If you were given the opportunity to meet ten historical figures of interest either living or dead and could only ask one or two questions about present day knowing you would get truthful answers, who would you want to meet and what would you ask? I am not speaking of a top ten list of the most important historical figures. I am speaking of figures whose beliefs and actions have somehow influenced your personal space. Questions you consider personally important regardless of what anyone else thinks. Here is my list and the questions I would ask in no particular order. They may or may not be questions you would ask but it’s my space.
1. Adolph Hitler. Why do you really hate me as a Jew?
2 Susan B. Anthony: Is there gender equality ?
3. Thomas Jefferson: When you drafted the Declaration of Independence did you have visions of the democracy of the distant future? Is democracy what you envisioned in 1776?
4. Jesus Christ: What really happened?
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: How much did you really know about the Holocaust? Would you have handled it differently?
6. Martin Luther King: Is racial equality where you dreamed it would be?’
7. Samuel Morse(the inventor of the telegraph): What do you think of cell phones? Is the internet a positive influence on society?
8. All authors Of The Bible: If you were not there, who told you?
9. John F. Kennedy: How would you address the terrorist threat and Iran?
10. Albert Einstein: How much further can we go?
Who and what would you ask?
December 30th, 2008 at 1:44 am
1. Jimmy Johnson – Was working in the Cowboys organization that stressful?
2. Mark Cuban – Do you ever regret buying the Mavericks?
3. Jerry Jones – Don’t you wish you could have given in to Jimmy Johnson a little bit more?
4. Michael Irvin – Do you ever regret the dark side of being famous?
5. Troy Aikman – Don’t you want to get involved with something?
6. Emmitt Smith – What keeps you smiling?
7. The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders – is it worth it?
8. The Texas Rangers – How does it feel playing for the Yankee farm team?
9. The Chicago Cubs – WHEN will this ownership deal get done?????
10 The Dallas Cowboys – How does that crow taste?
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December 30th, 2008 at 1:59 am
You lost me at J.C. why do you put a fictitious person in with these HISTORICAL figures ?
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December 30th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Lee Harvey Oswald – was it just you?
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December 30th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Can I ask a different person a totally different query? If so, I would ask former President Ronald Reagan why did you approve the Alzheimers-causing drug aspartame?
December 30th, 2008 at 2:42 am
1. Charles V – Why did you abdicate at the height of your power? Did the monastery at Yuste provide the peace you needed? Did you regret the deal that prohibited you from leaving both Spain and the Holy Roman Empire to your son, Phillip?
2. Henry VIII – Even though you venerated Jane Seymour for giving you a son [and dying before you could get bored with her] wasn’t Anne Boleyn the real love of your life? What do you think of the Anglican Church as it is today, and the general state of things in Christianity?
3. Jesus Christ – Were/are you really the Son of God?
4. Robert Kennedy – If you had it to do all over again, would you still run for President? Do you feel this country is moving in the right direction?
5. Karl Marx – Has any so-called Marxist or Communist government ever come close to living out your ideals?
6 Frida Kahlo – Your physical and emotional suffering have become inextricably linked to your artistic achievements in the public’s eye. How do you feel about that? Your reputation as an artist has soared in recent years, but at the expense of that of your husband, Diego Rivera; how would you apportion things?
7. Maximillian Robespierre – Your ideal of a Republic based in Virtue was a good one – and indeed no one ever so much as whispered accusations of corruption about you. And yet you have gone down in history as a bloodthirsty tyrant consumed, in the end, by his own Terror. Where do you think you went wrong? Would you do anything differently?
8. Roman Empress Theodora – The only primary source about your reign is Procopius’s openly biased “Secret History”. What were you and your husband really like, and what was Rome like under your rule?
9. Saladin – Were there any circumstances under which you think your people might have shared Jerusalem with the Christian Crusaders and their descendants? How would you handle the current mess in the Middle East?
10. Napoleon Bonaparte – First of all, if you had gone on to conquer most of Europe and a chunk of the East, how would you have ruled it efficiently? Secondly…Russia? In the winter?? What were you thinking? And then, of course, I’d have to run the same question by Hitler, because he was such a huge admirer of Napoleon’s and, well, he really should have known better than to invade Russia. In the winter. I mean… really, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
Thanks for a great question, very thought provoking. Also, apropos of nothing, I’m a big fan of your brother’s.
December 30th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Really nice, but you leave the “?” in 9. lol
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December 30th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Top 14 Questions for any 10 Historical Figures of Significance.
1. Who and what events influenced your life in childhood and adulthood the most and how?
2. What motivated you in your major moments of decision?
3. Where were you and what were you really thinking when you first decided to take that
course of action and why?
4. Looking back, would you make the same decision today knowing how things unfolded?
5. How would you do things differently?
6. If not, what is your reasoning?
7. Looking forward 5 yrs…10 yrs…20 yrs…decades later…what results had you envisioned?
8. Is there any decision you made that if changed would alter history and which one would
that be?
9. What do you see as your greatest triumph?
10. Your greatest failure?
11. Prior to your death do you recall what your final thoughts were? Take me thru that day.
12. If you could speak directly to all the people whose lives you affected what would you
say to them today?
13. What are your thoughts on the state of the world today and what influence do you believe
you had in the current state of affairs?
14. How did you WANT to be remembered and how does that compare to how you ARE
remembered in history?
December 30th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
1. Nicole Simpson – Who did it?
2. Jimmy Hoffa – Where’s your body?
3. JonBenét Ramsey – Who killed you?
4. John McCain – How the hell did you end up with Palin?
5. Amelia Earhart – Now, precisely what happened?
6. Charles Lindbergh Jr – Who kidnapped you?
7. Natalee Holloway – What happened?
8. Jack The Ripper – Who are you?
9. SEC attorney Jeffrey Norris – What’s this vendetta all about?
10. Mommy – Why did I get in trouble for putting mud in the fence post?
December 31st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Jimmy Carter-Why do you hate Israel so much?
Bill Clinton-Did you really think nobody would find out about Monica?
Dad-Why didn’t you listen to mom when she told you to see the doctor?
George Washington-Did you chop down that tree?
Moses-Did you feel cheated that you were not allowed into the holy land?
January 1st, 2009 at 4:27 am
I’d ask the “founding fathers” their views on the Constitution. It’d be nice to put that one to rest.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
G-d – Can you tell me and explain it a little bit more?
Joseph, son of Jacob – Where are your brothers?
Ferdinand and Isabella – Where are the Jews?
Charles Lindbergh – Where is the baby?
Rod Blagojevich – How much???
May 29th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
oh boy.
1. Bill Gates" What makes you happy?" ( I see we are not limited to time or life here but for all we know Gates has a time machine anyway …so I would talk to him first)
2. George Washington "You didnt reeeeaaaally chop down a cherry tree did you? "
3. Indians at Boston Tea Party. (pre-party) " Listen guys why don't we dress up as Leprachauns instead of Indians?"
4.Abe Lincoln " So the civil war was to end slavery and what exactlly else?"
5.6.7. The prophets from Christianty, Judaism , and Islam. " How do you people like it here on this beautiful island ?" leave.
8.Wilt Chamberlain " ………………………………….You are the best ."
9. Sigmond Freud " If you said Irish people are immune to psyc tests , what do you reeeeeeeaaaally mean by that ?"
10.John McEnroe " Remember when you yelled at that guy YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS?………that was awesome" "was he serious?"……………..
May 29th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Absolutely great decision on your #1 question/person to ask. Don't know if I would have had the thought to do so, myself. Brilliant thoughts on just about all of the others, as well. Man…