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wingsinmyspine
01-11-2006, 10:50 AM
be as clever or as stupid as you want with your answers, just please answer. i need as many questions as i can get.

Here's the scenario: You've just fallen asleep and a dream begins, you pull back heavy blue curtains to reveal a room with three figures staring at you. One figure is a wizened, ancient Negro man. This is Destruction/Death. The second figure is a statuesque, breathtaking, pregnant woman. This is Life. The third figure is an androgynous Albino child. This is Creation/Birth.

Or fuck my descriptions and let them look however they would in your dream.

These three figures tell you that you are granted one question to ask each of them. You are allowed three questions in your lifetime, and each one is to be answered by a seperate Figure. On one condition, you understand that upon waking you will not remember their answers.

Since you are in a dream state you do not have the rationale to not ask any questions to avoid going going mad from not being able to remember the answers. you only know that for the moment you can know anything...

Yeah this is a little bit like the Kindly Ones from the Sandman series, blah blah blah. Those figures do what they can to give you as indirect an answer as possible. These figures will answer as you want them to (though not what you want to hear...perhaps)

So, what questions do you think you might ask?

it's important research.

p.s. the figures are omniscient.

Fab
01-11-2006, 11:02 AM
I'd be tempted to just ask "Why?", but they'd probably be cunts and answer "Because".

Jackal
01-11-2006, 11:37 AM
Destruction/Death: "Will we end up like the Mad Max movies?"

Life: "Who's the father?"

creation/birth: Trying not to offend his albino stance, I would ask, "Do you play video games?"

Leela
01-11-2006, 03:57 PM
One question for all of them...

Why did you create the platypus?

Nak Nak
01-14-2006, 09:07 PM
One figure is a wizened, ancient Negro man. This is Destruction/Death. The second figure is a statuesque, breathtaking, pregnant woman. This is Life. The third figure is an androgynous Albino child. This is Creation/Birth.


Black old man:
Did it suck having to meet Jesus twice?

Pregnant woman:
When the doctors told you that the world had downs syndrome, was it a difficult decision to let it live?

Albino child:
What do you think of the uniformly negative portrayal of albino's in the media?

Hi There, Am Pam
01-14-2006, 09:40 PM
Originally posted by Nymphadora
One question for all of them...

Why did you create the platypus?

As the pregnant woman figure, I can answer this. It is to show people that I have a sense of humour. That and I like having sex with ducks.

Nak Nak
01-14-2006, 09:44 PM
Originally posted by Hi There, Am Pam
As the pregnant woman figure, I can answer this. It is to show people that I have a sense of humour. That and I like having sex with ducks.
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Squirrel
01-16-2006, 12:04 PM
Could God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?

Hi There, Am Pam
01-16-2006, 12:29 PM
I love that episode of the Simpsons.

Squirrel
01-16-2006, 01:29 PM
I typed the jist of that quote into google to make sure I got it right, and one of the searches came up with an actual philosophical debate about it. Apparently the answer is no, because a microwave cannot heat anything beyond the boiling temperature of water. I was like, "Oh."

Leela
01-16-2006, 03:41 PM
Originally posted by Squirrel
I typed the jist of that quote into google to make sure I got it right, and one of the searches came up with an actual philosophical debate about it. Apparently the answer is no, because a microwave cannot heat anything beyond the boiling temperature of water. I was like, "Oh."

How anti-climatic

Squirrel
01-16-2006, 06:35 PM
Tell me about it. I wasted my question!

Spaced
01-16-2006, 10:43 PM
You don't need to think of a question to ask an omniscient being, as because they know everthing, they know what question you're going to ask, and that you want it answered, so you just need to stand there until they answer the question you were going to ask