GOOD one! One of my childhood heroes.
I wanted to be Pre when I ran cross country in high school.
Posted on 05/27/2019 3:20:24 PM PDT by MNDude
There are thousands of people who have made the world a better place to live. Many died before they were old and some would might be great to have around for a lot longer.
Which three historic people do you wish could have lived another 30 years?
Thomas Edison? Rod Sterling? Shakespeare? John Paul II? You get the point.
Wolfgang Mozart.
Julius Caesar.
The Nairobi Trio! Man! The old memory cells are getting a workout tonight. Pure nostalgia, and really great stuff. Wouldn’t last 10 seconds today! Jackson and Sharpton would make a fortune off them!
Jesus is more alive than anyone here.
GOOD one! One of my childhood heroes.
I wanted to be Pre when I ran cross country in high school.
If Reagan went on living healthy after his presidency, I believe he said Ali would have ended up just doing endorsements for Rino candidates.
None of those other things count at all in his favour, but they are common enough failings in men and university professors. One would need a good reason to opt for some one with any of those feelings. Arguments made about JFK on this thread take such things into account.
I recall picketing a pro-abortion rally at Cornell with Sagan as one of the main speakers.
Still, someone can have these failings and still have a corrupted form of the virtue of magnanimity. If you have someone who is too good to pull his share of weight on what he professes is his core vocation, I don’t see much hope without serious transformation.
Maybe your extra 30 years would have served to make a man of him.
Maybe another 30 years would have improved him, maybe not. Sometimes maybe God takes us out because there’s no further point to it. Still, he was an inspiration to me and my love of astronomy. There is a Bible quote “He made the stars also”. I think that’s true.
Jimi Hendrix.
I’m glad he was an inspiration to you—God uses all sorts of people in all sorts of ways. You sharing that he inspired you helps me.
Patton, Frank Zappa,
True, but he was soooo incompetent!
Had Martin Luther King lived, he might have been able to share a cell with Bill Cosby.
Nikola Tesla
I was thinking he may have had more of an impact on the direction of the black community.
I’m afraid that LBJ had that taken care of before RevDoc MLKJr’s dirt nap.
Jaco Pastorius.
Chris Kyle.
would have
Margaret thatcher, winston churchill, and my granddad
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