"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." ~Mark "Choo-Choo"Twain
Earl...
10 years ago
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Stupid, Dumb-Ass, Well-Meaning, Nice People Sharing "Quotes"
Okay. I have had people share a quote from Gandhi, that goes something like, "Be the change you want to see in the world." First off, Gandhi never said this, just like Jesus never said, "I never said it would be easy. I only said it would be worth it." I actually looked for that shit in the bible when I was younger, "Wow, they really broke away from the King James's English there for a sec." Gandhi did say this, however, "We but mirror the world. All the tendencies
present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If
we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also
change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the
world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A
wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait
to see what others do." It's a bit more soul stirring, wouldn't you say? It is a bit harder to plaster that on a t-shirt and sell the shit out of it, though.
Gah! I feel that is what people do with our great philosophers, prophets, and leaders: make the marketable for mass consumption and for profit. Everything's got to be a damned bullet point or tweetable. It also annoys me to no end that people have no desire to do any due diligence with regards to verifying the credibility or source of these things. Now when I see this fake quote pinned to a bulletin board at work I just want to rip it to shreds or burn it in front of the stupid smiley person who goes around without a fucking care in the world, perpetuating feel-good falsehoods, thinking that they're making the world a better place. The thing is, as long as no one points this shit out, they are making the world a better place...for other stupid smiley people. So, I go on with my inner screamy "I really know what the hell is going on here" voice and say, "Meh, fuck it anyway" and let the babies have their bottle.
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I feel ya, Grunt. Funny, I was just thinking about the "I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it" quote the other day. When I was a kid my parents had that embroidered and hung on their wall. I was wondering if there was some bible quote which it was actually derived from. Anyway, considering all of the translations it's been through, that quote is probably as close to anything Jesus actually said as anything else in the bible. I was looking for a specific Rumi quote the other day (the one that I originally saw and liked sounded like one of those horribly gutted quotes of someone who lived in the 13th century) but no matter where I looked every translation I found of it was different. So, translations are difficult... Although every once in a while I'm pleasantly surprised. There was one plastered on a wall in my area at work attributed to Einstein on truth, beauty, and love. I suspected it was made up, turned out it was totally correct. Yay!
"I never said it would be easy. I never said that at all. In fact, I said it would be really hard. Is it worth it? Eh, who's to say? What am I, the Messiah or something?" ~Jesus (Someone interrupted him with a question while eating.)
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