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Life Lived in Invective Views of Hatred for a World That Did Not Conform to Self-imposed Expectations

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in response to reader comment: Anti-Religious Vitriole Knows No Limits - Was Accorded as Free Speech in America for Freedom for All

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Aug 22, 2022 at 16:46

Might there be the suggestion that the late Mr.HItchens was not alone in his acerbic persoanl style of projecting his own world-view of just about everything that did not conform to his preferred designs of existence; and he was not shy letting everyone know it. That there were/are people that assented to similar versions of his peculiar observations of life lived in another view is legion; thus he was not alone, just severely self-isolated for the observations that were intended to irritate for his own self-satisfaction that his dissatisfaction would be keenly felt by those of whom he took to task.
One wonders: for those who are his survivors in legacy of his acerbic viewpoints; would life have been different if he learned to love mankind in spite of its travesties and shared a more optomistic view of humanity instead of focusing on those travesties?

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Title Commenter Date Thread
Hitchens vs Rickles: Offensive vs Funny [178 words]DaveAug 20, 2022 17:39285372
Anti-Religious Vitriole Knows No Limits - Was Accorded as Free Speech in America for Freedom for All [219 words]M ToveyJan 31, 2022 11:37278627
Life Lived in Invective Views of Hatred for a World That Did Not Conform to Self-imposed Expectations [145 words]M ToveyAug 22, 2022 16:46278627
4Oh for [288 words]HugoMay 22, 2012 07:18195787
1Note to Hugo: philo semites CAN dislike Judaism but they usually dont [378 words]ShishirApr 17, 2013 09:18195787
An excess of alchohol... [98 words]Mirko BodulDec 30, 2011 00:14192142
On the article on Hitchens [121 words]Gabrielle CroftsDec 29, 2011 08:30192128
4Christopher Hitchens [67 words]NickDec 20, 2011 15:07191894
A comment on Hitchens [39 words]Dr. Mark McAndrewDec 19, 2011 09:27191845

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