Who's Your Hero?

[Tash8]

for the longest time it was eminem...honestly though Eminem is a great story, but he's not a hero.

Nnamdi Asomough from the Oakland Raiders is mine--and stories like these are why:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/26/nfl.sk ... index.html

[mcZu]

^That's a hero deed, indeed.

Mine is Ibn Khaldūn, and this is why:

Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was a North African polymath — an astronomer, economist, historian, Islamic jurist, Islamic lawyer, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, hafiz, mathematician, military strategist, nutritionist, philosopher, social scientist and statesman — born in North Africa.

He is considered a forerunner of several social scientific disciplines: demography, cultural history, historiography, the philosophy of history, and sociology. He is also considered one of the forerunners of modern economics, alongside the earlier Indian scholar Chanakya. Ibn Khaldun is considered by many to be the father of a number of these disciplines, and of social sciences in general, for anticipating many elements of these disciplines centuries before they were founded in the West. He is best known for his Muqaddimah (known as Prolegomenon in English), the first volume of his book on universal history, Kitab al-Ibar.

Actually, he is more like a role model than a hero to me.

[Tash8]

yeah sounds more like a role Model.

I see a hero as a guy that does something for other people (i.e. Superman, naw mean?)

[mcZu]

True, but the dude motivated me to get my ass through education. I want to have at least as much knowledge as he once had, if not more. That sounds like a heroic act to me, even if he's died now for ages.

[Tash8]

True, but the dude motivated me to get my ass through education. I want to have at least as much knowledge as he once had, if not more. That sounds like a heroic act to me, even if he's died now for ages.

That's true. I mean in a sense he's helping you through you're life. So it is a noble thing.

well that's cool man, good choice--weird, but good.

[gvdz]

sounds stupid maybe but i think my dad is my hero

[Solace]

sounds stupid maybe but i think my dad is my hero

Doesn't sound stupid at all.

[Tash8]

sounds stupid maybe but i think my dad is my hero

Doesn't sound stupid at all.

it's not stupid...but typically Fathers are considered Role Models rather than heros.

[classthe_king]

My cousin Wayne. He's in the army.

[Xray]

My cousin Wayne. He's in the army.

Omg you're related.

[classthe_king]

My cousin Wayne. He's in the army.

Omg you're related.

YEAH

[,-,'-{Bar}-',-,]

im my own hero

[Kez]

[Liquid_Fangs]

Henry Cavendish

True genius ^^^^

He was socially awkward and liked to keep to himself which made him really dedicated to science. Many fields and many breakthroughs which nobody discovered till years after his death when most of it was already taken credit for.

[97Civic]

My hero would be the men and women that fought and died on the Allied side in World War 2. They gave their lives for something far greater than they could have imagined.