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If you could change 1 person's mind about a specific subject, whose mind would you change and what subject would it be on?

Personally, I'd be hard pressed as I'd have to figure out which person is most influential in the debate as to whether or not corporations should be taxed at a lower rate. As some of you may know, the 12 congressmen are at an impasse regarding the lowering of $1.2 trillion from our budget. The sticking point? Republicans want the tax rate lowered for the top tier and for them to get tax cuts. This seems to me to be the stupidest thing ever and I'd like to bitchslap one of them into changing sides.

Either that or I'd make my wife a gamer.

Scarlett Johannsson's mind about not having sex with me.

I'd probably change my husbands mind on the subject of art being useless endeavour.

Echoing Charlie, Scarlett's decision not to post on Halforums. I think she'd make an excellent addition and we should actively recruit her.

She'd read this thread and be instantly creeped out. Of course, Calleja would come back...

Pfft, that's easy - I'd change the sultan of Brunei's decision to not give me half his fortune.

Then I can change EVERYONE'S mind about whatever I want.

You are a mad genius.

Dave said:

You are a mad genius.

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An embarrasingly large amount of my mental runtime is spent each day drifting into daydreams of how I can convince every person in america to wire me a dollar.

Become a televangelist.

GasBandit said:

An embarrasingly large amount of my mental runtime is spent each day drifting into daydreams of how I can convince every person in america to wire me a dollar.

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Baked beans.

I would change the mind of Warren Buffet to give me a grant of 10 million dollars just cause

Dave said:

Become a televangelist.

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When that guy released "I MADE A GAME WITH ZOMBIES IN IT" for iphone for a dollar, I smacked my forehead, realizing I'd been outdone.

Hitler's opinion about the Jews

Chibibar said:

I would change the mind of Warren Buffet to give me a grant of 10 million dollars just cause

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Copycat.

Allen who is Quiet said:

Hitler's opinion about the Jews

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Wouldn't he just find another minority to cast as the enemy of the state to bring about his rise to power?

Dave said:

Wouldn't he just find another minority to cast as the enemy of the state to bring about his rise to power?

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He hated all minorities equally. The Jewish and those of Jewish descent were the easiest to target at first, though, because people already had a dislike of them. From there it was simply his version of the perfect human (ie, eugenics). Anyone not fit to model as adonis was disenfranchised, and many more than just Jewish ended up in concentration camps.

The thing is, though, that without Hitler, I don't know that Germany wouldn't have done what it did - perhaps on a different scale, but even the UK and America were taking concrete steps toward a "better race" by adopting options such as sterilization of people not "fit" to have children.

Without the stark example provided by Hitler, we may today think eugenics is a reasonable way to speed up human evolution.

Dave's opinion about his opinion.

So many options:

The United States Military's mind on allowing me full access to certain facilities. (Oh the fun I would have)

The United Nation's stance on detonating Nuclear weapons. (Full Nuclear War can only benefit me at this point)

are the first two off the top of my head.

You are in rare form today, aint'cha?

Shego, both this answer and your answer over in the "how would you die" thread have been breaking the thread's rules (the other one said "no of old age/in 40 years, yours was essentially being murdered by your successor in 40 years). The US Military is not "one person." The United nations is not "one person." You get to choose ONE person to change their mind on ONE thing.

Because, by *your* rules, my "one thing" would be to change the mind of "the people of earth's decision to NOT shoot themselves in the head." Sloppy.

You're right, I'm half ass answering these between dealing with idiot people coming into my office.

That is my formal appology. There will be a package in the mail to truly explain glad I am you pointed that out.

I'd convince Jesus he wasn't Jesus. Nothing against Christianity, just kinda curious.

drifter said:

I'd convince Jesus he wasn't Jesus. Nothing against Christianity, just kinda curious.

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Life of Brian?

He'd still be famous. That water to wine trick would kill at parties.

Ooo and then he'd have been killed by the wine producers association.

I'd have convinced Hitler to keep at his artistic career instead. Because fuck why not?

stienman said:

He hated all minorities equally. The Jewish and those of Jewish descent were the easiest to target at first, though, because people already had a dislike of them. From there it was simply his version of the perfect human (ie, eugenics). Anyone not fit to model as adonis was disenfranchised, and many more than just Jewish ended up in concentration camps.

The thing is, though, that without Hitler, I don't know that Germany wouldn't have done what it did - perhaps on a different scale, but even the UK and America were taking concrete steps toward a "better race" by adopting options such as sterilization of people not "fit" to have children.

Without the stark example provided by Hitler, we may today think eugenics is a reasonable way to speed up human evolution.

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Well, that certainly takes the piss out of my answer.

In that case, I'd make Bill O'Reilly a bleeding heart liberal. But only after he becomes a well-known conservative pundit.

GasBandit said:

Life of Brian?

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Possibly. You gotta figure someone's gonna fill the vacuum. But then how successful would Christianity be? How would it impact Islam? And so on, and so forth.

Well, hell, if we're truly doing the religious time travel thing, then I'd convince Adam to kill Eve instead of f^$@ing her. Or vice versa, it works out the same.

and then he could be with steve the way he always wanted

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Possibly. You gotta figure someone's gonna fill the vacuum. But then how successful would Christianity be? How would it impact Islam? And so on, and so forth.

