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💛 When we feel insecure, we may think that we don't belong to our dreams and our tribe.
But let's not forget that belonging, like love, is a verb
You can feel belonged by belonging: let go of your self-consciousness, show up, stay present, be yourself, participate and offer what you have.
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✨ Excerpt from my new blog "Are You Too Young for Your Dream?"
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今天出現中國報的專欄文章：

《名牌、憤怒與階級觀念》

最近發生的新疆棉花事件，不管你是相信哪方，你都會留意到被抵制後的那些名牌，第二天它們的店更加的人山人海。

你可能聽過一些高端奢侈品的專賣店店員看不起客人的故事，然後客人生氣起來一口氣買下不知多少打。有一個視頻是一個人的朋友因為被名牌店員看不起，生氣的去買了一個包，當眾就罵店員而剪破名牌包，這很明顯是花錢來買報仇的。

連成龍第一次賺大錢時，也是去了一家名店，以報之前被人看不起的仇，刁難了那個看不起他的女服務員去拿幾十件名牌衣服給他試穿，也買了一大疊衣服回家，之後也從沒穿過。

可是你們有沒有想過，店員這種舉動其實是一種反向操作的策略？

2014年的時候有一科學實驗先檢視受測者對品牌和時尚的需求和認知，然後安排他們被名牌店店員服務，過程中店員的表情會展示『看不起他』。

結果證明如果人們對該品牌本來就有嚮往感，遇到有點高傲無禮的銷售員後，雖然會討厭他們，與其被看不起而離開，更多人的購買欲反而會快速提高。

這是很諷刺的，但也很容易理解。

我被一個普通女生看不起，我會想『妳算是甚麼東西？』，但我被范冰冰看不起的話，我可能會想『我算甚麼東西？』進而更急於討好她。

美國心理學家Brad Bushman做了個花生醬實驗，他把同樣的花生醬放進兩種瓶裝，一個標價便宜，另一個的標價則是貴的，最後再給人們選擇會喜歡哪一瓶。毫無意外的，人們傾向於覺得貴價的比較好吃。

但他們未做決定之前，是有一個問卷調查用來檢視Public Self Consciousness『公眾自我意識』的程度，其實就是檢測你有多在乎人家怎樣看你。

絕大部份選擇高價品牌花生醬的，恰巧就是公眾自我意識度很高的那一群。

要知道名牌貨不完全是只打有錢人的市場，它們實際上是賣著階級身份的象徵。階級觀念自古以來一直都存在著，現今社會也用了經濟能力來分上中下三層的階級。所以就算是經濟低下階級的人，他們一樣對上層社會有高度嚮往感，但基於資源的缺乏，他們就算面對生存的問題也倍感無助，哪還有時間思考如何跳上上層？

其中一些人的做法，就是存錢買一個高貴的象徵物來安撫自己不能升級的不安。

老子道德經裡面有一句話『聖人為腹不為目』，就好像你在自助餐餐廳，唯吃下肚子的才是真實，眼睛能夠看到的，再多也是虛幻。前者是快樂，後者是慾望。

與其說這些名牌是身份，不如說這些人是買著一個階級的替代品。

替代品可能會花掉你幾千塊錢，你就能裝有地位。總好過真的動手投注自己的資源來提升自己的經濟階級，真刀真槍下到戰場，其實是很怕人的。

（中國報原文鏈接已放留言區中）

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This excerpt is from: The Key To Victorious Living (30 May 2021)

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What’s the key to lasting victory over depression, sickness, and bad habits? In this must-hear message by Joseph Prince, uncover new covenant truths from the Old Testament story of the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea, and learn how you can experience God’s saving power in every situation. Discover how you can:

• Be supernaturally delivered from sinful desires and lead a life of true holiness.
• Possess your blood-bought blessing of healing when you learn to identify yourself with the risen Christ.
• Experience freedom from depression, anxiety, and self-consciousness when you look to Jesus and His perfect redemptive work at the cross.
• Break the cycle of negative thoughts and feelings when you hold fast to the truth of God’s Word.

Start living the abundant life God has for you when you lay hold of this powerful truth: as Jesus is, so are you in this world (1 John 4:17)!

