Space, Time, Life and the Will (Plus A poem)

 

Space, time, life and the will

                  (Plus: A Poem)

In such a time of war and fighting everywhere, should we look at these abstract thoughts?

The answer is definitely yes.

Western Europeans are suffering from the lacking of these thoughts for a long time.

If they can pick up the thoughts, they will be rich again.

If the Europeans are rich, then we will also be rich. The Northern Americans will be poor.

If you can have a clear insight about the European paradigms you will know yourself. You will achieve better than anyone else.

Now let us study the conclusions first.........

Conclusions are listed here:

1. Space is not limited. There's no boundary for the space.

2. Time is not limited. There is no beginning and no ending of time.

3. Life is not limited. There is no beginning and no ending of life.

4. There is a will in this universe.

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1.   Space

In space, the concept of "outside" is a guide.  

There will not be a space without outside. There will always be an "outside" waiting out there. The outside of something has its own outside.  There are always an outside for the inside.  Therefore we can be sure that outside is an absolute existence. There will not be anywhere without outside.

There will always be a space outside. 

Hence the concept of "area" or "volumn" are not possible for the universe. You cannot answer the question: How big is the universe? Because there is no boundary. And you cannot measure a space without boundary.

The concept about an unlimited universe is a common sense. It is not difficult to comprehend.

2.  Time is unlimited.

The concept about time is similar.

There will not be a boundary of time.

You can reach to a certain point at time.

But another time is waiting ahead. There will be no end of time. And there will be no beginning of time.  There will be no "outside" of time.

We are living in such a space. There is no boundary. We are living such a time. There is no end.

3. Life

First things about life: 

Life is a continue process without beginning and ending.

Life can not be lit up.

If some guy lit up your life, then who had lit up his life? If a secret power had lit up his life, then who was to light up the secret power ?

Life is like time. There is no beginning and no ending.

Life is like a chain. We are only one stop of the long chain. The chain has got no beginning and no end.

We are living in such a strange place. And it is not strange at all. It's only because we have never been deeply studying about it. It is simple and easy. People will find it comfortable in time.

Second things about life : 

Possibilities are unlimited.

Not one of the leaves are the same. Not one of the lifes are the same. It is because the inner structure of life is also unlimited. You will not find another you in the universe, and you will not find another earth in this universe.

Each one of them is unique.  Each one of them is the only one in this unlimited universe.

Why are we not the same?

Because we can perform the best performance if we are not the same. We will be doing the best for the universe.

How strange.

In such a special case, we can expect something extraordinary in the future.

And the next question is, how come?

How come such a grand universe and such unlimited time and so many extraordinary units or people are everywhere?

4.  Is there a will in this universe?

The answer is positive.

There is a will in every creature in our universe. When they are starving, they want to eat. When they are lonely, they want to find company.

It is possible to have a grand will in this universe about everything and about everyone.

Miracles are possible.   Because there will not be only one physical law governing this universe. We are all familiar with the existing laws in this universe. But we seldom reach other laws in this universe.

When something strange happened, it's not easy to believe it is true.

We need to believe that there is a will in this universe.  The will itself will interfere in our lives some of the times.  It is better to be prepared and be awared.

A  poem  by  Leechard:

"Old Paradigms"

唐詩三百首，

雨點滴殘秋。

落葉翻不去，

爛木起高樓。

地上黃金片，

風動無人收。

遠看雲中雁，

高飛過神州。

               2023.7.30.

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Surgery on a sinking ship

 

It must be the most fantastic dream in my life,  because it solves almost all the problems I cannot  handle.

We were in a sinking ship of a medium size,   it's like the cross- harbor ferry in Hong Kong.

I saw the ship was sinking in a 45  degree awkward position.

But there was no panic on board.

I saw the captain's wife talking with a white skin foreigner  who was a strong man around the age of 50.  The captain's wife advised  the man to learn swimming. The man refused. He dare not jump into the water to learn.

Later I found the man have a deal with the captain.  The captain was a strong Chinese man,  maybe in his early sixties.

The man agreed to let the captain do a heart surgery for him.

