Ship of Fools: Who would you like to be?

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Posted by sebby (# 15147) on :

I'm tempted to respond to the question 'Which Christian person would you most like to be?' with the glib reply 'myself, of course'.

But if that wasn't an option, and for the purpose of this discussion, I think I'd settle for being the author, Reader, and saintly Ronald Blythe. Anything by this extraordinary second-third generation Bloomsbury Group Christian is worth reading. (Including his weekly column in The Church Times)

Posted by cattyish (# 7829) on :

Not allowed to be me? Rubbish. Ok, then I'd be my friend Julie who is a good singer, mother of four lovely children and likes to bake and study theology.

Cattyish, not envious of other people's lives.

Posted by TheAlethiophile (# 16870) on :

Do they have to be alive? As much as I admire the spirit of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I don't fancy being imprisoned and murdered.

The same applies to a lot of figures. If I said I wanted to be Augustine of Hippo, does that mean I want to be dead?

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

quote:
Originally posted by sebby:
... I'd settle for being the author, Reader, and saintly Ronald Blythe ...

He's a friend and former colleague of my mother-in-law. I've only met him once - nice chap.

I'll settle for being Piglet, but sometimes I'd like to be a better piglet than I am. [Smile]

Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :

Rodrigo Borgia seems to have had a bit of fun, I would like to be him please...

I would have said St Francis but he died around my age which is a bit of a downer.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

If I were someone else, I wouldn't be me. If I were in the time/place/circumstances in which they lived their life, I would still not be them, because I would live that life differently. If I really were them, then I would in fact be them, not me. So, for all I know, I may have been. Or am.

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