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03:13pm 19/11/2008
 
 
vtturkey
"The first defense of theism that I will consider is the cosmological argument. It states that everything that exists is caused to exist by something else. For example, mountains are caused b y shifting tectonic plates, and fire is caused by the combination of heat, fuel, and air.  So what caused the universe to exist? Supporters of the cosmological argument say that since we cannot conceive of an infinite series of cause and effect stretching back for eternity, there must have been a first cause. According to them, this first cause is God. If this argument seems persuasive at first, give it a closer look. First there is a glaring contradiction: if everything that exists has a cause, then what caused God? If we have so much trouble imagining an infinite chain of cause and effect, how can we imagine a being that’s existed infinitely long? Some theists would reply that God doesn’t need a cause; that he is self-caused. But how can this be? In order for God to have caused himself, God would already have had to exist. And if God was somehow self-caused, then why couldn’t the universe be self-caused as well? The last weakness I will discuss in this “proof” is that it assumes too much. Even if there is a first cause, there is absolutely no reason to believe that it is an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good deity or even a conscious being."

This is misleading, and therefore wrong. The cosmological theory for one isn't just about religion. For two it isn't stated that everything that exists is caused to exist by something else, the main point of this paragraph, instead what it says is that any entity requires a cause if and only if it has a beginning, and the theory is to discover the first cause, the entity that always was and never had a beginning itself and so does NOT require a cause. This is a theory on what the first cause was not whether or not a first cause existed.

A better counterargument to the cosmological theory is that the argument is asking what caused the first cause, the first cause being what created the universe and everything we know including time, but since there was no time and a cause and effect question relies on time the question becomes nonsensical.

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The second argument that I would like to test is the ontological argument. It states that God is a perfect being, and in being perfect he must lack no attributes or properties. Therefore, God must exist, because if he didn’t, he would be lacking the attribute of existence. In short, because we have the idea of God as a perfect being, he must exist. To understand one of the flaws in this argument, consider this short dialog.

Jim walks up to Bill and says, “I’d like you to meet my friend Bob.” Bill looks around, sees nobody but the two of them, and says, “Sure, where is he?” Jim assures his friend that Bob is right next to them, but can’t be seen. When asked how he can be sure that Bob exists, Jim replies, “I imagined him a few minutes ago. I thought of a perfect guy named Bob, so he must exist. If he didn’t exist, he wouldn’t be perfect.”

The story of Jim, Bill and Bob cant be applied to the ontological argument. Bob is an imagined person and therefore has, by definition, limits. The ontological argument can only be applied to that which is limitless and could concievably be all perfection. God, to be God, must have every greatness that a perfect person need not have. An ontological arguement can only be applied to one great being, so unless Bob is god this can't work. Besides Bob is invisible and so is imperfect in that he isn't visible.

"One position that has recently had much support is the argument from design. It claims that the world is much too complex and orderly not to have been created by some divine architect. They point to intricate cycles of migration, to delicate balances of predator and prey, and to the overwhelmingly minute details that make up a living organism. A popular analogy which is often used to explain this argument is that of the watch and the watch-maker. It says that if a person were to find a watch on a deserted island they would logically assume that some person had made that watch, and not that the watch had simply fallen together at random. This analogy, however, is not entirely accurate because a living organism is not a watch. A watch can only be made by a watch-maker. A human being, on the other hand, is born of its parents, not “made” by a human-maker. In addition to this, the complexity of our world can be explained by a much better supported theory. Evolution can easily account for all the fantastic workings of our planet without invoking some magical creator. Outside our own planet, the big bang theory has much more evidence in its favor than “Let there be light.”

