End Times Speculation XXIII (ver. 2.0)

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Agreed. I think I’ve heard of that before. When it showed up as a screen saver, I chuckled and thought… I know exactly where to post that one.
 
Isn’t the plateau maybe already reached a pinnacle of extreme bias against objective moral truth a sign of our times?
Jesus Christ, and The Church teaches Holy Spirit guided courage in asserting the Beauty, Goodness, and Truth of God; recognizing the dignity and value of every human person. Devout persons who learned to grow by Grace in virtue and not give into the tendency of grave moral evil, those struggling with grave moral evil inside the Church & our neighbors; and the marginalized by lacking an informed conscience in providence. It seems to me that all being in the image and likeness of God; two main schools of thought are battling it out; and the main effect has been the culture of death killing tens of thousands every single day. And each of these human beings had the same exact God given dignity, value, & sacredness to breath the air as any of us.
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Thus, the school of thought; - that says in some fashion (with variations in conveying it;
sometimes in the Name of Jesus Christ, though usually secretly, i.e. Pius X used the
term Modernism for those who convey things like Jesus Christ’s Resurrection means
He is resurrected in our hearts and that the Miracle of the loaves & fishes wasn’t literal but a ‘miracle’ of people deciding to share charitably & so forth. And similar assertions
like a ‘Christ consciousness,’ as oppose to all of The Divine Revelation); -
God & morality are human reasoned changeable social constructs & mores has an extreme bias in all of the venues of society. And the results in disillusionment not only has caused the mass atrocities around the world, but their common goal against objective Beauty, Truth, & Goodness through a Biblical world view especially; uses ‘political correctness’ to form an intellectual emotionally charged reaction from as much of students and populace that they are able with distortion or imagined ‘victim’ mentality. This is the same exact tactic of the likes of Nero, Lenin, Hitler, and others.
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Only today, they use the concepts such as ‘justice,’ ‘inclusiveness,’ ‘coexistence,’ ‘peace,’ and personal happiness can be achieved by moral relativism; and any other philosophy or persons who teach against their concepts of this are the oppressors.
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This recent manifestation started in specific ways since the mid 1800s. And after a subtle subterfuge playing at heartstrings & enticing intellectual arguments using these concepts of ‘coexistence’ they developed an immense bias by the power gained by complacency of those who needed to convey Beauty, Goodness, and Truth more creatively, compassionately, recognizing the need for every person to know it. There was a lot of ‘self satisfaction’ resting on laurels. A misguided overly triumphal attitude in winning World War I, World War II, and so called Cold War which had millions of atrocities & casualties around the world. Too many did not recognize the subtle ideological war against The Divine Revelation.
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The lukewarmness to creatively, compassionately, teaching the why of objective Beauty, Truth, and Goodness - painting it as divisive if we do so because so many are stuck in moral confusion; and to assert The Sovereignty of Jesus Christ in every venue by the God/Creator/Laws of Nature/Nature’s God self evident inalienable truths show the state of the Church. So the so called ‘solutions’ to poverty & social justice that contributes or is complacent regarding a dictatorship of moral relativism culture of death shows the spirit of the anti-Christ at an extreme height.
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Many times those who speak objective truth at colleges & universities are not only not received well; but greeting with a passive aggressive or openly aggressive manner.
(i.e. student offered counseling for being so ‘traumatized’ by the ‘oppressive’ sometimes classified as ‘hate’ speech of those conveying objective truth; and almost rioting whereby the speaker must be led to a back door, sometimes with police escort.)
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Combine this widespread ‘dry martyrdom’ with the immense brutal oppression and bloody martyrdom in less open societies around the world; and the almost ‘oligarchical’ society unified to bring about their excluding the idea that every human being from the moment of conception as self evident inalienable Creator given rights; with a particular propaganda against the Biblical world view - painting it as ‘exclusive’ and imperialistic trying to squash other culture’s & religions free expressions & ideas of morality. And they are forcing by legislating & adjudicating many things so that more and more youth are seduced into this mindset in education.
Religious & moral conscience expression & right to be a conscientious objector is oppressed in huge ways.
And anyone who is an ally to objective Creator given inalienable self evident truth; among imperfect people are craftily maligned in the press, media, and other venues.
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These are dark days in deed. And it isn’t just an arbitrary accident of Providence; and like any time of ambiguity; each of us are tested how we live a personal life of Grace to be conformed to Godliness; and if we are lukewarm toward what happened to Godly authentic common good justice all around us.
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Peace.
 
