Even if we'd end up throwing spaghetti at each others face, I might invite ARISTOTLE, HILDEGAARD VON BINGEN, LEONARDO DA VINCI, COPERNICUS, and surely, MAHATMA GANDHI...

I 'd surely start by inviting you, dear Douglas!

I'll have to carefully choose and decide on the other 5, and let you know!

Kind regards, M.

Dear Maria

You are to kind! 

Douglas

Even if we'd end up throwing spaghetti at each others face, I might invite ARISTOTLE, HILDEGAARD VON BINGEN, LEONARDO DA VINCI, COPERNICUS, and surely, MAHATMA GANDHI...

Dear @Douglas, why six people, I am just curious about a number of person!?

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/what-six-people-living-or-dead-would-you-invite-to-dinner/?_r=0

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081218053818AAhKZUR

This could be part of a Counterfactual History seminar, I suppose (https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_we_need_Counterfactual_History?_tpcectx=profile_questions).

Maria and Douglas, you two and other potential followers of this thread would act as chairpersons. 

Mahatma Gandhi was someone, who I had immediately in mind when I read the question. 

I also would like to have a discussion with Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin, the greatest mass murderers of the 20th century and, maybe, in history. And, I'd hope we'll have tight security at the dinner table, so only arming with spaghetti is allowed. It would not a turn into an easygoing discussion, though.

If allowed by the supreme beings I'd really like to let Buddha, Jesus and the founder of Islam discuss matters of historic and current importance. 

Well, thank you Douglas for drawing me in into this thought experiment to be.

My choice would be : Jim Morrison, Nikola Tesla, Mihajlo Pupin, Patriarch Pavle and Tito!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Pavle_of_Serbia

Dear Douglas, For me six is a very small number for inviting for dinner because I have a long list of good friends including my RG Fellows.

Platon, Al Ghazali, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Popper... That would be the greatest debate ever! :)

Dear Douglas

I can tell you simply that I invite any politician because politics is the art of hypocrisy cons I not care to individuals to cite but I would invite legal persons whatever their color which represent both religions or philosophies certain to end malicious speculation that talk of a clash of religions and civilizations.

Best regards

Dear friends,

The number six has no numerical significance I just let the fingers do the typing. Yet it does however make choosing a little difficult after thinking about it. I must agree with all those so far chosen. 

I would however, if you have the time please give your reasons for those choices you have made. 

I would certainly enjoy reading them. Imagine a discussion on morality with Gandhi, Muhammad, and Kant on one side and Nietzsche, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin on the other and the question was "in building a new nation your fundamental philosophy would be? 

Lot of important persons world wide and my friends including RG members (sure invitation to Hon'ble Douglas R. Daugherty).

Thank you, Ajay, please invite me to your diner table !!!

And on second thoughts, dear Douglas, if you allow mw to invite a few more, but for separate private meals, I do agree with Michael, and would pay to be able to converse privately with Napoleon Bonaparte, and Hitler, just to try and serenely understand some of their thoughts... (I might have to serve diet to Napoleon, for the sake of his poor stomach, though!). As for Buddha, Jesus and more, I might also not sit them at the same table, because I bet they wouldn't eat lobster, nor spaghetti and ketchup.

1. My supervisor Prof. Jamal Nazrul Islam, as he wrote an article "Ultimate fate of universe" when he was just 24: follow the link for further info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Nazrul_Islam

2. Lata Mangeshkar, follow the link for reason as discussion may turn into boring or hot, so we need to listen soul inspiring music and songs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar

3. Mahatma Gandhi, reason: "there is enough for every one's need, but not enough for one person's greed, is his famous quote.

4. Einstein; and

5. Newton as greatest scientists of their history. 

6. Prof. Amertya Sen, first Nobel Laureate in Economics in Asia for his pioneering work for welfare economics. 

Thanks.

Ataturk, Tesla, Archimedes, Newton, Galilei, DaVinci...

Yes dear Maria, Sure you would be in my dinner party along with other RG friends.