I was amazed that they can do such operation in such a time without any facilities.  Yet the man is happily agreed.  Maybe this is the most urgent time for him.

And I don't know why the captain can put aside the work  to  save the ship,  but to save the  white skin man first.

I asked the man, can I take a video for you?  He said yes.  I asked again.  He said yes again.

 So I rushed to my video camera. And I saw the tools are prepared.  There was a small plastic piece  like glass, with some holes on it.  And I saw some sewing needles.

It was by this time some telephone were ringing.

It was my alarm clock.

I switched off my alarm clock and woke up.

The dream didn't show  the results of the operation, nor the fate of the ship.

My dreams are always like this. They will not show you the result but certainly there is a hint  in the dream.

Do we need to do a surgery in the heart for the white skin man to save the ship?

Let me think for a while to forget it.

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Sorry I forgot to tell you that the man seemed like  European, not American.

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A Warning from Mencius

*Mencius is not the same as Confucius.  He had his own idea. He was smart to have said that he was Confucian.  He did win a place  in the Confucius kingdom.

孟子對曰：「王何必曰利？亦有仁義而已矣。王曰『何以利吾國』？大夫曰『何以利吾家』？士庶人曰『何以利吾身』？上下交征利而國危矣。萬乘之國弒其君者，必千乘之家；千乘之國弒其君者，必百乘之家。亅

Mencius said to him: "Why does the king  promote benefit-first? Benevolence and righteousness are important too......  When everybody from the top to the bottom fights for self-interest as the only purpose in life, the country will be in big problem.

Kings will be assassinated by their subordinates."

Translation note:

上下交征利 

(shàng xià jiāo zhēng lì)

Everybody  from the upper circle to the lower level are fighting with each other for selfish interest (as their only purpose in life).

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詩一首: 天人內外心相連

          天意人意兩相關

          內在外在未等閒

          採得星宿凌魂志

          出心入竅翻又翻

                                 2023

     Tiānyì rényì liǎng xiāngguān

     nèizài wài zài wèi děngxián

     cǎi dé xīngsù líng hún zhì

     chū xīn rù qiào fān yòu fān

Related are God and Man's will 

Mixing with internal and external

Star is my aim of soul 

Round and round in the mind's eye

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Jesus Don't Mind

There is no beginning 

and no end

Eternal

 is for crawling, walking and     fighting

We are seeds

Thanks for the water and soil

I'll keep going

I'll keep growing

Hope is in the searching

For a future without ending

四年之前兩句詩

 

two poems

雲烏月白閉美瞳

候鳥無端遠影中

霧露迷踪幾多日

鴉聲淚涕出真容

2019

月落烏啼霜滿天

香江落日愁不眠

夢得霹靂豪大雨

洗淨長街返自然

2019

What-is-real in paradigms? plus: The Chick

 

Paradigm is human.... It is a  thinking limit created by human elders.

And paradigms are just like free prisons.   You are free,   you can go,  but sooner or later, you'll come back.

That's why some Western people  only accept Christian faith on their death beds. 

A free  prison  is just like the atmosphere.   Few can excape.  Whenever you need to think,  You need the support of your network.

What if the elders were wrong?

It is none of their business,  but your own.

Yet it is not important for individuals.

It is important for the politics of the country.

You need to think better than the elder.

Sometimes politics is a relation between countries.

There might be war or peace in most of the cases.

So it's important to know what your paradigms are.

My question has been started seven years ago.  It occurred to me that why the Europeans cannot be rich like before.

It's the beginning and end paradigm making them suffer.

Because there is no hope in such a paradigm.

Here we need to know what is hope.

Hope is not only individual wellbeing.

Hope is what we human beings as a whole can do for the future.

Hope is where we can go for the future.

Hope is not individual health.

Hope is a development for all  beings.

It is a concern that Chinese media is working hard to promote selfishness.   They said "Health is  most important". Does it mean  "Self is most important"?

The modern elder is creating a new paradigm for the Chinese.

The result is the same with the West.   It is taking away the hope of the Chinese.   When everyone is caring for himself,  there will be no hope for the country.