Religion is a complicated thing and it’s no wonder some people don’t believe in it.
It seems we can have the tendency to hear many voices that make religion seem to be complicated, wouldn’t you agree? But how do we find clarity? Where is a voice of clarity, amidst the ambiguity that develops by so many voices?
" My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” - John 10:27-30
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There is a lot packed into these verses. But I’d like to bring up that the Father leads to Christ; and in Providence in hardships we all endure; including confusion in how we were taught in upbringings; or scaring in youth by abuse or poor leadership of adults, and so on. We all have basic Spiritual, mental, emotional, & physical needs. Every last thing that leads toward Christ uses objective Beauty, Goodness, and Truth to manifest these transcendental living qualities of God toward inner peace; well being with God beyond euphoric feelings which just can be from a temporary subjective perception of inner disharmony, only anesthetizing the inner conflict which must occur if it’s an emotional ‘high’ in an activity contrary from God’s Objective Ways & Justice; since we are all Created in the image and likeness of God.
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What does this have to do with the ‘End Times’ and religion? Well, every single voice that leads away or is complacent toward clear objective Beauty, Goodness, and Truth certainly isn’t helping. The more inner happiness a society in general justifies against; the more unjust a society becomes; this is completely objectively compassionately true; and does respect the God given dignity, value, and sacredness of every human person. So, it is clear, making sure we clearly teach God gives happiness; anything else leads to inner disharmony; compassionately, assertively, for the charitable concern for the other must come from God. Passivity, deliberate or otherwise does not help others. The idea of concerns regarding ‘turning someone off,’ is a compassionate idea. So the clarity; must be creative; compassionate, recognizing the dignity of the other person and assertive to historical need.
And we do not convey ‘religiosity’ either; only how religious observance in houses of worship, prayer, offerings, alms; and ‘planting seeds,’ at every opportunity with all due diligence of concern for others; helps us to renounce everything for The Kingdom of God taking up our cross daily to be worthy disciples. Jesus Christ gives a yoke that is light to grow in grace filled humbleness for growing in virtue and lessening attachment to sin; in all the hardships of life; on the narrow and difficult way to life.
~(one paragraph cont…—>) short end of reply to some find religion difficult. – Truth In Compassion
 
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It seems Archbishop Fulton Sheen and at least one Orthodox Saint agreed the Antichrist would:
  • Imitate Christ in every way possible
  • Claim to be Christ
  • Run a fake church that calls itself Christian but interpreted the Bible its own way
  • Perform great miracles
Fr. Seraphim Rose, “Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future”:
According to [Holy Scripture and Orthodox Tradition], world history will culminate in an almost superhuman “Christian” figure, the false Messiah or Antichrist. He will be “Christian” in the sense that his whole function and his very being will center on Christ, Whom he will imitate in every respect possible, and he will be not merely the greatest enemy of Christ, but in order to deceive Christians will appear to be Christ, come to earth for a second time and ruling from the restored Temple in Jerusalem. "Let no one deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come except there come a falling away (apostasy) first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God… even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all lying wonders, and with all deceivableness in them that perish … (II Thessalonians 2:3-4, 9-12)."

…Our Savior Himself has warned us: "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. Behold I have told you beforehand. If therefore they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the wilderness, go not forth; Behold, he is in the inner chambers, believe it not. For as lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be" (Matt. 24:23-27). The Second Coming of Christ will be unmistakable: it will be sudden, from heaven (Acts 1:11), and it will mark the end of this world. There can be no “preparation” for it - save only the Orthodox Christian preparation of repentance, spiritual life, and watchfulness. Those who are “preparing” for it in any other way, who say that he is anywhere “here” - especially “here” in the Temple of Jerusalem - or who preach that “Jesus is coming soon” without warning of the great deception that is to precede His Coming: are clearly the prophets of Antichrist, the false Christ who must come first and deceive the world
 
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Interesting! I wish I knew more about those prophecies (Russian or Catholic)…
 
The Church’s ultimate trial
from The Catechism of The Catholic Church.
675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.
676 The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the “intrinsically perverse” political form of a secular messianism.
677 The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection. The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God’s victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven. God’s triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.

