Can you answer this riddle?

Question

Can you answer this riddle?


Here is a pretty neat little thing from Paul Harvey. See if you can guess the riddle at the end.
Paul Harvey Writes:
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.
And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room,but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.
When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.
When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.
I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy\girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.
May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.

These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss. I'm here for you. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you.
Send this to all of your friends. We secure our friends, not by accepting favors, but by doing them.
Paul Harvey RIDDLE:
When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors.
What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?

Answer 1

nothing

Answer 2

I had to look at the answers but that is a great riddle. I also really liked what Paul Harvey said. It sums up everything I want to teach my children. Thanks so much for sharing. God Bless.

Answer 3

Nothing

Answer 4

i would say nothing, but then i would be lying

1. if i did not believe in god, then terefore the first part of the riddle is false to me
2. if i do not believe in one of the three abrahamic religions, i wouldnt believe in hell or the devil, i would think that there are many things worse than the devil, the second part is false to me
3. the poor do have at least one thing, themselves, the third part is false
4. the rich, (or at least quite a few of them) do need at least one thing, that is more money, (in order to stay rich), the fourth statement is false
5. if you eat poison, you die, fifth statement, false

Answer 5

That's really good!!!! The answer to the riddle is absolutely NOTHING!!! I love that riddle.........it's my favorite!!! :)

Answer 6

Sorry to long Not into reading long storys, but skipped to the end and this joke was on here earlier its nothing

Answer 7

Nothing.

Answer 8

everyone knows the answer, it's nothing! i got this in an email 2 weeks ago!

Answer 9

I have experienced most of what is on this list.....if only kids today would experience 1/2 of what is here it would make them better people.
Thanks for sharing =0)

Answer 10

1. Love -- can't explain -- 2. Wind -> You can’t see wind but wind always shape just like where it is (if it on a box, that’s it shape, on the earth? See earth’s shape) -> you can feel it, so you know it’s there

Answer 11

firstly, how could nothing be what the rich needs?
i think the answers given by the others are maybe wrong.....
it should be the unGodly mind