關於 absolute meaning ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

Malignant unrestrained power | Lee Yee

The Hong Kong police issued a statement the night before yesterday quoting the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department’s response to the arrest of the 12 Hongkongers. The short communication was full of loopholes. If these 12 people are still under investigation, how can the authorities be sure that they will be approved by the procuratorate for arrest later? One of the 12 people was the skipper, is he a member of the smuggling organization? If he is indeed part of a smuggling group, why was he escaping to Taiwan? Why was there no mention of the arrest of the skipper? What happened to the speedboat? Did the 12 people buy the boat hence it was confiscated?

It has been more than a month and they still could not spin a better story. The power has become so domineering to the point where they say what they want without regard for whether it is believable or not anymore.

Chinese state media reported that, at the recent Third Central Symposium on Xinjiang Work held in Beijing, Xi Jinping emphasized the need to “uphold efforts to sinicize religion, sinicize Islam and forge the collective consciousness of a common Chinese identity.” Following Xi’s “sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism,” this is another one of his latest sinicization campaigns with requirements explicitly put forward.

Both Tibetan Buddhism and Xinjiang Islam are religions based on beliefs in God or divine inspirations, while in other parts of China, most religious believers just pray to gods and buddhas for blessings. Very few people truly believe in gods, reincarnation, or life after death. If “One China” means China under the dictatorship of the atheist Communist Party, then the “sinicization of religion” denotes a false and bogus religion. A leader who can come up with the idea of sinicization of religion under atheism is enough to show that there is nothing believable about this regime, including the woven tale for the 12 arrested Hongkongers.

In the era of ancient China’s absolute monarchy, although there was no real religious belief, ancient Chinese emperors at least paid respect to ancestors and held ceremonies to worship heaven. Dictatorship began from as early as the Qin dynasty to the Han Dynasty during which Dong Zhongshu proposed the rule to respect the emperor. However, he also proposed to restrict the emperor and respect heaven; the emperor would be called the son of heaven, meaning the heavenly father was watching over. The occurrence of a catastrophic natural disaster would be the wrath of heaven; the emperor would often issue a rescript for penitence, and reflect and review to improve governance.

The atheistic CCP not only does not believe in gods but also disbelieves in heaven. Mao Zedong claimed to be a “monk holding an umbrella,” meaning that he was above the law and above heaven. He also said, “Battling with heaven is endless joy.” Therefore, under the guidance of the idea of “Humans will triumph over the sky,” the Great Leap Forward brought about a situation of “endless suffering” for the Chinese people.

However, the CCP regime before Mao the second at least would not, on the one hand, claim to believe in Marxism-Leninism, and on the other hand, bludgeon itself with such absurd theories as the “sinicization of religion.” Perhaps Mao 2.0 now possesses absolute power such that no one dares to tell the truth, resulting in comments of all illogical nonsense.

Recently, the Chinese education department was so preposterous that it blatantly falsified the Bible. The story of Jesus and the Adulteress from the New Testament was cited in textbooks but the ending of the story was distorted. In the original passage of the Bible, Jesus said to the adulteress, “I, too, do not condemn you; Go and sin no more!” The Chinese textbook, however, presents the story as: “When the crowd disappeared, Jesus stoned the sinner to death saying, ‘I too am a sinner. But if the law could only be executed by men without blemish, the law would be dead.’” Forcing words to justify the Chinese leaders into the mouth of Jesus.

Of course, anyone who enforces the law in any society will not be a flawless person, but in a normal society, at least the law enforcers know that they are either guilty, or that regardless of religion or even non-religion, they believe that “there is a deity watching over them.” In addition to believing that “a deity is watching,” law enforcers are also restrictive in their power by the separation of powers with mutual checks and balances, as well as the supervision of the Fourth Estate. Nearly 300 years ago, the French Enlightenment thinker Montesquieu said, “Every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Power is naturally expansive and has a tendency to turn malignant. As long as there are insufficient restraint and supervision, any power will give rise to corruption. To prevent this abuse, it is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.”

The power we face and its extension in Hong Kong may be the most extreme power in human history. It has no restraints nor any checks and balances, and without the constraints of “heaven” from the dark ages of ancient China and the Western Middle Ages. Its “expansion and malignancy” can exceed all human imagination. Therefore, normal people can only completely and absolutely distrust this absolute power.

