RIP

by Micki Krimmel on April 12, 2007 · 5 comments

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
– Kurt Vonnegut

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Dave H. April 12, 2007 at 11:29 am

Since you posted about Sam Harris’ book ‘Letter to a Christian Nation’, I thought you’d like to know that he’s met his match with a new book coming out. You can find out more at:
http://www.letterfromachristiancitizen.com

Starhawk April 12, 2007 at 2:34 pm

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.”

Ah yes my dear Kurt will live forever!! And thank you for your wonderful blog ;) I agree for the most part tho i no longer call myself an atheist, I am in fact a tantric Buddhist but nonetheless I am very sure Dave H above would consider me an atheist. Lmao. It is impossible to talk or reason with myth believing and flesh denying christians.

But anyway I will miss Kurt and his wise ass smart ass remarks. He was a literary genius and a counter culture hero. RIP indeed!!

Andrew April 12, 2007 at 7:25 pm

“if i should ever die, god forbid, let this be my epitaph: the only proof he needed for the existence of god was music.” – k.v.

Bjorn Watland April 14, 2007 at 2:08 pm

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States — and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., quoted from Floyd College, Rome, Georgia, “Banned Books — Quotes”

Leylabot April 19, 2007 at 7:15 pm

I was SO sad to hear of his death. A great thinker, we’ll miss him. Slaugherhouse Five is still one of my favorite books I was forced to read.

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