Riddle
This is a test run of a riddle I wrote. How fast it can be solved will go to show how good it is.
>> I tease and torment the conceited mind; facts and half-truths intertwined. I’ve dwelt through the ages since before man could write. What’s possible is infinite, but not what’s right. Inferences massing by the dozens, true and false are merely cousins. What am I?
If you are a riddle connoisseur, feel free to offer pointers.
If/When the riddle is solved, feel free to post a new riddle.
Jack: How do you know?
Will: It's more of a feeling really.
Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?
Will: No.
If Demolition Man were remade today
Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
Huxley: NO!
Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
Huxley: You need to leave, John.
Spartan: But Huxley.
Huxley: Get out!
Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.
By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.
Sounds like the answer to the riddle is "a riddle". At least to me it sounds like you're describing a riddle.
My initial reaction to the riddle is that the answer is pride. That feels off though.
Sharky has a good guess too with the answer being riddles, though.
Time comes to my head first, but I don't think that is the answer because of this: "What’s possible is infinite, but not what’s right."
Politicians?
Kefka's coming, look intimidating!
Have a nice day!!
Sharky was right. The answer I intended was, in fact, a "riddle". I was actually planning to use this as an opening riddle for a Riddler story I'm writing. I had to do a bit of research because I'm really not very good at writing riddles. Double meanings which are suppose to lend credence to other possible answers ended up being a big part of it.
Based on your responses the other possible answers could be "pride", "time", and "politicians"... lol
Jack: How do you know?
Will: It's more of a feeling really.
Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?
Will: No.
If Demolition Man were remade today
Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
Huxley: NO!
Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
Huxley: You need to leave, John.
Spartan: But Huxley.
Huxley: Get out!
Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.
By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.
Every time I hear a riddle I cross off time, shadow, riddle and death as they tend to be the most common answers
Kefka's coming, look intimidating!
Have a nice day!!
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