Richard - A hopeful agnostic
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(1) If God exists, God would create the perfect world.
(2) In the perfect world I am a Jedi.
(3) I am not a Jedi.
Therefor (4), God does not exist.
Thank you. I'll collect that nobel prize in philosophy next time around.
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If Jesus defeated death, why can I never keep a plant alive? If Jesus defeated Sin, why didnt he defeat Cos and Tan while he was at it?
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Btw, evolution is true.
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@wqwerttyf
@Zven
Smite will always deal same dmg no matter what level you are. So outleveling your opponent for smite superiority is dead now :))))))))))))))))))
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@bibleradioapp
@Avic_Wins
@JacksonWheat1
According to your very specific interpretation yes. But disregarding that, lets assume the earth is old. In what way is this evidence against evolution?
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Btw, evolution is true. If you have a question just ask and I will answer.
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If God exists, theism is expected. (Given that God wants to be known)
If God does not exists, atheism isnt expected. (Sentient life capable of atheism isnt likely)
The mere fact that people hold theistic beliefs is, to some degree, evidence that theism is correct.
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Jesus mythicism is about as harmful to atheism as YEC is to Christianity.
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(1) God loves all things that exist.
(2) Death Metal exists
(3) God loves Death Metal
C: God is a metal head.
Come at me silly theists.
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''Look at the trees'' is a better argument for theism than the moral argument. The moral argument is one of the weakest arguments I have ever come across. There is no saving the moral argument, its dead on arrival.
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I really do not understand people who treat Thomas Aquinas as some kind of transcended human being. The man was wrong about a great many things.
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How do atheists explain this obviously designed tree meant for humans to sit in?
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Even hotter take: God doesnt exist, our moral experience is the product of evolution in a highly social species, empathy is one of the reasons we have moral experiences/feelings.
Hot take: God doesn’t exist, morality is objective, and empathy doesn’t ground morality.
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@bibleradioapp
@smbgchem
@Avic_Wins
@JacksonWheat1
Then you misunderstand the tree, they don’t turn into another type of animal. Instead you can see evolution as Lego, you have a few Lego pieces in a shape, as evolution happens nothing is removed from this shape but rather new pieces are added resulting in morphological changes,
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Screw it, Im getting a minor in philosophy. Will I regret it and be a waste of my time? Most likely. But will it help me when teaching class? Also no.
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@bibleradioapp
@Avic_Wins
@JacksonWheat1
No. Evolution claims no such thing, we are still apes, as humans evolved from apes we did not ”lose” our ape part, rather we added things on top.
It is also wrong that animals will evolve, if an animal is adapted well enough to their environment there is no need to evolve.
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@bibleradioapp
@smbgchem
@Avic_Wins
@JacksonWheat1
Oh no.. you think entropy works against evolution?
No, mutations don't only result in loss of genetic material or complexity, there are 3 types of mutations, neutral, deleterious and beneficial. All 3 types of mutation can be the inactivation of a gene, activation, insertions,
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One of the bigger reasons I am not an atheist.
Consciousness and more specifically phenomenal consciousness, that being the introspective self awareness of being conscious, our qualia and self identity is not something we necessarily expect on naturalism. Given what we know of
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How would one go about curing something that isn't a disease?
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Top 5 questions in Philosophy.
1. Why?
2. Why?
3. Why?
4. Why?
5. Why?
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The more I look into theist’s “justification” for objective morality, the more convinced I become that there is nothing here. The emperor has no clothes.
That was easy.
The more I look into atheist’s “justification” for objective morality, the more convinced I become that there is nothing here.
The emperor has no clothes.
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This is one of the things that make me extremely angry. I hate lies. I especially hate lies when its about science. On the left is a Yantarogekko, an extinct species of Gekko. On the right is a completely different species, an Auckland Green Gecko. You can even see morphological
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If I were to convert to Christianity I would be a very odd Christian.
Bible the word of God? Nah.
Trinitarian? Nope.
Moral realism? Still no
And many more. Could I even call myself a Christian then? 🤪
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Relections: Journey
I am closing in on two years of taking philosophy and religion seriously. Two years ago I started my computer and looked on the internet for a place to debate Christian individuals with the goal of proving them wrong. All of my impressions when it came to
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@rkempston
@MonteCristo
TSM lost all of its allure when Bjergsen left, so many people want to play with Bjergsen and everyone who does always praises him. Bjerg was the glue that held tsm together. It all went down when he became coach and its even worse now when he left.
