Name 4 people living or dead you would like to meet. (Fictional is OK)

[SLSAMG]

1. Reinhold Messner
2. Bruce Lee
3. James Dean
4. Scarlett Johansson

[schwarzkopf]

If that's the only difference of one to the others you see, you don't really deserve to see the three of those that I'd bunch together.

You assume that I want to see people all for the same reason. To be honest - Stephen Fry is the odd one out for me as I want to talk to him for purely personal reasons (we share the malady of severe mental illness). The others I want to talk to for more practical reasons and to find stuff out.

[Everwake]

Sam Harris
Stephen King
Dennis Prager
Marc Byrd

I guess I'd stick to contemporary folks that I could have a meaningful conversation with.

[wholol]

Great and with that we have a time paradoxon because if you´r enot born you can´t go abck and do this.

Get smart and try it again.

Oh but here's the trick , it isn't a paradox if i end up creating an alternate timeline

[Dalheim]

1. Alan Rickman
2. David Bowie
3. Jim Cummings
4. Björn Skifs

[izayoi80]

Albert Einstein
Jesus
Bruce Lee

Saving the fourth spot, as there's no doubt someone I can't think of at the moment.

[Total Crica]

I want to meet any life form that enables all life to never have to suffer again. I don't know if that is only four or not, but being able to meet them and thank them or being able to help them would be awesome.

[Deleted]

Thrall
Metzen
vol'jin
Varian

[Tabrotar]

Oh but here's the trick , it isn't a paradox if i end up creating an alternate timeline

Which theory is that again? Because there´re many different assumptions in which way timetravelling will change history (or not).

And to keep up with the topic:

1. Albert Einstein
2. Soras and Shiro from No Game no Life
3.Quaintana from Drowtales (a webcomic)
4. Sam and Dean from Supernatural

[Rehija]

Holinka or Greg Street - with a Bottle of jack Daniels. Just to get in to the Head of those guys and ask questions. Prob. Unpleasant Questions . . .
Michael A. Stackpole - to ask a lot more questions about his creations
Cynthia Rothrock - bcs. of shared name and passion
The God Emperor of Mankind - to get some things straight and to ask for his name

[downnola]

Socrates, Churchill, Lincoln, and Nietzsche pre-insanity.

[the game]

Lindsey Morgan
Lindsey Stirling again since I was really shy the last time we met
X-23
undecided on the fourth.

[Deleted]

Anduin Wrynn, I want to bear his children.
Solas from dragon age.
Arcann from Swtor
V from Vendetta.

[Fus Ro Yay]

1. Howard Philips lovecraft
2. John Ronald Ruel Tolkien
3. Nikola Tesla
4. Vladimir Lenin

bonus round
5. Stanislav Evgrafovitj Petrov.


two to talk about how the world turned out, two to ask about their creations and one i just want to give my undying gratitude.

[Splenda]

1) JK Rowling
2) Hermione Granger or Dumbledore
3) @xskarma (though likely we'd just wave at each other across the street and call it good)
4) Lorelai Gilmore

[skitzin]

1. Carl Sagan
2. Fred McFeely Rogers
3. Albert Einstein
4. Jesus (if he existed)

The top two are the ones I would value the most since they were amazing people who really strived in their own ways to improve the world as much as they could.

[Mormolyce]

2. Julius Caesar. I would like to ask him why he was so damn dumb to not take his Praetorian guards with him when he went to the Senate meeting.

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure even while Dictator, Caesar didn't take a military guard with him in the city, you're probably referring to his lictors. As Dictator he was entitled to 24 of them, 12 inside the pomerium (but I'm not sure if he would've obeyed the latter, Sulla didn't).

However Caesar took several steps to attempt to placate Rome that he wasn't trying to set himself up as a king (eg, refusing the diadem from Antony in some sources). Lictors are a direct and obvious symbol of imperium, so being surrounded by them all the time would be a constant reminder of his power as Dictator. I believe he was unaccompanied by lictors in part due to this, also as a show of force (ie, I am so loved by the people that I need no guards).

Also I'm not sure if lictors actually came into the Senate building with their magistrate or just remained outside, so probably they wouldn't have saved him. The Senate building guards were posted outside and the first they knew of the assassination was Caesar's body being dragged outside.

Plus the assassins were supposedly 60 strong. And had he had guards around him at all times they probably just would've found another way to do it.

[Drusin]

Edgar Allan Poe
Friedrich Nietzsche
The man who started my bloodline
The woman who started my bloodline

[RobertoCarlos]

1. Scarlett Johansson
2. Kate Beckinsale
3. Jennifer Aniston
4. David Attenborough

[GreenJesus]

OP's mom, 2nd poster's mom, 3rd poster's mom, 4th poster's mom