So many war geniousses? I think the one who refuses to wage war is more genious than any of those. But i could still throw in Erwin Rommel aka The Desert Fox.
You already took up Einstein. Theory of Relativity, E=MC[size=75]2[/size] and not to forget brilliant quotes. Guess i could throw in few religious/spiritual ones from him.
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” Don Juan from Castaneda’s books might just have sayed like that aswell…
“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.”
And to go more further on road of spiritual geniousness… how about Buddha?
Just to make things clear. Tide of the war was turned on eastern front. Most of the german casualties were there, at least 20,000,000 soviets died during the war. And when D-Day started on 1944 Germany was already withdrawing and it was just question of time when they would lose totally. Of course US and UK lendlease program helped, but in the end it was russian lives and soviets being able to raise huge military production during the war that became the end of Third Reich. US just came to german in time so that soviets didnt swallow the whole Europe, and who knows if soviets might have advanced and driven US out of Europe unless the Atom Bombs had not came around.
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Yoshitaka Amano
oh yeah
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Ghandi was a great person I think, but I don’t know wether the word genious is the right one to describe him.
I rather think about art, people like Huxley or Hesse. Perhaps even someone as unknown as Jeff Noon, I love his way of telling stories.
There is music, Jim Morrison, Thomas D…
Yet, noone comes to my mind that I’d really like to label a genious. Perhaps I just don’t really know what to think of the word
Other way round
Besides, I don’t see how that benefited Germany. The DDR was just another dictatoric regime with the big wall around it, anybody who wanted to get out was shot. Now that the wall has fallen there are still problems, since the west is more advanced than the east. For a long time after the union westerns felt like something better, while the people from the east didn’t like the west for being rich. Today the both parts slowly unite (a union in the minds I mean), but it’s a slow progress.
Fashism is much more common in the eastern part, btw
I also think Hitler was good at giving speeches, but I don’t think he could be considered a genious (even from a non-ethical point of view)
Wow this certainly has become a “your thoughts on Hitler” thread.
I see Leonardo Da Vinci as one of the greatest thinkers our world has ever seen. And if you don’t already know the reasons then you should read a biography. The man was centuries ahead of his time.
Haha, I was talking about this on IRC a few days ago… Hitler was a dude!
Sure he did some crappy things, but he was an awesome leader. One of the most misunderstood leaders of our time.
Patton was a general in… ww2…, i think, actually there is a movie with george c scott its pretty good. he just thought that he had been reincarnated from past war heros, he was a little crazy but isn’t every good genius?
sorry if this is a little late but hitler was no genius. he was just a good speaker and he took advantage of germany’s situation. smart? maybe. genius? no.
al pacino = god > maynard james keenen > jim morrison > hitler
hehe i think a modern day genius could be maynard… but that’s just personal opinion.
I wouldn’t call Maynard a genius, he’s just well educated, probably.
If we’re going to make one Tool member a genius hands down it has to be Danny, he’s a drumming God like almost no other, plus the extensive knowledge on occultism and whatnot…
I’m not sure who out of them would know the “most” on the subject though… but I’d put Danny above Maynard, he blows my mind.
I just recently, having owned Lateralus for a few years, noticed how insanely … insane… the drumming is during the song, the way it meshes and overpowers during someparts, then the way the guitar struggles in and the drumming dies out, and it’s just… some huge beautiful dance…
he’s a musician. he sings in some little bands. you might know them? tool? apc?
