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A Hitchless World
The Weekly Standard ^
| 16 Dec 2011
| Matt LaBash
Posted on 12/16/2011 4:21:56 AM PST by Rummyfan
No secrets are being divulged when I report that Christopher Hitchens liked a drink every now and then. Preferably now. He wasnt sloppy about it. In fact, he always seemed in perfect control. (I once saw him steer a beach bike through the streets of Key West without spilling his Scotch.) He just liked to keep the machine well-oiled so he could get on to more important things, like liberating oppressed peoples of the world, knocking out his 1,000 words a day, or starting fights with God, assuming there is one, which he didnt. In some ways, his affection for drink brought us together, setting in motion my most vivid memories of him.
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One more for Christopher Hitchens, this one a personal remembrance.
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:22:00 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Hitchens had mellowed a bit over the years. I will miss his spot-on observations and acerbic wit. He was one in a million.
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:30:22 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(That's all.)
To: Rummyfan
Thanks for the article! He was quite a guy. Today is a dark day for me knowing that he’s no longer in the world.
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:38:22 AM PST
by
miss marmelstein
(Still heartless after all these years...)
To: Rummyfan
I was saddened to hear of his demise. He was an intellect who was not a hypocrite. No death bed conversion for him. Politically he was a a liberal (more in the true sense of the word than those who call themselves progressives), but also had veins of conservatism running through his granite.
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:42:00 AM PST
by
luvbach1
(Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
To: originalbuckeye
I will miss his spot-on observations and acerbic wit. You're right. He was virtually Oscar Wildeian in that ability.
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:43:57 AM PST
by
luvbach1
(Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
To: Rummyfan
Sorry to see him gone.
He wasn't your typical Liberal.
He now knows the truth about GOD. . . . .
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:44:45 AM PST
by
DeaconRed
(Da Bro Gota Go - So we can get REAL Change. . . .)
To: Rummyfan
" The lines from T.S. Eliot caused Hitchens to flash his pearly yellows. You see, only in India do people really bother with English literature anymore, he beamed"
Hitch, you were spot on with a lot of your observations. Unfortunately, you're finding out the hard way about whether there's a God or not. One last thing Hitch, T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis Missouri.
To: luvbach1
“No death bed conversion for him.”
Sad if true.
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:47:13 AM PST
by
icwhatudo
("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
To: luvbach1
I will miss him. May he rest in peace. W.F. Buckley respected him greatly. His rational mind shone through during Clinton’s scandal.
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:48:16 AM PST
by
sand lake bar
(You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.)
To: Old Teufel Hunden
Maybe Hitch was trying to be complimentary by including Eliot in English literature.
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:49:19 AM PST
by
luvbach1
(Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
To: icwhatudo
Don't be too sure. We did a study in Sunday School a couple of years ago that pointed out that NO ONE knows what happens between the heart of a person and God in the final seconds before death. The minute I saw the news about Hitch's death I breathed a prayer that he found his way to Him and is even now in the presence of Jesus. Not even those who were there at his deathbed know whether he did or not. When we get to Heaven, we will see!!
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:51:49 AM PST
by
srmorton
(Deut. 30 19: "..I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing;therefore choose life..")
To: luvbach1
I was saddened to hear of his demise. He was an intellect who was not a hypocrite. No death bed conversion for him.
First off, you don't know that. Secondly, if true, it is no virtue. The inability to admit even the possibility that you are wrong is a sign of a lack of humility. And despite our culture's obsession with it, overweening pride is not a virtue and never will be.
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posted on
12/16/2011 4:54:37 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(Take the pledge: I will not vote for Mitt Romney under any circumstances. EVER.)
To: Antoninus
No death bed conversion was reported, thus that’s what I based my statement upon. That also indicated, to me, that he was not a hypocrite. You can characterize it as a virtue, or not, as you choose.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:00:30 AM PST
by
luvbach1
(Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
To: luvbach1
No death bed conversion was reported, thus thats what I based my statement upon. That also indicated, to me, that he was not a hypocrite.
LOL. So if he had made a conversion on his deathbed, that would have been a sign of hypocrisy? How stupid.
In my opinion, that would have been a tremendous sign of personal humility and God's grace. There is no sin worse than final impenitence.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:05:24 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(Take the pledge: I will not vote for Mitt Romney under any circumstances. EVER.)
To: icwhatudo
Very sad. When I heard of his passing that’s the first thing I thought of. He may see there’s a true and living God....now. :(
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posted on
12/16/2011 6:03:11 AM PST
by
Dawgreg
(Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
To: Rummyfan; All
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posted on
12/16/2011 6:32:13 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Rummyfan
Politically, for much of his life, Hitchens was a Trotskyite. Trotsky was as much a monster as Stalin but not as wily.
In his attacks on religion, Hitchens picked easy targets, including those who would never fight back like Mother Theresa.
He had an encyclopedic knowledge of literature and he was clever. That was his charm and appeal, but anyone who does not allow room for the transcendental is essentially shallow.
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:05:56 AM PST
by
Malesherbes
(- Sauve qui peut)
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