Zeno’s Revenge

I had this professor back in college. I guess I grew up in a time when we realized not all professors were very bright. Maybe I grew up since. Anyway, this professor gave us an assignment to answer Zeno’s Paradox. Here’s how it goes. Zeno asked, “How long does it take an arrow to reach the target?” Old Zeno was a Greek. Philosophers love to answer their own questions. “Oh, I know,” said Zeno. “Stay with me now. The arrow can never get to the target, because before it gets to the target it must travel half way to the target. And before it gets half way to the target it must get one fourth the way to the target and before it gets one fourth the way to the target,” and so forth. “Therefore it can never reach the target.” Legend has it Zeno didn’t just answer his own […]

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In Defense of the Realm

When much younger, listen to me children, I wrote out my heart on pieces of paper and sent them all away out to the world and the world unfailingly threw them back into my face, all of them into a face they never knew.   Oh yes, rejected, neglected, incarcerated without trial or appeal they kept their counsel and I kept mine, changed by their changelessness.   For you see, the inscrutables are right. Every no engenders yes somewhere else. I’m OK with that. Really, I’m OK.   You never know what I’ve discovered and you keep rejecting me the way you always have you never will. ♠

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