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Olen Armstrong
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
442
Registered: 06-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 02:11 pm: |   |
Here's a get-to-know-you exercise I stole from a family counselor.
She had us say who we would like to have dinner and conversation with if we could pick anyone from anytime. She said it would help show basic traits of our personalities, how we feel about ourselves.
My kids mumbled about sports and entertainment stars of the time. My wife mentioned her great-grandmother. The counselor said the kids were "kids" and very typical. My wife was focused on her family, her roots.
My turn- Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan. She said I showed a confidence in individual communication, maybe even over-confidence.
I don't know 'bout all that. I kinda doubt that I'm all THAT secure. But it's an intersting poser isn't it?
What 5 people, anyone from anytime, famous or unknown or family, would you like to spend an evening with at dinner and conversation? And maybe, why?
1. Thomas Jefferson - eclectic intellect. He was all over the place. Politics, art, architecture, farming.A visionary.
2. Winston Churchill - just plain interesting. A geo-political prophet, not properly appreciated in his own time.
3. Leonardo Da Vinci - I'd want to meet the person behind the mind
4. Jack Benny and Fred Allen - together. I know it's a cheat but both would be just too much fun.
5. Barbara Bush - America's grandma. A feisty strong Texas lady. HAS to be interesting as all hell to talk to.
There are others too. (I almost said Lynda Carter aka Wonder Woman, but that's just hormones from 30 years ago. I'd just make a fool of myself stuttering and dropping spaghetti down my shirt anyway.)
Anyone?
Later,
Olen A |
Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
841
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 02:34 pm: | |
Okay, Olen. Here's mine.
1. Jesus
2. Stephen King
3. Oscar Wilde
4. Alexander Hamilton
5. Jimmy Carter
Now, who does the interpretation? 
Toyce
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Harry Simenon
Unity Member
Post Number:
1069
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 02:37 pm: | |
1 Socrates.
2 Dalai Lama
3 Jung
4 Einstein
5 Victor Frankenstein
What is the verdict? |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1796
Registered: 06-2002
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1. Jesus Christ
2. Albert Schweitzer
3. Mother Theresa
4. Ernest Hemingway
5. Julius Ceasar
Dennis Collins
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www.theunrealmccoy.com |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1538
Registered: 10-2002
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1. Jesus Christ
2. Joan of Arc
3. Groucho Marx
4. Albert Einstein
5. George Washington
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1837
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 05:00 pm: | |
Hey, Joyce...
You made a mistake in your list. I'm not on it. An oversight, I'm sure.
I would like...
My Father, now that I'm grown (He was killed when I was young)
Benjamin Franklin
Julius Caesar
Plato
Walt Disney
In case one of them can't make it, Julia Roberts. |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2601
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 05:35 pm: | |
Julius Cesear
William Shakespeare
Socrates
Plato
George Washington, George Bush, Condoleezza Rice
AND way to many others to list, cause I could go on into millenia......
like Theodore Roosevelt, F.D. Roosevelt, Lafayette,
Benjamin Franklin, Both of the Adams Pres's
Castro,
Einstein,
Hirohito,
Chang Kai Shek
Claudia
MINDSIGHT MODERATOR
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Tom Elkins
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
398
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 06:23 pm: | |
Copernicus
Galileo
Adam Smith
Charles Darwin
Karl Marx
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
www.authorsden.com/tomelkins |
Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
163
Registered: 07-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 10:07 pm: | |
Peter - To discuss Faith
Moses - To discuss standing by convictions
Alexander the Great - on managing people
Edmund Spencer - personal favorite for romance
St. Agustine - for interpritation of God's will
Why not Jesus? I can do this anytime, I just have to remember to listen.
Kevin |
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