Emotional Intimacy Question: Dinner Guest
Feb. 15th, 2018 06:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithFolks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. I'm starting with this list.
Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?
It's hard for me to narrow it down to one, so I won't insist on that rule. Leaving out people I might genuinely have a chance at, such as famous writers, brings me to:
Stephen Hawking -- because I love quantum physics and would greatly enjoy listening to someone I feel confident is smarter than me.
The Dalai Lama -- again, his existential intelligence outstrips mine. I think I would ask him, "What do you do when you know how to adapt to the culture you land in each life ... but you don't like the one you're in?"
EDIT 5/15/18 -- Today, we're focusing on live people. Someone else reminded me of a historic version that I've penciled in for next week.
Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?
It's hard for me to narrow it down to one, so I won't insist on that rule. Leaving out people I might genuinely have a chance at, such as famous writers, brings me to:
Stephen Hawking -- because I love quantum physics and would greatly enjoy listening to someone I feel confident is smarter than me.
The Dalai Lama -- again, his existential intelligence outstrips mine. I think I would ask him, "What do you do when you know how to adapt to the culture you land in each life ... but you don't like the one you're in?"
EDIT 5/15/18 -- Today, we're focusing on live people. Someone else reminded me of a historic version that I've penciled in for next week.
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Date: 2018-02-15 01:29 pm (UTC)I was going to say Wangari Maathai, but when I looked online to double check the spelling of her name, just now, discovered that she had died... :-(
So, failing that, maybe Neal deGrasse Tyson, because whenever I hear him speak, I'm already answering him in my head: "Yes, yes! Just so -- But also... have you considered ____?" which is generally how the best dinner conversations go (but then, he's recently been accused of sexual harassment, so...)
By the same criteria, Daniel Dennett is high on my invitation list.
And Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
And also: Young woman, YouTuber, and the Chicago Field Museum's "Chief Curiosity Correspondent," Emily Graslie.
*I've also asked the question: "If you had access to a TARDIS, what 12 guests would you invite from throughout history/today for a dinner party? And who would sit next to whom?
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Date: 2018-02-15 04:08 pm (UTC)hmmmm....
Sacagawea.
(Note I went forward as well as back. Couldn't resist. )
Okay ...
Date: 2018-02-15 04:10 pm (UTC)