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RIDDEL

Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already happen to know the awful secret behind the universe, feel free to skip ahead.

Let’s say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don’t worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you’re the one who shot him.

He had been a big, twitchy guy with veiny skin stretched over swollen biceps, a tattoo of a swastika on his tongue. Teeth filed into razor-sharp fangs, you know the type. And you’re chopping off his head because, even with eight bullet holes in him, you’re pretty sure he’s about to spring back to his feet and eat the look of terror right off your face.

On the follow-through of the last swing, though, the handle of the ax snaps in a spray of splinters. You now have a broken ax. So, after a long night of looking for a place to dump the man and his head, you take a trip into town with your ax. You go to the hardware store, explaining away the dark reddish stains on the broken handle as barbecue sauce. You walk out with a brand new handle for your ax.

The repaired ax sits undisturbed in your garage until the next spring when, on one rainy morning, you find in your kitchen a creature that appears to be a foot-long slug with a bulging egg sac on its tail. Its jaws bite one of your forks in half with what seems like very little effort. You grab your trusty ax and chop the thing into several pieces. On the last blow, however, the ax strikes a metal leg of the overturned kitchen table and chips out a notch right in the middle of the blade.

Of course, a chipped head means yet another trip to the hardware store. They sell you a brand new head for your ax. As soon as you get home with your newly-headed ax, though, you meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded last year. He’s also got a new head, stitched on with what looks like plastic weed trimmer line, and it’s wearing that unique expression of “you’re the man who killed me last winter” resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life.

You brandish your ax. The guy takes a long look at the weapon with his squishy, rotting eyes and in a gargly voice he screams, “That’s the same ax that slayed me!”

Is he right?

this drove me crazy. the teacher asked us this same question is phiosophy but it was a ship not an axe. basicaly what is real? the axe that was used last winter? the broken pices of the axe in the shed or 
where ever? or the new axe that wasnt actually used cause its been replaced but its still refered to as ''the axe'' . i think yes the axe he had in his hand cause its the idea of the axe that counts.
what do you think?



Posted on 01/03/2008 1:00 PM Visits: 184
Seb ™★★★: 01/03/2008 3:11 PM
Maybe the axe was recycled back into being an axe.

Is this meaning that no matter what we all transform back to our point of origin. We all start the size of sand & we go back to being dust on the wind.

The other is energy has to go somewhere when we all die maybe his energy was attached to that object & the area where he died; put the two things together & gives him the power to be transformed back to the point in time that he died.

I think ghosts are just trapped energy, because most ghost deaths were horrific there energy gets imprinted.

Maybe I’m just talking a load o BS

Great journal I enjoyed reading it.
Ikky-ikky-arriba!: 01/03/2008 5:20 PM
Oh my. What a mind fuck.
I guess it is the same axe, because its the "spirit" of the weapon that matters, not the physical parts.
urtime2die: 01/07/2008 12:11 AM
and we ignore the zombie to see the phiolosophy behind why it is now a zombie?
claymore: 01/07/2008 3:26 AM
and we ignore the zombie to see the phiolosophy behind why it is now a zombie?
NO. liat has the same problem. it as nothign to do with the zombie at all. ita baout the axe.
raive311: 04/13/2008 2:11 AM
creapy..wee..the dead man recognizes him because he was still holding an axe..no matter how many times he changes the axe, still he can't deny the damage that was done.
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