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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Free Will Boils Down to One Choice: Rest Easy in Sanity or Indulge the All-consuming Vanity

I have what I need
I know what I want
I do all that I can until my day of rest
My God does all the rest
 
Or
 
I know what I have
I need what I want
I just can’t ever let it rest
My life a never-ending test

Autres oeuvres par Chris Gaither...
Not Now, Not Ever

We spend most of our waking lives alternating between procrastinatio… and delayed gratification as if by putting things off we’ve bought ourselves more time
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I Want To Be What You Lack

There is only one product but infinite ways to package it
When I Was a Kid, We All Still Wanted to Be Nonpareil, but Now We’re All Desperate to Be a Non-pariah

Because, per Morrissey “We hate it when our friends becom… we got rid of success by eliminating all competition except for the number of friends
Your Ego Is a Stranger

Your ego never knows it’s there Until you greet it Which you do By addressing the other
Acts of the Indocile

Natural disaster was always an act of God With climate change we’ve made it our own
“Underachievers Please Try Harder”

As a child Whenever I played Ms. Pac Man On my Atari 2600 I dialed the settings down From four ghosts to one
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Write What You Know

Afraid that everything I wanted was nothing to write home about I was left with nothing to write home about
Why I Chose a Career in Non-prophets

Don’t think of a pink elephant and while you’re at it Don’t kill the messenger
The Oldest Hate Is, Paradoxically, Both Shallow and Deep

Antisemitism is suddenly easy to f… It’s a mile wide and just scratch the surface an inch deep– You’ll find it there
Jacob’s Ladder Is a Rope Ladder

You are a rope which The devil has tied up in knots Only God can help you Untie the knots When you unfurl
Choose It or Lose it

We don’t have to take care of our… But we have no choice God doesn’t have to be with us But He always is– The choice is ours
Avoid the ‘Noid

The only way to know you’re not paranoid is to stay connected at all times so you can rest assured
The Dude Abides

Abiding means to wait expectantly, defiantly, or submiss… and I typically manage all three in the grocery store checkout line even in the express lane
Haiku

All art’s politi– cal but some art is more re– ligious than others
The World’s Most Powerful Bureaucracy Releases Its Vision and Mission Statements

Vision: In an age when there is n… Mission: Because time flies when…



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