Name 5 of the most influential people to you.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Exactly... next time don't start playing with fire if you don't want the fire nation to come and play.

Are you fucking serious? "The Fire Nation"

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Realistically it would probably be 5 people in my personal life that are totally irrelevant to people on this forum, so instead I'll just mention three famous people:

1. Sam Harris
2. Chris Metzen
3. Neil DeGrasse Tyson

[urasim]

Christopher Hitchens
Yasunori Mitsuda
Satoshi Tajiri
George Orwell
My dad.

[Deleted]

Name 5 of the most influential people to you.

Doesn't have to be an idol, as I said, just whoever had an influence on you, simple as that.

I'm talking about the thread, as it's been conducted. Not the OP.

[Yvaelle]

The 5 most common authors on my bookshelf would be:

1. Shakespeare (he cheats by having tiny plays as individual books, so by count of individually bound things on my shelf, he wins by a landslide)
2. JRR Tolkien (I have 3 different sets of LOTR and/or Hobbit in my house, plus at least one of everything else)
3. Issac Asimov
4. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
5. Richard Dawkins

That might give you some indication of me, but it doesn't really mean those authors are the most influential to my life. Lots of others wrote more impactful work but I currently own fewer of their books, or they just weren't as prolific writers. Nietzsche deserves honorable mention in this case, because I almost have as much Nietzsche as Dawkins, but I tend to give away Nietzsche more often. In terms of influence, Nietzsche should be at the top of the list (for authors).

Obviously family and friends play a big role in influence generally.

A more interesting thread might be, "What 5 books had the most influence on your worldview?"

[frogger237]

1. Jarod from The Pretender.
2. The guy who invented eating meat.
3. Guy to first think up something that wasn't real.
4. The guy that invented cheese.
5. The guy who invented hentai.

(And by guy i mean person)

[Linri]

1 - tony hawk
2 - michael jordan
3 - arnold schwarzenegger
4 - michaelangelo (the artist)
5 - the creator of "kings quest" for getting me into the fantasy genre at an early age on my own

this is aside from family members

[Doctor Amadeus]

I am kind of waiting for

1. God
2. Jesus
3. Son of God
4. The Holy Ghost
5. My Lord and Savior

[Kuntantee]

In no particular order after Ataturk:
edit: I changed my mind, I'll go in order.

1 - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
2 - Dennis M. Rirtchie / Bjarne Stroustrup
3 - John Hopfield
4 - Alan Turing
5 - Carl Friedrich Gauss

[Ellarielle]

1- Husband
2 - Parents
3 - Aunt

Authors... well I pretty much only have Tolkien, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy in my closet right now. I don't read as often as I should or used to.

[-aiko-]

1. My dad
2. My brother
3. Batman
4. ???
5. Profit?

I don't think I have too many actual influences.

[Blackspiral]

Not counting my Parents and Grandma, some other folks that have inspired and influenced me are:

Stan Lee - Bill Nye - Abraham Lincoln - George Lucas - Martin Luther King Jr

[Shinra1]

I don't have any people I consider influential in my life.

[Deleted]

1) Jason Statham
2) Hulk Hogan
3) Rocky Stallone
4) Colonel Sanders
5) Donald Trump
6) Diane Abbott (I know the post said 5, but I added one more just to cover the diversity quota )

[Theodarzna]

1. My Mother
2. James Burnham
3. Søren Kierkegaard
4. Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya
5. Herbert Marcuse

I could say James Burnham and supplemented by Paul Gottfried, but I don't take him that seriously. Pat Buchanan is also interesting but he is also much lower on the list.

[Doctor Amadeus]

I don't have any people I consider influential in my life.

How is that even possible?

Influence right, It's not they make you do something or you have to worship them, many people are just posting someone who had an influence on them, their thinking, maybe titillated their minds.

Maybe through their experience developed an appreciation for a certain process, and applied it.

[Doctor Amadeus]

1. My dad
2. My brother
3. Batman
4. ???
5. Profit?

I don't think I have too many actual influences.

Well your dad and brother and beat out Batman, that's impressive. Although number 5 with a question mark behind Profit is kind is hilarious.

[Deleted]

I was told a long time ago, that if you look on someone's book shelf, and could pick at least five of the most common authors, that could tell you everything you needed to know about a person.

I am not really much of a purist in that sense, but I do believe there are some truly very influential people in through time, that although I wouldn't consider a HERO, I would say have had the greatest impact on me.

My MOM

awwwww

1. Noam Chomsky

Nice!
Do you like my signature?

[Doctor Amadeus]

In no particular order FDR, Tupac, MLK, Nikola Tesla, and JFK.

2pac well very influential or sure.

FDR MLK and JFK

Yeah just men, but great men in spite of their faults like anyone. Lived and died to set a challenge for society to become better. Bold men!

[Shinra1]

How is that even possible?

Influence right, It's not they make you do something or you have to worship them, many people are just posting someone who had an influence on them, their thinking, maybe titillated their minds.

Maybe through their experience developed an appreciation for a certain process, and applied it.

I read both pages and thought long and hard but nobody's name came to mind save my parents but they don't really count in my opinion as their influence is not something I actively seek but rather an inevitable part of being raised by two loving and well-adjusted Humans.

If I really think about it though there's probably one person I have been influenced by and that's a character called Haviland Tuf in one of GRRM's old books called Tuf Voyaging: