paradox
Original: paradox on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (looking up): "Hey God, how come you permitted paradoxical statements, like 'This sentence is false'?"
God (speech from a purple bubble): "Oh, get over it."
Panel 2:
God (purple bubble): "It's obvious if you create sentences that refer to their own qualities, all sorts of shit is going to happen."
Panel 3:
Woman: "What about the Yablo paradox?"
God (purple bubble): "Eh?"
Panel 4:
Woman: "You make an infinite list of statements, each of which says 'All the statements lower in the list are false.'"
God (purple bubble): "So?"
Panel 5:
Woman: "So pick one of them. If, say, the 17th one is true, then all the statements after it are false. But then you look at the 18th one, and it says everything that comes after it is false. According to the 17th statement, that's true, which makes the 17th statement false!"
Panel 6:
God (purple bubble): "God, are you there.?"
Panel 7:
God (yellow speech bubble with purple outline): "Sorry, I'm just seeing if I can flood all the philosophy departments."
Votey:
Handwritten caption (scrawled): "I just wanna [...] innocent gets hurt." Below it, a simple line-drawing sketch of the woman's profile.
Woman (looking up): "Hey God, how come you permitted paradoxical statements, like 'This sentence is false'?"
God (speech from a purple bubble): "Oh, get over it."
Panel 2:
God (purple bubble): "It's obvious if you create sentences that refer to their own qualities, all sorts of shit is going to happen."
Panel 3:
Woman: "What about the Yablo paradox?"
God (purple bubble): "Eh?"
Panel 4:
Woman: "You make an infinite list of statements, each of which says 'All the statements lower in the list are false.'"
God (purple bubble): "So?"
Panel 5:
Woman: "So pick one of them. If, say, the 17th one is true, then all the statements after it are false. But then you look at the 18th one, and it says everything that comes after it is false. According to the 17th statement, that's true, which makes the 17th statement false!"
Panel 6:
God (purple bubble): "God, are you there.?"
Panel 7:
God (yellow speech bubble with purple outline): "Sorry, I'm just seeing if I can flood all the philosophy departments."
Votey:
Handwritten caption (scrawled): "I just wanna [...] innocent gets hurt." Below it, a simple line-drawing sketch of the woman's profile.
Alt text
A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic. A woman with curly orange hair talks to God, who speaks only through floating purple speech bubbles (God is never shown). Panel 1: she asks, 'Hey God, how come you permitted paradoxical statements, like "This sentence is false"?' God replies, 'Oh, get over it.' Panel 2: God says it's obvious that self-referential sentences cause trouble. Panel 3: she asks, 'What about the Yablo paradox?' and God says, 'Eh?' Panel 4: she explains it as an infinite list of statements each saying all the statements below it are false. God says, 'So?' Panel 5: she lays out the contradiction in detail, ending '...which makes the 17th statement false!' Panel 6: God has gone silent; she asks, 'God, are you there?' Panel 7: God answers from a yellow speech bubble, 'Sorry, I'm just seeing if I can flood all the philosophy departments.' The joke: God treats the logical paradox as a denial-of-service attack on philosophers. Votey: a loose hand-drawn sketch of the woman's profile with the scrawled caption '...innocent gets hurt.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.