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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Self-deceiving Is a Fool’s Gerund

“Self-deceiving Is Perceiving” Is the Gerund Phrase

We can’t fool God
But we can fool ourselves into thinking
We fooled God
 
The surest way to do so
Is to fool ourselves into thinking
We are God

Autres oeuvres par Chris Gaither...
The Will to Power Is Afraid of the Will to Risk

In granting us free will God took the greatest of risks God also made us in His image God risked it all on us Risking it all on Him
Believe in– phrasal verb 1) To have faith or confidence in the existence of (something) 2) To have confidence in a person or a course of action

There are two kinds of people in t… Those who believe in God And those who believe in God But also believe in God You can tell the latter
When You Consent to Cookies, You’re Consenting to Immortality

The word of God is written in invisible ink and must be lived in order to be truly seen unless and until those lives are d…
Our Hope Is in God; God’s Hope Against Hope Is in Us

Human beings would be hopeless but for God being hopelessly in love with us
Eye of the Liger

Looking back on college it’s unclear if I was a party animal party mineral or party vegetable
“Fathom, old English measure of length, now standardized at 6 feet, which has long been used as a nautical measure of depth”

Contemporary pacifism attempts to… One full fathom deep But repression is just short for The return of the repressed So, you can tell a modern pacifist…
Postmodern Near Death Experience

I remember saying to myself Okay, this is it the moment of truths
“Underachievers Please Try Harder”

As a child Whenever I played Ms. Pac Man On my Atari 2600 I dialed the settings down From four ghosts to one
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The Ubermensch Drives for Lyft

At work They know me by my secret identity The mild-mannered Clark Kent But at home with my family I can relax and let them see the r…
Bad Faith, Circa 2024

Given a choice We prefer A fait accompli
Haiku

All art’s politi– cal but some art is more re– ligious than others
Bcc

I’ve started blind copying my wife on emails to myself
They Will See the Son of Man Uploaded into the Cloud

It’s not that we’ve abolished death but we’ve made it a mere formality
Only the Lonely

Solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment which is why they lock the cell but if they put you in solitary confinement
A Mystic and a Materialist Walk Into a Bar

Asked for his thoughts on God the materialist replied Nothing doing The mystic said Exactly



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