A student answered ‘death’ and the teacher didn’t want to say the real answer
It was intended to be a straightforward word puzzle but took on a whole new meaning.
https://twitter.com/bretjturner/status/948336006054395904
It didn’t just strike a chord with the teacher, the tweet shared more than 20,000 times and liked more than 50,000.
Before I finally revealed the "correct" answer to the riddle, to a largely unimpressed audience, I fielded other guesses that continued along a similarly existential vein. There was "NOT everything," "all stuff," "the end," and maybe my favorite, "nothingthing."
— Bret Turner (@bretjturner) January 3, 2018
Let’s hope he spared them the homework that night.
How is death the beginning of everything exactly?
— Lonely Goomba (@LonelyGoomba) January 3, 2018
You'll have to ask the 6 year old nietzche
— Maybe Emma Does The Astro (@AndroidPeach) January 3, 2018
The what?
— THE GALACTIC EMPIRE (@pspmattyb) January 3, 2018
You – detention.
It’s endlessly funny to me how many of these replies are just people going “e”
— Maddi Gonzalez (@maddigzlz) January 3, 2018
I showed it to my daughter, a 12th grader, and her quick response was "death".
— Tzippy Yarom صِپورة (@zpyarom) January 3, 2018
Existentialism grade 101
— Nestor (@NestorRedux) January 3, 2018
Imagining you saying, “Yes. That is correct. It’s Death.”
— mike fleisch (@mikefleisch) January 3, 2018
— Kaleid (@IamKaleid) January 3, 2018