Who Would You Choose?
If it were possible to put together a discussion group of great people, past and present, who would you choose? We know who the #1 choice would be for most of us. Who else, and why? Limit it to your top ten.
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C. S. Lewis and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen...to see how they would do in a religious discussion with Ayn Rand.
Jane Austen for her wit.
Ambassador John Bolton who wouldn't put up with ISIS for one minute.
Mickey Mantle because he was great, and I would like to know what he thought of his father.
1) Jesus
2) Thomas Sole
3) Ronald Reagan
4) Margaret Thatcher
5) Thomas Jefferson
6) George Mason
7) George Washington
8) Tesla
9) Marcus Tullius Cicero
10) Cincinnatus
Robert Heinlein
Temujin Genghis Khan
Henry Hazlitt
The individual who chaired the first French Assembly where they decided who was left and who was right and the vantage point used.
How's that?
Couldn't think of any others half so interesting.
Now you can change yours!!! But thanks for the nomination I'm enjoying be atypical.
"The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of liberty, which means the future of civilization" Henry Stuart Hazlitt
His opposition to Bretton Woods agreement that created the world bank and the IMF as he said would cause inflation was spot on.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Patton, Alvin York, Baron von Richthofen, Oswald Boelcke, Vincent Van Gogh, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allen Poe, Ray Harryhausen, Ray Bradbury, Frank Frazetta, Bernard Herman, Sergio Leone and Enio Morricone.
I'm currently working on a novel called "Chasing Little Red" about boche horsemen chasing a prized hostage for a French general's daughter (she's an expert rider with a photographic memory and a lunatic horse) about the Belgian countryside. Well, I;m a wannabe novelist trying to write it.
Yes, a few airplanes are in it All are unmarked with both sides shooting at any aircraft in the sky. That last bit's a historical fact.
In one scene, Babette witnesses the massacre at Dinant from a cliff that overlooks that riverside town. Women and children were also lined up and murdered separate from the men who were all shot and then bayoneted. The historical account itself is shocking. I pull few punches.
I do try to balance the horror of war and war crimes with humor to give the reader a break.
I keep in mind what I read about Shakespeare. Provide something for everyone.
Her photographic or endemic memory has given her some crazy as a fox mental issues.
Pick a subject and she feels compelled to rattle on about it forever.
She can pick up a foreign language in a snap.
Babette does not need to read a book. She scans it and never forgets anything she sees.
Her ailment is her super power.
She could make a great spy if I ever write sequels.
Babette's retired French general father has a semi-retired former Parisian gourmet chef for a cook at an inherited chateau in Belgium near Neer.
(I have a lot of fun with something being "near Neer," an actual town).
The chef's wife in the first chapter speaks highly of Babette as "a little rich girl who did not have to" ~ "become a wonderful help. A perfect student for you."
Shown one time two weeks previously, Babette can duplicate putting together a complicated salad garnished with goat cheese she made herself due to their being goats on an estate that breeds racing horses and grows its own horse feed and other crops. Babette has seven brothers with five there presently helping out.
During this scene Babette has just baked a goat cheese crepe with spinach and prosciutto (ham from the thigh of a wild boar shot on the property) garnished with a red brandy cream sauce.
I prefer to implant what I lift into a work of fiction and to keep that at a minimum.
My late Dad's cousin and best friend flew a P-51, shot down three Italian planes, got nailed by a Messerschmidt and his plane was last seen falling into the Mediterranean.
My Dad tried to join after Pearl Harbor but the government wanted him to use his engineering skills for converting a company that make swing sets and tricycles into producing parts for Corsair fighters.
He's okay but I bet I would have liked him a lot better if I lived back into 20s.
Listening to Bix reminded me how I Youtube looked up and surfed dancers of the Charleston after I Netflix watched The Great Gatsby a year or so ago.
He sounded real good in a James Bond movie too.
Then that kind of music faded away except in old movies and the Lawrence Welk Show.
I like all kinds of music, but the Big Band sound is pretty much "daddy music" to me.
Actually I erased a few. Neil Young except for Down By The Rivere and The Doors except for Light My Fire.
You are a most fortunate person.
I envy you your childhood.
In my case, ignorance was the culprit, not so much intentional cruelty. But when you're a kid, it really doesn't take too much to get you screwed up.But I have been most fortunate in life to have gotten the goodness I have.
