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Greetings everyone!

There is a new vote in the Security Council:

Resolution at Vote: Condemn The New Inquisition
Vote Recommendation: Against

If you are a WA member, make sure to vote so that you have your voice heard!

Additionally, please consider endorsing Delegate North East Somerset, if you have not already done so. The more endorsements, the more votes Balder has, and the stronger our voice in the World Assembly is!

New Giggles Town wrote:Foward I am heavy, but backward I am not.
The answer is Ton
Ton backwards is not

Ding ding ding!
You guys always get them..urgh, gotta go harder:
I can hold you prisoner Or set you free I can swing with ease (Though not from a tree) I have many shapes I have many sizes Yet, ‘til we shake hands I’ll hide my surprises. What am I?

Garomia

Welcome back The united empire of enara

Please take the time to join our Discord, located in the World Factbook Entry, and join & apply for citizenship on our regional forums, also located in the World Factbook Entry.

Please also endorse North East Somerset and Onder Kelkia.

Zunden wrote:Ding ding ding!
You guys always get them..urgh, gotta go harder:
I can hold you prisoner Or set you free I can swing with ease (Though not from a tree) I have many shapes I have many sizes Yet, ‘til we shake hands I’ll hide my surprises. What am I?

Could it be a door or something of the like?

Zunden wrote:Ding ding ding!
You guys always get them..urgh, gotta go harder:
I can hold you prisoner Or set you free I can swing with ease (Though not from a tree) I have many shapes I have many sizes Yet, ‘til we shake hands I’ll hide my surprises. What am I?

Its a door, the hands are the handles and it holds prisoners by being locked

Perhaps a riddle of my own then. An old classic, which may already be well-known to some of you.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars, and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

Aelyria wrote:Perhaps a riddle of my own then. An old classic, which may already be well-known to some of you.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars, and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

Death?

Aelyria wrote:Perhaps a riddle of my own then. An old classic, which may already be well-known to some of you.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars, and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

Darkness

New Giggles Town wrote:Darkness

That was my first guess, but the last line of the riddle made me doubt.

New Giggles Town wrote:Darkness

Darkness can be seen though.

Hoosier counties

Aelyria wrote:Perhaps a riddle of my own then. An old classic, which may already be well-known to some of you.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars, and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

Silence

Dark/darkness is correct.

Alvalero wrote:Darkness can be seen though.

It can't, actually. You see light. Darkness is an absence of seeable things (photons). Just as you can't actually feel cold as its own thing, because "cold" isn't a something, it's a comparative lack of something (lower temperature).

Same reason why there's a speed of light, but not a speed of dark. Dark isn't an entity, so it doesn't move.

Aelyria wrote:Dark/darkness is correct.

It can't, actually. You see light. Darkness is an absence of seeable things (photons). Just as you can't actually feel cold as its own thing, because "cold" isn't a something, it's a comparative lack of something (lower temperature).

Same reason why there's a speed of light, but not a speed of dark. Dark isn't an entity, so it doesn't move.

I knew the answer to this one because my friend has asked me this riddle before, so while it did take me a while to answer it, I have remembered the answer :)

Aelyria wrote:Dark/darkness is correct.

It can't, actually. You see light. Darkness is an absence of seeable things (photons). Just as you can't actually feel cold as its own thing, because "cold" isn't a something, it's a comparative lack of something (lower temperature).

Same reason why there's a speed of light, but not a speed of dark. Dark isn't an entity, so it doesn't move.

And why it ends life and kills laughter?

Condemning a "dormant" region sounds like an obviously stupid measure.

Garomia wrote:And why it ends life and kills laughter?

Presumably the "ends life" part is because you get buried in the ground when you die, and black is the color of mourning. It's just the text of the riddle, so it could even literally just be to make it rhyme with "after." Tolkien made it famous in The Hobbit. Whether the phrasing is unique to him or not, I don't know--he is well-known for having turned "all that glitters is not gold" on its head to rather good effect in a poem/song referring to Aragorn:
All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes, a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

Note here the grammatical reversal. "All that glitters is not gold" (the old phrase) means that beautiful or attractive appearances can be deceiving, just as iron pyrite is not gold despite being shiny. "All that is gold does not glitter" is the same concept in reverse: there are things that are valuable, good, or powerful that don't glitter. Like how most rough diamonds basically look like dull chunks of glass.

Rough diamond 1: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0114/5222/products/042-carat-bright-white-rough-diamond-dodecahedron-raw-diamond-south-africa-385311.jpg?v=1554110798
Rough diamond 2: https://www.gemonediamond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/natural-uncut-raw-rough-loose-diamonds-5-1.jpg
Roughened glass "stones": https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517s9iKswOL.jpg

It has been 1 year, and 62 days. And finally, I am back. From the ashes if apocalypse, we have returned

Ididntcare wrote:It has been 1 year, and 62 days. And finally, I am back. From the ashes if apocalypse, we have returned

But you probably didn't care, don't you?

Stone age electricians

Who does ?

Alright another riddle then for you all:
You are standing in front of a room with one lightbulb inside of it. You cannot see if it is on or off. Outside the room there are 3 switches in the off positions. You may turn the switches any way you want to, but can only enter the room once. How do you figure out which switch controls the light bulb?

This one will get you all hopefully...and no cheating

Garomia

Also today is National Tooth Fairy Day! Anyone have interesting stories about mythical figures from your childhood?

For me, I figured out the tooth fairy was fake by putting my tooth under the pillow without telling my parents, waiting for 2 nights, and then telling my parents. You can figure out what happened, and how I uncovered the secret :)
Psst...that wasn't actually me but its a fun story to tell from someone I knew.

Zunden wrote:Alright another riddle then for you all:
You are standing in front of a room with one lightbulb inside of it. You cannot see if it is on or off. Outside the room there are 3 switches in the off positions. You may turn the switches any way you want to, but can only enter the room once. How do you figure out which switch controls the light bulb?

This one will get you all hopefully...and no cheating

I already know the answer to this one, so I'll have to step off.

Zunden wrote:Alright another riddle then for you all:
You are standing in front of a room with one lightbulb inside of it. You cannot see if it is on or off. Outside the room there are 3 switches in the off positions. You may turn the switches any way you want to, but can only enter the room once. How do you figure out which switch controls the light bulb?

This one will get you all hopefully...and no cheating

Open the door and flip the switches, it says you can only enter once, never said you couldn't open the door

hey.

Obunga the big snake

Arkotskia wrote:hey.

yes

I usewd to be in a region called Arbor

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