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Who Would You Choose?

Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 9 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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If it were possible to put together a discussion group of great people, past and present, who would you choose? We know who the #1 choice would be for most of us. Who else, and why? Limit it to your top ten.

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  • Posted by Government 8 years, 9 months ago
    Ayn Rand
    2. Aristotle
    3. William James Sidis
    4. Boris Sidis
    5. Grigori Perelman
    6. Isaac Newton
    7. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
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  • Posted by Maritimus 8 years, 9 months ago
    I would choose: Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Michelangelo and Verdi ... and then Aristoteles and Rand to help me understand their discussions.
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  • Posted by Enyway 8 years, 9 months ago
    Issac Newton, Francis Bacon, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Ayn Rand, Steven Hawking, John F. Kennedy, Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Franklin, I have many more to add, but these will do.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe you're right, you might not want to write a recipe book. Coming up with a recipe for Filet of Stegosaurus might be rather difficult let alone finding the ingredients.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, of course he is one of the best. Sorry that I forgot about him. As the saying goes, "My bad."
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Of course you don't. You looked in the mirror, described yourself, and ascribed that observation to me. Goodbye.
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  • Posted by scottburch 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have no idea what you are talking about. I did not ask you to explain anything. I did not understand one sentence because it made no sense. I'm happy to explain anything, I just did not know what you were requesting. I have my thoughts together. Reason is my highest ideal. I have worked years on it. Maybe you should do the same.

    Looking up through the chain, I might have mistakenly replied to a comment rather than the post. Maybe that is the source of the misunderstanding. It is hard to tell because the original comments are not showing.

    I'm not sure what your problem is with me. Do you have me confused with someone else? Are you just a troll?

    I am only here for rational discussion. I am not interested in anything else.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When I ask for an explanation of your words I do not expect the answer to be explain your words for you. So I am quite unable to comply with your request to explaiin why you used the word. Nor shall I attempt to do so. Perhaps another time when you have your thoughts quite together?
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  • Posted by $ sjatkins 8 years, 9 months ago
    Murray Rothbard, one of the broadest political and economic thinkers, agree with him or not;
    Thomas Jefferson - especially would want his take on what the US has become and what to do about it;
    Richard Feynman - master physicist, brilliant, wild mind;
    Henry Ford;
    Albert Einstein;
    Nikola Tesla
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  • Posted by scottburch 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Quite a nasty reply for a misspelling. However, falsification is a very important concept. I don't quite understand the sentence "Explain falsification..." If I am incorrect about something, I am happy to be corrected, but I don't understand what you are trying to say. Do my work for me? What?

    Someone can have strange beliefs and still get something right. In this case, a very important concept in science and just skeptical thinking which is very important in science.
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  • Posted by hvance 8 years, 9 months ago
    Enoch, Elijah, Peter, Paul, Adam, Eve, Mary, and men and women who were fed by Jesus with the fish and loaves of bread and Jesus.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Doesn't anyone identify anything new. Explain the use of falsification and again I had to do your work for you it's Karl with a K and he's a follower of mysticism Plato, Kant etc. I'd say the falsification is introducing a subjectivist without identifying one as such especially in a site full of objectivists. no chance of geting away with it.

    Ah hell you did that on purpose to see if anyone would notice right?.





    Karl Popper
    Philosopher
    Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FBA FRS was an Austrian-British philosopher and professor. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century. Wikipedia
    Born: July 28, 1902, Vienna, Austria
    Died: September 17, 1994, Kenley, United Kingdom
    Influenced: David Miller, Milton Friedman, Peter Medawar, more
    Influenced by: Plato, Albert Einstein, Immanuel Kant, more
    Quotes
    Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
    Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
    No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 9 months ago
    The key to this question is the scope of the discussion of the discussion group!

    I would want to talk about the best way to construct rules and motivations for a productive and fair society with: Aristotle, Gehgis Khan, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain and George Carlin. I'd want past successes and recent wisdom. There, I said it. Comments welcome?
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  • Posted by janieranger 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A little baseball is always the best....Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Al Kaline......They are the best.
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  • Posted by janieranger 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey, come on...Bunny Berigan to me is the best. Just listen to I Can't Get Started With You....Makes me weep just listening to it......
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I toured with a big band one Summer and got to know it from the inside out. I guess that makes me a sort of authority,
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It takes 500 GB on an external HD to have all the rock'n'roll ever was including the historical tapes. Another 500 GB for Blues, Soul, Rhythm and Blues and the complete Bob Dylan recordings, Lomax recordings, Leadbelly recordings AND folk music. There is just enough room left over for the five or ten decent pieces of music since 2000. So...answer this On What Day .....did the Music Die.

    Actually I erased a few. Neil Young except for Down By The Rivere and The Doors except for Light My Fire.
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