[ WP ] There is a machine that will answer any question , but there are strict rules that say nobody can ask more than a single question in their lifetime . Due to reasons , you are attempting to break that rule .

I had always wondered why I was only allowed to ask a single question. There was a lottery for who got to ask their question this week, as the machine required immense amounts of power to operate. Many had speculated that this machine was the first true quantum computer humanity had ever created, but given the very nature of quantum mechanics, nobody could be sure. 
 
 Many groups had formed around the planet; the best scientific and philosophical minds joined together in the first truly earnest search for `` the right question.'' How can such a question even exist? Just as `` good vs evil'' is entirely a subjective issue, so then must `` the right question'' be. Naturally, research groups in the more religiously-charged areas of the globe settled upon questions of why they were denied lands that were given to them by the grace of God himself. The machine, having no concept of blind faith or of inherently inexplicable `` gods'', could only respond to their questions with another question: `` Why do you, who have done nothing in the past 5000 years to earn it, deserve this land?'' 
 
 Needless to say, they were n't happy, but no matter how many times religious extremists forced their way past the lottery, they only ever received answers that questioned the very reason for their beliefs. As a scientist who's witnessed many mind-bending results to experiments designed to probe the nature of reality, their search for answers amused me at first, but soon grew very irritating, as they grew more and more desperate to either have the machine prove they were right, or themselves prove the machine fallible. 
 
 And the reason slowly dawned on me. They were all seeking out answers, but those who had created the `` one question per person'' rule had anticipated what would happen... the more questions asked in series by an irrational person, the more likely the machine was to corrupt the very fabric of the space it was built in. So I shut myself in for months, immersing myself in the subjects of philosophy and theology, in an attempt to truly understand the reason for such a rule. 
 
 I approached the machine nervously. 
 
 > < Please state your inquiry. > 
 
 I contemplated the nature of the question I came to ask... 
 
 then I *became* God.
