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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

The Unofficial Results of the Unwritten Rules

In countries with official state-run media
Everyone pretends to pay attention
So that they can go back to being themselves
 
In countries with unacknowledged state-run media
Everyone pays attention
So that they know how to pretend to be themselves

Otras obras de Chris Gaither...
“Come inside, the show’s about to start”

Initially, as you approach hell it feels like you’re getting a warm welcome
The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent

At judgment day they put the brief in debriefing by getting right to the point: You could have made a difference– Did you?
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

God’s command to cells was slightly different: be fruitful and divide
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It Goes Without Saying

In families adept at keeping open secrets no one expects you to state the obvious
“Sweetness, Sweetness I Was Only Joking”

Thinking of happiness as the meaning of life is like thinking of sugar as the meaning of food
The Gag’s on Us

I ask God questions all the time and He never answers because He’s focused on listening Looking for answers I turned to ChatGPT
There’s one kind of person: the haves and the haves not

My analyst says I want to have my cake and put it in a time capsule too
The Four-Letter Word for Peace Is Kill

Updating Yeats’s “The best lack all conviction While the worst are full of passio… I’d say The best lack all conviction
Don’t Play Dumbstruck; We All Know the Truth, We Just Can’t Handle It

It’s true that some people have al… But it’s not dumb luck that nobody… The way it works is that People get as much truth as they c… And the rest of their load is good…
“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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You Only Live Once

Each of us gets to ask God one question and this question is your life
Bad Things Happen to Good People and Good Things Happen to Bad People Because We Have Divided the World into Good and Bad People When, Instead, We Are All God’s People

One interpretation holds that the… And the Tree of Knowledge of Goo… Are one and the same tree Which makes sense to me Since when Adam and Eve decided t…
There Are No Atheists in Foxholes and There Are Only True Believers in Memory Holes

A memory hole should be just deep enough to bury yourself up to the neck– Any deeper
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,…



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