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Fuck I Miss Hitchens
#11
RE: I Fuck Miss Hitchens
(October 19, 2012 at 8:45 pm)Tino Wrote:
(October 19, 2012 at 8:14 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I read this thread at first as "I Fuck Miss Hitchens."

Here, lie down on this sofa. Tell me why you read it that way.

*bow chicka bow wow*
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
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#12
RE: I Fuck Miss Hitchens
(October 19, 2012 at 8:46 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:
(October 19, 2012 at 8:45 pm)Tino Wrote: Here, lie down on this sofa. Tell me why you read it that way.

*bow chicka bow wow*

You're not alone, I read it as fuck one Miss Hitchens and I could not work out if it was a member of the royal family requesting a miss Hitchens to have intercourse with them, of if it was a command to go out and fuck a miss Hitchens.

Tino; as the self appointed guardian of the english language, you should write with more clarity.
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#13
RE: I Fuck Miss Hitchens
(October 19, 2012 at 9:34 pm)jonb Wrote:
(October 19, 2012 at 8:46 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: *bow chicka bow wow*

You're not alone, I read it as fuck one Miss Hitchens and I could not work out if it was a member of the royal family requesting a miss Hitchens to have intercourse with them, of if it was a command to go out and fuck a miss Hitchens.

Tino; as the self appointed guardian of the english language, you should write with more clarity.

Sure, just when I get comfortable revealing some of my inner pain you slap me down for language. I'm going back into my shell.
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#14
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Don't to that Tino! I throughly enjoy your posts when they aren't related to politics! and those relating to politics aren't that bad either, I just don't agree with you on those.
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#15
RE: I Fuck Miss Hitchens
(October 19, 2012 at 10:09 pm)Tino Wrote: Sure, just when I get comfortable revealing some of my inner pain you slap me down for language. I'm going back into my shell.

Don't take it to heart we probably just caught you at an off moment-
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RE: Fuck I Miss Hitchens
I really, really, really, REALLY wish he had not died before I had a chance to see him in person. I only ever knew of one of his works, and prior to that, nothing.

This was last year, while I was working at the two malls in this city, for a calendar kiosk company, and the mall at the opposite side of town had a Barnes & Noble in it. I was just occasionally perusing the books, mostly looking for Warhammer 40,000 stuff that wasn't written by C.S. "Multilasers" Goto, and one day I was passing by the Bestsellers section. And this brilliant yellow but simple and humble book caught my eye...

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I was still hovering in my indecisive state towards religion. I was still convinced it had some place in the world, even if not in my life. The tagline read "how religion poisons everything." I found myself intrigued, and as I picked it up I found myself amazed that there was actual atheistic literature not just being published so openly but was a best-seller, no less. I went to the counter, placed the book on it, and the cashier gave me what I can only describe as a dark glance...like she wasn't angry or distasteful towards me but she was disapproving of my choice, but she said nothing. I took the book home, and in between work-days, I found myself reading it, and was stunned at the rhetorical talent in every page, the brick-by-brick deconstruction of the arguments for religion, and the rational haymaker it delivered to the common points theists always try to bring up to defend their superstitions.

I've read through it three times now.

I found myself interested in Hitchens once I had finished the book, and began to look up information on him.

It was then that I learned he had late-stage cancer of the esophagus.

I remember feeling devastated. I never met the man. But...I could clearly understand that he was not just intelligent, he was BRILLIANT, and he was perhaps one of the greatest minds in the atheistic community I'd ever heard of. And he was dying.

He passed away not long after.

I think it's the realization that such a great mind has been lost that hits the hardest.
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#17
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I was lucky enough to see im speak live and got his autograph in 07 at the Crystal Clear Convention in DC. That was the motherload convention Dawkins Harris, Dennet, Ayan was there too.

He wont just be missed by atheists, the journalism world misses him too. And the Arab Spring, certainly not started by him, was fueled by him and many others.

Hitchens gave the world the dose of reality it desperately needed at a time it needed it.
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#18
RE: I Fuck Miss Hitchens
(October 21, 2012 at 8:15 am)jonb Wrote:
(October 19, 2012 at 10:09 pm)Tino Wrote: Sure, just when I get comfortable revealing some of my inner pain you slap me down for language. I'm going back into my shell.

Don't take it to heart we probably just caught you at an off moment-
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I've been trying to think of an appropriate response to this and all I can come up with is that jonb has some PhotoShop skills (or skillz as retards today like to write it). In any case, well done, and thanks for thinking of me.
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#19
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Well guys, maybe we will meet him in hell! Definitely one thing to look forward to Smile
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#20
RE: Fuck I Miss Hitchens
It feels very solipsist for me to find this thread today. I only just discovered Hitchens a few weeks ago, so the feeling of relative sadness for his death is quite fresh in my mind. Sad
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