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Name people that have inspired you and their beliefs that have reflected onto you.

For me, Carl Sagan was pretty inspirational.

Ayn Rand

Dan Simmons

my father, as provincial as that sounds

Joseph Campbell

Charles Shultz

Various family and friends

Originally posted by Bardock42
Ayn Rand

Seconded.


I just wish I could agree with her though...



Also, Kurt Vonnegut.

Friedrich Nietzsche.
Sun Tzu
Machiavelli
Dexter Morgan- even though he's fictional. So I guess that one go's to the author instead. Changed how I looked at morality in any case.

Originally posted by inimalist
my father, as provincial as that sounds

Ditto.

Also...
Leo Buscaglia
Arnold Schwarzenegger

George Carlin.

Originally posted by Mindship


Ditto.

Also...
Leo Buscaglia
Arnold Schwarzenegger Inimalist's father inspired you?

Originally posted by Darth Exodus
Dexter Morgan- even though he's fictionl. So I guess that one go's to the author instead. Changed how I looked at morality in any case.

I've always found serial killers inspirational and (in Dexter's case at least) much easier to identify with and take the perspective of then normal people.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I've always found serial killers inspirational and (in Dexter's case at least) much easier to identify with and take the perspective of then normal people. That's cause you are a sociopath.

Mother Treasa. Now she was good.

Originally posted by Bardock42
That's cause you are a sociopath.

Aspie actually. But it's really just a few steps away from sociopath.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Aspie actually. But it's really just a few steps away from sociopath.

EVERYONE WATCH OUT, PSYCHO'S SPEAKING!!!

Originally posted by Bardock42
EVERYONE WATCH OUT, PSYCHO'S SPEAKING!!!

Beware my Words of Death. crazy

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Beware my Words of Death. crazy


It's one of the best powers to have, really.

Originally posted by Bardock42
It's one of the best powers to have, really.

But it does require a lot of creativity to do anything useful with.

EDIT: Well, there's killing people I suppose.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
But it does require a lot of creativity to do anything useful with.

EDIT: Well, there's killing people I suppose.

I see that as a valuable challenge, not a threatening annoyance.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Inimalist's father inspired you? Well, in a totally unrelated, complete stranger sort of way by raising a son who posted said inspiration, thus kindling in myself fond recollection of he who sired me.



Originally posted by Deja~vu
Mother Treasa. Warren Buffet.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Inimalist's father inspired you?

I should think so

he rocks pretty hardcore...

sometimes......................

Michael Shermer

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Michael Shermer Not that he's inspired me definitively; I do like his work.

Originally posted by lord xyz
Not that he's inspired me definitively; I do like his work.

I'd go so far as to say he's inspired me. Between his books, articles, magazine (Skeptic) that he is chief editor of and the myriad services and functions they provide, all of which has influenced me greatly. But more than that, the fact that he can be such a rational, level-headed free-thinker who doesn't inspire the polarization in his adherents/detractors like Richard Dawkins or anyone cut from his ilk, is a charming example of what we can aspire to. Along with my aforementioned hero, Joseph Campbell, he's shown me what I want to be like as both an intellectual and a human.

Not to say that I dislike Dawkins' work, btw. I enjoy it and agree with most of it. He's just not really a viable model for life. He's an antagonistic figurehead.

Shermer's also a libertarian atheist who writes brilliantly. If he had boobs, he'd be my soul-mate.

No one's ever really inspired me, never had a reason to look for inspiration. I have been told many times before I am an inspiration due to the fact that I've achieved so much regardless of my disability.

Phil Mitchell.

Originally posted by Scythe
No one's ever really inspired me, never had a reason to look for inspiration. I have been told many times before I am an inspiration due to the fact that I've achieved so much regardless of my disability.

Yeah. Zombies have it rough in today's society.

awesrug

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Yeah. Zombies have it rough in today's society.

awesrug Zomb-? Ohh, alright.

Didn't mean to belittle you. Just looking for some humor.

I'm glad you have inspired others.

....

So far I'm up to Joseph Campbell, Michael Shermer, and Charles Shultz. In that order. I'd add more, but they'd be on the fringes of my life's influences. Literary or musical influences, for example. Inspirations? Only loosely.

How Shultz?

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
How Shultz?

Through his work. Peanuts is a remarkable manifesto on the dignity of the human spirit, and the value and beauty of life's simple pleasures.

Originally posted by Scythe
No one's ever really inspired me, never had a reason to look for inspiration. I have been told many times before I am an inspiration due to the fact that I've achieved so much regardless of my disability.

Oh, don't suppose you have a casefile you could share?

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Didn't mean to belittle you. Just looking for some humor.

I'm glad you have inspired others. Haha, no I understood that, just took me awhile to figure out the zombie reference since I changed sigs briefly.

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
Oh, don't suppose you have a casefile you could share? Well, in general. I have Osteo Genesis Imperfecta and everytime a disabled fan attends my shows, I usually break up a mosh pit just to allow them a front row seat. I let them know that oen can do much more than what they're told to do, or think they can achieve. A young disabled girl in her mid teens saw my show and she wrote me a letter tellin' me how I inspired her go out there, socialize and form a band of her own.

hmm I just realised I don't have any people who inspired me o_O

Most inspirational person: Peter Joseph

Director, Writer, Narrator of Zeitgeist 1 & 2

Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, Bill Hicks

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
Martin Luther King

Books. I know they're not people, but they could be in another dimension. LOL


I worship them!!!

Damn, I need to make another appointment somewhere.


*Please refer to "Imagination Thread"*

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jesus. dur

Descartes, Socrates, Tolstoy.

People that went against the tide even though they knew the consequences.

Free thinkers
Nonconformists

He sure can be an ******* but overall my hard-working father.

Tom Gabel

Ronald McDonald.

Jack Daniels

Originally posted by Jack Daniels
Jack Daniels Is that a real person?

Just like Sam Adams. LOL

Originally posted by lord xyz
Is that a real person?

Pretty sure it is. He's long dead though.

Hitler.

damn ...you like your politicians...lol

Originally posted by Bada's Palin
Hitler. Just like George Bush.