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Ptrikha_2 @ptrikha_2 (49753) • India 18 May 25

Many a times when I come to Mylot, I have a lot of things to talk. To share and discuss. Well, what hits the plans is a lack of time. At times, it is only 15 to 20 minutes before sleeping for the night. And when there are moments...

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Hypersonic or hyper paradox?

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 28 Oct 21

Whether they are wearing suits or thawb or hanfu or whatever cultural garment, men about the world are in the constant business of warring against each other for power domination. How fascinating they walk as if dignity is...

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Zen Koan: The case of one hand clapping

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 26 Aug 21

The koan of the paradoxical idea of one hand being able to clap, has been attributed to the Zen master Hakuin. Hakuin Ekaku was a famous Japanese Zen master, who lived within the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries....

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When does oneness really become full of its own oneness, and not empty?

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 4 Mar 21

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love." That's a quote from, Meister Eckhart, (1260 – 1328 AD) [i]The all-seeing...

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The 2e Tyranny: Twice exceptional - Gifted and learning disabled

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 8 Oct 18

Who out there deals with the situation or condition of being both gifted and learning disabled? What do you do to manage this apparent dichotomy and its social, vocational, and mental health implications? How do you get the help...

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Predestination

Kuttu @Kuttu_007 (1939) • India 1 May 17

Yesterday I saw an Australian movie named 'Predestination'. I was really amazed by the story and the narration. The plot was really very difficult to understand. One thing that really amazed me was that the hero, heroine and...

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Is it a paradox?

Shourov Hasan Pre @shourov101 (65) 8 Jun 16

Once someone very precious to me said "truth is ugly and knowledge is beautiful. But the interesting thing is you only have power to choose. Now it is up to you what you want truth or knowledge?'' I said to him i prefer knowledge...

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Paradox- do you know one?

Hope @1hopefulman (45111) • Canada 30 May 16

I watched a movie entitled Paradox. I didn't like the violence or the movie but the title intrigued me. It was about building a time machine and traveling to the future. However, I did read a story in a magazine once with this...

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life of paradoxes & opposites

jhayem @jhayyem (13) • Philippines 14 Jan 15

at the moment I think I have gotten better, it's the very moment I have gotten worse... I appreciate what others have but don't, what I have. I do what I don't want to do. I easily give in when I strongly feel like not. I...

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The Paradox of Our Age

oldsoul @oldsoul (53) • United States 12 Apr 13

"We have more degrees, but less common sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness. We spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too...

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Love thoughts

spicymary @spicymary (558) • Romania 8 Apr 13

Most of us, men or women, say that we want a self-confident partner, one that has personal passions, life, career, friend, one that has his/her own personality. We can't love somebody that is not in the first place a...

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The Grandfather Paradox

foxontherails @foxontherails (236) • Japan 5 Sep 11

You might've already heard about this paradox... it denies the fact that the cause always comes before the effect. You see, this mad scientist creates a way to travel through time, and goes to kill his grandfather. He is about...

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Do you believe that paradox keep pulling us backwards?

akangirl @akangirl (2435) • India 28 Jan 11

In real life you might have heard lots of paradoxical statements for example don't go near the water 'til you have learned how to swim.I want to learn swimming....here it is a change,but, invariably, we are told not get into...

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inexpensive VS. unemployed

magicchou @magicchou (163) • China 2 Jan 11

It is a paradox that some citizens in developed countries are happy to buy inexpensive goods from developing countries. But they are facing a problems that is they lose many kinds of jobs especially jobs in manufacturing...

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Paradoxes & time travels

RADDDDs @RADDDDs (26) • Spain 14 Oct 10

So have you ever been thinking of things like: what would happen if i go back in time and I kill myself yesterday. What would happen then? It would become an unresolvable paradox because if i dont live since yesterday i cannot...

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Time travel?

jakccorp @jakccorp (60) • Canada 5 Dec 09

So time travel can never be possible because it would create a paradox like this example: 1. Make a time machine 2. Go back in time 3. Kill your father when he was a kid 4. Since your father died, you wont be born 5. Since...

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How to diminish hurt and easy to forget???

riani2009 @riani2009 (581) • Indonesia 17 Nov 09

I ever get hurt by some people, I say to myself that I will forgive them but not easy to forget. It is like paradox in my mind on the other hand I want to let the pain or hurt away from my heart but how come it is not easy? Is it...

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do you believe that time travelling is possible

werdan88 @werdan88 (272) • Philippines 30 Oct 09

Time Travel That is moving from one time to anoher is another fantasy created by science fiction. A lot of us would like to travel back in time, perhaps to fix past mistakes we had. Severakl arguments are presented in time...

Examples of Paradox

regal_aeros @regal_aeros (2605) • Singapore 14 Jan 09

Well... I'm having a test that has one of it's topic on Paradoxes. To help me understand better, and for me to gain more marks whilst answering the essay, could you guys please give me some examples of a paradox? The...

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What if magic were to be real?

spiderlizard22 @spiderlizard22 (3443) • United States 10 Jan 09

If magic is real or magic does exist wouldn't it be difficult or impossible to control it since there is no logical explantation to how it works? How can one control magic if there is no explanation to how magic works? With...

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