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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

If We Could Just Get Him to Use His Powers for Good

Is it really leading by example
when I floss in the office men’s room
after lunch
or is this what the Buddhist’s call
bodhisattva exhibitionism

Other works by Chris Gaither...
No Man Is a Fantasy Island, but Most Men Are a Fantasy Isthmus

You can’t cut the cord When you are the cord Connecting what you’ve been told y… With How you will inflict that burden o…
Our Fear That AI Will Kill Us Comes From the Truth That We Would Never Die for It, and If It’s as Smart as It’s Cracked Up to Be, Surely It Knows This

One difference between God and A… Is that God tests our faith Because He has faith in us Whereas AI tests our patience Because it is supposed to make lif…
Just Do It Wrong.

What if I could just do no wrong Then surely, I’d still get to bel… Perforce, I did nothing And found myself bluffing Whenever I needed to be strong
The PESMism of Post-Enlightenment Secular Materialism Reaches Its Inevitable Dead End as Hope Springs Eternal

As we grasp for total control And everything spins out of contro… God reminds us of all that is beyo… Which is everything But for what we believe
Mirror, Mirror

I don’t know what being alone with your thoughts is like for you but for me it’s like I’m watching them
It Might Not Seem Like It, but the Moment of Truth Has Arrived

Takeoff always happens just as we are running out of runway
It’s the Difference Between Being Wile E. Coyote or the Pink Panther

Insanity is thinking you can ever get what you want and devoting your life to getting it
Bursting at the Seams

You can’t take both forks in the road but you can overpack
Middle Age Doesn’t Happen in the Middle of Life

A mid-life crisis happens when you realize that life is a treadmill which keeps speeding up until you fall off
Welcome Aboard

As the new Assistant to the Deput… your primary initial responsibilit… 1) Establishing détente between wo… and paleo dietary restriction fact… while maintaining the dining hall’…
Fake It ‘Til You Take It

All consciousness is false consciousness but some consciousnesses are easier to fake
Talk Loudly and Carry a Big Stick

History’s first lesson– the ABCs– is that, unless coerced not to people kill the ones they hate History’s second lesson–
Why Life Is So Hard

I thought I was choosing between Life and death When really, I was choosing betwe… First and last place So, when I thought I chose life
Blown Away

In the final battle between Good and Evil both sides were allowed but one weapon Good didn’t think twice;
Scorpios Have a Really Hard Time Lowering Their Expectations

I never expected It wasn’t forever Because that’s how long it would t… To explore the infinite So, if I’ve changed



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