Heroes

Byrnzie
Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
edited November 2009 in A Moving Train
Who are your heroes?

Here's some of mine in no particular order:


Henry Miller
Muhammed Ali
Jack Johnson
Charles Bukowski
Jean Genet
Bill Hicks
Van Gogh
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Albert Camus
Noam Chomsky
Norman Finkelstein
Hunter S. Thompson
Arthur Rimbaud
Ken Kesey
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  • JW0422
    JW0422 Posts: 170
    Who cares!
  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    i forget how it goes

    something like...


    "Unhappy the land with no heroes"....

    to which brecht replied.

    "Unhappy the land that needs heroes"


    very true.




    my list includes noam chomsky, arundhati roy, howard zinn....
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    JW0422 wrote:
    Who cares!

    Me. I'm interested in knowing who people are inspired by.
  • ajedigecko
    ajedigecko \m/deplorable af \m/ Posts: 2,431
    albert schweitzer
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    albert einstein.


    the smartest guy on the planet and he was a socialist. go figure.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    humphrey bogart.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    edited November 2009
    Herman Hesse
    Georgios Papanikolaou(test pap)
    Socrates
    Great Alexander
    Post edited by dimitrispearljam on
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    John Lennon
    Dennis Kucinich
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    soulsinging wrote:
    humphrey bogart.

    I recently saw 'The Treasure of the Sierre Madre'. Cool movie.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Byrnzie wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    humphrey bogart.

    I recently saw 'The Treasure of the Sierre Madre'. Cool movie.

    that it is. the man had style.
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    I'm going to say...
    That guy that jumped off the subway platform to save the guy who fell on the tracks...
    The guy that dove into the frozen Potomac River and swam to save that stewardess who lost her grip on the life preserver and began to drown...
    The stewardess that went back in the burning wreckage of that 747 in the Canary Islands to save the lives of several passengers...
    I don't know their names... but, truely... unselfish acts of heroism.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • Nothingman54
    Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    thought this was gonna be about the tv show.
    I'll be back
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    thought this was gonna be about the tv show.

    LMAO!
    Gimli 1993
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    St. Paul 2014
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    single parents
    abused children
    torture victims
    the wrongly convicted
    the poor
    the mentally and/or physically challenged and/or ill

    in general, the people that have gone through hell and come through the other end. or those that are stil in hell, and continue to persevere.

    no hollywood actor, politician, famous musician, or african-adopting celebrities that I know of fall onto this list.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    thought this was gonna be about the tv show.
    me too :D
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • TravisTheSky
    TravisTheSky Posts: 615
    I only count people that I know (or knew) in real life:

    This decade it's ADAM FLORIO !!! I'm still bowing down in a one-woman-wave of hero worship for "Superman," as I call him.

    In the nineties, it was Dennis Lovely.


    *smiles* Thank you. We are all one heart!
    "May you live in interesting times."
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    Johnny Sitar wrote:
    single parents
    abused children
    torture victims
    the wrongly convicted
    the poor
    the mentally and/or physically challenged and/or ill

    in general, the people that have gone through hell and come through the other end. or those that are stil in hell, and continue to persevere.

    no hollywood actor, politician, famous musician, or african-adopting celebrities that I know of fall onto this list.
    the poor? i didnt know being poor was heroic. i'm your hero!
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i'll go with Ben Franklin. always liked that dude.
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    MrSmith wrote:
    Johnny Sitar wrote:
    single parents
    abused children
    torture victims
    the wrongly convicted
    the poor
    the mentally and/or physically challenged and/or ill

    in general, the people that have gone through hell and come through the other end. or those that are stil in hell, and continue to persevere.

    no hollywood actor, politician, famous musician, or african-adopting celebrities that I know of fall onto this list.
    the poor? i didnt know being poor was heroic. i'm your hero!

    maybe I should have been more specific, as then I guess I'd be my own hero, too. :lol:

    the homeless is really what I meant. Anyone who has a shit life or shit circumstances and manages to trudge on.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • WaveCameCrashin
    WaveCameCrashin Posts: 2,929
    Any man or woman that has served.
    My Grandfather
    My Parents

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