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modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 04:53
by smoth
*in before osama*
What I mean is people who you felt were really positive energies in the world. By modern I mean in the past 30 years they passed on.

Bob Ross
seriously happy fucking trees... I cannot think of bob ross without laughing or at the very least smiling a little.

Fred Rogers(Mr Rogers)
PB ficking S
last but not least

Jim henson
the worlds he saw to creating I don't think we will see stuff like that again. Works like the dark crystal still inspire me.
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 09:08
by very_bad_soldier
smoth wrote:
the worlds he saw to creating I don't think we will see stuff like that again. Works like the dark crystal still inspire me.
Man that thing gave me nightmares as a child and I think I am still a bit traumatized from it.
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 15:09
by Kloot
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 16:22
by Das Bruce
I'm listening to the audio book of 'Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman' and it's brilliant. He's such a cheeky bugger.
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 17:00
by KaiserJ
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 17:43
by hoijui
my grandma
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 17:44
by SirArtturi
Seems like many natural scientists has positive and optimistic disposition, therefore many people find them delighting.
When thinking of modern thinkers and philosophers, that I would have felt emitting positive energy, not many comes to my mind since almost every modern - if we consider it as the era of modernism and postmodernism - thinkers are critical and pessimistic by definition.
However, there is one I felted enchanting:
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do you have any other in mind? I would love to hear... Could be nice alternatives to postmodernist, existentialist, critical theorists, nihilists etc. (whom I love to read though...)
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 18:09
by SirArtturi
Well, I could say Russell is one of the 'enchanting' philosophers, but never felt that his passing left the world a little darker - though havent even lived at that time :)
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 18:44
by KingRaptor
+1 on Sagan and Feynman
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 21:38
by PicassoCT
Feynman...
Its a good thing we only die once.. its sooo boring
Guy had ballz to do all the stuff we bail out. Stood in front of the whole brazilian sience comunity, and held his cargo-cult-sience speach.
Great men. With the gift to lift you on his shoulder, and take you on a sightseeing tour through the wonders of the world.
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 22:54
by Panda
Jacques Cousteau "le Commandant Cousteau" was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. His ship's name was Calypso.
"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."
"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."
Audrey Hepburn actress and philanthropist who became the goodwill ambassador for UNICEF in the late 1980s. She traveled the world trying to raise awareness about children in need.

Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 15 Sep 2011, 03:40
by MidKnight
Feynman, Mandelbrot. There were a few others, but my brain's non-functional atm.
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 15 Sep 2011, 08:00
by Das Bruce
Zyzz.
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 15 Sep 2011, 15:16
by Zydox
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Posted: 15 Sep 2011, 15:49
by Jazcash
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 15 Sep 2011, 17:32
by hrmph
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 15 Sep 2011, 21:50
by 1v0ry_k1ng
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 15 Sep 2011, 23:33
by FLOZi
Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 16 Sep 2011, 00:22
by smoth
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Re: modern people whos passing left the world a little darker...
Posted: 16 Sep 2011, 06:28
by fc14159