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  • Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     OP - December 16, 2011, 05:26 AM
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    The influential writer and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus. Hitchens confronted his disease in part by writing, bringing the same unsparing insight to his mortality that he had directed at so many other subjects.

    NPR

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  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #1 - December 16, 2011, 05:32 AM
    R.I.P :(
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #2 - December 16, 2011, 05:37 AM
    Awwww no.  Cry
    Life is what happens to you while you're staring at your smartphone.

    Eternal Sunshine of the Religionless Mind
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #3 - December 16, 2011, 06:03 AM
    RIP Christopher Hitchens! To Hitch:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyjc4tIJK4Q
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #4 - December 16, 2011, 06:20 AM
    Such and awesome video , Thank you for posting it -Tmp-
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #5 - December 16, 2011, 06:30 AM
    RIP, Hitch.


    Youtube
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #6 - December 16, 2011, 06:33 AM
    Cry, i just started reading his books and its wonderful, RIP Hitchens
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #7 - December 16, 2011, 06:46 AM
    So it seems his long argument with death has finally concluded. I'd love to read the transcript.

    He's gonna be missed. But he's been missed by me already. His absence from the public sphere has been felt for a long time. I think a lot of people still sorta believed for a while at least that he'd return at some point. I think I did.

    Now I just need to figure out if these tears are sad tears or in fact happy tears. They are certainly grateful tears. I am not the only one here who can say in all honesty that I am who I am now, a fuller and stronger person, in part due to Christopher Hitchens.

    Give them Hell up there, Hitch.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #8 - December 16, 2011, 06:46 AM
    A terrible day.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFVbiYk_4xQ
    "I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure,
    Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests."
    [Kepler's epitaph]
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #9 - December 16, 2011, 07:29 AM
     Cry Cry
    Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. - Voltaire
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #10 - December 16, 2011, 07:40 AM
    Knew it had to happen at some point, but still sad when it does. RIP Hitchens!
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #11 - December 16, 2011, 07:53 AM
    ... honestly do not know what to say.
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #12 - December 16, 2011, 07:54 AM
    RIP :(
    قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
    مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد

    قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
    حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد

    ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
    لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #13 - December 16, 2011, 08:26 AM
    I actually just finished reading Hitch 22.
    An interesting man, I recommend it.
    The foundation of superstition is ignorance, the
    superstructure is faith and the dome is a vain hope. Superstition
    is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.
    -Robert G. Ingersoll (1898)

     "Do time ninjas have this ability?" "Yeah. Only they stay silent and aren't douchebags."  -Ibl
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #14 - December 16, 2011, 08:42 AM
    RIP great man!

    So far I've only watched a selection of his stuff on YouTube since coming to this forum and I've found him captivating and brilliant. He's going to be missed. Cry
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #15 - December 16, 2011, 09:35 AM
    RIP Hitch

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQorzOS-F6w
    An alternative to religion;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2nfXfTg92E

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWNW-NXEudk
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #16 - December 16, 2011, 09:50 AM
    That is bad news... But he made Million little Hitchens across the globe .. Thank you Hitchens and Thank you World wide web.. It was just couple of months back that he spoke in public and Looking at him I thought he is going to live atleast another 5 years.. 


    The Last Public Appearance of Hitchens was on 8th October 2011 for  Richard Dawkins Award on behalf of Atheist Alliance of America, Houston.. Let us watch him..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rae_nKQQ2Dw
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #17 - December 16, 2011, 10:29 AM
    Quote from: Ishina on December 16, 2011, 06:46 AM
    So it seems his long argument with death has finally concluded. I'd love to read the transcript.

    He's gonna be missed. But he's been missed by me already. His absence from the public sphere has been felt for a long time. I think a lot of people still sorta believed for a while at least that he'd return at some point. I think I did.

    Now I just need to figure out if these tears are sad tears or in fact happy tears. They are certainly grateful tears. I am not the only one here who can say in all honesty that I am who I am now, a fuller and stronger person, in part due to Christopher Hitchens.

    Give them Hell up there, Hitch.


    Beautiful words Ishina.


