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The father of the person in the pic is him, because he has no brothers and sisters. Thus it's his son.
I'm too burnt out for this shit >_>
A man picks up a photo and looking at it he says - brothers and sisters I have none but this mans father is my fathers son.
Who is in the photo?
Explain the reasoning for your answer in detail. Im not submitting my answer until people get involved.
EDIT AGAIN
The father of the person in the pic is him, because he has no brothers and sisters. Thus it's his son.
I'm too burnt out for this shit >_>
It's father and son, so it's a photo of himself.
Couldn't be a brother as he has none, unless he has a half brother or brother-in-law, but I doubt that. Can't be grandfather or the speakers son either, as he is saying "his father's son". So yeah. Not all that ultimate. Unless it's a trick... o.o
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The guy talking said the FATHER of his fathers son. His fathers son is him, so he is the father of the person in the picture
Change your perspectives. Try assuming the person in the photo is the son, then try assuming the person in the photo is himself. See if you can figure out a reason why it cannot be either.
Unless he severely messed up his grammar, he is saying that his father can only have one son, being him, which makes the person in the picture his son...
Is it his priests son? Maybe he's the priest. In any case, the word father should be capitalized >_>
I've changed my mind since yesterday, Rowan. There is only one answer to this riddle, and it's his son.
This is the clearest explanation I have found:
"My father's son" or "the son of my father" must be the speaker himself because he has no brothers or sisters.
Replace "my father's son" with "me" and you get "that man's father is me."
Change it around and you have, "I am that man's father." "That man" must be my son.
But I prefer thinking about it as though the man's father had an incestuous relationship with his grandson, a transvestite who once bore a child. Now try think about the riddle.
That mans (son) father (me) is my (me) fathers ('me' dad) son (back to self again).
It has to work both ways, it just has too!
**** this, Im drawing a diagram.
This is now my answer. I'm not sure if I should be aroused or disturbed...Originally Posted by Alpha
When he says "this man" he is referring to himself. So it's a picture of himself. If the person in the photo is his father's son, it has to be him.
OK, so you're saying: this man's father is my father's son >> [My] father is my father's son
That can't work, unless you subscribe to my incest argument, and even then you'd have to add a time travel component.
I think you're looking at it in too much of a complicated way. It works, but it's hard to explain. It's like he's speaking in the third-person. He's the person at the beginning and the end, he is "this man" and "his father's son". The fathers aren't separate people, they're one father. I don't know if that was explained well enough lol.
If that were the answer, that's not a riddle, it's just misleading.
Alright, well if it isn't himself then it could be a picture of his son, or there is incest going on as Alpha pointed out.
Its not incest if the picture is of himself.
But it isn't...and I'm not sure we can agree with that anyway. Sexy times with yourself could very well be the ultimate form of incest.
I think the real question here is what kind of an asshole picks up a picture and exclaims "brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my father's son" to no one in particular?
Let's go into the "archives" in "Washington D.C." and find out how people "masturbated" in the "roaring 20's."
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A very lonely, schizophrenic, incestuous transvestite.
Well it would be arrogant to talk about himself, so I'm just going to take that answer off the table. Plus that would be the obvious answer, and I like being a bit more creative than obvious.
The man mentions brothers and sisters. The only reason this would be put in the riddle would be to signify that the answer has something to do with it. He says "brothers and sisters, I have none," which is true if you're an only child, or if your siblings are dead. He may have had brothers and sisters, but at this particular point in time, he doesn't have any, since "have" indicated the present, not the past.
So, he's looking at a picture of his nephew, the son of his dead brother.
It's his son, really not much of a riddle lol. This man's father would then mean him, and he is of course his father's son. So, the picture is of his son. While the incestuous schizophrenic transvestite theory is... creative, the principle of Occam's razor would lead me to believe that his son is the better answer.
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