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Posted by tjpatel on Feb-21-2005 15:38:

RIP


Posted by N|te-L|fe on Feb-21-2005 16:24:

why do successfull and rich people do things like that ?


Posted by starglider on Feb-21-2005 16:29:

R.I.P.

Shine on you crazy diamond.


Posted by Zild on Feb-21-2005 16:44:

may he RIP! This bowl of smoke goes out to the memory of Hunter S. Thompson and to his long lost friend Oscar Zeta-Acosta. Now they can be reunited.


Posted by Mebot on Feb-21-2005 16:55:

What a sad day indeed...


Posted by Eric Siefer on Feb-21-2005 17:49:

quote:
Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk::
people die everyday. he's just one in 4 million people who died today.


As said earlier, show some respect.
And as your mother should have told you, if you can't say anything nice dont say anything at all.

Hunter S. Thompson was a genius, his writings were ahead of their time and ushered in a new era of journalism, and style of writing.

Rest in Peace.


Posted by Trancer-X on Feb-21-2005 18:59:

quote:
Originally posted by N|te-L|fe
why do successfull and rich people do things like that ?


It's probably because they have emotions, just like the rest of us.


Posted by Krypton on Feb-21-2005 22:50:

quote:
Originally posted by Radagast
Should you have respect for someone who took the easy way out? Like this guy had it fucking bad anyway.

If you want to respect someone, respect Captain Charles Butler McVay III. He commanded 1,196 men on the USS Indianapolis in WWII. The ship was sunk, the crew had to wait five days for rescue while sharks, dehydration, sleep deprivation, and nature ate at them. Only 316 men survived, including Captain McVay. The Navy needed a scapegoat to cover the incompetence shown by how long it took to rescue the Indy's survivirs, so they court-martialed McVay for frivilous charges. The only captain out of 700 destroyed vessels in WWII to recieve a court-martial. He was convicted of not "Zig Zagging", ergo placing his ship in danger. The commander of the Japanese sub who sank the Indianapolis testified that it would have made no difference as to whether they did the Zig Zag maneuver or not. Still, McVay retired four years after the conviction and was hounded and blamed by the family members of the dead sailors until he could take no more and committed suicide. Yeah, feel sorry for him if you want to waste time feeling sorry for someone you don't know.


now thats someone i respect tragic lives indeed


Posted by Magnus on Feb-21-2005 22:51:

What a sad loss...


Posted by MunkyAngel on Feb-22-2005 00:18:

RIP Hunter your work fasnanated me. you led a very good life and felt the need to end your life at this time.


Posted by zenperson on Feb-22-2005 18:41:

Unhappy

He was one cool motha focka and this is a sad end to one of the coolest people, I never got to meet....

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."
--- Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".


Posted by zenperson on Feb-22-2005 18:49:

quote:
Originally posted by Radagast
Should you have respect for someone who took the easy way out? Like this guy had it fucking bad anyway.

If you want to respect someone, respect Captain Charles Butler McVay III. He commanded 1,196 men on the USS Indianapolis in WWII. The ship was sunk, the crew had to wait five days for rescue while sharks, dehydration, sleep deprivation, and nature ate at them. Only 316 men survived, including Captain McVay. The Navy needed a scapegoat to cover the incompetence shown by how long it took to rescue the Indy's survivirs, so they court-martialed McVay for frivilous charges. The only captain out of 700 destroyed vessels in WWII to recieve a court-martial. He was convicted of not "Zig Zagging", ergo placing his ship in danger. The commander of the Japanese sub who sank the Indianapolis testified that it would have made no difference as to whether they did the Zig Zag maneuver or not. Still, McVay retired four years after the conviction and was hounded and blamed by the family members of the dead sailors until he could take no more and committed suicide. Yeah, feel sorry for him if you want to waste time feeling sorry for someone you don't know.


Heroes come in different forms... don't you ever try and desecrate the memory of someone who someone else holds dear... As a Veteran MYSELF, I take every military death seriously and it pains me to hear of a fellow Serviceman that was pushed to this point, but, I also take other deaths seriously, too... Hunter S. Thompson made it a goal to bring honesty to journalism and that in and of itself was a defiance and a battle... And you say he took the "easy" way out...I think that ALL people who have had a personal brush with suicide will tell you, that it's anything but the easy way out.... everyone has demons that come in different forms and until you know Hunter's, then don't waste your time passing judgement on a stranger's inner turmoil...


