If you could be and personally experience (in the first person sense) the full life of any historical figure, who would it be and why?
Hypothetical Question
If you could be and personally experience (in the first person sense) the full life of any historical figure, who would it be and why?
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Da Vinci, maybe? Holy crap, think of all the stuff he got to do.Originally Posted by Logos
Hmm, I'm sure there are other options too. Maybe Jefferson? Socrates? Jim Henson? Sir Francis Drake? I feel like I'm overlooking someone though.
Note: I don't actually know the full lives of these people, just chunks, so perhaps something utterly horrible that happened to each and I don't really want to be any of these.
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I pity your souls
Da Vinci died a virgin. Socrates had to kill himself, and was considered to be very ugly.Da Vinci, maybe? Holy crap, think of all the stuff he got to do.
Hmm, I'm sure there are other options too. Maybe Jefferson? Socrates? Jim Henson? Sir Francis Drake? I feel like I'm overlooking someone though.
Note: I don't actually know the full lives of these people, just chunks, so perhaps something utterly horrible that happened to each and I don't really want to be any of these.
...the human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'.
INTp
All three of those things could end up to be the case for me even in this life, so meh.
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I pity your souls
Egyptian Pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare
...the human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'.
INTp
Casanova
Djingis Khan
Alexander the great
some pharaoh
Would I be allowed to alter the actions of said historical person or just repeat everything they did?
David Lee Roth (SEE)
or
Victor Hugo (ESE)
My selection is entirely of British people. I couldn't really bear to live the life of a religious person (I make an exception with Elizabeth I), and they must have lived a fair amount of time.
Purely hypothetically: Horatio Nelson, Elizabeth I, Bertrand Russell, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth...
Edit: Peter the Great and Catherine the Great of Russia would be good.
Last edited by Enters Laughing; 08-06-2008 at 08:32 PM.
You would not be able to alter their actions. You would live their life exactly as they did from birth to death.
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Not entirely sure what the point of that would be, but I'd probably choose Hugh Hefner. Just for the poon tang.
Has he influenced history enough to be considered an 'historical figure?'
The point is that you get a 1st person perspective of the entire life of a historical figure. You would get to know what exactly they were thinking when they discovered, wrote, or performed some action and get to share in the novelty of the experience with them.
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