Thanks to a comment a recently recieved from one of the more talented authors I'm blessed with having the acquiantence of I feel it necessary to comment on 'Impossible'. Allow me to reference Webster's New World Dictionary to give a clear definition of the word...
DISCLAIMER--In a future post I will be bashing Webster's so please don't place inordinate amounts of trust in their definitions for the time being.
"Impossible- adj. 1 not capable of being,
being done, or happening 2 not capable of being endured, used, etc. because disagreeable or unsuitable"
--Webster's New World Dictionary
By definition it is impossible for me for survive on the surface of the moon without a suit and helmet to provide me with some basic necessities to keep me alive because there is nearly no air on the surface of the moon, one of the essential substances needed for human survival. Also by definition, a fish cannot live for extended periods of time on land because fish process oxygen from water through gills, and without water, the gills are rendered ineffective.
On this post I will provide a list of occurances I view to be Impossible, and I beckon you my beloved readers to challenge these ideas by leaving a comment beginning with the impossibility you've chosen to refute followed by your argument through any physical, philosophical, or logical means you might think of.
Why would I want to create a forum that seems to be such a waste of time while there are zillions of other possible, achievable, and greatly-needed goals floating around that could be accomplished in the time that I spend on this blog frivolously disputing such trivial matters, you might ask? Because some day I may do something important with my life, or with this blog, and what I do or what I post might someday be relevent. The purpose of this post is to give you, my beloved readers, the opportunity to test my credibility and ability to take a stance and defend my point of view, so if someday we are engaged in another argument, an important relevent argument, we need not waste time on the nonsense of questioning each other's aptitude.
This list will grow over time so check back as often as you'd like, and feel free to provide suggestions of impossibilities to be added onto the list.
RULES
1.Please be mature and respectful
2. "Anything is possible with God" is not a valid answer
3. Be prepared to defend your statements with facts and sources
IMPOSSIBILITIES
- For an earthling to reach another galaxy in the foreseeable future
- For the human race to affect the course of the solar system
- 2+2=5
- To stop the sun from setting
- To be raining on me, while simultaneuously not be raining on me
I enjoy this, and wish I had seen it earlier. Due mainly to my unnatural interest in mathematics, I choose to refute your claim that 2+2 cannot possibly equal 5. Here is why:
ReplyDeletelet us say that the constant c is equal to 1
1=c
1^2 = 1
1^2 = c^2
c=c^2
c-1 = c^2 -1^2
c^2 -1^2 = (c-1)^2
(c-1)÷(c-1)=(c-1)^2÷(c-1)
1 = (c-1)
1 = 1-1
1= 0 now that we have established this, we can say that:
2+2+c = 5 based on the assumption that c = 1 = 0
Now of course the above assertion is completely and unapologetically invalid. 1, of course, is not equal to 0. But can you tell me why?