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attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:53 pm

I left Sculptor (*Chaz W) hanging on it for some days with no hints and when I told him he believed it to be flawed logically.
Sculptor's position as a flaw was that you pick your foot up to look for it, not "IT" being the splinter.

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 1:06 pm I've got a stupid one for you



"I am the beginning of eternity,

The end of time and space.

The beginning of every end

and the end of every place."

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:38 pm Next person to answer a riddle will probably get stuck with a ring and and dangerous adventure when all they wanted was a pot of tea and some crumpets.

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:53 pm

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:44 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:12 pm

Yes, it's one that's near impossible to work out without those hints.

I don't give hints to people I tell it to, I like to act it out - hopping around as I explain the answer, gets a few laughs.

It's honestly a good riddle, I was (perhaps unfairly) expecting it to be something stupid or impossible, an answer that doesn't fit the question, but it's solid, a classic even. I'll see if I can remember it. Acting it out as a hint seems like a good bit of entertainment.

I'm glad you like it, as I said my Gramps told me that one as a child and I made sure to remember it.

I left Sculptor (*Chaz W) hanging on it for some days with no hints and when I told him he believed it to be flawed logically.
Sculptor's position as a flaw was that you pick your foot up to look for it, not "IT" being the splinter. My answer is that you pick "IT" up with your foot, so IT remains the splinter, not your foot. Yes it works.

I plugged the mic into my PC the other day and had a chat with copilot while doing a few things. I asked CP if it had the answer to that riddle. I was surprised that it did answer, but it said a splinter in your hand!!

Wild Reiver wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 3:05 pm Hello from Adrian in Glasgow, Scotland

I did, long ago, have three years of university Philosophy as part of a degree in Literature. The emphasis in my philosophy studies was on 'doing philosophy': apart from David Hume we read only 20th century philosophers. More richly or deeply I have maintained an 'amateur' philosophical approach to things, sort of conceptual analysis. I also enjoy the philosophical slants in literature.

While using 'conceptual analysis' as tool and filter, I am interested in commonalities of 'thought patterns' that seem present in different cultures and times, underlying surface differences. Sort of 'archaeology of thought', not quite as Foucault meant it. But imagination is part of my 'philosophical experience', approximately the 'poetic'' vs. the propositional. (Somewhat tentatively I find these 'thought patterns' and 'poetry' in (some) theology).

I think philosophy must give pleasure, enrich conatus, Spinoza's term, I suppose, for flourishing. I quite like Spinoza, also the flourishing identified by the ancient Greeks/Romans as eudemonia- and their emphasis upon 'philosophy as a way of life'. What life is no one knows: neither philosophers nor scientist can abstract it into words.

I do have sporadic enthusiasms for reading particular philosophers but generally 'philosophise' in thinking about the 'big things' cross-cutting my life- ideas and images that go to make the lenses that refract the ideated imaginaries of the world, these lenses being multiple and changing, growing and discarded.

accelafine wrote:Sculptor was correct. It's a terrible 'riddle'. The 'it' doesn't 'fit'.

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 5:30 pm

accelafine wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 4:12 pm

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:53 pm

I'm glad you like it, as I said my Gramps told me that one as a child and I made sure to remember it.

I left Sculptor (*Chaz W) hanging on it for some days with no hints and when I told him he believed it to be flawed logically.
Sculptor's position as a flaw was that you pick your foot up to look for it, not "IT" being the splinter. My answer is that you pick "IT" up with your foot, so IT remains the splinter, not your foot. Yes it works.

I plugged the mic into my PC the other day and had a chat with copilot while doing a few things. I asked CP if it had the answer to that riddle. I was surprised that it did answer, but it said a splinter in your hand!!

Sculptor was correct. It's a terrible 'riddle'. The 'it' doesn't 'fit'.

You really do struggle with simple logic.

I don't agree with F. Jesus that ANY wiggle is required for this riddle.

Sculptor's argument was that you arn't picking something (IT) up with your foot.

Question: Can you pick ANY THING up with your foot?

I picked IT (*the splinter) up to look for it.. ..you know it's somewhere there because of the pain, simple logic Veg!!


BTW: He around the same time had told me to work out a riddle he knew. I spent probably a day at work considering it, gave my reasoning, and then explained the answer, I did solve his, and when he told me mine was flawed, I pointed out the simple flaw in his.


--two AIs haven't got Scultors version - good job atto remembers the thread it's in..here:

DONT LOOK IT UP PEOPLE, it's easy..

Sculptor's:
I can run but not walk.
I can breath but never speak.
Wherever I go, thought follows close behind.
What am I?

PS. I'll provide the link to our heated Sculptor aka Chaz being an arrogant dick thread once solved.

accelafine wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 5:33 pm FFS. It's not even a riddle. I can't stand the man. He's sociopathic but he's not stupid.

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:44 pm

attofishpi wrote:
Sculptor's:
I can run but not walk.
I can breath but never speak.
Wherever I go, thought follows close behind.
What am I?

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attofishpi wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:18 am

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:44 pm

attofishpi wrote:
Sculptor's:
I can run but not walk.
I can breath but never speak.
Wherever I go, thought follows close behind.
What am I?

-- ---

..any idea?

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:39 am

attofishpi wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:18 am

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:44 pm
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..any idea?

Looks like NOBODY NOSE that one.