Influence

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ddallen

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Just a short question?
Which person alive or dead do you think has influenced you most - and why?
Fo me one such person would be Carl Sagan - I saw his Cosmos series as a young lad and it got me interested in science - my profession as of now
 

allaboutlove

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Gee idk so many people have influnced me in many ways all working togather to make me who i am.... but i suppose the person with the most influnce on my life would be christ.
 

maxwel

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Apr 18, 2013
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Hudson Taylor.

He had a very special walk with God.
 
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woka

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#4
It took me only a second to process this question, and straight away Christine came to mind. She was my domestic worker for many year's. Unfortunately she contracted the HIV virus a very common thing to happen in Africa. We had shared so many intimate thing's, we shared our hopes and dreams.

She was closer to me than a sister, and I was so grateful to the Lord for her friendship. She taught me how to really laugh, she completly accepted me for who I am, she always made me feel anthing but lonely. She taught me the art of forgiveness, as she forgave her long time boyfriend for giving her the virus.

She prayed with me, and I with her. I love you my dearest friend. I look forward to seeing you in heaven again.
 
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overthechill

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This is one of those questions where, when you think about it, the influence itself is measured by the action it produces. For instance, the greatest invention ever, it could be argued, might be the printing press because of the action it produced and the ultimate influences it made - printing the written word and, thus, creating more books, and thus, more people reading, thus higher education. So, in that light and besides the obvious influence of our Lord Jesus Christ, I would say it was old Mr. White. I didn't know him by any other name as a kid but he a was a pretty good man who drank a little bit too much maybe, white hair, tall as a flagpole and his cowboy hat was always sat way back on his head giving him an approachable demeanor (even when he probably wasn't). He was a neighbor of my family and I saw him practically everyday and he saw me too, usually reading comic books; the Human Torch, Submariner, The Rawhide Kid. Mr. White asked me one day what I had in my back pocket. It was a comic book, I'm sure, and he went in his house and came out with an old scarred up book. He said "maybe someday you'll quit drinking that goat milk and start chewin on some meat". The book was Call of the Wild by Jack London and I couldn't get enough of it. Then came The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey then all those Louis La'more westerns I could handle and when Mr. White ran out of those he handed me "Catcher in the Rye", 1984, you name it. So, I guess old Mr. White who always said "you done already boy?" and laugh, was my printing press. When he died a few years later, he left me a number of his possessions - and I didn't have to pack up a thing.