You meet a being that knows everything there is to know and always tells the truth. You are convinced this is true of it.
This being gives you five minutes to ask three yes or no questions, which will be answered in order immediately after all three questions have been asked. What questions do you ask?
BTW, if you ask it a question it believes is to vague to answer, it will ignore that question and you are not given a chance at asking a replacement question, e.g., “is there a god?” would be considered too vague to answer because of competing definitions of “god.”
Oh, one other thing. If you ask questions because you want to make money from either gambling or investing/trading, it won’t answer. So “will the Eagles win the next Super Bowl?” or “will Apple be trading at over $200 a share at any time in 2018?” will go unanswered. Questions where the answer may help you make money in areas other than gambling or investing/trading are allowed.
One of the constraints was the 5 minute time limit, so I intentionally did not allow myself to give it much thought and was a bit “rushed”.
“Where are my car keys?” may not be the actual question that I would ask in such a hypothetical (minus yes/no), but a similar mundane question of that nature relevant to what is happening at the time would be. The questions were in order: Philosophical, Fanciful, and Practical. (Plus, the most likely chance I have for encountering some sort of mystical being of power is while looking for my car keys.)
Outside of investment advice, I really don’t have any really important questions that effect me personally. I could ask if my business will fail, but I really don’t want to know the answer. I could ask if I will find love, but same thing there, I’d rather be surprised.
If I could be vague, I’d go with:
Will I find what I am looking for?
Will I know when I find it?
Will it bring me happiness?
I guess, having given it more than 5 minutes of thought, and therefore breaking the constraints that way:
Is there intelligent life other than humans contemporarily existing within the galaxy?
If I continue to pursue a job in line with my interests will I eventually get one?
Will the UK state pension still support me, (giving a more detailed description of “support me” to the being so it’s not as vague) at 68 if I only pay the legal minimum in?
Did [redacted] really [redacted]? (Incident from my personal life.)
