Necromancy

[Mersadeon]

Hitler. Now, not to punch him or kill him, but because I would like to see his face when the world shows him that everything he believed and killed for was wrong. I know that probably wouldn't change anything since there are neonazis around the world still denying the truth, but I would just love to show this hatefilled man that he was wrong in every possible way. That his racism was wrong because we aren't really different races, that people of different "races" can live together in peace and that Germany has risen from the ashes - completely different than what he wanted it to be. I would love to see his face when he realises that he has made racism and fascism hated in the public opinion and that every single part of his "heritage" is the exact opposite that he wanted it to be.



Other than that, you know, the obvious ones. Great scientists, so that I can show them around and see the wonder in their eyes.

I am really suprised no-one has made an awkward sad comment like "my mother" yet.

 

[DanielBrown]

Sorry if I ruin the mood of the thread, but I'd want to bring back my father.
He commited suicide when I was only one year old, leaving behind me, my mom and my sister who was two and a half years old. Apart from that and that he had bipolar disorder I don't know anything about him at all. Have tried asking my mom, but it's really hard to talk to her about the dead. She tends to get sad/aggressive and turn to the bottle whenever I've asked about my dad or his side of the family.

Would be fucking weird though. I'm only a year younger than he was when he killed himself by now. Don't know what I'd want to ask him, but I sure as hell would like to give him a hug... After I've punched him.

 

[Leonardo Huizar]

Bruce & Brandon Lee.. Obviously id let even ask them both to visit their families if only some sort of secret arrangement to catch up and all that mushy stuff. Then Id ask Bruce to teach me his martial way as payment and ask nothing more of him.

 

[rutger5000]

We'll I'd be stuck with either English, Dutch or German speaking guys. So that narrows down the list by roughly 60 % Think that F.D Roosevelt would be a nice option, Churchill as well. I wonder how much change those guys could bring to the world in one day. Perhaps Ghandi too, but I feel guilty about letting him see what happened with Pakistan and India. Scientist would also be interresting, so Tesla would make the list, but perhaps Richard Feynmann would make a more contemporary alternative. Than again I think Tesla left with more stuff unsaid, so Tesla would be preferable.

 

[rutger5000]

Godfrey of Bouillon, Get him to confirm that the crusades were actually a defensive war after years of invasion from the so called ''victims''

Manfred von Richthofen, just because I would love to meet the Red Baron

Wild Bill Hickok, Learn about his gun slinging skills

Otherwise I would be very selfish and bring back my grandmother, or my dog who was poisoned in Africa

So what was the Fourth crusade? And while the Arrabs did invade the Mediterenean, you'd be hard pressed to call them a clear and present danger for the European lords. The only Christain power they significatnly threatened was the Byzantium Empire, and the crusaders most definetly didn't come to their aid. Try the Moors held significant power in the Iberian peninsula. But they didn't pose a threat against the European powers either, as they could be easily isolated South of the Pyrenees. So no it wasn't a defencive war. At best it was an pre-emtive strike at an potential enemy.

 

[lionsprey]

bring "back" jesus
arm him
send him to all those ppl claiming doing his work. sounds fun to me...but that might be a diffrent problem

I'm not sure arming Him would do any good. There's a reason the Bible doesn't end with the Apostles busting in, tossing Jesus a sword, and kicking Roman ass before they ride into the sunset with Mary Magdalene.

Or Howard Phillips Lovecraft... but I wouldn't know what to say to him. I'll have to think on that.

I have a feeling he'd be too preoccupied with all the brown people in the US to care.

he was a xenophobe not a racist. and something tells me he would be to busy feeling whatever emotion someone like him would feel for knowing his work still lives on and feeling dread from the advances in technology

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

I'd bring Douglas Adams back, put him on an express flight to Wexford, Ireland, and give him a copy of "And Another Thing..." for in-flight entertainment.

Presuming Mr. Adams doesn't have any difficulty finding the place, I believe that would rid the world of its Eoin Colfer problem. If Adams doesn't beat the frigging hack to death, he'll still scare him badly enough to ensure we don't wind up with that kind of travesty on our bookshelves again.

 

[Something Amyss]

he was a xenophobe not a racist.

