No free pass to Judeo-Christian judges& lawyers
Phil Beaver
seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The
comment box below invites readers to write.
"Civic"
refers to citizens who collaborate for individual
happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or
society.
Consider writing a personal
paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual appreciation: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and
paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows We the People of the United States proffer &
practice 5 public disciplines —- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and
prosperity, “in order to” encourage & facilitate
responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. I want to improve my interpretation by listening to
other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787,
text, unless it is amended by the people.
It seems the
Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one has challenged whether or
not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this
independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states
deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble
is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who
collaborate for human justice.
Every citizen
has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in
the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try
somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the
goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies
grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to
discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.
Selected theme from this week
Judeo-Christian judges& lawyers can& may be
civic-citizens
I prefer the U.S. constitutional republic to democracy,
social democracy, mob rule, communism, socialism, and Judeo-Christianity – just
another tyranny over responsible-human-independence (RHI). RHI is the national
destiny that is proffered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.
Consequently, I suffer no grief over wokism’s modern attack
on the long-standing tyranny of Anglo-American tradition in the West. It is
promoted primarily by the English Commonwealth of Nations, who may never
understand American genes and memes.
On the threshold to my 80th year, I accept that I
never was a Baptist, as Mom wanted rather than the civic Protestant Dad wanted.
Furthermore it took me 50 years, during the last 40 of which I could have
enjoyed acceptance of my faith in the-ineluctable-truth to reform to my person.
Without example, facilitation, and encouragement, I instead pressed on to
satisfy Dad, Mom, or either of my siblings, depending on the decade.
“Ineluctable” means ‘not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”.
Once a human-being accepts that the laws of physics constrain human-choice, there
is nothing to avoid, change, or resist. If the ineluctable-evidence is not yet
discovered, the person may accept “I don’t know”. There is no mystery, no
passion, no intention, no incentive to try to impose hope& comfort in order
to force the laws of physics to change, accommodate, or cooperate.
For example, the sex-change industry and its sponsors can
feel the accountability that the laws of physics inevitably delivers. They are well
advised to accept personal-entrapment-perception and get Bob Newhart counselling:
youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw. Just stop it: now.
The U.S. has arrived at constitutional chaos because Congress granted itself
freedom-of-religion by which to tyrannize fellow-citizens. Justices on the
Supreme Court have preserved that Anglo-American tradition since March 1789
when an 11-state Congress was seated.
The civic entity We the People of the United States can& may amend the
First Amendment, in order to promote civic-integrity rather than Congressional-religion.
The Supreme Court justices can practice, facilitate, and encourage the reform
starting in May 2022.
Columns
Ben Weingarten
crying over God-fearing, freedom-loving loses) (theepochtimes.com/chilling-effort-to-destroy-trump-lawyers-epitomizes-americas-war-on-wrongthink_4388006.html)
I perceive no excuse for sympathizing with lawyers ruining
fellow-lawyer’s careers and think justices should suffer the same in-fighting.
I have a suggestion for Anglo-American precedent: Just end it and take up the-ineluctable-evidence
as basis for court decisions. Ineluctable means, in America, “not to be
avoided, changed, or resisted”. Europeans seem to allow evidence-change based
on reason/religion.
The entire system regressed from the 1787 U.S. republic with
public discipline to the 1791 unconstitutional re-establishment of colonial,
Anglo-American law, complete with religious freedom to Congress at the expense
of the civic entity “We the People of the United States”. “Civic” refers to
reliability in human connections and transactions rather than civil precedent.
Weingarten’s words choices reek with John Locke impositions:
liberty& justice rather than necessity& justice; “God-fearing,
freedom-loving patriots” instead of responsibility-bearing integrity-appreciating
civic-citizens.
As the advisor says, consider reform before mounting offense
against fellow-citizens who demand relief from long-standing,
orthodox-oppression.
I wrote to President Trump for 5 years urging reform from
the First Amendment’s unconstitutional provision of freedom of religion to
Congress. I urged support for civic-integrity “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
My next presidential-primary vote will go to the candidate who proposes this
reform.
