Bodhidharma
"Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century CE. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and is regarded as its first Chinese patriarch" -- wikipedia. Calibrated at 795 in TvF.
History
Abraham Lincoln
Priority request: Doc calibrated him at 565 [awareness] at a lecture. Could he have been the first president to have experienced enlightenment or have it in his range?
Nelson Mandela
Calibrated social impact of 505 (Truth vs. Falsehood, 2005).
Benjamin Franklin
Truth vs. Falsehood doesn't give us his personal calibration, only his social impact.
cultural appropriation (concept)
"cultural elements are copied from a minority culture by members of a dominant culture, and these elements are used outside of their original cultural context" --wikipedia.
Isaac Newton
"English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed" -- wikipedia. Calibrated at 499 in TvF.
William Shakespeare
Request: Regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
US pullout from Afghanistan
By request [August 2021]: "Many people are questioning the Biden administration's recent handling of the Afghanistan situation. It seems that the pullout was poorly executed."
Jesus' level at birth
Was Jesus born enlightened?
Pol Pot
Priority request. "His radical communist government forced the mass evacuations of cities, killed up to three million people during the Cambodian genocide (1976–78), and left a legacy of brutality and impoverishment" -- britannica.com.
Zoroaster
"In about 1000BC he founded the first documented monotheistic religion in the world and also had an impact on Plato, Pythagoras, and the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" -- wikipedia. Calibrated at 1000 in Truth vs. Falsehood.
T/F: man has set foot on the moon
Request: Some people believe it was faked.
Confucius
Request: The Chinese philosopher known for Confucianism who taught that a harmonious society is achieved through personal virtue, social harmony, and respect for tradition.
Huangbo Xiyun (Huang Po)
Influential master of Zen Buddhism during the Tang dynasty, he was calibrated at 960 [awareness] in Truth vs. Falsehood.
Ho Chi Minh
Request: His forces resisted Japanese and French occupations, and his successors ultimately overran and defeated the western-backed Republic of Vietnam in the mid 1970s.