#gandhi
My friends its time for a revolution.
I OFFER YOU PEACE. I OFFER YOU LOVE. I OFFER YOU FRIENDSHIP. I SEE YOUR BEAUTY. I HEAR YOUR NEED. I FEEL YOUR FEELINGS. MY WISDOM FLOWS FROM THE HIGHEST SOURCE. I SALUTE THAT SOURCE IN YOU. LET US WORK TOGETHER FOR UNITY AND LOVE.
– Gandhi
GANDHI 2!!
A bit of February 26th history…
1616 - Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism which states the earth and planets revolve around the sun
1910 - Gandhi supports the African People’s Organization’s resolution to declare the Prince of Wales’ day of arrival in South Africa a day of mourning, in protest against the South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloreds and Africans
1917 - Russian February Revolution: Tsar Nicolas II orders army to quell civil unrest in Petrograd - army mutinies
1935 - RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) 1st demonstrated
1991 - Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during Gulf War, killing hundreds and creating the so called “Highway of Death”
1993 - “World Trade Center Bombing of 1993″ : truck bomb explodes in parking garage of NYC World Trade Center, killing 6 and injuring over 1000 in what was the deadliest act of terrorism perpetuated on US soil at that time (pictured)
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The first teaser trailer for the upcoming documentary series: Remember The Memories: A Clone High Podcast. A six-part series, Remember The Memories chronicles the creation, development, cancellation, and unexpected success of the cult animated series Clone High.
The series features interviews with co-creators Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (The Lego Move, 21 & 22 Jump Street, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), executive producer & co-creator Bill Lawrence (creator of Scrubs and co-creator of Ted Lasso), animation director Harold Harris, storyboard artist Arna Selznick, character designer Carey Yost, and musician/theme composer Tommy Walter of Abandoned Pools.
Remember The Memories is set to release in summer 2021 and is co-hosted by Samuel Parker Smith (Twitter: @samuelsmith_ & Instagram: @samuelsmithpresents) and Ethan Harper (@ethancharper) and is co-produced by Katherine Spada (@kat_ex_machina). Trailer edited by Samuel Parker Smith featuring animation from Ethan Harper.
House of Sand and Fog (2003) - dir. Vadim Parelman
I watched this film solely because of the D.P. behind the camera: a mister Roger Deakins. Low and behold I found two not only competent, but downright terrific performances by Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley. I’d even go so far as to say that it is Sir Kingsley’s best performance outside of Sexy Beast (but including Gandhi). The film is melodramatic, but in that terrific middle eastern way where it never even borders on comedy or farce. The film just hits you, again and again, in the same soft fleshy part of your conscience, and there is certainly that moment of doubt instilled in the viewer where you’re no longer sure who to root for.
That’s not to go so far as to say that the film is an all-around knockout, it’s not. Some of the moments are a bit much, and James Horner’s music is more often than I’d like to be found the culprit. One one hand I’m shocked and the other not surprised by the face that most of us have never heard of Vadim Parelman, Perhaps the film could have been even more powerful than it was, but I’d like to think of this not as a fluke, but more of the stars alining just so.
8.0
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Students Who Teach - Gemini Ascendant
Like the ruler of their chart Mercury who has got fluttering wings on his heels, they have a pair of wings on their minds and their blood in their veins. They’re known for either being a chatter-box or a nervous wreck, either way, they are vibrating and vibing all around. Since our ascendant determines the way we look a Gemini rising might have a face with a smirk on their face, looking like they are always up to something. Their noses might be pointed like their tone. Since it is in Gemini’s nature to not stand still and be nervous from time to time, the natives of the ascendant might also be on the skinnier side of the scale. Their eyes have a spark to them as if they are always having an “Eureka!” moment. The way others see the Gemini rising is more like “sister/brother from another mother”. People might feel close to them maybe not on an emotional level but on a level that they feel like they are free to talk about anything to these people. If you’re on the more introverted side and have this placement, good luck, cause people will want to mess around and have fun with you no matter. In that case, you don’t have to please anyone if you, yourself don’t feel comfortable.
Example Natives: Michelle Pfeiffer, Lady Gaga, Kristen Stewart, Ashton Kutcher, Mick Jagger, Will Smith
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
―Gandhi (9th House Gemini with Uranus)
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Gandhi Spreads Racial Hatred of Africans
Gandhi was passionately prejudiced towards black Africans, as clearly displayed by his own writings over his 21-year stint in Gandhi’s writings during his 20 years in South Africa. He promoted racial hatred, in theory, and campaigned for racial segregation, in practice. In his newspaper, The Indian Opinion, he frequently wrote diatribes against the black community. Of particular concern to him was any contact between Indians and Africans. The following series of quotes, which is but a small selection of his extensive writings on the topic, documents Gandhi’s intense hatred for equal treatment of blacks and Indians, whether in culture or under the law. Indeed, his efforts to improve the status of the Indian community in South Africa were primarily focused on ensuring Africans were treated worse than Indians. His goal, thus was greater social inequality rather than universal equality.
All quotes taken from Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG).