I expect Pence taught Trump a lesson: the U.S.
commander-in-chief cannot rely on a man who claims to witness for Jesus. No man
should nourish such arrogance. No man can witness for Jesus. I doubt it, but
would not be astonished to learn that Jesus authored the 5,500 year-old
political philosophy that is expressed in Genesis 1:28. The philosophy --
human-being independently responsible for peace on earth -- came from Sumer;
before Abraham was born.
Let’s develop necessity& justice based on
the-ineluctable-evidence and re-assign legal-precedent lawyers& judges to
private-sector jobs and pay.
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facebook.com/phil.beaver.52
April 28, 2022
Being religious or not is no excuse for un-civic behavior.
"Civic" refers to reliable connections& transactions between
fellow-citizens.
We, the 2022 "ourselves and our Posterity"
can& may consider this principle and practice, facilitate, and encourage
civic-integrity in the coming elections. Beginning today, we can& may let
candidates know that if they perceive their religion/none holds them above
civic-integrity, We the People of the United States will not allow them to hold
office.
Fellow citizens who are government officials can& may
practice civic-integrity.
Most of all, the future "ourselves and our
Posterity" can& may amend the First Amendment so as to proffer
civic-integrity to the people rather than freedom-of-religion to Congress.
Citizens who don't know "ourselves and our
Posterity" ought not vote, in order to resist voting against themselves
and their children, grandchildren, and beyond. Government officials who don't
know We the People of the United States can& may be unelected or fired.
facebook.com/gcleve.wright/posts/3542074102679492,
April 16, 2022
Here's my objection to Dr. Jeremiah's advice: assign your
daily duty to the mystery -- the-God.
Genesis 1:28 instructs female& male-human-being to independently provide
order& prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth. This political
philosophy came from Sumer, where the kings taught that the Gods control the
heavens and cannot perform on earth so rely on human-being. (Jesus affirms
Genesis 1:26-28, for example, in Matthew 19:4-5 and John 10:34.)
Two thousand years later, Hebrew scholars presented the Sumer philosophy in
their language and in Genesis 2 changed from God of creation to "the Lord
God" and started a competitive political philosophy. Other tribes
developed their competitive philosophies. Other tribes developed their
competitive philosophies. Drastic oppositions to the descendants of Issaac
developed among the descendants of Ishamel. Among them are the competitors for
Islam.
One thousand years later, Gentiles presented the Hebrew story with Jesus the
Messiah, Son of God, and element of the Trinity. Christianity entered the
competition and by 400 AD there were Eastern, Oriental, and Western
Orthodoxies. After Luther Protestant Orthodoxy proliferated, and today, there
are 45,000 Protestant sects.
Another 2000 years later, Dr. Jeremiah's urge for us to ask a competing mystery
each day to tell us what to do, when 5,500 years ago that same mystery made it
plain each human is in charge of constraining chaos in their way of living and
providing peace in their human connections and transactions seems futile if not
arrogant toward whatever controls the consequences of personal choices.
(Not knowing the-ineluctable-truth, I don't try to address the question: Is
chaos the control? I just don't think it is.)
facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7 April 22, 2022
The movie reader may ask: why don't Duvall's noble words
inspire practice, facilitation, and encouragement to the-good?
I think love fails:
Appreciation inspires the-good& love.
Education Departments and teachers' unions can& may
reform so as to inculcate in each child appreciation for their human lifetime
so informed& earnest that most will happily take responsibility to develop
their unique person rather than submit to what an entrepreneur has in mind for
them. (For example, lifetime subservience to "gender-change".)
Civic-citizens can& may stop accommodating the expansion
of government-power while praying to the-God to end the misery and loss only
fellow-citizens can stop. That is, the-God will not usurp human-responsibility.
Only voters can limit government-employment to
civic-citizens who practice, facilitate, and encourage
responsible-human-independence.
Comment:
Chris, your thumb-up motivated me to speculate about what
the-God is, hoping to listen-to& learn-from readers.