    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


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    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #18 - December 16, 2011, 12:13 PM
    I wasn't a big fan of Christopher, I felt he was a subtle racist and recently started turning neocon. About 3/4 years ago I started to boycott his books, but after he was diagnosed with cancer and with the elegance he handled it with, it was hard not to respect him, and I actually started to like him. He lived a full life, getting pissed and smoking all the time, would have loved to party with him. Going to have a drink in his honour when I get round to it.    
    Left the forum: http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=22997
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #19 - December 16, 2011, 12:24 PM
    Quote from: King Tut on December 16, 2011, 12:13 PM
    I wasn't a big fan of Christopher, I felt he was a subtle racist and recently started turning neocon. ......

     King..Jat King..  me lord you are Tut... you are a poop..


    No one is unquestionable and  Hitchens is no exception to that rule.. People change  and   he changed a lot from an young leftist to the legacy he left at the end of his life.. True he was   a Bully  until the end.. But he was good bully and he changed for better during the life of his time..
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #20 - December 16, 2011, 12:24 PM
    You will continue to inspire and be well loved, Hitch!
    Rest in peace with the immortals. Your writings live on.
    "And you, you are a fantasy, a view from where you'd like to think the world should see, just be true, and you will likely find a few building a vision, doing justice to our times."
    Roy Harper, addressing the doorstep evangelists, dawa-doers and other self-appointed representitives.
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #21 - December 16, 2011, 12:25 PM
    i am more upset than i thought i would be about hitchens death
    "The words that oscillate between nonsense and supreme meaning are the oldest and truest." - C.G. Jung
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #22 - December 16, 2011, 12:25 PM
    RIP
    "The words that oscillate between nonsense and supreme meaning are the oldest and truest." - C.G. Jung
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #23 - December 16, 2011, 12:50 PM
    I am devastated. The man was influential in my apostasy.

    RIP Hitch. You will never be forgotten.
    Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #24 - December 16, 2011, 12:55 PM
    Suddenly the voice of reason became weaker. Cry

    RIP!
    "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
            Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

    - John Keats
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #25 - December 16, 2011, 01:07 PM
    RIP Hitch :(
    "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." -- Bertrand Russell

    Baloney Detection Kit
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #26 - December 16, 2011, 02:53 PM
    RIP Hitch  Cry

    You'll be sorely missed.
    19:46   <zizo>: hugs could pimp u into sex

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    well I am neither ex-Muslim nor absolute 100% Non-Muslim.. I am fucking Zebra

  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #27 - December 16, 2011, 03:08 PM
    RIP Chris.
    Have you heard the good news? There is no God!
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #28 - December 16, 2011, 03:25 PM
    Quote
    Quote from: GodIsNotGreat on December 16, 2011, 02:53 PM
    RIP Hitch  Cry

    You'll be sorely missed.

    Quote from: Al-Ma`arri on December 16, 2011, 12:55 PM
    Suddenly the voice of reason became weaker. Cry

    RIP!

    Quote from: Minimow on December 16, 2011, 12:50 PM
    I am devastated. The man was influential in my apostasy.

    RIP Hitch. You will never be forgotten.


    I knew he will not live longer as the  Survival rates for esophagus cancer for people like Hitchens is extremely low ~2% and most fall for it with in 5 years. On top of that his father was also victim of  esophagus cancer.  But what is surprising was he was diagnosed with it in June 2010 and he left us in Dec 2011.,

    That is so quick..  Any ways Yes   .   Hitchens will rest in peace and  he will be remembered for a long time to come .. His books, his debates .. his insults to fellows like that London Mayor The Cat will  live for ever and  even his fight with Cancer   will inspire many generations in near future.  Indeed he was one of the four Horse men of 21st century.  In this 21st century we need many more horse menon  web.. on TV and with books..   So yes we miss him but those of us who were inspired by his books/debates .. we got to carry on with his legacy
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Re: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies
     Reply #29 - December 16, 2011, 03:25 PM
    I liked this guy even when I was a Muslim, lol. RIP Chris Hitchens.
    ''we are morally and philisophically in the best position to win the league'' - Arsene Wenger
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