Emotional Intimacy Question: 12 to Dinner

[ysabetwordsmith]

Folks 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 a TARDIS and a Universal Translator, you can invite up to 12 people from Earth's past.  (This includes people claimed to have lived here, even if it can't be proven.)  Who would you invite and why?  What would you serve?

My guest list might include: Taliesin, Sappho, Hypatia, Sequoia, Miriam Makeba, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Galvarino, Sun Tzu, J.R.R. Tolkien, Rudyard Kipling, Enheduanna, and Lucy.  That allows for multiple conversational topics and everyone to have someone to talk with.  I'm serving Three Sisters Stew with an optional side of roast mammoth, because no way am I going back in time and not getting me some mammoth.  We'd probably scare the skin off Lucy, but who knows, maybe she was secretly a scientist who'd love the future.  I'll put out a black rectangle and see what happens. If she can solve the first three puzzles, I'm putting her in that TARDIS and plating some termites and honeycomb.  Hell, now everyone else will want to try those too, might as well just box up the whole things.

Comments

[gingicat]

Ada Lovelace!

[technoshaman]

If you're going that route, Grace Hopper too!

[dreamwriteremmy]

in no particular order:
1. Anne Frank
2. Queen Elizabeth I
3. Thomas Edison
4. Marie Curie
5. Elizabeth Blackwell
6. Sappho
7. Laozi
8. Buddha
9. Arthur Conan Doyle
10. JRR Tolkien
11. Edgar Allen Poe
12. Jules Verne

Not sure what I'd serve to be honest. Probably magically figure out something for everyone haha.

Ooo ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Good lineup! :D

[thnidu]

Sounds like a lot of fun, though I'm not up to making a list out for myself just now.

What's with the black rectangle?

Try this ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(Space_Odyssey)

Re: Try this ...

[thnidu]

Make that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(Space_Odyssey), including the right paren in the url.

[mdlbear]

I'd really like to get Homer and Emily Wilson (whose translation of the Odyssey is amazing) together. Also, Lao Tzu, the Buddha, the Dalai Lama, Ada Lovelace, Admiral Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, Pete Seeger, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, and my father.

Count me in on the mammoth, and I'd also like to find out whether dinosaur really tastes like chicken.

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

One would expect at least some dinosaurs to taste like chicken, given that chickens are in fact dinosaurs. So are turkeys.

[talewisefellowship]

- Honinbo Shusaku
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Frederick Douglass
- Hotta Yumi
- Laozi
- Master Dogen
- Karl Marx
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Epicurus
- Alan Turing
- JRR Tolkien
- Wada Kyutaro

Since we have a tardis anyway, we would have a road trip and see several different places for different styles of food to cater to everyones interests ^^

Of course given the many different perspectives likely to meet at the banquet table, there might be a few arguments but I hope we would be able to keep the peace and learn from each other <3

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I only know about half of those. :D

Re: Wow!

[talewisefellowship]

honinbo shusaku: greatest go player in japanese history
murasaki shikibu: heian noble lady, author of tale of genji
frederick douglass: man who escaped slavery in 19th century america
hotta yumi: author of hikaru no go
Laozi: author of tao te ching and founder of taoism
Master Dogen: founder of Soto Zen
Karl Marx: developed the philosophy of dialectical materialism
Rosa Luxemburg: Polish-Jewish Marxist
Epicurus: greek philosopher who founded epicureanism, a hedonist school of philosophy
Alan Turing: father of theoretical computer science
JRR Tolkien: author of lord of the rings
Wada Kyutaro: a Japanese anarchist, but I may actually switch him out for another anarchist named Itou Noe ^^