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yup make a top ten list of those who have impacted the world negative or positive, who out of the whole time of existance?

I don't adhere to the "Great Men" interpretation of history.

jesus positve
hitler negative
washington postive
graham bell positve
ghandi positive
bush negative
osama bin laden negative
mother teresa positive
wright brothers a little bit of both from there creation
jefferson positive

hmm i really have to think these are both positive and negative
being christian
1)Jesus Christ
2)Benjimin Frankilin
3)Alexander the Great
4)Julius Caesar
5)Napoleon
6)Hitler (negative but did imact world)
7)Leonardo DeVinci
8)Albert Einstein
9)Wright Brothers
10)..cant think of specific, but person who invented toilet paper, seriously

good list

the last one seriously think about it where would we be w/out that guy or woman? we'd be usin leafs or something else

well john crapper invented something i will let you take a guess

hmm i should show that guy in top 15

also the one you came up with sewers and running pipes and that stuff

what a great man

You actually think the Wright brothers have made a little bit of a negativeimpact on us? i just want to know how so, please tell me?

think of all the death and destruction planes have caused.

Zoroaster
Mohammed
Jesus Christ
Griots


actually forget this list^

i was thinking of trying to do something but it might start a controversy.

good night guyz

night

wow..i didnt know bush made a negative impact on the world and to be on the samelist as osama bin laden and hitler

Well, I don't know about the world, but these are the folks who have had the greatest impact on me, in no particular order:

1. Evel Kneivel (he was my first hero, when I was like 3 or 4)
2. Mike Patton (Musical Genius)
3. CS Lewis (Narnia)
4. Glenn Danzig (bands come and go, but The Misfits are one of the only bands I've liked almost my entire life)
5. George Lucas (not so much for Star Wars, but for all the cinema technology that he has given us)
6. Michael Moorcock (for introducing me to Chaos and Law)
7. Alex Ross (I can stare at his art for hours)
8. Ozzy Osbourne (Diary of a Madman was my first cassette)
9. Steve Cabalerro (Best all-around skater ever, and he's from San Jose, word)
10. Nolan Bushnell, and all the other video game pioneers.

Of course I've had friends, teachers and family that were huge in my life , but I kept the list to famous-type people.

George carlin

George Washington
Behtoveen
Shakespear
King James III
socrates
J.F.K
Bruce Lee
Aristotle
Michelangelo
Da vinci
Nelson mandela
Hitler
Martin Luthur
Stan Lee (personal favorite )
Chuck berry
Jimmy Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Oh yeah, and Indiana jones, he just da man

Well that should pretty much do it, save a few gengis Khaun, St. joan of arc, and some severely important inventors and discovers such as Ben franlin,Ahh the dude who said the world wasnt flat and also created greater microscopes, Yeah you know em good ol gally, i just dont remember how to spell his name. Also those cats who discovered Radium, i forget their names aswell, but remmeber the story. The husband and wife.
Not to mention a bobby fischer, Einstien, Hawkings, and maybe a Charlie chaplin or two. then we got our world of today more or less save a few names here and there , and or what not

boy this list was hard to make and narrow down...heres mine.

Abraham Lincoln ~16th President of the United States
(1863 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate state "are, and henceforward shall be free." )

Benjamin Franklin ~ writer, publisher, scientist and diplomat
(invented the lightning rod~Later scientists, like Michael Faraday and Thomas A. Edison, continued to study electricity using many of Ben's ideas)(also invented~bifocals,furnace stove and odometer)

Thomas Alva Edison ~ inventor
(Edison held 1,093 patents, including those for the incandescent electric lamp, the phonograph, the carbon telephone transmitter, and the motion-picture projector. He also created the world's first industrial research laboratory)

Alexander Fleming ~ bacteriologist
( discovered penicillin )

Edward Jenner ~ physician
(invented vaccination for smallpox and laid the foundations of modern immunology as a science)

Gavrilo Princip ~ Serbian political agitator
(he assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife at Sarajevo in 1914. His act precipitated World War I)

Adolf Hitler ~ founder and leader of National Socialism (Nazism), and German dictator
(Hitler's nonaggression pact with Stalin allowed him to invade Poland (Sept. 1), beginning World War II)
(also include here all Nazi leaders at Wannsee Conference who coordinated “final solution to the Jewish question”)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill ~ British statesman, soldier, and author
(“Iron Curtain” speech marks beginning of cold war. Of worldwide proportions, the conflict was tacit in the ideological differences between communism and capitalist democracy.)

Karl Marx ~ social philosopher
(the chief theorist of modern socialism and communism.)

