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Anarchemitis said:
Oscar Schindler. What a kickass dude for someone who was a profiteer.

He saved over 1000 people from certain death by making using them as slave labour. Every time I see the ending to Spielburg's movie it gets, where he curls up and says "I could have saved more, and I didn't! I didn't!"
'this pin its solid gold that couldve gotten me one maybe two more.'
yeah good movie

id guess id have to say ghandi and his tactics
NON VIOLENCE NON COMPLIANCE
i always wanted to implement them in school but i cant get enough people =/
 

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Personally my favourite historical figure in terms of who I admire, would have to be Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He wrote One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. I still do not know if reading the book makes me happy or sad. It is just real. I do not want to say anything about it because I think anyone interested should just read it. (It is only 178 Pages and not hard to understand, especially compared to works such as Nabokov's Bend Sinister or the works of Hermann Hesse.)

The other figures I admire are Eric Hoffer, and Gandhi. One man to explain and one to show the way. Gandhi proved to me that power is more than violence. Power is also emotion. To oppose someone, use themselves and their beliefs to rupture from within. He to me is the figurehead of all those who fought and died without an attack. The courage is frightening.
 

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Difficult, difficult question....

I'm going with Winston Churchill for now, because he made a lot of awesome quotes, but the list can SERIOUSLY stretch if I just wanted to put in all of my favorites.
 

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Andrew Ryan, wait, Bioshock didn't really happen did it? Could of fooled me. But seriously I'd go for my mum, I LOVE YOU MUM!
 

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Neonbob said:
I have to go with my girlfriend.
Sure, there have been people in the past who have done some wonderful things, but none of them can hug me the same. :-D

On a less serious note, whoever created this site would probably be in second place for me.
NEONBOB!!!

for his ultimate avatar wich will kill millions of wales with every post he makes! :D

nono, seriously?? i have to say Jaime Sabines, a writer, i just love his poems :p
 

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odubya23 said:
I also said that records of her were fabricated, so, really, anything goes in regards to that. Why don't you find someone who was around before WWII and ask them if they had heard anything about her before the Germans invaded France.
Damn, those french guys are an impressive bunch. Not everyone can falsify such gigantic amounts of documents and time-honoured litterary classics while escaping any sort of wide-spread notice. I'm also impressed that, in the 40's, the French were already advanced enough in technology to be able to circumvent modern dating-equipment - up to 60 years before the equipment even existed! They had impressive foresight, I'll give them that. It does make me wonder, how come they got their arses kicked if they were half a century ahead of the rest of the world? I guess they were too busy falsifying historical documents and evidence to actually defend themselves. Go figure.

Also, what are we supposed to do? Video-tape our conversation with the old person? I could always go talk to my grandmother if you want, but then you'd just say she was lying.

odubya23 said:
Don't think that your entire 39 responses to his site gives you some kind of authority to label folk who have been here for a while.
... What? Ignoring that your argument is of the "my-dad-can-beat-up-your-dad"-variety, you registered in April 2009. How does that give you any kind of seniority?
 

Hikikomori Ookami

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Torque669 said:
Rasputin, Genghis Khan, Harold Godwinson or Hippocrates

EDIT: Oh if you want explanation.

Rasputin was mental. He was a womanizer and yet never washed and he didnt even have money. Gotta love his skills and it took ages to kill him! They poisoned him, stabbed him and shot him then finally put him in a huge sack and pushed him in a freezing river before he finally died.

Genghis Khan raised an entire army out of a bunch of nomads and made a huge Empire. Brilliant fighter and strategist.

Harold Godwinson fought Harold Hardrada at Stamford Bridge in the north before running all the way down to Hastings to make quite a good stand against William the Conqueror. He only ruled for like 5 days but for those five days he did all he could to defend Britain.

Hippocrates made lots of developments in the medical world even though many werent right atleast he turned people away from Supernatural causes and made an oath doctors today still follow. Got to respect him.
I have to agree with you on Rasputin, but you left out one very important fact. Despite the poison, stab wounds, gun shots, and being tied in a sack in a cold river, he managed to get halfway out of the sack before dying of hypothermia, or drowning, depending on the source.

And if you like guys that are hard to kill, I recommend this list on Cracked.com
 

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odubya23 said:
Link the video, and we'll see.

I have more senoriy than the other guy. I know trolling, sir. And I wasn't trolling. I was taught how to troll by the mega-trolls of Rotten.com, whose mighty trolling most people here won't do a fifth as well.
Actually, "the other guy" registered about half a year before you did, so if seniority was a factor (which it isn't), then it'd be on his side. During a discussion, you cannot use old merits as an argument. If your new, appropriate arguments are good enough, then you've got ground to stand on already. If they aren't, then you won't win any of that ground regardless of what you do. The arguments are all that matter.

In closing, your argument about being taught how to troll only validates his suspicion that you're trolling him...

BlackJack47 said:
I'm gonna say Hugh de Payans, founder of the Knights Templar In 1119.
How come? From what I see there's very little information about him outside of his support for the crusades, which doesn't really make him sound like a pleasant person.
 

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Peter the Great
Acquired what we know today to be Russia as one collective country, built a navy that could easily match Spain and England for a time, damn well built his city in a marsh and developed ways to solidify foundation where the ground shouldn't be solid enough to support foundation, and was truly a member of Homo universalis, not to mention one of the few such men to RULE a country with such Steel-willed determinism to bring them forward into the modern times that he would utterly destroy any tradition that stood in his way.

Hikikomori Ookami said:
And if you like guys that are hard to kill, I recommend this list on Cracked.com
And it's nice to see Leon Trotsky on there. Man took an axe to the skull, got up, beat down the axe-weilder, then took 4 hours to get to a hospital, only to day after more than 28 hours of surgery and resting, but did he die from the axe embedded in his skull like some kind of fashion statement? No, no he did not--he died from the doctors being unable to fully help him and botch the surgery (insert joke about shitty Mexican Health Care here).
 

Gebi10000

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joan of arc, hannibal barca, or John Ronald Ruhl Tolkin.
one for being a charismatic figure head,
one for being a genius on the battle field,
and one for inventing one of the most fantastic worlds ever imagend
 

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Sherman.
He sacked Atlanta, Georgia during the Civil War and didn't even need supplies, his men took from the land (And plantation owners.) and decimated the south.
 

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Genghis Khan.
Julius Caesar.
Alexander the Great.

I'm forgetting someone...

Anyway, you know what they all did. They're awesome.