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 If you had to change your profile image to that of a historical figure which would it be? (52)

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If you had to change your profile image to that of a historical figure which would it be?

Just pick an image of a historical figure and post the link below.

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Here's my one: :D

Free upvote if you guess who he is.

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It's William Gladstone, the name is on the title. Do i still get the vote though? :)

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Damn it! You're not supposed to look at that!

Anyway, have an upvote.

Why don't you just change it then ?

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I've been thinking of chaning my avatar but if I did, I wouldn't change it to Gladstone. I'ld probably make it a lion or something.

I've had so many people sending me messages about the "penguin" that I feel obliged to keep it as my profile pic.

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Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking. I'm a massive fan of both of them.

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I'd change it to FDR, he was the best president America has had.

Supporting Evidence: FDR (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Isn't he the one who wasted a load of money trying to get America out of the great depression?

hera474(49) Disputed
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Well let's see:

1.) He got America out of the great depression

2.) He was essential in the creation of the creation of the UN and America's part in it

3.)Rebuilt American infrastructure

4.) Made the Government responsible to the people

5.) Created FDIC and rebuilt trust in the banks

I think that qualifies him for the best president title :)

Mine is already of one: Genghis Khan. I may be wrong, but I think I'm the only user that has a historical figure as an avatar.

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I never recognised it as Genghis Khan, I had always assumed it to be from a computer game. Though I think you're right about it being the only historical avatar.

Unfortunately, there are no pictures of Genghis Khan (what a shock!) So that's the closest thing I could find to him.

ricedaragh(2494) Clarified
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Isn't there a few default Avatars, with Darwin, Einstein and Newton on them?

HellNo2012 has Obama. Historical? Not yet..., but after the elections..., he may be history ;)

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Ben Franklin Founding father, inventor, ambassador, scientist, musician, author, and party animal! (yet, never President)

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Wasn't he the last Governer of America?

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last Governer of America

I have to plead ignorance on this... I'm not familiar with that? He was the first ambassador to France and supposedly a ladies man... even though he wasn't much of a looker.

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Who is he and what has he done?

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Timothy Leary, he was a supporter of psychedelics and a professor of psychology at Harvard.

garry77777(1796) Disputed
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I'm not trying to offend you when I say this but Leary was a bit of an idiot, he talked so much about what should be, he was such a dreamer, he convinced so many to follow him, but he had very little to back up what he was saying. It's one of the reasons they managed to close the gates back up after the 60's, too many hippies with nothing but pie in the sky ideas to offer. I've always preferred Aldous Huxley (among many others associated with that era).

But even Ram Dass (formerly Richard Alpert) Leary's second in command always seemed to me to more likeable as he wasn't so lost (in his own head) that he couldn't propose practical measures that could have changed certain things.

logicsoup(39) Disputed
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While I will agree that at times Leary was lost in his own head, I will have to disagree with your notion that he was an idiot. He was an extremely intelligent man, not to mention a Ph.D of Psychology. He definitely had a more unique perspective on issues, then that of a normal person (That is, someone who has never used LSD before).

logicsoup(39) Clarified
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Rock on man! Timothy Leary was great, although I myself personally prefer Terence McKenna. I think LSD wasn't the only drug that Leary got involved with, because after watching several of his interviews, he was a little cooky nearing the end of is life.

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I'm even less familiar with McKenna than I am with Leary, and neither of them am I very familiar with. I've read some by Leary, and only perused through a few of McKenna's writings.

He also did weed, I know that, and I'm pretty sure he also used psilocybin. I'm sure I'll be pretty cooky by the end of my life if I keep up at the rate I've been going.

Bruce Lee..., because I like to see myself as the martial artist of debates (instead of the bull shit artist of debates ;).

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Either Edgar Allen Poe, Voltaire or Emilie du Chatelet.

I love Poe's writing influence, imagination and mystery.

Voltaire's outspoken even against the laws, and separation of church and state is important to me.

Emilie influenced much of science and Newton.

And I'm on my phone, so I'm not going through the trouble of linking those pictures.

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Probably either Che Guevara. If every communist had the discipline and selflessness that Che Guevara had, Communism would undoubtedly be able to work.

Or, He isn't really a historical figure, but definitely someone who has influenced my thinking in major ways, Terence McKenna .

http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/27/2779/AGTTD00Z.jpg

http://www.newagethinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/terencemckenna-294x300.jpg

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Che Guevara's respectability has been tainted now with all those rebel teenagers plastering his face on everything.

logicsoup(39) Clarified
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I will agree it is EXTREMELY annoying when your standard run of the mill teenager, goes out and buys a Che Guevara T Shirt (or anything with his face on it for that matter), without knowing a shred of information on the man himself, except that he was a "rebel". I do admit, I am the proud owner of a Che Guevara shirt, but I have done extensive research on his life, read his fantastic biography, and have formed my own opinions free of biases from the political left or right.

ChuckHades(3197) Disputed
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I must diagree with you on Che. While his rebelliousness is admirable (and clearly strikes a tune within the youth of today), he couldn't have made communism work. Aside from the fact that the system is inherently flawed, Che was too murderous and, contrary to your point, selfish to lead communism.

I still have a Che Guevara clock though, although that was just to piss off my friend, but anyway...

Isn't Terrence Mckenna the crazy guy who came up with Timewave Zero?

Ayn Rand, the first philosopher that made me rethink everything I knew, and laid the foundation for the philosophy I hold today.

Supporting Evidence: Ayn Rand (www.pbs.org)

Ayn Rand is definitely a philosopher I am starting to love the more I read into her works.

Glad to hear it. Far too much do people allow pre-established bias to prevent them from appreciating what she has written.