Heroes

[Dillinger]

Who are your heroes? And who might consider you as their hero? Personally I would define a hero as someone who has affected/changed my life for the better (or, on a larger scale, affected/changed the world for the better.)

I'll start with who considers me to be their hero and that's my children. And, let me tell you, there is no more wonderful feeling in the world. I don't expect it to last forever but I will savor it while it does.

Now - who are my heroes? I've decided to list them by category - feel free to add your own categories. I will try and limit my responses to no more then 10 in any one category.

Life

Aleister Crowley
Lao Tse
Timothy Leary
Abbie Hoffman
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ghandi
Every woman I've ever dated (real life and on-line)

Literature

Octavio Paz
James Joyce
Robert Heinlein
Tom Robbins
Rumi
Indres Shah
Richard Farina (he only wrote one book but what a book it was! "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me" - read this in college and it forever changed my outlook on life)

Philosophy

Robert Anton Wilson (I could have put him under life or Literature as well) - Everything he's written I consider to be a masterpiece. His outlook on life has changed the way I look at and live my own life. His books have both entertained and enlightened me.

Art

Dali
Georgia O' Keefe
Monet
Rodin
Warhol
Basquiat
Degas

Music

Frank Zappa
David Bowie
Todd Rundgren
Robert Fripp
Laurie Anderson
Arnold Schonberg
Miles Davis
John McLaughlin
Beethovan
Mozart

Movies

Orson Welles
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate)

On-Line

Leena - I haven't heard from her in about 4 years now… I saw her at a chat site almost every day for perhaps 3 years prior to her leaving. One of the most intelligent people I've ever met and perhaps one of the most powerful entities I've ever encountered on any plane of existence. (And nope, we weren't involved nor did I ever meet her real life.)

I'm sure I forgot a few that I'll later wish I had included…

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Heroes - David Bowie

I
I will be king
And you
You will be queen
Though nothing will
Drive them away
We can beat them
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
Just for one day

And you
You can be mean
And I
I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers
And that is a fact
Yes we're lovers
And that is that

Though nothing
Will keep us together
We could steal time
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
For ever and ever
What d'you say

I
I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins
Like dolphins can swim
Though nothing
Will keep us together
We can beat them
For ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes
Just for one day

I
I will be king
And you
You will be queen
Though nothing
Will drive them away
We can be Heroes
Just for one day
We can be us
Just for one day

I
I can remember
Standing
By the wall
And the guns
Shot above our heads
And we kissed
As though nothing could fall
And the shame
Was on the other side
Oh we can beat them
For ever and ever
Then we can be Heroes
Just for one day

We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
We're nothing
And nothing will help us
Maybe we're lying
Then you better not stay
But we could be safer
Just for one day

[Edited by Dillinger on 04-28-2001 at 04:36 PM]

 

[Coggie]

Dill......

Every woman I've ever dated (real life and on-line)

Hiya Dill

I'm really not trying to get into a pissing contest but are you really serious about that one?

I certainly couldn't make the statement you have but I guess it depends how you're defining date? To me, that's when you arrange to meet and or go out with someone, in this context, let's say over more than a few weeks and a couple of dates.

Now I doubt I'm the most dated guy in the world and for the record I respect women. However, particularly when younger, I "dated" many women who I could not describe as "someone who has affected/changed my life for the better (or, on a larger scale, affected/changed the world for the better.)".

Perhaps I'm being sceptical and I mean no offense but that looks like an image building entry in your list to me!

 

[Dillinger]

Coggie - let me quote myself in response to your question:

Who are your heroes? And who might consider you as their hero? Personally I would define a hero as someone who has affected/changed my life for the better...

To be fair - perhaps its a bit of an exaggeration - depending on how you define "date."

But how about we not quibble over a name or two on the list and just see how other people answer - including you.

I think we could all learn quite a bit about people here based on their responses.

 

[Coggie]

Hmm.......

Dill

I'm a traditionalist, but I'll take the quote as a yes. For the record, I did read your post.

I still find it hard to believe, you must have choosen your dates from an early age very very carefully.

 

[Coggie]

List

I'm not in list mode tonight but off the top of my head I'd add these:

Life

My Father
My Mother
Anyone who gave their life saving another
Oscar Schilndler
Nelson Mandela
Mother Teresa
Douglas Bader

Literature

William Shakespere

Sport

Bobby Moore
Ayton Senna

Business

Freddie Laker

 

[Gnufi Poppets]

Its being that the big penis man who is the John Holmes is the hero that Gnufi is having. I am also having the hero of the Peter North who is always having the cum shooting all over the faces of the hot sex babes!