1. Jesus Christ
2. Confucius
3. Mohatma Gandi
4. C.S. Lewis
5. Thomas Payne
6. George Washington
7. Plato
8. Karl Marx
9. Mohammed
10. Saul Alinsky
You did say you wanted debate, didn't you? ;)
Jack London, I respect his do-it before you write it adventuresome nature. (don't care much for his socialism though)
I imagine a spirit who manifests itself in the guise of a race/planets supreme hero to thwart an civilization ending apocalypse wouldn't exactly be on an objectists bookshelf.Great stuff, would love to chat with him.
2. Jack the Ripper - to find out who he really was
3. Einstein
4. Shakespeare - to find out who he really was
5. My grandfather who died before I was born and I would have liked to have met him
6. Michaelangelo - to find out if he was really an alien or not
7. Galileo
8. Jimmy Buffet - because he seems like THE MOST FUN person EVER
9. Joan of Arc
10. Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Jefferson - especially would want his take on what the US has become and what to do about it;
Richard Feynman - master physicist, brilliant, wild mind;
Henry Ford;
Albert Einstein;
Nikola Tesla
Keep in mind this is a party for fun...
You lost me on Sacsayhunan.
BTW , have you heard of the
Serapeum of Saqqara ?
Finally someone talking my language. I'd have a hard time selecting more than a few, but there are two that would be an absolute must, Mozart and Beethoven.Then there's the 19th and twentieth centuries. Which single composer would represent a whole century. Can't be done which is why the 10 person restriction makes for a major scrutiny situation.
As a reward http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/...
2) Me @ Age 10.
3) Me @ Age 15.
4) Me @ Age 20.
5) Me @ Age 25.
6) Me @ Age 30.
7) Me @ Age 35.
8) Me @ Age 40.
9) Me @ Age now.^
10) Me @ 1 day before my death.
^In my life experience, I've fully accepted that you can change no one else except yourself. Those 10 people would make one #ell of a talk that I wouldn't want to miss!
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." ~Ayn Rand
as Jefferson;John Locke; William Blackstone;
Benjamin Franklin; Victor Hugo; Harper Lee;
William Schwenck (sp?) Gilbert.
That's interesting. From an author's secretary to an author herself. I wish she had written a sequel to her one book. Scout was such a great character.
in order to have room for Yaron Brook. I wanted
to ask him about why should people trade with Red
China. (There was a video, but the librarian said
they had no headphones available any more, and when I went to the Dollar Store, they had
none to sell but Communist crap).
As to Harper Lee, there is a point that had long
interested me. In the movie, which I saw long
ago on TV, Tom Robinson is reported dead; it is
reported that he tried to escape after his convic-
tion, when he was to be taken to prison (where
he was to be held pending an appeal). My father
said he bet Tom Robinson didn't either try to es-
cape, that the guard/guards just murdered him
and lied about it afterwards. But in the book, the
reported "escape attempt" occurs some weeks
after he has been taken to Enfield Prison Farm;
the report is that he was shot while attempting
to get over the wall. And I wondered if Harper
Lee intended this to be true, or just a cover-up
like my father thought.
---There was a sort of a sequel to her book. But
I read that it was actually written first.One dis-
crepancy--Jean Louise ("Scout") remembers
her father having actually gained any acquittal
in the case of a black accused of rape.
----This book is entitled "Go Set a Watchman".
I didn't particularly like it. It makes Atticus Finch
look comparitively bigoted. I could well have
done without it.
I suppose I should take out William Schwenck Gil-
bert.
2. Aristotle
3. William James Sidis
4. Boris Sidis
5. Grigori Perelman
6. Isaac Newton
7. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
I would want to talk about the best way to construct rules and motivations for a productive and fair society with: Aristotle, Gehgis Khan, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain and George Carlin. I'd want past successes and recent wisdom. There, I said it. Comments welcome?
After #1 :) Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Paine, Bastiat, Hazlitt, Friedman. That would make ten. Eleven including Rand as #1.
Including myself a dozen; that would make a very busy and enlightening party for me. I would not be so bold as to offer an opinion, but would overflow with questions.
Respectfully,
O.A.
there's this guy named Herb ... ! -- j
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p.s. mine likes amaretto on the rocks!
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