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- 01-23-2006 09:55 PM #1Member
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Greatest Person of All Time
Thought this would be a fun topic. The criteria is pretty open: your nomination can be for the most influential, most intelligent, most epitomizes humanity or if you fancy nominate worst/most evil person.
Just gonna list some of my favorite people....
Charles Darwin
Plato
Ghandi
Jimi Hendrix
Albert Einstein
Jesus
Martin Luther King jr.
.....that's all i can think of off the top of my head
Well i'll enjoy your responses."Leave no stone unturned." - Euripides
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot." - Plato
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"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
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Ghandi, He did everything, from achiving independece of his country, to stoping civil war, with out violence of any kind.
Here and there...
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Elvis - for rock and roll baby
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Chuck norris > god. - - Nah. Everything > god. But really, the best person every, at least the smartest, was lenardo da vinci. That man was a genious.
But it's a close call between him and chuck norris!“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'” -Hume
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They say you can tell a lot about a person by who they're a fan of; Elvis or The Beatles.Originally posted by OpheliaBlue
Elvis - for rock and roll baby
I've always found myself in the Beatles camp..."This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
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That's very true. I would have to agree with your choice........Originally posted by bradybaker
They say you can tell a lot about a person by who they're a fan of; Elvis or The Beatles.
I've always found myself in the Beatles camp...
Anyway, the most influential person I can possibly think of is Newton. He was a pretty big part of history.Shine on, you crazy diamond!
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Bach for writing music that was amazing
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Who ever invented the pillow. Imagine life without them, scary huh.
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Past- Beethoven or Plato
Present-Thom Yorke
Future- Me. In a few years, you'll agree........Then I think of my youth and of my first love-when the longing of desire was strong. Now I long only for my first longing. What is youth? A dream. What is love? The substance of a dream.
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I'm going to go with Aristotle. He invented a lot of our modern sciences, and it would take nearly 2000 years before the Aristotelian universe was finally outdated. Name somebody else who had a direct influence on the course of history for 2000 years, I dare you.
- 01-25-2006 09:46 AM #12CaesarOriginally posted by Jalexxi
Name somebody else who had a direct influence on the course of history for 2000 years, I dare you.
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ConstantineOriginally posted by Jalexxi
Name somebody else who had a direct influence on the course of history for 2000 years, I dare you.
(not quite 2000...but close enough)"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
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Maddox Maddox Maddox Maddox MADDOX!
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Well, if Jesus existed (as a person, not as a prophet), then he would be the influential (but not the greatest person
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hey ther's lots of people named jesus, so he did existOriginally posted by ataraxis
Well, if Jesus existed (as a person, not as a prophet), then he would be the influential (but not the greatest person. 
- 01-25-2006 04:00 PM #17it's trueOriginally posted by ataraxis
Well, if Jesus existed (as a person, not as a prophet), then he would be the influential (but not the greatest person.
even if tomorrow let's say, it was proven 100% that he NEVER existed, he was still one seriously influential person
going on about 2000 years now
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He started a cult, Constantine started the religion.
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- 01-25-2006 06:08 PM #19good pointOriginally posted by bradybaker
He started a cult, Constantine started the religion.
so if Constantine hadn't existed, would "Jesus's" teachings have left such a mark I wonder
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Yeah, Jesus was a real person that's not a matter of belief. He is a historical figure, the whole son of god thing is whats disputed.
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It's not as if they've found proof of his existence. At any rate, his abilities were surely exaggerated as wellOriginally posted by Cole5250
Yeah, Jesus was a real person that's not a matter of belief. He is a historical figure, the whole son of god thing is whats disputed.
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Well historians like Josephus talk of him. And these werent ppl that became christians or believed he was the son of God.
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Josephus wasn't even born until 50 years after JC supposedly died on the cross.Originally posted by Cole5250
Well historians like Josephus talk of him. And these werent ppl that became christians or believed he was the son of God."This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
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Actually almost all of the near-contemporary historical references to him have been discredited. Jesus doesn't come close to a great person, you might call some of his followers great, but Jesus himself was some hippy prophet running around Israel with a few hundred followers if he even existed at all.Originally posted by Cole5250
Well historians like Josephus talk of him. And these werent ppl that became christians or believed he was the son of God.
I would say Hitler would be among one of the greatest people ever. I mean, he went from a vagabond on the streets of Vienna to the most powerful man on Earth. I really don't see many people competing with him.Super profundo on the early eve of your day
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