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Who is the most successful person to have ever lived?

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Blurst
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Who would it be? Someone like Bill Gates who has revolutionized the entire world over the past 30 years. Or would it be someone like Alexander the Great who managed to conquer most of the known world at the time. Even someone like Jesus who whether or not you are religious, has impacted every day of your life.
Apr 30 2011 12:20PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Ghengis Khan.
Apr 30 2011 12:21PM
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Paul.Marik
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out of those three i would def go with jesus
Apr 30 2011 12:21PM
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wesley.
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johan guttenburg (spelling is most likely wrong) but he invented the printing press.
Apr 30 2011 12:24PM
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kootenayklaus
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Jesus never happened.

And Warren Buffet.
Apr 30 2011 12:25PM
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O-A_s
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John D. Rockefeller
Apr 30 2011 12:27PM
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Blurst
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I think that jesus was a real person just the historical accounts of what he did probably never happened.
Apr 30 2011 12:27PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Important, but not successful like Khan.

Seriously, dude went from a herding goats to ruling the largest empire the world has ever seen. Beat that.
Apr 30 2011 12:27PM
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kootenayklaus
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THat's essentially what I was trying to get at. If I ever have a kid I am naming him/her Jesus just to piss a bunch of Christians off.
Apr 30 2011 12:28PM
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1337
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came here to post that, but now that I think about the definition in the OP, it is probably someone like Alexander the Great or Kahn.
Apr 30 2011 12:29PM
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pinhead_larry
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Vladimir Lenin
Apr 30 2011 12:33PM
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AWALLRUS.
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yeah probably

also, donald trump, bill gates, and whoever ran the romans for the longest
Apr 30 2011 12:33PM
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Blurst
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Donald trump is not all that successful in the grand scheme of things. He just got rich because he started out rich.
Apr 30 2011 12:37PM
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Inbred_Redneck
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Hitler
Apr 30 2011 12:39PM
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BIGben*
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Jesus was, in real life history, a persin that acculy lived, his faith then you can judge that, but not his existence. But id go for in modern either alexandre bell or bill gates.
Apr 30 2011 12:41PM
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KRASHED
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Mother Theresa. Not a religious man by any means but she tops my list.
Apr 30 2011 12:41PM
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schism
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the guys from departures. that show is awesome, they seen and explored the world and make a living out of it. In my opinion they are extremely successful,

but for historical khan of james cook.
Apr 30 2011 12:42PM
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wesley.
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ok... Biff's other life in back to the future 2 where he's married to michael j fox's mom....

But for a more serious answer what about Emperor Nero? He was an asshole but enjoyed his life being a ruler. The people hated him but he seemed to be able to get whatever he wanted. He named a festival after himself, was know to throw parties where they would break expensive mineral glass for fun and drank goat milk with ground up pearls in it.
Apr 30 2011 12:48PM
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ReignMan
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napoleon
Apr 30 2011 12:53PM
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wesley.
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oh and Richard Branson he literally built all of his fortune by himself
Apr 30 2011 12:57PM
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soulskier
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we've probably never heard of him/her but he/she probably got more out of life than any of us
Apr 30 2011 12:58PM
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ColinB
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you sick fuck.


but it was funny hahaha
Apr 30 2011 12:59PM
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Blurst
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See I was thinking of including him but he failed in the end so...
Apr 30 2011 1:22PM
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dave44
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My Dad nearly named me Jesus. No joke.
Apr 30 2011 1:24PM
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Funkadelic
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From an evolutionary stand-point he absolutely was the most successful human being. He reproduced like mad.
Apr 30 2011 1:24PM
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ORDEAL
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Apr 30 2011 1:31PM
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Dwarftosser1
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I once read that 200,000 of Mongolia's 2 million people are his descendants, freaking insane reproduction.
Apr 30 2011 1:37PM
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.Cal.
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Oprah.
Apr 30 2011 1:40PM
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Blurst
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Thats impressive
Apr 30 2011 1:44PM
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DeSena
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who ever is happiest
Apr 30 2011 1:56PM
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ski@jaypeak2
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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. ~Bob Dylan
Apr 30 2011 1:59PM
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gr4
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many staunch Catholics name their kids Jesus. your plan fails.
Apr 30 2011 2:03PM
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AWALLRUS.
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thats a lot of fuckin inbred mongolians
Apr 30 2011 2:05PM
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]mike[
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he was only 2/3s successful with what he was trying to do, and he was a douche bag anyways. id call him unsuccessful
Apr 30 2011 2:07PM
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]mike[
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i tried that once, i ended up failing
Apr 30 2011 2:09PM
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eldridge
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lold pretty hard at whoever said donald trump....


I would have to agree with Genghis Khan
Apr 30 2011 2:34PM
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Piste.Off
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and mexicans
Apr 30 2011 2:36PM
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*Koolaid*
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the dos equis man
Apr 30 2011 2:44PM
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skithesprings
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son you are all sorts of dumb.

jesus is one of the most popular hispanic names and naming your child that would probably honor far more christians than piss them off.
Apr 30 2011 2:45PM
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VT_FLO
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John Maynard Keynes revolutionized economic policy and the business world which in turn prevented various recessions and depressions.
Apr 30 2011 2:49PM
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Trollolo
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"Success is doing more for the world than the world did for you" - Henry Ford.... always thought that was a great quote. Very true at least..
Apr 30 2011 2:55PM
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Mr.Turtle
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Andrew Carnagie
Ghengis Khan
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
Apr 30 2011 2:58PM
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BlakeLively
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eheath. duh.
Apr 30 2011 3:04PM
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I_Am_Mod
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i think we should first define "success"

is it economic welfare?
power?
happiness ?
influence on history?
biggest achiever?
etc....
Apr 30 2011 3:10PM
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Brenone
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Apr 30 2011 3:15PM
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lukemeahan.
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Theres too many people in way different times of the world. LIke Oprah and Bill Gates are probaly some of the most sussecful right now and then peoploe like jesus way back then
Apr 30 2011 3:17PM
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No_Dub
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j.p. morgan
Apr 30 2011 3:21PM
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The_Big_Tuna
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Click for larger image this guy
Apr 30 2011 3:21PM
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poptarts4life
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Anakin Skywalker. Went from slave to darth vadar.
Apr 30 2011 3:24PM
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alex.bgk.
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hahaha very much appreciated
Apr 30 2011 3:31PM
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iSmokeweed
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i was thinkng the same thing
Apr 30 2011 3:38PM
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