07-28-2004, 09:46 AM | #1 |
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Your Hero
Who do you consider to be your hero or heroine, and why? Tell us something about them
Real people, not superheroes (unless you really respect and admire superheroes...)
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
07-28-2004, 09:57 AM | #2 |
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Mine, first and foremost, are my parents (and other relatives, as well as my sister) for everything they've been through, and for everything they still manage to provide me with.
I also admire people like Nelson Mandela and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for non-violently standing up for what they believe in, for years and years. That's remarkable. I also believe that a lot of everyday people are heroes too- firefighters, ambulance officers... |
07-28-2004, 04:16 PM | #3 |
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Lutheran pastor in Germany during WWII, executed at a concentration camp a few weeks before the wars end after it was found out he took part in a failed plot to assasinate Hitler. He had the chance to leave and come to the U.S. earlier in the war but stayed to continue his pastoring (and training others, and saving Jews, etc.).
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07-28-2004, 04:56 PM | #4 |
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BoP, for laying the smackdown on everyone in sight.
Okay okay, maybe not . There's a deacon at the church I go to, and he's REALLY nice. I'd like to be like him when I'm an adult. I suppose you could say he's my 'hero'. At any rate he's the closest thing I have to one . |
07-28-2004, 05:55 PM | #5 | |
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I couldn't possibly say who my hero is, simply because I feel there are too many traits to admire and too many good people. I really loved the character Pimpernel Smith in that English propaganda film though, but I fear that demeas the thread...
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07-28-2004, 06:07 PM | #6 |
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I worship myself... *smacks Tessar for good measure* heros? You mean other than Prof X? Hmmmm.... Anyone who can compete in a decathlon gets my vote.
Janny, I cleared my cache, and now I have the new smilies.
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07-28-2004, 11:11 PM | #9 |
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Viktor E. Frankl, author of Man's Search for Meaning. He was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII. I strongly reccomend the book, it is very sad and uplifting at the same time. His wisdom is remarkable and is considered to be one of the most significant thinkers in pyschotherapy.
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07-29-2004, 03:26 AM | #10 |
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Jackie Chan. Besides the obvious awe he inspires, he's charitable and dedicated to improving the world for kids. In all his movies, he's on a mission to demonstrate the the human body is capable of, and to show kids how great the can become. He's just a good guy.
And everybody but firefighters are underated. Those cops are good too.
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07-29-2004, 11:33 AM | #11 |
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Raoul Wallenberg - diplomate who in the final stage of Word War II handed out fake 'protective passes' to jews in Hungaria, thus saving tens of thousands of them from being deported to concentration camps.
At the end of the war, he was arrested by Soviet forces who accused him of being a spy and he probably died in Soviet custody.
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07-29-2004, 12:35 PM | #12 | |
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My heroes are all the medical professionals involved with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
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07-29-2004, 06:48 PM | #13 |
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Theres probably thousands of unsung heroes who do things everyday that most of us would dread...but someone I greatly admire is Stephen Hawking for having such a huge brain and Michael J Fox for admitting what a blert he was when healthy and admiting it took his disease to make him realise whats important in life, I took a lot from his autobiography.
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07-29-2004, 09:45 PM | #14 |
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my heroes are my parents just for putting up wiht me (among other things... lol)
also writers such as emily dickinson, mark twain, charles dickens, robbie burns, and of course, j.r.r. tolkien for making the literature of the past (and maybe-not-so-past, too) so rich and wonderful. it's people like them that inspire me to want to be a writer.
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07-30-2004, 04:56 AM | #15 |
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He left a name to all succeeding times, Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes." (from the "The Corsair") Lord Byron is my hero. Byron was arguably the greatest poet of the Romantic age, and is to many the archetypal Gothic hero: a darkly glamorous figure suspected of intriguing vices and famously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Byron had created the perfect Gothic hero, and with the encouragement of a delighted audience, proceeded to ham it up accordingly. He appeared at parties, "dressed in black, hellishly pale and poetic, a metropolitan Hamlet" Byron was never out of the limelight. First there was his stormy and public romance with Lady Caroline, followed by equally tempestuous scenes when he tried to end the relationship. His marriage, to the frostily correct Annabella Milbanke, provoked intense interest, but not half as much as the long-drawn out divorce proceedings after she left him. What was the mysterious crime for which she could never forgive him? Speculation ranged from incest with his half sister Augusta through pederasty to attempted marital sodomy. Lady Byron refused to be specific, and gossip began to attribute to the poet the exotic crimes of his fictional characters, and monsters throughout history. "I have now been compared," wrote Byron wryly in 1816, "to Nero, Apicus, Heliogabalus, Epicurus, Caligula, Henry VIII and the Devil."
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07-30-2004, 11:21 PM | #16 |
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I've seen his graffiti in the dungeon of the Chatêau de Chillon in Montreaux, Switzerland. The dungeon and its famous prisoner, François Bonivard, inspired his poem The Prisoner of Chillon. Very cool.
As for my hero... that'd take a bit of thought.
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07-31-2004, 05:44 PM | #17 |
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Ah too many to choose from!
But here is one I'll always remember: Jean Jacques Cousteau. The man who brought the marvels of the seas a great deal closer to humanity and humanity a great deal closer to the sea and then some. I cannot take my diving glasses and look below the waves of the sea without thinking that I am entering his "monde du silence".
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08-03-2004, 09:30 AM | #18 |
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Radagast, did you see the dramatisation of Byron's life that was on TV recently?
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
08-03-2004, 09:43 AM | #19 |
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i'm with tessar... BoP's too cool
other than that... my six-year-old tyler... if we could only all just stay that intrigued and enamoured by the world around us my heros don't do stuff... they make the people around them better halle berry makes a cute catwoman too
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