While camping in a remote forest alone, you encounter an alien being. You are offered a choice. Leave with it offworld, and become immortal. Or stay behind with no memory of what happened.
While on a personal sabbatical in a remote camping location, you happen upon a strange scene.
A craft that can only be explained as otherworldly hovers and lands near your campsite. A door appears and opens. A tall being of unknown gender appears and approaches you.
You’re obviously stunned. You reach for your phone, but strangely it has no power. The being approaches you and begins to “speak”.
After several hours of conversation with this being you come to realize a great many truths about the true nature of all things. This information is so astounding that it shatters your world view.
In the end this being offers you a choice. You may leave with it. You will not be harmed in any way. In fact you will be allowed to pursue limitless opportunities. Because of their advanced knowledge and technology, you can be cured of any disease. Any bodily injury may be repaired. You can choose to remain in your physical form for all eternity. Death will never find you if you so choose. Even total destruction of your physical form can be reversed. You may of course choose to “move on” to the next place at your own discretion.
You will never be able to return to earth again. You can however visit any other number of countless worlds in the vastness of the cosmos. No one in your life will know what happened to you. To anyone who knows you, you will have simply gone missing. There are no exceptions to this rule. You are allowed no goodbyes. Doing so would contaminate the human species.
If you choose to remain on earth, all knowledge of this encounter will be erased from your memory. You’ll go on living your life as if it never happened.
It’s a binary choice. Choose wisely.
Do you stay or do you go?