Who is the most influencial man(or woman) ever?

KK · Post by KK » 2003-07-01 04:57pm

Hitler's a big one.

Gambler · Post by **Gambler** » 2003-07-01 04:57pm

I think that would be Jesus Christ whether we like it or not.

Edit: Maybe not him in person but think about the things his followers have done in his name.

Enola Straight · Post by **Enola Straight** » 2003-07-01 06:17pm

Indeed, without Abraham, there would be no Moses or Mohammed, either.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-07-01 06:40pm

Abraham most definately.

Unless you believe in the Adam and Eve story

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-07-01 07:09pm

I say, the guy who invented the wheel.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-07-01 07:53pm

Nikola Tesla has had the greatest effect on modern society.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-01 07:58pm

Mitochondrial Eve.

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2003-07-01 08:08pm

The inventor of lesbians.
Or Bill and Ted.

But seriously, abraham or jesus. They made too many damn wars with their religion to be ignored.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-07-01 09:11pm

I'd say Abraham or Jesus too, as they were starters of large religion. But, I'd say Thomas Edison and Ben Franklin were influential people, as Edison invented a crapload of stuff, and Franklin was an inventor and Founding Father.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-07-01 09:20pm

Da Vinci was also quite influencial, as was vidal sassoon.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-07-01 09:29pm

The inventor of sliced bread.

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2003-07-01 09:38pm

GAT, would you rather have sliced bread or a pair of lesbians.
I rest my case.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-01 09:55pm

Jesus is a good one, King David's also another (since Abraham hasn't even been proven to exist). I'd also have to say the Egyptian king that mandated the written language, the real Scorpion King.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-07-01 10:27pm

Sir Isaac Newton was very important, I think. Wasn't he one of the first people to really apply the scientific method correctly?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-07-01 11:53pm

Alexander the Great

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-07-01 11:53pm

Or perhaps William the Conqueror

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-07-02 12:38am

HemlockGrey wrote:Alexander the Great

Hardly. Just about everything he did was erased by the Arabs and Turks. The Romans didn't depend THAT much on the Greeks not from Greece.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-07-02 12:41am

HemlockGrey wrote:Or perhaps William the Conqueror

This makes more sense, as he sort of led to the British Empire.

I'm going to peg this on Paul right now, because he started the whole Pope thing and the Catholic church had so much influence on what happened in Europe and western Asia for a thousand years (through breaking with the Byzantines and then crusading).

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-02 01:53am

Edison stole so much shit. He patented 1000 things, sure, but he patented the inventions of people he HIRED for him. Some black dude came up with the modern lightbulb, Nikola Tesla designed countless dynamos for edison but was cheated out of the 40,000 dollars promised to him for just a SINGLE dynamo.

Edison was a bastard who only helped to make incandescent bulbs popular despite their uselessness. People had been using fluorescents and neon long before edison and his glowing wire.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-07-02 03:28am

Vorlon1701 wrote:Jesus is a good one, King David's also another (since Abraham hasn't even been proven to exist). I'd also have to say the Egyptian king that mandated the written language, the real Scorpion King.

Heck, even King David's existence is doubtful. One of the most influential persons in the Western world would have to be the schmuck who took Israelite mythology and wrote it down.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-07-02 04:42am

I'll have to say Abraham. He started this whole thing...

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-07-02 07:06am

I'd say "Eve", the strain of human that killed everybody else.

Tosho · Post by **Tosho** » 2003-07-02 07:34am

Napoleon. Not only did he sell louisiana alowing the U.S. to expand, his domination of the Confederation of the Rhine caused a surge of german nationalism which gave them the will to unite to become the German Empire. During his campaign in Egypt he legitimized it as a "mission to civilise" which effectively summed up the European attitude towards colonialism.

FU PICARD · Post by **FU PICARD** » 2003-07-02 08:24am

It would have to be the man whom invented the printed language. Nothing could have worked without it.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-07-02 08:45am

Why does everyone think that mitochondrial Eve was more influencial than Y chromosome Adam?

and what exactly did they do? They just happened to have lucky offspring of one gender...

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