If you were given the chance of having dinner with 3 thinkers, who would you invite? Dead thinkers would come back from the dead, look normal, and act as if they had never died, by the way, don't worry about that (and, they would re-die later, there's no need to worry about this either).

I'd invite Noam Chomsky, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Wilhelm von Humboldt. Chomsky and Wittgenstein because their ideas are diametrically opposed, so there would be a fruitful discussion. And Humboldt because he inspired both Chomsky and Wittgenstein... so he'd act like a "moderator", so to speak.

How about you guys? Who's going to introduce Mendel to Darwin, huh?

___________________
Indiana Clones Upcoming Sets
[ I May Upload Something Someday ]

Last edited by Lira on Apr-07-2008 at 18:12

Karl Marx and Ayn Rand...so I could take pictures of the fight.

The ultimate champion of communism vs the ultimate champion of capitalism.

It would be an interesting meal.

Last edited by Capitalizt on Mar-13-2008 at 05:58

quote:

Originally posted by Capitalizt Karl Marx and Ayn Rand...so I could take pictures of the fight.

The great thing about inviting them is that Ayn Rand would be obliged to pay for her meal and Marx wouldn't eat anything if you had to employ the labour of others to produce it. So long as your third person wasn't Epicurus it'd be the cheapest lunch ever.

___________________
http://eschatonnow.blogspot.com/

On a serious note, I would definitely invite this guy:

Friedrich Hayek

I might bring John Manyard Keynes along too so he can get his ass kicked.

i know at least Thomas Jefferson and milton friedman

renegade, occrider, arbiter.

___________________

Thomas Carlyle, Adam Weishaupt and the prophet Mohammad.

Eating a cake with Rawls, food fight with Hobbes and Sauerkraut with Nietzsche.

___________________
"Those are my principles, if you don't like them... well, I have others.”

Bobby Fisher and Pablo Picasso just to find out once and for all who was more bat shit crazy and see who would win an argument between a complete left brain and a complete right brain

___________________

quote:

Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN I have 3 hobbies: gaming, DJing & correcting maladjusted fools on the internet.

quote:

Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine?

On a serious note, I would definitely invite this guy:

John Maynard Keynes

I might bring Friedrich Hayek along too so he can get his ass kicked.

Gurdjieff and Carlos Castenada and Peter Ouspensky

Noam Chomsky, Eustace Mullins, & Albert Pike

___________________
"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller