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Hitchens: Over the Lip of the Event Horizon

Lying by Sam Harris on Audible: 
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Summary:

As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption - even murder and genocide - generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. 

In Lying, bestselling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie. He focuses on "white" lies - those lies we tell for the purpose of sparing people discomfort - for these are the lies that most often tempt us. And they tend to be the only lies that good people tell while imagining that they are being good in the process. 


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The Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan - EMP Original

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The End ~Christopher Hitchens

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/reflections-on-free-will

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Dan dennet reflections-on-free-will Reply To Sam Harris FreeWill

"Try and live your life as if you were a Free Person, that you didn't have to wonder what anyone else's opinion was; that you should take the risk of believing that if you were the only person who thinks what you think, that that still might well mean that you were right." - Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens - The Courage to Believe in Yourself

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"But deep inside the atom, hidden far beneath the outer electron cloud, is the nucleus composed chiefly of protons and neutrons. Atoms are very small. A hundred million of them, end to end, would be about so big and the nucleus is a hundred thousand times smaller still. Nevertheless, most of the mass in an atom is in the nucleus. The electrons are by comparison just bits of moving fluff. Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. When we consider cutting this apple pie, but down beyond a single atom, we confront an infinity of the very small. And when we look up at the night sky, we confront an infinity of the very large. These infinities are among the most awesome of human ideas. They represent an unending regress which goes on, not just very far, but forever."
Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan on the Atom and Infinity

Christopher Hitchens sits down with Salman Rushdie to discuss Hitchens’ searing memoir, Hitch 22, that lays bare the many contradictions in his life and affirms his conviction that all personal is also political. This was recorded June 8, 2010 at 92nd Street Y.

Christopher Hitchens with Salman Rushdie: 92Y Talks Podcast Episode 3

Christopher Hitchens "Antitheist Anthem" 
Debate: Christopher Hitchens vs Tony Blair - Munk Debates 2010
Instrumental: Little People "Moon"
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Christopher Hitchens - Antitheist Anthem

Who are they featuring christopher hitchens

Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa

Coursework for tech, Trip-hop song. Thought it would be fitting to pay tribute to the late great Christopher Hithens.

Logic (Christopher Hitchens Tribute)

In his new book The End of Faith philosopher Sam Harris examines religious faith in terms of its consequences and aggressive irrationality. For this talk he explores how "end time" beliefs play out in social behavior and public policy. A Buddhist meditator, he mixes wicked humor into his compassion.

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Sam Harris - The View from the End of the World

The Pale Blue Dot

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Carl Sagan - The Pale Blue Dot

Audiobook excerpt from The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice 

"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word."

Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than THE MISSIONARY POSITION, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa. 

A Nobel Peace Prize recipient beatified by the Catholic Church in 2003, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was celebrated by heads of state and adored by millions for her work on behalf of the poor. In his measured critique, Hitchens asks only that Mother Teresa's reputation be judged by her actions-not the other way around.

With characteristic élan and rhetorical dexterity, Hitchens eviscerates the fawning cult of Teresa, recasting the Albanian missionary as a spurious, despotic, and megalomaniacal operative of the wealthy who long opposed measures to end poverty, and fraternized, for financial gain, with tyrants and white-collar criminals throughout the world.

Available now on CD and as a digital download in from Hachette Audio, and as an eBook and in print from Twelve Books. 

http://twelvebooks.com/catalog/this-season-spring-2012/christopher-hitchens-reissues/

THE MISSIONARY POSITION by Christopher Hitchens, read by Simon Prebble - Audiobook Excerpt

Joe Rogan on Feeling Like Shit

Christopher Hitchens excerpts from “Christopher Hitchens vs William Dembski Debate” mixed to “B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams & Eminem Airplanes part II – Instrumental (With Hook).”
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Lyrics/transcript:

Intro:
The principle of Occam's razor in logic and philosophy, keep it by you at all times. Don't make mysteries when none exist. Don't increase the number of unnecessary and complex questions- very important principle. It's death to religion, that principle.

