Job Part V: Just a Few Questions

This is the final posting for the questions for the Book of Job in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. Next, of course, will be the questions for the Book of Psalms. Hopefully you have taken the time to go back to the beginning, to Genesis, to read and consider all of these questions from the very beginning. I hope you will also post answers, and if you do I appreciate your response.


1. Job 19:25
25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

Questions
1. Of course Job will say this. Why? Is it because as fucked up as Job's life has become God can fuck it up even MORE, in ways that Job knows he could never imagine nor comprehend?


2. Job 21:7
7 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Questions
1. Well, isn't part of the problem the fact that the wicked are often defined as those who do not believe in God? Aren't there plenty of good people who do not believe in God? Conversely, aren't there plenty of BAD people who believe in God?


3. Job 28:12
12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Questions
1. But...wisdom isn't straight knowledge, is it? Doesn't wisdom include knowledge combined with courage, compassion, consideration, comfort, and care? Does God know this? Shouldn't God know this?


4. Job 28:28
28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

Questions
1. If understanding is true wisdom doesn't that then make fear fairly useless?

2. How is departing from evil true understanding when there are plenty of folks who understand much...yet still choose evil?

3. If fearing the Lord is true wisdom...uhmmm...isn't the Lord/God then using a loathsome tool (fear) to gain glory, a following, devotion, and all of that divine poppycock?


5. Job 37:23-24
23 We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

24 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are wise of heart."

Questions
1. This makes no sense, does it? If God is SO excellent with His might and power (which can be seen everywhere) then people CAN find Him out, correct?

2. Where is God's justice and righteousness? Where was it for the Children of Israel as they meandered for forty fucking years in a goddamn desert? How about for the people who died on that most horrific September 11th? The people who did those terrible deeds that day worship the same damn God (and consequently thought that this God was showing justice and righteousness)...SO...where is the justice and righteousness?

3. If men revere ANYONE who has no regard for those who are wise of heart would they be doing so because they fear for their lives?

4. Would anyone in their right mind revere another who shows no regard for the wise of heart?


6. Job 38:4-6
4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

6 Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

Questions
1. Isn't this one of the most favored set of verses quoted by believers? Do you know how everything came to be? Do you understand the whys of everything? No? Then how can you say there is no God?

2. Sooo...does the lack of understanding as to the hows and whys of anything in nature/the universe/ourselves prove this maniacal God that believers swear is real?

3. Does man's lack of ability to do anything prove God or the supposed truth of the Bible?


7. Job 42:7-8
7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

8 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."

Questions
1. Sooo...God is basically saying that these guys made Him angry and so they all need to go and kill something? What the fuck?


8. Job 42:10-17
10 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.

17 So Job died, being old and full of days. BOOK I

Questions
1. Sooo...is God bribing Job with all of these things? Are all of these new things supposed to make the taking of all of his previous belongings/family okay and excusable?

2. Does this make the deaths of Job's previous children easier to bear? Does it or is it supposed to wash God's hands of guilt?

3. Sooo...what about everyone who got fucked over in this little experiment to test Job's faith and trust in God? What do they get?

4. God being all-powerful and all-knowing, He didn't have to prove Job's devotion/allegiance in this manner, did He?

5. Does God use this story of Job in the Old Testament to build the bad reputation of Satan?

6. This ALL falls on God, doesn't it? Isn't HE the one Who is supposed to be in ultimate, total control of EVERYTHING?


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II Chronicles Part II: Just a Few Questions

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More Biblical Repetition

Oh dear me...more repetition. BUT I have taken this journey of my own accord and might as well follow through. Here are more questions for the book of II Chronicles. Please be so kind as to leave a comment if you so desire.

1. II Chronicles 21:7

7 But the LORD did not want to destroy David's dynasty, for he had made a covenant with David and promised that his descendants would continue to rule, shining like a lamp forever.

Questions

     1) Sooo...God won't COMPLETELY destroy the house of David, but He WILL bring it great sorrow and suffering in addition to destroying the other houses, right?

2. II Chronicles 21:12-15

12 Then Elijah the prophet wrote Jehoram this letter: "This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: You have not followed the good example of your father, Jehoshaphat, or your grandfather King Asa of Judah.

13 Instead, you have been as evil as the kings of Israel. You have led the people of Jerusalem and Judah to worship idols, just as King Ahab did in Israel. And you have even killed your own brothers, men who were better than you.

14 So now the LORD is about to strike you, your people, your children, your wives, and all that is yours with a heavy blow.

15 You yourself will suffer with a severe intestinal disease that will get worse each day until your bowels come out."

Questions

     1) How lovely. I will hurt you, I will make you suffer, I will make your family and friends suffer...in fact, I will make you watch them all die and then make you suffer more...and then I will very likely kill you? Is THIS the God you worship?

