dead or alive, for just one day, who would that person be?

For me, it would have to be my mother. She died four years ago. I'd give anything to spend one more day with her. :(

Jesus Christ.

I hear you on your Mom, my Dad passed away this February. But I'll see him again.

My Grandfather, who was killed in 1945, six years before I was born.

last night i hung out with Joe Strummer, of the Clash, perhaps one of the greatest political thinkers of the modern era, so he's out...

Thomas Jefferson, greatest political mind EVER...

or now that you mention it, i really would give anything to see my father again, even for a moment, he passed on while i was 3500 miles away.

Marquis de Sade

Amen, brother. We'll see our loved ones again.

On a lighter note, I would like to hang out with Elvis. I want to see if his brain was really abducted by aliens or if he's working on a road crew in Memphis.

Good Answer!

I'd be between the following:

1.  Thomas Jefferson-  I admire his ideals, and I'd love to be able to explain to him what's currently going on with gun control laws and ask his opinion.

2.  George Washington-  Do I really need to explain this one?

3.  Trent Reznor-  I'm sure McUZI might disagree with me, but he's a musical genius.  I consider him to be the best that's out there right now, and one of the best musicians of all time.

4.  Ronald Reagan-  Before his illness, of course.  To meet the man who destroyed communism and who returned the US from the financial mess of the 1970's...  Wow.

5.  Niccolo Machiavelli-  Like it or not, this man had the knowledge necessary to run the world.

Mike

Was Jesus Christ an actual person or was he a product of some religious person?

I'm thinking Pamela with a philospher's mind. :)

Diane Feinstein.  Preferably dead.

[8P]

It's pretty bad when someone can piss off a kicked back hippy like me.

George Lincoln Rockwell

For me, it would be:

IMBROGLIO !

I'd love to shoot his 10/22 and .38 !

Anna Kournikova

A womenz that isn't mean to me.

as i understood the question, it meant a real, as in not made up, figment of imagination. person. so that leaves god, jesus, buddha, yahweh, etc. out. Guess Carlos Hathcock would have been extremely fun to hang with. Just think of the things he could teach you. Or maybe Charlie Manson. Not out of respect or anything like that, just to get a look into that crazy mind of his. Or maybe even Tim McVeigh, just to kick his ass around awhile. now that would be fun.
-jay

Jay,

To a certain extent you are correct. However, God and Jesus are not make believe people.
God created this earth and sent his son to die so that you may have everlasting life.

I don't understand why anyone would forsake him when he gave so much for you. I'm not pushing my beliefs off on anyone (just for the record) and for your sake, I hope you are right...however, I know in my heart this isn't correct.

The alternative isn't very inviting if you ask me... especially when I know what he has done for me!

bwilder - i meant no offence to anyone or their beliefs. but just as you have yours, i have mine. i am truly sorry if i offended you or anyone else. that was not my intention, although i am sure it appeared that way. not to get into any religous debate, but i beleive when you die, you die. thats it, nothing else. IMHO, heaven and hell were made up in order to "scare" people into living a good life, because as human nature is, no one does anything for anyone else without some kind of reward, for the most part. Heaven was developed because of the need to beleive that dear old uncle mike or grandma is not really rotting in the ground like week old hamburger. instead, they are waiting for us in a better place. i beleived in all the god-related stuff for 28 years, up to about 1 year ago. for some reason, overnight i changed. sorry if i went on to far with this. we all have different beleifs. you like red and i like blue. we can still be friends though.
-jay

Carl Sagan.

Winston Churchill and John Moses Browning, so I can shoot his M2.

Carlos Hathcock II, Gene Stoner, John M Browning
I've narrowed it down to three.   [sniper]

According to the Bible, I'll have all eternity in Heaven to spend with Christ. SO, I'll leave that to then. (and let's not start that discussion here)

Man, this is a TOUGH question. How 'bout a Top 8???

Patrick Henry
Carlos Hathcock
Bill Clinton (Honest, this freak really intrigues me)
Ron Paul (the ONLY guy in D.C who "gets it." And I don't mean from interns)
Dubya (they say he's a Christian. I'd like to see it fer meself)
da Vinci (One smart dude)
Patton
Any D-Day soldier

I think a day with Miss Magnum would be mutually satisfying.

Eleanor Roosevelt.  Whoops!  That's who Hitlery would hang out with.  Me? Ummmmmm, maybe Sam Kinison.  He was my favorite stand-up comedian, made me laugh my ass off.  

I would also like to meet and hang out with Einstein. It would be great to get him drunk and figure out how in the heck did he come up with some of those equations? I figure if I was in an "altered state" i.e. drunk, I would understand the reasoning behind some of those equations.

None taken...it's all good

I'm curious as to why you stopped believing?

Jenna Jameson

Right on!!!! She's HOT. I remember seeing her on the "Man Show" when they had that segment about porn stars.