I assume this argument being refered to is the teleological argument. The author states that because an organism is not a watch then the argument as a whole doesn't make sense. Well the argument isn't trying to prove that a human being is anything other than a human being, especially not a watch. What the argument is stateing is that the complexity of a human being must have been created by something as a watch is created by something. God being a metaphorical watchmaker. Next the author argues that because people are born from parents, not created, then there is no watchmaker. The problem is that the teleological argument is not talking about people now but of the first people and the first creation. This argument does not fight against darwinism, instead it merely tries to prove that dawinism was not a series of random mutations, instead it was an order of intelligent design. the arguemtn being that because people are so complex and orderly they couldn't be created by such random mutations.
 
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birthday update  
10:58am 03/10/2008
 
 
vtturkey
Had to pay 110$ for a new tire, and then went to work for 7 hours and spilled hot nasty ass grease onto myself. Took less than an hour to teach myself to drive stick-shift. Carla gave me some banana nut bread for my birthday.

Today is a new day and I'm going to go visit Karmi tonight. I love her.
 
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ho ho livejournal  
03:54pm 24/09/2008
 
 
vtturkey
what to do what to do what to do.
 
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04:58pm 11/03/2008
 
 
vtturkey
 

so i hate when people complain about grammar and spelling in a text message or online and then say how easy it is and how retarded the whole world is but them for not understanding some simple rule that they believe they know much more about than you, especially when, in most cases, the people making errors A)know that they made an error but don't care to fix it (me) B)are writing speedily and don't care to make a difference between your and you're because they know the message isn't changing C)do it because of some limitation such as text messages can only be so many characters long D)scrolling for a ' in a phone is a bitch or E) people type like they speak, you don't speak with commas and apostrophes.

there wasn't really a reason i wanted to say this but it is annoying when people complain about essentially nothing. i mean if i was "hey whats up?" everyone knows its a conjunction and needs a comma but they know what i said and they know how to respond. there is no pause between hey and whats if you were to say it out loud and so no significant facet of this conversation is lost.

find something else to bitch about such as the fact that no one seems to stop to try and save the earth anymore.

on to this weekend.

it sucked at first because i thought karmi wasn't coming and it had been a perfect weekend for her to come. fri sat and sunday were all free for me the weather was nice we would've been alone together and i really missed her. but then she wasn't coming down! well that sucked so i didn't do anything saturday because i didn't even have a car :X. but w/e.only w/e cuz she came down sunday after visiting friends in columbia and we went ahead and had an amazing day together. man i love her. anyways it was made in a dismal day the next morning because i thought she was going home but she didn't! so we went ahead and had another wonderful day together on monday.

location: home
mood: chipper chipper
music: kryptonite
 
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10:21pm 05/03/2008
 
 
vtturkey

 1. Where did number 1 go?
i hate this quiz already.

2. What color are your eyes?
golden brown.

3. What does your second text say?
"haha no i just comb it all goofy when i get out of the shower" - inbox
"y? did u dye-cut it?" - outbox

4. How do you think your latest ex feels about you?
eh i think we r fine altho i have no want to talk to her

5. Do you like what you see in the mirror?
im ok with myself i guess jeez

6. What are you listening to right now?
karmi on speaker

7. What’s one word to describe you?
liberal

8. What are your plans for this weekend?
charleston?
picnic
ice skating?
meeting smith's friend darcey
sex?
^^ those better be karmis plans! 

9.What makes you laugh?
sarcasm in large part but mostly anything. pain is humor
10lbs sexy in a 5lb bag.

10. How's your room looking?
nice cuz karmi mihg tbe coming over, altho possibly not even in here lol

11. Get asked anything ridiculous lately?
hmm. probaly by karmi.

12. What are you doing tomorrow?
school and home

13. Whats your screen name say?
the actual name = vtgeez
the little extra msg thing? = 2 + 2 = chair

14. What are you wearing right now?
boxers

15. What were you most looking forward to today?
karmi

16. How is your hair?
it doing good last i heard although we havn't sat done for a chat in awhile mayb ill inv for tea

17. As of today, do you like anyone?
yes

18. Have you kissed anyone on the lips within the past 7 hours?
no :(

19. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?
and longer.

