Who had the largest impact on the person you have become

[Spiderman]

Who had the biggest impact on the person you've become? I'd have to say the founder of Shintoism, but nobody actually knows who that is, it's just a religion I've been practicing since before I knew what Shintoism was, and it totally changed and revolutionized my life, but it has no founder, no dogmas, and no scripture.

 

[Woberts]

Che Guevara.

 

[Cooky]

Who had the biggest impact on the person you've become? I'd have to say the founder of Shintoism, but nobody actually knows who that is, it's just a religion I've been practicing since before I knew what Shintoism was, and it totally changed and revolutionized my life, but it has no founder, no dogmas, and no scripture.

Hernan Cortez. Oh and also Richard Simmons. (I have multiple personalities)

 

[MikeDwight]

Ornette Coleman. I'd have broken all 6 of his Beauty is a Rare Thing CDs Collection if they were LPs. Not that I say he is so universally relevant anymore. But! Before there were musicians playing freely, then you might have listened to 60% Charlie Parker, 80% Thelonious Monk, 80% Coltrane, Definitely 40% Duke Ellington.

 

[Shad]

Who had the biggest impact on the person you've become? I'd have to say the founder of Shintoism, but nobody actually knows who that is, it's just a religion I've been practicing since before I knew what Shintoism was, and it totally changed and revolutionized my life, but it has no founder, no dogmas, and no scripture.

My parents and close family

 

[Cooky]

My parents and close family

That's bizaare.

 

[Shad]

That's bizaare.

I know right. I should have picked a complete stranger instead or a random celebrity. Maybe scribbling of bronze age primitives

 

[Spiderman]

Hernan Cortez. Oh and also Richard Simmons. (I have multiple personalities)

Hernan Cortes is actually the greatest military strategists in the entire world. With a few hundred men he conquered an Empireof 15 million.

 

[PureX]

Bill W. and Dr. Bob. I don't even want to contemplate where I'd be, or who I'd be, now, if it weren't for them.

 

[Shad]

Hernan Cortes is actually the greatest military strategists in the entire world. With a few hundred men he conquered an Empireof 15 million.

No he didn't. He had tens of thousands of Aztec client-state soldiers that joined him over the years. At one point his army had 50k natives or so the history goes. The Aztec maintained a vassal state based empire that was itching to revolt. Cortes was a catalyst for that revolt.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Some of the other males in my family.

 

[Flame]

My maternal grandmother.

 

[MikeDwight]

My maternal grandmother.

Oh the Birthgivers! Ya the birthgiver!

 

[ChristineM]

Just about everyone i ever met has had some impact. The biggest impact, probably my husband in thousands of different ways

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Who had the biggest impact on the person you've become? I'd have to say the founder of Shintoism, but nobody actually knows who that is, it's just a religion I've been practicing since before I knew what Shintoism was, and it totally changed and revolutionized my life, but it has no founder, no dogmas, and no scripture.

I did.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Who had the biggest impact on the person you've become? I'd have to say the founder of Shintoism, but nobody actually knows who that is, it's just a religion I've been practicing since before I knew what Shintoism was, and it totally changed and revolutionized my life, but it has no founder, no dogmas, and no scripture.

My mother probably, for being an exceptionally kind, thoughtful, caring, intelligent, hard-working, and cheerful person, who rarely frowned or raised her voice (no smacking either) even though her childhood was no doubt a very nasty one. I could hardly see her otherwise than being the best role model. Tolstoy, in his non-fiction writing, perhaps influenced me quite a bit. along with Bertrand Russell, when I began reading in earnest.

 

[metis]

For me, it was my mother, followed by two Italian Catholic women who literally changed my life by helping me sort out what was most important, and I married the latter one 52 years ago.

 

[Howard Is]

Definitely the Pleiadian who taught me phowa, which enabled me to travel here in the after-death bardo.
Otherwise I would still be in my pond just absorbing starlight and watching crystals grow.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Who had the biggest impact on the person you've become?

Throughout my life, there have been many, and it has varied over time based on priorities driven by my ego.

I have reach a point in my life where no one has an impact on who I am. I simply am.