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Chris Gaither

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth

People will only tell the truth
when they think
they can get away with it
 
For example, perjury laws only work because
by publicly threatening jail time
they enable people to get away with
telling the truth
 
And if we learn one thing
from the atrocities committed by Hamas
on 10/7
it’s that people will think they can
get away with telling the truth about
how much they want to kill Jews
when someone else
kills enough Jews first

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Who Wears Short Shorts?

With the sexual revolution as with all the other belief syste… what men take as an article of faith women have to wear
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…
These Days the Average Man in the Street Says That God Does Not Exist, Although, Paradoxically, the Average Man in the Street Does Not Exist

Most tautologies are self-fulfilling prophecies For example: Most people are average But God never met
Exiled on Easy Street

Because I never learned anything… I learned the hard way that it’s the only way to learn anything at all
The Fermi Paradox, Resolved

“The week that AI went to scale” was immediately followed by “North America’s UFO weekend” as if all this time the UFOs had been waiting
Apocalypse Later

In wristwatch advertisements the doomsday clock is always set to ten past ten
The Switching Yard

Materialism is no way out of Cartesian dualism It just turns backwards– I am, therefore I think– in an infinite regress
Neither/Nor: A Tangent to Life

The liberal who makes an illiberal… inevitably wants to have it both w… thereby tightening his own double… I must be free to have power over… but
Low Stakes Just Bring You Closer to the Flames

In a twist in hell there are no consequences
I Don’t Know About the Chicken and the Egg, but Believing Comes Before Seeing

With God as my witness I can look and then see With man as my witness I can’t see, but I can touch With AI as my witness
Nice Guys Finish First When Everything’s Going According to Plan

When people meet me they typically think I’m a sensitive guy but later they realize I’m a time sensitive guy
Condemned to Freedom

Liberalism can be confused with ni… where you have to believe in nothi… or with Unitarian Universalism where you’re encouraged to believe… as much of everything as you like
What’s Sauce for the Goose Is Sauce for the Gander

At first moving heaven and earth is its own reward because it’s hell on wheels But self-flagellation
Anti-Defamation in the Post-Zombie Apocalyptic

You’re only allowed to define yourself by what you’re against (anti-fascist, anti-Zionist, etc.) and what you’ve come after
All Writers Are Living on Borrowed Time

You can’t learn to write because nobody knows quite how to… You can’t learn to network because everybody is already netwo… So when you pay tuition for a writ…
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