There would never be a reason to talk to any historical person for advice. Anything that person would say would be outdated and wrong for the current time period. Social mores, cultural oddities and variance in language and non-verbal communication would make a conversation more like a historical lesson in what not to do.

Worse are those people who believe they already know what their historical advocate would say and do. They pre-judge their historical "heroes" with their own current ideas and never take into account that "times were different back then."

If I absolutely had to choose someone, however, I'd have probably chosen someone like Bohr or Darwin, just to see how they handled scientific progress in their time. But I wouldn't ask their advice.

Platterhof-Gästehaus Bunker

The world needed a hero, but Jason wasn't it. He was just the hired help.

Stuck in a underground bunker the shade of high-class mud, he checked his pistol, exchanging the empty clip for a fresh one. Quick-checking the next turn, he didn't hear the hiss of the teleport behind him.

A click against the back of his neck stopped him in his tracks. He froze, resisted the urge to spin, and put his hands to his head.

"You thought you could stop her, did you?" The accent was thick and barely comprehensible through the rage, but the message itself was loud and clear. "This is my Queen's world now, and I will give her all of it!"

"Arianna is already gone, Rocco," he said through grinning teeth. The gun at his head shifted slightly, unsure. "You didn't think I was alone, did you? It's over. The job is done. You don't have any way of calling Strega up now." Jason shifted his balance slightly. "And I'm sure that bitch is not going to be happy about it. Not one bit."

He lunged to the side, kicking his leg out and snapping Rocco's knee sideways, and then fled the screams.

Below is a video of all the asteroids discovered from 1980 to 2010. Around the 1990 mark, large swaths of asteroids were being discovered by automated system.

Mesmerizing Time-Lapse Shows Every Asteroid Discovered Since 1980 VIDEO.

Just the thought of this question having any legitimacy at all makes my blood boil.

Here's an idea: how about you live the life you know you have, experience and enjoy the things around you that are tangible and real, and focus more on the questions than the answers. That way, you don't waste your life away; you've only got one.

Reality is awesome enough.

What am I avoiding? Writing the answer to this prompt!

…Yeah, that one was kinda silly.

I'm avoid a lot of things. But if I write them down avoiding them will be so much harder. So I think I'll just skip this one. Avoiding!

What’s more important, where you live or what you do for a living?

I don’t think either of those two things are more important than the other. Where you live tends to directly influence what you do for a living, and vice-versa.

I think it matters who is in your life, what you are doing with your life, and is what you do in your life rewarding or personally satisfying. The “where you live” part tends to take care of itself. (meaning, you tend to move when you get a new job, and vice-versa.)

(*sheepishly* would have helped if I’d set it up properly. Oh well.)

In other news, I have a lot of stuff to blog about but not much time. Lots of work related stuff. Could be good, could be bad. I’m just so wore-out from working non-stop with PowerSchool that I’m too tired to do much more than answer a Plinky post. Can’t even keep up with the news anymore.

I would have a momentum-transferring, full-body shield that would be active at all times (and would be permeable only to those things that I wish it to be; eating, drinking, etc).

…live in a world without religion. It would be so wonderful. Never having to worry about borders, persecution or slavery. Never have to worry about oppressive regimes and the cruel torture and customs of archaic cultures. No conflict and strife about who's the one with the "right" way. No heaven and hell, no sin and no faith, no more threats of eternal torture and separation from loved ones just because they don't agree with you. No need to fear knowledge or change. Embracing life and love and happiness, without fear or doubt, and caring about the living world, instead of repression and death and destruction. Greed, power and control; these things would all but disappear.

The world would be a better place. It wouldn't be perfect, but that concept too would be an idea that would no longer be needed.

Who's system of justice am I to use to claim a superior belief? My own? Does the punishment ever fit the crime? Death seems a quick and easy way out of the consequences of what you've done. Where's the punishment if the person's life ends?