Discuss: Historical Figure you'd like to meet

[tucsonjayce]

Hi guys! How about a discussion of which historical figure you'd like to meet and why.

Jayman, please feel free to talk about Nicola Tesla, Prince Siddhartha or any other of your many choices.

For me it would be a Macedonian king named Alexander III (Mégas Aléxandros - Alexander the Great). Why? Several reasons actually.

He is undeniably one of the greatest generals in the annals of (known) human history.

His love of Hephaestion and Bagoas is a tale worth exploring.

His "policy of fusion" ushered in the hellenistic period which is the fundamental basis for western society.

And he was supposed to be unbelievably handsome!


Join in guys and let us all know who you would want to meet

Be well,

Jayce

 

[gwr19569424]

Jayce, I would like to meet the cast of M*A*S*H the television series, although I think Harry Morgan, who played Col. Potter has passed on.
Gary

 

[vicekid]

Gary,

Harry Morgan is still around. He recently turned 94. The only cast members whom I know that have passed on are Mclean Stevenson and Larry Linville. I had a chance to meet and talk to "Hot Lips" Loretta Swit some years ago. What a real sweety she was.

Now as for the list of Historical figures, as to who(m) I'd like to meet. To pin it down to one. WOW!

I would go with Abe Lincoln. To meet and talk to the man who saved our country would be incredible.

Live Long and Prosper,

Vicekid
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[Kodieboy]

I would like sit down and have a man to man talk with God..

Just to find out how much crap was in some of the truth ... the catholic church ramed down some of our throats.

 

[tucsonjayce]

Jayce, I would like to meet the cast of M*A*S*H the television series, although I think Harry Morgan, who played Col. Potter has passed on.
Gary

Interesting choice Gary. They definitely had an impact on american pop culture. Care to expand on your reasons why?

Jayce

 

[tucsonjayce]

I would like sit down and have a man to man talk with God..

Just to find out how much crap was in some of the truth ... the catholic church ramed down some of our throats.

Talk about going straight to the top! Have you read Joshua by Joseph F. Girzone? If you haven't, I would recommend it.

Jayce

 

[tucsonjayce]

Gary,

Harry Morgan is still around. He recently turned 94. The only cast members whom I know that have passed on are Mclean Stevenson and Larry Linville. I had a chance to meet and talk to "Hot Lips" Loretta Swit some years ago. What a real sweety she was.

Now as for the list of Historical figures, as to who(m) I'd like to meet. To pin it down to one. WOW!

I would go with Abe Lincoln. To meet and talk to the man who saved our country would be incredible.

Live Long and Prosper,

Vicekid
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Great choice. Better brush upon on your rhetoric, he was quite a wordsmith!

Jayce

 

[tightywhitieboy]

I'm an atheist, but I would like to sit down with Jesus, Mahammed, Buddha and other religious figures that did walk the earth and were/are believed by others to be prophets, son-of-god, etc. I bet they'd all get along really well - unlike some of their followers.

 

[Kodieboy]

I'm an atheist, but I would like to sit down with Jesus, Mahammed, Buddha and other religious figures that did walk the earth and were/are believed by others to be prophets, son-of-god, etc. I bet they'd all get along really well - unlike some of their followers.

Id agree 100% with you

 

[Markymark]

Talk about going straight to the top! Have you read Joshua by Joseph F. Girzone? If you haven't, I would recommend it.

Jayce

Actually, Fr. Girzone has written several books, all of which deal with the concept of Joshua. There is Joshua in the Holy Land, Joshua and the children, and another, and as jayce says, they are all worth the time.

For myself, right now I am in Alburquerque with Carl, (his home city) and I think I would like to meet the man the city was named after. He was a duke, a representative of the King of Spain, who was gifted this region in the early 1700's, maybe late 1600's. Hope to find out more tomorrow.

So? How is everyone?

 

[Kodieboy]

Actually, Fr. Girzone has written several books, all of which deal with the concept of Joshua. There is Joshua in the Holy Land, Joshua and the children, and another, and as jayce says, they are all worth the time.

For myself, right now I am in Alburquerque with Carl, (his home city) and I think I would like to meet the man the city was named after. He was a duke, a representative of the King of Spain, who was gifted this region in the early 1700's, maybe late 1600's. Hope to find out more tomorrow.

So? How is everyone?

Hope you both are having a wonderful time.. Im great but Ray is being nasty
Apart from that.. everyones getting on fine to the best of my knowledge.

