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need-help
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The more you take, the less you receive.
« on: Feb 24th, 2006, 2:18pm » |
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Hello, can someone help me with this riddle please?
The more you take the less you recieve. What is it?
Thanks.
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otter
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Re: Need riddle help!!!!
« Reply #1 on: Feb 24th, 2006, 9:35pm » |
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One answer that comes to mind is love.
Interpretation here, though, is critical. The riddle can be interpreted as:
1) The more you take (of X), the less you receive (of X); or
2) The more you take (of X), the less you receive (of Y).
Each may have a distinct set of answers. Love seems to me to satisfy interpretation 1 while medicine and sickness seem to satisfy interpretation 2.
Just my $0.02 worth.
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oh_boy
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Re: The more you take, the less you receive.
« Reply #2 on: Apr 3rd, 2006, 11:27am » |
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Two X-Y type solutions are:
The more advice you take, the less danger/risk you receive.
The more no-pay leave you take, the less money you receive.
One X-X type solution I can think of fulfilling the question (though not perfectly well) is time, as the more time you take (meaning wasting it), the less you will eventually have.
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