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Unread 10-11-2011, 11:29 AM   #101 (permalink)
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Some people from around the world put together a tribute vid to Hitchens:


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Didn't watch it but looks gay.

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Unread 11-09-2011, 11:24 AM   #104 (permalink)
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what a jerk of circle

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Unread 11-09-2011, 03:16 PM   #106 (permalink)
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.

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Unread 11-09-2011, 03:49 PM   #107 (permalink)
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It's funny people toasting to an alcoholic dying of a disease no doubt fueled in part by his alcoholism.
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Unread 11-09-2011, 04:08 PM   #108 (permalink)
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It's been considered.


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Unread 11-09-2011, 04:11 PM   #109 (permalink)
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Also I should note that I don't classify Hitchens as an alcoholic, and I'm sure neither does he. His alcohol use helped to lubricate social situations and no doubt helped him write as well. He may have been dependent on alcohol to a degree, but I view alcoholism as having a negative affect on his life, whereas he has definitely stated somewhere (i'll try to find interview) that that certainly wasn't the case for him.

I highly doubt he regrets all the drinking and smoking he did -- much, anyways.

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Unread 11-09-2011, 04:14 PM   #110 (permalink)
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Article on the topic: Is Christopher Hitchens an Alcoholic? | Psychology Today

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Unread 11-10-2011, 12:47 AM   #111 (permalink)
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Also I should note that I don't classify Hitchens as an alcoholic, and I'm sure neither does he.
I'm pretty sure he's openly admitted to being one. Before I grew out of my Hitchens-loving phase, I remember reading a comment of his from somewhere that indicated he gets by only because of vodka.
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Unread 11-10-2011, 01:01 AM   #112 (permalink)
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Possibly. Who knows, definitions are pretty subjective. But in the above article it outlines some statements that would make it seem he doesn't identify with it.

Anyways, i still like cheersin

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Unread 11-10-2011, 01:05 AM   #113 (permalink)
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There is a pretty simple way to find out of he is physically addicted to alcohol, if he stopped drinking and got withdrawal symptoms, then yea; the word "alcoholic" has a different meaning to me: you can be an alcoholic without being physically addicted, and vice verse, in my opinion.
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Unread 12-08-2011, 06:53 PM   #115 (permalink)
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Christopher Hitchens Takes on Nietzsche: Am I Really Stronger? | Culture | Vanity Fair

This is probably the saddest Hitchens article I've read.

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Unread 12-09-2011, 03:59 AM   #117 (permalink)
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TL/DR= What doesn't kill you, actually makes you weaker. Stupid Nietzsche.
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For the record, I still consider myself an atheist. I'm also an absurdist (subtle but different from existentialist), firmly in the camp of Camus.

Will be reading The Myth of Sisyphus soon, have you read it? saw that you read The Stranger
Found this thread searching for Camus.
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No but I just finished reading Amazon.com: Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring) (9780465030330): Christopher Hitchens: Books

And it was fantastic.

I do have Hitch 22 -- Memoir on Audiobook and I plan on starting it soon to listen to in the car.
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I've read Letters to a Young Contrarian and Hitch-22. I own Arguably Essays and have read quite a few of them.

Haven't read The Myth of Sisyphus. Loved The Stranger.
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Details on this please, did it blossom into marriage or did you break up?
What do you have against the man?
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Meh I mean I think he was just an angry guy basically. A real prick more or less. Not saying he wasn't usually right, just that the way he went about conveying his philosophies made me want to distance myself from being influenced by him.
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Almost everything Hitchens was angry about he was right to be angry about. Can't win them all, Iraq war snaffoo was a bit hit-or-miss with his switch-up, but everything else he was pretty much on the rationally righteous side.

There really aren't enough angry people whose anger comes from moral/rational/righteous concerns these days. He actually covers a lot of the criticism UB and others have said of him and other "angry young men" in Letters to a Young Contrarian -- snippets:

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