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Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/16/143595854/writer-christopher-hitchens...
So ends an era... Thanks for you help Chris. You will be missed.
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Permalink Reply by Ashleigh Carter on -
While not unexpected, this is a most depressing blow. God is Not Great helped me get my head out of my ass. Feels like we've lost a friend, doesn't it? At least we can all be sad together.
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Permalink Reply by David Raphael on -
I can't believe I won't see any more Hitch-slaps. I'm going to have to start downloading youtube debates to make sure these things aren't lost.
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Permalink Reply by George on -
I saw him speak when God is not Great came out. It was pretty intense.
Found this: The Best of the Hitchslap
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Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on -
Thanks for the vid. I've now been watching about an hour straight of Hitch and Sam Harris on YouTube. So far, Hitch does it way better. So good.
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Permalink Reply by Steve on -
I mourn the loss of one of the most unique people mankind has ever produced . Too bad 80% of the world will never be able to appreciate that fact.
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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on -
I find myself truly grieving this loss. Certainly we still have Dawkins and Dennett and Harris, but even among them, Hitch shone. He was astonishing in his encyclopedic knowledge and his facility and access to that knowledge, but most of all in how he used it.
I wonder if any of us will see his like again.
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Permalink Reply by David Raphael on
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I wonder if any of us will see his like again.
I really hope so. He was our snarling guard-dog.
We need people like him protecting us.
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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on
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I think that if we fail to learn how to protect ourselves from his example, we also fail to do honor to his memory.
I can't imagine having Hitch's grasp of facts, but I'm not such an old dog that I can't learn a bit here and there.
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Something I just culled from the NY Times obituary for Mr. Hitchens:
“It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved,” he wrote in his memoir. “In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.”
What. He. Said.
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Permalink Reply by Jim Deal on -
Hitchens lived a life filled with discovery. We all should build on his example. Thanks Hitch:(
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Permalink Reply by Pat on -
And as we all go forward in our individual attempts to champion rationality and freethought, just remember. We stand on the shoulders of giants who walked before us and with us: Baruch Spinoza, David Hume, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, and now, Christopher Hitchens.
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