Strange loops: Self-referential sentences

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Here's some examples:

Disobey this command.

I am the meaning of this sentence.

The reader of this sentence only exists while reading me.

When you are not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish.

If this sentence were in Chinese, it would say something else.

This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.

This sentence has cabbage six words.

This sentence, though not interrogative, nonetheless ends with a question mark?

This sentence asks that you post your own sentences so it may have company.

This post asks if you have also found the fourth.

This sentence points out that if the sentence contains a factual error, then there are in fact three errors, which means that the sentence does not contain a factual error...

The above sentence did not contain the word "cabbage" but this one does.

This sentence tried desperately to avoid using the word "cabbage," but failed spectacularly in the very first clause.

This sentence avoided using a pronoun in place of the word "cabbage," but as of the previous sentence, it was no longer required to avoid it.

The previous sentence contains an error.

This sentence attempts to paraphrase the above sentence without using any of the words in the above sentence that start with C. This sentence bemoans the abject failure of the previous sentence at its stated purpose, which in this clause exclaims in bold type that all it had to do was reword the fricking sentence. This sentence apologizes for the brusque manner of the previous sentence, and asks that you consider it a momentary outburst.

This paragraph is fond of you, and wishes, in the next clause of this sentence, to know if you are free tonight. This sentence caveman speak for sentence "this sentence is trying to emulate the stereotypical mannerisms of cavemen as seen in popular culture." This sentence hopes the humor of the last two sentences will entice you to allow it to wine and dine you, then slip you a (parenthetical) mickey.

This paragraph contains only this sentence.

This paragraph could have had more sentences than this sentence and the next. But this paragraph, alas, contains only these two sentences. And a sentence fragment.

The above paragraph wets the bed, but it will gladly admit that this is not a problem because the only thing which shares the bed with it is the object of the next sentence. In mathematics, and more specifically set theory, the empty set is the unique set having no elements; its size is zero.

The last sentence of the above paragraph was shamelessly ripped off Wikipedia, as are the last six words of the last clause of this sentence.

This paragraph tried desperately to contain only one sentence. However, it was born with an inablility to create independent clauses.

This paragraph could have had more sentences than this sentence and the next. But this paragraph, alas, contains only these two sentences. And a sentence fragment.

The above paragraph wets the bed, but it will gladly admit that this is not a problem because the only thing which shares the bed with it is the object of the next sentence. In mathematics, and more specifically set theory, the empty set is the unique set having no elements; its size is zero.

The last sentence of the above paragraph was shamelessly ripped off Wikipedia, as are the last six words of the last clause of this sentence.

Except for this sentence, every other sentence in this post is a duplicate of the post two posts up.

This sentence obviously contains all of the common parts of speech.

This sentence questions the semantics of the previous sentence.