coooolllll dude! John Lennon! :-)

 

hmm...makes me think i can invite the entire original Fab 4!! :-) (the Beatles)

haha man

avril

good grief

jennifer aniston is fine though

did u see along came polly?

 

haha oh, i wanna see that movie. Ben Stiller is a funny dude. and jennifer.. wow, she's a goddess. Man, i can't believe she's freaking married to Brad Pitt... What a lucky bastard.

 

ya'll want 3 wishes...start a new thread on 3 wishes then!

 

haha Wooo.... great idea, man! Can i steal your idea and post that thread?

With these things, there's always the danger of losing site of your choices in favor of those you think others would find compelling. I started falling into the trap a little ... my list went about 30 deep trying to find the perfect 5. In the end, I went with 5 people with were in the first 10 I'd listed:

 

John Lennon

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Franklin Roosevelt

Hernando Cortez

Muhammed Ali

In order for me not to be bored, I think that I would have to invite comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and Ben Stiller.

(Btw, I really want to see Along Came Polly and Meet the Fockers ! )

 

If not, then maybe I'd go more deep and invite someone like Jesus or God or something.

I thought about that, too, but I think that Lennon and Ali would be funny enough, and if the conversation goes the way I would hope it goes, then I wouldn't want somebody cracking jokes.

 

I would be really interested to hear Lennon talk to Roosevelt about nuclear weapons.

 

Cortez is the odd-ball of my group, but the convergence of Europe on Meso-America has had such an effect on the evolution of man that I couldn't let the question pass without imagining an opportunity to question the man who was on the front lines of that union.

 

Ugh.

I think I'd be more interested in hearing the scientist who discovered the atom bomb.

 

:confused:

 

Hmmm.. Cortez.

What would you ask him?

:confused:

:lol: that's the reason i invite Jerry to mine! :idea2:

 

okay folks...done at work. it's 11...past 11...gonna go home and sleep and be back in less than 8 hours! :stunned:

 

 

good nite!!

I think I'd be more interested in hearing the scientist who discovered the atom bomb.

 

:confused:

 

Hmmm.. Cortez.

What would you ask him?

:confused:

 

I'd fluff him up with some questions like "What were the Aztecs like," but really, I want to know if he felt guilty. He killed a lot of Aztecs with his swords, but I'm more interested in his reaction, upon arriving for the second time, to the number of Aztec dead at the hand of European diseases he and his crew brought over. It was certainly an unintentional consequence, and I'd like to know what he felt about it.

 

Also, religion was such a prominent part of people's minute-to-minute lives in those times ... I would want to know how religion motivated him and what he now thinks of the "New World" and the decline in religious observance. He was no theologian, but I'd still be interested.

:lol: that's the reason i invite Jerry to mine! :idea2:

 

okay folks...done at work. it's 11...past 11...gonna go home and sleep and be back in less than 8 hours! :stunned:

 

 

good nite!!

 

Work at 11, woah

 

:stunned:

 

good night!

I think I'd be more interested in hearing the scientist who discovered the atom bomb.

 

:confused:

 

Hmmm.. Cortez.

What would you ask him?

:confused:

 

I'd fluff him up with some questions like "What were the Aztecs like," but really, I want to know if he felt guilty. He killed a lot of Aztecs with his swords, but I'm more interested in his reaction, upon arriving for the second time, to the number of Aztec dead at the hand of European diseases he and his crew brought over. It was certainly an unintentional consequence, and I'd like to know what he felt about it.

 

Also, religion was such a prominent part of people's minute-to-minute lives in those times ... I would want to know how religion motivated him and what he now thinks of the "New World" and the decline in religious observance. He was no theologian, but I'd still be interested.

 

You seem to know a lot about this, have you read up on this info?

I was more of a memorize for the test and then forget it all type of person.

:confused:

 

I forget why he came over here... was he only m otivated by religion?

Do you really think that there is a decline in religious observance nowadays?

I think I'd be more interested in hearing the scientist who discovered the atom bomb.

 

:confused:

 

Hmmm.. Cortez.

What would you ask him?

