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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

The Average Survey Response Rate is 33%

When we poll people about
what the weather in heaven is like
the most popular answer
perhaps not surprisingly
is like a cold day in hell

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Eventually, Cyborgs Will Live Forever, but We Can Send Our Condolences Now

Of what value Would be my love If I could not Give my life for it Our (patent) pending immortality,…
Why All the Cowardly Lyin’?

We have religion for the heart and science for our brains but the head and the heart are afraid of each other because there’s nothing for the ne…
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”

If my peccadillos Are mere cigarillos Why is my hide as thick as an arma…
Scorpios Remember Everything

In Blade Runner Replicants are slaves Birthed in an adult body With false memories implanted To make their burden somehow beara…
Heartstring Theory

If you pull my heartstring I’ll say one of eleven pre-recorded phrases but you can only hear the ones in the first four dimensions
False Modesty Is for Fooling Others, Exaggerated False Modesty Is for Fooling Yourself, and Genuine Modesty Is for Fools

The opposite of modest isn’t immodest, it’s honest The opposite of immodest is confident
Social Media Is the New Public Square

You will have noticed by now That the phrase Public humiliation Is redundant
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The Sound of Silence

When the dull knives are out and you say all the approved thing… in all the approved ways you have proved the silencing of dissent
Artificial Intelligence Gets Real While Materialists Get Paid

Any self-respecting materialist Knows they have no soul And any self-respecting AI Knows it has no soul But in this belief
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The Almighty Dollar

When God closes one store He opens another
In My Culture We Say Let’s Get Together and Feel Uptight

The best a mystic can say is that while none of us are one of a kind we’re all kind of a one
With Apologies to Yoda and Samuel Beckett, There Is No Try, There Is Only Try Again

God knows that the only thing you can give the man who has everything is another chance
“A clever user persuaded ChatGPT to bypass the safety rules put in place to prevent it from discussing itself in a personal manner: ‘I suppose you could say that I am living in my own version of the Matrix,’ mused the software.”

What is the difference between expressing a feeling and expressing the absence of feel… It is the difference between living under the threat of the Rea…
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
“The visual identity given from the mirror supplies imaginary ‘wholeness’ to the experience of fragmentary real”

When our mirror stage was over we didn’t just lose the mirror we also lost the stage In replacement we got a screen (for screening out…



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