Heroines and Heroes

I was talking to a friend of mine about how Woody Guthrie was a childhood hero of hers. He's a hero of mine too. I have others, Einstein, Ghandi, Martin Luthor King, and Joan Baez to name a few. Who are yours?

I guess I had small moments of idolizing who ever showed up every couple months in our Value Tales, the one that really stuck with me though was Louis Pasteur, I wanted to be just like him.
Other than that I thought Hawkeye from M*A*S*H was wonderful, and Michael Jackson, or course.

Wait I thought this was about drugs!  I am all about Heroin because David Bowie did it and it's made him IMORTAL!  Plus Calvin Klien said it was cool!

um... the closest thing I have to a heroine is Janis Joplin.... yeah I know its fucked up.

She was screwed up but she was also wonderful.

maybe I've done too good a job of emulating her... except I'm not so much wonderful as wonderzil... but I have got the screwed up part down.

in no particular order: David Hume, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joni Mitchell, Hildegard von Bingen, Aldous Huxley, Hermann Hesse, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Isaac Newton, Nina Hagen

Heh...I wrote a music history final paper on Hildegaard.  She was pretty cool.  :)

There's a Hume quote I've been trying to find since High School. I read it back then and havent' seen it since. It says something to the effect that "If a book doesn't have reasoning from empirical evididence or mathematical inductions throw it on the fire." Anyone know the quote?

Considering that Hume comprehensively destroyed the notion of empiricism long before the logical positivists attempted to resurrect it, it seems to me the approximate quote may be attributable to another author. At any rate, the adopted terminology sounds of more recent origin.

Thank you. Have I told you that I love you lately? I've been searching for that since before you were born

Where did you find it? I originally found it in a book of scientific quotations I could never find anywhere but my HS library.

That was really nice work, Jaci. Did you find it here?

I would say that she did a great jeaeooorrrrb.

simone de beauvoir! love her! you rock!!

erm, you mean she rocks

no, *you* rock for bringing her up!!

Thanks *blush*

But she does rock too, having pointed out some home truths well before the likes of Friedman and Greer.

What is there to admire about Karl Marx?

Funny, although I knew Arlo Guthrie's music I really didn't know much about Woody. Thought highly of Pete Seeger though.

I was 8 or 9 when Kennedy was shot, if I didn't idolize him before I did after. Einstein, Dr. Albert Schweitzer (there's a name you don't hear mentioned much anymore) Mozart, Joni Mitchell, M.L.King (although as a Canadian the concept of  blacks not being equal was almost incomprehensible), Buddha, Mohammed, Lao Tzu, to name a few.

I think that Woody died within walking distance of my house has always made him seem more personally linked to me.

off the top of my head: van gogh, maxim vengarov, fruvous (of course) and amelie. yeah. i suppose it also depends on your definition of 'hero' (or 'heroine', whatever). these ones are just people i respect, admire and idolize. :)

DUnno about Heroes, but definitely role models and inspirations:

Ayn Rand, any of the founding fathers, Nathaniel Branden, JRR Tolkein, Neal Peart to name a few.

Heroes are a different list that most of you don't know. True heroes are ordinary people doing ordinary things under extraordinary circumstances (i.e. the firefighters at the WTC).

Ayn Rand

that explains a lot.

Actually, if you look at the whole list, you'll see they are all pretty much of the same vein. Nathaniel Branden really took Ayn Rand's ground breaking work and refined it and, in my opinion, fixed some of her shortcomings.

And yah, darn, I believe that a man is an end in and of himself, and not as a means to the end for other men.

Capatin planet he's a hero gonna take pollution down to zero.

Rosa Luxemburg very cool and the girl who was involved in the university movement against the nazis and also all the obvious ones.  OH and Emile if you are out there you are my hero!

*hugs* yay! *grins* :)

and d00d! captain planet rocks!! :D

Of course captain planet rocks but the kid with the heart ring? What was that about? What a pointless special power compared to all the others, EARTH WIND FIRE WATER     and heart.  Yeah but it was cool how he could telepathically talk to animals.  I always bring up captain planet on forums....I really need to stop doing it like I need to stop putting bright as yellow on mix tapes...

Definitely Jane Goodall. She's brilliant, courageous, and completely rocked the world with her discoveries concerning chimpanzee behavior. I had the privelage of seeing her speak earlier in the year. She's a phenomenal naturalist.

Jane Goodall is like Galileo. She got to make great discoveries by the simple expedient of being the first person to see a whole new world.

He was totally what I wanted to be when I grow up.  Funny and touching and creative.  And not talking down to kids.

wow. just, wow. that's the kind of thing i should've thought of. :)