Quiz - Who would you talk to from history?
 

This is a recycled chat topic and one I couldn't find in the forum, so here goes...

If you could meet 3 people from history, who would they be and why? What would you ask them, discuss with them?

My choices would be:

1) Jesus - I would ask him why God allows people to suffer so.

2) Socrates - I would ask him everything!

3) Shakespeare- I would ask him to dinner and want to know his perspective on the human heart/soul.

In that order

Who Id like to talk to
 

Buddha

Da Vinci

Jesus-I so want to know if he existed.lol

1 - Jesus - cause Im pre-trib and want the info ! 2 - Abraham Lincoln - just to be able to talk to this man would be awsome !l 3- Elvis Presley...I just wanna know why :(

If i could
 

Lucille Ball- She makes the world laff lords knows what we would talk about its Lucy?


Amelia Earhart- I think she WAS GAY


:canoworms:

Patrick Swayzy-Tell him I miss his acting its sad really he was so young.

Lao-Tze (a key figure in Taoism)

Leonardo DaVinci

Thomas Edison

Joan of Arc

Cleopatra

Mae West

1. Dorothy Parker-scathing beyond compare and positively brilliant.

2. Eleanor Roosevelt-such a humanist and forward thinking

3. Edward Hopper-one of my favorite painters, what the man could do with light and shadow can almost make me weep. His depictions of small glimpses of life, offices at night, breathtaking New England 'scapes, I love it all.

Carl Sagan - I don't know that I'd ever get to meet him in person, but I would love to have attended one of his guest lecture presentations and listened to his latest ideas on scientific matters pertinent to the human condition.

Chezlaw Milosz - I would like to have attended some of the classes he taught, to hear his personal narrative as it related to subjects studied. I've read his literature for quite sometime now and usually find myself immersed deeply while reading literature authored by him.

Eleanor Roosevelt - To have a cup of tea with her and talk about things that mattered most to her. To explore her perspective and take on what she might think of social issues on today's social dilemmas and what might prove useful, as a remedy - an agent of healing, for all.

My first choice would be Jesus because I would like to know his thoughts on how so many have taken his teachings then used them in so many ways he never intended for them to be used and what he would do if he could do anything about it.

Buddha,about the path to inner peace wich I never quite manage to find.


Mae West...her take on life was fantastic.

what a guy
 

Nostradamus- wow I'd love to have his brain
Jesus- answers to my unanswered questions
Einstein- I dig his hair :)

No reason for this order to be honest

Mother Teresa

Judy Garland

Ben Franklin

Correction: Socrates would ask YOU everything! LOL

Anais Nin
i would sit at her feet waiting upon her precious words.
~
“You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.”
Anaïs Nin

Michelangelo
Watching his hands flow over the marble must be like watching lovers from a distant corner.

Janis Joplin So on edge. i would love to hear her sing again and speaking with her would be a privilege.

Frida and Diego together.

Carmen Amaya

Pablo Neruda

Hafiz

Pablo Neruda for sure..
Nelson Mandela
Marc Chagall
Marco Polo (or) Jacques Costeau (or) Herodotus

An incomplete list not in any particular order of importance....
 

1. Buddha
2. Jesus Christ
3. Gandhi
4. Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria
5. Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, John Lennon
6. Sitting Bull
7. Anne Frank
8. Mengele (not to imply that I have any admiration for that psychopath, of course; but to try to gain some sense of what the hell was going on in his mind).
9. Lao Tzu
10. Confucius
11. Nostradamus
12. Mary Magdalene

Joan of Arc
Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth
Edison

and I am also there with Dorothy Parker, at the Algonquin Round Table. So much quick and intelligent wit "She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B"

In no particular order:

Virginia Woolf. What a mind!

Johann Sebastian Bach. I wouldn't even care whether or not he said anything interesting. I would just want to bask in his presence.

Hildegarde von Bingen. An unsurpassed mystic and polymath who in the 11th century ruled Belgium, wrote astonishingly beautiful music including a wonderfully convincingly work about the superiority of women, and had girlfriends.

Louis Sullivan, as long as he was sober.

Alma Mahler. She had Gustav Mahler, Oskar Kokoshka, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel. 'Nuff said.

Michelangelo and DaVinci together, as long as no young boys were present.

