Your Hero

sun-star · 07-28-2004, 09:46 AM

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...)

Linaewen · 07-28-2004, 09:57 AM

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...

Mercutio · 07-28-2004, 04:16 PM

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.).

***Tessar*** · 07-28-2004, 04:56 PM

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

.

Janny · 07-28-2004, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Mercutio

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer! My, I wrote about him in my RS exam.

Tremendous.

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...

BeardofPants · 07-28-2004, 06:07 PM

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.

Janny · 07-28-2004, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by BeardofPants

Janny, I cleared my cache, and now I have the new smilies.

Say that last bit in English and I'll reply.

I just want my old happy back...

***Tessar*** · 07-28-2004, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by BeardofPants

*smacks Tessar for good measure*

*gasp* I'll never worship you again! *sob*

Ragnarok · 07-28-2004, 11:11 PM

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.

Bombadillo · 07-29-2004, 03:26 AM

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.

***Jonathan*** · 07-29-2004, 11:33 AM

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.

Hasty Ent · 07-29-2004, 12:35 PM

My heroes are all the medical professionals involved with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

from: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/about/

Quote:

Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation.

MSF was founded in 1971 by a small group of French doctors who believed that all people have the right to medical care regardless of race,religion, creed or political affiliation, and that the needs of these people supersede respect for national borders. It was the first non-governmental organization to both provide emergency medical assistance and publicly bear witness to the plight of the populations they served.

At a time where nearly 44 million Americans have no health insurance, and countless doctors and HMO and insurance company executives are earning immorally high incomes, this group of doctors remembers what their profession is all about.

Hawklan · 07-29-2004, 06:48 PM

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.

Lady Ravyn · 07-29-2004, 09:45 PM

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.

Radagast · 07-30-2004, 04:56 AM

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."

***Khamûl*** · 07-30-2004, 11:21 PM

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.

***Earniel*** · 07-31-2004, 05:44 PM

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".

sun-star · 08-03-2004, 09:30 AM

Radagast, did you see the dramatisation of Byron's life that was on TV recently?

brownjenkins · 08-03-2004, 09:43 AM

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

***Valandil*** · 08-03-2004, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by brownjenkins

halle berry makes a cute catwoman too

Hate to drag this OT, but... you DO remember Julie Newmar, don't you?

07-28-2004, 09:46 AM	#1
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	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...) __________________ 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, 04:16 PM	#3
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	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.). __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

07-28-2004, 06:07 PM	#6
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	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. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

07-29-2004, 03:26 AM	#10
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	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. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

07-29-2004, 11:33 AM	#11
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	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. __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

07-28-2004, 09:57 AM	#2
Linaewen Fair Dinkum Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,319	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, 04:56 PM	#4
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	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, 11:11 PM	#9
Ragnarok Rohirrim Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: PA Posts: 590	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.

07-29-2004, 06:48 PM	#13
Hawklan Enting Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: wirral - The Shire of the North Posts: 72	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. __________________ . We know where the music's playing, let's go out and feel the night. Because I'm still in love with you, I want to see you dance again, because I'm still in love with you on this harvest moon.Well the sun is surely sinking down But the moon is slowly rising So this old world must still be spinning 'round And I still love you NIL SATIS NISI OPTIMUM

07-29-2004, 09:45 PM	#14
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	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. __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

07-30-2004, 04:56 AM	#15
Radagast Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Merry old England Posts: 413	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." __________________ Take up the White Man's burden-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest (The end for others sought) Watch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hope to nought. Last edited by Radagast : 07-30-2004 at 05:00 AM.

07-30-2004, 11:21 PM	#16
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	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. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

07-31-2004, 05:44 PM	#17
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	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". __________________ We are not things.

08-03-2004, 09:30 AM	#18
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Radagast, did you see the dramatisation of Byron's life that was on TV recently? __________________ 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
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	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 __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

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