Jacob, I love Dark Matters.
I forgot that Samson killed thirty men just because his guests answered his rather stupid riddle correctly. Even his riddle is sort of cheating because it depended on knowing something that only Samson and a few other people knew. Samson killed a lion and bees made honey in its corpse. The answer didn't depend on the other person's intelligence to figure out. It made perfect sense for the Philistines to seek out the answer through stealth. The only point of the story is to show that Samson was a sore and very violent loser.
I forgot that Samson killed thirty men just because his guests answered his rather stupid riddle correctly. Even his riddle is sort of cheating because it depended on knowing something that only Samson and a few other people knew. Samson killed a lion and bees made honey in its corpse. The answer didn't depend on the other person's intelligence to figure out. It made perfect sense for the Philistines to seek out the answer through stealth. The only point of the story is to show that Samson was a sore and very violent loser.