Jesus Christ ~ 1st-century Jewish teacher and prophet
(followers of Jesus founded Christianity)


BKK's honorable mentions:
Prophet Muhammad founder of world religion Islam

Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and Dr. Luc Montagnier of France's Pasteur Institute independently identify Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS

columbus...
and galileo

1) Jesus (both positive and negative came out of this)
2) Octavion/Augustus (positive)
3) Christopher Columbus (overall positive)
4) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, it's disgusting how much of an impact he's had (positive AND negative)
5) Thomas Jefferson (positive)
6) Louis and Clark (positive)
7) Abraham Lincoln (positive)
8) Herbert Hoover (negative)
9) Hitler (negative)
10) FDR (positive)


there's a bunch of figures after this and more i could put in between the people i put on the list...but you asked for 10, you got 10...

1) Mrs Baylin - Positive and Negative, She gave me children...

2) George Lucas - Positive, Star Wars!

3) Da Vinci - Positive, So many amazing ideas

4) Edison - Positive, So many amazing realisations

5) Tolkien - Positive, For teaching me how to dream of fanastic worlds

6) Jimi Hendrix - Positive, For the inspiration

7) Hitler - Negative, Tried to force the world to live by his ideals

8) Bush - Negative, Tries to force the world to live by his ideals

9) Blair - Negative, Cos he tries to look hard by following 8's example

10) Me - Positive, Cos everyone should have a Baylin!

aww my God dude. You want to call ben franklin's impacts being positive and negative, but write Chris columbus off as an overall positive. Chris Columbus Gets all the credit. This guy was an idiot, and a savage. How the hell can you say that ben franklins impact has been, both positive and negative? I think you throw out words on your opinions to loosely without thinking. Shit, John Hancock had more of a positive impact on the world than Chris Columbus. This man stumbled upon gold that was already taken. Chris columbus defaintly has had a negative impact on the world.

I can't believe someone hasn't listed Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom yet...I mean this is KMC we're talkin about.

one person , ME

orlando bloom, johnny depp? what the hell are you talking aobut? Man they are like so last year, untill next year when they will be back again. Damn i guess they just keep on havin impats on us like every other year. Damn, i guess you are right they should be noted as great impactors in human life.

i agree, Johnny depp should deffenetly be here, just like brad pitt (how could he, after troy be forgotten??)
and i agree on the columbus thing, how is that overall positive, just stealing land from indians, because he discovered it! (how can you discover a place, which already has inhabitants)

Hitler had big inpact

yes he did...sure enough did. He inspired Arnold. Look at what he has done for us in the world. if hitler never slayed all those jews, brainwashd an entire country,and declared war on the world itself, tricking the japs into thinking they would join the krauts in world domination, then we would never have the Govenator. Damn that was a close one people, thank god for hitler

I'd like to take anyone who could answer the question "Who has had the biggest impact on the world" with "I dunno - but I do love George Lucas and some bands" outside and hold them underwater till I was certain that the gene pool would remain unpolluted by their stain forever more.

Thats just me tho. Im picky.

WOW...Badkitty...

You certainly went to a lot of trouble to fill that questionnaire !

Well done....And if I was not such an old cynic I would probably have made the exact same choices !

As I AM an old cynic I will say that the people who have made the greatest impact EVER are the faceless and nameless heads of the multinational corporations.

These are the people who make your life easy or difficult or safe or dangerous or cheap or expensive.

We will NEVER know for certain how much these powerful men and women have influenced our lives !

yes i would have to put those explorers in the list if i extended mine to 20, along w/ others that involved music and film

1)Jesus Christ
2)Benjimin Franklin
3)Alexander the Great
4)Julius Caesar
5)Napoleon
6)Hitler (negative but did impact world)
7)Leonardo DeVinci
8)Albert Einstein
9)Wright Brothers
10)..cant think of specific, but person who invented toilet paper, seriously
11)Galileo
12)Osama Bin Ladin (neg.)
13)Abraham Lincoln
14)Confucius
15)King Salmon
16)Attila the Hun
17)Hannibal of Carthage
18)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
19)Beethoven
20)Mark Anthony (not the singer)

new improved list

Yeah Atilla was defenantly a good choice

he helped wipe out the biggest empire of the time thats a big impact

bush has had a negative impact he has made our country more hated then ever.he has lost more jobs than any other pres in 75 years.many americans dont have as much pride in their country and leader at least hitler could do that

wow, dude take your under educated, biased bush bashing else where. No American president save three should be considred to have some kind of impact through out history. Washington, lincoln, JFK. get that bush shit out of here man. How about clinton, he did more damamge to this country than Bush could ever do. i'm done though. you have to keep saying bush has a negative effect on the world equal to hitler, you have to keep saying it untill someone acknowledges your cry out for attention. go read a book, and learn some American History before you assume to speak for half of the country. I think Americans have lost Pride inthem selves long before the 90's. PRide is still there, and always will be, it just needs to be inspired or sparked. It's not bushs fault. Its people like you, that like to point the blame,rather than try and think or get active in apositive change.

how did clinton have a negative effect?

personally he may of had some problems but professionally he was good

I agree with RR..quit the bush bashing...you say bush gave our country a bad name? Wow I like how everyone throughout the world knew about clinton lieing on public tv about him and monica lewinski to.

