People I'd like to meet in "The Next Life," if any

[cnorman18]

This is just for fun, so let's not get all wrapped around the axle debating possibilities or credibilities or doctrines. Who would YOU like to meet in Heaven, or the next astral plane, or wherever?

Assumptions:

A. Everybody is in the same place. Access to either Hell or Heaven not required.

B. Everybody speaks the same language; communication won't be a problem.

C. Semi-legendary personages really existed, or at least someone upon whom the legends are based (I suggest no indisputably fictional people allowed, but whatever floats your personal boat).

I'll start in a separate post. Post as many as you like, and add further posts as people occur to you.

And remember -- this is just for fun.

[Cathar1950]

Carl Sagan - I'm disappointed that he wasn't mentioned yet.

I had him covered under everyone and interesting people.
I mean real interesting people not some fake beer guy.

[cnorman18]

Carl Barks.

One of my heroes. I'm shocked I didn't put him in my original list. I've collected his comic books for years, and I (finally) own every Uncle Scrooge comic he ever drew; they were my favorites when I was a kid, and I learned to read from them. Barks inspired my lifelong love of history, archaeology, and READING. George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg were also fans. He died in 2000 at the age of 99. A great man.

His original oil paintings sell in five and six figures, when you can find them at all. If I ever win the Lotto, I want this. It's based on one of my favorite comic books, and is the only oil painting he ever did that started as a comic cover; usually he did the painting first and then adapted the comic from it.

[McCulloch]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Douglas Adams

Robert Louis Stevenson

Mary Wollstonecraft

John Locke

Bertrand Russell (with reservations, he was pompous elitist and sexist, but had a keen mind, powerful conscience and was able to relate complex ideas for non-specialists)

[Goat]

Here's my own fantasy dinner party:

1. Leonardo da Vinci.

2. Moses.

3. (So I'm curious) Jesus.

4. William Shakespeare.

5. Isaac Asimov.

6. Alexander the Great.

7. Miyamoto Musashi.

8. Gautama Siddhartha (the Buddha).

9. Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides).

10. Jacques DeMolay (last Grand Master of the Knights Templar).

11. King Arthur.

12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

13. Erich Weiss (aka Harry Houdini).

14. Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis.

15. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

No doubt others will occur to me.

I actually met someone on your list..Issac Asimov. .. (consequently, I have to of his books autographed )

One of my friends met your number 15 once.. when he was a wee lad.

Mr Asimov did have a quote I find appropriate to religious discussions at times..

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." — Isaac Asimov

[Cathar1950]

Here's my own fantasy dinner party:

1. Leonardo da Vinci.

2. Moses.

3. (So I'm curious) Jesus.

4. William Shakespeare.

5. Isaac Asimov.

6. Alexander the Great.

7. Miyamoto Musashi.

8. Gautama Siddhartha (the Buddha).

9. Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides).

10. Jacques DeMolay (last Grand Master of the Knights Templar).

11. King Arthur.

12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

13. Erich Weiss (aka Harry Houdini).

14. Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis.

15. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

No doubt others will occur to me.

I actually met someone on your list..Issac Asimov. .. (consequently, I have to of his books autographed )

One of my friends met your number 15 once.. when he was a wee lad.

Mr Asimov did have a quote I find appropriate to religious discussions at times..

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." — Isaac Asimov

I had a few pitchers of beer with Marshall McLuhan some 30 odd years ago in Canada and I wouldn't mind a few more.
Do imaginary people or characters count?
Why not them too? Just create them as if they had their personalities, characteristics, his tries and such and they should feel and be as real as anyone else that has been resurrected or re-created. It isn't really going to be you is it?
I guess each of our cells are recreated in out bodies where except for maybe brain cells, are making a new us all the time.

[cnorman18]

I actually met someone on your list..Issac Asimov. .. (consequently, I have to of his books autographed )

One of my friends met your number 15 once.. when he was a wee lad.

Mr Asimov did have a quote I find appropriate to religious discussions at times..

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." — Isaac Asimov

I am hugely envious. I always hoped to meet him someday, and then he went and died on me. I was a fan from maybe age 10.

I admired many things about him, but two in particular stand out; He was the only author ever to have at least one book in every category of the Dewey Decimal System, including cookbooks, poetry, theology, and you name it -- and he had the ability to compose dirty limericks extemporaneously. Both are amazing.