/lit/ - Literature

>"Is there anybody here who believes in God?"
>nervous silence from the audience
>"I ask again, otherwise I think my job here will be even easier than I assumed it would be."
>the audience laughs nervously
>"Is there anyone here who believes in the divinity of the Muslim, Christian or Jewish religions, and the word of its biblical teachings?"
>guy raises hands
>the audience, shocked, stares at him, with a look on their faces similar to one you'd give a man about to be executed
>"How dare you. I repeat, how DARE you submit to this heavenly totalitarianism, this celestial North Korea! I assume you'd kill your children if God commanded you to?"
>the audience cheers, claps and yells in unison, a festival of mockery ensues. A loud laughter can be heard from those who are already familiar with the Hitch and knew what to expect. The guy is not given a chance to reply or elaborate on his specific theological views because who cares he's probably stupid anyway. Religion is deemed too stupid for discussion, that particular segment of the entire event is uploaded separately on youtube under the title "Hitchens absolutely fucking OWNS stupid religious audience member who thinks Islam is peaceful" by the user ReasonAndScience. Hitch is hailed as one of the greatest orators since Cicero. Atheism prevails, Religion fails, sorry, deal with it, bye bye.

I miss him.

I've been racking my brain for like two hours trying to think of the phrase that means you're not something anymore. It's like "reformed catholic" and it can be about anything. Lapsed communist, failed atheist, fuck it's a well-known phrase that's been around for awhile. Hitchens used it talking about himself as RECOVERING holy shit I just got it. I'm going to post this anyway because we've all been here.

Fuck it, how about a thread of phrases that hit the spot? Mine is obviously

>recovering communist/alcoholic/etc

>Hitchens thread

CELESTIAL

How do I become a great debater like Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Chomsky, etc.

>that feel when you will never read the white hot, vitriol filled essays that Hitch would have written about the islamic state.

>>6802600

>>6798423
>rap
nice meme friend

>>6796687
>I believe in a universal spirit

>>6790178
>art began

>>6790152
pic related

>>6782546
seemed to me he was always in his brothers shadow aswell.

>>6781975
you dont understand simple serf, you must first embody the power of your future intellectual self. You must cast off the anxieties of a simple man, and reach the epitome of the person you can become by doing things for the sake of doing it. For the sake of living life to feel it.

Christopher Hitchens

the god-king of eloquent speaking.

>That Kid who says that together all religions are true and combined they are the truth to humanity and fashions himself like some sort of Bahaullah who has figured out the worlds existence and using his superior intelligence can shatter reality.

>>6781661
the Hitchposting has begun

>>6781656
Hitchposting when

Which philosophers would you revive to see them debate on television Hitchens-style, and what would be the subject?

I'd revive Schopenhauer to see him debate some modern feminists on television.

Is anyone here a freelance writer/journalist?
How did you get into it?
How do you like and maintain the lifestyle?

>>6161531
>Yeah, the petty left more concerned with scoring points on how leftist they are, than actually enacting change.
Or alternatively those that don't subscribe to utopian politics and conspiracy theories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBwpukN7Pf8

I miss him.

why would someone so well read, with such a brilliant memory (e.g. being able to quote long passages of hegel from memory), and such clear, concise thoughts, not become a novelist?