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Christianity was successful because the Emperor Constantine needed to stabilize the rash of sectarian disputes that were breaking out, and by establishing an official state religion and orthodoxy, he was able to institute order with himself as it's head.

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Well, hell, if we're truly doing the religious time travel thing, then I'd convince Adam to kill Eve instead of f^$@ing her. Or vice versa, it works out the same.

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Religious time travel to fictional events?

Biannoshufu said:

Religious time travel to fictional events?

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Using the secret magic of magnets and the tides!

Biannoshufu said:

Religious time travel to fictional events?

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Well, it's already been assumed by multiple people in this thread that Jesus was both real AND had mystical powers.

Null said:

Christianity was successful because the Emperor Constantine needed to stabilize the rash of sectarian disputes that were breaking out, and by establishing an official state religion and orthodoxy, he was able to institute order with himself as it's head.

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Okay, but without Jesus, does Christianity ever get large enough to warrant attention?

drifter said:

Okay, but without Jesus, does Christianity ever get large enough to warrant attention?

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Without Jesus, it isn't Christianity, so that's kind of a pointless question.

GasBandit said:

Well, it's already been assumed by multiple people in this thread that Jesus was both real AND had mystical powers.

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Well, I do believe the correct term would be "miracles"? (I did remember something from Bible studies back in the days)

Chibibar said:

Well, I do believe the correct term would be "miracles"? (I did remember something from Bible studies back in the days)

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Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to.

Null said:

Without Jesus, it isn't Christianity, so that's kind of a pointless question.

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Well, this is just a though experiment, but I don't think it's entirely pointless. Other so-called prophets would rise and fall. Does one of them essentially take Jesus's place? Would his followers turn him into the Messiah, as it has been accused of Jesus's followers? Would what follows approximate Christianity as we know it, or would it never gain traction?

drifter said:

Well, this is just a though experiment, but I don't think it's entirely pointless. Other so-called prophets would rise and fall. Does one of them essentially take Jesus's place? Would his followers turn him into the Messiah, as it has been accused of Jesus's followers? Would what follows approximate Christianity as we know it, or would it never gain traction?

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Given that there have been numerous others who claimed to be the Christ at various points in history, many around the same time as Jesus of Nazareth... I'm going to go with "never gain traction", because that's exactly what happened in all other cases.

GasBandit said:

Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to.

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I'd probably try to change the Pope's mind about homosexuality. I'd love to read that headline.

Regardless, the world is gonna fuck itself up one way or the other, one opinion isn't going to change that.

drifter said:

Well, this is just a though experiment, but I don't think it's entirely pointless. Other so-called prophets would rise and fall. Does one of them essentially take Jesus's place? Would his followers turn him into the Messiah, as it has been accused of Jesus's followers? Would what follows approximate Christianity as we know it, or would it never gain traction?

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Well, it probably wouldn't gain traction, but what I mean is that if there was no "the Christ", it wouldn't be "Christ-ianity", and it follows that, since the apostles were followers of Christ, if there were no Christ, the apostles wouldn't have met or associated together, hence no nucleus for a new religion to form around. For that matter, without the koine of Latin or Greek, the rabbi and carpenter Jesus of Nazareth would have been a local folklore figure at best, since his teachings simply wouldn't have spread through cultural barriers - a unified trade language let word of his lessons and actions spread throughout the region. Actually, without the persecution by the Romans supplying the oppressive authority, he would have been a disruptive teacher among others and very possibly been forgotten in time, except as a footnote in some religious scholarly records. No crucifixion means no martyrdom and resurrection, meaning no Christianity.

Islam probably wouldn't be all that different as a system of belief, since it is derived from the Old Testament. The following conflict between Western Christianity and Middle Eastern Islam, however, might be very different. If the Romans had never adopted Christianity, the Germanic Tribes would never have converted, and so Europe would be an absolute mess of pantheons with purely local concerns. The unifying force of Islam might very well have found fertile ground for their religion there.

Well, Christ is essentially a title, not a proper name, correct? Any prophet could have called himself the Christ. The question is how well would it stick. Also, the concept of Christ was around before Jesus was ambling about (afaik; If I'm wrong then disregard this, I suck cocks), so even without Jesus, there is the possibility of Christianity in some form or another.

drifter said:

Well, Christ is essentially a title, not a proper name, correct? Any prophet could have called himself the Christ. The question is how well would it stick. Also, the concept of Christ was around before Jesus was ambling about (afaik; If I'm wrong then disregard this, I suck cocks), ....

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i forgot what the rest of this thread is about now.

I would change my mother's mind about the need to take me to a psychologist and put me on antidepressants when I was a teenager. I don't know if it would have made me a better person but perhaps I would have been someone I liked more.

My own mind about posting this.

My friend Mike's mind about the 'wisdom' of allowing people to conceal/carry wherever he would choose. Right now he's freaking out about the businesses (including banks, calling them leftist fucks, etc) that put up signs asking customers to not bring weapons into their place of business.

I'd like to change my own mind about a lot of things. When I was in Tianjin, I was talking to a british friend of mine about how I was having a discussion/argument over Chinese politics and government. He said "Man, you are SO American, why do you feel the need to start int he first place?"

I thought about it, and he was right in a way. However, I've never convinced myself not to push points that I feel are valid, regardless of the response I'd get. There are times when i should shut my mouth, but I always find a reason to go on. So I'd like to change my own mind.

Don King's hairdresser.