20. Do you stay friends with your exs?
some i could but i havn't spoken to any exs in a long time

21. Do you like your first name?
yes

22. Do you like to cuddle?
yea!

23. What are your initals?
sp

24. Baseball or football?
Football.

25. Married?
lawl no.

26. What's your biggest fear?
sucking at what i do.

27. How do you feel about racism?
hes a bad dude, i once saw him stab somebody! you don't wana go out drinking with him.

28. Who's the sexiest person alive?
the girl im in lvoe with

29. Who was the last person you talked to on MSN or AIM?
christopher

30. Song that reminds your of old memories?
memories

31. Do you like the color gray?
no

32. Is there someone you really can't stop thinking about?
always.

33.Look out side hows the weather?
was not to bad last i checked, i dont take orders though

34. Are you jealous of anyone right now?
no, no1 has a more perfect gf than me and she is all i need

35. Did you ever think someone didn't like you, but come to find out they really did?
well i didnt think karmi liked me more than she did

36. Name something great that happened today?
nothing

37. Do you regret doing something today?
i regret nothing

38. List two facts about your last kiss?
1) karmis kisses always turn me on
2) i wish she never had to leave

39. What was your first thought when you looked in the mirror this morning?
i didnt

40. Where is the next place you will travel to?
spartanburg or japan

41. Do you want to get married & have kids one day?
too much of the future

42. Do you curse a lot?
not as much as most

43. Have you ever kissed in a pool?
yea

44. Do you like ice cream?
who doesn't?

45. Who's the last person you texted?
nelson

46. What does the last text in your inbox say?
yeah man

47. Are you open about your sex life?
yes lol

48. Have you ever lied to protect someone's feelings?
yes

49. Are you hiding something from your parents?
many things

50. Do you get jealous of other people easily?
no

51. What's the best thing about having a boyfriend/girlfriend?
i always have someone to turn to and know that somwhere she loves me as much as i love her

52. Are you of great importance in someone else's life?
up to them i assume but she tells me i am

53. What's your favorite saying?
only on way to find out

54. Is there anybody that knows your deepest, darkest secret?
yea

55. Could you fit down your chimney?
who the fuck would know that?

56. Who taught you to tie your shoes?
learned myself

57. Do you usually sing while showering?
no

58. Whats something that really grosses you out?
not much

59. What is the oldest person you would date right now?
love is without age

60. Do you stick up for what you believe in?
if someone is being ignorant or hurtful.

61. Is there anybody you're really disappointed in right now?
no

62. If you could go back in time would you?
yes

63. Do you use your middle finger often?
not really

64. What's annoying you right now?
this tests stupidness

65. Are you a really understanding person?
I like to think I'm pretty understanding

66. Do you know anyone who's addicted to any drugs?
yea.

 

 

 

this other one i stole from karmi
1. What's your first name?
sean.jpg

2.What school do you go to?
fort dorchester vs goose creek

3.What is your relationship status?
love.jpg

4.What is your favorite color?
 blue blue

5. Who is your celebrity crush?
angelina jolie

6. What are you listening to now?
Karmi

7. What is your favorite movie?
the nightmare before christmas

8. What is your favorite disney princess?
 Jasmine jasmine

9. Name an alcoholic beverage?
hurricane

10. Where is your dream vacation?
JAPAN

11. What is your favorite dessert?
BANANA SPLIT

12. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Pastry Chef

13. What do you love most in life?
 art art

14. What's your mood?
tired.jpg

15. One word to describe yourself?
liberal

 
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10:50pm 04/03/2008
 
 
vtturkey
so walking for 1hr45min to a place you hate is a sucky feeling and when you have to do it at 7am in the drizzle it becomes down right cruel. on the upside i know what im doing for karmis birthday, not that its looming over but its still nice that i dont have to decide this later.

