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Tangle Member  Posts: 1415 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 8.8
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Damn, damn, damn.
Christopher Hitchens 1949 - 2011
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Trixie Member  Posts: 1011 From: Edinburgh Joined: |
Do you mean Hitchy from the forum?? Please say no.
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Portillo Member (Idle past 108 days) Posts: 258 Joined:
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Christopher Hitchens. What a rude awakening it is when he realises that there is an afterlife afterall. And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually - 2 Samuel 15:12
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CosmicChimp Member  Posts: 293 From: Muenchen Bayern Deutschland Joined:
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Thank you Hitch. You blasted your fiery wit into bright forges of mind, hammered out glowing language, cut through a veil of lies for us to catch a glimpse of who we are and who we might become.
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Tangle Member Posts: 1415 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 8.8
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My pleasure; no. see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16212418 Life, don't talk to me about life.
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Tangle Member Posts: 1415 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 8.8
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He'd be fine with it; he'd think it was a huge joke - he'd pinch Mother Teresa's arse, buy St Peter a scotch and laugh for all eternity. Life, don't talk to me about life.
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rbp Member Posts: 440 Joined: |
Hitch dead, Jim.
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cavediver Member  Posts: 4125 From: UK Joined:
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I probably only saw eye-to-eye with Hitch half the time, but it was a great half  You'll be missed...
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jar Member  Posts: 23388 From: Texas!! Joined: Member Rating: 6.9
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If there is an afterlife Hitch is far more likely to get to heaven than most Christians. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Phat Member  Posts: 6584 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 4.3 |
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nwr Member  Posts: 4983 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 9.6
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Yes, there is an afterlife for Hitch. He will live on in his writings, which people will value for many years to come. Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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bluescat48 Member (Idle past 137 days)  Posts: 2347 From: United States Joined:
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Well put, Jar There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002 Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969 Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008
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GDR Member  Posts: 3157 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 8.7 |
BBC on Hitchens
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Omnivorous Member  Posts: 3105 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 10.0
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While you remain merely rude, smirking at the newly dead. If there is a God to answer to after death, you're in far more trouble than Hitch. --- RIP, Christopher Hitchens. I disagreed with many of your views, especially your later political stands, but I always admired your fine, fierce intelligence and your unflinching honesty. "If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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Rahvin Member  Posts: 3806 Joined: Member Rating: 9.1
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But the one thing that garnered my respect for him more than anything was when Hitchens wanted to prove to himself whether waterboarding was torture. He had himself waterboarded. Sixteen seconds later, he announced that yes, it is in fact torture. He was a man who approached the world on its own terms, unafraid to criticize where criticism was deserved, regardless of any cultural taboos...and he was willing to change his mind whenever new evidence justified an adjustment. He will be remembered, and he will be missed. “The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.” - Francis Bacon "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
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