 

[teresafannin]

My heroes are people like my parents & my youngest sister & the parents of one of the teens killed the same night as my son. Through the trauma & grief of that terrible night, they took a few minutes to sign organ donor papers & 40 people's lives were changed by their compassion. I like to think that I would have been able to do that, but I wasn't given the chance. To me, it is people like that who deserve to be called heroes.

 

[Madame Pandora]

LOL...a silly list thread no one can bitch about popularity on. Bless you, Dill.

(Although I will say - and I know you agree - that I disapprove of elevating any person to the role of hero)

I can only hit the easy ones...my mind is bumbled...maybe more later.


Literature

Oscar Wilde

Music

Bob Dylan


Movies

Orson Welles

Sports

Dan "The Man" Marino

More later
MP

 

[SouthernSiren]

i'll get the rebound

life-malachi martin
lit-jd salinger& jrr tolkien
philosophy-paramahansa yogananda
art-frida kahlo& man ray
music-grace slick& jimmy page
movies-gary oldman& marilyn monroe

 

[ManOSafety]

Let's see...

Life
My Dad
The Headmaster at the school where I teach
My Wife

Literature
Tom Wolfe
Ayn Rand

Philosophy
John Piper

Sports
Jack Nicklaus

Music
Eddie Van Halen

General
Martyrs

 

[cymbidia]

Life
Ghandi
Mary Poppins (There was no requirement for an entry here to have ever been alive. MP's concept of "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" has helped me tremendously in my life. http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/cwm/3dlil/hearton.gif )
Michael J. Fox

Literature
Frank Herbert
J.R.R. Tolkein
Maya Angelou
Robert Heinlein
Aesop
Robert Burns

Music
Little Feat
Bonnie Raitt
Eric Clapton
Mark Knopfler
Chieftains
John Hiatt
Vivaldi

Philosophy
Kahlil Gibran "I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
Confucius "Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
Rene Descartes "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin for "I think, therefore I am").
Bertrand Russell "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true."

Art
Ansel Adams
Faberge
Monet
René Lalique
Todd Friedman
Christo
Andrew Wyeth

Science
Charles Darwin
Mary Leakey
Rachel Carson
Sally Ride
Albert Einstein
Luther Burbank

 

[Siren]

OMG Dilly............

 

[Weevil]

My life

Teachers and Parents and stuff

Sports

Moe Berg
Muggsy Bogues

Literature

Hunter S. Thompson
Roddy Doyle

Music

Elvis Presley
Buddy Holly
Johnny Rotten
Kurt Cobain

Art

Dali
Pollock
Picasso
Toulouse Lautrec(sp?)

Philosophy

John Locke
Calvin & Hobbes
Adam Smith

 

[CreamyLady]

I'm not sure if you are talking about heroes, per se, or a list of admirable people. Right now, since I am up well past my usual bedtime and my brain is fried, I will say that the artist whose work I admire most is probably Helen Frankenthaler; the author I admire most is Jorge Amado; the composer I admire most is Hildegard von Bingen; and the philosopher I admire most is me.

Good night.

 

[DarlingBri]

I have a lot of tourble with the concept of personal heroes. Specifically, the concept of hero worship, so prevelant today, makes me uncomfortable. We're talking about people who brush their teeth, use the toilet, and make mistakes like the rest of us.

But, having said that:

Life
The Guerilla Girls
My Stepfather
Garp (as in, the World According to)
Lady Gregory
Alan, a guy I used to work for. Man made dreams come true, for himself, and other people. When they couldn't dream, he'd dream for them.

Literature
John Irving
Pat Controy
Patricia Cornwell
Shakespeare
Sylvia Plath
My mother

Music
The Indigo Girls
Harry Chapin

Art
Georgia O'Keefe
Deb Kass
Michaelangelo

Philosophy
Jonathan Swift. Not classicly considered a philosopher, but it's my list.
Machiavelli
Spinoza
Turing
My partner, because of the way he sees the world.


[Edited by DarlingBri on 04-29-2001 at 03:42 AM]

 

[OUTSIDER]

Oh look a hero list.......I like it...

 

[Dillinger]

I left off a category...

MIND (science, thought)

• Albert Einstein
• Douglas Hofstadter ("Godel, Escher, Bach" and "Metamagical Themas")
• Stephen Hawking ("A Brief History of Time" and "Black Holes and Baby Universes" among many others)
• This is the second bulleted item.

 

[bluntforcemama]

I can't think of anyone that I've ever elevated to the role of hero. There are lots of people who should be recognized for their contributions, but none that I can think of that actually fit into the category of hero.

 

[Silverlily]

The term hero is not quite accurate, but this is the list of the people who have had the greatest impact on my life -

JRR Tolkien and Michael Moorcock taught me to dream.
My management style comes from Attila the Hun.
I learned to roll with the punches from my daughter, Grace.
I learned how to put emotions aside and make the tough calls from my husband.