John Donne perhaps
Or Samuel Beckett. I'd like to sit and have a cup or cocoa with him. But he might get frustrated with me. Don't care to meet any of the philosophers of antiquity.

Jesus.

Richard Marcinko

Molly Brown it would be so cool to meet her

Tim Leary I guess. Hopefully I'd be more outgoing next time. I've seen him at a lecture before--at one of those "New Age"-type shows, and once at a hands-on science museum - but just looked cuz I didn't know what to say. All this was years ago. I used to write him and send him dance music cassettes - he wrote back and was enthusiastic.

Hitler so i can kill him

Leonardo da Vinci

gandhi, jesus or einstein. in that order i think.

King Josiah of Judah. I'd ask him what the workers really found in the temple storeroom. I'd also find out what (other) parts of the Bible, if any, had been written at that point.

Socrates

Jesus

Tough one......... Not sure

Lizzie Borden.

My answer won't change on this.

Marilyn Monroe. It would suck if she wouldn't kiss me tho.
Maybe I would choose Eleanor Roosevelt.

Jack the Ripper

Jesus Christ

Admiral Nelson

Pragmatic answer #1)

Me (yes, I am part of history, technically, as is everyone else), when I was younger, so that I could tell myself what not to do or do (eg: give myself the winning lotto numbers for the future).


Pragmatic answer #2)

Some brutal dictator or mad man, so that I could either kill them or redirect them to some other activity to avoid something bad. Obviously, this can backfire, as in you kill the guy who first came up with the idea of slavery, and then suddenly all the hardworking middle class black people in the US would go poof and disappear. You kill Hitler and then poof, the Russians take over all of Europe and Asia, or worse, the world never learns that a utopian society ran by a populus charismatic leader is generally not a good idea and then some other butt-hole takes his place 50 years later. You kill the people who killed Jesus and then poof, Jesus decides to turn into a huge butt-hole or sellout when he gets old. Think about it. Jesus was like a Roman day equivilant of a hippie. The majority of hippies in the 60's voted for Regan in the 80's, and became total sellouts / yuppies. Ergo: had Jesus (like a hippie) not been killed when he was young, whats to prevent him from becoming all cynical when he gets old (what happened to a lot of ex-hippies).


Pragmatic answer #3)

Perhaps you mean just meet someone interesting in history but aren't allowed to influence history in any shape or form, kinda like a reporter. On the surface, this sounds kinda cool, as in "oh boy, I get to meet Einstein. I get to meet Washington. I get to know their human side. This is so cool." Yeah, exactly. Everyone wants to meet a historic person's human side, but nobody REALLY wants to see their human side. I mean think how long it took us to learn that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. Or that George Washington never cut down that damn tree. Or that Isacc Newton was a real prick, possibly a virgin. And thats just what historians know. If you REALLY knew how flawed all the historic people were in real life, you would come out a very cynical person. Or if you're cynical to begin with, you'd just be looking to validate what you previously knew, and whats the point of that.

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It will be Jesus Christ when I get to heaven.

major private

Abraham Lincoln. *shrug*

John Lennon
Steve Irwin
Henry VIII

One of them I reckon

Interesting choice. What would you talk about?

How he chose victims, why, what he felt, etc.

Motzart