Imagine
the surprise on Chris Hitchen’s face, right now.
I think this was what Doug Adams was talking about when he described jawcraig.
I have a theory that when an anti-theist like Hitchens gets to his reward, and gets his first bout of jawcraig in front of the Creator, and then he has to walk around heaven displaying that face until everyone he abused with is silliness on earth has seen it, and only then can he go on and enjoy the afterlife.
UPDATE: Pascal suspects that in the linked video (Watch if you like, but it’s just a bunch of BS) that Hitch is already feeling the massive attack of jawcraig coming on, as he cannot stop touching his face.
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I heard that Steve Jobs last words were, “Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow!”
Probably the last thing he said before the jawcraig set in.
Chris Hitchens will be missed. I hope he’s enjoying the surprise.
You know, I’ve been uninterested in furthering Hitchens’ stock online. He really never made it onto my radar. Sure, I’ve read some of his essays– and he writes well enough– but really? Meh.
However, of all the paeans to the man, or denunciations of same, this is my favorite. I think it captures the blithe nature of the anti-theist as compared to the real thinkers and questioners.
Which is why, I guess, I never really took him all that seriously.
I imagine G_d didn’t, either.
Tell the truth Og. Did you see this video before you wrote this? Throughout it, it seems the poor frail man was constantly touching his jaw as if he were trying to keep it from falling. It seems he couldn’t even take a compliment well. Instead, the man of words mumbles some weak acknowledgment and gives me the overwhelming sense he thinks his influence could not possibly matter cuz he’s not a part of it. The great man who feels he’s actually a nothing. Simply awfully sad.
This whole AAoA group that sponsored his appearance with Dawkins claim to be free thinkers. Yet are totally glued to the dogma of “it’s either tangible fact or nothingness.” They KNOW there is no God cuz they see no proof. Those who want to play god — at your expense Dear Readers — love the anti-theists the mostest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rkxMh-sWyes
sorry: forgot to add that in the link
Non-sequitur detected!
Non-sequitur detected!
(Clamps on the Howard Leight L-3s while reaching up to silence the howling non-sequitur alarm)
“…Hitchens gets to his reward…” Ummm, according to our culture, Og, that will NOT happen.
Don’t know what culture you got, Dog, but we will ALL get our reward. I didn’t say what his would BE, and far be it from ME to judge if it’s eternal bliss or sweeping the stables of hell forever, but I spect he’ll get what’s coming to him, whatever it is.
Joan: I consider that high praise, coming from you, I do. I’m humbled and flattered.
Ain’t no atheists in foxholes, of course. When the Repaer has you by the nuts you see all kinds of saints and gods.
Well, like I said elsewhere, he knows the truth now. I imagine he was not only astonished to discover that WE were right, but also that it wasn’t going to be a bit of fun for him.
I learned that there are no Atheists in a storm at sea, either. It didn’t take a very big one to knock me off my high horse and get me setting in a nice comfy pew. I now have a daily chat with G-d and find it to be very comforting and humbling. And like the man Churchill was talking of, I have a great deal to be humble about. I pray for Hitch and hope he’s not having it too hard.
Gerry N.
I doubt that Hitch would’ve accepted my prayers, but I did it anyway. We’ll find out for sure eventually. I’m counting on God’s mercy rather that His justice.
Ain’t no atheists in foxholes, of course..
There was a lot of die-hard commies taking cover in foxholes in WWII.
It’s true, religion helps. But it needn’t be ‘theism’. Fervent communists or catholics fared about the same in harsh conditions. It’s the doubters who’re in trouble.
Nietzsche put it nicely. “He who has a why can endure any how..”
Don’t know what culture you got, Dog, but we will ALL get our reward.
A droll and comforting belief, but one that has little substance ;-)
“A droll and comforting belief, but one that has little substance ;-) ”
Obviously, you’re not a regular reader here. Comforting? I hardly think so. We do, all of us, get our reward, like it or not; yours awaits, are you ready? I expect not. Imagine your surprise.
nietzsche. What an utter tool the man was, and how horribly wrong he was on so many things. Man, if only his parents had been Methodists instead of Lutherans.
“There was a lot of die-hard commies taking cover in foxholes in WWII.”
Markedly, a powerful lot of people who went to war in the Former Soviet were Christians. They may well not have advertised the fact, but they were there.
Comforting? I hardly think so. We do, all of us, get our reward, like it or not; yours awaits, are you ready? I expect not. Imagine your surprise.
Comforting. Yes. Comforting at least to me. This world is full of powerful assholes (like the recently deceased Kim Jong Il) who, when they die, instead of going to hell, or at least purgatory, get what everyone else gets…
Finality. Nothing. Seems a tad unjust to me.
I’d really like to believe there is someone or more likely something* who’ll judge us and give us our due, but since there is no evidence.. :-(
What an utter tool the man was, and how horribly wrong he was on so many things.
His writing is often unclear, but when it comes to truth-value, I’d guess it rates above most holy books. Still, I’m not sure whether it’s worth reading. He seems too much in love with his own prose.
His observation that God has died in the West was spot on, for one.
Very few people are as pious as they were centuries ago. Yet societies today are less violent, less pestilent and more just. Places with a surfeit of religious belief are quite unpleasant, consider Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.
Most of his maxims( a few: http://nietzsche.holtof.com/Nietzsche_beyond_good_and_evil/bge_ch4_maxims-and-interludes.htm) are very good.
Let your will say: the Ãœbermensch shall be the meaning of the earth… Man is a rope, tied between beast and Ãœbermensch—a rope over an abyss…what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end…
This, however, is propethic. Enhancement of human abilities is very advantageous in all arenas, be they business, scientific or military. It is also somewhat scary, but fear is nothing compared to Man’s yearning for power or immortality..
Therefore, unless it all goes pear-shaped and nuclear, or some anti-tech religion overruns the globe and halts, to use a metaphor accessible to you the building of the tower of technology, very interesting times will come.
Markedly, a powerful lot of people who went to war in the Former Soviet were Christians
Not disputing that in the least. Human minds are prone to superstition. Even in mostly religion free regions, certain people still read horoscopes. Though, I’ve never met tech person who did so.
I doubt there wasn’t a good number of atheists too. Shame anonymous opinion surveys of Stalin’s USSR are about as rare as double-stack 7.62x25mm automatics with a fixed barrel and fiber optic sights..
“His observation that God has died in the West was spot on, for one.
Very few people are as pious as they were centuries ago. Yet societies today are less violent, less pestilent and more just. Places with a surfeit of religious belief are quite unpleasant, consider Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.”
This is of course a lie, and it can easily be demonstrated to be a lie, and it is typical and indicative of the type of lie for which N was most well known; the lie that the superstitious tell themselves to “”believe” that their position is correct.
Go back to campaigning for Ralph Nader, metz. We are overstocked with your brand of crazy here.
Ed: I really feel badly for you, metz. Your own superstitions prevent you from learning, but what is worse, from being civil. Sorry; as I said, we get enough trolls here. We’ll do without another.