Inverse Ratio, by Chris Gaither

A Good Prediction Doesn’t Need to Be Accurate

People don’t like surprises so I tell them they’re in for a real surprise which gives them something to look…

When You Put Yourself First You Come Before God

Thinking the best of myself My best thinking Got me here, Before God

Saving Face

Not to be outdone I cut my face off to spite my nose

All Words Have Meaning, Even if Nothing Else Does

As users of language we give off meaning the same way that plants as users of sunlight give off oxygen

There Are No Atheists in Foxholes and There Are Only True Believers in Memory Holes

A memory hole should be just deep enough to bury yourself up to the neck– Any deeper

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…

I Work Around the Clock, 24/6, but I Do My Best Work at Night

If we rest on Shabbos Then sleep alone isn’t rest– It is To borrow a phrase from Freud The dream work

The Shema

The things we possess In turn come to possess us– For lucrative careers, see golden… And as the saying goes If you own a restaurant

Easy Come, Easy Go Crazy

Life used to be hard And that’s how we liked it So much that we used to say Hurry up and wait In the understanding that

principal– 1. adjective: first in order of importance; main 2. noun: a person who has controlling authority or is in a leading position

My organizing principle Is that everyone wants to be princ… Unless they realize that God is p… And that for God Everyone is principal

The Never-ending Goal of Learning Torah Is Listening to God so Attentively That You Can Begin to Finish His Sentences, Which Is Only Possible Because We Have a Soul

In sci-fi movies They predict future crimes Arresting the accused Before they can start Much less finish

“Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin reported they successfully used a brain scanner paired with an AI language model to glean the gist of a person’s thoughts and translate them into words”

When anything you think Can and will be used against you The purpose of state-funded educat… Will be learning not to think As the doyens of higher learning

Let’s Start at the Beginning

Post-Enlightenment Secular Mater… Terminated in the pandemic lockdow… You could say The End of History Came after all

War Is Not the Answer but Peace Is a Rhetorical Question

How much of your conflict with other tribes is the result of your efforts to avoid conflict within your own tribe?

Haiku

We all know death is coming and yet it remains a surprise ending

Chris Gaither

Inverse Ratio

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