What's the question?

In The popular "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by the brilliant Douglas Adams the answer is 42.
A little cheat, for understanding our place in reality, a "hint" from me to you:
What's the question?
About life, the universe and everything?
What is our #ing problem?
What is the one thing we need to answer so everything will get better?


Imagine you get the one time opportunity to ask "The Artist Formerly Known As God" one question.
We're making a call with a magical phone and it's experimental and unstable so you never know if it will work a second time. It rings. A voice that is all of life in all times answers "Yes? This is Elohim?" The connection wimpers and almost breaks up.
What is your question?

"Why is there something instead of nothing?"

Who Am I.

a reply to: Peeple

"Hey Elohim, demiurge whatever, why did you mislead mankind?"

Does your house still have many mansions and can I live in one? Now-Alive?

a reply to: Peeple

You actually asked it yourself in the original post:

What is the one thing we need to answer so everything will get better?

What is the one thing we need to answer so everything will get better?

How do I help make it better?

a reply to: MerkabaMeditation

Yes. That's important self realisation and such.
But it isn't enough, you'd have to ask ... in relation to all that is?

a reply to: Peeple

Why?

a reply to: TheConstruKctionofLight

I can concur to "something is misleading us".
But to say it's all his fault might set the wrong mood if you talk to someone who can wipe out all we know exists on a whim.

a reply to: 19Bones79

That's the same like asking about life, the universe and everything.

a reply to: kwakakev

Make what better for whom?

a reply to: Peeple

I kind of went overboard on one of Muzzleflash's thread in researching the 42 thing...

The great pyramid has a 42 degree slope, the angle between the eye and a raindrop when seeing a rainbow is 42 degrees (which got me to read the Newton's Optica in full and kind of injured my brains on that one)...

Still no wiser but if God was on the phone and I could ask him one question, I'd ask him how he was doing.

Peace

a reply to: operation mindcrime

More like: do you need help?
But you're funny, maybe it let's get you away with it.

originally posted by: Peeple
Imagine you get the one time opportunity to ask "The Artist Formerly Known As God" one question.
We're making a call with a magical phone and it's experimental and unstable so you never know if it will work a second time. It rings. A voice that is all of life in all times answers "Yes? This is Elohim?" The connection wimpers and almost breaks up.
What is your question?

Objection: asked and answered.

a reply to: tanstaafl

I love Asimov.
But it's no answer and no question. It's fiction. It makes you think.
But I don't know what you mean with it?

How can we learn to share better?

Does Santa really know whos been naughty and/or Nice?

a reply to: Peeple

In the book...we are the program...to answer the question.

Spolier...its 42

a reply to: Peeple

"Do you exist?"

and with the answer whispered, we all fade into a distant shadow, echoing cries of despair, and fade into nothingness..

Some things are best not asked of god. belief, is all there is to keep the mantle steady.