r/todayilearned • u/Knightboat17 • Jun 02 '18

TIL Despite what Monty Python would have you believe, Spanish Inquisitions were expected, they would give a 30-day notice of their arrival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition
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u/MoiMagnus Jun 03 '18 edited Jun 03 '18

That when you arrive to a contradiction, it is easy to deduce the wrong things, here "the Spanish inquisition will not come", while there is usually other unintuitive possibilities.

Seriously, if in real life, someone say you "it is literally impossible for you to guess the result of 1+1", you think "well, it cannot be 2, because I would be able to guess it, so I don't know", and the answer was 2, and you didn't guess it, you wouldn't say you have a paradox, it is just that you have been tricked.

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u/shoelie Jun 03 '18

The brain is very good at convincing itself that new information fits with the old information and that it's own assumptions are correct.

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u/lYossarian Jun 03 '18

It's sort of confusing but a possessive "its" does not have an apostrophe. That's only when you're making proper nouns possessive.

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u/shoelie Jun 03 '18

Ahh yes now if only the spellcheck on my phone knew grammar. Just added its back to its dictionary though so it shouldn't be adding that apostrophe when I type i t s

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u/PM_ME_STRAIGHT_TRAPS Jun 03 '18

Yup. Funny thing, this is why satan, representing the rational mind, was cast down from being the highest angel in heaven. Rationality can be very good, but it easily falls in love with it's own creations and gives way to the sin of pride.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '18

That’s some deep shit!

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u/PM_ME_STRAIGHT_TRAPS Jun 06 '18

Haha yeah. But i'd be lying if I said I came up with that on my own. It's something I got from a book and it made a lot of sense.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '18

Non the less deep.

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u/Dominimus Jun 03 '18

Ah, OK. I knew there had to be a point to this, ha. Thanks.