If you could be one person in history (or present day) who would you be?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by DAVOUT
DAVOUT, of course.

No fair, I want to be you!

I guess I'll just have to settle for being me then.

[Eli]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs


Being a national hero in three seperate countries.

(Lithuania, Israel, and his native Japan)

Who's Chiune Sugihara?

[DRoseDARs]

Chuine Sugihara

He helped save (or at least tried to) over two thousand Lithuania Jews from the Nazis who soon followed after he was reassigned by the foreign ministry of Imperial Japan during WW2. And he did it completely out of the goodness of his heart. Never took payments for his efforts (though he did allow Israel to award one of his sons a scholarship out of deep gratitude for his father's actions), avoided praise and recognition whenever he could (memorials honoring him exist in all three countries), and till the day he died (in 1986) gave no answer as to why he did what he did other than to say he did it because it was right and nothing more.



Edit: Reviewing that link, I notice it says over 40,000 may well have been saved through his and his wife's actions. I had only just heard of this man tonight watching a PBS presentation on him, so I only knew about the 2,000.

[Dr Strangelove]

Genghis Khan, but I'd take better precautions to ensure that my empire stays together after my death by writing up an imperial inheritance law. Thus Mogolian rule would span the entire eastern hemisphere for centuries.

[DeathByTheSword]

'The only REAL answer is HUGH HEFNER!'

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Jesus, so I'd prevent being used to justify the horror comitted in my name.

The only way He could have done that would have been by not dying on the cross, instead taking direct dominion of the world and living on forever. To do so would have been a concession to Satan, who offered him the very same deal. So you want to make a deal with Satan?

[Stuie]

Richie Sambora.

[BeBMan]

Me.

[DeathByTheSword]

ah not fair i already wanted to be 'Me'

[BeBMan]

Sorry....

Then I'd be.....

Ted Striker

[molly bloom]

Cortes or Pizarro.

[St Leo]

Myself.

(I love me.)

[rah]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
MING......so that i can ban everone that i dont like

Alas, another person with low expectations in life.

And my answer would be a no-brainer. Tiger Woods

[Japher]

'The only REAL answer is HUGH HEFNER!'

He was the first person that came to my mind...

[Boris Godunov]

Hitler. Go a different course, save 50 million+ lives.