Sept. 26, 1896: “Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir* whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.” — Vol. 1, p. 410
Sept. 24, 1903: “We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do… We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.” — Vol. 3, p. 256
Feb. 15, 1904: “Under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population.” — Vol. 3, p. 429
Sept. 5, 1905: “The decision to open the school for all Coloured children is unjust to the Indian community, and is a departure from the assurance given… that the school will be reserved for Indian children only.” — Vol. 4, p. 402
Sept. 2, 1907: “From these views expressed by a White we have a lesson to learn: We must encourage the Whites too. It is a short-sighted policy to employ, through sheer niggardliness, a Kaffir for washing work. If we keep in view the conditions in this country and patronize the Whites, whenever proper and necessary, then every such White will serve as an advertisement for the Indian trader.” — Vol. 6, p. 276
Feb. 29, 1908: “The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Kaffirs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed off with trinkets.” — Vol. 8, p. 167
Mar. 7, 1908: “We were all prepared for hardships, but not quite for this experience. We could understand not being classed with the whites, but to be placed on the same level with the Natives seemed too much to put up with.” — Vol. 8, p. 198
Mar. 7, 1908: “Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised – the convicts even more so…. The reader can easily imagine the plight of the poor Indian thrown into such company!” — Vol. 8, p. 199
Jan. 16, 1909: “I have, though, resolved in my mind on an agitation to ensure that Indian prisoners are not lodged with Kaffirs…. I observed with regret that some Indians were happy to sleep in the same room as the Kaffirs…. This is a matter of shame to us. We may entertain no aversion to Kaffirs, but we cannot ignore the fact that there is no common ground between them and us in the daily affairs of life.” — Vol. 9, p. 257
Jan. 23, 1909: “I acquainted the Governor with what had happened and told him there was urgent need for separate lavatories for Indians. I also told him that Indian prisoners should never be lodged with Kaffirs. The Governor immediately issued an order for a lavatory for Indians to be sent on from the Central Gaol. Thus, from the next day the difficulty about lavatories disappeared.” — Vol. 9, p. 270
June 5, 1909: “I received from General Smuts two books on religion, and I inferred from this that it was not under his orders that I had been subjected to hardships, but that it was the result of his negligence and that of others, as also a consequence of the fact that we are equated with the Kaffirs.” — Vol. 9, p. 355
Dec. 2, 1910: “Some Indians do have contacts with Kaffir women. I think such contacts are fraught with grave danger. Indians would do well to avoid them altogether.” — Vol. 10, p. 414
The term “Kaffir” is a pejorative South African term for black people which is equivalent to the ‘n’ word. Use of this term has been a criminal offense in South Africa since 1975. Despite always using it to describe black Africans, Gandhi was fully aware of the offensive nature of the word. This is demonstrated by Gandhi’s comment during a religious conflict in India, when he said: “If ‘Kaffir’ is a term of opprobrium, how much more so is Chandal?” [CWMG, Vol. 28, p. 62] “Chandal” is a racist term for low-caste Hindus.
Up to a couple years ago all I heard was the “good” side of Gandhi.. Good to know though
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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Gandhi has been historically the most aggressive character in Civilization due to an original bug in the first game that caused him to go all-out once he reaches democracy. They just kept the thing going ever since.
To further explain this bug, because I was chatting with mothmonarch about Civilization and other strategy games last night and I never got around to explaining this fully, but I love this story:
Gandhi’s AI in the original game had its aggression set to the absolute minimum (0 on a scale of 0 to 10, I believe, I may have this wrong but the basic idea I’m about to explain is accurate, as far as I can tell). Adopting democracy lowers an AI civ’s aggression by 2 points, so when someone who is fully peaceful loses two points of aggression, they should still be nice and polite, right?
Except this is an old DOS game, and so computer math is in place. What actually happened was that Gandhi’s aggression level ticked backwards two steps, from 0 to 255. On a scale of 0 to 10, Gandhi is now 255 points of pure nuclearrage.
And that’s the story as I recall it, but again I may have gotten some details wrong, so feel free to correct me! After that, as the original poster said, the devs loved the bug so much that they just kept it in as a running joke!
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Apôtre de la non-violence, #gandhi reste, pour beaucoup, une icône non seulement en Inde mais aussi dans le monde entier. 70 ans après son assassinat, le « Père de la Nation » ne cesse d’inspirer par sa sagesse et sa clairvoyance. Et si on appliquait au quotidien quelque uns de ses préceptes pour une vie plus douce??
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CXwR18nrVcN/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Une des étapes préliminaires avant de faire ce tableau de #gandhi , des journaux et le Paris Match de la semaine de l’indépendance de l’Inde 1947.
Mes contours sont alors fait , y’a plus qu’à …
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CcijBGzLlMZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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#gandhi #mahatmagandhi , la Grande Âme, une légende de la non violence, un homme qui ne sera jamais trahi pendant toutes ces années de luttes, l’apôtre de la résistance passive. Celui qui a fait tomber l’Angleterre sans même lever une seule arme. Cet homme a tout mon respect!!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cacwk9vLmdB/?utm_medium=tumblr
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In 1846, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes because he objected the Mexican-American War and slavery. He spent the night in jail for his actions. This popularized the concept of Civil Disobedience, peacefully protesting a law, which later influenced Gandhi, MLK, and Leo Tolstoy.
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