Excerpt Summary:
0:00 You Are Not What You Feel!
1:13 Your Feelings Are Not The Barometer Of Truth
4:15 The Way To Deal With Negative Feelings
6:48 See Your Flesh As It Really Is
8:35 Your True Identity Is In Christ

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This excerpt is from: Your Failure Isn’t Final (25 Apr 2021)
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Child of God, your failure doesn’t have the final say in your life—God’s restoration does! In this powerful message by Joseph Prince, learn essential truths from the guilt offering of the Old Testament that will help you to break free from the destructive cycle of condemnation and cause you to see victory in areas of defeat. Find out how you can:

• Expect to see God’s much-more restoration abound in the very areas you’ve failed.
• Respond to every negative situation with hope and confidence in God’s saving grace.
• Break free from self-consciousness and self-doubt when you actively receive the gift of God’s righteousness.
• Leave the shackles of guilt and shame behind and start experiencing freedom from every bad habit and addiction.

Beloved, your mistakes don’t have to determine your future. Your new identity in Christ through His finished work has made all the difference in your life!

Chapters:
0:00​ There Is Now No Condemnation For You
2:16​ A Simple Yet Profound Truth About Guilt
4:10​ What Does The Guilt Offering Represent?
7:23​ Receive God's 120% Restoration!
9:29​ How Do We Deal With Failure?
12:10​ Decibel Worship—A Music Initiative By Joseph Prince Ministries

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Tear Through The Veil
Words & Music by Michael Davis and Daniel Doss
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Dear All,
I am more than happy to announce that our team is launching an exciting campaign with lots of collaborations! Here you go our first piece of art work.

"音樂影像(Music Video)不是音樂的襯托。她是獨立的作品，同時讓人能"看見"音樂及一切從音樂開展的可能性。"

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第一部曲 | Reminiscence (End Game Version)
末日版本：科技進步 vs 情感倒退 【3D 動畫家】

科技的進步也許是為了世界倒退而繼續支撐著人類的冰冷產物。在人工智能的城市裡，人捨棄了屬於城市本來的溫度，彼此之間生長更多距離。智能人類誕生的故事毫不陌生，在其自我學習的過程中衍生出本不存在的東西——情感，然後經歷逝去。
Reminiscence的人工智能城市裡，一位人（AI）與其他人每天過著重複的生活。有天，她突然發現遠古帶有血肉的生命體，頓時意識到自己有了複雜的變化，開始尋找答案。一直操控AI意識的程序逐漸消失，失去被控制的瞬間，城市開始崩塌，其他人感到迷失。然而，有了自我意識/情感的她，醒覺自己和其他人原是冰冷的智能人類，情感帶來的溫度慢慢腐蝕她的身體、崩壞、死去。

歌：
回憶是很微妙的，每一秒的消逝，每件事一旦過去，就演變成只在腦海裡而現實已不復存在的畫面。在所有逝去前，我們能否緊握當下的每一秒？

Chapter one | Reminiscence (End Game Version)
Technological advancement vs The emotional regression (3D animator)

Technological advancement is perhaps the reason why people are still able to live amidst the Great Regression. In the AI cities, people distance themselves from each other. The AI started to develop something that the makers did not intend them to learn through self-learning algorithms: emotions.

In the city of Reminiscence, Ms AI was living a plain, repetitive and normal life like the others. One day, she discovered ancient life forms that's so different from her species, organic with blood and tissues. The great shock that led her to the urge for truth was then spreading throughout the city. And slowly day by day, the program that controls the AIs was overwritten and finally erased. At the very moment of losing control, the city started to fall apart and everyone started to gain self-consciousness, and realised that they are only stone-cold robots. Emotions in the AIs eventually started to erode their body to death.

Song:
Reminiscence is interesting in a subtle way. The passing of time, the happening of different events... they afterwards become fragmented memories in us. So can we seize the day when it passes?

【Lyrics】

#She come and gone
Left me alone
Three years no call
They said it was not my fault

I grabbed her wound
My weakness I poured
That’s how we were torn
They said it was not her fault

If I were a tree
Would you be my leaves
What keeps us believe
Our fragile love would always exist

If I were the sea
Would you be my fishes
Tell me you believe
Our fragile love would always exist

*Cry Cry out loud
I don’t need to be the one
who makes you smile
Fly Fly to someone I can’t shout
When you’re about to falls
I will keep my feet on the ground* #

Repeat #
Repeat *

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【Music Video】
Director / Animator | Ivan Hung

https://www.instagram.com/ivan_terrible/

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【Music 】


Written by CHANKA
Arranged by CHANKA, MAEL, Hin, Dean
Recorded by Nichung
Mixed by MAEL
Mastered by Lok Chan
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#CHANKA #陳嘉 #Reminiscence
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wanderchanka@gmail.com
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Have a listen of some of my other works :
"Silence" : https://youtu.be/1Hkk7l4zk9k
"Young" : https://youtu.be/kolrKYxvvf8
"Ocean" : https://youtu.be/GOTdDrC1G-E
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