I have a story.
There was once a boy who only told lies. He lied about his name, he lied about his grades, he lied to his friends, he lied to his parents. He lied to his mailman, he lied to his teacher. He lied to plants, he lied to animals, he lied to living things, he lied to inanimate objects. This boy lived in a Village named Teapot Ville, although he lied and said he lived in Teaspoon Ville. Everyone in his village had alergies to sharks, and even though he too was alergic, he lied and said he wasnt. One day, the lying little boy walked to the village center to go get ice cream, even though he lied and said he was going to the dentist. At the center, he saw the mayor saying he would give anyone who wasn't alergic to sharks and that could tame them an award. The boy lied and said he wasn't alergic and that he could tame sharks. The boy recieved a thousand dollars, and spent it all on ice cream, even though he lied and said he gave it all to charity. Ten years later, the boy was about to graduate from High School because he had lied to all his teachers and lied about studying while he really wrote the answers in his sleeve. The boy then recieved a call from the mayor telling him that the village had a shark problem in the city beach and that they needed a shark tamer to tame the sharks. The little lying boy was forced to walk all the way to the end of the dock so he could perform his shark taming. The boy walked to the end of the dock and tripped, fell into the water, and devoured by sharks. Moral of the story- always tie your shoelaces.
The world is confuzing. I need you to help me understant a couple of these things. I read them after I types in 'paradox' in Wikipedia, and they all confuse me.
1."If this sentence is true, then the world will end in one week."
2."This sentence is false."
3. "If there is an exception to every rule, then every rule must have at least one exception; the exception to this one being that it has no exception."
4. "If a crocodile steals a child and promises its return if the father can correctly guess what the crocodile will do, how should the crocodile respond in the case that the father guesses that the child will not be returned?"
None of them make sense.
And the most confuzing of them all. This is called the Monty Hall Problem:
Suppose you're on a game show and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. The car and the goats were placed randomly behind the doors before the show. The rules of the game show are as follows: After you have chosen a door, the door remains closed for the time being. The game show host, Monty Hall, who knows what is behind the doors, now has to open one of the two remaining doors, and the door he opens must have a goat behind it. If both remaining doors have goats behind them, he chooses one randomly. After Monty Hall opens a door with a goat, he will ask you to decide whether you want to stay with your first choice or to switch to the last remaining door. Imagine that you chose Door 1 and the host opens Door 3, which has a goat. He then asks you "Do you want to switch to Door Number 2?" Is it to your advantage to change your choice?
This will be TTACD Rip-your-hair-off-hard Question. I know the answer. I bet none of you can get it right. If you can get this right and explain, I will award you a TTACD Award.
Anyway, I am giving a review of Up next week.
-Wolfie
