Is it possible to be someone that you’re not?

If you can conceive of it, is it possible to say that you don’t believe it exists at all?

Do the terms ‘9’ and ‘the number of the planets’ name one and the same abstract entity, yet must still be regarded as unlike in meaning?  Please assume the Pluto debate has been settled in favor of Pluto being regarded (properly) as a planet.

If spanking children worked for my mother, why won’t it work for me?

Why do people often come closer together when one of them begins to move apart?

When Gödel solved relativity by canceling time as a variable out, was it mathematical trickery, or the science fiction novel on which I should now be working?

“By completing a sufficiently long round trip in a rocket ship, a resident of Gödel’s universe could travel back to any point in his own past.” (Jim Holt)

Is it nature or nurture that makes my identical twin brother so different from me?

When I think of something, why do I think of that thing instead of something else?

Would I be happier as a dog?

 

Would I have been happier one thousand years ago, living in the woods of North America as a native american?  I disallow any arguments against this borne of Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.  Yes, I think antibiotics are great.  What makes life worth living though?

Why does my wife insist that there are not different sizes to infinity when I can explain quite clearly that there are?

Why do people say math lacks feelings and emotion when it has plainly been the source of many ugly arguments for centuries or more?

If God did ever actually talk to you, how could you be sure it was God talking?  Do you think you need a witness?  Friend or stranger?  How many?  What would God have to do to prove it was really God?  If you were convinced, would you do whatever God told you to do?

If not everything I’ve asked is a true paradox, would it make it all a paradox for me to ask if it’s all a paradox?  Or would I have to ask that recursively, and without a base case?

Would I be happier as a dog?