Your Last Supper - who would you invite & why?

[Exquisition]

So your mortal coil is close to being shuffled off but before you go, you get to attend the mother of all dinner parties.

You're allowed to bring one person from any era to come join in the fun.

Who would you bring and why?

I would bring along the curator of the Ancient Library at Alexandria.

This fabulous archive contained untold knowledge of the ancient world. Lost, according to legend, when Julius Ceasar accidentally set fire to it around 50 BC.

By then, the library had been established for over 200 years and constantly added to by scribes tasked to travel the known world in search of texts which they then copied.

What science, knowledge, cultural, historical and other wisdom must have been kept there?

 

[lovecraft68]

MY ex-wife and my wife's d-bag brother in law.

So I could poison their asses and watch them die

Then I could go to the grave happy that I outlived them.

 

[Exquisition]

MY ex-wife and my wife's d-bag brother in law.

So I could poison their asses and watch them die

Then I could go to the grave happy that I outlived them.

Sounds like a shitty deal.

In that case we'd have to bring along Judge Jeffreys - an infamous judge from the 17th century who became known as the 'Hanging Judge'.

 

[lovecraft68]

Sounds like a shitty deal.

In that case we'd have to bring along Judge Jeffreys - an infamous judge from the 17th century who became known as the 'Hanging Judge'.

Sure why not?

I just think if I was going to die rather than invite dear friends who have supported anyway I would do the world a service and invite scum and poison all of them.

Honestly I think I would fill the table with religious nut job cult leaders.

 

[Handley_Page]

So your mortal coil is close to being shuffled off but before you go, you get to attend the mother of all dinner parties.

You're allowed to bring one person from any era to come join in the fun.

Who would you bring and why?

My first thought would be the Pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut.
She did much to advance the Egyptian state.

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

My dad. He's still with me, thankfully - and if I were going to meet my maker, I'd want to hold dad's hand until my last breath was drawn.

 

[sr71plt]

Maybe E.L. James, so we could share a good laugh over the hard-on Lovecraft has for her and her books(?)

(Sorry, couldn't resist--especially with the typical response LC gave. Boy is this an all-mouth punk with issues.)

 

[lovecraft68]

Maybe E.L. James, so we could share a good laugh over the hard-on Lovecraft has for her and her books(?)

(Sorry, couldn't resist--especially with the typical response LC gave. Boy is this an all-mouth punk with issues.)

What's wrong with my response? I'm assuming the people I care about will be around me for the entire ordeal so why not help the world by ridding it of some scum?

So by the way, you free for dinner next month?

and I'm pretty sure I know which of us could or couldn't back their shit

 

[sr71plt]

You couldn't be more the stereotype of the all-mouth dumb punk if we paid Mickey Spillane to write you up, LC.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if you threw punches--because you are exactly that pea-brained stereotyped to act like that in your feelings of inadequacy and failure to cope. But it would just land you in jail again--because that's just a juvenile way to respond to the world. You'd just go the way of all stupid bullies.

Like you really scare me.

 

[lovecraft68]

You couldn't be more the stereotype of the all-mouth dumb punk if we paid Mickey Spillane to write you up, LC.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if you threw punches--because you are exactly that pea-brained stereotyped to act like that in your feelings of inadequacy and failure to cope. But it would just land you in jail again--because that's just a juvenile way to respond to the world. You'd just go the way of all stupid bullies.

Like you really scare me.

And you couldn't be more of a "look at me" shallow spoiled brat if you tried. It's no ones fault you never made your domineering(and possibly sexually abusive father) happy, because that's what your posts show every sign of. You telegraph your inadequacies as blatantly as you say I do. Poor Pilot never quite good enough in r/l, but here..... king shit of turd mountain.

And I have only once in my life ever hit anyone first. I rarely fight at all over the last couple of decades. I just have no qualms doing it if I needed to. Unlike you who would run screaming if any mean person said anything to you.

And you would never have reason to fear me. I would never touch a woman, a child, an animal or a senior citizen. Seeing you're three out of the four you'd be safe.

 

[TinyBeth]

Tough call. I'm torn, but I think I have to go with Queen Elizabeth I.

 

[Exquisition]

Tough call. I'm torn, but I think I have to go with Queen Elizabeth I.

Lizzy the I would have been an amazing person to meet. You can argue strongly that she was fundamental to the British Empire ever existing at all.

How about the Captain of the Marie Celeste? I'd love to ask him why he abandoned ship...

 

[sr71plt]

You're so cute, Lovecraft. You just can't get past being fourteen and wanting to torture and fuck your sister. One of the most acute examples of arrested development I've ever seen--you even wallow in writing about it. One of these days your arrested development is going to get your sorry ass dumped in prison (apparently for the third time by your own account). I guess until then you're going to continue to terrorize this Web site.

I imagine you might be disappointed with the dinner with Elizabeth I, TinyBeth. Everything points to her being so self-centered that she wouldn't even notice you were at the table. But if you could have Elizabeth Taylor included as well, THAT might be a dinner to remember.

