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Trouble with Sam is he's not funny.

I think we're seeing the emergence of a few great intellectuals, namely Murray and Peterson. Murray will likely take Hitch's position of grand debater with Peterson being the immovable philosophical object. Or, the crazy progressives will push everyone so far right a devil will emerge.

I like Harris fine, but I find him kind of condescending - kind of caustic. The Hitch never did that.

+IguanaAirtrooper you are so right. All I hear is nonsense from the left thinking they're the ones to stop such a thing, without realising their constant need to push as far as they can will actually result in what they think they'll avoid. It's scary tbh

Tolkien said it best - "Moria... You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame." It's a great metaphor for a political ideology going too far when they have power, too far to either side and out emerges a devil, it doesn't matter if it is a left or right leaning one. With the progressive madness that is pushing their agendas further and further, I can only hope those of us with some sanity left are able to reign them in before hell emerges once again.

Morrisopolous We need his insights more than ever. He left us far too early.

The problem is, you know he'd be so far ahead in his rational, logical, analytically thought out reasoning he'd just confuse those who think with their hearts and not with their heads. He'd be called every "ist" under the sun by people not intellectually capable of rising to his level of understanding. Oh how I wish I could witness him hitchslap some sense in to them

Morrisopolous They do that now already. Unfortunately for them he's worlds ahead of them in intelligence and wit. Luckily for them the cultural Marxists don't do debates so they would never get the full sting of his words.

+dichotomyofone it frustrates the life out of me. You see their eyes rolling, their brains switch off and you can almost fill in the gap "yeah, yeah" but.... none of them can debate the facts and information. They think they win with a uneducated load of abusive diatribe.

Morrisopolous I wouldn't even find them so frustrating if they had a single intellectual on their side who engaged debate. Even Muslims had the guts to face atheists. And for the ones who do engage in debate are embarrassing when they try. They're so condescending and self righteous that they believe its absurd to have to present an intelligible argument. Not a single intellectual in the lot.

here here. how hitch felt about george orwell, many people felt the same way about hitchens. i think the reason its so depressing is because there will never be another like him.

Unfortunately there's only one (Son of)-Man capable of raising the dead and "the Hitch" kinda torched that bridge a little bit... If it's any consolation to you tho I can confirm that the Hitch, although dearly departed in a physical sense, is still 100% conscious & existing at the moment. ...Sadly the good news ends there tho as he appeared to have accidentally denied his Lord & Savior and One & Only shot at Redemption.. so he *may* be experiencing a mild case of eternal judgment presently. I can't say what he did with his final moments on Earth or those directly proceeding his passing, but I guess we'll just have to 🤞😬🤞, try not to make the same mistake, and hope for the best 🤷‍♂️

@@BillyJack85 what did Hitch call religious belief again, “a mind forged manacle”, and your know it all statement is a perfect example. And I can confirm Hitch is in exactly the same state as he was before he was born, of non-existence.

@@vashna3799 We all know what the Hitch said _before_ he met God.... what I wanna know is.... what did he have to say _after_ ....?🤔 And I hate to be the bearer of bad news but, uh, there's no such thing as non-existence... once you're created, you're created, that's it. There's no going back. No amount of mental gymnastics or witty phrases about mind forged manacles will change it. You're fully accountable for yourself... unto eternity. If you _really_ wanna know what the Hitch is up to at the moment (beyond all your vain imaginings), just picture what these two former atheists went through.. then take out the part where they called out for Jesus and got rescued: Jim Woodford kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j8h1os2Jmc_Fd4U.html Howard Storm kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hs9jmJRnr7-ahYE.html

@@BillyJack85 what did he say after? I imagine what he said the past 14 billion years BEFORE he was born when the Big Bang happened in the universe, nothing. You have a very high opinion of yourself and claim to have extraordinary knowledge about what happens to someone when they die. Care to back it up with some “evidence “ rather religious dogma which cuts no ice with me.

Thank you for that very perceptive comment.

Couldn't agree more (if you can't tell by my avatar). Hitchens literally changed the way I think, and I can't help but be skeptical about that. I find myself *wishing* there were more I could disagree with from him, because you just know he'd disavow any kind of blind adulation. It's just... even when I think I disagree about something he said, I'm always uneasy about it because I know he was so much more informed than I am or could hope to be.

There are many who will change the way look at the world. Hitchens often said that the only thing he cared about was literature. You have likely seen the inside of his apartment in the US from some of the interviews he did....enough books to be a fire hazard. Passion indeed. It was by accident that I discovered Richard Francis Burton and his wife Isabel Burton. This white British European passed himself off as a Syrian Muslim pilgrim and entered the Kabba, the full visit where a wrong gesture, slip of the tongue would have "seen his bones bleaching in the desert sun". Add to that his 30 languages, written and spoken and you would be forgiven for a sense of inadequacy.....His wife was no slouch either, disinclined to boast she was also up there with the giants. I am convinced that it was their passion and attitude that helped make them the people they were.

Hitch is in Heaven? No way. He would have been thrown out or escaped by now.

Octavian Caesar Hibernicus he is a seriously smart guy.

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Why?

For two reasons. 1) Douglas is pro-brexit and more in favour of Trump than Clinton. 2) Douglas and Hitchens are/were perhaps more ideologically similar than Hitchens was with Sam Harris.

Hitchens certainly was far less predictable than Harris in his views. Harris is very consistent in applying his rational / science / empiricism approach to every question and thus the thought of supporting Trump - even if he's more right on the issue he might care most about - is outrageous to him. Hitchens, on the other hand, was far more dialectical in approaching policy issues. I could imagine him making more of an "blunt instrument to do some necessary damage to out of control administrative structures" argument in defense of Trump's presidency.

I believe he drank black label and spoke about why he drank it

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Haha oh the irony.

With respect that is incorrect. He didn't weaken western civilisation at all, as say Chomsky did. Hitchens criticised what needed to be criticised. Western culture was weakened by the people on the left that Hitchens criticised. He recognised quickly that the regressive left made a paradoxical alliance with Islamism simply out of their hatred of everything western. Hitchens rightly recognised this betrayal of enlightenment values and went about criticising them as well as the idiotic religious right. He never held back on either side and it's a real shame he's dead because perhaps things wouldn't have been as bad if he were still here to completely decimate identity politics. It seems to me that the day he died all resistance to political correctness died with him. There are others who carry on this fight, but none of them as eloquent or as quick witted. Watch his brother for example, Peter is a very bright, very clever person but he doesn't have the same flow or charisma, and this allows others to beat him to the punch and slander him before he finishes his sentence. Christopher on the other hand would ignore the moderator completely and just keep going until he finished his statement. What is your basis for claiming Christopher damaged western culture?

Completely agree with what you said. Hes a brilliant man but damit if he didnt contribute to the weakening of the minds of millenials...i was listening to him on islam and thats ehen the pschism began in the atheist community..leftism took a real hold when he died...and it was as if everyone forgot what he said was saying about radical islam

Your "western values" came from the rebirth of Greek humanism (renaissance) and not from Christianity. The religion is inherently communist.

The way you used the fallacious phrase "christian humility" in *that* sentence is so self-contradicting and hypocritical it's truly pathetic. Christopher Hitchens will be remembered as one of the great thinkers of his time, while you're just a twat in a comment section, complaining about something it doesn't fully appreciate or understand.