 1. Two names you go by
1) sean
2) hippy

2. Three things you are wearing right now.
1) boxers
2) uhmm i got nothing else
3) can you count my peircings maybe?

You must answer every question TRUTHFULLY.

2. Have you ever been given a rose?
no.

3. What is your all-time favorite romance movie?
cyrano de bergerac

4. Have you ever been in love?
yes

5. Do you believe that everyone has a soul-mate?
im not sure i believe in souls so let me decide that one first

6. What's your current problem?
school

7. Have you ever had your heart broken?
yea but wasnt as bad as i thought

8. Your thoughts of online or long distance relationships?
online for me = crazy psycho
distance = love of my life

10. Are you a retard?
no, but my friends in general are so i guess once again i need new best friends.

11.How many kids do you want to have?
2.3

12.what is your favorite color/
blue

13. Do you believe you truly only love once?
i believe ive only truly loved once and luckily still do.

14. Have you ever found it hard to tell someone you like them?
uhmm it was odd circumstances

16. At what age did you start noticing the opposite sex?
7ish i guess

17. What song do you want played at your funeral?
lucy in the sky with diamonds

18. Do you like anyone?
yes.

19. Does that person know?
yes.

20.Does that person like u back?
man it would suck if they didn't

21. Would you do anything to get that person?
yep.
 

man that wasnt a very in depth quiz. w/e
location: home
mood: tired tired
music: ace of spades
 
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party  
04:10pm 03/03/2008
 
 
vtturkey
so this weekend was fun, ithad its bad moments but w/e. im glad i got to see karmi. im just gonna throw this one out there although i believe certain parties named will get pissed. i so drank vanessa under the table :P the party coulda been better but w/e it was fun and seeing drew almost throw a fan off his second stroy was pretty gr8.
 
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08:35pm 26/02/2008
 
 
vtturkey
so im  bored waiting for karmi to call me, i dont have really anything intresting to write about. theres a party this weekend im hopeing karmi comes down. star is ridiculously cute. but her breath smells soooo bad. i really want another jone soda but sadley im out. uhmm i have work tomro but it is a halfday at least. i may go get another piercing done im not sure yet.  i dunno i told AJ i would but i think i work we will see. i need to stop getting them cuz im broke. but w/e i want them done. there was more i was going to say but i need to go do college shit
 
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Writer's Block: Sticks and Stones  
09:48pm 25/02/2008
 
 
vtturkey

What's the meanest thing you've ever said to someone?


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i want you to die in a fire because i hate you so much, you will never amount to anything because your a failure at life and you've just been voted as suckiest person alive. seeing your face makes me want to vomit.

 

i said that to my bestfriend and man was it good. im sure he desered it tho at some point or another.
 

 
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08:42pm 25/02/2008
 
 
vtturkey

im just gonna post some of the best books ever that i've read. and books that i want to buy. this is really for my sole amusment kinda like a tracking list lol. ill add author names later. this list does not include; poems, short stories, letters, how-to, or bibliographies unless i really wanted to add them. most likely im going to make a new post for poems and another for movies.



Books i've readBooks i want to readReading
brave new world the koran alas, babylon
tuesdays with morrie rest of dragon lance series dealing with dragons
1984  promise me
we  death of che guevara
harry potter series  slaughterhouse-five
dragon lance series  sabriel
kite runner  
grapes of wrath  
eragon series  
things fall apart  
all quiet on the western front  
catch-22  
in my own words  
wicked  
a streetcar named desire  
medea  
adventures of tom sawyer  
adventures of huckleberry finn  
prince and the pauper  
pudd'nhead wilson  
a connecticut yankee and king arthur's court  
jason bourne series  
october country  
saga of recluse series  
narnia series  
ghattis tales series  
black house  
colorado kid  
cyrano de bergerac  
le petite prince  
godless  
elfquest series  
davinci code  
deltora quest series  
stuart little  
myron bolitar series  
carrie  
desperation  
dreamcatcher  
cell  
firestarter  
green mile  
it  
pet sematary  
salems lot  
shining  
talisman  
slaughterhouse-five  
death of che guevara  
farenheit 451  
lord of the flies  
don quixote  
romeo & juliet  
othello  
merchant of venice  
midsummers night dream  
tempest  
king john  
julius ceasar  
macbeth  
hamlet  
king lear  
anne frank  
goose bumbs series  
sherlock holmes  
encyclopedia series  
alice in wonderland  
mein kampf  
the bible  
   