Posted by Ondrayce on Feb-22-2005 19:41:

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

H.S. Thompson

Not a man who would have a little thing like death be out of his own control.
RIP


Posted by Trancer-X on Feb-24-2005 01:09:


Posted by Trancer-X on Feb-24-2005 01:10:

quote:
Originally posted by zenperson
Heroes come in different forms... don't you ever try and desecrate the memory of someone who someone else holds dear... As a Veteran MYSELF, I take every military death seriously and it pains me to hear of a fellow Serviceman that was pushed to this point, but, I also take other deaths seriously, too... Hunter S. Thompson made it a goal to bring honesty to journalism and that in and of itself was a defiance and a battle... And you say he took the "easy" way out...I think that ALL people who have had a personal brush with suicide will tell you, that it's anything but the easy way out.... everyone has demons that come in different forms and until you know Hunter's, then don't waste your time passing judgement on a stranger's inner turmoil...



Very well said


Posted by biznology on Feb-24-2005 01:27:

HST's last Hey Rube on ESPN.com

pretty good stuff, even to the end. anyone who cant see past his vices doesnt have a heart. truly a master of his own crazy world|


edit:Tom Wolfe on HST


Posted by Trancer-X on Jul-10-2005 20:53:

Interesting...

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps...r_911_story.htm



Interview before "suicide" in Real Media:

http://www.libertythink.com/HST911insidejob.rm


Posted by Trancer-X on Jul-10-2005 21:02:

quote:
Originally posted by Nou



Those planes brought down the towers...


LOL

defying all physics



(and the moon is made of cheese)


Posted by CyberneticAngel on Jul-11-2005 00:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Trancer-X
    "He was an old, sick, and very troubled man, and the illusion of peace and contentment was not enough for him�not even when his friends came up from Cuba and played bullfight with him in the Tram. So finally, and for what he must have thought the best of reasons, he ended it with a shotgun."

    - Hunter S. Thompson (What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum, 1964)



[sarcasm] Yes, very uplifting, a try hero to us all [/sarcasm]


Posted by Trancer-X on Jul-11-2005 00:44:

quote:
Originally posted by Nou
LOL, don't get me wrong I love placing blame on the US for everything.


But thats not what happend in this case.

If you know anything about how those buildings were designed you would know how incredibly possible it would be for them to collapse like that.


Dude, please stop talking out of your ass.

The structural engineer of those buildings (along with Underwriters Laboratories, etc.) have stated publicly that they were initially designed to withstand such impacts. Even if the steel beams did somehow manage to melt in temperatures a thousand degrees less than they normally would, it's physically impossible for them to have fallen into their own footprints like they did - considering how uneven the damage was from the planes.


http://www.boulderweekly.com/archiv...coverstory.html

http://www.freepressinternational.c...ager_88888.html

http://www.reopen911.org/Tarpley_ch_6.pdf


Posted by Trancer-X on Jul-11-2005 00:48:

quote:
Originally posted by CyberneticAngel
[sarcasm] Yes, very uplifting, a try hero to us all [/sarcasm]


He probably had more creative talent in his pinky finger than your family's had in it's entire bloodline.

No sarcasm here.

BTW - what's a try hero?


Posted by CyberneticAngel on Jul-11-2005 02:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Trancer-X
Dude, please stop talking out of your ass.

The structural engineer of those buildings (along with Underwriters Laboratories, etc.) have stated publicly that they were initially designed to withstand such impacts. Even if the steel beams did somehow manage to melt in temperatures a thousand degrees less than they normally would, it's physically impossible for them to have fallen into their own footprints like they did - considering how uneven the damage was from the planes.


http://www.boulderweekly.com/archiv...coverstory.html

http://www.freepressinternational.c...ager_88888.html

http://www.reopen911.org/Tarpley_ch_6.pdf


I only have one question, why? Whats the motive?

(and no, don't link me, I am not going to look. I want you to try and put it in your own words instead of just repeating some crap you read on some nuts website)


Posted by venomX on Jul-11-2005 02:23:

wow p0wned COR style just as occrider would put it

u still have not elaborated as to how that statement u just made invalidate(sp?) what the engineers and component certificators of the buildings have stated.

*referring to nou


Posted by Trancer-X on Jul-11-2005 04:50:

quote:
Originally posted by CyberneticAngel
I only have one question, why? Whats the motive?

(and no, don't link me, I am not going to look. I want you to try and put it in your own words instead of just repeating some crap you read on some nuts website)


Ultimately? World government under a totalitarian, fascist state.


Posted by Trancer-X on Jul-11-2005 04:56:

Here's an interesting video with some good information:

http://movies26.enwhore.com/loosechange.wmv


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