Paradigms can limit your growth. Paradigms can be the  failure of a country.

Europeans will not be rich again if they cannot get out from the old paradigm.

Chinese will not be rich if they accepted the paradigm of selfishness.

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the following is for your entertainment only

The Chick

Each chick, when first entering the world, has got only one mouthful of air.

A very smart Egyptian Prince Akhenaten discovered it.

He found that inside every egg, there was some air. Is there any egg without air inside? He examined every kind of eggs on earth. He had opened numerous eggs. Snakes, birds, turtles, and at one time, he found a large ostrich egg. He opened it without hesitation. All the eggs on earth, and all the eggs on earth he could found, have some air inside.

Why?

What is the use of this air?

Prince Akhenaten could not stop thinking.

The Prince believed this air is for the first breath of the chick.　

Someone has given you life, plus a mouthful of air, what are you going to do?

And Prince Akhenaten said, you must use all your strength because you have very limited sources for life.

There are warm and bright yellowish colors outside. The hopes are there. The chick must break the shell. They must break it. The shell, like a spell, could be hell if not broken. The chick has no thought, but only action, the action to peck. Peck and peck. Peck and peck. Once you have broken  the spell, you will find a world outside.

But happiness lasts for only a few moments only.

The chick discovered happiness has been gone.

The chick discovered that he has entered another shell. A cage is just like a larger shell.

The chick observed silently. This is a very big and crowded cage. Many of his cage-mates live here.

They are all very happy and noisy. They need to do only two things in the cage: Eating and sleeping. They always mock about the chick, saying that he doesn’t know how to enjoy. Good food, good sleep, what is there to complain about?

But the chick soon found out the ultimate truth here. He knew that sooner or later, he would share the same fate with all other chicks. People will come, and send them to the butchers.

Suddenly, some vague idea emerged in his mind: Why should I live here? What am I going to do? What am I staying here for?

These are the questions he could not answer. He wants to know more.

He dreamed to see the world, the unknown beautiful world.

He dreamed and dreamed. He wanted to have a little glimpse, only a little glimpse outside the large shell.

Other chicks laughed at him. They said it was an impossible dream.

How long has the time past? No one knows. But he had found a little crack in the cage. He had found an exit. He squeezed himself out. He had used all his might. He managed to fly to the roof. He could see the world now.

There was a very large plain, with unlimited view. It was the first time he could see sunshine. He saw the sky and other birds. A golden beam spread over the cloud, reaching the endless earth. And he has found the sunshine on his own body, too.

He turned his body, enjoying every inch of sunshine upon it.

He was so happy, he started singing. He sang loudly.

His song was an alarm, bringing in the man.

Within a few minutes, the man caught him. The man was about to send him to kitchen.

Other chicks were happy. 　

They said, this is what you choose for yourself.

But the chick said:

I have seen the world; have you seen the world?  Won't you be killed sooner or later also?

………………………………………………………………

The story has a second ending.

The man felt puzzled. He thought, there must be something special about the chick. He did not kill the chick; instead, he made the chick a morning calling chick. He allowed the chick a position, made him stick to it. He wanted the chick to give him a wake-up call every day.

Stick to it? Now the chick could use his mind more freely then before. The chick would search for meaning, would he stay and stick to the chicken post?

…………………………………………………………

The story has got a third ending.

The chick escaped the cage, without being caught, nor being made a morning calling chick. He has become a wild bird in the hills.

And the chick was running like hell.

The chick has no wings actually. His wings have not been grown fully.

He could only run, with his wings flapping behind. 　

He ran and ran. He ran and ran. Until the moment he could not breathe any more.

In a very secret hideaway, he inspected his wound. The mocking laughs have not been gone. He could still hear them. And his cage-mates were now having their free lunch. They reminded each other cautiously: Do not behave like the wild chick. They were so happy, and they all despised the chick. They called him names, the wild, the fly, etc. The more they laughed at the chick, the more secure they felt for themselves.

The chick decided to learn to fly. This was the only way out for chicks. There were no teachers around to teach him.

