re: 1000 years from now, who will top the list of most important people...

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Nicola Tesla

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(inside joke)

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If I get my life together I should be top 10 easy possibly top 5 if I quit drinking everyday

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We would all be top 5 if we quit drinking.

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I mean there’s no way Abe Lincoln or George Washington were 10 of the most important people in history.

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The idea that people can govern themselves is easily the most revolutionary thing ANYONE has ever come up with. It’s hard to tease out one person to give credit to for all of that. But the trio of George Washington (for his leadership), Thomas Jefferson (for his democratic poetry), and Alexander Hamilton (for his architecture of the government and, more importantly, for The Federalist Papers) were more important than everyone on that list except Jesus and Muhammed.

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Bill Gates stole windows from Steve jobs.

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Gates democratized the concept. THAT’s what made it explode.

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so people will feel responsible for their actions and feelings instead of being deluded that belief in the murder of 2000 year ago magically conceived person gets them into the heaven.

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EDGELORD!!!!!@!!

won't be any white guys left


Maybe Sojourner Truth and Maya Anjelou and Harriet Tubman will remain from this point in history backward.

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Shakespeare was WAAAAAYY more important than those two put together and multiplied by 10! There is nothing that Edison and Bell did that would not have been done by someone else within 10 or 15 years. No one has ever matched the beauty, wisdom and precision of Shakespeare.

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assuming he wrote it

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assuming he wrote it

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He wrote it. All of those hare brained theories are based on the assumption that no one with Shakespeare’s background could have written so well and so accurately about the great scope of life covered in his works. The fallacy in this is that, while sure, no normal person could have attained all that knowledge, we are not dealing with anything like a normal person. We are dealing with the greatest literary mind in the history of the world by a wide margin. If we assume THAT person, those theories that he couldn’t have known this or that get very thin.

This same thinking could cause us to say that no one who didn’t even graduate high school, and who failed the entrance exam at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, could have invented Relativity.

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Henry VIII maybe not top 10 but should be higher than some on the list

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Out of all Early Modern era monarchs I’d have to go with Peter the Great since he literally made Russia become “European”.

$ is on Jesus. Dude has been relevant for 2k years. I’m sure he can keep his top spot for another 1k.