Have fun learningggggggg

 

[gwr19569424]

Jayce, the main reason why I would like to meet the cast of M*A*S*H is partly because I can relate to the sitting of the show, although I never was on the front lines in South Korea in 1978 and 1979 around Seoul, S. Korea.
I am collecting and watching all of the M*A*S*H episodes.

Also, thanks Vice for the update on Mclean Stevensen and Larry Linville. I would really like to meet Hot Lips. She sure gave those guys a run for their money on the episodes.
Gary

 

[Kodieboy]

Jayce, the main reason why I would like to meet the cast of M*A*S*H is partly because I can relate to the sitting of the show, although I never was on the front lines in South Korea in 1978 and 1979 around Seoul, S. Korea.
I am collecting and watching all of the M*A*S*H episodes.

Also, thanks Vice for the update on Mclean Stevensen and Larry Linville. I would really like to meet Hot Lips. She sure gave those guys a run for their money on the episodes.
Gary

Well the writters did.. Hot lips... was there tool

 

[tucsonjayce]

Actually, Fr. Girzone has written several books, all of which deal with the concept of Joshua. There is Joshua in the Holy Land, Joshua and the children, and another, and as jayce says, they are all worth the time.

Markymark is right the whole series is worthwhile. The Joshua series takes a different look at Yeshua ben Yosef and how he would confront modern life. It is quite a refreshing look at "What would Jesus do?" (although the books came first).

Brotherly love to all,

Jayce

 

[Kodieboy]

I will put them on my must read list.. many thanks

 

[gwr19569424]

I'm not much of a reader, however, I do enjoy reading Historical Events. I am still reading on The Fate of the Lewis and Clark Explorers and how they lived their lives after the Expedition.
Gary

 

[slimvintage]

Still thinking about it, but am fascinated by doomed figures like Rimbaud and Mapplethorpe. Or not so "doomed" ones like Michelangelo Buonarroti, or Leonardo da Vinci. And Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a fucking wildassed problematical son of a bitch who would have been extremely interesting to get to know.

And away from the art world, I would love to have talked to Mahatma Gandhi, even just hung out in his entourage and been a part of what was going on at that time in India after the Raj.

All these guys were very creative with the wherewithal they had available to them to work with at certain given moments. Michelangelo had to carve the "David" out of a block of marble that seemed impossible to get a figure from. And he emerged from the work on the Sistine chapel a virtual cripple, having gradually fucked up his spine in order to get his head tilted back at the right angle to brush pigment onto freshly laid plaster. Mozart toward the end was always working under terrible financial pressure, but used the stress and channeled it into creative energy. I'm fascinated with how creative people organize their environments and resources in totally new ways in order to approach old "problems", whether social, moral, artistic, political, with originality.

Stephane "Scorpio" is like this in combining computer aided graphic design and a specific demographic, putting it to the practical ends of social integration and market identification. I think our elyot1 falls into the category as well, the way he rolls with the punches and has already thought of 4 new approaches to a project before he's even had time to worry about the sudden constrictions placed on his original proposals (you'll have to ask him about all that lol but he seems to me to be "creative" in the basic, true sense of the word).

 

[gremlin2k08]

It is very difficult to narrow down my selection of notoriety to just one sole individual. From literary greats as William Shakespeare to Edgar A. Poe to Mark Twain, or to Political Icons who thrived against unsurmountable adversities to triumph over them like The founding fathers of the usa to Martin Luther King Jr to Harriet Tubman to ...... . Just too many to chose from.......

 

[vicekid]

It is very difficult to narrow down my selection of notoriety to just one sole individual. From literary greats as William Shakespeare to Edgar A. Poe to Mark Twain, or to Political Icons who thrived against unsurmountable adversities to triumph over them like The founding fathers of the usa to Martin Luther King Jr to Harriet Tubman to ...... . Just too many to chose from.......

Gremlin,

I agree with you the list can be very long indeed. However, I have complete confidence that you will find one individual that merits that special attendtion that you would like to meet. So give it some more thought, as others of us have.

If that fails, try Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo.

Live Long and Prosper,

Vicekid

 

[tucsonjayce]

Gremlin,

I agree with you the list can be very long indeed. However, I have complete confidence that you will find one individual that merits that special attendtion that you would like to meet. So give it some more thought, as others of us have.

If that fails, try Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo.

Live Long and Prosper,

Vicekid

Like that idea, but if push comes to shove, how about who'd you like to meet and then jump their bones! LOL

Jayce