@Douglas, it would depend on whether you want an interesting memorable dinner or a quiet relaxed atmosphere.  I would invite THOMAS ALVA EDISON, NIKOLA TESLA, MOZART AND BEETHOVEN, TENGKU ABDUL RAHMAN AND PROPHET MOHAMAD.  Now JESUS doesn't have to be invited.  He's the guest at every meal.  The first 2 are scientists that I admire; I trust you all know Mozart and Beethoven and please speak loudly for the sake of Beethoven.  Tengku Abdul Rahman is my first Prime minister that we all love, and he will be good company for the prophet. (But we usually use a 10 seat table.  I attach for you a related question.)

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_role_of_the_table_in_our_lives

@ Ljubomir, I could not have picked a better person than Jim Morrison! Would the dinner music be Riders on the Storm?

@ Burak, what would be the topic debated?

@ Ajay come now on my friend. you got um' which six?

@ Michael Are you staking the table, rigging the game? Four guest of good standing and two of moral depravity, no fun in that is there?

@ Maria, It would be an honor to wear the spaghetti should I part in from left to right, down the center, or from the left? So for a table topic it would be centered on the first women physician? Is not  St. von Bignins' known as the doctor of the Church?

@ Fadel, Politicians and Religious guests who; may I ask who will man the confessional?

Dear friends,

@ Subhash, You are to kind but I must ask you to chose your six, please.

@Pahlaj, I have a feeling there might be a motive to your inviting Jamal, is that possible?

@ Cuneyt, "Father of the Turks", Ataturk! Is it possible Kamailism is the reason and the scientist you have invited are there symbolically as representative of the secular reforms and commitment to science, equal rights fro women, and religious freedoms?

@ Ajay, Maria is one five more to go!!

@ Miranda,The choice is your concerning what type of dinner you wish. I am looking for whom you would have over and what atmosphere your would like and I warmly await your guest list. I also know you are devoutly faithful and I respect, admire, and envy your commitment to Jesus but I am afraid you are over booked!!! One must go, whom might that be? 

I thank you all and look forward to further replies.

Dear Friends,

I am thinking about a debate between the invited guest of Maria vs  Micheal's guests! 

Any ideas as to topics that shall be debated?

Well, I will answer your question if you attend the plea of the great majority of RG members, that is, to have at least a couple of chairs for the Pires family. If our plea is not guaranteed, we will go to her house instead.

Dear Douglas,

In my opinion I would like to invite the 'WuZetian(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zetian)' , Chairman Mao(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong), Xiaoping Deng, Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle and Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

Thank you, dear Vilemar !

Oh Boy! I'm surely enjoying this great round table with you all!

I'll start preparing the meal that will satisfy 7 million RGers!!! (It may take longer to decide on the menu, than to cook the huge thing, but I'll let you know when it's ready!

(don't forgat to bring Adolph Hitler and Alexander the Great!)

Maybe we could consult Leonardo's cook Book, to decide on the meal... He surely invented the napkin, which was good !

As for the music, only God knows what Mozart or Beethoven would dance to the sounds of Jim Morrison's.

Villemar will surely bring Caju juice, to our supreme delight, and the problem of drinks is solved.

And if we all keep up the excellent mood, this will be the feast of our lives!

Thank you, dear Douglas.

I would like to invite: Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Kurt Vonnegut, Fiodor Dostojewski, Dokuczajew and well if it would be possible Jezus Christ

Thank you dear @Shaban for inviting me in your dinner party. Please confirm the details, i.e., venue, date, time..etc..........

I would invite Anne Sullivan (so she could explain how she taught Hellen Keller), Mark Twain (So that we could laugh the whole night), Antoinie Lavoisier ( I want to learn about his logic on biological combustion and congratulate him for the revolution he started in Chemestry),  Shah Jahan (So he could speak of his love his wife and how we could think of a better world even though we were extremely sad). Neil Alden Armstrong (He would tell us what if it feels seeing the world from space, if he really stepped on the Moon and how he managed living after that in the Earth), A Researchgate member which I would draw his/her name from a bowl with 6000000 choices.

