A Historical Dinner Party: A Hypothetical

[Yamation]

I would want to have dinner with Martin Luther King Jr, Anne Frank, Abraham Lincoln, Carl Marx, Socrates, Rosa Parks, and Maya Angelou. We would order a ton of pizzas for dinner

[Insaanistan]

I would want to have dinner with Martin Luther King Jr, Anne Frank, Abraham Lincoln, Carl Marx, Socrates, Rosa Parks, and Maya Angelou. We would order a ton of pizzas for dinner

I wouldn’t invite Anne Frank solely out of fear she’d try to w*nk me.

I read her diary AS A LITTLE KID.
The girl was a freak.
Deserved to live a long and happy life, but a freak nonetheless.

[Aequalitatis ac Libertatis]

I would want to have dinner with Martin Luther King Jr, Anne Frank, Abraham Lincoln, Carl Marx, Socrates, Rosa Parks, and Maya Angelou. We would order a ton of pizzas for dinner

"Carl Marx"
"Carl"
No

[Sundiata]

I'd have dinner with anyone from history. I don't care who.

[Polish Prussian Commonwealth]

Douglas MacArthur.
Arthur Harris.


That will be all.

[Aequalitatis ac Libertatis]

I'd have dinner with anyone from history. I don't care who.

Even just a few random people who never saw or did anything important?

[Sundiata]

I'd have dinner with anyone from history. I don't care who.

Even just a few random people who never saw or did anything important?

Yeah, ordinary people don't get enough credit.

[Czechostan]

Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates, Origen, Zoroaster, Zhuangzi... The thinkers I like who left little original work behind. I would have loved to talk to people like Heidegger or Foucault, but their thoughts and opinions can be more readily extrapolated.

[A-Series-Of-Tubes]

Even just a few random people who never saw or did anything important?

Yeah, ordinary people don't get enough credit.

And you'd probably get more insight into their times and culture, than talking to someone whose word was taken as gospel in their own times and culture ... as they struggle to assert their superiority against equals bearing the unfair advantage of being from their future.

High powered dudes meeting for the first time, even when they both know each other by reputation occasionally goes wrong. But I guess that's covered by the supposition these are only exact copies of historical individuals at some point in their lives, while the originals of each continue living in the past, unaware of the dinner party or any logically impossible knowledge of their future.

The further conclusion that the dinner guests are never allowed to go "home" to their own time, but must be executed or sold on AliExpress, can be put down to San Lumen being a very bad host.

This inference does however cast light on San Lumen's persistent interest in what the feed the dinner guests. It's very likely their last meal!

[The Archregimancy]

I would want to have dinner with Martin Luther King Jr, Anne Frank, Abraham Lincoln, Carl Marx, Socrates, Rosa Parks, and Maya Angelou. We would order a ton of pizzas for dinner

"Carl Marx"
"Carl"
No

Let's be kind and assume that Yamation is really into the Bauhaus movement.

[The New California Republic]

"Carl Marx"
"Carl"
No

Let's be kind and assume that Yamation is really into the Bauhaus movement.

On a visit to Dessau a couple of years ago I saw mention of Carl and thought it was a typo at first, but when it started referring to him as a student I knew it was someone entirely different, as old Karl had been in his grave for about half a century, so it'd be quite a feat if he managed to be a student there in 1932!

[The Two Jerseys]

Douglas MacArthur.
Arthur Harris.


That will be all.

No Curtis LeMay?

[Ethel mermania]

Douglas MacArthur.
Arthur Harris.


That will be all.

No Curtis LeMay?

All that cigar smoke will ruin the dinner.

[San Lumen]

Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates, Origen, Zoroaster, Zhuangzi... The thinkers I like who left little original work behind. I would have loved to talk to people like Heidegger or Foucault, but their thoughts and opinions can be more readily extrapolated.

Of of all of those i've only heard of Socrates.

[The New California Republic]

Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates, Origen, Zoroaster, Zhuangzi... The thinkers I like who left little original work behind. I would have loved to talk to people like Heidegger or Foucault, but their thoughts and opinions can be more readily extrapolated.

Of of all of those i've only heard of Socrates.

You've not heard of Heraclitus, Heidegger, Foucault, or Parmenides? That's surprising.

[Loeje]

Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates, Origen, Zoroaster, Zhuangzi... The thinkers I like who left little original work behind. I would have loved to talk to people like Heidegger or Foucault, but their thoughts and opinions can be more readily extrapolated.

Of of all of those i've only heard of Socrates.

Heidegger is fun.

[San Lumen]

Of of all of those i've only heard of Socrates.

You've not heard of Heraclitus, Heidegger, Foucault, or Parmenides? That's surprising.

You mean Léon Foucault? As is Foucault's pendulum. Him iv'e heard of.

[The New California Republic]

You've not heard of Heraclitus, Heidegger, Foucault, or Parmenides? That's surprising.

You mean Léon Foucault? As is Foucault's pendulum. Him iv'e heard of.

No, given the context he means Michel Foucault.

[Thermodolia]

Any historical figures? Even those that aren’t well known or important except to me?

[Washington Resistance Army]

Any historical figures? Even those that aren’t well known or important except to me?

That's what I went with. I doubt anyone here gives a fuck about Thomas Taylor or Julius Laetus besides me.

[San Lumen]

Any historical figures? Even those that aren’t well known or important except to me?

Anyone is eligible.

[Thermodolia]

Any historical figures? Even those that aren’t well known or important except to me?

Anyone is eligible.

Anyone? Even I relative or friend of mine who has since died?

[San Lumen]

Anyone is eligible.

Anyone? Even I relative or friend of mine who has since died?

That's not what i was thinking for the scope of this hypothetical.

[Thermodolia]

Anyone? Even I relative or friend of mine who has since died?

That's not what i was thinking for the scope of this hypothetical.

And that’s why I asked. Yes or no? Do they count or not?

[San Lumen]

That's not what i was thinking for the scope of this hypothetical.

And that’s why I asked. Yes or no? Do they count or not?

No they do not.