at New Orleans, the ship’s captain, Keith Tracy, reported the strange events to his employers, the Cities Service Company, who suggested he try to photograph the eerie faces. In the continuing voyage, Captain Tracy took 6 snapshots, once the ghosts were spotted again, out of which 5 showed nothing but foam upon development but the 6th photo clearly showed the doomed sailors’ floating heads in the sea. From then on, there have been frequent sightings of the SS Watertown ghosts by many ships and sailors in the following years, doomed to roam the sea for their untimely and tragic deaths.

6. The Ghost at The Waverly Hills Sanitarium, Kentucky.

Coughing up blood, over crowded, understaffed, bizarre unethical twisted treatments, “Welcome to Waverly Hills Sanatorium” – a medical facility that was once dedicated to treat patients suffering from Tuberculosis, long before the modern cure was discovered. Without the antibiotics, the hospital provided the only known cure at that time – fresh air and sunshine, and thus the patients spent the majority of their time in the solarium-like porch ways. There were many other unethical ways that were used to treat patients which were downright dangerous and only 5% patients survived the treatment. It is believed that as many as 8000 patient dead bodies were carelessly thrown down a chute and then taken out of the building through an underground tunnel. This method of disposing the bodies was kept confidential by doctor’s orders who wanted patients to be unaware of the quantity of dead bodies. But with the discovery of the antibiotic, that could successfully treat and cure tuberculosis, the sanatorium was closed down. Many believe that the spirits of the patients still roam about the hospital in search of answers. The most famous being of a nurse named Mary Lee who happen to contract the disease. But the story takes a horrific twist when she was found hanging from a light apparatus in Room 502. Some believe she took her life after she found out that she was was pregnant with the child from one of the doctors and unmarried. Tragically her body lay undiscovered for a long time. The picture below is of the ghostly figure captured on camera, who is believed to be of Mary Lee….forever roaming the corridors of the hospital groaning in pain.

5. The Ghost of Oak Grove, Kentucky.

Also known as The Ghost Bridge , it is surrounded by several different versions of the story. But only one of them can be verified. The ghost roaming the bridge is of an unfortunate wife who was thrown off the bridge into the water and killed by her soldier husband in the 1960’s. One story also mentions that on a certain night you can see her decomposing body walking the area under the bridge or on top of the bridge. It is said that if you happen to turn your car off on the bridge it will not start again unless you push it off the bridge or till the sun comes up!

4. The Pickens County Courthouse Ghost

Popularly known as the Face in the Window, the mysterious face staring out of the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama is one of Alabama’s best known ghost. It can be sighted anytime – day or night constantly staring out of a window. The story revolves around a former slave named Henry Wells, freed
at the end of Civil War. Legend holds that he was accused of burning the Courthouse to ashes. Arrested but pursued by a lynch mob, Wells is said to have fled to hide in the attic of the third courthouse, which was under construction. As the angry mob searched frantically for him, Wells peered out of a window to watch. To his shock, however, lightning struck him at that very moment and forever etched his face on the window. It is widely believed to this day that the ghostly face of Henry
Wells continues to peer down from the courthouse window.

3. The Amityville Ghost

In the early morning hours of November 13 1974, Ronald DeFeao Jr. , fatally shot his father, two brothers and sister. The bodies were found face down on the respective beds with no signs of bullet wounds on the corpses or any struggle. And even though
the neighbors lived close-by, none of them heard sounds, screams or noises. Mr. DeFeao claimed that ghosts were present during the events and had guided him into eliminating his siblings though his original intent was just to execute his father. The home at 112 Ocean Avenue eventually went up for sale and was later purchased by George and Kathy Lutz. Though they were told by the realtor about the tragedy, the Lutz’s were so enamored with the home, pool, garage and 4,000 square feet of waterfront that they immediately made an offer. The next 28 days followed a set of horrific paranormal activities that would shock the Lutz family. From the possessed suicidal dog to the image half headed demon on the wall, green slime running off of keyholes and spirits staring blankly through the bedroom windows, the Lutz family constantly encountered a ghostly presence in the doomed house. Finally, when they could take it no more, they were forced to evacuate the house in a hurry. They called in investigators to study the place, all of whom claimed to have felt a strange presence in the house. One of the investigators happened to click a photo of the boy ghost peeking out of a room.

2. The Hospital Demon

This photo was captured by a nurse on a surveillance camera at an unknown hospital. The images shows a dark, crouched figure (resembling a demon) standing on top of a patient’s body who was lying in bed. The nurse also noticed the black figure walking
up and down the body of the patient. The patient had died within a few hours of the black figure's appearance. As creepy as it may sound, demon-like figures have been reportedly seen at a hospitals. Some say hospitals are the breeding ground for
demons, its where they lurk about, waiting for the next soul to die so they can drag them to hell.

1. The Cooper Family Hanging Ghost

As scary as it looks, this picture has been shrouded in mystery for years now and it is probably one of the most peculiar ghosts caught on camera. The story goes back to the mid 1950s taking place in Texas. The Cooper family had just moved into an old house that they bought and were really excited about it. So, they thought of preserving this memory by taking a picture of the whole family in their new home. But little did they know that there was someone else joining in on their celebration – a spooky figure hanging upside down from the ceiling.

WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR THE FAINT AT
HEART. These are scary images of real ghosts caught
on camera that will send chills down your spine!

I've never believed in ghosts, but these images just made a believer out of me.