   
   
   
   
   

 so ill finish this later lawl

music: jesus of suburbia
 
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sums me up  
03:53pm 18/02/2008
 
 
vtturkey
onigirixaddict (3:51:17 PM): you're def the bad influence in this relationship
vt geez (3:52:00 PM): lol i knew thst going in and imok ith it
onigirixaddict (3:52:37 PM): ??
onigirixaddict (3:52:47 PM): even i can't translate that
vt geez (3:52:55 PM): i knew i was the bad influence going into this relationship and im ok with it

this about sums me up i like to think. the obvious being im a bad influence. not so obvious is im lazy apparently this includes in typing out sentances. im in love with the most wonderful girl in the world. communicating my ideas is not a priority usually if you dont understand itdoesnt matter to me. the backspace doesnt exist. dont pretend it does noone likes it when you lie to yourself.
music: tales from the forest of gnomes - wolfmother
 
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i dont have anything written so wth, how about some of those trendy tests  
10:55pm 12/02/2008
 
 
vtturkey

1. Have you had sex in the past week? no which saddens me because it means i didnt see karmi
2. Have you kissed someone in the last 2 weeks? yes

3. Are you single or taken? taken

5. What is the last thing that you drank? dr pepper outa the bottle to piss off wendy

6. Who's the last person you think about at night? sean

7. Elvis or James Dean? james dean hands down.

8. Who is one person you can't stand from high school? all off them subtracting the people i like.

9. What grade did you make in Algebra? algebra I -A; algebra II - F and then a C lawl.

10. Do you like someone right now? as friends? uhmm yea i really do in fact like my friends as friends. what do you think im some kind of pathetic loner who sits by himself eating bag lunches? oh you mean like as in attracted to! then  yes.

13. What are you doing right now? typing this seems a pretty obvious answer but ill go on a limb and assume you ment you wanted some other event that preceded me typing this or is going to happen the moment i finish typing this. in that case i can't tell you because the thing i would tell you would be read by the one person who can't know what it is im doing because it has to do with that all important big buisness holiday developed by hall mark.

14. Do you think lesbians are hot? i think if karmi was making out with another karmi and they wanted me to join in that id probaly have to say yes

15. Have you ever "experimented" with the same sex? i teabagged blakes head

17. Favorite non alcoholic drink? mr pibb/mountain dew. or those blue smurf things. oh or the chocolate things i got at cordavis that one time. dude those were good.

18. If you could have one wish, what would it be? that everyone got what they deserved.<-- thats a pretty good one. honestly at this moment i jsut wish karmi was here.


20. Do you know what tofu is? a waste. i mean y not jsut make a regular hamburger instead of a tofu one? your not fooling anyone we all know it doesnt taste the same.

21. Have you ever eaten it? a tofu hotdog once. i advise against 

24. Do you know who plays at least a small part in every Adam Sandler movie? rob schneider.

25. Do you want to go back to high school? if by do you want to go back you mean do you want to quit then yes.

26. Who do you have a sercet crush on? this question seems silly. if it were a secret i wouldnt say and if it wasnt then i wouldnt have anything to say. i do have a crush on someone and i think i will have a crush on them for the rest of my life.