Dear friends,

We have some new guests, welcome Agnieszka and Quhia, your choices are interesting. 

@ Vilemar, My good man, I have dinner with my invited guests and take the plane to Maria's for a bowl of spaghetti with all the RG researchers what a to 24 to 48 hours that would be!!! It would be my great privilege to attend such a dinner!!! Now your six please table is waiting!!!

@ Maria,  Your are just to gracious. Do you play poker?  I will raise your Hitler and Alexander the Great with three pair Genghis Kahn, Attila the Hun, and Vlad Tepes (known as Vlad the Impaler)

@ Quhia, What an interesting choice to bring Sir Arthur Cannon Doyle.  I may have to set out a writing desk for him as Hitler and Alexander battle with Kahn, Attila, and Vlad. Does anyone know if Sir Doyle can write scientifically?

@ Agnieszka, I see have improved your defenses by bringing in the entire Galaxy as Vonnegut commands the knights of Jupiter?

@ Vilemar, Table for six with a litter Caju juice, please as you let us know your six guests!

It is difficult to choose only 6 persons while there are so many who made a difference for the mankind in science, phylosophy, music, arts.

I would choose 2 scientists: Albert Einstein and Pitagora

Two musicians: Bach and Beethoven

and the last and not the least, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ

we could discuss about everything in  everlasting harmony. Who knows? May be it will happen:)))

Dinner with these people would be a great moment but it would be a torment to leave a RG member out. Besides all the knowledge this members have acquired so far, I needed Lawrence to order the facts, Marcel to ask questions, Kamal to choose the band to have the best music possible, Douglas to mediate humanity issues, Ljubomir to bring to the table the sources we needed, Miranda to bring her femine point of view, Ajay, Max well that list would be endless. I am happy you did not want to know who from this group I would call for dinner.

Dear Michaela,

I see science, music, a true renaissance man in Leonardo, and for metaphysical question Jesus. Quite a group Machaela. May I ask, What would you serve and what would be the first topic under discussion?

Dear Douglas

I suppose the group could answer the questions about the creation of the universe and the purpose of life and mankind. Bach and Beethovern may serv as translators for the ideas behind the questions into audible language.

Taking Cashew juice will be easy. The difficult part will be to sleep with so many interesting people ahead. Will anyone prescribe a sleeping pill?

I would like to invite: one from each i.e. USA, Europe, Africa, Japan, Arab Countries, one from India. May be from different fields.

Mahatma Gandhi, Lenin, Adam Smith, Rabendranath Tagore, John Lennon and Lord Krishna.

I would ask them about their expectations from the world when they devised their great philosophies and theories and how the present world is different from that. What would they prescribe for the present world?

Dear all,

@ MIchaela, I see, no soft ball question for your guests to "warm up to" and obviously no "table talk" at your dinner party. Bang right out of the gate "O.K. Jesus how did you do it in six days and how did you rest on the seventh day? Jesus your up again, who's correct you with a snap of a finger or these pyromaniacs with there "Big Bang" theory?

@ Subhash, Cool who is your translator and what is the first question these masked people must address?

@ Brenda, Now that's a dinner party (RG members aside). Let me see, your quest is historical and commercial free with Marilyn "captivating the audience"  as Anne loses her head?

@ Vilermar,  I take it that you are creating a learning environment in the hopes of? 

@ Ankur, Lenin and Krishna whats up with that!!! A little sole saving going on Ankur?

I would bring:

Sir Isaac Newton

Bruce Lee,

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Living),

Stephan Timoshanko,

Kishor Kumar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishore_Kumar,

James Cameron (living)

I would ask Lenin on comment on present state of communism...and did he see a polarized world at his time...

Krishna..for a discussion on the bhagvadgita...and its implications for the modern world...

Opera Winfry for the conduct of group discussion please...

