Christopher Hitchens (2 Viewers)

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    You...have...got...to be kidding.
    What you're describing is like a burial ritual. Things one should and shouldn't say about a person who's passed away.

    If you want to be polite to someone I think you should refrain from speaking ill of them in their company, but once they're dead it's over.

    What's with this taboo attitude? Do you think it's harmful to have a frank discussion about the impact of someone's life, all the more so a public figure?
    To be a dickhead or not to be a dickhead... I believe that is the question.

    However, Sam did post up some youtube shite that's liable to fire up some believers and cause the need to TESTIFY.
    Im not being pathetic, he's just a man I respect a lot and I don't see the point in debating this shit that we debate a lot, in a thread about his passing. I posted that video because I was there and someone asked who he was, its kind of hard to find a video in which he isn't offending people.

    We don't do it in other threads so I don't see why we should do it here.

    If an islamic scholar/christian scholar/jewish scholar passed away I wouldn't say a fucking word.

    Troll on

    If the pope died I would have saving to say, but he is evil - bit like hitler.

    Troll off :shifty:
     

    jussr

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    He wasnt atheist, he was an anti-theist! (if not misotheist)
    There is a difference and this is a politically move/choice, with US at its epicenter, for the obvious reasons.
    He chose to be a vessel of this propaganda that expands and abuses public opinion, exactly like the churches did.
    He, also took advantage of the "cool factor" it adds, to a liberated from spiritual constraints mind.
    Following the trends and being the pawn of influent men, never made anyone a hero...

    History will forget him by tomorrow and his stance leaves no place for solace to his beloved ones, in a such a soul-less world, he was livin...
    From dust to dust, his circle has ended, his own free will, made a choice to reject God, completely, hopefully for him, he wont be regretting now...
    i wonder though, what was the last thing he was thinking of.
    Well written.
     
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    Well written. When you first mentioned it I somehow thought he'd bashed him or something.

    It's too bad they were so far apart.
    Thats something that goes beyond me; I get falling out over ideologies - me and my brother don't always agree on stuff and I frequently have to correct him on what he says but a bond between siblings is to my mind something unbreakable. They are your closest link to the past and the ones who will stay with you in the future. I have known my brothe for 22 years and to have him not in my life would make my life unliveable, even if he does constantly iritate me. I would go so far as to say that my brother will be the most important person in my life until I have or more likely adopt a child in the future.
     

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