The method was to flap his wings. He flapped and flapped. He flapped and flapped. It was the very motion the chicks have long forgotten.

It took a very long time for people to realize:

The only way out is to try your best.

And finally, he could fly. He was no more a cage chick.

He was a bird. And a bird is not a chick.

He flew over the valleys, over the hills, over the fields. Under the morning sunshine, he was relaxed, and free.

From time to time, we saw beautiful feathers flapping above.

(The end)

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友自西域歸來

 

阿伯彈起冬不拉

隻手擊鼓響滿街

西行故事講不盡

綠衣紅帽芒滿鞋

                        2023.7.11

 Ah  bor

 Bounces dombra

 Single hand drumming 

 Rings the street

 Endless stories to tell 

           with my

 Green coat, red hat and

Thorny  sandals 

           in awns

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Why it is important to save Europe?

 

 

 

There will not be a good time for everyone, if Europe is not saved.

 

It is easier to save them from outside.

 

Because the Europeans are living inside their own paradigm.  They cannot see clearly from the inside.

 

Although the paradigm seems to be simple, but it is extremely difficult to remove it.

 

It seems that the paradigm is coming from a Christian faith.

 

Many people do not believe in religion but they cannot get away from the influence of the paradigm.

 

Anyone can say, “ Ok, I do not believe in the end of the world”. But personal views cannot remove the power of a paradigm. The paradigm current simply goes its own way. 

 

It is the total culture current which determines the total behavior of any country and Euorope.

 

The feeling of no future is everywhere.  The feeling of anti-wisdom is everywhere. Anyone could submerge in its own way of life, and the people are uncertain about life. Life is meaningless in such a sense.

 

The United States culture is not like the Europeans, but they are no better.  Their issue is to make money regardless of everything not concerned.  They will not care about all the rest. They will ruin themselves sooner than everyone.

 

The European Paradigm is from an Israel religion.  At first it was only a story about Genesis and the Apocalypse. Later it had become a paradigm about the beginning and end of time and space. Many scientists cannot avoid this misconception. They “believe” the beginning is a result of calculation. 

 

Jesus was the most important reformer of the Israeli religion, but he was inside the paradigm when he tried to lead the people to a new path of wisdom and love.

 

The paradigm has become even stronger after Christ.

 

Sorry I have to interrupt here a little,  as I need to explain the relations between a paradigm and a religion.

 

The issue starts from a question:

 

Why are there miracles in all religions?  It seems that all religions have got their own magical power,  which might have been given to them by  the unknown from the above. Yet all religions cannot be completely correct.  They are not omnipotent.  Although they can perform miracles sometimes.

 

If they are not omnipotent,   then they can be wrong  in guiding the path of humans. For example, Jesus and Buddha is the most talented of all and I love them from the deepest inside of my soul.

 

Yet Jesus was in the paradigm of the beginning and the end.  He was wise to dispute against the Old Testament  and the old form of the Israel religion by promotion of love rather than hate.  Yet he was working inside the paradigm of the old Jewish faith.

 

I do not know where does the  magical  power of the different religions come from.  Maybe they were all allowed by the unknown.

 

It could be an unknown secret for us human beings.  But the fact is  religions cannot avoid the influence of paradigms.  They were working inside paradigms. It's  complicated but I believe humans  with a sincere mind  can work it out sometimes later.

 

Now we must come back to the European problem.

 

One is that Europeans can be saved if they can come out of this paradigm.  

 

If you appreciate the wonderful  masterpieces of the Renaissance,  you'll see that they are under the influence of the paradigm of beginning and end.  Apocalypse is a major theme in their works.

 

And gradually the brilliant minds in the Renaissance have become  stubborn in doubts of the human reasoning power and created works of anti-wisdom.

 

And soon  human minds collapsed into materialistic corruption.

 

The question is, how can you change the deep-rooted paradigms in the other culture?

 

Please keep this question in your own mind.

 

It is extremely important.

 

If you can save your friend,  or if you can save your enemy, you will save yourself, you might not be aware that you are in danger, and you need to have a clear mind.