I would invite all of the great conquerors from antiquity:  Hannibal of Carthage, Atilla, Tamerlane, Scipio, Alexander and of course Xerxes I.  Of course this is just a handful of the many personalities I would invite.  This way I could correct any of the mistakes in my history books, like the Governor of Glubbdubdrib in Gullivers Travels.

dear Nicholas ! I wonder how they dressed up for diner...

I don't know what Xerxes or Alexander would do if you gave them a tie.

Ah! I can't stop laughing at several of your earlier comments !

Yes, Dougla !!! Attila the Hun is surely a "must" at any diner party! Maybe my National hero Viriato would be welcome too. He saved our beloved Portugal from the Romans, from rolling stones, bare handed,  down the mountain slopes, on the border with Spain.

Can I bring him along to taste Vilemar's Caju/cashew juice ?

Cashew juice with cod fish.

Yerkkk! Never mind, Vilemar... Bacalhau doesn't mix with spaghetti and ketchup, and it might be difficult to get 5 million pieces of the fish, to feed all the 7 million Rg Members that will surely attend. I advise you to start squeezing those cajus to bring them in time for the fest.

(PS - I can't resist a practical joke! Last time I went to Rio with an American friend, we entered and left several restaurants , trying to find one that would serve Caju juice, that I simply adore. After several failed attempts, I decided to take notice of what my friend was asking for ... and I clearly heard his question: "Tem suco de queijo?" Of course they all answered "no"! ) / Caju, with the american pronunciation becomes cheese in Portuguese -  he was asking for cheese-juice.

Dear All,

I prefer the society of people I like and/or respect. I would like to supper with:

Gyula Krúdy (1878-1933, excellent Hungarian writer, bonvivan, gourmet and imaginative story teller), Mikhail Bulgakov, Jorge Luis Borges, Guy de Maupassant, Avicenna and Miklós Zrínyi (1620-1664, Hungarian commander, poet and writer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_Zr%C3%ADnyi).

However, my spoken Russian and Spanish is very poor Bulgakov spoke German, and Borges English and French. As to Maupassant, French is OK. Unfortunately, I were not able to talk to Avicenna.

There are always difficulties even in imaginative subjects!

If the number of personalities were increased I would also call Walter Benjamin. Great thinker. I want him to tell us where his final work was left. I would like to find it or be sure it is among his known work today.

Dear all, 

The evening is shaping up, new guests have arrivekhail Bulgakovd...

@ Naveen, She has brought the Newton as a guest to explain how objects stay in motion?

@ Sayed Zaheen, I am sorry sir but 100 is way to many we do have seating for seven however, who will be your guests!!!

@ Nicholes, He brings with him as a guest another warrior from the past Hannibal of Carthage, (I wounder if he is the 20 times great grandfather to Hannibal Lectorer of Silence of the Lambs)  

@ Andras, Who has brought with him "The Master of Margarita" writer Mikhail, Bulgakov.

@ Mohamed, HELLO THERE FOLKS, sitting in the same room as NEWTON, is LEIBNITZ. I wonder whose calculus may derive the cosign of the tangent traveling 80 miles an hour in a circle?

The ball room is filling up as the guests just keep filing in!

Thanks all

Douglas

Dear Mr Douglas R. Daugherty,

I think you did not notice I invited a beautiful lady also :)

Dear Naveen,

I may be old but I am not THAT old!!!

Douglas

Douglas R. Daugherty,

Perhaps RG menders lost the track, as I viewed the answers.

Thanks

being a psychologist, i would be happy to invite Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner and  Abraham Maslow as the main guests. I would also like to invite Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, Albert, Bandura, Alfred Adler, Alfred Binet and Wilhelm Wundt as the second set of six guests...I think this will be a wonderful exchange of psychological ideas with living psychologists like Howard Gardner, Robert Sternberg and Martin Seligman, who will as well be invited.... 

Ah! I found it !!!

I knew I had a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Cookery Book somewhere. 

Here's a copy of two pages:

He not only invented how to fold napkins, but also Spaghetti, which he called «Spago Mangiabille» /edible threads...

