10 favorite thinkers/geniuses

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Who are your ten favorite thinkers/geniuses? (or five, if you don't have that many)

1. Soren Kierkegaard
2. Ludwig Wittgenstein
3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5. Johann Sebastian Bach
6. Immanuel Velikovsky
7. Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Albert Einstein
9. Charles Darwin
10. Franz Kafka
 
Leonardo de Vinci
Aristotle
whoever built the Egyptian/Aztec/Inca Pyramids and astronomical charts
 
There are a million great minds to chose from all from different realms (art, philosophy, writers, political leaders, science):

Galielo
Issac Newton
Madame Currie
Pablo Picasso
Michelangelo
Machiavelli
Plato
Shakespear
Socrates
The Mayas
Martin Luther King
 
Isaac Newton
William Shakespeare
Frederich Neitze
Socrates
Plato
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Lord Dunsany
Salman Rushdie
Prof Daniel Robinson
Emily Dickenson
Douglas Adams
 
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LeiYunFat said:
Immanuel Kant
Thomas Aquaintas
The Dalai Lama
Buddha
Christ
Siddihartha (lol)
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Siddhartha Gautam was the Buddha. Siddhartha Gautam was his original name before he attained enlightment under Bodhi tree and people started to called him Buddha. He was also known as Shakyamuni.
 
Yeah, but it can be interpreted that Siddihartha and Buddha were two different people, in the sense that the person at the beginning was completely different from the one at the end.
 
LeiYunFat said:
Yeah, but it can be interpreted that Siddihartha and Buddha were two different people, in the sense that the person at the beginning was completely different from the one at the end.
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Only if you use a very funny logic.:)
It is like saying "I change my name every 5 years because I am mentally/physically bit different than before. And I have new passports/ID cards and bank accounts every 5 years."

True, he became the enlightened one but you would not list him twice as two different people.

By the way it is "Siddhartha" and not "Siddihartha". "Siddihartha" does not mean anything - it is probably a misnomer or incorrect spellings for Siddhartha.

Siddhartha, is made up of two Hindi words, Siddh + Artha, where Siddh means 'Proven' and Artha means 'Meaning'
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(disambiguation)
http://www.tourismofindia.com/hibuddh/buddh_siddharth.htm
 
Buddha was awakened, Siddhartha was not. People don't hate the Hitler child, they hate what he became.

What I admire about Siddhartha was that he had the courage to take the Eight Fold Path, and actually ended up paving it. The logic is not funny at all, it exemplifies the ideal that men are responsible for their own destinies. Siddhartha wasn't born a Buddha. Hitler wasn't born a monster.
 
LeiYunFat said:
Buddha was awakened, Siddhartha was not. People don't hate the Hitler child, they hate what he became.

What I admire about Siddhartha was that he had the courage to take the Eight Fold Path, and actually ended up paving it. The logic is not funny at all, it exemplifies the ideal that men are responsible for their own destinies. Siddhartha wasn't born a Buddha. Hitler wasn't born a monster.
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I can only be glad that you admire Siddhartha or Buddha coz I am a Buddhist.

I hear what you are trying to say but I still find it funny that you would list Siddhartha AND Buddha in the list as two people when it is just one person.

Anyway, if you know that Siddhartha and Buddha mean the same person then it is not too bad. Really, the reason for my first message was that I got the impression that you did not know that Siddhartha and Buddha meant the same person.

Peace!
 
Cool. I just think it is slightly strange for you, being a Buddhist, to call it "strange logic," though. Well, maybe I just had to explain myself. Be easy my friend.
 
LeiYunFat said:
Cool. I just think it is slightly strange for you, being a Buddhist, to call it "strange logic," though. Well, maybe I just had to explain myself. Be easy my friend.
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Coz I am Buddhist thats why I was surprised to find him twice in your list.
We Buddhists donot refer to him as two different people. We know that he attained enlightment and became awakened. We treat him as one person not two.

Anway, peace!
 
ManLondon said:
Coz I am Buddhist thats why I was surprised to find him twice in your list.
We Buddhists donot refer to him as two different people. We know that he attained enlightment and became awakened. We treat him as one person not two.

Anway, peace!
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lol...I guess I must not be Buddhist, then. Or maybe I should start another sect that refers them as different people.

I think it's a shame if you're going to leave it at that and not aknowledge that they can essentially be two different people. Think of it this way:

Would you venerate me as I am now? I am not by any means qualified to earn that respect. Would you bow to me as your better and master now? No. What about when or if I attain Enlightenment? Would you listen to my words then? Would you treat me as your better? If you had no ego, your answer would be yes. You can become a Buddha. So can I. Does that make you a Siddhartha? A prince? Someone that is still attached?
 
LeiYunFat said:
I think it's a shame if you're going to leave it at that and not aknowledge that they can essentially be two different people. Think of it this way:

Would you venerate me as I am now? I am not by any means qualified to earn that respect. Would you bow to me as your better and master now? No. What about when or if I attain Enlightenment? Would you listen to my words then? Would you treat me as your better? If you had no ego, your answer would be yes. You can become a Buddha. So can I. Does that make you a Siddhartha? A prince? Someone that is still attached?
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A person who argues with or judges people who have been reading, following, practising, meditating and teaching something for hundreds of years, is either a super genius or plain arrogrant and stupid.

You reminded me of a this other person who argues with me on Buddhism even through he realises that I have read more books on Buddhism than he had uttered this word.
 
1.George W. Bush
 
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