All, please read to write a
response to 10 suggestions that follow. For interest, consider that the Biden
administration is powering the politics to convert boys into girls and vice
versa, enslaving for life both subjects-to the gender-transition-industry and
you& posterity to the-bill-payments.
First, I don't know
the-ineluctable-truth, so can only express opinion. (Ineluctable means not to
be avoided, changed, or resisted and modifies "truth" with precision,
accuracy, and depth.) My opinion is informed by some of the
past reports -- about Sumerian culture, Hebrew scholars, Greek writers like
Plato, Catholic canon, Christian canon, papal bulls, slavery-abolition writers,
American independence writers, Thomas Paine, George Washington, U.S.
constitution framers& signers, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Southern writers like Faulkner and O'Connor, European classical-liberal writers
like Locke and Hume, and most of all by the great political philosopher,
Albert Einstein. I apply their suggestions to opportunities to increase my
opinion by listening to transparently-sharing fellow-citizens (transparency is a
Christopher Nalepa favorite). My purpose is to establish the topic and an
opinion then listen.
Not all fellow citizens are
transparent. Some protect a dependency. Approaching my 80th year, I realize
that my dependency has always been trust-in and commitment-to
the-ineluctable-truth, unknown as it may be about something and as inarticulate
as I may be. As best I can guess, the-ineluctable-truth is expressed&
discovered in the laws of physics. That suggests that physics is the-God. And
it would not upset me if that were the-God’s opinion, despite mine. I think
there is an entity that controls the consequences of individual human-being
choice and action: and don’t know what it is.
Physics& its-progeny, such as
mathematics and biology, control everything, including imagination and fiction
(by default). Thus, like most humans I know, I am dependent. Yet I own an
awareness to which I work to conform: physics& progeny. Physics does not
answer to reason, revelation, emotions, passion, science, justice, or any other
human activity. Human action can change circumstances by which the laws of
physics operate but cannot control consequences. For example, the world cannot
control the consequences of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. I can be upset by
wellness challenges (physical or psychological illness) but am better of
working to improve self-interest and the attendant benefits to my society.
Necessity& justice demand
female& male-human-being to provide peace on earth. We may ask, is human
necessity& justice the-God? However, there is little to be gained from
changing "necessity& justice" to "the-God". In fact,
there is much to lose: "the-God" can be used to persuade citizens to
attempt to avoid responsible-human-independence (RHI) by bemusing them with
hope that the-God will usurp their individual role in pursuing peace on earth.
There's ineluctable-evidence that RHI need-not& cannot be avoided. For
example, the parent who neglects their child invites losing the child. The
neglectful nation may lose its citizens. This could suggest that negligence is
the-God.
We can examine necessity
separately from justice. Under positive human response, necessity is caused by
physics. For example, female& male mate and the consequence may be a new
potential human-being. It takes a quarter-century for an encouraged
human-infant to acquire the comprehension& intention to develop their
unique human-being. Few young-adults emerge with self-interested
comprehension& intention to the-good. However, each human-being has the
opportunity, the power, the energy, and the authority to choose either
civic-integrity or infidelity. Here, “civic” means mutually reliable human
connections and transactions. Each person can& may choose fidelity. This
suggests that choice is the-God.
Young adults accept that they
can& may develop RHI. However, popular adult-practices the young may observe
facilitate& encourage negative dependencies: indolence, religion, crime,
tyranny, evil, and worse. The youth observe that these dependencies are
nourished by power& money. Often, adults forfeit power& money for sex.
The Biden administration promotes sex to elementary students. The youth
perceive that the 2022 consequence is chaos that is diverging. Their only hope
is to develop RHI anyway. What can motivate them to civic-integrity despite the
chaos? It seems obvious that sex is not the-God. Yet we are
constrained to ask: why do some people bend over backward for sex?
Social democrats intend to make
RHI impossible. Their strategy is to make government so large that no one can
resist. For example, they intend to enslave many children in a lifetime
irreversibly dedicated to the sex-change industry. Such industries are not
capitalism, because the sex-change service is not wanted by a RHI-culture.
