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From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002

posted August 24, 2003 08:46 AM         

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When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids
gotthe answer,

compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors:

What is greater than God, More evil than the devil,
The
poor
have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?

Fate magazine ran this riddle last year and I, among others, won a free book on the paranormal for the winning answer

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From: the bottomless depths of my mind
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posted August 24, 2003 09:18 AM         

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nothing

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From: nowhereland
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posted August 24, 2003 10:56 AM         

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posted August 24, 2003 11:36 AM           

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nothing? heheh MOONAT beat me.

Have u heard this one?

A man pulls up outside a hotel and is instantly bankrupt. Why?

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From: Canada
Registered: Apr 2003

posted August 24, 2003 01:51 PM         

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Because it's his and it's burning?? Wild guess.

I heard the other one before, and would you believe I got it? It took much deliberation, and general annoyance, but I got it.
It was the "greater than God" part that annoyed me, which then lead me to the answer. Because I thought ""greater than God"? What the heck are they talking about!?! What on earth could they possibly think is greater than God?? NOTHING is greater than God, for Pete sake. Ahhhhhhh. Nothing...the poor have it, the rich need it, if you eat it, you'll die. Nothing. That's the answer!!! Eureka!!
Is that how you got it too, Juni?

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From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002

posted August 24, 2003 03:07 PM         

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Bingo Lioneye, thats exactly how I got it

My answer is the same to the hotel too: it burned down & had no insurance?! No, hmmm that can`t be right cuz he pulled up to it. Arg RRR, now I`ve got to think

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posted August 25, 2003 01:34 AM           

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hehehe think outside the box

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From: nowhereland
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posted August 25, 2003 01:58 AM         

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why is 'nothing' more evil than the devil?
just wondering

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From: Paris,France
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posted August 25, 2003 06:46 AM         

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No, it means that Nothing can be more evil.

Nothing ever will be etc...

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posted August 25, 2003 02:12 PM         

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drugs and alcohol are more evil than the devil.

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posted August 25, 2003 03:54 PM         

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well, they are man made, so in theory man is too blame

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From: orillia ON CA
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posted August 25, 2003 04:35 PM         

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He's bankrupt because it's MONOPOLY!

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From: The second star to the right (which shines in the night for'eer)
Registered: Apr 2003

posted August 25, 2003 06:28 PM         

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Ohhhhhhhhhh!!!!! RubyRed, is endaphia right? That seems like a good, correct answer.

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posted August 25, 2003 07:07 PM         

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Drugs & Alcohol ARE NOT more evil then the devil... it's the devil within man that makes them evil...

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posted August 25, 2003 07:40 PM         

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I was gonna say something to that effect, LL, but I thought, eh. I've scrapped about that enough lately.

but, yeah...
The evil is the greed in man that makes them abuse those things.

Theoretically, nothing is more evil than the devil because he's the inventor of all things evil. They're his little gifts to the world.
But, is there really a devil? C'mon. What the heck to we need a devil for when we've got mankind? The devil's just an imaginary scape'goat'.

Sorry, didn't wanna go down that road. Stuff a sweat-sock in my mouth. Or keyboard.

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From: orillia ON CA
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posted August 25, 2003 10:34 PM         

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I get slightly irritated when people claim money is the root of all evil.

See, I look at it this way:

Money cannot be the root of all evil, because it has a source.

It was made by people.

Money just seems to bring out a dormant sense of greed that lies within people, as well as other things.

Ever look at the bushmen? They live(d)? in harmony because there was plenty of everything, and nothing in particular that they could have that anyone else couldn't.

According to 'the gods must be crazy' anyways. but I have a feeling it's somewhat like what it's shown to be.

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posted August 26, 2003 02:30 AM           

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Correct endaphia!!

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posted August 26, 2003 08:10 AM         

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I agree.

What do you think of the saying : " put a begger on a horseback & he'll ride to hell "

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From: nowhereland
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posted August 26, 2003 09:21 AM         

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thats correct

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