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How do atheists explain the fact that we will all return to the one in the end?
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Finite sin towards God does not justify infinite damnation. For infinite damnation to be justified, the sin has to be infinite.
Or you can say that Gods justice is not
recognisable to humans, but then you forfeit any way of knowing what God thinks is just.
Choose the horn.
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One of the bigger reasons I am not a theist.
As a lover of science and more specifically, evolution and the history of animals on earth, the amount of suffering that has happened on our small blue dot is insane. Sure, humans have suffered a lot, but it pales in comparison to
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@EinWaItz
@TravisGafford
I love hauntzer but he is not good enough. I know your just meming getting the 2017 squad back together but BB has more than proven himself against all of NA. I like TSM roster atm, would just change out the entire staff atm. That part needs a reset with no biases!
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Many religious people also suffer with suicidal thoughts. Does religion help some people? Yes. Does it help everyone? No. I used to be suicidal but I found joy in life and it wasnt religious. Please stop this sophistry.
Atheists have meaningless lives and suicidal thoughts because they rejected God.
And then they want you and I to deny our faith and our rich lives in Christ to become empty and desperate as they are.
And then, they are frustrated that we do not want to deny our faith and they
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Im thankful for
@worldviewdesign
,
@KennethLPearce
and John Buck for increasing my credence in theism when so many of the things that are posted on twitter undermines it. You make this place bearable.
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Theism has nothing to argue. Rather, theism is merely the rejection—implicit or explicit—of ATHEISTIC arguments for the proposition "God does not exists". That's all. "Arguments for theism" aren't arguments for theism—they're arguments AGAINST atheism. Straighten your fucking
Atheism has nothing to argue. Rather, atheism is merely the rejection—implicit or explicit—of THEISTIC arguments for the proposition "God exists". That's all. "Arguments for atheism" aren't arguments for atheism—they're arguments AGAINST theism. Straighten your fucking semantics.
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1) Cinnamon and apples is a match made in heaven
2) something being made in heaven infers heaven exists
3) if heaven exists so does God
C: God exists.
How do atheists explain this one.
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I normally dont reply to these kinda of tweets because I don’t want to give someones shit opinions more attention. But lets dive in.
1. How could you possibly know this?
2. Religion has been instrumental in forming conducive societal behaviours across the world (not just
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(1) if there is no God, atheism would not exist
(2) atheism does exist
Therefor (3) there is a God.
I wish I was joking, but people have unironically sent this argument to me.
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Been told several times that my agnosticism is somehow cowardly and that I should ”just pick a side”.
I wish I could, my brain is fighting itself each day. If I could remove this and actually pick a side I would. For some reason(s) I am unable and I don’t like it.
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Ancient people absolutely had ''basic knowledge''.
They built the pyramids.
They built Rome.
They calculated the circumfrence of the earth down to single digits.
They laid down the foundations of metaphysics and the scientific method.
''Deeply religious people'' invented
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@DrifterRoo
@Gladd
@A_dmg04
oh fuck off. They were testing things in order to show bungie. D2 streamers are pretty much unpayed beta testers. and if they exploited anything in the raid they would be disqualified.
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Morality isnt real.
Neither are colours.
😎
what is your most confident controversial philosophical belief?
mine’s compatibilism
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When you're accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression.
christian nationalists telling jesus how they are persecuted because they have equal rights with LGBTQ people in america
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What strikes me as the most strange part about people who think the theory of evolution is false/inaccurate is that many of them lie about/is mistaken about the facts surrounding it. If you are so certain its wrong, why do you need to lie? Or have you simply not researched it?
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Premise: Today I ate pancakes and they were divine.
Conclusion: God exists.
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Am I a theist? Am I an atheist?
No, I am in a perpetual state of confusion fueled by curiosity. I am also sick with a fever so that doesnt help. God damnit… or non-God damnit.
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No Andrew, atheism isnt ”fairly new”, there have always been atheists. The word and usage are from the bloody greeks man.
@darwintojesus
Exactly. Atheism is a fairly new belief. During most of human history, everybody was theists on some level. Modern-day atheists claim that science proves atheism, yet can’t point to a single scientifically reproducible instance of something coming from spontaneous conscious life
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I beg and implore my fellow agnostics and atheists out here on twitter and any other social media to stop denying that religious beliefs can be rational. The same goes for the existence of Jesus.
