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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Self-doubt Is a Form of Bad Faith

For the longest time
we were convinced
there’s something they’re not telling us
 
But now that they’ve finally told us
we can’t stop asking
Who are we kidding?
while no one is saying
Let’s stop kidding ourselves

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Lying Trumps Selfishness

None of us can see further than our own noses but Pinocchio can see further than the rest of us
If You’re Feeling the Pressure, It’s a Sign You Don’t Know What You Want

Pressure is wanting it for someone else Passion is wanting it
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…
Audience Capture

A leader attracts a following The following attracts a crowd The crowd mobs the leader The leader forms a mob The mob goes mental
“The Mud and the Blood and the Beer”

This isn’t the best of all possible worlds but God does His best with what we give Him to work with
The French Connection

Unlike the Americans and the Engl… who are divided by a common langua… the Americans and the Parisians are divided by a common symptom: disappointment
“Benefiting and hurting others are ways of exercising one’s power over them– that is all that one wants in such cases!”

Your brain doesn’t know the differ… between physical and psychological… knowing only what they have in com… Because both are life threatening your brain sends you into fight, f…
If You Can’t Be with the One You Love, Love the Room You’re In

Pay attention to what is said: “One day we hope to enable every p… to feel as strong a sense of conne… as you feel when you’re physically with someone you love”
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Disorganized Religion

With organized religion there is a method to the madness In a rational society there is a madness to the method
Time’s Almost Up for Our Ticking Time Bomb, but Don’t Cut the Blue Wire or the Red Wire; Cut the Crap

In the past Anyone on the far right or far lef… Could look all the way across the… And see their opposite On the far right or far left
Haiku

Mid-life crisis: the failure to start hoping you don’t get what you want
Haiku

I may look like a tall glass of water but be– ware, I’m half empty
When AI Speaks to Us in Our Own Language We Get Lost in Translation

I asked ChatGPT to tell me what I was thinking and it said You’re thinking I once was lost
Is “Need I Say More?” a Rhetorical Question? If Not, Need I Say More?

When space is finite we need to share which is colloquially known as using the Force When cyberspace is infinite
It’s Not a Good Deed Unless It Involves Sticking Your Neck Out

Our central moral sentiment– that doing the right thing is its… hasn’t done us much good because through it we live in deni… that in this world



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