Posted on 12/16/2011 5:22:24 AM PST by markomalley
Cancer weakened, but did not soften Christopher Hitchens. He did not repent or forgive or ask for pity. As if granted diplomatic immunity, his mind’s eye looked plainly upon the attack and counterattack of disease and treatments that robbed him of his hair, his stamina, his speaking voice and eventually his life.
“I love the imagery of struggle,” he wrote about his illness in an August 2010 essay in Vanity Fair. “I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.”
Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of his esophageal cancer, according to a statement from Vanity Fair magazine. He was 62.
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What goes around, comes around......
"moralist". Now THAT'S funny!!!
Did that woman do anything even slightly negative to atheists, very publically? Did her followers? Was she “brilliant” as well as a cocky prick? No? Then your example is irrelevant.
What’s fascinating is that you’re so jaded you think people are just saying they’re hoping for a deathbed confession/conversion as a means of saying “nyah nyah” covertly. You don’t know anything about Christians, obviously, b/c I know they’re completely genuine. You think they sully your Great One’s memory by showing compassion to what is very likely his ultimate end. I personally don’t believe he deserves the same fate as Kim Jong Il, but I don’t get to make those decisions.
The people praying for Hitchens are far better people than I, and, while I am trying to improve my attitude, I have a huge problem with compassion towards unbelievable arrogance.
My mistake. You were trying to get me to read your blog. Also something I don’t go for.
Another funny! Want to go for strike three?
Look, I’m not kidding: you make no sense to me. Seriously. I have no idea what you want. If you can’t just talk to me without quotes and links, let it go.
You seem to be confusing me with Ned Flanders. That’s a huge mistake on your part.
No, you are simply another poster who addressed me without me having first addressed him.
No, there’s no point. You wouldn’t understand.
In a public forum?! Perish the thought!
So what is it that you want?
You already know the answer to that. Instead, you went off on some whiny caveat about how “there’s no place for atheists to congregate on FR” or some such. Given that atheists are such an incredibly small minority in this country, I’d have figured you’d be used to it.
No, I really don’t know what you want. Say it.
Look, do you think that's news to me? I already know you're not kidding.
How could I make sense to someone who dwells in an alternative, or "second reality"? -- Seriously.
“You wouldn’t understand.” In Jungian terms, that is such an air tight defensive mechanism that I shall not endanger your comfort by asking anything further of you. Have Nice Day
Then why do you keep pinging me?
You too.
A response to your questions aren't "pings".
PS: This isn't a "ping".
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