Out of Pod Experience

Very difficult for me.

I have no single idol, more a random list.

My father is an inspiration to me and the man who taught me a great many things. Not least he is the man who after i was shot got me such a shouting at when i was feeling sorry for myself and pushed me to pursue my current employment.

Then there's certain members of my historical family who i look up to. This served me well in university. Any high bred toff who talks down to me, well I have a family line of murdering bastards just as long as you, and we were better at it, so dont you dare look down your nose at me you chinless feck.

After that I deeply admire a number of 18th and 19th century figures, notable explorers, engineers, inventors, soldiers, writers and travelers who were sometimes the same person. Reading about their travels and adventures into the unknown are fascinating, when you think about that they had absolutely no idea what the hell they'd find or even if they'd come back.

Finally a number of people I met during my military service. Especially one of my instructors in officer school. He taught me more in a short time about philosophy and how to look and think about the world than my entire education rolled up. He was my John Keating a la Dead Poets Society without the chair standing or sacking that followed.

Didn't know you were climbing. I would really love to do it, but there a no mountains in Denmark. The tallest point here is a freaking bridge.

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Derrick. I sort of envy you. I never get to know any of my grandfathers as both of them died before I was born. So all the stereotypical things you do with your grandfather is something I have never experienced.

I respect my father and appreciate what he has done for my sister and I. Our well being has always been high priority for him. But I would not call him my idol as he spent too much time on work rather than on my sister and I.

I think I'm in the same boat as Graygor. I don't really have some specific idols, but rather just some people I respect. When I was younger there was one of my friends I looked up to. He was 4 years older than me, but we were still best friends. I enjoyed playing with the big boys and he had all sorts of cool stuff. Now that we got older, I see us more as equal. The 4 year age difference doesn't really matter anymore.

As for celebrities / well known persons. I can't really name anyone.

Antonio Seraphino Susin
Marilyn Manson
Salvador Dali
Vincent van Gogh
Serj Tankian
Daron Malakian
Tyler Okonma
Win Butler
Marcus Hopsin
Pharrell Williams
Quentin Tarantino
Stanley Kubrick
Clark Ashton Smith
William Shakespeare
Stephen King
Fedor Emelienenko
George Carlin
Leonardo da Vinci
Jesus
Satan

There are more, but I can't really think of any more at the moment.

Seriously clichéed internet answer, but... Carl Sagan. When my dad purchased our family's first VCR, it came with a 3-pack of blank cassettes. The first thing he ever recorded was the entire Cosmos series on PBS, and I can't begin to count the times I watched it. In terms of igniting my imagination and giving me an idea of what I could do with my life, nothing else inspired me nearly as much. After receiving Pale Blue Dot (coffee table format) as a birthday gift some years later, I came to see life as an opportunity to improve the condition of our species, and maybe our long-term prospects for survival.

...and here I am playing a video game in my free time.

geez, i don't see any saints on anyone's lists. it figures that the lot of you are sinners :p

yukio mishima, david wojnarowicz, egon schiele, st francis, yayoi kusama, st sebastian, marx, kafka, st dymphna, joan of arc, and uh, jesus i guess

i'm not sure if robert de montesquiou counts as an idol since i usually disapprove of rich jerkoffs who coast off of the work of their more talented friends but he seems like a dude who really knew how to have a good time, so i might as well put him up there with people whose most notable achievements involved dying in style

Billy. Plain and simple. An idol to everyone.

My Idol is ... none

And if you ask me, have none either, better for you in the long run, be your own idol if you need one, and even that is just cheating yourself.

o/

Homer Simpson.

Stable job where he does nothing and gets paid.
Loving family (except his sister-in-laws) who accept him regardless of what he does in life.
Nice detached home.
This episode.
These quotes.

Surely my idol...

I don't have any real idols IRL, but a bunch of people that I really admire for what they achieved; people like Leonardo, Tesla, Mark Twain, David Lynch.



oh..thank you...even though I really don't do much more in Eve than slacking around and talking crap.
But maybe that's the whole point ?




I like your attitude.
Just know that, should you be fed up with ISD CCL, there will always be a place in Lisa Needs Braces for you.
Awoxing guarantees citizenship.

I think maybe too soon.