My Little World10

so having got to the final boss inthe original final fantasy game and royally screwed myself..stupid white mages..who needs to heal?? i decided to write this instead

i saw a list of the top 100 most influential ppl ever on the net, actually i only saw the top 15 but good enough

obviously such a feat is incredibly subjective, if you dont speak english you might not put shakespeare in or you might be inclined to go for scientists over religious figures...but whatever, i can't rank them as i have no clue as to who is more influential, jesus or muhammed for example

so ill go easy first - religious ppl

jesus, muhammed, buddha and confucius would probably be pretty high, id say jesus had the biggest effect but then you could argue that the romans and then european empires spread christianity so thats sort of 'deflected' 

scientists

now it gets tough, there are so many scientists who aren't widely known but achieved great feats, obviously you've got newton, einstein, gallileo, copernicus etc as well as many more ancient scholars  - you've also got the inventors of stuff like paper, the wheel (is that discovered or invented?) and the printing press

what about thinkers?

plato, homer, aristotle (i cant remember the order) and more modern ones like adam smith, john locke, karl marx and so many more that appeared during the enlightenment and im barely scratching the surface here, completely ignoring non-european thinkers

leaders?

depends on you viewpoint really, im english so naturally henry viii (for the reformation), oliver cromwell, churchill would spring too mind, maybe even maggie but a yank would probably go for washington, abe lincoln, general grant etc and if you want a concise list you could easily find over 100 in just world leaders, napoleon, genghis khan maybe...

writers?

im thinking chaucer and shakespeare just for my own language, i wouldnt know who was influential in foreign languages but again its gonna be big

who else would you have? freedom fighters, like ghandi, the pankhursts, nelson mandela, martin luther king..

what about media people? the first publishers of newspapers, the creator of tv and radio stations (i guess john logie baird would be in scientists) whoever created the internet (was it the yanks, i doubt it or was it the other stories that come from the british and european scientists)

then of course great teachers, architects, artists..i mean this list could go into thousands and is actually far more subjective than i imagined a minute ago

if you wanted a list of the most famous ppl in history then it could be slightly easier, newton and einstein are the most famous scientists but there's a lot of work that just never really put other brilliant scientists in the public spotlight, so thats just luck really

and i doubt non english people would think henry viii was hugely important, although probably our most famous king

so in conclusion - what a bloody stupid idea, ok not a stupid idea but an impossible feat to achieve, a good way to spark debate however

also in conclusion - start your own religion, they seem to be the most influential according to blokey