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I often hear theists say that belief in God is properly basic, and that gives us strong reason to think its true.
But I’d bet its also a properly basic belief to think that drowning thousands if not millions of creatures is a bad thing to do.
Whats up with that?
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Alvin Plantingas modal argument for dummies!
(1) Is God real?
C: God is real!
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Something that might surprise my followers (I rarely talk about it), I am actually pro life. But I also think that due to my underlying meta-ethics, I am in no position to enforce my view on other people. Its a weird position, but it works.
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Do I have any people here who would be interested in participating in a devils advocate debate? So an atheists would argue for theism and vice versa.
Hosted and moderated by yours truly.
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Friendly reminder that evolution is 100% compatible with theism. If you have gripes with evolution? Figure it out and bring it up. Don't deny evolution because it conflicts with your interpretation of scripture. If you want to deny it, do so with science.
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Reflections:
Yesterday I went through some heavy internal conflict. Some people are agnostic because they don't think there are strong reasons to think either atheism or theism is correct. I think there are very good reasons to think both views are correct and I cannot make up
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People in the comments telling Randal his post is embarassing. No, the only embarrassing part is WLC. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
This is William Lane Craig's face at 46:21 in his interview, right at the moment that
@CosmicSkeptic
describes the "pure moral repugnance" he has to Craig's unblushing defense of slaughtering children in God's name. Truly surreal.
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@bibleradioapp
@smbgchem
@Avic_Wins
@JacksonWheat1
Lets tackle the entropy part. Do you have any idea where earth gets its entropy from? There is a very large source of entropy a few hundred million km away from earth. A giant plasma fusion ball we call the sun. Almost all of earths entropy is directly fed from the sun, evolution
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What if objective morality was real?
Follow for more insane ideas.
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The existence of countries are insanely cringe and the fact that we still have countries is a good indication of how immature and tribalistic humans still are.
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@JoshuaLWatson
(1) existence is suffering
(2) I exist
(3) therefor, I am insufferable. Wait what.
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@al0bar_
Nietzsche: I hate humans and hugs.
Jesus: Come here big boy.
Nietzsche: Fine....
Nietzsche: Ok this is nice.
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While there is little to no evidence this ever happened, this movie was like top 5 movies when I was a kid. I watched it so many times I lost count. The music, the acting, the animation. Everything is 10/10.
Can we agree that parting the Red Sea is a far more impressive miracle than making fish, bread, wine and Lazarus?
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Late night reminder.
Atheism doesn’t logically entail moral non-realism. I see far too many people claiming that it does.
Theism doesnt logically entail moral realism. I see far too many people refusing to consider that.
These opinions are common in abrahamic faiths.
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This is exactly why I adopted the epithet of ''A hopeful agnostic''. I really want God to be real, I would love to get to talk to the creator of the universe and finally get answers to all my questions. I just simply do not believe its true, and regretfully so.
I am a hopeful agnostic. Hopeful that there is a god. Not necessarily the kind in the traditional sense, but more of a higher power. This might upset some of my atheist followers, but I don't care. The fact is that I'm pursuing this matter on reason, not faith.
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Me: how does the trinity work?
Friend: its a thing that does some stuff.
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A not insignificant reason for me leaning towards atheism is probably due to how horrible fundamentalists treat the LGB+ community. Many of them will treat these people as lesser, mentally ill and morally corrupt. But I will defend them to my dying breath.
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Universalism is not only the mest tenable version, but it is also the most intuitive as it coincides with how we view love. Any other version requires completely different concept of love, that makes it unrecognisable to us as love.
I don't see how penal substitution theory can be squared with any view of hell:
If we deserve eternal torture, but Jesus wasn't eternally tortured, then he didn't receive our punishment.
Same goes for annihilation, isolation or purgation.
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Surrounding myself with people way more intelligent than me, heck yeah.
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That doesnt follow at all.
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It recently came to my attention that one of my friends is an empiricist (he doesn't know any philosophy), is there a cure or do I terminate this friendship?
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Today is a sad day, after 14 long years of loyal service my Xbox 360 has finally given up.
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Reflections: Burden of proof.
