If you could bring one person in all of human history back to life as a healthy young adult who would it be?
It could be a historical figure or a relative or a friend and tell us why.
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BlueVeins · 22-25
It would just have to be Jesus. We know very little about his life, and the sources we have about him are very unreliable. Homeboi has had a monumental impact on global culture over the past couple thousand years, so understanding him is really important; plus, he could explain parts of his teachings which are misunderstood or disputed (which is almost all of it lmao). I also think seeing Jesus as the haggardly, unkempt arab that he probably was would have a positive impact on race & class relations. As a cherry on top, doctors and historians could probably run medical tests on him to learn more about life in the old Roman Empire.
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BlueVeins · 22-25
@smileylovesgaming ehhhh from what i read, historians lean towards jesus having existed as a single person, or at least being a composite character of multiple cult leaders in israel at the time. Even if the latter's the case, the name 'Jesus' has got to have come from someone in particular, so you'd still get a viable person to bring back.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@Incomplet So?
Jesus was big on dousing himself with perfume.
You'r not letting him tak a bath , shav his beard, dress, wear shoes and liv as everyon today does? Will you allow him to learn English, see the World as it is, experienc Living as a Modern Person?
Jesus was big on dousing himself with perfume.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@BlueVeins
The name "Jesus" did not exist before around 1630 A.D. The character had another name. "Jesus" was simply made up as a translation, like all of the other main characters' names in the Bible.
ehhhh from what i read, historians lean towards jesus having existed as a single person, or at least being a composite character of multiple cult leaders in israel at the time. Even if the latter's the case, the name 'Jesus' has got to have come from someone in particular, so you'd still get a viable person to bring back.
The name "Jesus" did not exist before around 1630 A.D. The character had another name. "Jesus" was simply made up as a translation, like all of the other main characters' names in the Bible.
ElwoodBlues · M
ElwoodBlues · M
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
MissingLink · 51-55, M
@ElwoodBlues We need a guy like Abe Lincoln to help save this country. Some one who is not afraid to do the right thing.
LeopoldBloom · M
astrosandorbits · 26-30, M
J.S Bach simply for the fact that he understood music and polyphonic writing on a level that has never even been close to being touched since him. His way of understanding music and composition reaches the utter depths of the supernatural... and he did it all with such emotional density in his pieces. Normally mathematical equations and scientific comprehension in music makes the art of it dry and withered; with Bach he reached (and continues to reach) the sublime. It almost seems effortless when you dive into his music. I just want to ask him how. How in the world did he do this. Some would say based on history and what we know about him, he would owe it all to God. J.S Bach believed music had to honor God as its ultimate purpose. But I want to ask him how he went from honoring God to writing the utter most genius, emotionally dense, thematically packed, mathematically layered music given to man.
But I am a musician and nothing peaks my interest more than the music of J.S Bach. We know very little about him and his life, and in essence that probably has served us better than it would have if we knew everything about him.
But I am a musician and nothing peaks my interest more than the music of J.S Bach. We know very little about him and his life, and in essence that probably has served us better than it would have if we knew everything about him.
LeopoldBloom · M
@astrosandorbits It's interesting how during his life, he was respected as a performer, not a composer. He didn't really start to be appreciated as a composer until the 19th century. It is remarkable what he achieved within the musical forms of his time. It would be interesting to hear his take on the romantic period, jazz, and non-Western classical music that wasn't available to him.
TinyViolins · 31-35, M
Isaac Newton. Sure, the guy was a weirdo, but his genius was unparalleled. He discovered calculus, broke down the secrets of visible light, developed the laws of universal gravitation and motion, calculated the speed of sound, introduced the idea of Newtonian fluids, and invented the reflecting telescope.
If you took someone with his brains and ingenuity with the discoveries and achievements we've made in science since his time, we could potentially advance scientific knowledge by decades.
If you took someone with his brains and ingenuity with the discoveries and achievements we've made in science since his time, we could potentially advance scientific knowledge by decades.
Incomplet · 22-25
@helenS Okay existed, but agradized perhaps.
Pythagoras was on a History.com list of doubtful figures in history,
Pythagoras was on a History.com list of doubtful figures in history,
He, Pythagoras, is remembered as a philosopher and mathematician, but in ancient times he was better known as the spiritual father of a cult obsessed by numerology, the transmigration of the human soul and—quite bizarrely—the evils of eating beans.
And also it said evidence shows the Egyptians may have divined the formula much earlier.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
FreestyleArt · 31-35, M
SilkandLace2 · 46-50, M
CopperCicada · M
Certain religious and philosophical figures.
I don't talk about my inner life, so that's as far as that goes.
People's reported ideas, their actual ideas, and how those ideas are embodied in experience are often very different. Which is why meeting them in person would be interesting for me.
I don't talk about my inner life, so that's as far as that goes.
People's reported ideas, their actual ideas, and how those ideas are embodied in experience are often very different. Which is why meeting them in person would be interesting for me.
akindheart · 61-69, F
HumanEarth · F
Anyone from the 15th century
Reasons
So they can see how over populated we became
So they can see how we became a society of dummy down the masses
So they can see how much less freedoms we have then they had
Reasons
So they can see how over populated we became
So they can see how we became a society of dummy down the masses
So they can see how much less freedoms we have then they had
Incomplet · 22-25
@SW-User Could everyon get in a lin and stick him with a 📌 pin? For his past horribl deeds even though they wer not carried out by your "brought forward Hilter"?
Incomplet · 22-25
Stephen Hawking and/or Albert Einstein
Young Healthy with all th new knowledge, tools, computers, th new James Webb Space Telescope, etc.
Just imagin what thes two could do with a new lifetim !
Young Healthy with all th new knowledge, tools, computers, th new James Webb Space Telescope, etc.
Just imagin what thes two could do with a new lifetim !
No one can remain healthy in this life in true sense.
Might as well stay where they left for.
Might as well stay where they left for.
Skippyskiptic · 41-45, M
My best friend Fabian so I could apologize to him. A few months after we had a falling out he was hit by a car and killed.
My paternal grandmother, I never really got to know her, and from what i hear, she was an awesome lady.
Umile · 41-45, F
Lincoln. JFK. MLK. Mother Theresa. Einstein. Newton. Otis. Aristotle. Zeus. Caesar. Judas. Gandhi ...........
Freeranger · M
Off the top of my head, perhaps Anne Frank. She never deserved her ending......none of them did.
Ferric67 · M
We need Julius Caesar to return and kick everyone's ass
Unlearn · 41-45, M
My maternal grandfather. He knew a lot of stuff I am curious about...
Whyme · 46-50, M
Naomi russell why? Dat ass
Brutus. I want to ask him why he did it?
Somebody in my family
SW-User
Voltaire…just because
Adrift · 61-69, F
My mother.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
The woman Donald Trump had murdered for filing a rape lawsuit against him in 2016.
@redredred Hillary was the victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy. Stop picking on her.
redredred · M
@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays Sorry, just telling the truth about that scumcunt sounds like picking on her.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
I know you'd like to bring back John Wayne Gacy. The two of you have a lot in common.
redredred · M
@LordShadowfire Still bugging you, I see. Enjoy your day, groomer
SW-User
Jfk, or martin Luther King, these people were going to be the change, make a change..
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
Stop looking at child porn, you sick piece of shit.