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Greatest person to ever live
OP - December 13, 2010, 11:18 PM

Okay, so you get to choose the greatest person to ever live, but just one. Imagine that whoever you pick will have statues erected of them all over the world and will be taught to children and other students as a great historical figure and role model in classrooms all over the world.

My pick:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)

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Reply #1 - December 13, 2010, 11:26 PM

So he's the guy you had in your avatar a while back. Cool.

I don't know who I'd pick. I don't really know much about history, especially political history so there are countless admirable figures which I don't know about.

I'll get back to you on this one.

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Reply #2 - December 13, 2010, 11:26 PM

Can't beat Chairman Mao, that's what I say.
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Reply #3 - December 13, 2010, 11:54 PM

You seriously a Maoist, Zebedee?

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Reply #4 - December 13, 2010, 11:55 PM

William Shakespeare.

Other dudes that get my vote: Socrates, Spinoza, William Wilberforce, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Darwin.

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Reply #5 - December 14, 2010, 12:10 AM

If we're gonna stick a statue up in every classroom & streetcorner, I'd like to honour somebody who could have the greatest affect for out most pressing problem, over-population, in the future.

So I'm gonna give it to Carl Djerassi, father of the birth control pill.

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Reply #6 - December 14, 2010, 12:11 AM

But the person I am most in awe of is Epicurus.

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Reply #7 - December 14, 2010, 12:12 AM

Quote from: billy on December 13, 2010, 11:55 PM
William Shakespeare.

Never quite understood Shakespeare, and always thought he was over rated.

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Reply #8 - December 14, 2010, 12:14 AM

Oh OK. Dan Brown then.

"we can smell traitors and country haters"

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Reply #9 - December 14, 2010, 12:20 AM

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Reply #10 - December 14, 2010, 12:24 AM

Einstien, hands down.

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Reply #11 - December 14, 2010, 12:25 AM

Quote from: Q-Man on December 13, 2010, 11:54 PM
You seriously a Maoist, Zebedee?

Yes. Dead serious.
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Reply #12 - December 14, 2010, 12:27 AM

Quote from: donatelo on December 14, 2010, 12:24 AM
Einstien, hands down.

^^Good one. I'll put down Benjamin Franklin but there are probably better ones which I can't think of right now.

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Reply #13 - December 14, 2010, 12:28 AM

Quote from: Zebedee on December 14, 2010, 12:25 AM
Yes. Dead serious.

Interesting. I never woulda guessed.

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Reply #14 - December 14, 2010, 12:36 AM

Oh, it was a joke, for fuck's sake!
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Reply #15 - December 14, 2010, 12:39 AM

Quote from: billy on December 13, 2010, 11:55 PM
William Shakespeare.

Other dudes that get my vote: Socrates, Spinoza, William Wilberforce, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Darwin.

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I would vote for all of them.

Emmeline Pankhurst would also get my vote - for obvious reasons

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Reply #16 - December 14, 2010, 12:42 AM

I forgot an obvious one. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Reply #17 - December 14, 2010, 02:02 AM

I thought of perhaps Isaac Newton but though he acheived (in my opinion) the highest scientific achievement of all time, I do not know if his way of living is a model upon which one should mould oneself. Genius - yes; role model - I don't know.

As a role model, can't quite decide between Plato and Rumi. Perhaps even Walt Whitman, a man that encapsulated freedom of spirit and a life of joy. I suppose this also depends on the type of situation that one is thinking of - a Robin Hood type character is plenty inspiritional but I don't know if he's a role model for every situation of life.

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Reply #18 - December 14, 2010, 07:44 AM

Quote from: billy on December 14, 2010, 12:14 AM
Oh OK. Dan Brown then.

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Reply #19 - December 14, 2010, 07:45 AM

My pick:

He's no friend to the friendless
And he's the mother of grief
There's only sorrow for tomorrow
Surely life is too brief
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Reply #20 - December 14, 2010, 09:12 AM

Mohammed.

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Reply #21 - December 14, 2010, 09:21 AM

Shay Laren

"we can smell traitors and country haters"

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Reply #22 - December 14, 2010, 09:24 AM

Justin Bieber.

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Reply #23 - December 14, 2010, 09:26 AM

Simon Cowell

"we can smell traitors and country haters"

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Reply #24 - December 14, 2010, 09:32 AM

bertrand russell, georg cantor, kurt godel, david hume and thomas aquinas/ibn rushd(plus einstein, euclid, riemann and newton for good measure). all for their contributions to how we think about logic, mathematics and how we use these two tools to model the world. i put aquinas and ibn rushd there for the simple reason that they both advocated an analogical approach to understanding the concept of god, and if all theists had this approach we wouldn't have terrorism and other shit done in the name of religion.

these are my favourites, but as for a single person who's statue i'd put everywhere? i can't name one, as saying that one's contribution to society is greater than another is something i am reluctant to do. science, philosophy, logic and mathematics are a big picture, all interconnected and every single piece of the puzzle is needed, no matter how 'big' or 'small' each piece is.
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Reply #25 - December 14, 2010, 02:49 PM

My mother.

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Reply #26 - December 14, 2010, 03:00 PM

Mmmm: close run thing between Charles Darwin and Nelson Mandela, both men of amazing insight in their chosen vocations. Truth and fairness.

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Reply #27 - December 14, 2010, 03:07 PM

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Reply #28 - December 14, 2010, 04:09 PM

Norman Borlaug

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Reply #29 - December 15, 2010, 02:21 AM

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