Famous people you wish were still alive?

[The Funslinger]

Johnny Cash and Mark Twain. The former is a musical god, and the latter is one of the greatest irreverent observationists in history.

No one. Death is a part of life, no better or worse than any other. It just depends on how you go about understanding it.

Stunning reply and contribution to the thread. Memes are surely the height of human dialog. I'll be sure to spray gifs and Youtube videos everywhere the next time I dislike an opinion.

Wonderful overreaction.

What I'm saying is this thread isn't serious. Nobody's really trying to play God, and I'm sure there are people you think the world is worse off without.

It's like those people who go into 'what game would you develop with a billion dollars' threads and say "I wouldn't, I'd just give it all to charity, because not using that money to help people is horrible". It's pretentious, and not the point.

But yes, see above that video, I certainly did contribute to the thread.

 

[Valagetti]

John Lennon.
Homer and ask him if he actually existed....
Vasily Zaytsev, russian sniper and ask him how many people he actually downed.
Just anyone who has a mythic/real background and see if its actually real.

 

[The Funslinger]

Johnny Cash and Mark Twain. The former is a musical god, and the latter is one of the greatest irreverent observationists in history.

No one. Death is a part of life, no better or worse than any other. It just depends on how you go about understanding it.

Stunning reply and contribution to the thread. Memes are surely the height of human dialog. I'll be sure to spray gifs and Youtube videos everywhere the next time I dislike an opinion.

Wonderful overreaction.

What I'm saying is this thread isn't serious. Nobody's really trying to play God, and I'm sure there are people you think the world is worse off without.

It's like those people who go into 'what game would you develop with a billion dollars' threads and say "I wouldn't, I'd just give it all to charity, because not using that money to help people is horrible". It's pretentious, and not the point.

But yes, see above that video, I certainly did contribute to the thread.

>Disagree with opinion and/or disposition
>>Instead of ignoring it or having a discussion, post internet meme
>>>Pretend differing opinions are pretentious to justify sinking to the level of 4chan

If you dislike something, go ahead and ignore it or discuss your feelings on the matter. I'm sure you can word your thoughts better than "lolyoutubevideo."

"Sinking to the levels of 4chan"? So, people aren't allowed to make jokes anymore? Fantastic.

 

[FunKing]

George Carlin. Man's an absolute genius and all-round funnyguy.

i couldn't agree more

 

[nexus]

George Carlin. Man's an absolute genius and all-round funnyguy.

He went gracefully, and it was his time really.
I'd say Bill Hicks instead, because he died of cancer well before his time, and he would have been the younger generations "Carlin".

 

[Balgus]

Nikola Tesla
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[TheFederation]

douglas adams was a pretty cool dude

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

John Lennon. The man was one of the greatest musicians of his time and died for absolutely no reason at all. And in kinda wonder how things would be if he was still alive. Would there have been a reuinion of the Beatles? Would he still make music? Would he still be married to Yoko Ono? Well... we are never gonna find out.

 

[Yopaz]

I don't know anyone personally that I'd rather have alive, so I'll go with Freddie Mercury.

Music would be all the more awesome.

My first pick too. He passed away way too young, it's sad we never got to see what he could have accomplished if he had lived longer.

 

[Caliostro]

A lot of people really... Carlin, Tesla, Seba Jun, Dimebag Darrel... Death isn't really something that happens because you deserve it or not, it's just something that inevitably happens. Some people still seemed to have a lot to give the world when they died, while others have honestly overstayed their welcome on this planet for roughly their entire useless lives.

Bickering and insults.

More bickering and insults.

That'll be quite enough from both of you thank you. Consider this a friendly heads up.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Theo van Gogh
Boudewijn Buch
Ischa Meijer

Three Dutch men who I wish were still around to give national television some well needed credibility.

 

[WoW Killer]

For a pioneer who never saw their dream reach its conclusion, how about Edward Jenner? Smallpox was eventually eradicated in 1979, 200 years after Jenner's vaccine, and remains the only human infectious disease to have been made extinct from the wild. He's probably saved a billion lives or more by now.

Though I do miss Hitchens too

 

[Baron_Rouge]

I think Sigmund Freud would have some interesting things to say about the modern world, especially if he could bring Jung with him

Aside form that, Da Vinci. Looking t the sort of things he came up with with the knowledge and resources of renaissance Italy, the mind boggles to think about what he could come up with today!

 

[Henkie36]

Nikola Tesla. The brilliant inventor, basically made modern life possible, but no one gave him the credit in his time, and so it became that nowadays nobody knows about him anymore. He would continue to make briliant stuff.

 

[Nouw]

MCA. Taken far too soon by cancer . Wherever he is, he's still 'illin!

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Damn. Everyone has such good ideas. They make mine look stupid. Because it is.

Eduard Khil AKA "The Trololo Guy". Why? Because the 2014 Winter Olympics are in Russia and it would be awesome if he sang at the opening ceremony.

Yes. I would use magical powers of dominion over death to troll the world, but it'd be hilarious!

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