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EFC issued their Election Kit 2008. A pdf version can be downloaded here.

Canadians will go to the polls Tuesday, October 14, 2008. Once again, important issues are at stake in this federal election.

Canada needs strengthened families and secure marriages. Canada needs to protect its most vulnerable: children, the poor, the unborn and the disabled. Canada needs to share its blessings with the world, especially meeting commitments made to foreign relief and development work.

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「有料的人，從不需要告訴別人他怎樣有料；
無料的，再多講，人地只會更肯定你無料。」

這是我從小時候，爸爸言教、身教的一句話。
我，一生受用，

只想記下。

Kelly Abbottis from lifehacker, wrote about how to read well. I am glad that it echoes some of the points I made earlier in here, namely, the “toilet read”.

Conference 回來，心久久未能平復。

我們「想當然」的北美生活，對比他人，從來都自知幸福，卻不能想象是如此幸福。

當然，這樣的會議，一堆又一堆的數字，是必然的衝了又來。

數字不是問題，

問題是，

為何發生在自己的國家就不可以，發生在別人之地卻無慟於衷？

然而

我不內疚，

不內疚不代表不慚愧，

不內疚，

因為我知道內疚只會花光我僅有的氣力，

吸乾我的衝動，

世界不會因為內疚而改變，

The world will change only when the good people do something.

Something.

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links:
International Justice Mission
World Vision
Masai For Africa
Make Poverty History
Absolute Leadership Development

I am heading off to the Why Everything Must Change Conference. Blogging will resume Sunday.

And no, I won’t be blogging during the conference. ;-)

Yeah, talking about meaningless and cruelness of reality… that’s why everything must change.

and did I mention it’s free?

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Basic Oosah membership is free. It provides a user with a predefined amount of storage space for their content. Currently this amount is 1 terabyte.

[link: oosah via lifehacker]

我開始明白，為甚麼我對那個甚麼甚麼「美麗大學」的電視節目，如此反感。

事實上，我是對所有沒有對外價值的個人嗜好，統統沒有共鳴。

整個節目，從頭到尾，就是完完全全的「為自己」：甚麼對自己好D、今年興甚麼、脫眼睫毛的鉗是尖的好，還是斜的好？專業、專家、專人評論；美麗主持出來「講見證」，我看著，

會想死。

聽見，只會聯想到，那些從不理會明天是否世界末日，因為今天若她買不到那個「限量版金光閃閃可愛活潑野蠻女友註冊右腳二十歲以下專用腳甲鉗」，今天就已經是世界末日的小妹妹。

看了這些節目，

對任何人，有任何益處？

看的只會更加肯定：一生要以「美麗主持」為榜樣，緊緊跟隨，至死不渝。

白白浪費了人生的一個小時。

世上又多一個閒人。

別人承受了多一份重擔，

世界再溜走了一份動力。

何時，我們會嘗試培養一份，有益自己、又叫別人得幫助的嗜好？

What will it be like if you were to hear Jesus proclaiming that “The Kingdom of God is here!”, in your world? Consider this:

Some of us have worked on Wall Street, and some of us have slept on Wall Street. We are a community of struggle. Some of us are rich people trying to escape out loneliness. Some of us are poor folks trying to escape the cold. Some of us are addicted to drugs and others are addicted to money. We are a broken people who need each other and God, for we have come to recognize the mess that we have created of our world and how deeply we suffer from the mess. Now we are working to give birth to a new society within the shell of the old. Another world is possible. Another world is necessary. Another world is already here.

Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, p.188. Quoted by Tom Sine in The New Conspirators, p.25.