Its a common slogan amongst ”new atheists” that they don’t have any burden of proof (evidence) when it comes to the question of God. And at a surface level it might seem true that they don’t, after all they make no positive claim about God, they
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Hate me if you must, but bacon is not that good.
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How do Christians explain that God isn't real and that the One is actually real?
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This saturday at 10AM Central US time/16:00 Central European Time I will be hosting a devil's advocate debate.
@WriterJohnBuck
the evil atheist scientist will enter the ring against the holiest of holy men
@TrolleyDave1971
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John will be arguing for Atheism.
Dave will be arguing
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No Richie, atheism makes no such claim. You can be an atheist and not believe in evolution, you can be an atheist and believe there are non-physical non-natural objects and forces in the universe. Stop confusing atheism with physicalism and materialism, they are NOT the same
@SecularOutpost
@darwintojesus
But he’s not wrong. The atheist has the presupposition that they’re nothing but a bi-product of evolutionary pressures and that it’s a physical process how then do you ground metaphysical and abstract concepts. I don’t think he’s wrong and that’s a problem for these kinds of
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If Jesus saw what some Christians ”do in his name” he would recoil. The man sat down with the poor, the hurt, the vulnerable and outcasts. I dont think he was God, I do think he was a man with a heart of gold.
i'm grateful evangelicals introduced me to jesus because i probably wouldn't have left evangelicalism if they hadn't
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Premise: Today on my way home from Uni a fly flew straight into my eye and I almost fell off my bike.
Conclusion: God doesnt exist.
I mostly wanted to complain about my eye hurting.
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If you say that there are no or cannot be any good arguments against the belief(s) you hold you havent read enough from the opposition. Conceding that there are good arguments against what you believe doesnt mean you have to stop holding your beliefs.
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@SecularOutpost
@waldenpod
@SpeedWatkins
@darwintojesus
I blocked him for a very good reason. He insisted I ''actually'' believed in objective morals when I don't. He's a grifter.
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The problem of evil also works for a moral non-realist as an internal critique of classical theism. The non-realist can point to the fact that the moral realism contained within classical theism is incompatible with the existence of the God of classical theism. Nuance is needed.
“Evil is only a problem for atheists” is one of the worst apologetics tropes.
Evil is a problem for most theists (those who claim God is powerful, good, & wise).
The moral arg for God is a separate, unrelated issue.
The moral arg is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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My philosophy in a tweet, as things stand:
Ontology: some brand of dualism
Epistemology: mostly Evidentialist
Phil of Rel: agnostic strong lean atheist
Theology: none
Politics: uneducated in politics but generally liberal and progressive
Morality: emotivism
Ethics: Kantian
My philosophy in a tweet, as things stand:
Ontology: Dualism? Idealism? Idk.
Epistemology: Foundationalist/Internalist/Evidentialist
Phil. of religion: Theism
Theology: Christian
Politics: Classical Conservative
Ethics: Unsure - need to study it more. Virtue ethics? DCT? Idk.
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@bibleradioapp
@smbgchem
@Avic_Wins
@JacksonWheat1
No, its not. I'm gonna illustrate with some high level MSPaint skills.
The energy in each of these systems are the same, but the entropy is different. This is also supported by the conservation of energy, energy cannot be created or destroyed. So you always have the same amount
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@bibleradioapp
@smbgchem
@Avic_Wins
@JacksonWheat1
I agree that energy =/= entropy, ordered energy is entropy, and thats exactly what we get from the sun.
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@sometimesjoey
yeah, we need clay as a SUBSTRATE to facilitate the formation of enzymes in a prebiotic environment because its stable and able to facilitate a dry/wet cycle.
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Philosophy of religion arguments, but for toddlers. Can you figure them out?
If God, why ow.
If God, why me bullied.
God make no sense
God make no sense 2: electric boogaloo
If no God, me no smart, but me smart so God big real.
Me think God biggest man, but even bigger if
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3 word descriptions of popular philosophical stances.
Man, everything sucks.
You exist? Preposterous
I exist? Preposterous
True? False? Both.
Qualia? Matter? Indiscernible
This was foretold.
Nothing is certain.
Right? Wrong? Bah
I don't know.
Can you figure them out?
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If all appeals to authority were fallacious then you can literally never point to a textbook again for science, politics, math, logic, history etc because that textbook is a form of authority. Please don't throw around ''fallacy this, fallacy that'' when you don't like a thing.
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