1. ...So imagine, if in the movie sense, an alien came to you and said “take me to your leader.” Who would you take them to? 2. Why? Talking to an alien for the first time is not a new imagination or a new question. The internet is filled with responses to “what would you ask an alien?” And this is why I have changed the question somewhat and have also taken twenty minutes to consider what I might ask. We will also skip past the obvious question of how are we both able to speak and communicate in the same language? Revised Question: What would be your first question to an “alien” if you knew that that question would determine the nature of the rest of your relationship? Possible Answers That First Came To Me. Obvious follow-up questions not listed:
1. What if I told you my leader is my spirit?
2. What are your views on living in harmony?
3. What is the highest law you obey?
4. Who is greater?
5. Who rules and who serves?
6. Are you willing to have a series of conversations until neither of us have any more questions?
7. What are all the ways you view me?
8. How can we help each other?
9. How can we assure each other that we are not enemies?
10. What are the most important things to you?
11. Who are you?
12. Where did you come from?
13. Why are you here?
14. What is our sameness?
15. What do we have in difference?
16. Which of these are most important?
17. What do you enjoy doing?
18. What do you hate doing?
19. What do you think about the behavior of humans on this planet? Upon further reflection of the question, I expand my nomenclature and remember that we are all aliens, strangers, foreigner in more than one way. As humans on Earth we treat each other as aliens. The word alien, by itself, does not mean good or evil. Yet we tend to treat those we don't know or things we don't know as being either good or evil. We tend to treat them as either friendly or enemies. Rarely do we see the potential in them to be both. So now comes one more question:
What is the most important question to ask someone you don't know, if you knew that that question would determine the nature of the rest of your relationship?I hope to God nobody says: what's your name, where you from, what do you do, how do you know so and so, and all such other non-primary questions that are the lethargic legends of most human gatherings.
