/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.705190]

I'm a gonna see him speak in New York City.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.705198]

Thats Stephen King

[Anonymous No.705194]

No idea who he is.

sage

[Anonymous No.705216]

He's a bit of an arrogant prick.

[Anonymous No.705282]

>>705216

Yeah, I picked up on that.

Part of me can't help but be attracted to that part of his personality - the other part of me does its best to control that half, with varying degrees of success.

[Anonymous No.705292]

ask him to abstain from alcohol for a sustained 24 hour period

[Anonymous No.705291]

Saw him destroy David Wolpe in "The Great God Debate" a few months back. I used to loathe him, but now his personality makes me lol.

Also, are you going to see him speak about his new memoir? He's coming to Boston in a few weeks for that, and I'll be attending.

[Anonymous No.705297]

>>705291

Is he some sort of atheist fag?

If so he should kill himself.

[Anonymous No.705300]

>>705297
Bahhhahahahhah what a troll pic

[Anonymous No.705310]

>>705292
Might as well ask him to sprout wings and fly.

[Anonymous No.705316]

Who is that guy? He's fucking ugly and fat. Probably an atheist too.

[Anonymous No.705339]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry

/lit/ is full of high school kids

[Anonymous No.705344]

Holy shit, is that Christopher Hitchens? What the fuck happened to him?

[Anonymous No.705346]

>>705339

So he's an actor and militant atheist soldier. What's that got to do with /lit/? Take this dick back to /new/ for atheism or /tv/ for acting.

[Anonymous No.705350]

>>705344

He's a faggot atheist. That's what happened to him.

[Anonymous No.705362]

Christopher Hitchens is fucking hilarious, and he does what he does with style. I admire the man. But don't take him for a worthy commenter on theological issues. Cause he don't know shit.

[Anonymous No.705363]

OP, if you didn't know, /lit/ is the haven of god soldiers

[Anonymous No.705364]

>>705190
What's the talk on? And where in NYC? NYCfag here.

[Anonymous No.705365]

>>705362
>issues

It's about as much of an issue as whether or not the Earth is flat.

[Anonymous No.705367]

>>705363
Really? Not just trolls? There exist people that stupid?

[Anonymous No.705374]

>>705367

SUPERIOR ATHEIST UBERMENSCH DURR HURR

[Anonymous No.705379]

>>705363
not necessarily god soldiers as people who are kind of uncomfortable with the hackneyed arguments of Internet Atheists, because frankly, most Internet Atheists are really dumb. as compare >>705367

[Anonymous No.705383]

Butthurt godfags in this thread.

[Anonymous No.705389]

>>705383

Butthurt OP in this post.

Not used to people not sucking your dick for being "OMG SO EDGY AND COOL?"

You're a huge faggot who should just kill yourself.

Thanks for listening.

[Anonymous No.705393]

Yeah I'm an atheist and I get pretty sick of the bullshit.
I like Hitchens somewhat. He's better than Dawkins, at least to me his arrogance is a little bit more pointed, if you get what I mean. Agree with the guy who said he don't know shit. He's another dude applying lots and lots of science as an argument, which theists can easily dodge a number of ways, some of them fairly logically.

[Anonymous No.705399]

>>705365
lol, you are an arrogant idiot.

[Anonymous No.705402]

>>705399

Typical atheist.

Pic related.

[Anonymous No.705405]

ITT: people fighting over their differences without realising their similarity.
And I don't mean that in any hippy "aww, let's hug each other now" way.

[Anonymous No.705407]

>>705402
whatever
>>705405
ha

[Anonymous No.705411]

>>705389
Not OP, first time I come into /lit/ in weeks and see litfags being butthurt. Go suck a priest's cock while on speed so you can be at ease.

[Anonymous No.705415]

>>705411
/lit/ always reacts to atheists this way. Mostly it is a samefag

[Anonymous No.705418]

>>705411

>implying I'm a Christian

>implying that I don't just hate militant atheist fucks

[Anonymous No.705422]

>>705415
I see. Sorry about the name calling and gross generalization.

[Anonymous No.705425]

>>705418

There are a lot of better things to be upset about

Like people who are actually militant

[Anonymous No.705431]

>>705422

gtfo

[Anonymous No.705435]

>>705425

>implying all internet atheists aren't militant

>implying Dawkins and Hitchens fans aren't militant

>my face

[Anonymous No.705444]

Just face it- this thread isn't going to go anywhere and your side's chances of success as an ideology are not contigent upon winning this stupid argument on /lit/.
Also:
>>705405

[Anonymous No.705443]

>>705435

Well they're only militant in a figurative sense. There are plenty of better things to get mad about that do lasting harm to people.

[Anonymous No.705446]

>>705425
Like Islamic extremist that go flag burning and threaten with death if you dare to draw their prophet.

[Anonymous No.705450]

>>705443

Atheists are the most annoying of the bunch.

>>705446

I believe that something called the US Army is already taking care of that problem for me.

[Anonymous No.705456]

>>705450

Really? Teenagers get you more riled up than murderers?

That's pretty terrible, bro.

[Anonymous No.705460]

>>705444
It takes a lot for me not to get involved in a stupid pointless argument

but you're right

[Anonymous No.705461]

>>705456

I am a terrible human being and I make no excuses for it.

