If You Could Have Dinner & Conversation With Any Person In World History, Who Would It Be?

[Flatmanlewis]

Across the span of human history, up until and including now, who would you most like to sit and talk with over dinner? Why would you pick them? What might you hope to learn?

Presume language was no barrier and you could converse without help.

[Peter_Penetrator]

Sam Houston.


I would ask why he didn’t insist to President Andrew Jackson to cross the Rio Grande, take all of Mexico, and eventually take Central America on down to Panama. A smaller border would be easier to police.


I would point out the current failed War on Drugs, the violence being perpetrated by the Cartel’s and the US drug epidemic being fueled by those same Cartel’s.

[Flatmanlewis]

Very, very, interesting choice! It probably would have been good for everyone involved.

[KrakenAttackin]

@Peter_Penetrator. The cartels are some of the biggest campaign contributors to American politicians.

[KostasKouvalis]

We did an assignment like this in my HS government class. I chose Ronald Regan, but if I did it again I would choose King Leopold of Belgium. I'd want to get inside his head and ask him why he found it necessary to mame/murder 10 million Congolese.

[Flatmanlewis]

I’m intrigued by that choice. Funny how that man was such a horrid man but he has somehow slipped past much of the common knowledge of people.

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah, I was scared to pick a controversial figure, but some kids in my class did Hitler, Stalin and Mousselini. I'll admit that King Leopold is the only colonist I don't sympathize with. There's no logic and justification to what he did. And unlike other colonists, he didn't accomplish anything positive long term for neither the Congolese nor his own people.

[wiltingrosepetal]

Sigmund Freud. I desperately want to ask about his theories- especially penis envy and the Oedipus Complex (the idea that children have an innately sexual desire for a parent of the opposite sex 😭). Like that man is so interesting

[andreasderjuengere]

Be careful... Freud wasn't an angel himself :)

[wiltingrosepetal]

Yeah, his findings were loudly hated for being sexist and crass. Plus his original research was based on the positive effects of cocaine 😃 god I badly want to interview him

[exitseven]

Benjamin Franklin. I bet he had a lot of funny stories about the revolution.

[Flatmanlewis]

I feel like so much of the history of that time was lost to eternity. There are no doubt hundreds of fascinating stories we’ve never heard.

[exitseven]

When my mother died I got a whole big box of pictures / There were pix of people I had no idea who they were and anyone that I could ask is dead.

[andreasderjuengere]

Before I make a choice --- I want to know who pays the bill.

[Flatmanlewis]

Fair enough! I should’ve been specific. Any restaurant in the world: tabs on me.

[goaded]

Cheapskate! :)

[andreasderjuengere]

@goaded All... right. When Cheapskate pays, then I'd be fine to meet and dine: Mata Hari / Margaretha MacLeod 😜

[andreasderjuengere]

Or Cheapskate himself. It could be interesting to find out some background about Macbeth
😎

[goaded]

Not @Flatmanlewis, you!

[Flatmanlewis]

No worries goaded. I was tracking.

[tfan1]

President Donald J Trump 🙏🇺🇸❤️👍🙂 President Reagan, or Einstein

[Flatmanlewis]

I love The Gipper! I feel like I’d laugh very hard and be inspired by his character.

[devilish-cutie]

marthing luther king, cause he is the king... most peacful revolutionary person ever

[goaded]

I'd like to have had a conversation with my parents when they were young. An engineer and a test pilot scientist, and I never really talked to them about it.

[ShellyBo]

Jerry Seinfeld.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LjxsyYujivs

[electromagnetic]

My paternal grandmother.

[Flatmanlewis]

That’s a great choice. What would you ask her?

[electromagnetic]

Just stuff about our family and origin. I never got the chance to meet her since she died before I was born. But she had a wonderful life (stories shared by my dad)

[Flatmanlewis]

That’s beautiful. Family matters.

[AutumnSerenity]

Gregory Dwargstaff to ask him where he hid those $365M in gold coins.

[Thestupidusername]

My dad's grandma. I've heard a lot about her... I'd like to hear more.

[trellbrown84]

George Patton, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

[Flatmanlewis]

I suspect there may be a fist fight at your table!

[trellbrown84]

lol.

[WhitneySnow]

Julius Caesar

[Flatmanlewis]

That would be a good conversation!

[boobliker]

Albert E

[Flatmanlewis]

Albert E is the MC Squared!

[boobliker]

yes that him

[KrakenAttackin]

Sun Tzu.

[Flatmanlewis]

A student of war?

[KrakenAttackin]

Absolutely.

[Simslover92]

Marilyn Monroe.

[Charliefretz329]

Jesus

[sheikalana]

Princess Diana.

[12karen]

Jesus

[Anonymous]

John Muir.

[Flatmanlewis]

Truly a visionary. As a backpacker I appreciate your choice.