 

This is not a joke;  I trust you are sincere.

 

And the question remains. 

 

How are people from the other major culture to save Europe?

 

How?

And the answer could be positive. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why are there so many Ah Q and Kong Yiji?

 

Because thoughts are not thoughts and thoughts are not books,  they are  Paradigms.

The paradigm of  Confucianism is still there.

It is completely not the same with the Western Europe.

In Western Europe,  their paradigm is the beginning and the end. The  strength of  Christian faith is still there.

People will not doubt about the meaning of love  and the meaning of forgiveness  in a Christian faith.

Yet the Chinese still believes that  mercy is not to forgive, as  Confucius said 以直报怨(yǐzhí-bàoyuàn)

That means to use a right method to retaliate  or to bring the offender to justice.

 It cannot be wrong, though it is lacking some spirit of love.

It is not easy to love your enemy in  Confucianism.

The paradigm is still  functioning.

In the mind of Jesus,  loving and forgiving is utmost important. It's the only way to settle human affairs. 

Jesus had been suppressed by the Jews.  Yet he did not have the thought to retaliate.

A sincere thinker about Jesus  can read his mind, even though he did not mention it sometimes.

When he said, "I desire mersy, not sacrifice", he was to dispute against the  Old Testament,  where God had required Abraham to kill his own son to sacrifice.

Can you refuse to kill your son?

Yet Jesus was not arguing,  he was doing his own way only.

 Jesus cannot or will not get out from the old paradigms of the Jews.  The idea of beginning and ending was from the Jews.

Beginning and ending thoughts had made the Western Europeans suffer.

That is the reason for them going to a climax of anti-wisdom  from the early Renaissance.  They have brought Europe to a stage of no hope.   Europe became an affiliate to the United States.  They cannot make their own decisions anymore.

It is the result of the old and strong paradigm.

Yet China could be more or less the same.

The following  is an article from five years ago.

It is not comfortable  as it is also the result of an old paradigm.

http://leechardasks.blogspot.com/2018/06/how-fast-can-chinese-pick-up-science.html

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A New Renaissance for Europe

This is the most difficult part of  human development.  You can imagine the future of United States,  and you can imagine the future of China,  or even India.

But it seems to have no solution for the Europeans.

The real problem of  Europe had been started since the very early stages.

Early people in Europe  believed  there is a beginning and an end for everything.

It is not like the Chinese.  Chinese  Philosophers like Zhuang Zi did not  believe there is a beginning and an end for the  Universe.

It is exactly this ending-culture-design closed  thoughts. 

Whenever people believed there is no future,  and the future would be an end to everything, their  stamina will  disappear.

This is exactly this reason that the old Renaissance cannot help Europeans to have a future.

They did had some success in the industrial revolution,  but soon they  cannot sustain themselves.

And the anti-wisdom trends in everyfield of their brains could be a huge destroying power for them.

It is not easy to change.

Because human thoughts is not coming one by one like a line.

Human thoughts are paradigms.  And paradigms has got roots,  if the roots are buried deep, its useless to change things  above the ground.

Some people thought the only way out is in science  and technology.  It has been proved wrong. 

Modern technology prevented people from reading.  People will lose their thinking power by not reading.

It is the same everywhere, not only Europe.

How can you remove the beginning and ending thoughts in the deep minds?

The only way out is a New Renaissance.

They need to have new novels, not like the Ulysses any more.

They need to have new paintings,  not like Picasso anymore.

They need to have new music,  not like modern music anymore.  Modern music had bring in setback to  classical music,  and opened the way for rotten music in the West.

They need not to have any absurd dramas anymore.

Absurd kind of literature can kill talents.  Please do not do that anymore.

With  a successful New Renaissance,  Europe will have a bright future.

Europe will be the center of studies again.

New wealth will be coming to Europe.

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the internal

If the Europeans can dig deeper into the inner core of Renaissance, they would know the old road can lead them nowhere but the anti-wisdom modernism.  There is no hope in it.  You cannot find hope in Picassos paintings, and  there is no hope in Samuel Beckett's drama "Waiting for Godot" etc.

