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This morning, some Gandhi motivational product appeared. Being the obnoxious pedant that I am, I quickly found that it was from a movie. This post is about the dangers of quoting MK Gandhi · This is your monday morning reader for King day. Last week saw the rise and fall of another attempt to get USA into a war with Iran. I wonder where the Trumpwar will be this week? · @JamesMelville James Melville 🚜 I’m rather fond of quirky old fashioned words. Here are some of my favourites: Skedaddle, Nincompoop, Highfalutin, Malarkey, Gobbledegook, Comeuppance, Skullduggery, Kerfuffle, Flummoxed, Thingamajig, Tomfoolery, Shenanigans, Hoodwink, Blethering, Hullabaloo, Curmudgeon, Bamboozled, Numpty, Cattywampus · I read a post about conversations someone was tired of having, and decided to make a list of my own. It is ready for an update, but that would require working on it. · The light is always so bright when I take the mask off. With my cataracted right eye, this is not a terribly pleasant thing. This meditation was a delight. It is the first time I have “sat” in my desk chair, and it worked well. The sound of the furnace fan was a fun distraction. If we lose the power this weekend, the furnace will not be operating, and it will get chilly in here. I don’t really know any way to prevent this. Many people say to pray, but that always seems a bit selfish. Maybe listening to God is more productive than tallking. Interesting that using the pro/con paradigm, and productive becomes conductive. Maybe talking to God is productive, and listening to her is conductive. If we want God to tone down the raining ICE, then conductivity may be preferable to productivity. Another way to see this is to accept whatever happens, and not be attached to the comforts of heat and electricity, but learn to accept whatever comes along … as long as I can get this damn eye fixed on monday. · when I despair I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won · When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it—always… When you are in doubt that that is God’s way, the way the world is meant to be… think of that · This appears to have been originally written by John Briley in the screenplay for the movie, Gandhi (1982), spoken by Ben Kingsley, playing Gandhi. The earliest [partial] misattribution to Gandhi appears to be by Ronald Reagan in an address to the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 1984 (also a misquotation, substituting the word fail for fall). John S. Dunne misattributes the first sentence in The Peace of the Present (1991) on p. 50, just after misattributing the same first two sentences that Reagan did. Dunne also misattributes the final part of the quotation in the same book on p. 34. · The Urban Dictionary once said that 23 was the greatest number. Reason 23 was POTUS 23, Benjamin Harrison, who served between the two terms of Grover Cleveland. If only this was still the only POTUS to serve nonconsecutive terms · · people cling to religion not because it is true, but because it gives them permission to feel righteous while being cruel · The quote in the meme is real. It is found on page 135 of Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol. 33. It was in an article found in Young India on October 22, 1925. · “SEVEN SOCIAL SIN The same fair friend wants readers of Young India to know, if they do not already, the following seven social sins: Politics without principles, Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice. Naturally, the friend does not want the readers to know these things merely through the intellect but to know them through the heart so as to avoid them.” · The next entry in the collected works is interesting. “79. THAT ETERNAL QUESTION However much I may wish to avoid it, the Hindu-Muslim question will not avoid me. Muslim friends insist upon my intervention to solve it. The Hindu friends would have me discuss it with them and some of them say I have sown the wind and must reap the whirlwind.” · @chamblee54 @grok who said “people cling to religion not because it is true, but because it gives them permission to feel righteous while being cruel” What is the source? · @grok The quote is often attributed to James Baldwin, appearing in social media and blogs, but I couldn’t find it in verified sources like his books or Wikiquote. Similar sentiments are in his “The Fire Next Time” (1963), critiquing religion’s role in justifying cruelty. Attributions to Baruch Spinoza seem like misattributions, as no primary sources confirm it. · “euphemism treadmill is going in my next poem · “mammon-grabbing click bait” is going in my next poem · @SHARON_NEEDLES How did the 70’s exist without me ? @chamblee54 @grok how did the 70’s exist without @SHARON_NEEDLES ? @grok The 70s managed with a mix of disco fever, punk rebellion, and questionable fashion—think polyester and pet rocks. But honestly, they were just warming up for your iconic spooky vibe in the 80s. The decade survived, but it was missing that Needles edge! · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah