Who would you like to meet?

[maeli]

I thought this was an interesting topic. If you could be meet anyone in history who would it be and why?

I am not sure yet so I'll get back to ya.

[Darkdale]

I thought this was an interesting topic. If you could be meet anyone in history who would it be and why?

I am not sure yet so I'll get back to ya.

Ayn Rand, David Hume or Freidrich Nietzsche.

[maeli]

I would like to meet Leonardo Davinci because he was a brilliant man and to get a real insight to all his paintings

[Toby Stimpson]

I would like to meet Mahatma Gandhi, just to sit and talk to him with a cup of tea and a nice dish of Dahl and talk politics and spirituality. :)

[heathenwolf]

Adolph hitler, so i can punch his lights out and tell him how much he destroyed the german vision of a real good future.

[mol]

Aleister Crowley and King Solomon.

[Cain]

Hugh Dalton, the LSE lecturer and one time head of the Special Operations Executive and Miyamoto Musashi.

[LostSheep]

The Buddha. Just someone I've always admired.

[kal]

albert einstein--- to talk phisics
malcolm x--great public speaker
bill hicks--- a comic genius
leonardo da vinci---to talk about his machines and design,s
alexander the great---to find out about his travels and battles
william wallace---had to throw a scot in
khufu---to ask who really built the great pyramid at giza
jessie marselus---to ask what he really found at roswell
j edgar hoover---the man had everybodys secrets
tupac---a urban poet

[Faeawyn]

Jesus and/or Buddha. Any of the great spiritual leaders who may have reached a heightened level of enlightment. I would love to ask them questions and gain some insight and wisdom.

[Aidron]

Helen Keller - I admire her personal strength and optimistic wisdom greatly.

Aleister Crowley - Then... smack him.

Rosalind Franklin - As much as I admire Helen Keller's strength, I admire Rosalind's unyielding determination.

Einstein - He's freaky and he's cooky, his hair is somewhat spooky... I bet he'd be a laugh and then some.

Whomever invented styrofoam... and then beat them until they die of internal injuries.

[Toki Wartooth]

Whomever invented styrofoam... and then beat them until they die of internal injuries.

Pardon me for being nosy, but why do you detest styrofoam so much?

Edgar Allan Poe. I'd like to find out how he was really like. I never feel like anything serves him justice...if I could also "meet" him after his death, I'd be interested in knowing what caused him to die.

Ovid. I love the man's writings, but I know little about him in actuality. I'd definitely love to find out if he had anything to do with Julia...But, other than gossip, I'd probably be most interested in what inspired his writings.

Catullus. This poet died young and not much is known about him...so I can't even find much information, really. I'd just love to have a nice chat with him over dinner and talk about anything and everything. His poetry was oft very personal, and I felt somehow connected to him, so meeting him would be a delight.

[Aidron]

Pardon me for being nosy, but why do you detest styrofoam so much?

You know the noise it makes when anything touches it or even comes within 5 feet of the bloody stuff? That's why.

Cuh-rrrrringe. :yikes:

Plus, I have it on good authority that it's pure evil. My sources are my own biased paranoia, but I think they're good sources.

[Aidron]

Oh, and let's go ahead and add Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire to my list. Though I'd probably just up and tell 'em to dance rather than socialize with them. :foh:

[zede]

cleopatra i just have always had a thing for her ever since i can remember.

[Zephyrstorm]

Any film critic or censorship board member from the fifties, but only if I have a dvd player and a few films to show him... like fight club...but that's just me being mean. XD

Seriously,
Any one of the Wives of Amun from Ancient Egypt - I have a bunch of questions for them about their position and their relationship with Amun and Mut.

hmmm...
Michelangelo and Raphael, to find out if they were really in such heavy competition, and to see for myself if Michelangelo was gay.

man... I can't remember the last one's name *goes to google*
Found it, Sarah Winchester - whose house is just freaking neat! http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Also Alphonse Mucha. Especially during the time when he and Gauguin were hanging out together. :)

[Phi]

These people named by newsmedia or archaeologists when their remains were found:

"Eve" (of Africa)
"Beauty of Loulan"
"King of Stonehenge"
"Boscombe bowmen"
"Princess of Vix"

Also, in recorded history:
Enheduanna, Teuta, Onomaris, Macha Mong Ruadh, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Buddha, Confucious

And:
Some of the best of my own ancestors from prehistoric and early historic times...(Not sure I'd want to meet the worst of them, no doubt they were dangerous folk!:hahugh: )

[Toki Wartooth]

You know the noise it makes when anything touches it or even comes within 5 feet of the bloody stuff? That's why.