3. II Chronicles 25:2

2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not with a whole heart.

Questions

     1) How in the fuck did he do what was right in the eyes of the LORD/God if what he did he did with less than a whole heart, hummm? 

     2) Would less than a whole heart qualify as right in the eyes of the LORD/God?

4. II Chronicles 29:31-34

31 Then Hezekiah declared, "Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, bring your sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings to the Temple of the LORD." So the people brought their sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings, too.

32 The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD. 

33 And the consecrated offerings were 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep.

34 But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.

Questions

     1) So much death. Is that what the LORD/God requires that He let the people live? Death and LOTS of it?

5. II Chronicles 30:22-24

22 Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites regarding the skill they displayed as they served the LORD. The celebration continued for seven days. Peace offerings were sacrificed, and the people gave thanks to the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

23 Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.

24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.

Questions

     1) When will the death requirement ever be over? When will God/the LORD say enough to death?

6. II Chronicles 31:6

6 And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps.

Questions

     1) Dedicated things? What are dedicated things? Why must God/the LORD have dedicated things? 

     2) How and why would God need anything? If God needed anything wouldn't that negate His supposed all-powerful nature?

7. II Chronicles 32:21

21 And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.

Questions

     1) What in the fuckey-doo is this craziness?

8. II Chronicles 32:22

22 So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side.

Questions

     1) Oh sure, saved them at the GREAT expense of the lives of so very many others, right?

9. II Chronicles 32:27-29

27 And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor, and he made for himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of costly vessels;

28 storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds.

29 He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great possessions.

Questions

     1) Sooo...did the LORD really decide to share His treasures with the king, or did He simply let the king hold these items so that he would think that they were really his when all along the LORD never passed ownership/title, but merely passed possession?

10. II Chronicles 32:33

33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper part of the tombs of the sons of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

Questions

     1) What good does honor do the dead?

11. II Chronicles 33:2

2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

Questions

     1) How many times does the LORD/God say this about the king's of His own people?

12. II Chronicles 36:19

19 And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.

Questions

     1) Sooo...God is all-great and oh-so-powerful that He gets His ass kicked and all of His shit burned to the ground? AND...WHY did this happen to an all-powerful God that is responsible for every breath and tick of life for all time for ever and ever amen?

     2) When God's/the LORD's people get their asses kicked and God says it is because they have been bad people...do you think He is just saying that to cover-up His own powerlessness and grandiose claims of ultimate, insurmountable powers?

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I Samuel Part II: Just a Few Questions

I Samuel Part II

I Samuel is an immensely interesting book of the Bible. I hope you will take the time to read it for yourself and stop to consider the questions that come to your mind...especially those in regards to physical handling of the ark. It seems as though some of the previously mentioned laws of safety while around the ark are not followed here, but amazingly some people survive being around the ark. Go figure.

And now...Part II of I Samuel. As always, feel free to post any answer to any of the questions if you so desire. If using Bible verses for a reference please note the passage location so that I may look it up.

1. I Samuel 3:1
1 The boy Samuel was serving the LORD under Eli. In those days a prophecy from the LORD was rare; visions were infrequent.

Questions
     1) Sooo...what is meant by the use of the term 'boy' in this verse? Other translations use the word 'child' or the term 'young man' which do carry their own meanings, so which is it?

     2) Do you mean serving the LORD as in helping with the offerings, cleaning, organizing, running errands for the LORD, what? 

     3) Why was a prophecy or vision from the LORD rare in those days? I do not understand this. Doesn't the LORD need to interact with His people? If they do not hear from Him aren't they going to think He has up and gone? What else would they think? Does a God Who loves and cares for His people ignore them or give up on them or let them think He does not care about them any more?

     4) If God/the LORD is everywhere all of the time how is it that the Word of God/the LORD is so rare? Why were visions NOT widespread? Doesn't God want to be heard and seen?

     5) Why would God withhold Himself? Since God is EVERYWHERE to begin with, is an act of withholding Himself even possible?

2. I Samuel 3:3
3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was.

Questions
     1) Remember in previous books of the Bible that there were discussions about how dangerous the ark of God was to people?

     2) How is this little kid able to sleep where the ark is and not be harmed, hummm?

3. I Samuel 3:4-6

4 Then the LORD called Samuel, and he said, “Here I am!”

5 and ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” So he went and lay down.

6 And the LORD called again, “Samuel!” and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call, my son; lie down again.”

