Bring a Famous Person from the Past to the Present.

I'm with Yossarian. I'd like to spend some time with Mr. Thoreau. He's been an inspiriation to me in some important ways. Maybe Walt Whitman could join us, too.

 

It would be Alexander Shulgin and get him to take me to his lab.

 

Ken Kesey and his merry prankster

 

I would just love to:

Send Da Vinci and Archimedes to NASA
Give Mozart a guitar and send him to a David Bowie concert
Make Jesus the President of the Exxon Corporation
Make Ghandi the President of the European Union
Send Hitler to the Hari Krishners
Turn Joseph Stalin into a crippled U.S. Veteran and let him try in vain to get proper medical treatment
Make Chief Joseph of the Nezperz the President of the United States of America
Let Erich Honnecker be a guy whose job it is to clean restrooms
Let Jimi Hendrix work on a musical with Andrew L. Weber
Make Sidharta Buddha President of the World Bank

 

I'd bring back jesus or whoever he's based on and just sit around with him in a trailer park and get drunk off cheap whiskey and see what he has to say about shit

 

I guess it doesn't matter how cheap the whiskey is, if he didn't like it - he could always change it into wine.

 

famous implies someone people think they know more about then the do because they've heard of their name.

intelligence hasn't increased or decreased that signifigantly that any changing places in time couldn't eventualy figgure out what was going on and how the society arround them was working, the mechanics of it, though going either way very far invoulves risk of making big and possibly fatal blunders in that department.

ghandi was, i think, one of my favorites, but i only really know of his portrayal and what people think he said and did. i don't think i'd want to submit him to what is going on now. oh i'm sure he could take it alright. i just don't think it would be much of a kindness to him, other then maybe seeing india independent and all that. somehow i don't think he'd be all that impressed with the rest of what we've done with our world since his time. but then again i guess his time, however in many ways different, wasn't really all THAT long ago, as the scale of culture shaping events goes.

i'm really not a person who focuses on persons so i can only observe and avoid making the assumptions that people who do tend to.

i think i might have liked to have known lao tsu. i don't know that, but i think i might. it might be fun to have him teach phylosophy at some modern u.s. college or university. i don't think this would be any kindness to him. but we could sure use it.

yah i wouldn't mind letting him spend the night at my place.
let him get on here and show him how if he'd be interested.
it's anybody's guess as to weather he would be or not.
i doubt he'd love the way where i live is built arround cars the way it is.

and the beliefs that dominate today's world he'd probably see as being as nutso as i do.

he'd get by though.
hell he survive master kung and the warlords both, as soon as he figured out how things worked he'd survive ok here too.

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John Wayne, I'd have him watch "Brokeback Mountain".

 

for some reason this seemed so profound to me

I think Joan D'Arc would be a pretty interesting person, and I'd also really like to meet Attilla. I wouldn't mind meeting some Mayans too.

I think Che is definetly up there too

 

Kurt Cobain! Duh!

 

well if you want to count popular musicians; jimi hendrix and janis joplin. for politicians within the last century, jfk and the other members of his family who'se deaths were by misadventure. doctor king too, although he couldn't have died at a more perfect time for his own purposes if he had choosen it himself. if he were alive today, well i think he did his best work while he was alive to do it. ghandi may have been the same way only i'm not so sure. kennidy did however die at the wrong time. he should have been alive for a couple of more years and had a chance to grow to see more clearly through the smoke screen of anti-'communist' propiganda.

we would likely never have had nixxon, raygun, or either of the bush's if he had.
we might not have the effects of global warming now either. and that's NOT claiming he could walk on water or anything else. then again he WAS in a LOT of physical pain very few people, even though a lot of us more or less vaguely knew, every really thought all that much about, so maybe his dying when he did was a mercy to him too.

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Bring George Washington, there are too many problems in USA unsolved, only the founder can solve them.

 

no, he support slavery

there are problems everywhere

we have to figure them out ourselves

 

The man in my sig

 

Bring back Hitler and during his famous speech in front of thousands of elite troops i would be next to him .....but just before he was going to blast the jews i would correct him . my dear leader not jews the muslims . then Hitler would agree and today it would had been a whole lot difrent.

 

dont take it serius is just a joke.

 

it sure be Fun if you could have a Time machine and be able to make alterations to History then see what the end product is . if it dont work just go back and try a difrent formula.........Maybe i just watch too much Doctor Who.

 

The how about John Adams and/or Ben Franklin?

 

hey no no no I chose George Washington in purpose. His insight was profound: he publically denounced party politics, and himself was the only president of US that does not belong to any parties. all other politicians in his time became party politicians. and you can see he was right just by looking at the race of Republican/Democrats. although he supported slavery, but you have to look at the time period, that time many people in south owned slaves.

 

O man i laughed pretty hard whe i read that last part!