You lucky bastard! [:)] Where did you meet him? I missed him on Conan O'Brien show last night [:(] I agree with you, this man is a master at social/political commentary. A truly gifted individual. Think I'll put on [i]London Calling [/i].

"He who f**ks nuns, will later join the Church."- Joe Strummer.
       

A fair and reasonable question you ask. The fact is that Jesus Christ was most definitely a "real" person. His life is recorded not only in the Bible but in the contemporary works of the Jewish historian Josephus, Roman writings including Pontius Pilate's report to his boss in Rome about how he had supressed a Jewish uprising by allowing the execution of a Jew named Jesus who claimed to be the King of the Jews. Even the Muslim Koran includes detailed descriptions of the physical life of Jesus. The fact that Jesus was a real person is not at all in doubt. Modern archeology has uncovered overwhelming evidence that the events and places recorded in the Biblical accounts along with other contemporary non- biblical documents did in fact occur. The only thing some dispute is Jesus claim of deity ("I and the Father are one" John 10:30 and "Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father", John 14:9). The miracles of Jesus are well recorded and cannot be explained even by modern science. The events of Jesus' life fulfilled nearly a hundred very specific prophecies (ref:[url]http://www.capecod.net/~jgarvey/messanic.html[/url]. The last of these prophecies was written 700 years before Jesus was born. A secular mathematician calculated that the odds of having any one person fulfill all of the prophecies were billions to one against anyone other than Jesus. The last of these prophecies was written 700 years before Jesus was born. Significantly, in the Koran, even Mohammed states that Jesus "was without sin". On a more personal note, Christianity is the only religion that claims that it's God died for your benefit, rather than demanding continual sacrifice to an insatiable god. All other god-figures of world religions like Mohammed, Buddha, etc. are known to have lived and died and none made any claim to being resurrected from their death. So all in all, the evidence weighs heavily in favor of Jesus being who he said he was, and being on the mission he was sent to fulfill. Keep asking honest questions, have an open mind and be honest with yourself and you will discover that "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free", John 8:32.

**I have included Biblical references here not to browbeat ANYONE, simply to make it easy for the honestly interested to look them up for themselves.

...........My Son..................[:)]

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David Lee Roth during his Van Halen prime.  

                                            WHAT?

Or Leonardo di Vinci or however you spell his name.  He was a true renaissance man.  Way ahead of his time on many ideas.

"...death or glory, just another story..."

yeah, i saw him at Virgin Megastore, Times Square - NYC, he played with his new band, the Mescaleros. they kicked A$$, of course...he's definately alot more optomistic these days...[:)]

anyway, i waited at the back of a two hour long line for autographs, since i was last, i got to cower and grovel in his presence for a while! he'll be back in NYC on Oct. 9th - and so will i!

The guy that screams at me inside my head - Come out and show yourself you chicken shit bastard and fight like a man!  He never does though.

Stephen Hawking.

He wrote a book titled, A Brief History Of Time.

I don't know how many physics fans are here but I'm a physics student and this book puts the really abstract theoretical stuff into laymans terms.  One of my professors used it as an aid in class.  

Hawking is the Einstein of his generation.  There is some groundbreaking stuff happening in the realm of theoretical physics right now and he's right at the top of it!

I am so jaded that I think I would be dissapointed by any of my heroes. So I have to vote with Goatboy, It would be interesting to see why Satan made the choices he did.

Or baring that, Steyr Aug.

These people (to find out what in the blue f*ck is wrong with them):

-Bill Clintoon/Gore (same person)
-Chuck Schumer
-Feinswine
-Sarah Brady...oops, almost too late!!!  Ha
 ha, I crack myself up.
-Bill Mahr

These people, cause they be interestin:

-Ron Paul
-Ronald Reagan (before sickness)
-Margaret Thatcher (hey, I find her interesting)

-My great Grandfather.  He was 6'6", pulled his own teeth with dirty pliers, and ate raw pork fat.  Lived to 85.

uncle ted and that guy that owns dillon reloading . they got more guns than you can shake a stick at
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[size=5][b][red]John Wayne[/red][/b][/size=5]

ColtShorty

GOA KABA COA JPFO SAF NRA

"I won't be wronged,  I won't be insulted
and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do
these things to other people and I require
the same from them."

Edited because I can't even type 2 words without screwing up.[:I][:I]

Adolph Hitler.

I would tell him not to invade Russia and slow down the war campain till he would have the A-bomb. The world would be cleaner and more educated.

Moses...and no, I don't mean Heston.

Sgt. Floyd Robinson, USA, reported MIA March, 1969.  His was the name on the POW-MIA bracelet I got back in the mid-80's.  The bracelet is somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico; he is still in my thoughts and prayers.  Last I checked, he or his remains have not been found.