Verse 1:
I think that there are deformities to the pure Christian religion; a doctrine that I think is strictly immoral. That god invents, makes a human species, takes a brief look at it and decides "it's in rebellion against me." It doesn't know how it's done this, but that's its verdict, "You're in rebellion against me. For one thing, you've broken the rule I gave you, don't think for yourselves. You deliberately went to look for knowledge. Now you're in rebellion, now you're going to suffer. Now there's nothing that won't happen. I made you and I can break you, and I will. I'll flood you, I'll plague you." What-now, what is this? This is like being a terrible insect or a rodent in the, in the laboratory of a cruel and stupid person. And what could be more... what's more nihilistic? What's more nihilistic and alienating than that? It's all summarized in one line: To believe you have to consider yourself created incurably sick, and then ordered on pain of death and eternal torture to be well. This is not morality. 

Verse 2: 
Mother Teresa was a fanatic, fundamentalist and a fraud. She was not a friend of the poor as she claimed to be, she was a friend of poverty. Preached it as a good thing, as a gift from god, something to be welcomed along with other kinds of suffering, wasn't interested in alleviating it. We all know there is a cure for poverty, it's a rudimentary one. It works everywhere. It's colloquially called "the empowerment of women." It's the only thing that does work. If you allow women some control over their cycle of reproductions, so that they're not chained by their husbands or by village customs to annual animal-type pregnancies, early death disease and so on, if you will free them from that, give them some basic health of that sort, the whole floor, culturally, socially, medically, economically-of that village will rise. It works every time. Mother Teresa spent her entire life campaigning against that outcome. She said that contraception was equivalent to abortion, morally, and abortion was morally equivalent to murder. She was entirely against the only thing that cures poverty. I would say that her preachments led to an enormous increase to the amount of poverty, ignorance, filth and disease in the world.

Verse 3: 
In other words, the discussion about what is good, what is beautiful, what is noble, what is pure, and what is true could always go on. Why is that important? Because that's the only conversation worth having. And whether it goes on or not after I die, I don't know. But, I do know that it is the conversation I want to have while I am still alive. Which means that to me the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can't give way is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don't know anything like enough yet... that I haven't understood enough... that I can't know enough... that I am always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn't have it any other way. And I'd urge you to look at those people who tell you at your age, that you are dead until you believe as they do. What a terrible thing to be telling to children. ...and that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority. Don't think of that as a gift. Think of it as a poisoned chalice. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

I Could Really Use A Hitch Right Now (Christopher Hitchen Tribute)

Sam Harris spirituality discussion excerpts mixed to “Jordigan & WeSpeakProse - Closed Eyes VIP”, and deep space visuals. Music Video: http://youtu.be/1k-ghifD9bg

Sam Harris spirituality excerpts from:
Sam Harris - Believing Reason - Aspen Ideas Festival
Ask Sam Harris Anything 1
Ask Sam Harris Anything 2
The Four Horsemen HD Hour 1 of 2 - Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Ep 1
The Four Horsemen HD Hour 2 of 2 - Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Ep 1

Sam Harris – Atheist Spirituality (2012 Remix)

Christopher Hitchens speaks on “Crucibles: Past and Present” followed by a conversation with PEN World Voices Festival Chair, Salman Rushdie. Hitchens replaces Sherman Alexie who was previously scheduled.

Christopher Hitchens Freedom to Write Lecture

Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Most Astounding Fact (M3ITIS Remix)

Background: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/08/carl-sagan-message-to-mars/

Carl Sagan's message for Mars

Christopher Hitchens: Entire Event

Mark Elfstrand talks with Christopher Hitchens about the end of life.

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens offers introductory remarks at Revolution: A User's Manual, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival.


Christopher Hitchens Introduces Revolution: A User's Manual

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Tribute to Christopher Hitchens - 2012 Global Atheist Convention

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Christopher Hitchens - Antitheist Anthem

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