Capitalism operates on reliable entrepreneurs providing needed& wanted
products and services to aware individuals. Communism defines& controls
products and services with no regard to the people.
Conservatism preserves economic
viability to the human species. For example, necessity& justice demand that
a person earn their food& shelter and safety& security. Civic citizens
earn what they individually need plus taxes by which to provide the infrastructure
for safety& security. That includes support for citizens who would-but-cannot
provide their needs. Preserving this economic system is fiscal conservatism. Economics
is a progeny of physics, perhaps of the-God; maybe physics invites
reform to polytheism. Just as a 2 party system vies for power, polytheism keeps
religious institutions from using “God” to distract from “the-God”. That is,
when the regime claims God, the people are quick to ask: what God? Maybe by
default “God” is the-God. I don’t think so.
Politicians have known for
millennia that a religious people can& may be-persuaded to-beg their God to
usurp RHI, leaving them vulnerable to tyranny. The British honed the
involvement of church in government, constitutionally requiring 26 bishop-seats
in the House of Lords. Unfortunately, the American Bar Association reveres
"Anglo-American law" and justices use it to tyrannize fellow-U.S.-citizens.
American citizens accommodate the tyranny. Individuals invite tyranny when they
can-but-don't pursue the necessity& justice of RHI. Thus, religious
conservatism exacerbates 2022's divergent chaos.
What motivates citizens to
accommodate tyranny? I think two negatives influence dependence. First, no culture practices,
facilitates, and encourages RHI to their youth and to adults unto maturity (to
“ourselves and our Posterity”; I quoted the preamble to the U.S. Constitution).
Second, a human life is too brief
for most individuals to overcome the civil practices in their locale, in order
to discover and adopt the civic-integrity that is required to pursue the-good.
Civic-citizens can& may listen to each other and responsibly pursue the
happiness each chooses rather than submit to tyranny. Civic-citizens encounter
justice only as providers, witnesses, and jury-service: necessities. When 2/3
of citizens are participating a better future will be possible. This
suggests civic-integrity is the-God.
Inculcating RHI is not a new
proposal. The Sumer civilization, 5,500 years ago suggested that Enka, their creation-God,
assigned responsibility for peace-on-earth to homo sapiens. Sumer kings, for
6,000 years, administered necessity& justice in their locale, leaving the
sky-mystery to the Gods to manage. The most complete extant Sumer code is the
Code of Hammurabi. The Sumerians were discovering the laws of physics&
progeny when ignorance that briny-irrigation concentrates salt and ruins soil. The
Sumer demise affirms that physics is the-God.
TO BE CONTINUED
CONTINUATION
Only 4,000 years ago, monotheism
dominated speculation about the-God, and cultures vied to claim the-chosen-people
under tribal-Gods. A recent article refers to 3 orthodox religions: Christianity,
Catholicism, and Judaism! It is so easy for social democracy to defeat divided
cultures! Not to mention that it makes no difference to a civic-citizen if his
neighbor is a Muslim, a Sumer descendant, an orthodox-tewahedo-Ethiopian, a
person with faith in no God, a philosopher, or simply an agent to
necessity& justice. The tribal beliefs preserve division. This
suggests that belief is the-God. But it’s a God of chaos rather than
order.
The “Western” competition for
dominant personal-God persisted through 1776. Then, formerly loyal British
colonists on the American eastern-seaboard declared that “Nature’s God” would
defeat the English-Trinity, Catholic or Christian as it may be. They were fully
aware that France did not want England to control N. America. Indeed France
gave the providence required to
invoke the supreme justice of the world at Yorktown, VA, in 1781. This
suggests that military-power is the-God.
The 13 free& independent
states specified in the 1783 Treaty of Paris could not develop RHI, so 12 of
them met to strengthen the union-of-states, the USA. Framers developed the
world’s first republic predicated on public discipline or RHI. Just 5 days
before the signing, the Committee of Style listed the disciplines: integrity,
justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, in order to practice, facilitate, and
encourage RHI to “ourselves and our Posterity”. Only 39 of 55 framers signed
the 1787 draft U.S. Constitution. States ratification-conventions caused
commitment that the first Congress would amend the draft. Thus, the framing of
U.S. institutions passed from independent thinkers to politicians. The 1789 USA
lessened by re-establishing some Anglo-American tradition.