Since; the philosophy/ideologies/agendas by various terminologies that claim God & morality are changeable human reasoned societal constructs & mores; have the main bias in educational, media, medical, an ‘oligarchical’ type political group of much of the same mind worldwide showing immense bias against self evident inalienable Creator given truths; greatly contributing to a culture of death; while claiming their ideas will form a better world & social justice; in addition tremendous bias against Judaeo Christianity in general in the public sphere; there already is, unbeknownst to so many a “persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth.” (cont…)
 
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Over the last century it was revealed some in The Church will privately hold that Jesus Christ is only Resurrected in our hearts; and privately hold to naturalistic explanations of miracles. But that isn’t the only problem. Some hold to passivity; rather than a compassionate assertive recognizing the dignity of every person; asserting virtue and how gravely immoral acts intrinsically hurts someone. It doesn’t make sense to do this; because not informing consciences not only hurts those individuals; it effects justice for the common good because of all of the time, talent, and treasure lost to not only the disordered acts; but justifying them. The acts themselves, and less time contributes to ills of society, including poverty. At the same time; the ones teaching a lukewarm teaching of Spiritual Works of Mercy; done with compassion; always recognizing the value of the person; give massive attention to their perception of the concerns of poverty & other social justice. This creates a ‘pandering’ to the moral relativist distortions of self evident inalienable Creator given truths; while giving social justice solutions that justify a culture of death.
The false Messiah; only has do exhibit these negative qualities; only the distorted solutions to the ills of the world; not be ‘certifiable’ for a mental or other institution by claiming to be Jesus Christ.
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen in a radio address before 1950 said he will not come in a red suit, horns, a tail, and a pitchfork. He will come as a great humanitarian. And a mimic Church, teaching lukewarmness toward growing in virtue; claiming a ‘new’ humanitarianism complacent to massive bloodshed will not be recognized by most as such. But a remnant faithful at every stewardship level will recognize this, keeping the authentic Church viable.
 
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It’s later than we understand. As predicted, Judgement Day approaches “like a thief in the night,” and we do not see it coming. Maybe the biggest misconception in this regard is that the anti-Christ is still to come. But this event has already happened, and it was Adolf Hitler, the greatest persecutor of YHWH’s chosen people.
 
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It’s later than we understand. As predicted, Judgement Day approaches “like a thief in the night,” and we do not see it coming.
…often appears like anti - Christ is already here.

Thankfully, there is hope in believing
"For behold, the kingdom of God is among you. " Luke 17:21
 