Questions

     1) I am wondering if Eli and young Samuel were the only two individuals in the temple, aren't you? I mean, if they were the only two present when Samuel heard the voice, and if Eli knew neither he nor the boy had said anything, shouldn't Eli's being a priest coupled with this solitude and lack of vocalization by humans have been the first clue that it was God/the LORD speaking?

    2) How can Samuel serve in the temple under Eli and NOT at least have some kind of working knowledge as to the LORD's voice, or at the very least could recognize the difference between the voice of Eli and the voices of others?

4. I Samuel 3:7-10
7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.

8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the young man.

9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down, and if he calls you, you shall say, ‘Speak, LORD, for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

10 And the LORD came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.”

Questions
     1) Sooo...one verse says Samuel served the LORD, and then another verse says Samuel did not yet know the LORD? How does this work?

     2) How does a person who serves the LORD not know the LORD?

     3) Would Margaret Thatcher have been a good prime minister knowing NOTHING about Great Britain?

     4) Why is God being juvenile in His behavior by not simply allowing Samuel to know/realize Who was speaking? Besides, with God being all-powerful you would think His voice would be as well, right? I mean, did He not command everything into existence? SO, how does Samuel NOT know Who is calling him?

     5) If God supersedes all in EVERYTHING, how is it that He does not reveal Himself to Samuel from the very first moment He called him?

     6) How did Eli NOT hear God when God called Samuel? Sure, the Bible says Eli is deaf, but do you really think a hearing problem would ever contain or repel or inhibit the voice of God? 

     7) Why did it take God calling Samuel THREE times before Eli finally realized WHO was doing the calling?

     8) Why did Eli instruct Samuel to go lay back down and see if the LORD would call Samuel again?

5. I Samuel 3:12-13
12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.

13 And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.

Questions
     1) Sure, we get it what Eli's sons did was horrible. However, where is the justice in punishing their entire family...FOREVER?

     2) Since when should the blasphemy of a few family members dictate the demise of the ENTIRE family?

6. I Samuel 3:14
14 Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”

Questions
     1) God and the everlasting love that He is supposed to encompass is a sustaining factor for man, right?

     2) Are there limits to God's love?

     3) If God is not limited by anything, anywhere, or at anytime, how can either His love or forgiveness be interfered with, even by Himself OR blasphemy?

     4) Wouldn't limitation of God or His character traits work in opposition to the very purpose and center of all God is?

     5) For God to deny Eli and his family atonement is the same as God denying Himself, isn't it?

7. I Samuel 3:19
19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

Questions
     1) Never let his words fall to the ground? Does this mean that God made sure that whatever God told Samuel to say He made sure it damn-well happened/came true?

     2) Did the LORD provide this courtesy to other individuals who served as His personal puppet?

     3) Did God ever let anyone's words fall to the ground? What does this mean? Why would He do it? What would be His motivation?

8. I Samuel 4:8
8 Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.

Questions
     1) GODS who struck the Egyptians? Surely the Philistines knew that the people of Israel worshiped only ONE God, so why the plural wording?

     2) Since when did God strike the Egyptians in the wilderness? It was the people of Israel that were in the wilderness for what, forty years, right? When God struck Egypt with the plagues the Egyptians were NOT in the wilderness, correct? So, who screwed this one up?

     3) Every sort of plague? Wasn't it only ten plagues?

9. I Samuel 4:9-10
9 Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight.”

10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.

Questions
     1) Sooo...part of 'being a man' is fighting and killing? Fighting and killing are considered courageous? Why? Because GOD said so? Is this type of thinking why there are so many problems with men and and the stupidity of fighting over even more stupid crap?

     2) Sooo...tell me what you think about God's promise to His people of the promised land that flowed with milk and honey? How is it going for the people? Are you impressed with the benefits the people are reaping? Are you impressed with the level of debauchery expressed by God?

     3) Sooo...are the days of God giving the enemies into the hands of His people over?

     4) Is God just trying to remind people just Who is in charge? 

10. I Samuel 4:11
11 The Ark of God was captured, and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were killed.

Questions
     1) If God did not like the job they were doing why did He allow them (Eli's sons) to keep their temple positions as long as they did?

     2) Why didn't God fire them or dismiss them and get another more upstanding individual to do the job? Why must He kill them? Worship jealousy? 

     3) If God is all-knowing He saw this shit happening from waayyy off, so why didn't He save a lot of time and trouble and have the right person assigned to begin with?

     4) If Eli's sons were so awful and evil then how were they able to work around the ark for so long without dropping dead when Aaron's own son dropped dead when he fucked up around the ark?

11. I Samuel 4:18
18 As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

Questions
     1) How in the hell does this ultimate, righteous God kill an old man the way He killed Eli?

