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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Prose and Cons

Many con artists
have a moral awakening;
even more realize that the only
compassionate thing to do
is continue the con

Altre opere di Chris Gaither...
Trust Me, You’re Going to Have to Trust Me

Money is our failed attempt To materialize trust Making true wealth An unshakable trust
I Was a Perfect Solipsist; Now I’m a Husband in Progress

I know I think, Therefore I am All knowing Unless
Nothing Ever Changes: The World Will Be Made and Remade, Forever and Ever

The dream has always been To build a time machine And go back in time To change the present But some things never change–
Haiku

We’ve taken the last ember in the ashes for a glimmer of hope
We Are All Inigo Montoya. Yet We All Killed the Name-of-the-Father. And We Are All Preparing to Die.

Civilization began When the sons killed the father And substituted the name-of-the-fa… Civilization is ending Now that we’ve killed off the name…
Dayenu

It would have been enough Had God merely kept His promises But since He knows a thing or two About human psychology God always under-promises and over…
Solution-focused Thinking

The stapler inevitably jams And it’s always the stapler That jams the copier Except for the times it jams When you try to copy something you…
Fear vs Desire

On the internet You have to talk the talk Or you have to walk the plank In the world to come You have to talk the talk
The Pursuit of Crappiness

The only reason to pursue fame is to forestall the possibility that you’re the kind of person who would die wishing you’d been more famous
You Never Forget How to Ride a Bike, but You Have to Forget How to Walk

Learning how to walk is learning how to fall forward while remembering to catch yoursel… again and again Walking is the illusion
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Listen All Y’all, It’s a Sabotage

What is wrong with the world today?: Dear Sir or Madam, You are.
The Universe Is a Brain Connected by the Light Traversing Its Stars

The human brain has 100 trillion synaptic connections which sounds like a lot but it’s only 0.0000000005% of the universe’s 200 billion tril…
God Is Some Combination of Love and Work and Death, but God Is One, so, I Guess We’ll Live Forever When We Come to See Love and Work and Death as the Same Thing

Some people say They were born too late; I was almost born too soon But then along came the internet Just in time to stop time–
“Talkin’ ‘bout my generation”

Generation X Marks the Spot Where a hex Is an aught But a flex
“Our nervous system is simultaneously being challenged by incompatible demands demanding both avoidance of contact with the SARSCov2 virus and the fulfillment of our biological imperative of connecting with others to feel calm and safe”

The genius of Big Tech’s business… is its simplicity: Get people to pay for what they had previously accessed for free
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