Who's YOUR hero? - A FELLOWSHIP thread.

[blueapplepaste]

Robert Goddard.

If you don't know who he is, he's the inventor of the liquid fueled rocket - NASA pretty much owes their existance to him. He thought outside the box and endured a lot of ridicule along the way, but never the less he perservered in the end.

He talked about rockets being used to fuel the moon in a paper he authored in which he was ridiculed by the press and scientific community. After one of his experiments failed the local paper ran the headline: "Moon rocket misses target by 238,799 1/2 miles."

The NYT even got in on the action by publishing an op-ed basically making fun of him in which the op-ed asserted that a rocket wouldn't function in a vaccum (i.e. space) and that reaching the moon was something only someone without basic knowledge of physics would propose. After the Apollo 11 moon landing; the NYT issued a correction and an apology to him several decades after that op-ed.

In the end, he triumphed over all of his detractors and his story should be an inspiration to all.

 

[Ryal Kane]

As I writer I rather admire Kurt Vonnegut.

As a film maker I admire Robert Rodriguez.

I'm not sure I'd list either as heroes though.

 

[SaintInChicago]

My hero beats your hero.

 

[JustOneWay]

My hero beats your hero.

My hero is Chuck Norris

My hero wins....




Always!

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[Ringo84]

I'll give you several. This is what I wrote on myspace:

o My parents
o Molly Ivins, Leonard Pitts, Paul Krugman (all newspaper columnists)
o Hawkeye Pierce
o Many from 4U, including but not limited to: WorldFriction, KomissarSteve, Flynmonkie, UberLutheran, Nathan Poe
o Anyone who defends the separation of church and state.
Ringo

 

[JoyJuice]

Everyone of those guys who when the doors opened up, had the kahunas to storm the beaches on D-day.

 

[TheReasoner]

Jesus (of course)
My parents
Mahatma Gandhi
St. Francis of Assisi
Mother Theresa


I think that would be the top of my list of people I admire, and aspire to be like.

 

[Ampoliros]

Norman Borlaug, who's probably saved over a billion people from starvation and famine.

Nicolas Copernicus.

I admire and greatly respect many more (especially Goddard, who graduated from my college in 1908), but it'd be a really long list

 

[ScottishJohn]

I think Ghandi would be amongst mine as well. I'm always impressed by the way he achieved so much without resorting to the kind of politics and war we see today. The way he wasn't afraid to put himself in personal danger to prove a point, and the way that his gambles often paid off.

It is a difficult question, not something I really think about a lot.

St Paul, would be up there too - for his wisdom, and his unflinchingness. Also because he had the courage to do what I suppose nowadays would be called flip flopping.

Lloyd George too - someone whose politics I admire, and whose abilities were tested to the very limit.

Otto von Bismark - a man who set out to achieve the impossible and succeeded. (A man so clever that when he died the failure of his successors to keep all Bismarks balls in the air led to WWI)

I'm sure there are more. Those will do for starters.

 

[Yusuf Evans]

Jesus
Superman
Rangers of the Great Raid
Those willing to sacrficice their lives, so that others may live.

 

[kiwimac]

Te Whiti o Rongomai whose ardent pacifism in the face of societal injustice inspired Gandhi.

 

[Museveni]

Mentioned it befor but it's easily Raoul Wallenberg. Saved over 100.000 Jews from the Nazis and their ilk and did it all using brain over brawn, even if some of his methods were abit... unorthodox. His partner Per Anger who started the work befor Wallenberg arrived is also up there. Both have been recognized in "Righteous Among the Nations"
and while on the subject there is ofcourse also Oscar Schindler and the countless(well not really) of people that stood up to the nazis in various ways. With the rising tide of xenophobia and racism masked as "protecting our nations" we should all take lessons from these people aswell as hope and/or pray* that history wont repeat itself once more.

Henry Dunant who's the co-founder of the International Red Cross aswell as having founded the ideas of the Geneva Convention is also a Hero.


*depending on your beliefs

 

[CaligulaNero]

Fictional hero- Atticus Finch.

Real world, I can only make conclusion based upon what I know, so it is possible these people had skeletons in their closet I do not admire and would make them less than heroic in my mind, but here are some that I admire greatly: Thomas Paine, Lincoln, Ghandi. I could list many more, but these stand out to me.

 

[Texas Lynn]

V. Gene Robinson, Beth Stroud and so many other LGBT clergy who have pursued human rights and Christian Love within the body of institutions corrupted by hatred.