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do you have an idol.

recently i found out i dont have one
horrible i know/

i've considered
>Che guevara but he's 2communist4me
>Socrates but it feels like its been to long
i would prefer a person from more recent times
>Mark twain he is funny and political but im not a huge fan of his books.

but enough about me the main theme of this thread is who is your idol and why?

>> No.3022718

Diogenes is my patron sage.

>> No.3022721

>>3022710
gandhi cuz perfection

>> No.3022722

Jeezus cos he writted da bibel

>> No.3022728

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31TwlH5FEao

>> No.3022750

>>3022728
protagoras
he understood the world so well
man is indead the measure of all things

>> No.3022754

Tom Waits is my idol.

>> No.3022756

>>3022750

Why did you quote that post?

>> No.3022758

Your "idol" doesn't have to be a particular person. It can be a movement, mindset, genre etc. Anything you look up to and want to be like, really.

>> No.3022766

David Byrne
Brian Wilson
David Bowie
Serge Gainsbourg
President Obama

>> No.3022767

>>3022766

>obama
>wut

>> No.3022780

Probably Beckett ...

>> No.3022798

David Hume
He had common sense

>> No.3022802

>>3022766
>Obama

brofist.exe

>> No.3022808

>Nicola Tesla
>Dale Cooper (he's a fictional character, who cares)
>Steve Wozniak
>Harlan Ellison
>Gandhi
>Teddy Roosevelt

>> No.3022827

There are a lot of people that have inspired me, not sure if any of them would be a so called 'idol'.

Alexander Pushkin
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Beethoven
John Milton
Charles Darwin
Tchaikovsky
David Lynch
Dante
Lenin
Oscar Wilde
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Karl Marx

The one that comes closest to being an idol is probably Dostoyvesky. I love his books and Brothers Karamasov and especially 'The Grand Inquisitor' and also Ivan's talk with the devil, were probably the greatest things I have read so far.
There is still a lot more I have to read by other writers though...

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Vladmir Putin, He will free my vampire brethren.

>> No.3022834 [DELETED] 

Emma Goldman, Jesus Christ, Albert Camus, Dionysus

>> No.3022835

Emma Goldman, Jesus Christ, Albert Camus, Jim Morrison

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Norton I, Emperor of these United States and Protector of Mexico.

He was a man who chased his dream.

>> No.3022874

slavoj zizek

deep & edgy

>> No.3022885

Alexander Solzhenitsyn has inspired me the most. He's not my 'idol' but I think he's an example of how strong a person can be when confronted with utter hopelessness.

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>> No.3022908

Aside from obligatory parents. Tom waits and Nick cave

>> No.3022917

>>3022836
I agree with you so much. One of the most amazing figures in history.

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Where de stash at?

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>> No.3022984

Bill O'Reilly

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An excellent brew of sane consideration treading a surreal landscape.

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>>3022967

>> No.3022989

Wanting to have an idol for the sake of having one is retarded.

>> No.3022992

>>3022989
It's very important to have someone to look up to.

>> No.3023023

>>3022992
I have many people I look up to, but idolizing one person over all others just for the sake of it is retarded (not that guy btw but who cares)

>> No.3023026

Paul Bowles recently.

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>> No.3023113

Spike Speigle: because he is such an awesome character. Funny, and a bad ass, and also deep and honorable.
Stephan King: Say what you want about him but don't deny the fact that this man is a legend. He wrote dozens of classics and is (almost) always an entertaining read.
Aaron Paul (the guy who played Jesse in breaking bad): God damn it this guy can act! I think he is one of the most under rated actors in the world. I really hope being in breaking bad sets his career off and we start seeing more of him.

>> No.3023123

Lord Byron cuz eh has sex with lots of ppl and its pretty cool cuz he doesnt give a fuk. Just like da honey badger LOL

>> No.3023125

>>3023113
>Stephan King: Say what you want about him but don't deny the fact that this man is a legend. He wrote dozens of classics and is (almost) always an entertaining read.
He is not a legend. He his written no 'classics', and he never will.

>> No.3023138

Sunhawk.


I feel like we're being raided.

>> No.3023141

non-/lit/ idols:
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Christopher Hitchens
George Carlin
Penn Jillette
/lit/ idols:
Erich Maria Remarque
Ray Bradbury

>> No.3023147

>>3023125
pet semetary, misery, itt, the langoliers, carrie
I can name more.
Well, even if you don't agree these are classics for me and a big part of my child/adolescence so for those reasons he is one of my idols.

>> No.3023157

>>3023125
Eh I would disagree as he is not only widely read and incredibly prolific but a passionate player. Perhaps you are coming at it from a semantics term and are defining classic and legend as words that require a certain amount of time to pass in order to be properly applied.

in that case yr argument is boring and will be pedantic and will become obsolete in a few decades as he will certainly be remembered as both a legend and as a writer of classics.

>> No.3023169

Jesus Christ
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
Daniel Day-Lewis