CaliggyJack: Top 15 Fav Historical People to Study

CaliggyJack 09.22.23	Honorable mentions: Ogedei Khan Fidel Castro Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui Sargon of Akkad Bayezid II
budgie 09.22.23	this is ur worst list yet
Kompys2000 09.22.23	Jesus Chist
Kompys2000 09.22.23	My favorite historical person to study is the girl reading this rn 😉
CaliggyJack 09.22.23	Damn what did I dooo?
budgie 09.22.23	i bet u unironically eat porridge for breakfast
CaliggyJack 09.22.23	Eew
markjamie 09.22.23	Alcibiades would be up near the top for me - so much living crammed into his 45 odd years. Wouldn't have Solomon or David anywhere near the top - mainly because there's so little evidence that they even existed. But Jesus would be my number one historical figure to meet; was he just a Jewish rabbi who became a cult figure? Did he think he was divine or merely the messiah in the mortal Jewish sense? Was he actually divine? Fascinating.
CaliggyJack 09.22.23	I'm most interested in Jesus' childhood and his general personality. It was said Jesus had a great sense of humor and I think it would be amazing to see how he was outside his sermons.
markjamie 09.22.23	Regardless of his true nature, he must have been an amazing person to inspire that much devotion. He was WAY ahead of his time on social reform, and he was clearly a great storyteller. Where has it been said he had a great sense of humour? His stories were certainly creative, but I don't remember laughing too much reading them.
budgie 09.22.23	you guys talking about jesus? isn't all the stuff he said from gospels couple centuries after his life. i know he was documented to exist by the roman admin but everything else attributed to him is pretty king arthury isnt it
markjamie 09.22.23	Pretty much. But whoever he was or wasn't, he still managed to inspire enough people to follow him that the world's largest religion emerged, (although Mohammad isn't too far behind). The earliest gospel (Mark) was written around 40ish years after Jesus' death, and the last (John) around 80-90. Paul's letters are the earliest texts we have (around 25 years after Jesus died). And we have no eye-witness accounts, (unless you count Paul's vision). The stories from the gospels would have been passed along by word-of-mouth. And Matthew and Luke definitely appear to have at least partly used Mark's gospel as a source for theirs. And the 4 gospel writers are basically anonymous - the Matthew, Mark, Luke and John monikers were just names assigned by church elders in the 2nd century.
ToSmokMuzyki 09.22.23	im an eye witness to jebus and socksrates ask me anything
BaselineOOO 09.22.23	Came here expecting atocitities, but hell yeah, Solomon and David are two of the 5 most based humans in WORLD history.
Jasdevi087 09.22.23	this mf definitely got one of those houses where everything smells like store brand laundry detergent
ToSmokMuzyki 09.22.23	david the badass warrior and solomon the ultimate pimp lets go
DadKungFu 09.22.23	Alcibiades [2] Marco Polo
CaliggyJack 09.22.23	I just bought a ring recently with the Seal of Solomon on it. It's so freaking cool.
BaselineOOO 09.22.23	now make a list about hysterical histrionic historical people to study
DadKungFu 09.22.23	Alcibiades Caligula Cassandra The lobotomized Kennedy St. Teresa D'Avila Richard Nixon
budgie 09.22.23	@markjamie interesting thanks for the corrections
ToSmokMuzyki 09.22.23	leonidas hello
CaliggyJack 09.22.23	Leonidas is kinda overrated ngl