On the second page that I scanned here, you can also see that he might be considered the inventor of Nouvelle Cuisine, as he taught us how to artistically compose a dish, on a plate, designing sophisticated flowers with the vegetables.

Dear Douglas, we MUST invite this Man, for the meal.

He owned a Tavern in Florence, in partnership with Sandro Boticelli.

In his Tavern, called «The Three Snails», he serrved inventive exotic meals, and entertained his guests with his Luth playing and the anecdotes he invented.

Must have been a treat!

Ladies and Gentelman, Boys and Girls, from around the world I welcome you to THE THREE SNAILS TAVERN featuring the best SPAGO MANGIABILLE you will find north of the north pole.

In today's broadcast we will be TREATED to the GREATEST MINDS this planet, has to offer (being the only planet known to have such life forms it was not to difficult) as they attempt to choose out of all of the wonderful guests invited to dinner the final six to sit at our table and enjoy drink, food and challeging questions asked.

The final guests will begin tonights festive dinner with our own, and I mean our ONE and ONLY MIXOLOGIST< put our hands together for the own the olny RGer with a mind like a steal trap and wit like a fish out of water VILEMAR MIXTURE and his exciting cashew juice and codfish tail pourd slowly into an old soup can filled with frozen square shaped H2O

Preparing our dinner for the past three days in hiding a da Vinchi family recipie SPAGO MANGIABILLE prepared by our, get ready for it, one more time put your hands together and welcome the one and only, live this morning from behind the many eco friendly fire pits our very own three named chief MARIA BETTENCOURT PIERS!!!!.. 

Louder, Louder, Louder, Here we go. ITS time to argue for the final six to sit at the table.

Dear friends,

The rules are simple, and my work complected due to the fact it is all up to you to decide our historic dinner at Three Snails Tavern. I will shortly send out a list of those who received the most invitations to be included in the top 12. Ties will count and so the list may be long but Once posted please chose from the list six, (Ljubomir I still have no clue as to why six) adding a sentence or two as to why they should be seated at the final table. This evening U.S. Mountian time I will begin the very difficult task (now remember I flunked differential equations not one, not twice, but thee times and my dream of being a world famous architect were left shattered and to this day I carry a resentment against anything math oriented) of COUNTING your nominations( God I hope IO have enough fingers and toes) to reveal the final eight.

The rules for that will become dastardly in nature but real fun in reality (I promise) maybe. The last vote will be taken and the six most interesting man/women you the RGers want to have sitting at the RG table here at THREE SNAILS CAFE in downtown Milky Way, Planet Earth, PO Box Third Planet from the big nuclear reactor SUN-Downer One, Zip Code 23 (pairs of in a what) 160 (dollar amount of this substance the human body is worth) 6.916 BILLION (of these bipedal creatures) roaming the earth, and 6 (the number of votes each of you get to cast in the semifinals of the SIX MOST WANTED HISTORICAL PEOPLE EVER VOTED FOR BY THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS THIS LITTLE ROCK HAS EVER PRODUCED, TO SIT AND HAVE DINNER WITH ALL THE RGers OUT THERE.

THIS IS WHO THE H... IS THIS GUY SIGNING OFF UNTIL I SEE YOU BY VOTE

Douglas R. Daugherty

Let the best and most entertaining reasons elect the six, Have fun, enjoy, and come together. Demonstrate for the world we RGers rock the house!!!!!      

P. S. List will be posted within the hour!

Dear @Douglas, you have only 5 minutes left according to your last response! I do wait! :)

Douglas, already running extra time! :)

FIRST PLACE GANDHI

SECOND PLACE IS A FIVE WAY TIE WITH JESUS CRIST, da VINCHI TESLA, NEWTON, AND EINSTEIN,,

THIRD BEETHOVEN AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT

FOURTH IS THAT LOVABLE GUY ADOLPH HITLER

CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY MYSELF AND MARIA WITH TWO BUT WE CANNOT SIT AT THE TABLE,

SO WE HAVE 11 AND NOW CHEATING AS A DICTATOR SHOULD I PICK NUMBER 12 AND THAT IS A TIE BETWEEN PHILOSOPHERS DAVID HUME AND EMANUEL KANT TO REPRESENT BOTH SIDES OF THE SCIENTIFIC DEBATE RAGING ON AND ON AND ON...

