Sometimes I just get tired of talking and thinking and I like to listen to other people talk and think. But not like I’m looking for someone to tell me how to live but someone who tells me about the people who tell us how to live. This is where Christopher Hitchens actually shines.
As a philosopher, I think he’s got practical intellectualism nailed. He’s anti Christianity and anti-religion and anti everything. And he understands the Jewish side of things. He admits he’s Jewish. That’s not the main point. I’m just saying if you want to listen to someone talk for an hour and be pretty sure that you are being told a very practical version of the truth, maybe this is for you. Christopher Hitchens.
I’m not going to point out any specific theories here because you can listen to him talk. But right at the beginning he went on a run. In baseball terms, he was just raking. But one decision that he came to was one that I have come to as well. If we consider the size of the planet Earth juxtaposed against not only our own solar system but of anything even contemplating one paper clip weight of the universe, if there was a giant deity out there, they would not notice us even at all. Maybe me but definitely not everybody.
This is a very very famous debate. I decided to put it here simply because I began listening to William Lane and I realized that there was absolutely nothing understandable or followable about his logic. He uses so many stylistic ideas to push things forward. He is literally a more verbal and well-read version of the people who fight vegans online in a debate. There is something wrong with him. But it’s okay, Hitchens is here.
