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sailingsoul
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 Posted - 07/02/2010 : 10:10:23
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Sad news indeed. Smoking seams to have caught up with him but who knows?
I certainly wish him the best. SS
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Ebone4rock
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Posted - 07/02/2010 : 10:26:58 [Permalink]
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| I will pray for him. |
Haole with heart, thats all I'll ever be. I'm not a part of the North Shore society. Stuck on the shoulder, that's where you'll find me. Digging for scraps with the kooks in line. -Offspring |
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bngbuck
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Posted - 07/02/2010 : 15:19:46 [Permalink]
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Ebone4rock.....
Why? |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
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Posted - 07/02/2010 : 15:28:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Ebone4rock.....
Why?
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Indeed. I think he'd be much happier if you were at least productive.
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Randy
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Posted - 07/02/2010 : 15:57:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by bngbuck
Ebone4rock.....
Why?
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Indeed. I think he'd be much happier if you were at least productive.
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That's certainly so. I'm going to wash dishes and clean the kitchen now for his speedy recovery. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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bngbuck
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Posted - 07/02/2010 : 18:01:15 [Permalink]
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Randy.....
| That's certainly so. I'm going to wash dishes and clean the kitchen now for his speedy recovery. |
I'm not sure if that quip was a touch supercilious, or merely a comment on the efficacy of prayer; but it certainly points up the absurdity of Ebone's comment.
In fact, I'm not entirely sure that Ebone was not being bitingly sarcastic in his original comment, but somehow I have not yet read a tone of irony in Ebone4rock's commentary, so I am taking him literally.
With respect, (and I have a good deal of it for the man), to Hitchen's plight; it is difficult for me to reconcile his obviously remarkable intellect with a personal habit of smoking which, rationally, is a deathwish. Hitchens is indeed a complicated man. |
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The Rat
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Posted - 07/02/2010 : 18:48:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
With respect, (and I have a good deal of it for the man), to Hitchen's plight; it is difficult for me to reconcile his obviously remarkable intellect with a personal habit of smoking which, rationally, is a deathwish. Hitchens is indeed a complicated man.
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I believe he quit a few years ago. But his drinking is still legendary.
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 07/02/2010 : 19:32:34 [Permalink]
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| I had a cigarette with Hitchens. Actually, if he hadn't been outside smoking, I probably wouldn't have met him. I also got my favorite all time TAM picture from that chance meeting. I ran into him at the Skeptchick party later that evening. He was out on the balcony, smoking, drinking, and holding court... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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bngbuck
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Posted - 07/02/2010 : 22:36:19 [Permalink]
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Kil.....
| I had a cigarette with Hitchens. |
Kil, how do you reconcile critical thinking with a personal habit of smoking?
Please don't misunderstand. I was two packs a day for over forty years of my life. But I have been to the woodshed. (CABG-6). And I am really trying not to proselyte, but am truly curious as to your rationalization for smoking.
If it's good enough, maybe I can spend the next few years not craving a smoke. I quit over twenty years ago. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 07/03/2010 : 00:22:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Kil.....
| I had a cigarette with Hitchens. |
Kil, how do you reconcile critical thinking with a personal habit of smoking?
If it's good enough, maybe I can spend the next few years not craving a smoke. I quit over twenty years ago.
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Cognitive dissonance. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Ebone4rock
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Posted - 07/03/2010 : 06:39:30 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Ebone4rock.....
Why?
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Just like in real life my facetiousness can sometimes be confused with seriousness.
On a serious note I do hope that medical science is advanced enough for a cure to be found for him. |
Haole with heart, thats all I'll ever be. I'm not a part of the North Shore society. Stuck on the shoulder, that's where you'll find me. Digging for scraps with the kooks in line. -Offspring |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 07/03/2010 : 07:37:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ebone4rock
Originally posted by bngbuck
Ebone4rock.....
Why?
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Just like in real life my facetiousness can sometimes be confused with seriousness.
On a serious note I do hope that medical science is advanced enough for a cure to be found for him.
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The cancer he has has a very high recovery rate as cancer goes. I doubt that he is not expected to make it. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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sailingsoul
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Posted - 07/03/2010 : 20:37:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
The cancer he has has a very high recovery rate as cancer goes. I doubt that he is not expected to make it.
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What's up with the double negative?
Still good news, thanks Kil. I always do my best to avoid Doctors because I once heard "Nine times out of ten, the last person someone see's before they die, is a Doctor". 
It's also said "Laughter is the best medicine". Perhaps some replies in this thread have helped, as much as any praying could have. If anyone gets my drift. SS |
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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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Posted - 07/04/2010 : 03:43:17 [Permalink]
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| That's really hard news. If anyone has the intestinal fortitude to beat that cancer, it's The Hitch. I wish him the very best. |
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R.Wreck
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Posted - 07/04/2010 : 06:51:52 [Permalink]
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Hitchens' cancer is a gift from god according to one thoroughly twisted christian (hat tip to PZ)
But to our question: how can cancer be an example of God’s grace to this suddenly stricken intellectual, who has made a career of arguing the case for atheism? A cancer which God didn’t “give,” but certainly permitted.
The short answer is this: if God really wanted to “get” Hitchens, God would just ignore the man, and let him go his blissful way, unchallenged, to a peaceful death.
At which point Hitchens would stand, face-to-face and unreconciled, with that very God. |
So this is Hitchens' opportunity to convert before dying. It always comes down to the fear of death for these morons, doesn't it? And this idiocy does nothing to explain why theists are afflicted with fatal diseases.
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
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astropin
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Posted - 07/09/2010 : 13:29:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by R.Wreck
Hitchens' cancer is a gift from god according to one thoroughly twisted christian (hat tip to PZ)
But to our question: how can cancer be an example of God’s grace to this suddenly stricken intellectual, who has made a career of arguing the case for atheism? A cancer which God didn’t “give,” but certainly permitted.
The short answer is this: if God really wanted to “get” Hitchens, God would just ignore the man, and let him go his blissful way, unchallenged, to a peaceful death.
At which point Hitchens would stand, face-to-face and unreconciled, with that very God. |
So this is Hitchens' opportunity to convert before dying. It always comes down to the fear of death for these morons, doesn't it? And this idiocy does nothing to explain why theists are afflicted with fatal diseases.
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Idiotic isn't it?
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I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
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Christopher Hitchen’s cancer
