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Chiquita

12-16-2011 07:51 AM

Christopher Hitchens dies after battle with cancer

R.I.P.

antiggill

12-16-2011 08:20 AM

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Another Hero enters Valhalla!

He'll be pretty surprised if he does.

FallJimerks

12-16-2011 11:04 AM

I always felt sorry for him. He was very smart and a good debater.

Dokescoonse

12-16-2011 12:25 PM

He was the epitome of the lovable *******.

I'm gonna miss reading his stuff. Didn't always agree with him, but I always came away smarter. Sad loss.

Peptobismol

12-16-2011 03:27 PM

He used to take advantage of people's ignorance and make nonarguments.

Zptmsemk

12-16-2011 03:48 PM

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He wrote an article for the January 2012 edition of Vanity Fair. It makes for interesting reading.
Trial of the Will
Reviewing familiar principles and maxims in the face of mortal illness, Christopher Hitchens has found one of them increasingly ridiculous: “Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” Oh, really? Take the case of the philosopher to whom that line is usually attributed, Friedrich Nietzsche, who lost his mind to what was probably syphilis. Or America’s homegrown philosopher Sidney Hook, who survived a stroke and wished he hadn’t. Or, indeed, the author, viciously weakened by the very medicine that is keeping him alive.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...itchens-201201 That's a very good article. As someone who knows this life is all we've got, I really dread having to endure such suffering at the end.

ionitiesk

12-16-2011 04:35 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101403973.html

VXHLrsO1

12-16-2011 07:43 PM

You're welcome. I got it off a Catholic blog Imran pointed me to, I think, so thank him too.

Nfxutkpa

12-16-2011 09:06 PM

An intellectual giant and a very brave man. He will be sorely missed. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/frown.gif

Adimos

12-17-2011 02:44 AM

All class and clever as usual, DD. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/neeschud.gif

Chris. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/frown.gif

GfBTWMmV

12-17-2011 09:22 AM

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Why should you say anything different about a person who's dead than you would when they were alive? Isn't that the time when you're free to be the most truthful?

Yeah. It's not like he was Mother Teressa. He was an intellectual, and deserves a good thrashing for it.

Britiobby

12-17-2011 05:39 PM

If he was an iconoclast, how come everybody loves him?

Speareerfug

12-18-2011 10:30 PM

Mother Teresa is having the last laugh right now.

shemadagaswer

12-19-2011 03:11 AM

Hypothetical, If he were to find himself in a paradise afterlife, would he be pleased or upset?

avappyboalt

12-20-2011 11:53 PM

Ahh, well, you might think so, but...

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