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But if you're lying, then that means that you actually mean everything you say is true, but you just lied. I DON'T GET IT! Someone explain please. :(
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07-08-2009 at 10:47 PM
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Hmmm....OK here:
This thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. What is it?
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07-08-2009 at 10:47 PM
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But if you're lying, then that means that you actually mean everything you say is true, but you just lied. I DON'T GET IT! Someone explain please. :(
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It's a paradox. It would be a lie because the sentence itself would be untrue if everything you tell is a lie.
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But if you're lying, then that means that you actually mean everything you say is true, but you just lied. I DON'T GET IT! Someone explain please. :(
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Alright, so we can rule out that he's telling the true, because that would create an infinite paradox with that statement. However, what you did was fully negate a statement.
Just because he's lying about saying that "everything I say is a lie", doesn't mean that he is saying that "everything I say is the truth".
It just means that "Not Everything I say is a lie".
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Hmmm....OK here:
This thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. What is it?
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Clock.
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Oh she likes when two letters are repeated beside each other in the same word?
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Hmmm....OK here:
This thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. What is it?
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A clock/Watch?
Edit: DAMNIT TOO SLOW AGAIN!!!!!
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But the opposite of the untrue statement is .. that he's telling the truth.... I don't like this riddle.
A NOSE! I think.
Edit: Damn it! A nose doesn't have hands.
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Joesph
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I'm so confused I think I'm the only stupid one here haha .. I kinda get the second one . but not the first one.. anyway.. proceed.. Don't kill it for anyone that happens to come across this thread
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A clock/Watch?
Edit: DAMNIT TOO SLOW AGAIN!!!!!
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Riddle 1:
What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?
Riddle 2:
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
Riddle 3:
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes out first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
Riddle 4:
Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.
Riddle 5:
This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.
I remembered these, searched them up and wanted to post em
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Alright...
If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tans socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?
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Silence
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Riddle 3 is Darkness, Riddle 5 is Time.
The Hobbit is a good book
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