RIDDLES AND REFLECTION

Dealing with the usual routines of our lives, we, as people can not be blamed to play things in our mind on what we used to see around us. It is part of our thinking to look for something that will make our daily life different with that of yesterday. The reason? I don't know. Maybe that's a human nature. That is why I came to think that riddles were formed because of that.

For me, riddles depend on what kind of individual the maker is. If the riddle is all about food, maybe the maker is hungry then. If it's all about nature and place, the maker is more probably a traveler. If all about God, for sure he's a Godly person. Just like my first and my last riddles.

Riddles were made to make fun and to sharpen our minds as well. It is a way of expressing, representing and showing one's culture. Through this we can determine what kind of culture they have and show it in a interesting manner. History tells that this is the old way of having an icebreaker but for me, until now many people are fond this that is why it is used for killing the boredom or to make fun in the sense that the human brain is the primary tool in appreciating this kind of interesting things. Just like what Mr. Webster tells us what a riddle is; " A question or statement requiring thought to answer or understand".

 here are my riddles:)

RIDDLE 1

It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?

Answer »
Nothing. Nothing is greater than God, nothing is more evil than the devil, the poor have nothing, the rich need nothing and if you eat nothing you'll die.

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RIDDLE 2

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?

Answer »

A watermelon.

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 Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.

Answer »

DAVID (Roman numerals)

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