[Anonymous No.705475]

>>705446

That's because people like you rile them up, idiot. Go back to facebook.

[Anonymous No.706366]

OP is back, having not posted since >>705282 and now amused with how this thread turned out.

>>705364
>>705291

He'll be speaking at the New York Public Library on June 4th - probably about his memoirs and whatever tangential stuff might come up. There will also likely be some sex or potty jokes made with unique erudition. Since you live in the cit-tay, he's also going to speak at the 92 Street Y on June 8th with Salman Rushdie.

>>705362

Agreed - as a theology student, it slightly frustrates me that people in the audience go wild for him when he usually ignore the majority of his opponents' points and reverts to the same arguments that don't really prove much (i.e. "Heaven stood like this (*crosses arms, or tires to*) watching humanity suffer before saying 'we just can't let THAT go on for any longer' "). While he brings up some interesting ideas occasionally, like the idea of personal freedom in relation to God's supposed authority, I realize that he's no theologian, and most of his power comes from the way he uses words and not necessarily what he says or refutes with them.

[Anonymous No.706381]

if you like boring one-liner jokes and butthurt strawmans, you gonna love him. His not a real debater though

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[Anonymous No.706636]

Can someone please bump my thread with more hardcore pornography?

kthnx

[Anonymous No.706637]

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[Anonymous No.708485]

Any opinions on his actual books?

[Anonymous No.708492]

>>708485
His book about Mother Teresa, The Missionary Position, is pretty vicious. You can tell Hitchens gets a real kick out of shitting all over things others hold dear.

Here's Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens debating some Catholics or something:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XpGyHJZ9b0

[Anonymous No.708511]

>>708492

>Here's Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens debating some Catholics or something:

[Anonymous No.708527]

You're going to go a self righteous former Bush supporter?

[Anonymous No.708536]

>>708527
He bills himself as a "contrarian" for a reason...

[Anonymous No.708549]

>>708536

Attention seeking moron.

[Anonymous No.709113]

>>708527

He supported regime change in Iraq while Bush Jr. was still an isolationist. He formed his opinions independent both the Administration and the neo-conservative school. His "Bush support" is incidental and has repeatedly claimed that he supported regime change out of solidarity with the anti-totalitarian left in the Arab world.

[Anonymous No.709125]

>>709113

crypto-fascist.

[Anonymous No.709130]

>>705190
Just put down the cheeseburger and walk away.

[Anonymous No.709138]

The people who dismiss him as a 'neocon' are completely wrong.

[Anonymous No.709143]

>>705291

when is he going to boston?

[Anonymous No.709181]

He will be at the Hay Festival.

[Anonymous No.709184]

>>709113
>His "Bush support" is incidental and has repeatedly claimed that he supported regime change out of solidarity with the anti-totalitarian left in the Arab world.

Hitchens expands on this rather well in this interview:

http://www.thecommentfactory.com/christopher-hitchens-interview-on-iraq-the-left-and-the-islamic-cal
iphate-2794/

Long money quote:

>First, that the intervention in Iraq is opposed by conservative forces all over the world, and not just Muslim conservatives but reactionary isolationists in America, Haider-type parties in Western Europe, xenophobes and chauvinists in Russia, Greece and Serbia, and of course by all the fascist and anti-Jewish fringe. I mention this not in order to suggest guilt by association but to challenge the lazy Left/Right antithesis that is so commonplace.

>I then point out that one place in the world where the Left definitely DOES support regime-change is in Iraq itself. Jalal Talabani's PUK is the corresponding member of the Socialist International, the Communist Party may have formally opposed the war but hailed the liberation and takes part in the political and even the governmental process, and Kanan Makiya is the foremost dissident intellectual to expose the nature of Ba'athism. This means that Social Democrats, Communists and Trotskyists all have brothers and sisters fighting in Iraq against former-regime elements and their jihadist allies.

[Anonymous No.709344]

>>709125

Look, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-fascist or I'll sock you in the goddam face and you'll stay plasterd.

[Anonymous No.711026]

saved.

[Anonymous No.711179]

>>709344

Easy there, Brownshirt, I ain't a Red.

[Anonymous No.711205]

>>708492
>Arguing for the motion
>a bishop and a politician
>Arguing against the motion
>an actor and...an actor
THIS DEBATE IS GOING PLACES

[Anonymous No.711226]

>>711205
Since when is Christopher Hitchens an actor?

[Anonymous No.711342]

>>711179

That was from that famous exchange between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. I now know I am conversing with a 15 year old.

Good day, sir!

[Anonymous No.711349]

>>711226

Since when is Stephen Fry merely an actor. He is a "national treasure", a phenomenon and "an epitome of the Renaissance man".

[Anonymous No.711353]

>>711342

Excuse me for overlooking a quotation from minor foreign politicians in 1968.

[Anonymous No.711371]

>>705190
Isn't there a community college philosophy club meeting you could go to instead?

[Anonymous No.711731]

>>711371

Probably.

If OP went to community college.

Or if college were still in session.

[Anonymous No.711747]

>>711353

They are two of the most prominant figures in the 20th century American Left-Right debate. That was the most famous line from their most famous debate.

See it on YouTube. It's awesome.