If you could have a conversation with anyone who is alive or dead

[Zippy]

I think I'd like to ask Doris Stokes how she can live with herself after conning so many sad and desperate people.

I realise there may be a paradox or two in there.

[Paddy]

If you could have a conversation with anyone who is alive or dead who would you choose?

What category does Jesus come under?

[NickFitz]

I've just been having a conversation with Al Murray on Twitter, about our school burning down in 1979.

[Robinho]

What category does Jesus come under?

Fictional characters.

I've gone for Simba in that category.

[Troll]

Fictional characters.

I've gone for Simba in that category.

There is a lot of supportive material that a person called Jesus actually existed between 2 BC and 36AD (ish) the argument is what manner of person was he - i.e. just another Prophet, Son of God, or a very very naughty boy ?

HTH

[Robinho]

There is a lot of supportive material that a person called Jesus actually existed between 2 BC and 36AD (ish) the argument is what manner of person was he - i.e. just another Prophet, Son of God, or a very very naughty boy ?

HTH

I knew this actually.

I just wanted to wind up Brillo.

[Troll]

I knew this actually.

I just wanted to wind up Brillo.

Fair doo's

[BrilloPad]

I knew this actually.

I just wanted to wind up Brillo.

Cos I am really bothered what anyone on an internet forum thinks.

FYI Jesus is alive or dead according to whether you have faith or not.

[Gibbon]

I'd like to ask Jesus of Nazareth wtf is going on

You'd be better off asking St Paul, without him Christianity would more than likely have been just another Jewish sect, just as St Peter wanted it it to be. It was Paul who argued for the relaxation of the Jewish customs that made it unpalatable to the gentiles i.e. circumcision, eating of pork etc. Interestingly one of the earliest surviving works of Christian art in Santa Pudenziana Rome show's the still existent split between the church of the circumcision headed by St Peter and the church of the ex circumcision headed by St Paul. BTW this Friday is the feast day of St Paul's conversion.

[NotAllThere]

...FYI Jesus is alive or dead according to whether you have faith or not.

No. I don't think his vitality is based on whether you have faith. He either is or he isn't - your beliefs on the matter are irrelevant.

Since Peter was the first pope, is the church of the circumcision the forerunner of the catholic church? (There's little evidence that Peter was part of the circumcision movement in any case - he seems rather to have come under pressure from the movement, and didn't stick up for his principles - hence his rebuke from Paul).

Anyway... Ezekiel, Gilgamesh, Feynman.