In your opinion, who is/was the greatest human being of all time?

[reggaerae]

jesus

Isnt all that impressive.

 

[reggaerae]

Psh Jesus was nothing compared to Moses, dude parted the seas, climbed a big ass mountain and chatted with god, plus he had a kid when he was 90 way to go gramps.... lets not mention that he almost dabbled in a little child sacrifice later on

Yeah, but was Moses literally God? What's better, parting the Red Sea, or creating the universe? I'm not talking bad about Moses, but Jesus pretty much wins this one.

So Jesus=God now? Seriously, I suppose not being all that religious has left me rather ignorant of most biblical matters but sense when did Jesus create the universe?

But...God didnt create the universe.

 

[reggaerae]

IMO Jesus Christ.
Died for all the sins of mankind out of compassion and forgiveness.

And his followers plunged science into 1500 years of complete blackout, I say we could have done without him.

Very well put, far more harm has been done than good.

 

[spartan231490]

Psh Jesus was nothing compared to Moses, dude parted the seas, climbed a big ass mountain and chatted with god, plus he had a kid when he was 90 way to go gramps.... lets not mention that he almost dabbled in a little child sacrifice later on

Moses didn't part the red sea, god parted the sea for him. Just had to point that out.

If fictional characters count, it is without competition, Gregory House, MD.
IRL people, It has to J. R. R. Tolkein. Tolkein effectively created the Fantasy genre. Without tolkein, this world would be a completely different and much less interesting place. No elder scrolls, no Dragon age, no dnd. There probably wouldn't have even been a star wars, although there might have.

 

[reggaerae]

Mahatma Gandhi the man who freed a nation through none violence

What, that peadophile? No joke, look it up.

 

[reggaerae]

It wasn't the Red Sea, it was the sea of reeds. Look up it, one of the many mistranslations of the Bible.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

I reckon Eve from the bible why? because without her there would be no Da Vinci NO Beatles No Elvis No Jesus

You know what is interesting? I haven't read all of them, but your post is the first one I've read that suggests a woman as the greatest human being of all time.

Actually, I think you just might be the only one.

 

[C_sector]

How about the person who invented the wheel? Sure this person might not have a name but it sure was an invention that changed humanity.

 

[Sallix]

Probably Tesla, his achievements were fantastic and if he hadn't lost funding due to things like fuel companies and Edison being bitches and preventing the pursuit of science, things could have been very different to what they are now.

 

[pope 1337]

the greatest person ever was abrahammy lincoln he had a for freeing the slaves and having the best beard ever and a stylin top hat

 

[DueAccident]

Not sure if anyone else said it, but Edward Jenner would rank pretty high on my list. He devised the cure for smallpox, which in and of itself would be a damn good achievement given how deadly that was, but also lead to and revolutionised the creation of vaccinations.
There's probably no other achievement that I can think of more important than that, given it's probable he has lead to more lives being saved than just about anyone, I'd hazard.

 

[oppp7]

Did anyone say Norman Borlaug yet? If not, WTF guys?
Edit: At least 2 people have said it, so that's good.

 

[VGStrife]

Ugg the caveman.

He discovered the secret of fire, pretty important if yo ask me...

Damn Ninja:

The 1st Cave person to make fire ...(Who said it was a guy anyway? Is that fact or just stereotyped enforced belief?)

 

[MrShowerHead]

Richard D. Winters

God bless that man

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

This is really hard question simply because, who affected the world in the most fields in the most positive way. I don't know.

My best bet is Hobbes, but I don't know if ever there was a more awesome and kind person then Hobbes.

 

[Baldry]

Me? Ron Burgundy? The doctor? Sthephen Fry? Marvinitus Martin Raymond Francisco Xiahou Sergei Magnus Barnabus Mahatma Felipe Gregorios Heinrich Jozef Habiboo Yertlebert Adelbert Chandler Stanislaus Bartholomew Constantine Maximillian Rutherford Cornelius Escobar Doritos Sanchez Agamemnon Hecatoncheires Horst Johannes Salvatore Jamal Muhammad Achmed Siegfried Giuseppe Abraham Roger Van Buren? http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Marvin_Van_Buren

Its really hard to choose when they are all so great!

 

[randomrob]

Hmm...Difficult....Very Difficult.... Probably either the guy who discovered fire or.....Aristotle.

 

[hurfdurp]

Sarah Jaffe, she is the guiding star of my entire life.

 

[oktalist]

Winston Churchill, that man was awesome.

That guy always shows up in lists of greatest people, however:
[ul]
[li]He decribed Mussolini as a "very great man."[/li]
[li]He advocated the use of chemical weapons to displace "primitive tribes."[/li]
[li]He said of the Japanese, "we will wipe the out, every last one of the, men women and children, there will not be a single one left on the planet."[/li]
[li]He authorised 226 members of the Nazi Security Battallions to fight alongside the British Army against the Greek Resistance which had just liberated Greece from Nazi occupation.[/li]
[li]He allowed Italian fascist war criminal Pietro Badoglio to escape charges.[/li]
[/ul]