Manual Poll: Who do you want to meet?

[Unorthodox]

You've died.

Congratulations, you find yourself at the pearly gates being welcomed into heaven. 

God asks you who you would like to go meet first...

Who do you choose and why? 

[Buster's Uncle]

Fred Rogers.  Because, he was Mr. Rogers.

Jesus, or course.  Similar reason plus historical curiosity.  They were toweringly great teachers of peace and good stuff.

Julius Cesar and Alexander the Great.  -They weren't, but two of the most astoundingly multi-gifted men of history.

-I was going to say Jane Goodall until I opened the thread and found the living excluded.

I know some history and I have forever - it's a long list, and I dunno who's actually first; doesn't really matter with forever to meet people.

[Unorthodox]

-I was going to say Jane Goodall until I opened the thread and found the living excluded.

I didn't rule out ghostly visitations. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I wanna meet a young single Jane Goodall at that - right there's my ideas of a woman.

[Valka]

Assuming the afterlife exists? Carl Sagan, of course. And Isaac Asimov. Frank Herbert. Johann Gutenberg. A whole list of scientists, authors (including William Shakespeare), inventors...

And my grandparents and their families.

But most of all, my cats and dogs. It's been nearly 47 years since my first dog was killed, by the guard dog at the local service station... and years before my mother was honest enough to tell me he was dead.

[Unorthodox]

I have to admit this is one where I'm more than happy to play devil's advocate.

Seriously.  LUCIFER has GOT to have some good stories. 

I mean, he's either the first guy to stand up to GOD and tell him no, knowing full well it's a losing proposition...OR you can take the gnostic view he's just doing his job and was stuck with the worst job ever invented.  Either way, that's a guy(or gal) I want to shake hands with.   

[Buster's Uncle]

Depend on whether he counts, doesn't it?  You're taking a Mormon view where he'd belong with people...

That aside, whatever his true function and motivations, that is a choice that couldn't help but prove prove interesting.

[Unorthodox]

Actually Mormons would argue he doesn't count, since he never had, and never will receive a body.  It's the Gnostic view he's just a guy doing his job and will eventually be saved as well.

I just figure he should count as much as God or Jesus, and I like to get both sides of the story. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Absolutely.

[Rusty Edge]

Jesus would be kind of intimidating, and he must be busier than Santa Claus, what with all of the prayers. Gotta be a long line to wait in, but I'd have eternity to fill. Couldn't I just shake his hand after church and say "Thank You for everything." ?

The guy I usually wish I could talk to was James Madison, Father of the US Constitution, and president during the War of 1812, when the decisive blow couldn't be struck because the militias thought that their duty ended at the state line.

I'd like to ask him things like "Does a right to privacy go without saying, or did you guys overlook that one?"

" Was the 2nd Amendment pretty much along the lines of one man, one musket, one vote, or did you intend that to include the right of one man to own a ship and wield two broadsides, even though he may become a Blackbeard?"

I have a feeling that The Constitution has changed a lot less, and the country a lot more, than he imagined or envisioned.