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(Message started by: xtreme1 on Dec 31^st, 2002, 1:32pm)

Title: What Am I: I Once Walked Where You Now Stand
Post by xtreme1 on Dec 31^st, 2002, 1:32pm

I once walked where you now stand,
Until my body left this land,
As I am now so you shall be,
Step out of life and follow me

who
what
when
where????

// thread title modified by moderator 2:04 AM January 19 2003

Title: Re: Check this one...
Post by BNC on Jan 1^st, 2003, 7:14am

Maybe an oversimplistic solution: The dead? The Dinosaurus?

And if so, is it really "hard"?

Title: Re: Check this one...
Post by william wu on Jan 19^th, 2003, 2:04am

Christ?

Title: Re: What Am I: I Once Walked Where You Now Stand
Post by Jeremiah Smith on Jan 20^th, 2003, 4:13pm

I dunno. Christ usually hung out around Bethlehem and Jerusalem and stuff. He's didn't walk near where I am, that's for sure.

Title: Re: What Am I: I Once Walked Where You Now Stand
Post by Icarus on Jan 20^th, 2003, 4:42pm

I have to agree with BNC. Either "the dead" or "dinosaurs" (or any of a number of variants on that theme) fits the riddle perfectly. If neither is the correct answer, then I say that this is not a good riddle.

Any comments from xtreme1?

Title: Re: What Am I: I Once Walked Where You Now Stand
Post by Speaker on Jan 20^th, 2003, 7:55pm

Certainly some fitting answers are;

the dead
the dinasours
ancestors, grandparents etc.

how about youth

That doesn't quite fit. But what are the follow-on questions all about. Who, what, when, and where. This sounds like a basic "Who am I riddle." The addition of these other questions leads me to believe that xtreme1 himself doesn't know the answer. That he heard, or more likely read it someplace, without benefit of having its complete format.
He then assumed, correctly, the answer would appear here if he posted it, with the supplementary questions to be sure all bases were covered.

Maybe I'm wrong, any comments from the horses mouth?

Title: Re: What Am I: I Once Walked Where You Now Stand
Post by william wu on Jan 20^th, 2003, 10:09pm

Those answers seem pretty morbid to me. Step out of life and follow [the dead]? Sounds like a invitation to suicide :o

Title: Re: What Am I: I Once Walked Where You Now Stand
Post by BNC on Jan 21^st, 2003, 2:31am

As xtreme2 seems to be away, I tried Googling. Found this from an old tomb:

My beloved Lima sleeps in Jesus. But I shall
see her again.
Oh think of me as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you shall be
Prepare in life to follow me.

Seems similar?

Also found this as "a popular old New England Gravestone Epitaph;"
Stranger Stop and cast an Eye; As you are now so once was I, As I am now So You Shall be; Prepare for Death and Follow Me!"

Title: Re: What Am I: I Once Walked Where You Now Stand
Post by The Xtreme1 on Jan 21^st, 2003, 3:25pm

Just wanted to say thank you to all who answered... I did not know the answer but thought my answer of "The Dead" was too easy. I am glad to have more input from educated people. I did read it somewhere but needed some substantiation. You guys rock... until next time... live life to the
XTREME