There is no true meaning or solution.
It's for you to look at in your own way.
Give it your own meaning and solution, and use it to better your own life.
That's the whole point of exercises like these; don't let it drive you crazy.

This is the foundation for the correct answer which leads to correct action. No perception is better than misperception. So, you've got nothing . . . now what?
^This is some seriously egotistical bullshit.

@kasabi: In onee of your replies you said "act fast" before one of those things is taken away from you.

I never saw this type of riddle before. But my mind wants to solve the "practical" side of this riddle.

My tought process turned out two "practical" solutions but when I thought about both I came to same conclusion.

1.) I find a "possible practical solution". *I don't have enough information to know if this would work*.

2.) I find second "practical solution". *I still don't have all the information I need*

3.) I realise that I will never have all the information I need to make an informed decision. I now know that I can't find a rational answer. I fold. I care about the result but can't accept the responsibility. Did I just decide by not being proactive? I'm just as responsible as I would be if I kill the monkey. Does it matter?

Do I need to decide or can I stare at the monkey till I die?

When you stop asking these questions you have solved the riddle.

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Haha, I wish. I have no sense of ego, hence why I'm here on this forum.
(I'm glad you look at me like that though. )
If you say there's an answer, there must be.

So, not only are you an egotistical bullshitter, your're a passive agressive liar as well.

Throws a pokeball at the monkey and places it in a box where the moneky is niether dead or alive , boy wins - Schrödinge me

He leaves the monkey as he knows this will kill his father reducing his competition - Freudian me

The boy shoots the monkey because although he has lost a parent he still gains in its loss, he then wanders futher into the forest coming across many of the same type of situation in which he gains from every loss but carrys on with an optomistic mindset but the boy comes to a point where he reaches the deep forest and the gains are even more minimal to the losses, he doesnt venture futher as doing so will mean him becoming lost and unable to escape , the boy turns around and walks the same way back that he came as he is familiar and confident with this path and their will be no more gains or losses on this path , he walks out a wise man - present and future me

Ohhhh i get it now

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kill the dam monkey!!!!!also u can say like i saw a money dancing around and 1 behind me stole my keys to my car i chanced after him but could not catch him he hoped around I wanted to throw a pie at him with his touge sticking out.Then i gave him some of my bana and he had a smile on his face the end.

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i hope everyone that was answering this was trolling :\

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The monkey is God,the boy is like humanity,still young and stupid. If you tell this story in a modern context,the bow an arrow become primitive(compared to guns).The boy(like humanity) doesen't care about others who are inferior,he just does what he does and doesen't give a shit.The God monkey must be close to him,because there is no other way to hear a monkey in the jungle,that means God(which can be mother earth too) lets the primitive human come close to him,lets him aim(which can be viewed as the instinctive side of humans,he doesen't actually think when aiming,he just does it,humans are animals too...)but then he reveals the truth.Now the young boy must think,and on the brink of killing the monkey,he sees that his simple action has dire consequences.
Now here is the drama of humanity,does not doing something,and actually doing something make a difference if the results is the same?Does killing your enemy and letting your enemy die make any difference?
the morale of the story?does killing 6 million jews or letting them die yield the same moral punishment?
maybe yes,maybe no...but the dead and destroyed families,don't really care...the loved ones are gone!

Too long didnt read.

wrong.

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Hmm, I was egotistical in my first comment. I did attempt to pass it off as the right answer and had no doubt.
Maybe if I started it off with, "I think," things would be different. I took it out of context and thought you were
implying that I had a high sense of ego overall.
You sure seem to be positive there's an answer though, and then there's the chance that even your answer isn't
the answer the author thought of. (If she even thought of one in the first place.) Isn't that the answer were after?
In which case, who knows what the author was thinking of while writing this.
So, I propose that instead of seeking an exact answer to such a general wide-opened riddle that could have an
infinite of meanings and insisting that our own answers must be right, that we let our minds fill in the dots given
our unique situations in life and learn/gain from it.
There's no way of knowing what the author was thinking unless she lets us know.
(And I doubt the answer is an obvious one, as this was posted quite a while ago.)

Seduce the monkey.

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lol dude..

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