Still no definitive answer... I am losing hair people!

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So I asked if anyone knew the answer to this riddle:

What is heaven from the inside but hell from the outside?

and got these to answers:

"There is a somewhat rude answer to this one, but I think the answer you are looking for is a Durian." A Durian being an Asian fruit which is an acquired taste. Spiky and sharp on the outside, with a rather foul smell - but some people love them."

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/sep99/durian.html

---AND----

1. Take the letters (EVE) outta ?'heaven' ( heaven inside - get it?)

2. Then take the two ?'outside' letters and the spare ?'e' = HEN,

read backwards = Neh = Hades = hell.

In the New Testament the term hades, as a name for the place of punishment of the damned. (Neh.9:30).

---- But I looked up Neh.9:30 and their is no mention of Hades in that passage... and how does neh = Hades?

Which one is correct if either?

I am more confused now than ever and am ripping out hair as we speak..

please help! Smile

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Sugar, read the second paragraph of the link on your post.

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I did, but the problem is, the riddle someone told me (and says Durian is not the answer by the way) is "What is heaven FROM the inside and hell FROM the outside". The second paragraph on that link say "heaven ON the inside and hell ON the outside". ...ya see?

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Have you solved this yet? Do you still need to?

I notice you eliminate EVE from HEAVEN leaving HAN not HEN. That would leave you with NAH instead of NEH. Probably wrong combinations of letters, as in NAH you are wrong.

Reply back if you need more help.

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im workin on the idea that its a word. in that reading the latters off from the middle, symetrically outwars on either side, spells heaven, and then reading the outer letter inwards spells hell somehow, eg 'crying' is 'yirncg' from the inside and 'cgrnyi' from the outside

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aaaaahhhhhh, actually, just occured to me. i think the answer is 'hell' or even 'heaven' perhaps. yess! its gotta be when you think about it.

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ElysianFields, nope still haven't solved it but what you said does indeed make sense, as in the riddle is the answer. What da ya think?

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I don't follow what you mean?

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Like if the answer is "Nah" as in "Nah you are wrong" then heaven on the inside would be knowing that there is no answer and hell would be forever trying to solve it but not knowing. So the answer to the riddle would be: the riddle itself is heaven from the inside (having the insight) and hell (not knowing) from the outside.

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After thinking about this for awhile, I agree the answer is that heaven is knowing, the insight, the acceptance that there is no answer and hell would be forever confounded by attempts to arrive at the answer, not knowing forever, outside the answer. Interesting.

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haha! we were right. Thanks so much for helping me on this one Smile

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Still no definitive answer... I am losing hair people!

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