ETA: Okay, more seriously, I’m not sure I’d want to ask the Giant Brain anything. Sure, it’s omniscient, but that doesn’t mean that it’s honest, or that it has the same priorities and values I do. (“Should I bet everything on red?” “Emphatically yes! (Because I want you to lose your money and end up homeless and destitute, mwah-ha-ha!”)
Thank you. Come again.
answer: yes.
No, it’s an attempt to ask three-questions at once. Since saying neither saying the word “yes” or “no” once can answer the question adequately, it’s clearly not a simple yes or no question. It’s like trying to get around the “three wishes from a genie” rule by wishing for more wishes. Nobody’s fooled.
Are you really the Great Squisy?
Really?
Really?
Do you spend most of your time laughing at us (humans)?
If I kill myself will I still get to be with Alvin in the after-life?
Is some other species really in charge and we (humans) do not realize it?
Do people have a form of individual existence that exists after their bodies die?
If the answer is yes then:
Do the actions that people take and/or the beliefs they hold during their life affect the condition of their afterlives?
If the answer to that one is yes, then:
Are there reasonable means available to the average person which lets us determine what actions or beliefs will cause us to have a better afterlife?
Not a final answer but at least a series of yeses would give us some guidelines.
On the other hand, if the answer to any of my questions is no, then we’re kind of stuck.
Those games will be staggered in consecutive weeks. I’ll bet everything I have or can borrow, doubling my money each time. Then I’ll retire.
Are you really just a big giant magic 8 ball?
Is that blue stuff inside of you toxic?
Are you still sold at Walmart?
Yes. Once the human race splits the earth in two during your next world war. Then I can play.
I’ll be here all week.
Want to switch roles?
Please?
C’mon?!
Dammit. It was worth a shot.
I must be the only one who doesn’t give a shit what the meaning of life is.
I can’t really believe none of you would ask something closer to “why didn’t she do x…?” or “what if we had done x instead of y…” or “how would my life be different if I had decided x?”
For all the intellectual and philosophical masturbation we love here, I know I’d sleep a lot better with answers to some much more simple questions.
Did Beyoncé really have one of the best videos of all time?
No, it wouldn’t because whomever wasn’t the favoured religion would simply claim that either the so-called “God” you met with was a demon, anti-christ or deceiver sent to test the faith of the true believers and that you are an instrument of evil. If anything, it would prompt a higher level of tension and lead to bloody conflicts as they went to war over the whole question/answer issue.
Does free will exist?
Does the devil exist as an independent personal entity, not a mental/social construct?
Is there life after death?
Do you know which of these cups is poisoned? The battle of wits has begun.
Are all forms of religion you just basically reinventing yourself because of boredom?
Do you really need a starship?
Did you create me as a part of you?
Did you create me as apart from you?
Are you content with your creation of me?
I disagree. The question is the logical conjunction of three statements, and therefore a single yes or no is an adequate (if unsatisfying) answer to the question.
As the existance of such a god explains a lot already…
Is P = NP?
Is there intelligent life somewhere out in Space?
Uhm…
…dunno… yes or no…
Is there a correct theory of everything that humans can understand?