I blame Jacques Derrida.

I blame Derrida for President Trump and QAnon.

Let me explain myself. Derrida is one of the leading thinkers whose writings helped develop postmodernism. He is often considered the founder of deconstruction.

To simplify, deconstruction (and post-modernism) denies that there is an absolute signifier that allows for a connection between a sign and its referent. To put it in other terms, there is no truth out there to be found and language is insufficient to describe it.

But rather than despairing about this state of things (like the existentialists of the 60’s did-remember Sartre’s book Nausea), postmodern thinkers like Derrida, Foucault, and others relished the idea because meaning could not be imposed on them by others, but rather meaning could be constructed by themselves.
Now it is interesting that those in the lines of Derrida and Foucault often constructed meaning in a progressive direction, resisting forces that sought to impose authority structures on them. But critics of deconstruction warned that it would be equally possible to construct meaning in a different direction, say a misogynist or racist direction.

Some of my academic friends might remember that probably twenty years ago, a leading deconstructionist, Paul de Man (who was at Yale when I was doing my doctoral work), was outed as a Fascist in his youth, thus in the minds of many confirming the problem with this post-modern mindset.

So what does this have to do with our President or QAnon? Well, I think most reasonable people recognize that he constructs the facts in whatever direction pleases him. I think it was KellyAnn Conway who spoke of “alternative facts.” These alternative facts often have absolutely no evidence and even have abundant evidence against it, but that does not deter people from believing him. I suspect because they want to believe him.

As for QAnon, the same is abundantly true. Biden is a pedophile? Please. There is no evidence for this (and remember PizzaGate). And don’t post memes of Biden giving grandfatherly kisses to his friends’ children.

Well, then, why is it so many Christians support our first post-modern president and give QAnon the time of day? It’s actually mind-blowing because we Christians do think there is an absolute signifier out there (God). Yes, getting at the truth is difficult and everyone has their ideological lenses, but even so that does not mean we get to construct our reality in the way we want to against the evidence. We don’t have to lock ourselves into our ideological biases but we need to expose ourselves to other interpretations and then consider which is the true understanding. If you listen to CNN turn to Fox once in a while and vice versa. When it comes to evaluating our president, listen to what he says in his speeches and on twitter.

I worry that many evangelical Christians have been conditioned against evidence and the truth when it seems to butt up against how they prefer to view reality. We can see this for instance in say those who affirm that the cosmos is only a few thousand years old. The evidence is overwhelming against this conclusion. But many people wrongly think that the Bible teaches otherwise, so they need to ignore or make up explanations of the evidence that are preposterous or, and here we are back to the mindset that accepts Trump’s misconstruals of the evidence or the conspiracy theories of QAnon.

I am not saying that everyone who supports Trump over against Biden are guilty of this kind of post-modern thinking, but I worry that many are (particularly based on some of the responses I receive on Facebook). I can think of no good reason though why anyone who is a Christian would turn to a source like QAnon to support their views.

Primaries and Disqualifications (Lee Yee)

Elsie Leung said, not disclosing all of the provisions of the National Security Law (NSL) is to prevent invoking clashes in society, and that the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC) has already conducted sufficient consultations with different sectors.

Without disclosing the provisions of the NSL, what was used to consult these different sectors? This point alone discloses how absolutely absurd the so-called “sufficient consultations”, “different sectors”, and frankly, her entire statement are.

There have been commotions in the online community around the suggestion of achieving international sanctions through large-scale disqualifications, focusing mainly on the contradictions between the pro-democracy camp’s primaries and a large number of candidates. Primaries mean an aggregation of votes, to avoid an overextended list of candidates who would be dividing up the votes and possibly leading to the reduction of the number of elected seats. Most of the pro-democracy camp, including young candidates, are supportive of having primaries. The primary selection mechanism stipulates that only the winners are able stand for election. Some suggested that even the losers from the primaries should go ahead and stand for election, and were criticized for violating the principles of primaries.