 

[sr71plt]

Without putting a lot of thought into the OP question (Red already gave the thoughtful response), maybe Gore Vidal. He was a wicked good writer with a great imagination and, as both a Gore and Kennedy family insider known to have slug fests with the rest, he'd have new and fascinating stories for those of us who lived and hoped through the Camelot period.

 

[R. Richard]

Assuming that I could speak their languages, one of the 'hobbit' people on Flores Island, a ship builder from Atlantis. the Vivaldi brothers who left on a voyage to India and were never again heard from, The last Mayan King, the last Olmec King, the leader of the Roanoke Colony (Croatoan), Rudolph Diesel, Judge Crater and the Black Dahlia. Of course, I would want them all from a time when they could tell me what happened.
The list is just off the top of my head and probably contains some major omissions.

 

[Exquisition]

Assuming that I could speak their languages, one of the 'hobbit' people on Flores Island, a ship builder from Atlantis. the Vivaldi brothers who left on a voyage to India and were never again heard from, The last Mayan King, the last Olmec King, the leader of the Roanoke Colony (Croatoan), Rudolph Diesel, Judge Crater and the Black Dahlia. Of course, I would want them all from a time when they could tell me what happened.
The list is just off the top of my head and probably contains some major omissions.

That's quite an eclectic wish list, R Richard. Interesting bunch.

Leonardo Da Vinci - I'd have to ask if he was the man behind the Turin Shroud.

 

[sr71plt]

Along the same lines, might ask to have dinner with everyone who ever has written a play ascribed to Shakespeare--and then see who shows up.

 

[Exquisition]

Along the same lines, might ask to have dinner with everyone who ever has written a play ascribed to Shakespeare--and then see who shows up.

Francis Bacon? MArlowe?

Marlowe would be interesting. Would ask him whether he was a spy and who killed him.

Emperor Constantine too. Would like to know what criteria he used when he decided which books were in and which were left out of the first 'modern' bible @ Nicea.

 

[ishtat]

Francis Bacon? MArlowe?

Emperor Constantine too. Would like to know what criteria he used when he decided which books were in and which were left out of the first 'modern' bible @ Nicea.

That was already well established by Marcion, Ireneus ( of Lyons) et al. Constantine's influence was largely on theology and condemning the Arian heresy. Arguably his mother St Helena was a greater influence.

I would invite En-hed-uanna high priestess of Sumer circa 2259BC, and the first author of any imaginative work whose name is known.

I would also like to have Zarathustra there as the first founder of a monotheistic religious movement, and who was the first man to express the doctrine of human free will.

Dr Johnson to add some conviviality and Oliver Cromwell because I like him.

Eleanor of Aquitaine for the 'wow' factor.

Maybe, Dr. Marie Stopes, but only for her expertise in historical paleantology.

 

[Exquisition]

That was already well established by Marcion, Ireneus ( of Lyons) et al. Constantine's influence was largely on theology and condemning the Arian heresy. Arguably his mother St Helena was a greater influence.

I would invite En-hed-uanna high priestess of Sumer circa 2259BC, and the first author of any imaginative work whose name is known.

I would also like to have Zarathustra there as the first founder of a monotheistic religious movement, and who was the first man to express the doctrine of human free will.

Dr Johnson to add some conviviality and Oliver Cromwell because I like him.

Eleanor of Aquitaine for the 'wow' factor.

Maybe, Dr. Marie Stopes, but only for her expertise in historical paleantology.

And subjugating the role of women in the early Christian church to mere bystanders, baby makers and whores I read somewhere.

I'd invite MAry Magdalene. Ask her if the wedding at Cana was really hers and Jesus's.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

My family, and a sexy male prostitute.

Then my family pays for the male prostitute, and he has me for dessert.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

And subjugating the role of women in the early Christian church to mere bystanders, baby makers and whores I read somewhere.

I'd invite MAry Magdalene. Ask her if the wedding at Cana was really hers and Jesus's.

I think you'd have a hard time conversing with a bag of bone dust.

Or, if she was alive, would you speak her language?

Or if you COULD communicate, would she spend the entire hour or so just gasping at the technology and calling you a witch?

"blast! What are these infernal sun-orbs!"

Think wisely about your guests my friend.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

In fact, hatchepsut?

Zarathustra?
Ed-had-uanna?
Emperor Constantine?

Quite a few of you are going to have the ashes-language-witchcraft problem

 

[TinyBeth]

Eleanor of Aquitaine for the 'wow' factor.

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I was debating between her and QE I. I'm sure the stories about her and her uncle Raymond of Antioch would be of interest to many readers on the site. But they are two of the most amazing women in western history.

 

[sr71plt]

In fact, hatchepsut?

Zarathustra?
Ed-had-uanna?
Emperor Constantine?

Quite a few of you are going to have the ashes-language-witchcraft problem

The OP specifies "from any era." So, you're just going to have to get over your "but they're dead" problem.