[Hadrian (OP)]

Who is your heros and why?
Who inspires you
In the following Categories

1 fictional
2 Historical
2 Living
4 Personal


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[Ophiolite]

1. Count of Monte Cristo - complex, yet singleminded.
2. Winston Churchill, - alcoholic, elitist, frequent failure, ultimate success through application of courage, fortitude, intellect and persistence i.e. complex, yet singleminded.
3. Nelson Mandela - the courage it took to forgive, anyet remember. Yes, a complex, yet single minded character.
4.

Ask me tomorrow and you shall get a different list, with different reasons.

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[neilep]

1: DAFFY DUCK.....He's crazy and I luff crazy ducks !

2: CALIGULA.....Oh yea..oh yea..uh hu uh hu ! (failing that Leonardo Da Vinci....a man way way ahead of his time with an incredible gift for imaginative creativity.

3: HARRY HILL....He crazy and I luff crazy Harry Hill !...plus he's a doctor too and I luff crazy doctors !!

4: MUMMY....Through the trials and tribulations of her life and....well....there's just too much to say.

Men are the same as women, just inside out !

[another_someone]

I have to admit to being very uneasy about the whole notion of heroes.

People are people, and if you put them up on a pedestal, you are merely setting them up for a fall..

There are individual actions that people have taken that I admire, just as there are individual actions that people have taken that I condemn, but that doesn't mean that I think that the one act (or small collections of acts) can ever define the totality of a person.

George

[DoctorBeaver]

I agree with George. I don't have heroes as such. Certainly I recognise people who have performed heroic acts - Oskar Schindler being an example.
I don't really see how a fictional character can be a hero.

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[neilep]

oh you two are such spoil sports !![]

Perhaps a fictional character could be one of heroic inspiration then !..or a hero within the context of the text that inspires....

[DoctorBeaver]

quote:Originally posted by neilep

oh you two are such spoil sports !![]

Perhaps a fictional character could be one of heroic inspiration then !..or a hero within the context of the text that inspires....

Ah, now that's a different matter. I have oft been inspired by Rincewind []

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[ariel]

fictional: professor keatings! from dead poet's society
i wish i had him as my teacher- he tought the lads carpe diem hooray!

historical: dunno

living: richard o'brien
 because he created on of the greatest films of all time
 and through his ingenious abilities unconsciously made the greatest cult i know of and consider myself part of
 and changed sooo many people's lives, culture, everyyything!
not to mention best music ever, and sings the best song ever himself

personal: my 6th grade teacher...i guess
yeah for me to still remember him after all of these years should say something
he was cool
that was the only year of school in my life i can remember in which actually learning was more important than grades

[Hadrian (OP)]

Fictional
Odysseus: perseverance personified

Historical
Martin Luther King: pure courage of conviction

Living
Lhamo Dhondrub: total compassion

Personal
My Wife: endless love and loyalty      

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