I was chatting with my room mate last night and we were talking about how some things in life are great paradoxes, can contradict themselves and then she remembered that one of our instructors B. Bozkurt, had handed them out a paper full of paradoxes. I thought they were pretty funny and interesting, something to laugh at and also to get you thinking. Like for example "Please Ignore This Notice" so the sign is about ignoring the sign that you're reading, hmm.. did we really need a sign so that people would not pay attention to it,haha. "The hour which gives us life begins to take it away" (Seneca) its true though, every single moment we are getting older and it's as if time is our enemy, time is not giving life but taking it away, heeey that's not fair!
"A banker will lend you money only if you can prove that you don't need it" now that's something to think about, a bank will give you the money you need any time that you don't need it, so tell me again why is the bank lending me money? "In the theater, the audience wants to be surprised- but by things that they expect" (Tristan Bernard) this is soo true, we all love surprises but we only love them if we already know what they are, we don't like being surprised by something that we weren't expecting..so again what is the true meaning of surprise?..
"I was never less alone than when by myself" (Edward Gibbon) aaahh a personal favorite of mine, sometimes you feel that you yourself are many people speaking at the same time because there are so many thoughts running through your head that being by yourself is equal to being with a large crowd. "To save the town, it became necessary to destroy it." (American officer during the Vietnam war,1968), need I say more? Sometimes destroying can actually be restoring, weird, paradoxical but so true. "Groucho Marx once said that "he refused to join any club that would have him for a member" this is a good way to refuse to be a part of anything =) so he doesn't want to join a club, but he also wants to...can a person be apart from a club with being considered a member? Something to think about, Marx's real intention was probably to get others confused so that they would spend their time trying to figure out what he meant. And something I believe which is true for a lot of journalists is “To have no thoughts and be able to express them that's what makes a journalist” (Karl Kraus) …
Sibel Muradođlu (ELIT/IV)