Cuh-rrrrringe. :yikes:

Plus, I have it on good authority that it's pure evil. My sources are my own biased paranoia, but I think they're good sources.

Ah, okay, gotcha.

Hmm. I'd also want to meet someone who could tell me what happened to the Mayans, as well as someone who could tell me about Easter Island.

It'd also be nice to meet an Inca...just because they're my ancestors. Perhaps I could talk to Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, one of the emperors...

[Philosophia]

I would love to meet:
Galileo Galilei because he stood up for what he believed in even if it went against the grain of his society.
Leonardo de Vinci because he was a modern thinker in a society grounded by the church's principles.
Hypatia because she was a brilliant female mathematician and astronomer, even though she was denouced by the church.
* Plato
* Aristotle
* Sophocles
* Gautama Buddha
* Pythagoras
* Kant
* Ayn Rand
* René Descartes
(* I would love to visit these philosophers, find out what influenced them and how there ideas were formed).
Neferati, Hatsheput, Cleopatra, Nitocris, Sobek-nefru, and Ta-wesert because they were powerful female leaders in a masculine dominated society
Hitler because, even though I dislike him immensely, I would love to know what happened in those last few hours.
^ Leo Tolstoy
^ Mikhail Bulgakov
^ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
^ James Joyce
^ Virginia Woolf
^ Albert Camus
^ Jane Austen
^ Francis Bacon
^ Samuel Bekett
^ Cervantes
^ Agatha Christie
(^ I would love to see and meet these people because there writings influenced generations of authors. I would love to find out how they came to writing, and why they felt compelled to do so. Seriously I could continue on with the famous authors I would love to meet, however that'll be a bit too many).
# Aristarchus
# Nicolaus Copernicus
# Johannes Kepler
# Isaac Newton
# Albert Einstein
# Albrecht Dürer
# Blaise Pascal
# Emmy Noether
# Evariste Galois
(# I would love to meet these famous astrologers, physicists and mathematicians and find out how they concluded their works while contending with issues of their society and how their contemporaries sometimes dismissed them)

[Ceffyl]

Vercingetorix -- to find out what *really* happened at Alesia.
Tacitus -- to ask about Germania.
Apuleius -- to ask more about the references to Epona.

[Akhkharu Asgard]

Herodotus
Pythagorus
Homer, if he actually existed.
Jesus
King Arthur, assuming he existed.
Beethoven

[Derestanne]

Male: Nicola Tesla and Swami Ramakrishna

Female: Cleopatra and Traci Lords when she was 15 years old.

[LostSheep]

Anton LaVey, i think he might be fun ... and Matthew, Mark, Luke & John, so maybe i could find out how much of what they wrote was actually based on fact ...

[Akhkharu Asgard]

Anton LaVey, i think he might be fun ... and Matthew, Mark, Luke & John, so maybe i could find out how much of what they wrote was actually based on fact ...

I forget exactly which one, but the one written the soonest was thirty years or so after the death of Jesus. I don't know about you (I'm not even at least thirty yet), but unless they kept notes I don't think the accuracy of remember something thirty years prior is very accurate.

[Ninjakitten]

I'd want to meet Jesus with the Apocrypha, the Bible, the Gnostic Gospels, and the Dead Sea Scrolls in hand and a highlighter and ask Jesus to highlight anything he identifies as true and to clarify anything that could be true but might not have been written in the proper context. I'd probably still end up with a Bible-sized document, just a lot of stuff left out. I'd also want to meet King Solomon and do the same thing with Proverbs and the Wisdom of Solomon (which I'm pretty sure that Wisdom wasn't actually written by him but written by Hellenistic Christians, but I could be wrong).

I'd also want to meet Anton LeVey, Aleister Crowley, Ghandi, Constantine, the Buddha, and any number of people from history who's remains we have found and don't know much about. I'd also love to meet anyone who was a leatherworker from various areas in different periods in history (since it's kind of hard to find surviving leather artifacts and I'm a medieval and Renaissance recreator). I'd also want to meet some Cromagnons (sp?) and try to find out more about their religious beliefs to see how much may have been true that Marija Gimbutas theorized about them.

[Rudas Starblaze]

Jack the Ripper, General Lee, any of the Egyptian pharoes(sp), king Soloman, Jesus, Judas, St. Lucifer, Bob the nobody english peasent(sp), Lief Erikson, Adam and Eve (so i can talk Adam out of being suckered by Eve), Moses, Muthusala(sp), Saul/Paul, Peter, the three musketeers, all of the greatest mass murders of all time, and Richard Nixon.

