Riddles and Puzzles

[slayerdeath]

In an attempt to assert myself as King of brain teasers Here is a tough classic

You are walking through the land of Ziz, where there are two types of people, liars and truth tellers. The liars can only lie and the truth tellers can only tell the truth. It is a dark night and you don't know the way to the nearest town. Finally you come to a split in the road. You know one of the paths will take you home and the other will lead to certain doom. There is a man at the split, and you know he is either a liar or truth teller, but do not know which. He will only answer one question. What one question do you ask him so you know which path leads you home?

you ask him which way you came from *because you obviosly know the answer...since he has to lie if hes a liar or tell the truth if hes truthful