These principles, however, were drafted before the NSL. It was when the legal profession and some Democrats still believed there was room for negotiation, when the retired former Chief Justice Honorable Andrew Li Kwok-nang proposed to protect the implementation details within Hong Kong under the premise of accepting the NSL. Some Democrats also suggested to bring back Article 23 in place of the implementation of the NSL by NPC, or to adopt the sunset clause. If the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is willing to bargain, the red line for disqualifications of candidates could be drawn at the absolute “anti-NSL”, while turning a blind eye towards the Democrats who are willing to negotiate, such that LegCo would continue to have “decorative” Democrats.

The CCP categorically rejected all bargaining, and Andrew Li accused the Hong Kong NSL as completely undermining the independent judicial power guaranteed by the Basic Law. Martin Lee stated that “the Hong Kong NSL must be resisted fully”, and “people whose attention is being diverted to the devil in the details have already fallen into the trap devised by the CCP”. Moderates who wish to main the current system, to avoid “scorching-earth”, are already at a dead end.

The complete societal rift induced by the NSL is simple: on one side, you have people who blindly support an NSL without any disclosed provisions, including the pro-Beijing camp and the voluntarily “visually-impaired”; on the other side, you have citizens who support democracy. According to a poll conducted by the Hong Kong Institute of Public Opinion at the end of last month, 96% of the “supporters of the pro-democracy camp” opposed the NSL, and only 1% supported the law; Among those who are “non supporters of the pro-democracy camp”, 62% expressed support towards having the NSL implemented by the NPC, but those who opposed still amounted to 29%.

This was a poll done a month ago. With those who were willing to negotiate being rejected at this point, the societal rift should be more apparent. The situation is clear: any participant of the pro-democracy camp’s primaries, given that they have not been too vocal about opposing the NSL, even if they do win the primaries, have are able to join the election without being disqualified, they could still end up not winning the election. If citizens are to woefully cast their votes for candidates who do not oppose the NSL, looking at the poll, there’s only a 1% chance among the “supporters of the pro-democracy camp”.

Another situation that is clear: those who have openly and clearly opposed the NSL and somehow escape the fate of disqualification of candidacy is almost impossible. Even if there were, the voters would be doubtful of the candidates’ true stance, leading to a slim chance of getting elected.

As such, for the pro-democracy candidates, it is almost impossible to either oppose the NSL or to be disqualified for opposing. This, is precisely why the original intent of an aggregation of votes through the mechanism of primaries is likely to fail.

Disregard the results of the primaries. Flood the election with a loud and clear message of anti-NSL from a whale of candidates. This is the only way out. Having all or the majority being disqualified would be an obvious deprivation of Hongkongers’ right to vote, a guaranteed way to get international attention.

How much of a shockwave will international sanctions send to the CCP? An opinion piece published in Taiwan suggested that a senior Chinese official who may be sanctioned by the US because of the Hong Kong NSL has hidden assets in the US that are worth as much as US$3.1 billion. In 2013, Snowden, a former CIA employee who is now in Russia, announced that Chinese officials’ foreign deposits amounted to US$4.8 trillion. In normal circumstances, cash holdings account for only one-third of total assets, meaning that the total assets should amount to tens of trillions of US dollars (Hong Kong’s foreign exchange reserves are only about US$440 billion). And these were figures from 7 years ago.

International sanctions are, inevitably, internationally “earth-scorching”, where the side carrying out the sanctions will also suffer immensely. Freezing the assets of sanctioned officials in foreign countries will not help the sanctioning parties at all. Senior Chinese officials could care less about the Basic Law and Hong Kong’s human rights, but to laugh off one’s own properties? This is Hong Kong’s “earth-scorching” bargaining chip.

Short Film 「CHOICE」

Are we blessed to be born?
What is blessing?
realistic element?
Or the sense of blessing a blessing itself?

我々は祝福され生まれてきたのであろうか
現実的な要素が祝福か？
祝福と思える考えがそれそのものか？

There’s no fairness in this world.
Time, Race, Age, Circumstances...
Every factor can change the way it works.

平等というものはこの世にはない
等しく皆に訪れる事柄でも、時代、人種、年齢、環境…
様々な要因が、作用を変化させる

Relativistic words swirl around, and distort our concepts.
The words that seem to provide hope have prerequisites that are taken for granted.
They don't even care about those who fell off from the frame.

相対評価的な言葉が渦巻き、概念を歪めていく
一見前向きな希望を謳った言葉も当たり前かのような前提条件があり
その枠に漏れたものの存在など考えてもいない

Hope turned into justice,
and the meaning of empathy changed to consumers.

