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2006-08-22 : True Perfection
True perfection has to be imperfect. If you�re perfect at everything, then you have to be perfect at being imperfect as well! Of course, this is a paradox, but perhaps one with a few significant loopholes�

First, the assumption is made that it is possible to �perfect� being imperfect. That�s unlikely to happen, because while there�s a limit to perfection (i.e. when you�re perfect you can�t improve any more, by definition) whereas there is no similar limit to imperfection. You can just keep getting worse and worse and worse! Of course you may argue that there�s a limit to how bad you can get, but I�d like to see some proof. The point is that this may be a nonsense statement; the perfecting of imperfection.

Second, if you are perfect in all aspects save one, namely the abovementioned quality of �imperfection�, then you are almost perfect, virtually perfect, or approaching perfection. Therefore the amount by which you lack to perfection is negligible. Therefore although due to the paradox, true perfection is undefined, by mathematical logic we can show that as you increase your skill in all aspects you approach true perfection. Hence being perfect at imperfection is not significant and is an anomaly.

Third, the concept of perfection differs from person to person. What is perfect to you may not be perfect to me. Hence due to its normative nature, perfection cannot be properly defined and therefore there is no such thing as absolute true perfection, hence the statement is not logical.

It�s eleven friggin forty-six pm and I still have to mug tmr (gp�s in 5 days omg!) so I�m going to stop here and go to bed. I can�t squeeze even one more critical thought out of my small gray cells, so it�s time to go to bed. Did I say that already? Fine.

Now, what�s my dland password? Dang.

[edit] I've realised there's one more loophole; Being perfect would mean being perfect at many different areas. So you'd have to be perfect at, say, eating ice-cream, for example. And you'd have to be perfect at being imperfect. But being perfect at any one of these items only further demonstrates your level of perfection. Saying perfection is imperfect is like saying perfection is ice-cream. It doesn't really make sense.

Comments welcome.[/edit]

written at 11:48 p.m.

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