Riddles, Riddles, Riddles

[Buffmaster]

Riddle #1

The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place

[Buffmaster]

General Gasslefield, accused of high treason, is sentenced to death by the court-martial. He is allowed to make a final statement, after which he will be shot if the statement is false or will be hung if the statement is true. Gasslefield makes his final statement and is released. The Question: What could he have said?

[Buffmaster]

What has four eyes and runs south?

[raum]

well, that's easy.

it's found in every rose,
you see it in every tear,
its not lurking in shadows
but it comes once a year.

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[Buffmaster]

Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?

[raum]

"I deserve to be shot."

If the statement is false, he doesn't deserve to be shot. This is the penalty for a false statement, and he just made a true one. If his statement is true, he deserves to be hung, but if his statement is true, hanging is not the punishment for his crime, gunfire is,.. but by telling the truth, he can not be punished according to the weight of his statement.

They have to let him go, for the paradox is, the punishment would not fit the crime.

[Buffmaster]

Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not

[raum]

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[Buffmaster]

If what goes up must come down, what comes down that must go up...???

[raum]

Mount Everest.