France took themselves out of RHI-grace
with the “Bloody Revolution” of 1789. License to liberty replaced independence.
And in 1789, U.S. Anglo-traditionalists who had neither the means nor the intentions
to return to England sidelined RHI by restoring British tradition in the 1791
Bill of Rights. This suggests that politics is the-God.
The art called “religion”
persuades individuals to choose dependency. People pray for their religion to
relieve burdens. Politicians partner with clergy who construct& maintain a
persuasive mystery that bemuses people from the self-interest of RHI. The
mystery of soul is an excellent tyranny. The prospect of eternal damnation, or
reincarnation as a lesser species, or perhaps another mysterious punishment-scheme
instills fear that can dissuade an individual from fidelity to self, spouse,
family, and fellow-citizens. This suggests that fear is the-God,
not a new idea.
The politician-clergy partnership misuses
the innate human-tendency to take responsibility. Parental guidance to walk, to
talk, to think, and to act is necessary to facilitate and encourage offspring
to take responsibility for their person. The process can indoctrinate the
unaware-person to dependency for life. If the fallacy, you-have-personal-responsibility-for-your-mysterious-soul,
can be inculcated in the child, it may persist until death. Each child has the
opportunity, power, energy, and authority to accept that they were not involved
in origination of soul and therefore are ineffective respecting its destiny. A
responsible human-being can& may leave the mystery of soul to its origins,
in order to take responsibility for their unique person. This suggests that
responsibility is the-God.
Returning to
the-ineluctable-truth, my list is by no means complete. From physics to
responsibility, I listed 10 “the-God” suggestions and excluded sex. I hope
sharing my opinion will inspire someone to comment so that I can& may be
informed to improve my civic-integrity. I accept that something controls the
consequences of individual choice& action. By all means, we can& may be
humble to the-God, whatever that entity may be.
Comment:
I continually discover why Jesus strongly influences some
civic-citizens of the world: appreciation. Despite all that has been written
about him, Jesus’s practice, facilitation, and encouragement-to the-good
represents the innate human-condition if the individual nourishes their person unto
maturity. Personal-perfection is possible yet unlikely without practice,
facilitation, and encouragement.
That is to say, when a newborn
baby’s 2 parents and 4 grandparents exemplify, facilitate, and encourage
the-good, the baby can& may accept their unique opportunity, power, energy,
and authority to develop civic-integrity unto responsible-human-independence
(RHI). If so, they may, before dying, approach their perfected person. Perhaps
the person chooses RHI because they appreciate living.
I first encountered concretely-suggested
human-perfectibility-before-death in Ralph Waldo
Emerson’s “Divinity School Address” (1838). The Bible’s Peter& Paul
suggested that resurrection to heaven was personal-perfection. Emerson saw
Jesus as a man with unique appreciation of human being.
Born to my Eastern-Star-mother and
32nd-degree-Mason-father, who were competing Southern Baptists and
good providers, I keep an open mind to Jesus’ messages that seem affirmed by
experiences and observations.
When I read Agathon’s speech in
Plato’s “Symposium”, I saw the possibility that Jesus might introduce himself
to individuals according to the claim “Before Abraham was born I am”. I
perceived Agathon expressed transcendent-appreciation more than passion (eros.
I am not aware of another “Agathon-reflection-of-Jesus” and wonder if Greek
thought made its way into Bible text (ostensibly the word of the-God).
Recently, I discovered that
Genesis 1:28 expresses Sumerian political philosophy in Hebrew terms. Enki, the
creation-God, aids other Sumer-Gods who together tend to the heavens only. The-Sumer-Gods
rely on human-being responsibility for order& prosperity (peace) on earth.
