discussion If you could choose any historical figure to have dinner with, who would it be and why?

[azur]

Thank you for the relevance of the statement, it seems right to me and sheds light on the situation in the world.

Pretty much, that's why I'd be curious to talk with them. Did they actually attempt to leave a legacy or was it more of them saying "You should be nice to so-and-so, and here are my personal beliefs" and that later getting morphed into a bunch of stuff they never said or believed or whatever. Just curious about what happened between the then and now, mainly.

Personally I'm an atheist but am also a giant history nerd and just love trying to read between the lines of old texts or historical accounts and how translations have altered their original meanings.

Merci pour la pertinence de la déclaration, elle me semble juste et éclaire la situation dans le monde.

Thank you for the relevance of the statement, it seems right to me and sheds light on the situation in the world.

 

[azur]

Pretty much, that's why I'd be curious to talk with them. Did they actually attempt to leave a legacy or was it more of them saying "You should be nice to so-and-so, and here are my personal beliefs" and that later getting morphed into a bunch of stuff they never said or believed or whatever. Just curious about what happened between the then and now, mainly.

Personally I'm an atheist but am also a giant history nerd and just love trying to read between the lines of old texts or historical accounts and how translations have altered their original meanings.

Thank you for the relevance of the statement, it seems right to me and sheds light on the situation in the world.

 

[azur]

It's good to be reminded of history and the facts. (traduction .deepl.com)

 

[Jakeswind]

I would choose Alexander the great, to get to know him better.

 

[Daisies]

David Bowie. I would cry.

 

[KantamaroSan]

I'm going to assume I speak their lingo... Loa Tzu

 

[firewolf495]

Uh, maybe einstein? Idk, too many options

 

[juustomestari]

Jesus, just to check if he was divine or not.

 

[incognito2009]

Probably Julius Caesar

 

[Coloneill]

Any of the roman emperors. Because dinners were an orgy.

 

[ppes]

Augustus (Caius Iulius Caesar Octavianus) to warn him of the future and take advantage of it to assassinate Jesus before he creates this monotheistic sect which will only cause problems later

 

[Bangcoaches]

I'd really like to have dinner with Dale Earnhardt. He'd have so many stories to tell.

 

[hotrodjesus]

My Roman Empire addiction would make me wanna go that way a bit, but my artist side of me almost leans more towards Mozart, or even a more recent artist like Pavarotti.

I mean if I could, he's not really a 'historical figure', but John Cleese is one of the only celebrities in the world that I actually idolize in some way. It doesn't matter what he does, I can't not laugh. he may well be the funniest person I know off.

 

[Vidilo]

Jesus. To find out whether he existed and what he was really like.

Socrates. To find out how he really thought and how much of what we know about him was fiction by Plato

The inventor of the Antikythera Mechanism

 

[dweeb213]

Diogenes, for shit n giggles

 

[Ant28jsp]

Freddie Mercury

 

[SA1NTBURRITO]

If you could choose any historical figure to have dinner with, who would it be and why?

Stan Lee for obvious reasons

 

[TheBlackDeath's iconTheBlackDeath]

Saigo Takamori 英雄西郷隆盛 because he is one of the greatest and last Japanese Samurai. A man of true honor and he fight those days for what he believed in. He is one of Japan's greatest hero's during the Satsuma rebellion and IMO there is no greater warrior. I would be hugely honor to be dinner with such a person.

Honestly GOATed choice if for no other fact than his statue survived the great Kanto earthquake, further solidifying his legend. (And the fact that he had a favorite geisha that was a fat woman known as Buta-hime [princess pig] and I find that funny.) Its not that surprising though the man was 6ft tall in JAPAN in 1800s he needed a woman that could match his stature. It would be cool to ask him about his feelings on the Satsuma rebellion since it was mainly started by his students and he was just the figurehead. Like I know he was upset with the Bakufu (The Shogunate) and their sidelining of Samurai but would he was also really loyal to it, as Samurai code would require. Would he have made the same choice that led to the war? Would he have just voiced his grievences and went along with the powers of the Bakumatsu (The last few years of the shogunate right before the Meiji restoration) anyway? Probably not that second one since he was kind of hot headed but it would be nice to know if the rebellion would have happened if completly under his control.

 

[nulldev]

Can we use the occasion to stab them to death?

 

[JohnSmithh69]

Elvis Presley talk about the time he met forest gump