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12-15-2011, 11:28 PM
|  | Impersonal Confuser. | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | | Christopher Hitchens Has Succumbed To Cancer.
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Sad to report that we have lost one of the most dynamic voices of our generation. With the exception of being an ardent atheist, he was impossible to pin down and categorize as belonging to any one political movement or ideology. He truly called them as he saw them. Without question, he truly was his own man. He burned as bright as anyone I can recall in my lifetime, and now the flame is no more. I can’t say I always agreed with him, but he was one HELL of a writer! To be 1 / 1000th as good a writer as he was…
Here is the rest of my tribute.
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12-15-2011, 11:31 PM
|  | Looking for Opportunities to Create Harmony | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada | | | Very sad news. I loved watching how eloquently he debated his opponents.
A truly great speaker and author.
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12-15-2011, 11:32 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | Now that truly is a loss  |
12-15-2011, 11:48 PM
| | Impersonal Confuser. | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | As I wrote on my blog, he gave me the one singular favorite line having anything to do with politics: Quote: |
“By all means, stupid people should be represented, but not by stupid people.”
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"the one constant is to be against totalitarianism either on the left or on the right"
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12-16-2011, 12:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Hamilton, Ontario | | | This is very sad news. Hitchens was a huge inspiration for me during a very hard time. I'll miss him. |
12-16-2011, 12:25 AM
|  | *******er Emeritus(does anyone remember that? No?) | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Houston, Texas | | | Even as a Christian, I always respected his opinions and he always brought interesting/insightful things to the table. He will be missed. RIP.
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12-16-2011, 12:30 AM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | quite a shame indeed. I've always respected Mr. Hitchens.
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12-16-2011, 12:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Atlanta, Ga | | | My many thanks and high praise to you for your moving send off to a man who truly embodies what it is for a human being to exist at the pinnacle of his own interest to live, participate and share in life as he did, which in and of itself defines him as a true master of his craft. This can be said of very few people at any point thriughout history to present day and you eloquently convey his character and significance. I appreciate learning of his passing from your words very much as opposed to the news blurbs I most assuredly would have loathed to endure as none will likely do his legacy justice as you have here. Thank you for this post.
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12-16-2011, 01:13 AM
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12-16-2011, 01:14 AM
| | The only winning move is not to play. | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Gainesville/Ft. Lauderdale, FL | | | A truly great man and a personal hero of mine. I will miss him and his voice of reason. I'm very glad I had the opportunity to see him debate in person.
To Christopher Hitchens, I raise a glass of Johnnie Walker Black. Accept no substitutes.
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12-16-2011, 01:35 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | Very sad to hear that we have lost such an eloquent, intelligent man.
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12-16-2011, 01:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: London, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonicfrog With the exception of being an ardent atheist, he was impossible to pin down and categorize as belonging to any one political movement or ideology. | To paraphrase a quotation of his "the one constant is to be against totalitarianism either on the left or on the right"
My kind of thinker but many times my intellectual superior
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12-16-2011, 02:17 AM
| | Impersonal Confuser. | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jools4001 To paraphrase a quotation of his "the one constant is to be against totalitarianism either on the left or on the right"
My kind of thinker but many times my intellectual superior | Thanks for bringing that quote. I'm going to use it for my blog tag line for the rest of the week.
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12-16-2011, 04:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Tampa, Florida, US | | | RIP Hitch.
He was one of the few pundits/intellectuals/talking heads whom I actually really respected. He was so passionately true to his convictions, but it always seemed to me that he was also so intellectually honest that he would be able to change his feelings on a matter if he were presented enough evidence to the contrary.
He will definitely be missed.
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12-16-2011, 05:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Canada | | | I'm very sorry to hear of the passing of Christopher Hitchens. His good sense and intelligence is very much needed in this world. |
12-16-2011, 05:37 AM
|  | I hate. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The state of denial. | | | He will be sorely missed. It's a little early, so I'll raise a drink to him a little later in the day. Thank you, Mr. Hitchens, for the man that you were.
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12-16-2011, 05:46 AM
|  | VP in charge of Slap Bass. | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Toronto | | | Now whose gonna piss off the Religious people with Stephen Fry in tow. This is very sad news. |
12-16-2011, 06:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencerthegreat Now whose gonna piss off the Religious people with Stephen Fry in tow. This is very sad news. | They may not admit to it but I bet a great many of them are breathing a sigh of relief today. |
12-16-2011, 06:31 AM
| | | | Darn. He was a brilliantly eloquent man with unwaveringly rational & defendable principles...god I will miss him!
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12-16-2011, 07:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jrthebassguy Even as a Christian, I always respected his opinions and he always brought interesting/insightful things to the table. He will be missed. RIP. |
Couldn't agree more.
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