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

[User_106373]

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.

Here is another interesting fact.

After Saigō's death, Beppu, now in command, charged downhill and was shot to death himself – without any ammunition, the rest of the samurai drew their swords, charged downhill, and were subsequently killed. With these deaths, the Satsuma rebellion came to an end.
Su, Sego was in deed more than just figurehead, he was Great warrior and most respected Samurai of all time, and even today his name is remembered in the Satsuma region and most of Japan. He has always been remembered, especially in modern times. Old times people were different and the tech was not like today, so he was less remembered, but don't believe anything else. Every year thousands will pay respect to his burial place. This was end also of Shoganate. I think it was maybe 1877 24th September. I often feel that the Emperor either in part or completely regretted the end of the Samurai, but not sure. He was glad to end the troublesome Shoganate of Japan to unite the nation as one for ever.

I don't know about his wife to be honest, but they had children.

 

[jkj34]

joseph stalin or any mass killer leader for a talk or get in power because like it or not the world needs another purge they would have tips its horrible and all that but there is so much fixing needed in the world and government trillionare companies should not be a thing the middle east lowering the age of consent to 9 and the whole "woke" thing every show now has someone on a soapbox tell me to cut it off. There is also way to few companies controlling to many things like only 3 companies controlling majority all the meat of north America jbs/tyson/Cargill 3rd.

So if i had a choice i would be one of those back oh and do not go into the whole German thing America is right there now with there fight against Mexicans just swap I.C.E with ss and mexico well you get it

Again very horrible in multiple ways but 2000-2014 life and now its like a whole new planet out there were you pay $2 a egg and the top shows well i wont ramble on you get my drift.

 

[MattShizzle]

Robert G Ingersoll.

 

[DH1087]

William Wallace just to ask him how true to life Braveheart was

 

[master cruss]

Issac Asimov.

 

[DeusX]

Julius Caesar. So that I could tell him that his Nephew became the first Roman Emperor. I'd love to know if he would've been happy or disappointed that his actions led to the end of the Roman Republic and the creation of the Roman Empire.

 

[jimmyNeutron]

hot take I would probably have a dinner with hitler. I just want to know what was going on in his mind

 

[jkj34]

hot take I would probably have a dinner with hitler. I just want to know what was going on in his mind

Pre 1940 hanging out with joseph stalin and the king of uk killing jews smoking sausages after than drugs lots of drugs

 

[MattShizzle]

Pre 1940 hanging out with joseph stalin and the king of uk killing jews smoking sausages after than drugs lots of drugs

Dafuq?

 

[lanny]

The comedian Sean Lock. Just seemed like a really funny guy. Always loved him on 8 out 10 cats.

 

[jkj34]

Dafuq?

Its called history that is what happened hence what was in adolf's mind

 

[lak]

miyamoto musashi this dude seems chill asf

 

[TheHolySin]

George Orwell or H.P. Lovecraft

 

[User_183493]

Tough question, but I think I’d go with Nikola Tesla.
Dude was a genius and kind of a mad scientist, which makes him perfect dinner company. I’d love to hear what wild ideas he had that never made it into the history books, plus, I’d probably leave the dinner with a conspiracy theory or two.
Also, I just want to know if he was actually as dramatic and eccentric as people say

 

[retteq135]

Ea-nāṣir, the dude who sold bad copper.

 

[lewdcorner1]

Vladimir Lenin. The man who changed the history of mankind.

I'm a follower of Marx and Lennon ... Groucho Marx and John Lennon

 

[lewdcorner1]

Tough question, but I think I’d go with Nikola Tesla.
Dude was a genius and kind of a mad scientist, which makes him perfect dinner company. I’d love to hear what wild ideas he had that never made it into the history books, plus, I’d probably leave the dinner with a conspiracy theory or two.
Also, I just want to know if he was actually as dramatic and eccentric as people say

Tesla yes! Great answer! I just finished a book about his life and he was indeed dramatic and eccentric.

 

[yobnis13]

Cleopatra, beautiful woman

 

[Joesilvestri]

Diocletian, to tell him that the tetrarchy is a horrible idea and to just choose an heir and call it a day and also to eat some of his farm's cabbages, heard they're to die for.

 

[1nstonE]

Boy, this feel like an interview question. MLK to see if I can recreate that Boondocks episode.