TIL Satan is a genie.
Also, in these games, the folks going for “more wishes” are shooting low. The only wish you need, which also defeats the monkey’s paw, is “grant me omnipotence.”
But: this is Satan we’re talking about. The Deciever, The Traitor. Not only is this a monkey-paw situation, but a Christian Satan is going to actively try to decieve you.
I don’t think I’d even trust his answer about whether there’s a cost, so I’d pass on the winning lotto numbers, too.
I’d say, “no thanks” and immediately convert to Catholicism, start going to church, and lead a clean life from here on out. If the orthodox Jews are right, I’m fucked anyway since my mother isn’t a Jew, so Christianity is the best bet.
I thought if Judaism is correct gentiles can avoid Gehennom (purgatory) by following the 7 noahide laws?
What is your name?
What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?
So many people assuming The Devil would answer honestly.
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Will you please fuck off and take the Trump voters with you?
Since it’s impossible to determine whether any given answer is true or not, the logical course of action is to only ask question with observably objective answers. Examples:
- What are the next lottery numbers?
- Will it rain tomorrow?
- Where was the exact location of Troy during the Greek war?
Things like that.
- 1 67 8 10 5 (doesn’t specify where)
- Yes (doesn’t specify where)
- Gives you exact coordinates to a town called Troy in the US that existed during the Greek civil war of the 1950s
If I can hold off then yeah like some others I would want to wait for a record breaking lottery and then get the numbers for the non record breaking one and then tell me how a technology that would be most beneficial for the planet while supplying mankind with all the energy it wants and I would sit on the last question.
As is, the post doesn’t specify whether the devil will answer truthfully or not. So, I suppose it’s safe to say he’ll just be a dick
- Which place in hell would my soul end up if I died right now?
- Can I take your place after I die?
- Which religion is your favorite?
Can I really ask 3 whole questions? Oh … two now? Fuck!! goddam. Ok, ummm… gotta be something real important, something impactful… Should I invest in Tesla?
How do you cure aging, next years loto numbers, so, how is it in hell is it as bad as they say?
Curing aging will make it worse.
No because you cured it. That can’t be that hard to get 😁
Overpopulation. An eternity of Trump running for president again. Countries saddled with dictators who never die.
We’d have to solve a whole lot of other issue, of the kind we’re proving incapable of addressing right now, without the benefit of having the old guard die off and giving a new generation a chance. Plus, all the fucking extra amount of people putting more load on an already strained ecosystem.
We’d have to implement Carousel, but good luck with that: it’s already almost impossible to evet get a senile senior’s licence revoked in the US.
All your points are kind of fair to be worried about, but they have also all being debunked.
Overpopulation? Were having an underpopulation chrisis in the west.
Trump? You already have him! Making billions of people suffer didn’t fix that already.
Etc.
What’s Carousel BTW?
Developed countries often have flat or negative population growth. Even so[ the population of the US is still growing; we gained 1.2 million people between 2020-2021. However, it doesn’t matter, because most of the peopl in the world don’t live in “the West”. There are 300M people in the US; India, alone, has a population of 1.4 billion. India’s population grew by 11.2 million in 2020-2021.
The total world population grew by 68 million in 2020. Where in the world did you hear that we’re having an underpopulation crisis in the West?
Yes, we have Trump. But someday, we won’t. We won’t have Putin, or Kim Jong Un. Old age, and death by it, doesn’t guarantee that a country’s leadership will get better, but for some populations it’s their only chance.
Europe and Japan.
Are your +1.2M also not immigration?
And yes everyone isn’t in the west but eventually they’ll be developed nations too and then people have less children.
You’ll have another Trump of Reagan or whatever anyways, it’s a democratic problem, not something being old solves. Doesn’t stop either if the two USA pretenders eh.
Curing aging doesn’t make people immortal or something, it just cures that particular disease. Like we have cures for lots of other diseases.
Idk who down voted you btw.
Japan is not in “the West.” It also has a relatively small population; it’s only a third of the size of tye US, and less than a tenth of either China or India. Germany’s population is flat, but it’s even smaller than Japan. France’s population is growing. Spain’s is declining slightly, but its even smaller than Germany - half the population size! Overall, the total rate of population change in the combined EU is a fraction of the number of new people the US added, and a drop in the bucket compared to the total growth of the overall World population.
Were you suggesting that anti-aging technology should only be available to people in the wealthier countries? Because those are almost the only ones with flat or negative growth. If everyone has access equally, then there will be a population explosion and crisis, because the countries adding the most people to the world right now are also the largest - by orders of magnitude.
I’d probably squander these questions because if it’s the Christian devil, I’m not sure whether or not to trust him or not.
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What’s my name?
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What’s your name?
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Did you know I’m asking these questions because I don’t know whether or not to believe you?
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Why does the universe or anything exist at all?
How will the universe end?
How did anything began existing?
TANSTAFL. What’s the price?
What’s TAnStafl? And there is no price
Will I win my next roulette spin? When will I die? Is time travel possible?
No, in the past, yes.
Next!
How’d you get in my house?
Would you please leave?
Who the fuck was that?“Are you really the devil?” following up with “Really?”, and “You?”.