THE VOTING AND ARGUMENTS BEGIN NOW

DD

Dear friends

Remember each of you get six votes and one vote per guest please.

at the end of the voting period I will tally the votes and the top eight will then be decided by you the RGers. 

I hope we as RGers can come together and let the world know that by reasoned and rational arguments researchers from across the globe, cross cultures, religious beliefs, and philosophical differences not only embrace these differences but cherish and foster the respect do in the interest of peaceful and civil intellectual debate and issues such as who sits down to the table as we break bread in hopes all will drink and eat well one day across this tiny little rock we call home!

I thank you all, 

With love in my heart, playfulness in my fingers as I type, but serious as a man for the betterment of humankind, in the quest for science to one day blaze the path to a planet living in harmony with each other under equity, justice, peace, and love for all my human brothers and sisters past, present, and future!!!

Douglas 

I would vote for Einstein for the second place... for modern, scientific and rational thinking..he was much more than a mere scientist.. he was a philosopher, philanthropist and a thinker...

Third for Beethoven, because we already have a conquer in Hitler at the fourth place...we need to cool down the discussion with some nice music...

Last I would vote for Kant, for reason and aesthetics...which make him more logical and diverse... 

Dear sirs!

I 've lost my schedule, trying to translate Leonardo's cooking menu for the banquet !

If Leonardo is the cook, there will be one more place, to sit Attilla the Hun, that Douglas strangely forgot to include. (siiting next to Jesus Christ and Kant)

You also forgot Jim Morrison, so I now propose to invite Janis Joplin, to sing Schubert's Trout, accompanied on the Luth by Leonardo.

I cannot sit next to Douglas, because I expect that we are both loud laughers, I'd sit Einstein between us both, because I don't understand the speed of light.

!!!

HERE'S LEONARDO'S PROPOSAL OF EXQUISITE MENU, COMPOSED FOR THE BANQUET OF LUDOVICO SFORZA, DUKE OF BARI  

It took me a long time, to translate from the Portuguese Version of Leonardo's Notebooks. (Hope not to write with too many spelling mistakes - I did use the Dictionary - )

1. A rolled anchovy, on top of a slice of turnip, scupted in the form of a frog;

2. Another anchovy, spiraled in turn of a fine herb;

3. One carrot, superbly sculptured;

4. The heart of an artichoke;

5. Two halves of preserved cucumber, on top a lettuce leaf;

6. The breast of a small canorous / song-bird;

7. One peacock egg; 

8. The testicule of a lamb, with milk-cream (serve cold);

9. One frog leg, on top of a dandelion leaf;

10. Boiled unboned lamb foot.

Apparently, Ludovico disregarded this exquisite Menu, much probably because he refused to eat cold lamb testicles.

As You have done statistics, the six people for dinner are Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein! Am I right?

Dear Douglas, please forgive me not to want to sit next to you. 

But now that  Imanaged to place both my answers within the hour, I must confess that this choice of people looks a bit like a bad-taste banquet of the living dead, fled directly from Michael Jackson's Thriller

!!!

I must be sitted, because my Mom forbids me to run with scisors in my hands.

Dear all, 

Remember my friends this is not the final vote, I counted and listed the top twelve individuals who had received the most guest invitations.

I then listed them as Gandhi number one, Jesus Christ, da Vinchi, Newton, Einstein, and Tesla. Next came Adolph Hitler and next Beethoven and Alexander the Great followed by Hume and Kant, with as Maria has reminded all of us Atilla, Morrison and the voice Janis Joplin.

Out of these 14 individuals we must together pick the 8 who move forward into the final round as our guests in the THE THREE SNAILS TAVERN for warm drink and cold dinner.

