Oxymora

Oxymora fascinate and confuse me.  (In case you didn’t know, “oxymora” is the plural for oxymoron.  A little fact I learned when my computer complained when I typed oxymorons.  You learn something new every day, but I digress.)  As I was saying, oxymora fascinate and confuse me.  An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms.  Here are a few we use all the time…

  • Jumbo shrimp
  • Sweet sorrow
  • Pretty ugly
  • Deliberately thoughtless
  • Working vacation
  • Authentic reproduction
  • Local long distance
  • Fresh frozen
  • Current history
  • Freezer burn
  • Absolutely unsure
  • Definite maybe
  • A new classic
  • Awfully good
  • Easy labor
  • Good lawyer
  • Tequila flavored rum

Okay, maybe there are some good lawyers, but they told me my labor was easy when I gave child birth and believe me, they were mistaken.  Some of us might not use tequila flavored rum all the time, but some of us do.   Oxymora just all seem so illogical. 

Some things in the Bible seem illogical too.  Here are a few…

  • Cast your bread on the water and it will come back to you. (Ecclesiastes 11:1)
  • The first will be last and the last will be first.  (Matthew 20:16)
  • When I am weak, I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:10)
  • There can be joy in trials. (James 1:2)
  • Whoever humbles himself will be exalted. (Luke 14:11)
  • To get you must give. (Luke 6:38)
  • You must be born again.  (John 3:1-7)
  • We win we lose. (Philippians 3:7-11)
  • He who finds his life will lose it. (Matthew 10:39)
  • To save your life, you must lose it. (Matthew 16:24, 25)

Now some may think these things are not possible, yet they are.  That shouldn’t be so hard to understand in a world where people know what you’re saying when use expressions like the living dead, fuzzy logic, liquid gas, seriously funny, and good grief!

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