Who would you like to have a conversation with? (anyone alive or dead)

[Zeus-cat]

Every once in a while you see this question pop up as a suggested ice breaker or general philosophy question. I thought I would ask it here. You can choose anyone alive or dead. The question pretty much says it all; who would you like to sit down with and have a conversation with?

So off the top of my head in no particular order:

- Albert Einstein (a brilliant man and he seems like he would be easy to talk to)
- Richard Feyndmann (another brilliant physicist and he was a real prankster and usually spoke his mind)
- Dolly Parton (Dolly seems like a very geniune person and would probably have sonme great stories plus she has had a facinating life)
- Barbara Eden (like Dolly, she seems to be very genuine and nice)
- Any of the presidents of the U.S. since I started to vote (a pretty diverse group, but I think any of them would be interesting in some way. Obviously I wouldn't agree witht he politics of all of them, but I still would find a conversation with them to be interesting)
- George Washington (he would be interseting as he was so reluctant to be the commander of the Continental Army and President. Haven't exactly seen that since!)
- The current Dalai Lama (again, a person that is very genuine and has had an interseting life)

I'm sure I will add more as I think about this.

 

[blackbrandt]

Any rocket guy.

 

[K'Tesh]

Jesus

 

[bavspaceprogram]

Myself 20 years in the future

 

[Area66]

I make a short list

 

[hornet driver]

Kelly Johnson, no doubt!! Met him some 40+/- years ago. Quite the gentleman.

 

[nh4clo4]

Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstein
Dalai Lama

 

[J Blatz]

For me-

Carl Jung
Ed Ricketts (I would hope we could have few brews, and it would be ideal if he could bring some his friends circa 1938-1940 along, talk about a brain trust)
Robert A Wilson
Wilhelm Reich
Jim Jarmusch
Henry Miller

Outliers all. Where I'm headed and always have been I reckon.

 

[JPVegh]

Myself 40 years in the past. I'd smack that cigarette out of my mouth. Oh, tell myself to buy microsoft and apple.

 

[Peter Olivola]

Richard Dawkins

 

[harsas]

No one in particular.

 

[dixontj93060]

Jesus

+1.

 

[Cl(VII)]

Off the top of my head:

Charles Darwin
Galileo
Rembrandt
Saint Peter
Mahatma Gandi
Leonardo Da Vinci
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Orhan Pamuk
Aung San Suu Kyi
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would of course need an interpreter for several of these.

The most interesting though could be, random friendly guy in bar/pub/cave from any given point in history.

 

[SS/EA 6BBL 71 Cuda]

Myself 40 years in the past. I'd smack that cigarette out of my mouth. Oh, tell myself to buy microsoft and apple.

Agreed/guilty on all three counts by me too.

Really though, just a chance too talk to my Uncle....(The one i lost 4 years ago.) He held alot of secrets/knowledge too my past that i still find unanswered.

Drinking some Root Beer's with Wernher Von Braun would be second.

 

[Odo]

Jesus, obvious reasons, most amazing "man" to ever live.

Yuri Gagarin, because why not!?

 

[Cyril's Scribe]

A couple:

Buzz Aldrin
Robert J. Oppenheimer
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hedy Lamar
H.P. Lovecraft
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward

Charles DeGaulle
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Franz Kafka
Jacques-Louis David
Moses Maimonides
Mutsuhito Meiji
Saul of Tarsus

 

[Odo]

A couple:

Buzz Aldrin
Robert J. Oppenheimer
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hedy Lamar
H.P. Lovecraft
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward

Charles DeGaulle
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Franz Kafka
Jacques-Louis David
Moses Maimonides
Mutsuhito Meiji
Saul of Tarsus

Wouldnt get much out of Ulysses, he was infamously drunk 24/7 :wink:

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

If I could choose anyone I could have a conversation with, anyone alive or dead, I would choose anyone dead.



Did, I understand the question correctly?


???

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Jesus, obvious reasons, most amazing "man" to ever live.

Yuri Gagarin, because why not!?

Wouldn't it suck if someone offered you this conversation with Yuri Gagarin, but they forget to include a translator? So you end up trying to do sign language and charades with him to describe what it's like to be the first man in space?

Same for Jesus! Who speaks Hebrew anymore except for Jews? Can you imagine how awkward THAT conversation would be?

Be sure to check on this translator thing first.

 

[o1d_dude]

Nikola Tesla.

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Nikola Tesla.

Conversation with Tesla? Prepare to be shocked!

 

[o1d_dude]

He was my childhood amateur mad scientist idol. He also pretty much developed the AC power grid we all now enjoy.

I would like to know more about his thoughts on "broadcast power".

 

[JPVegh]

Probably better to learn Aramaic if speaking to Jesus.

 

[RoyAtl]

Any of the Beatles
George Martin
Vern Estes *with* G. Harry Stine (I've had very short conversations with Vern, but it would've been nice to have an in-depth conversation with both at the same time)
Douglas Adams (met once, but didn't have a conversation).

 

[Odo]

:roll::rofl::rofl::roll:

Conversation with Tesla? Prepare to be shocked!

 

[jderimig]

My late Dad.

 

[Larry Curcio]

Every once in a while you see this question pop up as a suggested ice breaker or general philosophy question. I thought I would ask it here. You can choose anyone alive or dead. The question pretty much says it all; who would you like to sit down with and have a conversation with?

So off the top of my head in no particular order:

- Albert Einstein (a brilliant man and he seems like he would be easy to talk to)
- Richard Feyndmann (another brilliant physicist and he was a real prankster and usually spoke his mind)
- Dolly Parton (Dolly seems like a very geniune person and would probably have sonme great stories plus she has had a facinating life)
- Barbara Eden (like Dolly, she seems to be very genuine and nice)
- Any of the presidents of the U.S. since I started to vote (a pretty diverse group, but I think any of them would be interesting in some way. Obviously I wouldn't agree witht he politics of all of them, but I still would find a conversation with them to be interesting)
- George Washington (he would be interseting as he was so reluctant to be the commander of the Continental Army and President. Haven't exactly seen that since!)
- The current Dalai Lama (again, a person that is very genuine and has had an interseting life)

I'm sure I will add more as I think about this.

Since you ask, I'd like to talk to this guy. He is my model of moral courage. He was guided by his own internal moral compass without any assurance that his actions would be viewed favorably.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thompson,_Jr.


-Larry (I've failed so miserably so many times...) C.

 

[Scotty Dog]

My dog.

 

[JeromeK99]

As interesting as it might be to have a conversation with a celebrity, hero or icon... I wouldn't waste such an opportunity on one of them... I would use it to talk to a loved one that has since passed... Namely, my mom who passed when I was only 10 years old. It would have been nice to know her now being an adult.


Jerome

 

[Pantherjon]

My dog.

And my cat...I am always like 'just what the he$# are you trying to say?!?!?'

As she invites herself up onto my lap..:eyeroll: