Historical figure I'd like to meet..... (2 Viewers)

[breslau]

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Martin Luther
Frederick the Great

 

[trooper]

Jack the Ripper, just so I could find out who he was! Trooper

 

[Rob]

Jack the Ripper, just so I could find out who he was! Trooper

You don't fool us mate, you just want to visit all those East end Gin shops.....what time are you going????^&grin:wink2:

I'd have to choose two Historical and Miltary giants and a personality who has not only contributed to the world in a cerebral sense but has also pushed the boundaries of the understanding of complex human relationships and is a beacon of knowledge and understanding, so I'd choose Churchill, Wellington and Paris Hilton.

Rob

 

[Currahee Chris]

.... and Paris Hilton.

REALLY?? Over Mrs. Anniston?? Surely you jest my good man!! {sm3}

@Baron Brad- yes sir, any historical figure- big or small. Military or peace maker. Doesn't matter- or sports personality like the Babe.

@Jazzeum- GREAT answer- though I heard he gives less time to those in the legal profession ^&grin

@Pete- Martin Luther would be an interesting choice- and I like all the responses looking to meet Jesus- that would be a titanic meeting would it not.

@Trooper- we could facilitate the discussion w/ Jack though if he insisted the discussion take place with him behind a partition, we would have to honor his request. ^&grin

@Scott- I'd be cool REAL COOL with meeting Ginger Spice- very very famous female imo {sm3} Seriously though, either Boudicca, Cleopatra, or Mamie Eisenhower.

@DMNamiot- great choices sir!!

So.........anyone want to meet Genghis Khan or Attila??? {sm3}

 

[Rob]

REALLY?? Over Mrs. Anniston?? Surely you jest my good man!! {sm3}

@Baron Brad- yes sir, any historical figure- big or small. Military or peace maker. Doesn't matter- or sports personality like the Babe.

@Jazzeum- GREAT answer- though I heard he gives less time to those in the legal profession ^&grin

@Pete- Martin Luther would be an interesting choice- and I like all the responses looking to meet Jesus- that would be a titanic meeting would it not.

@Trooper- we could facilitate the discussion w/ Jack though if he insisted the discussion take place with him behind a partition, we would have to honor his request. ^&grin

@Scott- I'd be cool REAL COOL with meeting Ginger Spice- very very famous female imo {sm3} Seriously though, either Boudicca, Cleopatra, or Mamie Eisenhower.

@DMNamiot- great choices sir!!

So.........anyone want to meet Genghis Khan or Attila??? {sm3}

I certainly was kidding my good friend and entirely sarcastic, of course she could not hold a candle to 'Jen', who, like a fine brandy gets better with age:wink2:

Rob

 

[thebritfarmer]

I'd like to have a chat with Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I or Queen Victoria.

 

[Rob]

I'd like to have a chat with Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I or Queen Victoria.

Of all the people I'd just like to know 'what they were like' Henry VIII is top of the list, I wonder how severe he really was and if his mood swings were as violent as suggested. If anyone saw the Tudors I guess poor Ann Askew would know!. That scene of her on the rack was really pitiful.

Rob

 

[PanzerAce1944]

I would want to sit down and have coffee and cake with General Patton and Hitler at the same table. Before it was all said and done I'm sure Patton would have used one of his ivory handled .45 cal pistols on the other coffee guest. ^&grin

 

[Napoleon1er]

You don't fool us mate, you just want to visit all those East end Gin shops.....what time are you going????^&grin:wink2:

I'd have to choose two Historical and Miltary giants and a personality who has not only contributed to the world in a cerebral sense but has also pushed the boundaries of the understanding of complex human relationships and is a beacon of knowledge and understanding, so I'd choose Churchill, Wellington and Paris Hilton.

Rob

Very sorry, but I fail to see how one of your descriptions matches one of the names... Surley you mean Napoléon, not Wellington.{sm4}%^V
Hope that helps,
Sandor:salute::

 

[Rob]

Very sorry, but I fail to see how one of your descriptions matches one of the names... Surley you mean Napoléon, not Wellington.{sm4}%^V
Hope that helps,
Sandor:salute::

^&grin

But if you think about it, who could be better than the legendary Napoleon.....the man who whipped him!^&grin:wink2:

Rob

 

[Napoleon1er]

^&grin

But if you think about it, who could be better than the legendary Napoleon.....the man who whipped him!^&grin:wink2:

Rob

Napoleon said that Waterloo was a singular battle in which the glory of the vanquished did not suffer, while the memory of the victor soon faded.{sm5}^&confuse%^V
Touché,
Sandor:salute::

 

[VIRIATO]

God.

But does He exist?


Paulo

 

[VIRIATO]

Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela. And King John II from Portugal, the Perfect Prince, from a time when we ruled the waves (15th Century)...:rolleyes2:.


Paulo

P.S.
Andrei Sakharov too.

 

[Scott]

I'd take Jesus to the shopping mall on "Black Friday" (the day after Thanksgiving for the non US folks) and ask him if this was what he had in mind.

 

[jazzeum]

But does He exist?


Paulo

That is the question to answer all questions, is it not Paulo?

Assuming he does exist, I would like to ask him how I can know the unknowable?

Another reason why I picked the almighty is because of what Lincoln said in his second inaugural speech, as follows:

"Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' "​

Just what are the purposes of God. Why did God will this scourge and was it then his purpose to remove the scourge by a terrible civil war?

In addition, it does seem odd that both sides prayed to the same God, asking for different and mutually exclusive solutions. One could be answered but another could not be and God granted neither fullly. As noted, God has His own purposes and sometimes we can never know what they are but it would be revelatory to find out.

Similarly, why did God visit the world with World War II and bring in so much pain and death. Surely there must have been a purpose.

I am not a religious person but surely there must be a purpose, a reason why certain things happen, certain things are granted and some are not.

 

[Rob]

Napoleon said that Waterloo was a singular battle in which the glory of the vanquished did not suffer, while the memory of the victor soon faded.{sm5}^&confuse%^V
Touché,
Sandor:salute::

^&grin^&grin

But then he would say that wouldn't he!

Yep Napoleon did very very well until he came up against our chap when as Stephen Fry said on QI ' we got the cane out of the cupboard and gave them a ****ed good thrashing'^&grin:wink2:

Rob

 

[trooper]

I believe that qoute of Napoleon's was made as he was scuttling off the field leaving his army to it's fate. Anything to save face. Trooper

 

[wayne556517]

Wouldn't mind a beer with Marylin and asking what happened.....^&cool

 

[Scott]

"....I am not a religious person but surely there must be a purpose, a reason why certain things happen, certain things are granted and some are not. "

There's scientific study that we are pattern seeking primates. We need a pattern or a reason to explain the world.

 

[Scott]

The sad thing is that Marilyn in her prime would be considered fat today.