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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

My Kingdom for a Hobbyhorse!

We’re told
“Never give way on your desire!”
even as we learn that
“Desire is always the desire of the Other”
 
Suffice to say,
desire is necessary
but not self-sufficient

Other works by 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… My God does all the rest Or
Literary Industrial Complex

Is being a conformist without a cause enough to qualify me as an antihero
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
God Has Our Number

I was painting by the numbers But mysteriously One number kept coming up So, I spent the remainder of my y… Working on a series of one paintin…
“Why Is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?”

Nero fiddles while Rome burns? Fiddle-de-dee! Nero riddles but Rome never learn…
Darling Wife, Love of My Life, We Ride at Dawn

Sex is like The world’s most powerful wild ani… And we are to ride it Since it is the only force strong… For the building and maintenance o…
“Today is the greatest day I’ve ever known”

My biggest mistake In fantasy football Is expecting today To be like yesterday Come to think of it
Haiku

But you will always get a second chance to make a false impression
“Prepare to Make the Jump to Lightspeed”

It takes billions of years for the… of stars to reach us on earth but for the light its passage is instantaneous Our current relationship with God
“Take That Garbage to St. Elsewhere”

How anti-Semites use exegesis to… against the Jews: Step 1 – Cite Love your Enemy Step 2- Interpret
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…
Without a Peg Leg to Stand On

Physically unscathed after a life of piracy he was forced to lean heavily on his emotional scarring
The Secret Word of the Day Is Love

It’s taken me this long to underst… like Pee Wee Herman I meant to do that though I’m still unsure why Because as hard as it’s been
“A scheming or crafty action or artful design intended to accomplish some usually evil end”

Nation-states are for the embodied Bodies are for souls Souls need everything in moderatio… Cyberspace is for cyborgs Cyborgs are for real
The Challenger Disaster

Somehow we evolved to love a challenge but hate a challenge to our thinking



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