Real Life Information on Personalities – Beethoven, Hitler, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
I got a forward from one of old friends. Please verify before you judge. (I am going to verify anyway and write more on them).
Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis; would you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the next question before scrolling down to the answer.
Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates.
Candidate A: Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He’s had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.
Candidate B: He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whisky every evening.
Candidate C: He is a decorated war hero. He’s a vegetarian, doesn’t smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn’t had any extramarital affairs.
Which of these candidates would be your choice?
Decide first, and then scroll down for the answer.
Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
And by the way: Answer to the abortion question -
if you said yes, you just killed Beethoven.
Moral - Think before judging someone.
Again I am not sure about the exaggeration in the forwarded mail. I will verify and come back.
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Akash said,
March 23, 2007 @ 6:58 pm
Good one!
justathought said,
September 19, 2008 @ 9:38 pm
Beethoven was the second child, not the fifth. His older brother died six days after being born, which was quite common in those times. Beethoven’s sibling of which only three survived to adulthood, which again was common in those days, have no historical record blindness, deafness or mental instability. His father did not have syphilis. His mother died of tuberculosis sixteen years after giving birth to him.
Correction said,
October 23, 2008 @ 7:27 am
You could change it so that they kill Beethoven’s sibling instead and change it to tuberculosis. His older sister died, Ludwig was second oldest and only two of his younger siblings made to infancy like himself. Therefore hard to tell whether they were blind, deaf or mentally retarded.
The political one is good though. Hitler could have in fact been vegetarian even though he ate sausages, which was a personal favourite, because the Germans have a sausage made from cauliflower as well as other veggie sausages, yummm. Winston Churchill only drinks a quart, was probably curious of opium and lots of people got kicked out of office though he got back in and did many great things.
wrong said,
November 25, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
Hitler wasn’t a decorated war hero. In fact before his role in polotics and taking control of Germany he had no war or military background. He should have inlisted in austria but he despised is country and did not answer his call papers. He was nothing but a powerful speaker. Although he did study military strategy extensivley.
Dean A said,
December 4, 2008 @ 6:06 am
Actually, Hitler WAS a decorated war hero. He was decorated for service performed in WWI. Hitler was twice decorated for bravery. He received the Iron Cross, Second Class, in 1914 and Iron Cross, First Class, in 1918.
After the early 1930s, Hitler generally followed a vegetarian diet, although he ate meat on occasion.
Hitler was a non-smoker and promoted aggressive anti-smoking campaigns throughout Germany. He reportedly promised a gold watch to any of his close associates who quit (and gave a few away).
Christina Vienna said,
January 13, 2009 @ 3:21 am
Hitler definitely was in WWI.
He joined the war for Germany voluntarily (after indeed having deserted in his own country Austria, which he might in fact have despised as you suggested, or at least belittled in comparison to “great Germany”).
He received the first upgrade to corporal quickly, and a decoration with the Iron Cross. He collected several other decorations from 1914 to 1917, including a “wounded” decoration and one for “extraordinary bravery” (would be interesting what he did to merit it - I read about him having saved camerades in danger, but I do not know for sure; ironically a Jewish general allegedly made the decision of awarding him the decoration).
His bad war injury happened towards the end of the war, he suffered injuries in a poisonous gas attack by the British (temporary blindness to my knowledge is undisputed in the historical discourse, although it seems to be an ordinary reaction - “mere” swollen eye lids - and nothing specifically suffered by him).
Btw his own experience is said to have led to the mutual resignation of gas in WWII by all combattant parties (of course this renders the use of gas in industrial slaughter of people in concentration camps, Jews, Roma, Sinti, handicapped, dissidents etc, even more despiseful - he was “human” enough to not use it against the worst enemies of his Reich in combat because he knew what being gassed meant, yet he killed German and Austrian citizens and occupied peoples of “unworthy” blood or ideology with it).
So the fact he was in WWI is secured, he s even decorated several times, after the gas injury with the Iron Cross Class I. I have little knowledge of the heirarchy in decorations, but I think it s apretty high Prussian decoration.
Just for getting the facts straight.
I am not sure about his studies of military strategy though. His lack of knowledge or even reason, compared with his superiority complex (self declared “Greatest Commander of All Times”), drove his Generals to despair (and his lack of competence made Stauffenberg, a devout Nazi, attempt assassination to save the Reich - to also get this hideous hero movie with Tom Cruise straight).
I believe it is safe to say he really was not a man of strategy, nor of brilliant intellect. At least that - I shiver when imagining Europe today had he been any brighter.
To Put It Out There said,
February 3, 2010 @ 3:17 pm
i heard Adolf Hitler had a small penis
Rophuine said,
May 17, 2010 @ 7:42 am
Questions of fact aside…
Regarding the abortion question, this just gets back to the heart of the abortion debate - “Should I, or not?”. A single example isn’t really helpful. Perhaps, through chance, the child you aborted would have been Hitler instead? It’s still a meaningless exercise, because you don’t have the information to make a decision based on the potential child’s future at the time. The net result could be either positive or negative. The question must ultimately devolve to issues of the parents’ situation and ethics, and any governing laws. If asked for advice (as in the hypothetical situation), I would fall back to my own ethics and knowledge of the parents’ situation, and as presented, they don’t paint a positive picture of the future for the potential child. This is why people make the decision they do.
As for the second hypothetical, the only thing we’ve learned is that the facts you’ve presented are not good bases for decisions about a person’s value or leadership potential. When judging a decision about a future leader, we (ideally) take all of the facts we have available about a person, and project, as best we can, their future behaviour. Given the import of the decision, one would do well to have substantially more facts available than presented: given the limited information available, it’s hardly surprising that most people would make a poor decision.
bala said,
October 24, 2010 @ 6:12 pm
As for the second hypothetical,the facts presented might talk about the attitudes of the people.And the fact of the matter is they really come handy in judging the leadership qualities of the people . A person who might be the best in conducting himself with huge levels of wisdom and self respect …………..may not necessarily be a social animal who deeply fathoms the value of others’ life.
Hitler was truly a great leader but he simply lacked humanism!!!!!!!!!!And only bcoz Roosevelt consults bad politicians he cannot be termed bad!!!!!And as bcoz a great leader drinks or has two wives , they cannot be termed as good deeds!!!!!In fact accepting ones own mistake and striving to correct it is not a task of simple words to accomplish……but infact when it comes to choosing a leader of the world the information provided is too small to choose the most apt person……
HowlingWolf84 said,
June 14, 2011 @ 7:46 pm
I dont know who sent this to you, or where you got this from, but it’s appaling.
Yes, Hitler was a decorated war hero.
Yes, Chucrchill drank and did Opium (look at the times he was in and look at the state of England even to this day. I’m surprised the current Prime Minister isn’t getting right snockered on the regular.)
Yes, FDR had extramartial affairs, so did Clinton.
Did we cannonize Clinton as a saint for it like we do FDR just because FDR got us through WWII? No.
Remember, Clinton got us through Desert Storm.
So one was a vile despot
One was a raging alchy with a barbituate additcion
And one was a philanderer with his head in the clouds and his body in a wheelchair
Thats just who these people were.
As to the abortion thing:
Arg, really? Just because the mother had syphillis and other babies born with birth defects, she should abort her child? No.
Oh, and Beethoven’s deafness (sometimes attributed to being born to a syphillic mother) didnt lose his hearing til he was much older.
Just sayin…