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Peace of Jesus Christ.
Nero, Hitler, and others exhibit anti-Christ tendencies; were horrible & were responsible for a lot of immense painful oppression, persecution, and painful deaths.
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The Gospel of Christ Jesus, always with us; Teaches perfect prudence congeniality;
and conforming our ‘inner disposition’ by Grace, toward the perfect Peace, not as the world gives, but as Jesus Christ gives. Sometimes we ‘taste’ this indescribable complete well being with God; a kind of ‘Transfiguration,’ a kind of ‘seeing God’s Face’ and yet living.
But there is a serious caution in all this. Which why Jesus Christ warned everyone;
but the ‘pious’ to themselves projecting this to others. When someone is so sure of themselves in leaning toward one’s own understanding; they experience a ‘satisfaction’ or pleasure, even if it’s wrong out of ‘haughtiness.’ For example, those who think that taking care of the poor, or other social justice stance, justifies there stance on legalized child killing, teaching children in schools against The Laws of Nature, oppressing freedom of conscience and so on. But also, those who believe in objective morality;
but pander to these types. The are so good at their intelligent emotional persuasive speech they ‘pat themselves on the back,’ interior. And the more following they get, the better. So many, cooperated with Nero by prestige, or power, or ‘bread’ dole, or ‘circuses’ distractions; only Jesus Christ knows the one’s who did by full act of the will; when Nero blamed the Judaeo Christians of ‘The Way.’ And we know that Ceasar Neron, adds up to 666, but that makes him ‘The Beast,’ not necessarily the anti-Christ.
One thing for sure, Hitler made up his own ten commandments to justify his agenda by oppression, persecution and murder. So anyone who uses his divisive ‘rules for radical’ divisive’ ‘politically correct (feigned congeniality)’ community organizing techniques follows his commandments thematically.
Once upon a time, in our society with pervasive ‘politically correctness’ by the complacency of ‘We The People’ in the U.S.A., and other nations a secular humanist dictatorship of (or complacency toward by peer pressure increasingly legislated & adjudicated) moral relativistic hedonistic (even intellectual pleasure in being wrong or complacent) culture of death grew and grew. A well know banquet was cancelled because the situation was so dire, whereas, ‘political correctness’ would have held the banquet anyway; but a courageous, walk the walk, by the sweat of the brow, leader would not have any of it. Many other good compassionate assertive witness did similar things; and there was a less ambiguity; but the fog of ambiguity was less than today. The factions of the ‘fog’ some wolves in sheep’s clothing, some dupes who could repent got more and more power. Less than a decade later, the whole world was struck with a blow, not many recognized; deals were made; the wound seemed to heal.
Years after that banquet, a leader of death, was seen smiling in a friendship meeting with a successor, seemingly enemies before; but jointly friends, now. Kind of like Pilate & Herod.
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A leader emerged, made a pact with Judaeo Christianity; but 3-1/2 years later he reneged. At that time he found a well known religious leader to to form a negotiation.
They certainly agreed to disagree on objective morality; but they agreed on certain points on some marginalized. The leader oppressed the Creator given inalienable self evident truths with playing at heart strings rhetoric charisma; specifically targeted against religious freedom of conscience of those of The Judaeo Christian Ethic. Showed great approval of painful gruesome aspects of children murdered. Where he came from he openly mocked The Holy Bible, but later claimed to be a Christian.
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The tens of thousands of children, adults, and sick murdered every day goes on with not many noticing that depend on the main stream media, at every stewardship level.
Younger and younger children by legislation & adjudication are told they must learn playing at heart strings justifications for Laws against nature.
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So many say, be calm, be safe, don’t be divisive; rather than compassionate assertive by Grace yoked to Jesus Christ. They don’t convey the Christ of Peace, but complacent calmness.
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The ensuing years, could be an interesting time; things could grow by the growing Grace filled raising awareness I see; or too many will be complacent; and things get worse.
(haughtiness of justifying evil or complacency toward evil) presumption (I will do what I think, God will forgive my giving up sins of omission or commission after I do them) or despair (not receiving Grace out of self pity or fear or peer pressure to do better) objectively known to God, whether or not a full act of the will, all at least lead to death,
because they give power to evil; which enables the hedonistic culture of death; when everyone needs an informed conscience.
 
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This is interesting:

Rabbi Who Prophesied California’s 6.4 Earthquakes Releases New Bombshell Prediction

"… If a war breaks out in the month of Tammuz, it will be between two kings. In the end, one king will defeat the other and he will be secure on his throne.”

This interests me because I started getting into End Times stuff through a book (which I STILL recommend, 10 years later) called “Epicenter” by Joel C. Rosenberg. A good part of that book describes the War of Gog and Magog. But I believe before then we’ll have the War of Psalm 81. This psalm describes a war where all the nations surrounding Israel (supported by modern-day Iran) attack Israel, but Israel wins (naturally) and subdues the attackers. Or this war could be where the proxy war in Yemen turns real, and Saudi Arabia and Iran go at each other.
 
Thanks for your reply. Sorry that I am unable to understand any of it. Perhaps you could condense your thoughts into something short and understandable by us the the uneducated.
 
Maybe, even though Gog & Magog are historical places; they can have a deeper Spiritual meaning.
(Gog…) &
(Magog…)

(Self righteousness by demanding my way presumption) &
(Self righteousness getting my way by self-pity complicity)
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(overt power hungry evil doing) &
(personal gain complict active or by passivity not doing my part)

(Despot) & (co Despots by complicit for reward or not objecting for what I can have.)

and so on. Peace.
 