Therefore I would  as Ankur has done pick your own personal 6 guests out of the 14 I have listed above. This will remove six of the names when the vote is counted at 11 pm tonight Mountian Time U.S.

These are my votes and the reasons I am arguing,

Janis Joplin. There has never been a more powerful voice in rock and roll and when shee sings "Take another piece of my heart baby" I go to places I have been before.

Adeloph Hitles gets one vote because I just need to know why?

Proceed using both Ankur's and my model and the results will announced tonight .

. I hope this helps,

Douglas 

Great fun, dear Douglas !

(I do hope you don't aprover that lunatic menu...)

I do vote for:

1. GANGHI;

2. LEONARDO;

3. ALEXANDER;

4. KANT, (with a Book of Yung...);

5. NEWTON;

6. ATTILA, the Hun (In honour of my hero Viriato)

I'll try and find some beautiful quotes from each of them, and we can continue with an imaginary conversation, that might enlighten Research Gate. (I do wonder what quotes I'll get from Attila...)

Dear Maria,

Maybe a salute to the your surprise dinner you have been cooking over the echo friendly open flames for the past 3 day's. I do it is off the da Vinchi menu!!!

By the way how is the cashew with cod tail drink. The cod was well salted!!!!

The votes are coming in who will be seated at the RG 1st annual Meeting of the Minds Historical Dinner and D.....?

I would also suggest some topics be sent in that could win and be the topic of the conversation!!!

Again I thank all of you,

Douglas

Dear all voters,

You have all had time to look over the guest list and as you know there are 14 guests for only six chairs at the first annual RGers DINNER WITH HISTORIES FINEST here in downtown 3rd planet from the THE BIG YELLOW BOPPER at THE THREE SNAILS TAVERN.

Contestants you all know you get one vote for person and after they are tallied we shall begin the evening 7,000 RGers and six of greatest and histories.

Also there has been an additional request by the Pres of RG when you vote please also chose a topic to be discussed.

I will check in from time to time but know is the time vote!

Douglas 

Dear Concha,

Given the probable ending to dinner you choices may indeed be needed. I just wonder how Van Der Rohe will get along with Darwin as he looks/thinks/and experiments to explain the evolution of buildings.

I think you Concha and good heath be with you

Douglas 

Dear Maria,

Here you are a quote of Attila:

"It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own."

Dear Douglas,

I would call:

Michelangelo Buonarroti (a great genius of art)

Nikola Tesla (a great physical)

Scott Fitzgerald (a great writer of Jazz Era)

Miguel Nicolelis (a great brazilian neuroscientist)

Frédéric Chopin ( a great composer)

Dilma Roussef (President of Brazil, in my opinion a representative woman)

Best Regards,

Vanessa

Dear Vanessa,

Lets see, art Jazz music, composer, President (that way you get good seats), a scientist (great idea maybe he can invent a defense against the upcoming spaghetti fight, and just incase a neuroscientist.

That is a great table,

Thank you so much,

Douglas

Dear Shaban,

You are to kind,

How many tables would it take for all your friends to attend?

Thank you so much for your comments

Douglas

Dear Richard Gonzales,

I would be happy to split the bill of that dinner with you if I were invited to be a few hours with that group you chose.

Dear all,

I want to thank all of you for your time and suggestions. 

Special thanks to Maria, Vilemar, Andras, Ljubomir, Subhash, and Ankur for there many great posts and humor!!!

The final voting starts know with three table settings according to total votes received throughout this thread. Please vote for either table A, B, or C.

To avoid a tie please give a brief argument as to why you think table A,B,C should be the first ever/annual RG'S evening and History Guests Dinner and Discussion.

THE THREE SNAILS TAVERN with their world famous da Vinchi family recipe SPAGO MANGIABILLE.

This event's respect is due to the prestige of the RG members who have voted for these 18 finalists.

Remember you vote for one table, one table only. This will be a tough vote but I look forward to reading the reasons and arguments for each table!!!

