Board 8 > Fuckin A, is there a human being in history more wonderful than Mr. Rogers?

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Wiki:

His office at WQED Pittsburgh famously did not have a desk, only a sofa and armchairs, because Rogers thought a desk was "too much of a barrier".

I don't think I've read or seen a single bad thing about the man, and he was in the public eye his entire adult life.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA
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Pirateking2000 posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA

Exactly what came to me immediately
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

I don't think I've read or seen a single bad thing about the man

A lot of stupid rumors spread after his death about pedophilia and shit, surprised you don't remember any of that.

Obviously it was all bull but people tried to smear him for whatever reason
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No, he really was exactly who he appeared to be.
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I don't remember that but I'm also not surprised about such a smear campaign aimed at a man who worked with children for like 40 years. Since I haven't heard of those allegations, my guess is they were immediately disproven.
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He was in the KKK
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Best person ever
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Hes a Pittsburgh native, so he automatically becomes a great person. Miss living there
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His show always kinda creeped me out as a kid.
But regardless,
Did you watch the marathon on twitch?
They ran all 886 episodes in a row just a few weeks ago.
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Esquire did a fantastic article on him in the late 90s. Just a day following him around. It's one of my favorite pieces of writing, I still go back and read it sometimes.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who didn't like himself very much. It was not his fault. He was born with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is something that happens to the brain. It means that you can think but sometimes can't walk, or even talk. This boy had a very bad case of cerebral palsy, and when he was still a little boy, some of the people entrusted to take care of him took advantage of him instead and did things to him that made him think that he was a very bad little boy, because only a bad little boy would have to live with the things he had to live with. In fact, when the little boy grew up to be a teenager, he would get so mad at himself that he would hit himself, hard, with his own fists and tell his mother, on the computer he used for a mouth, that he didn't want to live anymore, for he was sure that God didn't like what was inside him any more than he did. He had always loved Mister Rogers, though, and now, even when he was fourteen years old, he watched the Neighborhood whenever it was on, and the boy's mother sometimes thought that Mister Rogers was keeping her son alive. She and the boy lived together in a city in California, and although she wanted very much for her son to meet Mister Rogers, she knew that he was far too disabled to travel all the way to Pittsburgh, so she figured he would never meet his hero, until one day she learned through a special foundation designed to help children like her son that Mister Rogers was coming to California and that after he visited the gorilla named Koko, he was coming to meet her son.

At first, the boy was made very nervous by the thought that Mister Rogers was visiting him. He was so nervous, in fact, that when Mister Rogers did visit, he got mad at himself and began hating himself and hitting himself, and his mother had to take him to another room and talk to him. Mister Rogers didn't leave, though. He wanted something from the boy, and Mister Rogers never leaves when he wants something from somebody. He just waited patiently, and when the boy came back, Mister Rogers talked to him, and then he made his request. He said, "I would like you to do something for me. Would you do something for me?" On his computer, the boy answered yes, of course, he would do anything for Mister Rogers, so then Mister Rogers said, "I would like you to pray for me. Will you pray for me?" And now the boy didn't know how to respond. He was thunderstruck. Thunderstruck means that you can't talk, because something has happened that's as sudden and as miraculous and maybe as scary as a bolt of lightning, and all you can do is listen to the rumble. The boy was thunderstruck because nobody had ever asked him for something like that, ever. The boy had always been prayed for. The boy had always been the object of prayer, and now he was being asked to pray for Mister Rogers, and although at first he didn't know if he could do it, he said he would, he said he'd try, and ever since then he keeps Mister Rogers in his prayers and doesn't talk about wanting to die anymore, because he figures Mister Rogers is close to God, and if Mister Rogers likes him, that must mean God likes him, too.

As for Mister Rogers himself…well, he doesn't look at the story in the same way that the boy did or that I did. In fact, when Mister Rogers first told me the story, I complimented him on being so smart—for knowing that asking the boy for his prayers would make the boy feel better about himself—and Mister Rogers responded by looking at me at first with puzzlement and then with surprise. "Oh, heavens no, Tom! I didn't ask him for his prayers for him; I asked for me. I asked him because I think that anyone who has gone through challenges like that must be very close to God. I asked him because I wanted his intercession."

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bryans is right! We have our dirt! Mr. Rogers is selfish and demands everyone allocate their prayers to him!
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