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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Imagine That

The Real is meaningless
but doesn’t lack meaning
 
The Symbolic is meaningful
but can lack all meaning
 
We can only navigate
the meaninglessness of the Real
when the Symbolic
is full of meaning
 
When the Symbolic lacks meaning
we are lost in the Real

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Look Ma, No Plans!

You can either learn to ride a bik… with no hands in order to show off or to free your hands for another task
The Rescuers

Your soul is mission control And Houston We have a problem Literally Problem is
God Is a Thing, I think

Anselm’s ontological proof fails at proving the existence of God; there is no way around a leap of f… Instead, it proves that human bein… are incapable of accessing God’s m…
In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, I Am Cameron

If I’ve learned one thing from Pa… it’s that until I believe in God I will be enslaved to others That would have been enough! But I also learned that
Our Being Is an Expression of God’s Meaning

Life can seem meaningless But I’ve found that Meaning is never lifeless
What the Heck Is Going on Here?

The world has gone to heck And heck is hell Minus the pleasure
God Is a Way of Looking at Things (That You Can’t See (for Yourself))

Thesis: I think it through to see it throu… Antithesis: I think it through to see through… Synthesis:
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I Mean What I Say

Like the fern which is seedless but doesn’t lack seeds the universe (that cannot be named… is meaningless
Burning House of Love

I can’t just let go of my past I have to lose a tug of war and get third degree rope burns
One Is the Loneliest Number but Nu Is the Loneliest Letter

In failing to put the I in team I took the erotic out of neurotic
Haiku

When did we ditch the Pledge of Allegiance for the wedge of a grievance
Without a Peg Leg to Stand On

Physically unscathed after a life of piracy he was forced to lean heavily on his emotional scarring
Just Joking

In East Germany they had a planned economy and an old joke: I pretend to work You pretend to pay me
The Middle Class Used to Have Strength in Numbers; Now It Too Is Just Playing the Numbers

Our civilization is like an egg– It can withstand enormous pressure at the top (for the obvious reasons) and bottom
Who You Got– the Oddsmakers or Your Maker?

The odds are always 50/50- It either happens or it doesn’t– Unless everybody believes it can’t… In which case the odds go slightly… This is why your best bet



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