Bring a Famous Person from the Past to the Present.

I would bring back Queen Elizabeth I just to meet her and talk to her. Hear her opinions on life and government.

Jim Morrison as well. For many, many reasons.

 

I would bring back Martin Luther King Jr. The only episode I've seen of the show 'The Boondocks' was one where MLK was not dead, just in a coma and just awoke in 2006. He was shocked and appaled at the state of the black community. I can imagine if he was brought back and saw the state of the African-American community is in after over fifty hears over his march on Washington. He would be terribly dissapointed. The black community needs someone like MLK to come and straighten them out, because they are digging themselves deeper by only reinforcing the stereotypes of them being thugs instead of working their way up the ladder to positions of power.

Then again, I may not bring him back. Why show him that so far, he mostly died in vain.

 

I would bring Ghandi back, because his nonviolent methods really kick ass!

 

Ghandi was a racist bastard!

 

I would bring back Abbie Hoffman so me and him could go to the White House and flip off Bush and Cheney together!

 

Franklin, Thoreau, Orwell..

 

Freddie Mercury, there's no contest there for me

 

For an afternoon ... Nikola Tesla. Then I would get him to rewire my garage so that arcs of electricity would shoot out of the roof!

 

I'd bring back Edgar Allen Poe. Stay up all night talking about how depressed we are and take part in the use of "mind altering substances".

 

Jim morrison, bob marley, janis joplin, and jimi hendrix. I would smoke some good ass weed and drink with them all day.

 

How was he?

 

I can't be bothered to explain the whole thing, but here's a source for it:

There's more on that website. It's widely known fact that Ghandi was a racist bigot, although obviously this doesn't discredit what good he did in India.

 

I'd bring Hitler, and take him to a cuddle party. ha.

But seriously, probably Henry David Thoreau. We could chill by a river and discuss life.

 

Oh, and Jim Morrison.
Yes, I'd take advantage of him.

 

I haven't checked all the sources in the trinicenter.com article yet. A Richard Grenier article in Commentary magazine dated 1983 notes that Mohanda Gandhi was a British Sergeant-Major in the Second Boer War (South African War) and that he was awarded the War Medal. This included military action against the Zulu. Presumably it was also before Gandhi came up with his concept of satyagraha or truth-striving, with its emphasis on non-violence. Grenier claims that Gandhi loved all things British at this stage of his life.

Whether one would care to side with the British or with the Zulu during a Zulu uprising, I leave to the reader.

I have the 31 page Grenier review of the movie Gandhi, titled "The Gandhi Nobody Knows", on disk and available free to anyone who would like it.

 

I would bring back Jesus and have him read the New Testament. After a round of uncontrollable laughter, I would have him go on the talk show circuit whereby telling the Christian fundamentalists what the truth actually is.

 

The architect of the sphinx. Or one of the olmec spiritual leaders. Or the guy who constructed stonehenge.

 

I would bring back Michelangelo, the genius painter, sculptor and architect because I know of no one alive today who rivals his virtuosity.

 

the first human being who ever existed

 

I would bring back some mayan astronomers.