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First reading today was Joseph reunion with his brothers. Couldn’t help but compare it with the theory that Jesus will redeem all of the Jewish people at the end of times.

Excerpt found in Wikipedia:(Conversion of the Jews - Wikipedia) but with book sources at base of wiki article)
The biblical basis for this expectation is found in Romans 11:25-26a:

The meaning of Romans 11:25-26a has been disputed. Douglas J. Moo calls Romans 11:26a “the storm center in the interpretation of Romans 9-11 and of New Testament teaching about the Jews and their future.”[8] Moo himself interprets the passage as predicting a “large-scale conversion of Jewish people at the end of this age”[9] through “faith in the gospel of Jesus their Messiah”.[10]

Pope Benedict XVI in his book Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week [11] (2011) has suggested that the church should not be targeting Jews for conversion efforts, since “Israel is in the hands of God, who will save it ‘as a whole’ at the proper time.”[3]
Joseph’s brothers killed their father’s son and, after a period of time, were thrown into jail for 3 days, comparing Christ’s death. What caused the sons to come back to their brother, reunite, and acknowledge he was alive? It was the desperation of famine. I can’t help but remind people of the precarious world-wide financial situation in 2008. Obama “saved” the banks by lending money to them, but in the long-term, causing the economy to kick the can down the road some more and put a temporary bandaid on an entire world economy that is growing trillions in debt. You’d have to be a fool to think this is not a dangerous problem. Will it somehow convert the Jews? I have no idea how it would. Just some thoughts. I do know it will cause desperation on a spiritual level. That is a good thing.
 
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Wow, so many in history, using the earthly kindred concept of the Jewish People,
slant things.
Every single time the world starts envying because another group is successful
with money; some who have money are in a state of Grace and are good stewards
to various levels; but the ‘tares’ weeds that look like wheat of any kindred have
fully ‘the love of money’ which is the root of all evil.
Societies in anguish look objectively for root causes.
But some, because Godly principles in a holistic view, like working by the sweat of one’s brow, if uneducated or if educated for various reasons on the lowest rungs of earnings; so that the children & generations after will be more successful.

Since, ‘Salvation in from The Jews,’ abstractly anyone grafted into The Olive Tree of Salvation, and Jesus Christ is the Lion from The Tribe of Judah; the saved, the wheat,
the faithful servants can be considered a ‘Jew’ adopted Gentile or not.

But it is true; the history of Israel mimics Salvation history. For example, a grain of wheat falls, germinates, and by Christ multiplies. From the first century, the awareness of Christ and His Highest Reputation grew. The gathering of the people of Israel from among the nations, is a sign at this time. The Gospel, Glad Tidings, Good News, will reach every nation. And since the Promises of God to Israel will be kept, this only intensifies the signs of our times.

Peace.
 
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However, the bias of relativism in it’s many forms did give rise, not only to anti-Antisemitism; but anti-Judaeo Christianity; anti-Gospel and so on.
Why? The anti-Christ nature of this; claims that human reason enlightenment
is the reason for success, not The Divine Revelation through The Natural Law,
giving self evident inalienable truths & rights to pledge Sacred Honor to uphold;
with a particular bias against The Judaeo Christian Ethic in particular.
Peace.
"In one particularly dramatic passage, reprinted by the Journal Nov. 9, 1978 (shortly after he became pope), Karol Wojtyla stated:
“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine Providence; it is trial which the whole Church, and the Polish Church in particular, must take up. It is a trial of not only our nation and the Church, but, in a sense, a test of 2,000 years of culture and Christian civilization with all of its consequences for human dignity, individual rights, human rights and the rights of nations.”
This was a halting statement. Note the line, “We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through.”
Some mistakenly think the end of The Cold War, ended this idea. Many do not see the aftermath, is extremely dangerous; which is why we see the ‘fission’ ‘wormwood’ divisiveness increase so much lately.
Peace.
 
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but we have more of a ‘Brave New World,’ thematically than, say China/N. Korea
 
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