     2) Isn't this elder abuse, whether or not what Eli did was wrong?

12. I Samuel 5:1, 3
1 When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

3 And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.

Questions
     1) This is a show of the mighty and awesome strength and power of God? God pushes down the statute of the other God? What the fuck is this, recess at friggin' kindergarten?

     2) How were these people able to move the ark without being killed? How would they have known how to treat it? Why didn't God strike them down? Was He too weak and the ark had to 'charge' for energy, or something?


13. I Samuel 5:9
9 But after they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.

Questions
     1) Why does God choose to physically cause people pain and great psychological distress where the people more or less get to guess what God is mad at?

     2) Is it above or below God to simply go to the people and have a regular, hate-free, pain-free, and fear-free conversation where He tells His people everything He wants in simple terms?

     3) Does God enjoy seeing people suffer?

     4) Why must the young also be afflicted? Does God NOT know punishing someone unjustly is an abuse of power?


14. I Samuel 6:1, 5-6
1 The ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

5 So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land.

6 Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?

Questions
     1) How is it that the heathen Philistines were able to remove the greatest symbol of the most powerful God from HIS people?

     2) Sooo...in order to save themselves the one and only true God Who is noted to have said to NOT make ANY graven images has instructed the people to create graven images of tumors and mice in an effort to alleviate those problems?

     3) If in God's commandments that Moses brought to the people it says to not have graven images or make them...and God is telling people to do just this...isn't God breaking His own commandment?

     4) What do you say to a God Who commanded you to NOT make graven images, but then turns around and says to make them? Is He trying to trap you? Is He trying to teach you a lesson? What is the lesson learned in breaking the commandment?


15. I Samuel 6:19
19 But the LORD killed seventy men from Beth-shemesh because they looked into the Ark of the LORD. And the people mourned greatly because of what the LORD had done.

Questions
     1) Why does God continuously kill people who come close to the ark or try to look into the ark? Does He kill them to keep His image mysterious and to maintain His grip on fears of the human being's mind and the resulting patterns of behavior?

     2) Since God is all-powerful He can do anything, right? Anything including NOT killing people who are curious about God and want to know what there is to know about God, right?

     3) Is or was there something that the LORD/God did not want the people to find out about in regards to the God of Israel?

     4) Are God's actions here quite purposeful and intended to scare the crap out of and remind the people of Israel exactly WHO has the reigns of power?


16. I Samuel 7:1
1 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the LORD and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to have charge of the ark of the LORD.

Questions
     1) Sooo...were the men who took the ark to the house of Abinadab clean or unclean? If unclean how were they not killed upon approaching the ark, much less moving it?

     2) How did the men who took the ark survive considering if people did not approach the ark at just the right times it would kill them? How did they know when to approach it?


17. I Samuel 7:3
3 Then Samuel said to all the people of Israel, "If you are really serious about wanting to return to the LORD, get rid of your foreign gods and your images of Ashtoreth. Determine to obey only the LORD; then he will rescue you from the Philistines.

Questions
     1) Doesn't this verse and verses like it very overtly seed intolerance?

     2) Does this verse remind you of those uber-delusional Christians who SWEAR that the United States was founded on Christianity and the Bible and that if we all want America's problems to go away we must do things like God says to do them in the Bible...like kill homosexuals and stone sassy children and execute witches and sorcerers, yada-yada, plucka-plucka? If you doubt this look up John Hagee, Pat Robertson, and any of their best pals.

     3) You know what else this twisted verse reminds me of? When I was a kid the church my parents attended actually had a book burning. Yes. That is one of my more disturbing memories. I was fairly young at the time, about 13 or 14, and it gave me such a chill when, while watching these people I knew throwing books and other items into the fire, my mind automatically pushed the WWII documentary footage of Nazi book burnings to the front of my mind. Creepy.

18. I Samuel 7:8
8 And the people of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the LORD our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”

Questions
     1) Why didn't the people of Israel simply speak to the LORD themselves? Why not each person take it upon themselves personally to pray a personal prayer to God?

     2) Did God create all of the complicated, intricate rituals intended to communicate with God so confusing that people would think only the special priests could talk to God?

     3) Sooo...by crying out to the LORD/God are we to assume such means begging and pleading and throwing one's self down before God in such a pathetic manner that God decides to help you in His own self-serving effort to throw you a bone?

19. I Samuel 7:9
9 So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. And Samuel cried out to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answered him.

Questions
     1) Do you see anything wrong or off in regards to the LORD always having one person, such as a priest, crying out to the LORD for the people? Do you think things between the LORD and His chosen people would have been a lot better if the LORD had allowed the people to speak with Him personally instead of having someone else do it for everyone all at once?


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