Amazon sees the move as both more equitable and better for business.

•รอยยิ้มไม่ได้แสดงถึงความสุขเพียงอย่างเดียว แต่รอยยิ้มยังแสดงถึงความเข้มแข็งของหัวใจได้ด้วย•
Happy World Peace day!!! ☮️ ✌🏽
เพื่อเป็นการฉลองวันสันติภาพโลกในวันที่ 21 กันยายนของทุกปี @studiotemplebkk ได้ถ่ายทอดภาพถ่ายบุคคล และส่งผ่านข้อความสันติสุขในใจกับแคมเปญ “Peace is the way” ที่คาดหวังให้เกิดการสื่อสารผ่านภาพถ่าย และข้อความที่จุดประกายให้เกิดสันติสุขเพียงง่าย ๆ โดยเริ่มจากภายในจิตใจของเราก่อน เพื่อย้ำเตือนให้ผู้คนไม่ละเลยการผ่อนคลายสภาพจิตใจ ความขุ่นมัวทางอารมณ์ และสร้างกำลังใจให้กลับคืนมาอีกครั้ง
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#peaceistheway #internationaldayofpeace #worldpeaceday #studiotemplebypunsiri

Celebrate peace by standing up against acts of hate online and offline, and by spreading compassion, kindness, and hope in the face of the pandemic, and as we recover. Let’s transform our world into one that is more equal, more equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and healthier. The Pandemic virus attacks all without caring about where we are from or what we believe in. We must be reminded that we are not each other’s enemy. To be able to recover from the devastation of the pandemic, we must make peace with one another. And we must make peace with nature.

多謝Artvocate咁有heart用藝術連結國際，琴日佢哋將〈千手人〉展覽喺Atlas搞嘅Freedom Marathon，完場前仲好細心咁將幅art print送俾講者攬炒巴・劉祖廸 Finn Lau留念添，希望佢繼續加油！

Atlas係一個連結國際，爭取自由公平世界嘅組織，co-founders Colombe同Andrea都好nice同好有幹勁！

Event喺The Tabernacle, Notting Hill舉行，感覺有啲似香港嘅藝穗會。琴日分享嘅除咗有「攬炒巴」之外，仲有俄羅斯嘅Vladimir Ashurkov同國際特赦嘅Rajat Khosla等。而許智峯亦係網上工作坊講者。

我哋一大清早跑去參加，好耐都無參加過呢類型討論會喇。希望香港人能夠連結世界更多人，for a free & equitable world! 💛💛💪🏻💪🏻

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Michael Coogan, God & Sex 最後一章節錄:

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For readers who are believers, the Bible continues to be considered an authoritative guide. Yet, while upholding it as such, individuals and communities of faith today, as through the ages, have of necessity been selective--not just adopting, but adapting, modifying, and even rejecting some of its teachings.

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Bible is an anthology of historically conditioned texts, how do these texts apply to later situations?

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What a foundational text meant when it was written is not the only question that needs to be answered: we also have to determine what such a text means in the present. To do so requires ascertaining the ideals that underlie the text.

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As an illustration, let us consider a specific issue from the culture wars of another era, the issue of slavery. Every part of the Bible reflects the views of its writers, and for them all, from the early Israelites to the latest authors of the New Testament, slavery was divinely ordained and beyond question. Yet the biblical story and the laws embedded in it also imply an alternate, even subversive view... [The] repeated references to the Exodus from Egypt is the principle of imitation of God: if God had delivered the Israelites from slavery, then perhaps Jews and Christians should do the same for their own slaves. They should treat others as they themselves had been treated, and would wish to be treated... The essence of the scripture, then, is fair and equitable treatment of others; the actual words are not necessarily binding.

Hence, relying on the overarching authority of the Bible, rather than on the actual words of specific biblical writers for whom slavery was not only permissible but even divinely decreed, abolitionists argued that slavery should be ended because it was contrary to the essence of the biblical message. The same analysis can be applied to issues like the status of women and, I would argue, of any individual or group perceived as inferior.

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Any specific biblical text is an incomplete formulation of the ideal because it is historically conditioned, and so it should not be taken as absolute in any sense. Moreover, no single biblical text adequately expresses the ideal, and in fact some texts clearly counter to it from our perspective.
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Aug 16, 2010
by Indrani Kopal

Forty One. Just a number? A number in a list?

Or forty one homes ... not houses ... homes. Forty one families. Hundreds of lives.

41 families are all that is left of the once vibrant community of Bukit Jalil Estate. They know they cannot remain. Some of them who remain once worked in the estate.

They have been there for 70-over years. They have laboured and contributed to national development for meagre wages. Many have passed on and to take their places are their children and grandchildren. What they want is fair and equitable compensation for the toil.

For the years of low wages. For their contribution to 53 years of national development.