leaders in foriegn nations thought it was funny we where spending so much time on clintons scandal.did you know that most presidents have had mistresses.jefferson had kids out of wedlock.marilyn monroe had an affiar with the kennedys

Heres the the difference though. all of those presidents did somthing great and spectacular for this country. they left an inspiration for others to follow. Clinton sold away our national parks man. The statue of liberty isnt owned by the United states anymore, bet you diddnt know that shit did you? you can thank Clinton for that. Mr bill would tell you what ever you wanted to hear,for you to be on his side. Clinton had the opertunity to put an end to Osama. He also stood by while over sea ebassy's were attacked. Have you noticed that when Clinton was in office, all the celebrties were for Clinton, did you also notice they were always staying at the white house. Celberties were always being asked to the white house. Now that Bush is in office, the stars dont get recognized or asked to stay in lincolns bedroom.

honestly i think this county started loosing its faith for itself after Watergate and the whole thing w/ nixon, i think after that point really the public isnt as patriotic as it use to be

and i can tell you after this "election" is over, and i just have a feeling bush lost, we get to kerry and after 4 years we're gonna see how much he sucks too, its just a big cycle of hating the president

yeah. i agree right on with that. I know Bush is going to lose. Kerry isnt going to do jack, but jack shit. Bush isnt a great choice eigther, but i think if he has another four years, he can set the country in a prosperous path again, and atleast leave the country in good standings for the next leader to take the helm. I think it will be a long time before we see another good president.

I'd like to do the same to fools who only half-read posts, then make up the rest to suit their smarmy remarks.

Jesus +
Hitler -
Napoleon -
Einstein +
Benjamin Franklin +
Joanna Dark +
Cleopatra +-
Leonardo daVinci +
Ghandi +
(i changed my mind, Osama wasnt that important) Sheakspeare +

oh man i totally forgot Ghandi, oh man, oopps

usually in this country anything negative that happens is always blammed on the president, and it just seems a hell of alot of shit happened while this dude was in so naturally hes the easiest person to place the blame on, clinton, well nothing really bad happened in the world while he was in office besides a stain on a dress

you are right, though Bush isnt really a good president (in my humble opinion)...thats why i didnt put any president or Osama on my list. I'd like to put Santos Dumont, a brazilian who invented the airplane, but he didnt cause too much impact...

theres only one president on my list and i do think he impacted not only our nation but leading others in example, Abe Lincoln, that took balls to do what he did to proclaim slavery in the north over and all slaves free was a big thing and soon other countries followed

sure, that was very important, because it passed USA boundaries in some way (but a lot of ppl put presidents or other persons who were only important to their own country). But, in my point of view there were people who did more "noble" or worse things. But everyone has different opinions, and they must be respected....

i suppose you are right, i wonder though, if one could say Harry Truman due to his decision to drop the atom bomb, that did much to the world, and was his decision that dawned the atomic age

i forgot about this yeah, sure some presidents can start disasters or be good to humanity (and, at some point, all of those ppl are leaders, Hitler, Napoleon...)

If it were not for George Washingtons brilliance or inspiration. we would not have America today, i think America has made a profound impact on the world in both postive and negative ways.That is why i listed him, yeah Presidents can be a biased choice in this matter,but sometimes there choices not only effect the country thet represent,but also have repercusions that can effect the world and history. Not many have done this, but few have.

Aristotle
Galen
Andreas Vesalius

thumbup

i did forget about the three philosophers, Plato Aristotle and Socrates i think thats how his name is spelled

Anne Frank??? +

Ceaser+
The Great+
Hitler-
Gundi+
Hanninble+
Joe Louis+ might as well add one sports star.
Khan-
The Hun-
And Wasthington +

good list there

yup

Jesus Christ
Mohammed
Moses
Gutenberg
Julius Ceasar
Constantine
Plato
Napoleon
Alexander Fleming
Washington
Hitler
Churchill
FDR
Stalin
Oppenheimer
Mao
Gorbachev
Reagan
Ghandi
Brad Pitt

Churchill Positive
Hitler Negative
Stalin Both Positive and Negative
Bush Negative
Kennedy Positive
Martin luther King Jr Positive
Aung San Suu Kyi Positive
Mandela Positive
Roy Keane Positive (For showing me never to accept second place)
Finally My girlfriend for showing me i have a reason to live despite the state the world is in

oh crap i forgot moses, hmm another bush hater i see above

yeah, its contageous

eh i dunno why people hate him so much there have been worst presidents but everyone says he is sigh, oh well w/e

I dont think I could list anyone because there are so many who make an impact

eh just think of the biggest and most important

So many are important. Guess for me would be Jane Goodall

yup

If that statement were true, than I'm assuming you believe that the inventor of the automobile had a negative impact on the world as well? I believe that whole "It's not the car that's dangerous, but rather the driver behind the wheel thing" more than I believe that the Wright brothers are responsible for that.