:confused:

 

I'd fluff him up with some questions like "What were the Aztecs like," but really, I want to know if he felt guilty. He killed a lot of Aztecs with his swords, but I'm more interested in his reaction, upon arriving for the second time, to the number of Aztec dead at the hand of European diseases he and his crew brought over. It was certainly an unintentional consequence, and I'd like to know what he felt about it.

 

Also, religion was such a prominent part of people's minute-to-minute lives in those times ... I would want to know how religion motivated him and what he now thinks of the "New World" and the decline in religious observance. He was no theologian, but I'd still be interested.

 

You seem to know a lot about this, have you read up on this info?

I was more of a memorize for the test and then forget it all type of person.

:confused:

 

I forget why he came over here... was he only m otivated by religion?

Do you really think that there is a decline in religious observance nowadays?

 

I've read a few things on the conquest of the Western Hemisphere, but te main source I'd use if I had to cite the above would be Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel which was on the NY Times Best Seller list for a long time four years ago.

 

By the time Cortez started coming to the New World, it was pretty much a race for land. Yeah, people will come up with more detailed explanations, but the New World represented a race for power. Spain was right in the middle of that.

 

Cortez was a solider, but it seems he had a particular fascinating with Mexico. It seems like he was just power hungry. And in truth, it doesn't sound like he was a very good person. He toko advantage of Aztec ignorance and played himself up as a god.

 

 

Regaarding religion ... yes, I think religion is less important in the average person's life than it was 100 years ago, but I'm also American. A Californian American. Religion is on the back burner's back burner out here.

*mental note*

try to skim through guns, germs, and steel.

 

:lol:

my list'd be, based on people i'd like to talk to, and completely off the top of my head (which means it would be much better if i actually took time to think about it):

 

Brian Wilson

Kurt Vonnegut

Leonardo da Vinci

Adolf Hitler

Jesus Christ

 

i almost wanted to go with Osama bin Laden, but i decided he wouldn't really have too much interesting things to say, compared with Hitler.

 

my list has two categories: people i'm interested in because of my fascination with the idea of feeling led by God (Hitler, Christ, bin Laden), and people i just think are absolutely brilliant (da Vinci, Vonnegut)

 

Brian Wilson fits in both.

cooool...i like the way this thread is progressing!!! :-)

 

Robert (the UC-SD fellow) has said quite a few interesting things...and i'd like to comment...but i'm not in right state of mind (busy at work!) so while i post little snippets on here...what i would really want is to write an essay kinda deal! :lol:

Do the people have to be alive now?

 

No! It IS a fantasy dinner, afterall!

 

and Soleil...it is YOUR fantasy dinner...why would you be bored? :rolleyes:

 

 

ya'll want 3 wishes...start a new thread on 3 wishes then! :angry: :D :P

 

 

awwwwwwwwww :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeah! Robert rocks!

I'd invite:

 

Nostradamus

Damien Rice

My Best friend

Will :P

and....

Simon (ocean colour scene) for my best friend because she's always wanted to meet him :)

Nostradamus!! :o :o :o

 

And Simon Fowler! :wink3: Yeeeeah, he's soooooo nice and sweet!! ;)

who's kurt vonnegut

sounds familiar

a writer maybe?

yes he writes science fiction

Nostradamus!! :o :o :o

 

And Simon Fowler! :wink3: Yeeeeah, he's soooooo nice and sweet!! ;)

yeah I'd love to sit down and have a chat with nostradamus :rolleyes:

and yeah simon is so nice! He gave me his plectrum when I went to see them but I gave it to my best friend because she's mad about him :)

Aaaaaaaw, his plectrum, so cool!! I've met him (and the other guys) twice and he always was very nice... :D And Damon too, so funny!! :P

yeah Damon is the nicest ever!!! :P I met him too :cool:

I also talked with Steve's dad... He's the manager, I think, or related with the management office...

 

 

 

Aaaaaw, remembering my groupie times... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: naaaah, not groupie :P

:lol: awww no I didn't meet Steve directly he was talking to my friends sister Samantha :) They got on really well :stunned: :wink3: :lol: