Name any person in the past or present that you admire and explain why you admire that person.
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Hitler...he managed to kill millions of people without anybody finding out or believing.
I have a few.....
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Because he freed the Russian people from the shackles of the feudalist tsars and helped Russia become a nation of people power.
Ho Chi Minh, His Nationalist/Communist forces freed Vietnam from the tyranny of the French and helped the Vietnamese people defeat the invading US.
Dr Mohammed Mossadegh, Established democracy in Iran.
Gough Whitlam, Easily the greatest Prime Minister of Australia. The work he did helped make Australia what it is today.
Eamon De Valera, For helping free Ireland from Britain. The first president of the Sinn Fein government, helped create Irish self identity and helped promote the Irish language.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, wrote about and created communism.
Martin Luther King, Helped to end white supremecy in the USA.
Nelson Mandela, Ended Apartheid in South Africa, became president ot South Africa.
Others include George Washington, Mother Theresa, Fidel Castro, Subcommandte Marcos, General Sandino and Emiliano Zapata, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Because he freed the Russian people from the shackles of the feudalist tsars and helped Russia become a nation of people power.
Ho Chi Minh, His Nationalist/Communist forces freed Vietnam from the tyranny of the French and helped the Vietnamese people defeat the invading US.
Dr Mohammed Mossadegh, Established democracy in Iran.
Gough Whitlam, Easily the greatest Prime Minister of Australia. The work he did helped make Australia what it is today.
Eamon De Valera, For helping free Ireland from Britain. The first president of the Sinn Fein government, helped create Irish self identity and helped promote the Irish language.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, wrote about and created communism.
Martin Luther King, Helped to end white supremecy in the USA.
Nelson Mandela, Ended Apartheid in South Africa, became president ot South Africa.
Others include George Washington, Mother Theresa, Fidel Castro, Subcommandte Marcos, General Sandino and Emiliano Zapata, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal.
Last edited by TeamZephyr (2006-08-31 18:19:56)
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Ivan the Terrible, just because hes terrible... (But I admire Admiral Nimitz)
Captain "Meh I'm just a mere captain" Kris
Captain "Meh I'm just a mere captain" Kris
Chuck Yeager and Jimmy Doolittle. (i Love aviation)
The guy who invented sliced bread. I want to be just like him, everyone compares stuff to sliced bread, well I want to come up with the next invention that replaces the comparison to sliced bread.
lol thats all i have to sayts-pulsar wrote:
The guy who invented sliced bread. I want to be just like him, everyone compares stuff to sliced bread, well I want to come up with the next invention that replaces the comparison to sliced bread.
~ Do you not know that in the service … one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?
Jenna Jameson, Linda Lovelace,Alfred Nobel, George Foreman(just for the grill), Rush Limbaugh(ask him how he has kept his job), Oprah (she sucks so much ass but is a GOD to bored housewives), and Jack Kevorkian.
In no particular order:
Science/Engineering/Endeavour:
Charles Darwin (Theory of Evolution, Braving Heresy)
Isaac Newton (Writer of Principia Mathematica, Devised Calculus, Laws of Motion)
Galileo Galilei (Astronomical Discoveries, Braving Heresy)
Thomas Edison (Inventor)
Sigmund Freud (Developer of Psychoanalysis)
Leonardo DaVinci (Artist, Architect, Sculptor, Inventor)
Christopher Colombus (Discovery of the Americas)
Arts:
Michelangelo (Artist, Sculptor, Architect)
James Joyce (Stream of Consciousness Writing, Writer of Ulysses & Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
Salvador Dalí (Surrealist)
HR Giger (Macabre Biomechanical Erotica Artist)
Antoni Gaudi (Architect)
Roger Waters (Songwriter, Pink Floyd)
Thom Yorke (Songwriter, Radiohead, Activist)
George Orwell (Writer of Animal Farm and 1984)
Joel & Ethan Coen (Film-makers)
Stanley Kubrick (Film-maker)
Political/Military:
Che Guevara (Political Activist, Freedom Fighter & Guerrilla Warfare Genius)
Fidel Castro (Political Activist & Guerrilla)
Jesus of Nazareth (Political Activist, Freedom Fighter, Radical Thinker)
Abraham Lincoln (Emancipation of Blacks from Slavery)
Martin Luther King (Non-Violent Civil Rights Advocate)
Simon Bolivar (Liberator of Latin America)
Saladin (Military Leader and Man of Honor during the Crusades)
Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese Democracy Activist)
Mahatma Ghandi (Non-Violent Activist and Liberator of India)
Chief Sitting Bull (Native American War Chief, Routed Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn)
Red Cloud (Native American War Chief)
Uracca (Panamanian Tribal Leader of Resistance to Spanish Invaders)
Noam Chomsky (Political commentator and Linguist)
Nelson Mandela (Anti-Apartheid Activist)
William Wallace (Freedom Fighter: Military Leader of Resistance to British Rule in Scotland)
Brian Ború (High King of Ireland: Defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf)
Éamonn DeValera (Father of the Modern Republic of Ireland)
Patrick Pearse (Freedom Fighter: IRB Leader, Political Activist & Martyr)
Theobald Wolfe Tone (Freedom Fighter:Irish Independence Political Activist & Martyr)
Charles Stewart Parnell (Irish Home Rule Political Activist)
Daniel O'Connell (Catholic Emancipation Rights Activist)
James Connolly (Freedom Fighter: De Facto Commander-in-Chief of the Easter Rising of 1916, Labour Party Founder, Martyr)
James Larkin (Union Leader and Political Activist during the Easter Rising of 1916)
Winston Churchill (although I hate a lot about the man I have to admire his grit, determination and stirring oratory)
I'll add more later...