The only way out for the European people is a new Renaissance which could bring them light and hope and wealth for  survival.

a reference:

 http://leechardasks.blogspot.com/2023/06/what-is-most-important-issue-in-world.html

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What if China is lost? ( The danger of a cheap war)

 

Most urgent is the population decline in our planet for some countries.

To have not enough people is a big problem. It will be the source for future wars.

Some countries will produce farm babies  and the psychological impact of farm babies will be frightening.  Cruel people will be mass produced. War will be unavoidable.

If US, Russia and China the Three Kingdoms can settle their problem, they will offer help and there will be no farm babies in this planet.   Future will be peaceful.

What is the problem of the Three Kingdoms?

You need not to study the aims of them.

You need only to see the result.

From the Yevgeny Prigozhin show  you will see where the crisis is.

If the mutiny is successful, then Russia will be in the hands of US.

It could be an ideal result for the US.  They will have a much better chance to beat China....

So you need to be careful about cheap things.

Secret wars are much cheaper than open wars.

It is cheap. Yet it is effective.  And the leaders are too careless to neglect cheap wars.

Same thing will happen to China also.

It is a crisis from any time now until 20 years later.

If China were in the hands of the US,  the world will stop growing and US  will be the only boss in the whole world.

We must always remember  that secret wars are cheap.  But to prevent them is expensive.

It's so cheap that your enemy will not hesitate to start it.

And once it was started,  easy result will lure people to keep it going.

But you will need big effort and big money to prevent them.

Danger is not in the problem of money.

To spend big money is never a problem to protect the country, yet the problem is that they don't know how.  They don't know where to use their strength. 

The country will be lost to a cheap secret war in such a natural way.

There will not be a shock,  it's only natural.

And here is a warning:

China will not be so easily fell into the hands of the US.

A Second Cultural Revolution will happen sooner or later,  in another form and another  dimension to protect China not to  fall in the enemy hands.

What are the other forms in the Second Cultural Revolution？

Why "Cultural"  ?

I hope I can tell you more,  as this artical is too long already.

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a note:  

what you might have missed

10/04/2019

what is a CHEAP WAR?

    (an old article)

9194 What is a Cheap War?  20190420

It  is a big mistake to name such wars Cheap. It could be not cheap at all. It could cost more than nuclear war heads, fast planes and invincible war weapons. However, we still use the name Cheap War to denote such a new era of our history.

We had a hot war before, then a cold war. Now it is not hot and not cold, but Cheap.

You would see how a big country change completely from one form of paradigm to another.  (South Korea is such a shock if you were not shocked)

The leaders would wakeup from a sweet dream that they were supported by the people, then they found suddenly people were against them. They could be overturned overnight.

No expensive war machines were used. You don't see airplanes dropping bombs but angry people throwing stones only. How cheap is a stone? It costs nothing, however, it is powerful enough to throw away leaders. It needs no big money to replace them.

It could be cheap, however, it could cost big money in a secret budget.

It could turn a whole country up-side-down. Busy leaders won't have a time to think about this. Most of them were above the ground, they could only see figures and read fake reports. They won't have the real scenario in their mind. They didn't know thoughts are changeable.

You would never see how an elephant die from cancer. They didn't know the cells had deteriorated completely. And it is only skin deep. Smiles were also skin deep,  yet only a smiling face is acceptable.

We had mention Chairman Mao before. We had said he was an idealist. However, we could have never known why he had to start the Cultural Revolution. Is it only to bring out an ideal? It must be more.........

.......we would never like to see the nuclear weapon being used. It might be  the proof of real stupidity of human beings. However, they were smart to invent a new form of Cheap War for us.

Yet people would never know, the real essence of a Cheap War is to turn the other country people into stupidity.

Let their people never evolve into anything. Let them eat heartily and let them enjoy all forms of dirty sex pleasure. Could it be cheaper for a stupid country to be overturned this way?

One last question is that nuclear war could be possible for stupidity only. Now the countries were working very hard towards this goal of stupidity.

Smart people need to alert themselves.  

                

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