who would you talk to?

[willemvanoranje]

Achilleus, Aias, Odysseus, Diomedes, Filoktetes, Hector, Priamos, Paris, and ofcourse Helena. For your information: I'd go to Troje.


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[duke o' york]

Willem, most of these people were probably mythological anyway. At least most of their exploits are.

Me, I'd like to meet God and ask him what the hell he was thinking of. If he doesn't exist (I believe he doesn't ), I'd like to meet the man who invented religion and ask him what the hell he was thinking of!
Unless these people are women... Still like to meet them though. I might have more qualms about punching the inventor of religion if it was a woman, but probably would anyway.

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[willemvanoranje]

Talking about mythologic......God. But anyway, the people I talked about excisted, if they were as great as Homeros said or if they even went to Troje is something else. But anyway, today we have football clubs named after these people: Ajax Amsterdam, Achilleus '96 (Assen). So they were of great importancee and still are in a way.

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[thedirk]

I guess I didn't say who I would talk to.

It's a tough call as there are so many.

But I think it would come down to St. John the apostle. First I would have him clear up a few questions about Jesus and the other apostles, particularly Paul. Then I would have a bundle of questions for him about the origins of Christianity. Finally I would see if he could be a little less confusing about his eschatalogical vision he had on Patmos, recorded for us in the book of Revelation. But most of all, he is my favorite Christian thinker of all time and I would just like to soak up everything he would have to say.

 

[HIEROPHANT]

It would be either Merlin or King Aurther. King Aurther if he existed was the best king.

 

[damunzy]

Originally posted by Vrylakas:
"Look, you start using that thing to clean your food and work over skins for clothes - great short-term gain - but then there'll be more technological development and the next thing you know you'll have a civilization on your hands, and let me tell you it's all downhill from there. Trust me; I know where this is going..."

Good one
But I'd have to go back, way back, and ask Eve why she ****ed it up for everyone else!


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[Vrylakas]

On a serious level, there are millions of people I'd want to talk to. I remember a professor from Tennessee telling me that as he watched the film Gettysburg, each time he would shout just as Picket's men lined up to charge across the field: "DON'T DO IT LEE! DON'T DO IT!!"

There's an H.P. Lovecraft novella about an 18th century maniac who is able to revive the long-dead and extract their knowledge from them. Who other than a madman would try this?

Even overlooking the reality of language - can anyone in this thread speak Socrates' 6th century B.C. Greek? - what would you say to them? Would you be tempted to warn them of impending doom or their enemies' plots? "You may not believe this, but I'm your great-grandson, and I wanted to advise you to sell all your stocks before next Friday, the 29th of October, 1929..."; "Mr. President, perhaps you should just stay in tonight with a good book instead of going to Dallas."; "Mr. Speaker, I'd like to advise the Right Honourable Member of Parliament that now would be an excellent time to check Parliament's basement for explosives..."; "Jesus, Lord of Lords, if you could just clarify for me if you really wanted a formal bureaucratic church organization founded by your followers based on medieval European social and political structures..."

This could go on for ever...

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