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@ The Ben Gunn
2025-05-31 06:47:13
nostr:nprofile1qy28wue69uhnzv3h9cczuvpwxyargwpk8yhsz3rhwvaz7tmed3c8qarfxaj8s6mrw96kvef5dve8wdrsvve8vvehwamxx7rnwejnw6n0d3axu6t3w93kg7tfwechqutvv5ekc6ty9ehku6t0dchsqgrwg6zz9hahfftnsup23q3mnv5pdz46hpj4l2ktdpfu6rhpthhwjv0us2s2 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.