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Started by Habbaku, December 16, 2011, 12:43:04 AM

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Razgovory

#16
December 16, 2011, 07:49:52 AM
Odd that so many people use the term "RIP".  I Hitchens is correct he no longer exists.  He has been totally and irrevocably eradicated.  Certainly not "resting".
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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DGuller

#17
December 16, 2011, 08:08:40 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on December 16, 2011, 07:49:52 AM
Odd that so many people use the term "RIP".  I Hitchens is correct he no longer exists.  He has been totally and irrevocably eradicated.  Certainly not "resting".
I think people here are just practicing forgiveness.

grumbler

#18
December 16, 2011, 08:33:50 AM
Hitchens may have never been right, but he also never was dull.  RIP.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Slargos

#19
December 16, 2011, 11:32:01 AM
Wishing him a pleasant time in Heaven seems a fitting eulogy.  :hmm:
Nevertheless, the RIPs are perhaps meant ironically?

Malthus

#20
December 16, 2011, 11:34:41 AM
Quote from: Slargos on December 16, 2011, 11:32:01 AM
Wishing him a pleasant time in Heaven seems a fitting eulogy.  :hmm:
Nevertheless, the RIPs are perhaps meant ironically?

I always thought the term "rest in peace" was a trifle ambivalent - on the one hand, it sounds pleasant for the person (who doesn't like rest and peace?) but on the other hand, it could be a request not to return and trouble the living.  :P
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Jacob

#21
December 16, 2011, 12:09:37 PM
I don't see any inherent religious significance to the term "rest in peace".

grumbler

#22
December 16, 2011, 12:21:36 PM
Quote from: Jacob on December 16, 2011, 12:09:37 PM
I don't see any inherent religious significance to the term "rest in peace".
No more than is in "goodbye" (which means "god be with ye").
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Slargos

#23
December 16, 2011, 12:22:10 PM
Quote from: Jacob on December 16, 2011, 12:09:37 PM
I don't see any inherent religious significance to the term "rest in peace".
The things you don't see could fill a portly library.

Valmy

#24
December 16, 2011, 12:31:58 PM
Quote from: Slargos on December 16, 2011, 11:32:01 AM
Wishing him a pleasant time in Heaven seems a fitting eulogy.  :hmm:
Nevertheless, the RIPs are perhaps meant ironically?

What should we say then :hmm:

May Non-Existance be Awesome?
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grumbler

#25
December 16, 2011, 12:36:44 PM
Quote from: Valmy on December 16, 2011, 12:31:58 PM
Quote from: Slargos on December 16, 2011, 11:32:01 AM
Wishing him a pleasant time in Heaven seems a fitting eulogy.  :hmm:
Nevertheless, the RIPs are perhaps meant ironically?

What should we say then :hmm:

May Non-Existance be Awesome?
MYBFOTWOL:  "May you be free of the Wheel of Life"?
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Slargos

#26
December 16, 2011, 12:37:09 PM
Quote from: Valmy on December 16, 2011, 12:31:58 PM
Quote from: Slargos on December 16, 2011, 11:32:01 AM
Wishing him a pleasant time in Heaven seems a fitting eulogy.  :hmm:
Nevertheless, the RIPs are perhaps meant ironically?

What should we say then :hmm:

May Non-Existance be Awesome?
How can something that isn't, be?
No, I think we simply acknowledge that he's dead and secretly rejoice (with the requisite guilt) that another douchebag is gone.

grumbler

#27
December 16, 2011, 12:39:10 PM
Quote from: Slargos on December 16, 2011, 12:37:09 PM
No, I think we simply acknowledge that he's dead and secretly rejoice (with the requisite guilt) that another douchebag is gone.

We already did that, when you ragequit the forum.  Didn't take.  :(
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

MadImmortalMan

#28
December 16, 2011, 12:48:21 PM
He's one of those people I would always read even if I didn't agree with the premise of the piece. Not having him in the world is a bad thing.  :(
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

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"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

fhdz

#29
December 16, 2011, 12:51:11 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on December 16, 2011, 12:48:21 PM
He's one of those people I would always read even if I didn't agree with the premise of the piece. Not having him in the world is a bad thing.  :(

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