Science/Engineering/Endeavour:
Charles Darwin (Theory of Evolution, Braving Heresy)
Isaac Newton (Writer of Principia Mathematica, Devised Calculus, Laws of Motion)
Galileo Galilei (Astronomical Discoveries, Braving Heresy)
Thomas Edison (Inventor)
Sigmund Freud (Developer of Psychoanalysis)
Leonardo DaVinci (Artist, Architect, Sculptor, Inventor)
Christopher Colombus (Discovery of the Americas)
Arts:
Michelangelo (Artist, Sculptor, Architect)
James Joyce (Stream of Consciousness Writing, Writer of Ulysses & Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
Salvador Dalí (Surrealist)
HR Giger (Macabre Biomechanical Erotica Artist)
Antoni Gaudi (Architect)
Roger Waters (Songwriter, Pink Floyd)
Thom Yorke (Songwriter, Radiohead, Activist)
George Orwell (Writer of Animal Farm and 1984)
Joel & Ethan Coen (Film-makers)
Stanley Kubrick (Film-maker)
Political/Military:
Che Guevara (Political Activist, Freedom Fighter & Guerrilla Warfare Genius)
Fidel Castro (Political Activist & Guerrilla)
Jesus of Nazareth (Political Activist, Freedom Fighter, Radical Thinker)
Abraham Lincoln (Emancipation of Blacks from Slavery)
Martin Luther King (Non-Violent Civil Rights Advocate)
Simon Bolivar (Liberator of Latin America)
Saladin (Military Leader and Man of Honor during the Crusades)
Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese Democracy Activist)
Mahatma Ghandi (Non-Violent Activist and Liberator of India)
Chief Sitting Bull (Native American War Chief, Routed Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn)
Red Cloud (Native American War Chief)
Uracca (Panamanian Tribal Leader of Resistance to Spanish Invaders)
Noam Chomsky (Political commentator and Linguist)
Nelson Mandela (Anti-Apartheid Activist)
William Wallace (Freedom Fighter: Military Leader of Resistance to British Rule in Scotland)
Brian Ború (High King of Ireland: Defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf)
Éamonn DeValera (Father of the Modern Republic of Ireland)
Patrick Pearse (Freedom Fighter: IRB Leader, Political Activist & Martyr)
Theobald Wolfe Tone (Freedom Fighter:Irish Independence Political Activist & Martyr)
Charles Stewart Parnell (Irish Home Rule Political Activist)
Daniel O'Connell (Catholic Emancipation Rights Activist)
James Connolly (Freedom Fighter: De Facto Commander-in-Chief of the Easter Rising of 1916, Labour Party Founder, Martyr)
James Larkin (Union Leader and Political Activist during the Easter Rising of 1916)
Winston Churchill (although I hate a lot about the man I have to admire his grit, determination and stirring oratory)
I'll add more later...
Last edited by CameronPoe (2006-09-01 08:20:32)
Why do you need to qualify your statement? I sincerely agree with you. She is truly a force for (non-partisan!) good in this world. She calls attention to important issues, and uses her own wealth and influence to make good things happen. To me she's enigmatic: I can't decide whether she's motivated by ratings just as much as she is by her own sincere desire to help people. But at the end of the day, I suppose it doesn't really matter: she does do great things, regardless of the purity of her motivations.Bwspecial wrote:
Oprah (she sucks so much ass but is a GOD to bored housewives)
I admire George Soros, one of the richest men alive, for many of the same reasons, but particularly as a thinking man who is dedicated enough to his own personal set of values to use wealth as a tool for furthering those values rather than as a means to let them lazily erode. I would highly recommend his latest book, The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror. Aside from being a very interesting commentary on the state of the Union, the book is a bit of a treatise on the goals of human life in the modern age. He's an excellent writer in the philosophical tradition, and is truly one of the world's few "statesmen without a state".
Technically the above two people are not "historical" figures, but I believe they will become so in the future.
Though I am not a religious man, I greatly admire CS Lewis for questioning the existence of God and for being brave enough to listen to his heart when he renounced atheism and turned back to his faith. I think it's terrible for people not to allow themselves to question their own beliefs and values, but it's even worse when we believe we have reached some pinnacle of intellect in practicing a constantly aloof, blase cynicism about everything we experience. Both are lazy approaches to life, and I admire CS Lewis for transcending them.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Manuel Belgrano
Fidel Castro
Abraham Lincoln
Ghengis Khan
Steve Jobs
Alexander The Great
Manuel Belgrano
Fidel Castro
Abraham Lincoln
Ghengis Khan
Steve Jobs
Alexander The Great
Last edited by sergeriver (2006-09-01 07:13:22)
winston churchill, our country was starving and suffering but he never gave up, determined to win!
Taylor Rain and Brinna Banks... god, them women can do anal like nobody else.
On a serious note though:
Matt Stone and Trey Parker for creating the funniest fucking tv show ever.
The Founding Fathers, for creating the best place to live in the world. Their direction and dedication to creating this country is stellar, and I'm sure there are some lessons we can still learn from them.
Albert Einstein... explanation needed?
and Maximus - for getting his revenge.
On a serious note though:
Matt Stone and Trey Parker for creating the funniest fucking tv show ever.
The Founding Fathers, for creating the best place to live in the world. Their direction and dedication to creating this country is stellar, and I'm sure there are some lessons we can still learn from them.
Albert Einstein... explanation needed?
and Maximus - for getting his revenge.
Bob the Builder becuase he can fix anything
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