28. Do you or have you ever read Cosmo? yes. i blame karmi

29. Have you ever watched the Britney Spears movie crossroads? she made a movie?

30. Do you listen to Lindsay Lohan? whenever i forget that i hate her with a fiery passion of a thousand burning suns

31. Your favorite color? blue

32. Paul Walker or Ryan Phillippe? i think paul walker was in the movie into the blue so i guess him

33. Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera? wtf kinda leading biased question is this? how bout do you like oompa loompas or short orange men with green hair that work in chocolate factories, choose wisely.

34. Smurfs or Carebears? smurfs

35. Favorite ex? uhmm lol that would seem to defeat the point of making them an ex would it not? i guess brandy because i never really got close to her to begin with?

36. Do you want platinum or gold for your wedding band? dude it better be made out of diamonds. not that i want diamonds on it i want the actual band to be diamond. 

37. How many people kissed you today? star cuz shes adorable and i dont feel any less masculine for saying that because she is that effing adorable

38. Do you shave your back? i barely shave my face.

39. Have you ever flashed someone? i mooned people before.

40. Who are your best friends? karmitastic, terret, scooter

41. How many children do you want to have? since ill be doing none of the actual "having" i want 9.

42. What are you doing tomorrow night? work.

43. What scares you? not very much.

44. What makes you happy? karmi, art, sailing, friends, pets, making karmi happy, being done with h/w. i dunno im pretty easy to make happy i think im pretty much happy in general.


1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
yes and will be forever

2) What was your dream growing up?
to not be picked on because i was in a wheelchair.

3) What talent do you wish you had?
i guess being able to correctly guess lottery numbers would come in handy

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
ill let you decide, surprise me.

5) Favorite vegetable?
all of the veggie-taes were pretty hxc

6) What was the last book you read?
1984 again but last "new" book was godless

7) What zodiac sign are you?
libra

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
lip piercing. microdermals! my wrist

9) Worst Habit?
procrastination. <-- more so than karmi whose answer i just left here.

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
well i guess this applies to karmi who i stole the test from, altho i cant imagine a situation where you were walking down the street alone and you were here. if it applies to people reading this i cant very well assume id give you a ride i mean for all i know you're ugly, and im only saying what everyone is thinking in that noone picks up ugly people. its jsut a fact of life im sorry i didn't make the rules.

11) What is your favorite sport?
sailing

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
optomistic

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
well i assume this again means karmi so i would probaly [The following material has been deleted by our moderators for the cause of being (to explicit). Please accept our apologies and continue using Livejournal. ~Livejournal Staff] if it ment the readers then i would prob hit the button to call for help because i dont know you.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
picture your leg going at a 90degree angle from your knee to the side. that never happened to me but boy would that suck.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
i enjoy making gay sexual jokes with my friends.

16) Do you have any pets?
three dogs; maggie may, dakota, and star. i used to have so many more i miss them so much.

17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
well assuming this is karmi is prob [The following material has been deleted by our moderators for the cause of being (to explicit). Please accept our apologies and continue using Livejournal. ~Livejournal Staff]

18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
well seeing as i was like 7 and i can barely remember to take out the trash every week...

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
if it was the clown from IT scary if not then not cute. specificity please.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
having some unnatural colored eyes would be pretty cool i guess

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
lol, well i wouldnt be your conscience.

22) What color eyes do you have?
goldish brown

23) Ever been arrested?
no but close

24) Bottle or can soda?
either or im prob just thirsty and i really dont care

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
buy karmi a car

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
on rooftops

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
no

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
lounge. i sure do love a good session of doing nothing

30) Do you swear a lot?
not really

31) Biggest pet peeve?
being hung up on

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
depends on the situation

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
what? thats totaly two different questions! how could you group that together! what if my answer was no to one and yes to the other id be sending people mixed signals! thats like saying "do you like Ex/the happy place?" well i dont want my brain to be full of holes but i do enjoy being happy... well bakc to the point im prob a hopeless romantic so yes.

35) Do you believe in God?
no

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
no i just wanted to fill it out so i could save it to notepad on my desktop.

location: home
mood: chipper chipper
music: lucy in the sky with diamons
 
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