Douglas

Dear all, 

Dear All,

After being pulled into RG Head Quarters for a little "re-tuning in my reading algorithm the RG authorities made it clear that 3 choices were not enough and so they forced us to add two more tables.  A fourth table, (table D) has been added by RG higher ups due to what they felt were natural groupings. 

Table E however is as they say a mystery. All that is known about table E is that an RG member has chosen six dinner guests. Remember RGers only vote for a table!!!

Vote as early and as often as you can to ensure your dinner guests will be at your table.

Table A, We call this table, "creation/space/Church and alien" Table.  Just imagine the questions and comments made by all!

Jesus, Muhammad, Gandhi,  Buda, H. von Bingen, and C. Vonnegut

Table B, We like to call, "space/time/and thought" What questions would you like to ask these fine members of the sciences?

Aristotle, Archimedes, Copernicus,  I. Newton,  Galileo, and A. Einstein. 

Table C, Is called, "Let me see what happens if". This table is filled with the greats of science and discovery. What question is on your mind fellow scientists?

da Vinci, Tesla, Edison, Dokuczajew, Lovoisier, and J. Lennon

Table D,

The "cool man murders reunion" table. These great warriors are ready to explore the deepest regions of the mind through violence and the root cause of said acts. 

Atilla the Hun, Gangus Kahn,  Alexander the Great, Hitler,  Stalin, and Lenin. 

Table E, the mystery table! I wonder who could be sitting here awaiting your penetrating questions? 

There you have them RGers the top 24 in the 2015 RG bring a historic guest to dinner party.

I truly look forward to reading your replies friends.

In great administration,

Douglas 

Devils advocate here, I would be the audacious one pulling a few from this and from that to create and eclectic group! I guess I kinda like table E! Wish I had seen your question earlier! I cannot wait to see the outcome!

Dear Carla and Brenda,

Thank you much for the response!

Table E does has that sort of mystery quality to it.

@ Carla, well let us see the table you would put together!!

@ Brenda Merlin disappeared on me,  Florence was attending to Alexander setting the stage for nurses doing all the work and never getting enough credit, Boleyn could not find her head in time, and Marilyn turned right instead of left and caught "The Midnight Train to Georgia"!

Dear Shaban,

Well my friend I really do not know what to say except, in re-reading the instructions I see no number limit on table E. 

I wonder if it is just an oversight or....

Thank you Shaban for your insights as we move toward the end of voting and the beginning of dinner.

Douglas

The six people for dinner -- Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein!

Along with these to have live dinner, I invite:

1. Few RG members those are specialists in initiating discussion by asking questions

2. Few RG members those are specialists in answering questions

3. Few RG members whose presence is essential as critique

4. Few RG members whose presence is essential to praise the discussion

5. Some my personal friends and introduce them with all.

Dear Subhash and Concha,

Gentelmen, I thank you for you replies.

@ Subhash, May I have a sample of how you would introduce your friends to to all?

@ Concha, If you were given the responsibility of comming up and asking the first question to table B what would it be? 

Again I thank you for your kindness, time, and thoughts on this question.

Douglas

Dear Douglas,

I had not followed your thread but I am curious as to whether the names of Tolstoy, Bertrand  Russell, Darwin and Linus Pauling (one of the top 20 all-time scientists, one of the two most recognized scientists of the 20th century, the other being Einstein) were included in the lists?

Thanks and regards...

Dear All

The people I invite to a dinner in the first place are my similar deceaseds because without them nothing would have marked me neither in time nor in space. Next come those to whom I have great admiration according to their attributes and actions:

- Emir Abdelkader, man of faith and Sufi. This man in 1860 through his influence has protected 12,000 Christians in Syria to Mount Lebanon

- Mahatma Gandhi for his humanism wisdom and political struggle without violence

- Mother Theresa's heart and faith woman who sacrificed her life to caring for lepers

- Nelson Mandela for his fight against apartheid

Good thread and a big list of invitees!

Dear Concha,

The honor was given by a random stroke of a putter out on the prstice green at our university's golf course. I put many names in a hat and the first 30ft put I made I pulled the name out and that's how you got the honor.