If You Could Talk To Any Person In History Who Would It Be?

[UnbornTao]

Assuming we'd understand each other, Jesus, Gotama and Da Vinci are some of my favorites.

Edited August 8, 2023 by UnbornTao

[Florian]

Hitler, I think he might not have been such a bad guy after all (proof below)

 

[Leo Gura]

An Egyptian Pharaoh would be something.

[Bobby_2021]

I would talk to Da Vinci. No one else I admire more than him. I would like to see him work to see what fueled his unquenchable curiosity.

Apart from that I would like to know about emperor and evaluate their level of development and see how low it can go. There should be some astounding realizations in there. 

[Vignan]

It should be Krishna and Shiva

[Starlight321]

I would talk to the young Hitler (maybe 15 years) and ask him about his dreams and future plans and see if he was already predestined to become to become that what he became. 

I would smoke some dmt with alan watts while he is describing the trip in a funny way or maybe just about his alcoholism.

I would like to see a ptolomeyan pharao like cleopatra and see if they are really so beautiful and intelligent or just stone photoshopped and mentally disabled.

Or maybe I'd want to talk to Augustus, Nero and Caesar about good goverment and politics and listen to their perspective

Or just the Buddha about his view about  enlightenment and why he thinks a man without his balls can't attain it (Not that I intend to lose them ?) and his world view in general.

 

[Harsh Bagdia]

Mahatma Gandhi

 

[Oppositionless]

Arthur Shoppenhauer and the Virgin Mary

[Oppositionless]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

An Egyptian Pharaoh would be something.

 

[Oppositionless]

36 minutes ago, Starlight321 said:

Or just the Buddha about his view about  enlightenment and why he thinks a man without his balls can't attain it (Not that I intend to lose them ?) and his world view in general.

 

maybe it was the just the misogyny of the era reflected in his thought process. OR because deconstructing reality just takes big balls (metaphorically speaking).

[PenguinPablo]

Buddha, Jesus, Zherka, Andrew Tate, Owen Cook Hitler, Einstein

Edited August 8, 2023 by PenguinPablo

[ItsNick]

Cyrus the Great (Persian/Achaemenid Empire).

We know a lot about the Greeks in part because they wrote more but also because victors write the history books.
Not many people know about the Persian empire. Here's an interesting documentary I found:

 

[DefinitelyNotARobot]

1 hour ago, Starlight321 said:

I would talk to the young Hitler (maybe 15 years) and ask him about his dreams and future plans and see if he was already predestined to become to become that what he became. 

That's actually a cool idea. Most people would probably talk to someone who had already done what we know them for (like talk to Einstein as he was writing the theory of relativity or after), but talking to younger version of such a person would give you an entirely different insight into their mind.

Edited August 8, 2023 by DefinitelyNotARobot

[ItsNick]

It would be interestingly to meet other species of human like neanderthals, heidelbergensis, homo erectus.

[Salvijus]

Any kind of mystic, sage, shaman, prophet, daoist immortal, or any kind of spiritually evolved being from different backgrounds and traditions would be cool to meet. 

[UnbornTao]

Kylian Mbappé. "Go to Real already for christ's sake."

Oh oh, Ramana Maharshi too.

Edited August 8, 2023 by UnbornTao

[Nilsi]

Nietzsche and Hegel (not because I‘m particularly keen on Hegel, but his ideas still deeply permeate all philosophical discourse and you can not really get around him).

I could pick their brains for days on end.

It would also be super interesting to ask for their take on contemporary philosophical problems (gender, existential risk, AI, etc.).

Hitler would also be very intriguing, but I suspect he would be mostly hot air, without much substance.

 

Edited August 9, 2023 by Nilsi

[Starlight321]

12 hours ago, Oppositionless said:

maybe it was the just the misogyny of the era reflected in his thought process. OR because deconstructing reality just takes big balls (metaphorically speaking).

That's what I assume. But which one? ??

Edited August 9, 2023 by Starlight321

[Hello from Russia]

I'd love to speak to some real mystics that people revered so much and who had a great deal of powers/miracles done in their track record. I'd ask them if it's all real and would ask what is up in general

Apart from mystics, I'd probably love to meet Alexander the Great and Leonardo da Vinci to have a more intimate peek in their characters without our societies graondization of them. Woud love to see the mundane stuff in their lives and how they approached life day to day

[Dioxide2533]

Jesus