The-Gods cannot usurp human duty. Matthew reports that Jesus affirms Genesis
1:26-28 in Matthew 19:3-4.
Some say “God is love”: perhaps
Jesus is appreciation. It seems to me appreciation is sufficient to inspire
civic-integrity and love is often inappropriate. I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.
The Sumer kings from 10,000 years
ago until 4,000 years ago, at amazing pace, discovered the laws of physics that
empowered them to limit chaos in their lives – invented the wheel, irrigation,
fortified cities, reed-mansions,
swamp-mats, and much more. They lived among warring cultures. See
skeptikai.com/what-happened-to-the-sumerians/, “the Mesopotamians believed that
Gods had already done their work and put the earth in motion. Humans were
merely co-workers who were there to maintain order and hold chaos at bay”. Individual
humans could& might cause chaos --- and suffer consequential
law-enforcement: eye for an eye and such.
Monotheism emerged, and cultures constructed
doctrinal-Gods to favor their particular tribe. Conquered, Sumer dispersed.
Descendants have dark hair and many eye colors and some may still be in southern
Iraq, practicing ancient livelihoods and crafts.
Regardless of Jesus’ status – man,
Son of God, or God -- advocates who transparently pursue Jesus practical ideas
can& may benefit. For example, it seems untenable for a man who joined to
his wife to divorce her; appreciating this principle could lessen divorce rates.
Entreating Jesus to usurp individual-human-responsibility for peace on earth
seems unappreciative if not arrogant. Each person may accept and share “my
peace I give you”.
Sumer left the suggestion that
human-being is responsible to limit chaos -- to provide peace on earth. Monotheism
repressed the peace mandate, constructing doctrinal-Gods to be persuaded to
usurp the human-responsibility to limit chaos. One tribe’s God would destroy
other tribes. Political policies can be judged on whether they lessen chaos and
increase peace on earth.
The Agathon story proffers
evidence that at least one Buddhist philosophy is grounded in the laws of
physics. The Buddhist seeks a mature teacher to help discover& establish
RHI (responsible-human-independence) by the student for the future. Once the student
consistently practices RHI to the present, they emerge a teacher to the future.
Time marches on, presenting new challenges rather than “killing” lessons from
the past. Similarly, Jesus’ message, be perfect, lives on as evolution
progresses.
The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers
a
republic with public disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength,
and prosperity, assigning personal inspiration& motivation to privacy.
However, the 1791 amendment imposes religious doctrine in hopes the-God will
usurp the-people’s duties. The practical consequence is 3 American orthodoxies:
Christianity, Catholicism, and Judaism and the erroneous claim to Manifest
Destiny. With the 1791 religious-freedom to Congress plus the consequentially
unrepresented fellow-citizens such as Muslims, Buddhists, Taoists, so called
“atheists”, and bountiful others, the USA is already divided for the enemy to
conquer. Yet the 2022 or future We the People of the United States can& may
reform.
For example, removing
Congressional religious constraints, in order to unleash Jesus’
human-appreciation& peace, can& may provide an achievable better-future
in the USA and beyond. Jesus’ appreciation of the-good can& may-be neither
constrained by tradition nor denied to civic-citizens. It seems “ourselves and
our Posterity” can& may choose the-good to prevail.
facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7 April 22, 2022
Nearing my 80th year, I've been asking myself (reading,
writing, speaking, and LISTENING to discover an answer): with such wonderful
people and 1787 draft constitution, how can Americans be divided?
Christian sects rather than Jesus/God divides Americans. Why
reform division? Use it to develop power.
There are 45,000 Christian sects in the world. No need to
divide: just take over and let them pray for relief. Jesus, come into my heart;
cleanse me; make me whole.
All the while, Jesus affirms Genesis 1:28. Observing on what
humankind has observed in 5,500 years, the idea is: female&
male-human-being can& may establish peace on earth. See Matthew 19:4-5 and
John 20:21, appreciating responsible-human-independence and peace,
respectively.
Phil
Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which
can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it
obviously does not work.
Phil is agent
for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit
corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays
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