We are becoming more and more tyrannical. It is the tyranny of health and beauty. It is the tyranny of consensus. It is the tyranny of popular. It is the tyranny of homogeneity. It is the tyranny of opinion substantiated by science. Science proves that a healthy body looks like so, and what happens to be so is what is already considered by popular opinion to be beautiful. Overweight people will be increasingly marginalized, ridiculed and finally persecuted. Same with those considered ugly. The whole Susan Boyle incident should embarrass us back to some kind of philosophical restructuring of our values, should it not? An ugly person with a voice? A miracle! She’s a freak, not only because she’s ugly, but because she’s ugly AND she can sing!
There must be communities that live contrary to this tyranny. We must protest against this by encouraging, nurturing and applauding diversity in every facet of human life and expression.
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車禍時後座物件飛砸
女司機遭筆電擊斃
【明報專訊】素里皇家騎警指出,上月中一宗在車禍喪生的女子,是被放在車後座的手提電腦擊中頭部致死。死者母親、家人與騎警昨日共同呼籲公眾,駕車時應將隨身物品放穩,或放在車尾箱中,減低遇上突發情況時的傷亡危險。
25歲素里女子斯托里(Heather Storey)上月16日駕車到內陸公幹途中,於素里史葛路(Scott Rd.)夾103A Ave.與一輛左轉拖車相撞,傷重不治。
素里皇家騎警發言人莫羅(Roger Morrow)表示,騎警到場調查時感覺很奇怪,因為根據車禍現場情況判斷,司機應有機會存活。經過法醫驗屍後證實,斯托里是被放在車廂後座背包內的手提電腦擊中後腦致死。調查員相信,儘管當時手提電腦放在背包內,但背包拉鍊沒有拉上、也沒有固定在座椅上,可能事發時衝力太猛,才令手提電腦飛出、重擊前座司機位上斯托里的後腦。
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我的恩廣似天深似海
Music and lyrics by 王冠聰 © 香港基督徒音樂事工協會有限公司
何故常嗟嘆?願你拋開感慨,
我的恩廣似天深似海。
塵世常多變,就似風雨驟來,
但我心中永藏這大愛。
面對每次憂傷,遍歷每次苦惱,
若流淚讓我靠近懷抱;
讓我賜予安慰。盼望你會知道,
是誰在靜聽每段祈禱。
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此君說的話,不是代表個人,而是代表學生會,亦即是代表整體港大學生。[...] 今天他說的每句話,每一位港大學生都要負責。
假如有港大學生認為現任學生會會長的公眾言論不妥,學生有權彈劾他。[...] 當年有親身經歷的港大研究生、教職員通通鴉雀無聲,對這位學生代表不發一言。一個失語的社會是人類的悲哀。
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