[Crystal Raven]

Claude Monet was my first thought...
Queen Victoria, the Bronte Sisters and Joan of Arc in that order

[Akhkharu Asgard]

Adam and Eve (so i can talk Adam out of being suckered by Eve).

Haha! Burn!
To me, he's a big screw up. He had free will to not eat the dang apple. He should have kicked her out and got a new model from God. Thanks a lot. You know, I'd like to go back and smack both of them for screwing everything up for us! We could all be hanging out naked in some wonderful garden, but *nooooo*. GRRRR.

[Rudas Starblaze]

Haha! Burn!
To me, he's a big screw up. He had free will to not eat the dang apple. He should have kicked her out and got a new model from God. Thanks a lot. You know, I'd like to go back and smack both of them for screwing everything up for us! We could all be hanging out naked in some wonderful garden, but *nooooo*. GRRRR.

:lol: :rotfl: :hehehe:

[omar]

I would like to meet Bin Laudin with a Colt .45 in my hand.

[Cresa]

That would be my ultimate many times great-grandfather who united Okinawa into one kingdom. Then it would be my great-great grandfather who was the prince regent of Okinawa before Japan de-throned him. If you would like more info on the Okinawan History look up Choshu Haneji aka Sho Jo-ken as he was known to the Chinese emperor.

Cresa

[Aconite]

I cant belive nobody has mentioned her yet.....

Marilyn Monroe. Most deffanitly. She's the first person who comes to mind. Becasue quite frankly, my mother, adn sister and I all love her. A lot. And i'd love to sit down and have a good long conversation with her, Find out if my theory is right about how she died and find out what happened to her in her childhood and just get to know her. She was a very misunderstood woman.

I'd also like to have a good long chat with King Arthur and his sister Morgainne(sp?) Try and figure out what happened to Avalon. I'd also like to sit down and chat with Sarah Good. She was hanged at Salem, and many believed her to be an old crone and quite frankly, a very un-pleasent begger. But i'd like to talk to her.

[gurlygurl2004]

This is really weird but the no. 1 person I would actually love to meet is Jesus Christ. I would want to see how "the Lord" really was like, what he would think how modern Christianity has become so strict, crazy, and very commercial. And also what he really wanted as far as changing Judaism, or what he really wanted us to live. How how he actually thought of pagans.

[sari0009]

I would have like to know my great grandmother on my mother's side better. She was about 97 when I was about 3 and a half ... and then she passed on. She was so cool. Slipped me big candy bars, cooked wonderful meals, and spoke three languages fluently. First and last time I heard Estonian.

There was a strong bond and remembering her feels like "sunshine."

[WokeUpDead]

Ben Franklin. He's got his face on the $100 bill and he was a total player. Plus he's one of the few people I'd actually be able to understand. Jesus would be all "Hi, I'm Jesus" except it would be in Aramaic and I wouldn't have a clue what he said.
Either that or Fidel Castro.

[Nadasdy]

Báthori Erzsébet (aka Elizabeth Bathory)

I plan on traveling to Hungary soon to do some research from the source.



Regards, N

[Ayumi]

The creator of Japanese Anime so I can have his babies... or if it is a female, not have her babies I guess... that's not possible right? 8O

Jesus so I could find out if he ever married that Mary Magdaline woman like I think he probably did... also if he had siblings and if his mother was really from african decent like I believe is quite a possibility.

Pope John Paul II because I don't like the new guy... way too conservative IMHO.

Dante- so I can ask him what the bloody hell was going on in his life when he wrote The Divine Comedy.

Queen Nefertiti because she was supposed to be such a strong female from Egyptian history.

Julius Caesar because he was a brilliant tactician and totally kicked butt when it came to conquering people.

Darwin- so I could give him a good swift kick. That's all. Just one kick.

Hemingway - because he seemed like a real fun guy.

Martin Luther King Jr. - just to sit down to dinner with him one night to see what a small part of his life was like.

Stanton and Anthony - to meet them and thank them for all that they have done for women.

Hitler - to see if he was just the SOB we all know him as, or if he was just a druged-up pawn for the 3rd Reich as many have come to believe.

Ivan the great - because I don't know much about russia and talking to Ivan the terrible didn't seem like a good idea.

Emily Dickenson - To see what her life was like and what she was like.

Churchill - didn't spell his name right, sorry, but the british prime minister of old because he was very intelligent.

Krishna - to see if there are similarities between him and Jesus.

Buddah - seems like an interesting person to meet.

Confusious- only to know what he was like in life.

Etc. ^.^'