いつしか希望が正論に変わり
共感の意味は消費者に変わった

So, are we all alone
No one is the same, we never understand each other.
but no one can live alone.

では我々は孤独なのであろうか
同じ人間は1人としておらず、理解し合うことはできない
だが、人は1人では生きていけない

Definitions are made from standards, and standards are different for each one of us.
Therefore, it may seem relative, but it is absolute.

定義は基準によって為され、基準は人それぞれだ
よってそれは相対的に見えて絶対的なのだ

“Love” is always tough. Painful. Frightful.
It's up to us to choose whether we want to be loved.

辛く、苦しく、恐ろしい愛の方が多く
それを愛されるとするかは選択次第なのだ

Life is painful.
Life is beautiful.

生きることは、苦しく
生きることは、美しい



Director : Koshun Mamiya
Director of Photography : Kotaro Yamada
Assistant Camera : Masato Tanaka
Lighting Director : Sora Okubo
Original/Styling/Edit : Koshun Mamiya
Translation : Nao Asada
Narrator : Anocam
Music : 329
Acoustic guitar : Tomoki Iwasaki

Cast : emma



Koshun Mamiya
https://www.instagram.com/koshunn/
emma
https://www.instagram.com/emma_chijoke/
Kotaro Yamada
https://www.instagram.com/kotaroyamada_jp/
Masato Tanaka
https://www.instagram.com/holyhuman__1231/
Sora Okubo
https://www.instagram.com/sora075_/
329
https://www.instagram.com/bpm329/
Anocam
https://www.instagram.com/anocam_/
Nao Asada
https://twitter.com/yokutabenemuru

前回はビックスクーターで、登場、
今回からXXで、
タイヤ交換のためにタイヤ積んでます、
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Shebearl Dableccssuparbraccbard) is a motorcycle of four strokes and displacements 1,137cc that Honda Motor Co., Ltd. was manufacturing. Both domestic sales and export have ended now though it was treated as a flagship in the CBR series. Outline

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. appears in restyling from CBR1000F in 1996. In that case, a pet name "Super-blackbird" was given in the meaning said that was connected to "Blackbird" that was the pet name of surveillance plane "SR-71" of an American air force that was the aircraft at the velocity of the world, and it exceeded. Therefore, the cooperation of the U.S. Air Force is received in the pop promo of this car, and CBR1100XX and SR-71 accomplish competing in the air base.

As a concept

1. Comfortable livability in super-high-speed region
2. Overwhelming absolute performance
3. The middle class level is handled though it is a large displacement car.

It was a car of mass-producing on the market of the world best performance
where was had both.

Four 1137cc water-cooled series cylinder engine of the new design that adopts two axis balancer achieves the highest 164ps in the world at that time. Maximum speed is one that doesn't come up slightly by actual measurement at 300 km/h though excelled from ZZR1100 of Kawasaki who was the rival at the development this time to a high-speed performance.

It comes to transfer the seat at the velocity of the world from Kawasaki by the appearance of ninja ZX-12R the GSX1300R falcon's appearing from the sea bass in 1999, and continuously while leaving the name of the car of mass-producing on the market at the velocity of the world wanted in 2000 at the sale this time. The self-imposed restraint of which 300 km/h is a maximum speed upper bound of the motorcycle in 2001 has started, a big restyling is not done to the production stoppage in 2007, and the character as Haispedotsarar has become strong. Moreover, it is used as a development vehicle of VCM (Variable Cylinder Management: cylinder stop system) that is next generation's fuel fuel cost improvement technology, and 2 in the magazine medium from which impression is open to the public.

It is a motorcycle that Isao Yamanaka who had invented a lot of great cars as an engineer of HONDA developed at the end, and 3 said, "It is a compilation to invest everything current, and the happiest motorcycle".
The headlight of the top and bottom two step is adopted for the full caul body that thoroughly pursued aerodynamic. The synchronization brake is equipped normally before and after being called D-CBS. For the tone of red to lighten in 1998, and to prevent over cool in the cold district, the by-pass of Rageetar was added. Even the model is a carburetor specification in 1998, and it is a model to whom the chalk is only attached in CBR1100XX. The accelerating force and the response are sharper than the injection model since the second generation though a maximum speed region doesn't change. In the founder blackbird, as a motorcycle of the carburetor specification, on the market, acceleration and maximum speed are the fastest models. Low-speed..gear..Red Zone..blow..at the same time as..accelerating force..further..increase..power..band..use regularly..user..partially..core..acceleration..mania..rocket engine..missile..acceleration..criticize.Not a rapid response like the carburetor specification but the getting on taste has smoothed very much though this characteristic has been succeeded since the second generation made FI.

