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Who is the most important person who ever existed

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    #62
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    completedit wrote: »
    How we define important is crucial?

    Romulus and Remus


    May as well nominate Odysseus or Cú Chulainn.


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    #63
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    Mohammed or Jesus Christ.


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    #64
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    Lot offered his daughters to a mob outside his gaff.

    To be fair to Lot, he was trying to hide the angels he had in his gaff. His daughters then have their “way” with him after they leave the city.

    Bit of an odd one, alright. God showing Moses his arse in Exodus was another one.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #65
    EmmetSpiceland
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    On topic, Edward Jenner, Alexander Fleming or Jonas Salk would be worthy of a mention.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #66
    Wanderer2010
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    Jesus Christ. Never has the activities, meaning and legacy of a single person been so debated, celebrated or maligned in human history.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    biko wrote: »
    Johannes Gutenberg
    I'd argue not.

    Printing would have happened anyway as the technology was available and economics had improved. He lived at a time when people finally got rich enough that they could change clothes and cotton rags meant cheap paper.

    Also reading glasses were a thing, previously many people didn't bother to read because what's the point if your eyesight goes as you get older. Besides there weren't that many books around.


    The big thing he did was making moulds for making the type.


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    #68
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The big one was the invention of written symbols or pictures.



    Speech was important but many animals have different sounds for moods and multiple danger calls so it's probable that language would have developed in time.


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    #69
    irishguitarlad
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Karl Marx. Well over a hundred million people were killed because of him. Billions have had or are having a miserable life thanks to his unique brand of twattery.

    Were you at the England match last night by any chance?


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    #70
    Kaybaykwah
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    An obvious toss btwn Kanye and Kim, no hips, hands or butts.


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    #71
    ClosedAccountFuzzy
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    Undoubtedly Bosco - a true cultural icon that shaped pretty much everything we do.


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    Galwayguy35
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    The guy a couple of hundred thousand years ago who decided to make the first fire.


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    #73
    paul71
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    On topic, Edward Jenner, Alexander Fleming or Jonas Salk would be worthy of a mention.

    I was going to say Edward Jenner then saw your post.


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    #74
    Galwayguy35
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    Maybe the people who did the cave paintings in France, impressive work for folks who had nobody to show them how to do it.


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    #75
    StevenToast
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    Ryan Tubridy....he brings so much happiness and kindness to the world....

    A bargain at 500k a year....

    We dont deserve him.....hes too good for us peasants....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #76
    Rikand
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    The guy a couple of hundred thousand years ago who decided to make the first fire.

    Or the first wheel


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    #77
    corner of hells
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    completedit wrote: »
    How we define important is crucial? Some people are important cultural figures but if you take them out of the equation the story of mankind would probably look similar. For me off the cuff

    Romulus and Remus

    Karl Marx

    Adam Smith

    Hitler

    Darwin

    Socrates

    Socrates the footballer?


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    Kaybaykwah
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    The guy a couple of hundred thousand years ago who decided to make the first fire.



    Buddies of mine worked on Annaud's "Quest For Fire", and were fortunate enough to film that very guy, back in 1981.


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    #79
    ClosedAccountFuzzy
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    Tbh you could go through every major breakthrough scientist. All the developments in communication technology from writing, to the printing press, to telegraph, to telephone, radio, tv, and ultimately the internet, every artist, every political leader and everyone else and you still would struggle to find that one human, because they didn’t exist in isolation.

    It’s very hard to define a single person in humanity who changed everything or who was the most important in history.

    Like it or not, we’re a huge collective of some sort, and one idea plays into the next.

    My view of it is as population and connectivity increases, so does idea generation, creative bandwidth and ability to process new ideas.

    We’re a network that’s much greater than the sum of its parts.


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    odyssey06
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    FuzzyThinking wrote: »
    Tbh you could go through every major breakthrough scientist. All the developments in communication technology from writing, to the printing press, to telegraph, to telephone, radio, tv, and ultimately the internet, every artist, every political leader and everyone else and you still would struggle to find that one human, because they didn’t exist in isolation.
    It’s very hard to define a single person in humanity who changed everything or who was the most important in history.
    Like it or not, we’re a huge collective of some sort, and one idea plays into the next.
    My view of it is as population and connectivity increases, so does idea generation, creative bandwidth and ability to process new ideas.
    We’re a network that’s much greater than the sum of its parts.

    I wonder for those reasons if it is someone artistic eg Shakespeare whose output is person specific.

    For anything political or scientific it seems like if it wasnt person X it would have been person Y a few years later.

    Possibly a religious messiah figure like Mohammed has a political impact that is person specific to a large extent.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #81
    kevthegaff
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    Alexander Fleming, through penecillin and other antibiotics, has extended life expectancy.


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    #82
    Feisar
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    abigailbreslin wrote: »
    Albert Einstein. Without his theories, I suppose half of the electronic things today wouldn't exist (GPS, space travel)

    See there is that point of view on the topic, however, how about the lad that said to himself, I'm going to run after that antelope till he drops. Then bring him back to the family and eat it. That's the great thing about humans, that hive mind knowledge base we keep building on.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    Feisar wrote: »
    See there is that point of view on the topic, however, how about the lad that said to himself, I'm going to run after that antelope till he drops. Then bring him back to the family and eat it.


    He never once sneezed into his elbow or washed his hands after taking a pee. So, there's that.


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    Ronnie Pickering.

    You better know who he is!


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    #85
    TRC10
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    I'll tell you who it is...

    Rod Liddle


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    #86
    bogwalrus
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    Most important person for me would be any individual who has prevented in some way the extinction of our species.

    Possibly a person that prevented ww3 and nuclear fallout or invented some medication to prevent a disease that could have wiped us all off the face of the earth long ago.

    In the future it Will likely be a Bruce Willis type that stops an asteroid from smashing into earth.


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    #87
    Himnydownunder
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    FuzzyThinking wrote: »
    Undoubtedly Bosco - a true cultural icon that shaped pretty much everything we do.

    Bosco was a martyr for anal fisting.


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    Arguably, we're all still alive thanks to Stanislav Petrov.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov


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    #89
    chooseusername
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    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    Ronnie Pickering.

    You better know who he is!
    Who?
    Who?
    Who?


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    #90
    TefalBrain
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    MikeOxsgreen wrote: »
    Arguably, we're all still alive thanks to Stanislav Petrov.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

    Holy shoot, we have a winner..


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    #91
    M.T. Cranium
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    Chairman Xi and I'm only saying that to get in good with the guy cuz he seems a bit off to me.


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