Happy Good Friday, Modern Philosophers! Even if you’re not religiously inclined to think of today as Good Friday, when is a Friday never not good? The weekend is here!
And it’s Easter weekend. I’ve been writing about Easter all week, so the Think Tank is going to focus on the holiday as well.
You all remember how this works, right? You put on your Deep Thinking togas, I pose a question, and then we all ponder on it and share our answers. Let’s really generate the Deep Thoughts since it is the holiday weekend.
This week’s topic: If you could choose any person to rise from the dead to spend Easter with you, who would it be?
Let’s keep this worthy of the Modern Philosopher Code, friends. We’re not talking gory, Zombie re-animations here. I just mean if any deceased person could return to the ranks of the living to spend the day with you, who would it be? In this Deep Thought exercise, the person is alive and well, and not a rotting corpse.
I would pick my Mom. She died when I was three, and I have absolutely no memory of her. I would like a chance to meet her, let her see the man I’ve become, and ask her the millions of questions I’ve had bottled up inside my head my whole life. Everyone tells me I’m so much like her, so I’d like to finally have a chance to know what that means. I’d like to know what it’s like to be hugged by my Mother and to hear the words “I love you” from her lips. I would take the opportunity to commit as many things to memory about her as possible so that I could access them for future reference.
What about you, Modern Philosophers? The person doesn’t have to be someone you once knew. It could be a historical figure, or some total stranger that you heard your friends talking about, but never got to meet.
Remember, there are no wrong answers. I look forward to reading your comments…
Since Jesus has already risen I’ll see Him when we’ll go to be with Him. Would be nice to see my Mom’s Dad again…so he can see me all grown up—he died when I was only a few years old, but we seemed to have kindred spirits!
Thank you for sharing, J. That sounds like a wonderful choice. Happy Easter!
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WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE AGAIN?—Jonathan
nice choice on your part, i would choose my sister, who was a year older, my best friend and roomie since birth, who was killed when we were in our twenties, so we could see our children grown, chat, catch up, laugh, and divide our shared bedroom in two with duct tape again. (even though she was a year smarter and got the part with the door)
Thank you for sharing that. Sounds like a great choice for you and would make for a wonderful Easter… 🙂
My deep thinking toga is at the cleaners. I have the party one, or the formal dinner one. Or the one I put on when I am working on the chariot…
It doesn’t matter what you wear. Share your thoughts on this week’s topic please…
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Ooooh oooh… I would choose Jesus because… wait what? Oh, I have been told that he already came back from the dead, so that doesn’t count. Ummmmm. Lincoln would be cool. I want to find out if he really freed the slaves because he thought it was wrong or it was just a means to an end. But if I can only pick one, it would be my best friend John, who died of brain cancer about 8 years ago. I guess I just miss him.
That’s a great answer. Sorry about your loss…
That was a really good question. So many ways to go.
Thanks. I try to make the Think Tank question something can induces Deep Thoughts and can be answered in any number of ways. 🙂
I look forward to more of those.
Every Friday night, my friend…
Still not my best thinking night…
Here’s a little secret…my blog posts don’t expire! You can read them another day of the week and send in your Deep Thoughts then. The wonders of the internet, am I right??? 😉
The truth is I am not that much better at thinking on other days of the week. But I am looking forward to stretching my resources in this manner.
We all expand eventually… 😉
Ha…
My father was my best friend and not a day passes that I wouldn’t like to spend time with him. He was ill when he left this earth a few days before his 94th birthday but I’d love to hang out with Dad once more.
I miss my Dad so much, too. I’m sorry for your loss and hope this question gave you a chance to at least think what a joy it would be to see him again…
Austin – The question you posed is one of the most heartfelt questions I’ve read that gave me cause to ponder in a positive way in a very long time. Thank you for the gift.
You’re welcome. Just a Modern Philosopher doing his thing… 😉
Ok, you have me wringing out my toga on this one Austin. Darrin, movie star beautiful, James Dean personality, and best friend to my brother since they were in diapers. Stubborn, headstrong and loyal like a well fed puppy. Somehow, though loved and copied by everyone, he decided he loved me. Freaked me out. How can I live up to him? So I ran, far away. And died when he was killed in a motorcycle accident. Im still haunted. If I could only have one moment to tell him that I really did love him back.
You know the romantic answers are going to get to me. So tragic, and yet, so much like something out of a movie. Awesome answer…thank you for sharing. Sorry you never got a chance to tell him you loved him…
So much is in our hearts and so little comes out of our mouths. Fears, embarrassment, uncertainty all collaborate to stop the flow of one’s deepest emotions. And then the moment, or time, passes and one is lost to memory and fantasy of what could be.
🙂
I would choose my grandfather. He died when I was 5 or 6. He was my first experience with death, so I did not cry at his funeral. I didn’t really know what death meant. When I was 10, my dog died, and I cried a little because my dog died… but I cried a lot because I felt guilty about “not crying” when my grandfather cried.
Understanding death…Modern Philosophers had no idea how to handle it as youths. Do we even really know how to understand it now as adults?
I’m going to go historical on this one, as I’m lucky enough to still have my parents and don’t feel like I have unfinished business or have lost touch with those I’ve lost (a benefit of being a mystic – it always feels like they’re with me). I’d raise William Shakespeare and have a nice, long chat. Find out about his lost loves, his inspirations, his favorite parts of his work. And show him some of my poetry too, just to see what he’d say.
How do you think he’d react to finding out how famous he is? Maybe he’d decide to stick around as a ghost and spend more time with you… 😉
Yes, my mum, too. I miss her still. However, I suspect she’d spend a bit of time with me then get engrossed in the hills and pastures outside my window – something she didn’t have when she was alive as we lived in a city. It’d be nice to ‘give’ her that as a present.
Awww…you’re the first person to mention giving a gift to the person who returns for the day. Very generous of you. Your Deep Thoughts are kind. 🙂
I will put my tie-dye toga on and invite my grandfathers for tea. I have not had the happiness to know them so I would be nice to meet them. Albert Einstein would be invited too and Eleanor Roosevelt to knit with her.
Ah, so you went outside of the box and invited 3 people. I like it! A good Modern Philosopher never allows the mind to be contained. And I love the idea of a tie dye toga! 🙂
Tie dye toga is your idea actually, when I went back in time to Woodstock earlier this year !
Ah, I am wise, but forgetful then… 😉
I am so lucky to have all my parents & grandparents (plus an extra grandma who married into the family a gazillion years ago). I would choose Alexander the Great to be my ghostly companion – he was not only a formidable leader, but a brilliant entrepreneur. He also created the first library (in Alexandria) to attempt to collect everything that was EVER written. He not only made his own rules, but he created his own culture. How cool is that!?
Very cool, which make you cool by association. 🙂