The direct air intake (ram air) has not taken side with the founder. The inspiratory port where the wire net under the headlight attached sends oil cooler the running style though it often makes a mistake. Because the cold wind doesn't hit oil cooler as it is because oil cooler has adhered behind the radiator, the inflow road of air is installed in this manner. (From the motorcycle technical journal 'Young machine' at the sale this time. )

前回はビックスクーターで、登場、
今回からXXで、
タイヤ交換のためにタイヤ積んでます、
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Shebearl Dableccssuparbraccbard) is a motorcycle of four strokes and displacements 1,137cc that Honda Motor Co., Ltd. was manufacturing. Both domestic sales and export have ended now though it was treated as a flagship in the CBR series. Outline

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. appears in restyling from CBR1000F in 1996. In that case, a pet name "Super-blackbird" was given in the meaning said that was connected to "Blackbird" that was the pet name of surveillance plane "SR-71" of an American air force that was the aircraft at the velocity of the world, and it exceeded. Therefore, the cooperation of the U.S. Air Force is received in the pop promo of this car, and CBR1100XX and SR-71 accomplish competing in the air base.

As a concept

1. Comfortable livability in super-high-speed region
2. Overwhelming absolute performance
3. The middle class level is handled though it is a large displacement car.

It was a car of mass-producing on the market of the world best performance
where was had both.

Four 1137cc water-cooled series cylinder engine of the new design that adopts two axis balancer achieves the highest 164ps in the world at that time. Maximum speed is one that doesn't come up slightly by actual measurement at 300 km/h though excelled from ZZR1100 of Kawasaki who was the rival at the development this time to a high-speed performance.

It comes to transfer the seat at the velocity of the world from Kawasaki by the appearance of ninja ZX-12R the GSX1300R falcon's appearing from the sea bass in 1999, and continuously while leaving the name of the car of mass-producing on the market at the velocity of the world wanted in 2000 at the sale this time. The self-imposed restraint of which 300 km/h is a maximum speed upper bound of the motorcycle in 2001 has started, a big restyling is not done to the production stoppage in 2007, and the character as Haispedotsarar has become strong. Moreover, it is used as a development vehicle of VCM (Variable Cylinder Management: cylinder stop system) that is next generation's fuel fuel cost improvement technology, and 2 in the magazine medium from which impression is open to the public.

It is a motorcycle that Isao Yamanaka who had invented a lot of great cars as an engineer of HONDA developed at the end, and 3 said, "It is a compilation to invest everything current, and the happiest motorcycle".
The headlight of the top and bottom two step is adopted for the full caul body that thoroughly pursued aerodynamic. The synchronization brake is equipped normally before and after being called D-CBS. For the tone of red to lighten in 1998, and to prevent over cool in the cold district, the by-pass of Rageetar was added. Even the model is a carburetor specification in 1998, and it is a model to whom the chalk is only attached in CBR1100XX. The accelerating force and the response are sharper than the injection model since the second generation though a maximum speed region doesn't change. In the founder blackbird, as a motorcycle of the carburetor specification, on the market, acceleration and maximum speed are the fastest models. Low-speed..gear..Red Zone..blow..at the same time as..accelerating force..further..increase..power..band..use regularly..user..partially..core..acceleration..mania..rocket engine..missile..acceleration..criticize.Not a rapid response like the carburetor specification but the getting on taste has smoothed very much though this characteristic has been succeeded since the second generation made FI.

The direct air intake (ram air) has not taken side with the founder. The inspiratory port where the wire net under the headlight attached sends oil cooler the running style though it often makes a mistake. Because the cold wind doesn't hit oil cooler as it is because oil cooler has adhered behind the radiator, the inflow road of air is installed in this manner. (From the motorcycle technical journal 'Young machine' at the sale this time. )