I am the stupid brother.
Both my brothers have pulled straight A's in school all their lives. I haven't, but I'm not really that far behind.

Today I was talking to my little brother (Fourteen, almost fifteen.) about Zeno's arrow paradox. We had a heated argument about it, that basically ended in him shouting "OF COURSE THE ARROW IS MOVING IT JUST IS."

Cue my big brother walking in, and me and him having a bigger debate about logic and the concept of infinity and zero, whilst my little brother got more frustrated and stormed off to bed, this time angry at the dichotomy paradox.

Is this normal?

I love my brothers.
(Angry Beaver, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 0:25, 10 replies)

Well, I think it's normal
I had a similar debate with my nephew today. He was struggling to grasp the concept that an object moving across a straight line has a zero probability of being in any particular location, including a location on the straight line, so how can it be said that it actually crosses the line?

To be fair he is only 12, and he brought the question up in the first place, but he wasn't at all happy with my answers...
(Armour Dillow, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 1:28, closed)

It all sounds a bit homoerotic.

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 1:38, closed)

i just ended a heated debate with my four year old son
about whether alfred jarry was a con artist or a true genius.
said son was of the opinion that ubu rex and the ubu plays are not only a nonsense, but completely untalented, so i sent him to bed early.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 1:48, closed)

incest will get you nowhere

( Derek Monte subthread killer: qu'est-ce que c'est, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 1:50, closed)

I love your brothers
deeply.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 1:51, closed)

I remember having a discussion about Wittgenstein with my brother while we were still in my dad's ballsack
even without a full complement of chromosomes we agreed that the world consists of independent atomic facts and that the world is the totality of the facts
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 1:53, closed)

bet you're all wishing you were clever like me now

( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 5:20, closed)

*tumbleweed*
( scoshi pretending to diet since, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 9:38, closed)

Every time
I read a Zeno paradox I just feel that they're a slightly more mature way of saying "I know you are but what am I?" . . . "I know you are but what am I?"

Loadaballs. IMO.
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 10:10, closed)

Zeno
...is, basically, just wrong.
(Lex scripta, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 20:30, closed)