paradoxi

 Well Gentlemen here we are in the month of sloth.  Stepped out to the garden early this morning and I swear the morning glories were yawning and the tomatoes were thinking about yawning but were too lazy to even stretch their viney arms.

And I myself, normally a coffee-buzzed fiend around sunrise, am not feeling much oomph about writing a post today, but I hate these long gaps in posts, makes me feel that The Institution, once buzzing with blarney, is fading away.

The last exchange between myself and Old Dog was kind of peculiar.  Pretty sure that Old Dog was spoofing, as I was with that that NEVERTHELESS, Nevertheless post.  

Anyway I thought that Old Dog had a clever paradox with  we all know that all generalizations are invalid. This is like the ancient Greek barber who shaved all men who didn't shave themselves, or (1) All men are liars (2) I am a man.

If one wanted to be argumentative, one could say that that particular statement is an exception to the thrust of all generalizations are invalid and not only that, it is the exception that proves the rule.

The exception that proves the rule sounds, well it sort of sounds true, doesn't every rule have an exception, and therefore when you find it that proves the rule?   No.  That doesn't mean anything.  The whole phrase is balderdash.  It comes from something Cicero said, which was of course in Latin, and by the time you translate it and make some word changes you can come up with the phrase, but the truth is pretty much what you expected when you first heard it, nothing.

And you know this whole thing about flying saucers is full of paradoxes.  If the green guys are flying these incredible machines, whose very existence indicates they have a very advanced technical society, that they are keeping a secret from us, why do we see them all the time?  Ah, but maybe they are doing that on purpose in order to confuse us and make us set up some committee to investigate them, and if we do that are we not unwittingly doing the bidding of the aliens?

It's August.  I am ready for a nap.