Well I know that Doc.......
I was just asking why you chose them to meet...
is it the honor in meeting them (time machine useage provided)
or do you think they would have some gems of wisdom to give to you.
where did meeting them come from? i thought this was just write in people in histort who kick ass and interest you.
it seems like every gonzo thread like this, ken doesnt read a part, or thinks he read another...
Quote:They were dirty little sexual deviants...I did a whole paper on it actually
Thank for ruining any research I may have wanted to do on the time period.
Damn, quite right FBD,
I memory edited the context of the thread...
my bad,
thousand pardons and all that shit.......
and forget my Jesus thing then, it's only fun if you cut through the BS.
I just think it would be really cool to meet people who are way smarter than I ever could imagine to be.
I might have a question or two for them, maybe I'd try to get a nugget or two of wisdom, but I would just like to meet the people who fundamentally changed the way we thing about the world. I'd like to see what they think about their work if they could see how it affected the course of history.
We got to see a little of this with Einstien before he died. His work in special relaivity led to the theory behind the atomic bomb (you split a heavy nucleus into two smaller ones, their combined mass is less than the mass of the original, that difference in mass is converted to energy by E = mc^2...simialr thing in reverse for the Hydrogen bomb too) and he actually got to see that being used within his life at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Near the end of his life, he said that sometimes he wished he'd never thought of it because he saw the direction that nuclear proliferation was going in.
I'd like to ask some other historical figures similar things too
well that was why I chose Jesus, with my imagined caveat of having lunch with him, I would love to hear what he actually professed to be, and to tell him of the church and what is done in his name,
might have him rethink getting his carpenters union card back.
Vlad Tepes (vlad the impaler, also known as Dracula)
This was a VERY VERY evil, and fascinating(in my opinion) man. Bram Strokers Dracula was based on this guy. He was the prince of Wallachia, a provence of Romania, in the 1400's. He got his name "the impaler" because as prince his favorite form of punishment was impaling people on wooden stakes, a very slow and painful death. Other methods of torture he enjoyed were nails in heads, cutting off of limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off of noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to wild animals and boiling alive. It's amazing what this guy used to do to people. The reasons why he would do them are far more amazing. This guy's life is just an incredible story.
Anybody interested in finding out more about him go
here.
Jack The Ripper always intrigued me as well.
Edited By YellowDiscipline on Sep. 04 2002 at 7:56
Quote:would a scientist or general be fun to actually meet though
Well this thread was meant for describing people who fascinate you. But yes I think I would like to meet Ghengis Khan. You have to remember, while you find someone boring, the person who finds them intruiging would have tons of questions and comments to hold a conversation.
I wouldn't wanna meet Jesus though, I'd be tempted to tackle him.
I had dinner with Bobby Kennedy and it rocked. So meeting your hero is a very cool thing.
Kafka has always been fascinating to me, such a brilliant mind...Poe, De Sade, Nietzsche, Aquinas....
Robert E Lee, very, very interesting figure, his personal beliefs pushed aside to fight for family, very honorable.
Quote:Thank for ruining any research I may have wanted to do on the time period.
I looked for stuff about sex, I'm sure you could find out how "pure" they were too if you read the right books.
Niccolo Machiavelli to ask him how we would suggest dealing with our present circumstances , John Lennon to ask him the same, Benjamin Franklin to ask him what early american civilization was like, Mohammed, Buddah, and Jesus to find out what the meaning of life is, Louis and Clark to hear about their travels firsthand, and Elvis to find out what he would have done if he could have cleaned up his act and never got so messed up on drugs.
Quote:I looked for stuff about sex, I'm sure you could find out how "pure" they were too if you read the right books.
Kama Sutra was written in the 1700's. Nuff said.
Thomas Paine, such a great thinker yet he was shunned in England, imprisoned in France, and hated in America when he came back despite of what he did.
Quote:Thomas Paine
A Modest Proposal was awesome!!!!
EDIT..... a modest proposal was written by jonathan swift.
paine wrote:African Slavery in America, The American Crisis and quite a few others
Edited By LZMF1 on Sep. 04 2002 at 5:52
LZ totally fuckin scared me with his last post.
just remembered another one...otto von bismark, quite possibly one of the best prime ministers ever. he unified all the little german city states and prussia into a gigantic european power. he expertly played off russia, austria, and france off against each other to gain territory for the country he formed. if kaiser willhelm II hadnt fired him, its possible WWI would have never happened
Speaking of which fdb, Winston Churchill. One of the greatest orators of anytime. He had a speech impediment through out his childhood, a horrible stutter. Yet he overcame it and had the world hanging on his every word.
Lao Tse
Malcolm X
Shakespeare
Clifford Simak
Quote:Malcolm X
His "I had a dream" speech was fucking awesome.
edit... JFK had the I had a dream speech.
Malcolm X ran the underground railroad, invented the peanut and quite a few other things.
Edited By Ken'sPen on Sep. 04 2002 at 8:55