Emma Stebbins. The first woman to get a major sculpture commission in the U.S., and leader of the, (ahem), Rome Amazons, a community of expat American women sculptors based just outside Rome in the 1850s. I want to meet any historic women who biographers describe as having an 'unconventional lifestyle'.

Georgia O'Keeffe : I would love to talk with her and watch her mouth move, I feel like the way she would speak would be as beautiful as her art ... <sigh>

Pope John Paul II : I fondly remember him as he was also Polish, I would like to have a heart to heart conversation with him about gays and women in the Catholic church.....

John Denver : I would want to hear him play live again, because I don't think he was finished with his career when it abruptly ended......

*bumping*
 

this is a great thread! TY!

Helen Keller - she's always been my favorite ...for her high intelligence, her passion, her zest for life and advocacy, and her many accomplishments...
Nikola Tesla- for my love of science and the brilliant mind of an inventor
Jacqueline Cochran -for my love of aviation

Cleopatra,
Mary, Jesus' mom
Mary Magdalen
Abigail Adams
Susan B Anthony
Hillary Clinton
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyons.
Meg Christian
Diana Nyad

Given the opportunity....
 

I would love to collaborate on some projects with Nikola Tesla; either his projects or mine. I read his biography a few years ago and have had a thing about becoming a hobbyist electrician/inventor ever since.

Tesla invented AC while Edison invented DC. Or discovered.
The history of the two men and the cities that they " lit up" is quite fascinating.
So true about Tesla. Would be nice if he were here to discover and invent how to store the vast amounts energy that harnessed. Via the sun,wind etc... To store that.
Sigh

I'm particularly fascinated by his death ray that nearly brought down the Brooklyn Bridge. And also how his lab mysteriously burnt down and his notes were stolen.

(lol, just for the record, that isn't the project I would be looking to collaborate on). :).

I'd talk to Hitler for about 5 seconds then I'd stab him...multiple times.

I'd be afraid to talk to a personal hero. I suspect history has been very kind to a great number of assholes, and I'd hate to find out my idol was one.

That said, I'm fairly certain Oscar Wilde would be fun. We could go to a party and dish about the guests.

Does it have to be three people? Do you mind if I have more and in this order:

God the Father
Our Lord
Blessed Mother
Ss: Catherine of Siena, (Mystic, Doctor of the Church and author of the distinguished writings of Dialogue of Divine Providence), Augustine (author, Doctor of the Church), Louie de Monfort, Alphonses Ligouri, Teresa of Avila (mystic, author, Doctor of the Church) Therese of Lisieux (mystic, author, Doctor of the Church), Thomas Aquinas (Author Suma Theologica and Doctor of the Church); Ss, mystics and Doctors of the Church: Benedict, Ignatius of Loyola, Anthony of Padua, Bernard of Clairveaux, Francis of Assisi, John of the Cross, John Chrysostom (Father and Doctor of the Church); Ss. Joseph, Peter, Bonaventure, Maximillian Kolbe, Stephen the Martyr, Elizabeth, mother of John, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Ss and mystics: Bernadette; Gertrude the Great, Veronica and Gemma Gelgani.
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George Gershwin
Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt
President Lincoln
John Basilone
William Wyler

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Helen Keller

Marilyn Monroe

Frida Kahlo

Eva Peron

I think they speak for themselves!

Albert Einstein. I love science and I think he and I would get on quite well.

Mozart. Piano is the activity of my soul and he is one of my favourite composers. I would absolutely love for him to teach me how to play his music.

J.S. Bach for the same reason.

If I can have a bonus one I'd go for Hans Asperger. I think it would be really interesting to meet him. Autism is something of an interest of mine.

Would love to talk with...
 

Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell dinner with the 2 of them for the conversation

Emma Goldman because she was a righteous babe, I would SO try to have my way with her after dinner, bold brilliant anarchist dames make me hot

Albert Einstein because he was my hero as a kid

JW von Goethe because he was a crazy genius

I'd have dinner with Philip Seymour Hoffman and ask him wtf happened.

Anais Nin

Buddha

Genghis Khan

(please forgive spelling errors)

Jesus, even though I'm not Christian. He was the greatest teacher in history.

Lizzie Borden-did she do it?

Elizabeth I and/or Henry VIII-assuming I was immune from any persecution for whatever I might say :)

On a personal note, several people from my family tree so I could break down the brick walls in my genealogy.