That doesn't particularly change anything. Who do you think the xenophobes are bitching about? Canadians?

 

[lionsprey]

he was a xenophobe not a racist.

That doesn't particularly change anything. Who do you think the xenophobes are bitching about? Canadians?

yes basically, a xenophobe doesn't like anything that's not what they are used to. it's kind of a more extreme version of racism that discriminates against nationality instead of color. i am by no means defending him i simply consider racism to be inadequate to describe him

 

[rutger5000]

Godfrey of Bouillon, Get him to confirm that the crusades were actually a defensive war after years of invasion from the so called ''victims''

Manfred von Richthofen, just because I would love to meet the Red Baron

Wild Bill Hickok, Learn about his gun slinging skills

Otherwise I would be very selfish and bring back my grandmother, or my dog who was poisoned in Africa

So what was the Fourth crusade? And while the Arrabs did invade the Mediterenean, you'd be hard pressed to call them a clear and present danger for the European lords. The only Christain power they significatnly threatened was the Byzantium Empire, and the crusaders most definetly didn't come to their aid. Try the Moors held significant power in the Iberian peninsula. But they didn't pose a threat against the European powers either, as they could be easily isolated South of the Pyrenees. So no it wasn't a defencive war. At best it was an pre-emtive strike at an potential enemy.

The reason I chose Godfrey was because he was part of the first crusades. A large portion of people tend to mistake the 4th crusade for all of them combined. I do have to apologize for the misunderstanding though, I am still a bit green on the full history and finding the right books has been somewhat frustrating. If you know of any good ones, I would love to take a look at them

High school teacher and some college teachers at me will yell at me for saying this, but wikipedia is one excellent source for most subjects. In any case they're a good source of sources, so read a wikipedia article regarding the crusade you wish to know about, and check which sources they refer to in the bits that interest you. But if you're interrested in world history, than I'd recommend Crash course world history, a great youtube series on the whole of human history.
You however wrote crusades plural, so that's all crusades the fourth included. Which was the main cause of the destruction of the Byzantium empire (it was directed against the Byzantium empire a very Christian Empire).
This makes any claim of the crusade to be defencive wars to be untrue. Yes they attempted to retake lands from the Arabs and Turks. But who would get those lands, and to whom did those lands belong in the first place? The answer of the first would be whoever could take and hold them, the answer of the second would be the Byzantium Empire (Of course they belonged to other people at first, but the Byzantiums were the last Christians). But the crusaders of the fourth crusade willfully sacked constantinopal and destroyed the Byzantium Empire, ruining any claim of previous crusades to be defencive. They could be called preemtive, to strike against the Muslims before they could strike against Europe.

 

[Something Amyss]

yes basically

Yeah, except he didn't rail against Canadians to my knowledge. He was, however, outspoken against varying degrees of brown and even went so far as to vilify them in his work. I'm yet to read the polemic or prose from Lovecraft that said the sajme about Brits or Germans.

At that point, claiming he was "xenophobic" doesn't change anything.

 

[Rose and Thorn]

I'd bring back my Grandfather so he can call me a useless pill one more time. He asked for me on his death bed and I never went to see him, so that is probably one of my biggest regrets. I didn't actually think the old bastard would die, so I kind of want to know what he wanted, maybe he would have said something nice, or something like..."I've always hated you, you know that"? I'll never know.

Plus I'd like to have a conversation with him now that I have also turned into a cold hearted *****, we would be on level fields. I don't think I'd want him around for a day though, just a few hours and then I would be satisfied.

 

[Haunted Serenity]

I'd bring back my Grandfather so he can call me a useless pill one more time. He asked for me on his death bed and I never went to see him, so that is probably one of my biggest regrets. I didn't actually think the old bastard would die, so I kind of want to know what he wanted, maybe he would have said something nice, or something like..."I've always hated you, you know that"? I'll never know.

Plus I'd like to have a conversation with him now that I have also turned into a cold hearted *****, we would be on level fields. I don't think I'd want him around for a day though, just a few hours and then I would be satisfied.

Rough. Living with those regrets is one hell of a hard time.

OT: Sigmund Freud, I have some very good questions for that silly fellow about my mental health.