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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Do I Need a Reservation?

The decisive moment at the gates of heaven
is exactly like the denouement in
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
but with one twist
 
To make you feel the pressure
instead of asking
Is that your final answer?
they ask
Is that your final question?

Other works by Chris Gaither...
In My Culture We Say Let’s Get Together and Feel Uptight

The best a mystic can say is that while none of us are one of a kind we’re all kind of a one
How the Will to Power Becomes the Will to Cower

Because it’s so hellacious transmuting lead into gold the people pleaser finds it heavenly to degrade gold into lead
Looks Can Be Deceiving

The ugly duckling Is not a duck But he is a lucky duck
There Are Three Registers but Only One Has the Real Payoff

The Imaginary: I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it The Symbolic:
“May the two angels who accompany me through life and therefore have been listening to my tefillah, please respond and say Amen”

I’m no angel But I have two angels– One to protect me from others And one to protect me from myself So, I was never alone
When the Circle is Unspoken

They put a circle at dead ends so you can either live there or turn back but we just keep
Haiku

Decisions my wife doesn’t make are settled by stare decisis
In the Fall of Man, Adam and Eve Ate Fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; In the Fall of Cyborgs, We Just Fell Through a Hole

I’ve done the math and the whole is only greater than the sum of its parts when the group is made up of individuals
Infinite Jest

It’s become harder than ever to be the court jester– you have to use humor to speak
Shutting a Blind Eye

Now that everything is at last Out in the open People shut their eyes Not to escape the truth But to hide from their own blindne…
My Leadership Style

By hook or by crook I do it all by the book
Climate Change Is Real

Even when religion is about the symbolic it must guard against fundamentalism But when religion
Q & A

Every strength comes with a weakne… So, when a recent headline said “Is Xi Jinping all-powerful or we… it demonstrated that our greatest… is the ability to ask a stupid que…
Antisemitism Is Black Magic

The latest version of antisemitism takes the form of a magic trick: The diversion– Antisemitism is bad The illusion–
“We will not wake up after the lockdown in a new world. It will be the same, just a bit worse.”

The surest way to know That God is always there for us Is that we always have a choice This is why religion and liberalis… Are a match made in heaven



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