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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. There's a lot of truth to this. A philosophy ...
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"Many elements of what we today call our environmental crisis—climate change, ...
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What’s your best guess? Is there, or is there not, and “independent“ Self?
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. There's a lot of truth to this. A philosophy I've pretty much adopted on my own later in life. This showed up in my youtube feed and I thought it worthy of sharing. I'm enjoying listening to it.
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"Many elements of what we today call our environmental crisis—climate change, resource depletion, groundwater contamination and scarcity, species extinction—are signs of battles won but a war being lost. Today we are accustomed to arguing that we...
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Who remembers the days when the US sought people, apprehending them to bring them to face justice, upholding important principals like trials/ evidence and allowing both sides of the story to be heard in a court before judgment? The days we refused ...
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Bottom line is, actions speak louder than words.
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Consciousness Question: Given what I perceive as a long-standing skepticism of scientific progress in the understanding of consciousness, whether Chomsky has seen any promising shift toward good ideas in this domain. Noam Chomsky says: ...
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Posted by dalefvictor
A school of thought states that everything is determined, preordained, and measurable. This rather blunt message for humanity would lead one to think that we are just living the chapters in a book already written. I listen and read to arguments ...
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What does it mean to be a "person"? That depends on your culture - Big Think
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Posted by TheoryNumber3
“If I had my life to live over... Someone asked me the other day if I had my life to live over would I change anything. My answer was no, but then I thought about it and changed my mind. If I had my life to live over again I would have waxed ...
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Posted by Kutty58
Who believe in this
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Posted by imtiyaz_ex-m
Rule 5 - Delete games from your mobile. It's a electronic device for your success, not to be a sucker.
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Posted by Archeus_Lore
The ultimate Turing test would be giving an advanced Artificially Intelligent being power and money . . . To see if it starts abusing the power it has, becomes more greedy, starts invading and bombing other countries, committing mass murder, and ...
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Posted by AtheistPeace666
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What kind of philosophy do you side with?
East philosophy or West philosophy
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Posted by Matias
"The problem is a real one, not a mere intellectual game. Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups—and the electronic ...
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TRUTH Be Told
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"This is a man's world, but it would be nothing without a woman or a girl"
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Every society can be described as a struggle for power among several groups (example: the bourgeoisie against the proletariat in Marxist theory). In many cases, especially in democratic societies, there is a majority holding the key positions of ...
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Posted by SpikeTalon
Since there are some folks on this site who for reasons unknown cannot take some dark humor well and in the process jump to conclusions and start in with the fingerpointing, I'm reposting the image below. Sarcastic/cruel/and or dark humor is hardly ...
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Posted by Archeus_Lore
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." . "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." . "Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to ...
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Posted by Jolanta
If you want something you never had, you have to do something you never done. Thomas Jefferson
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Posted by FrostyJim
He has a point...
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Agnosticism is another way to prove the statement illogical. Knowledge is a subset of belief being illogical. Agnostic does not hold the existence of gods to be true nor false. So, agnostic has no belief. What does agnostic have? Agnostic...
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Is it wrong to pigeonhole people and judge them not according to their personal merits and actions, but according to the label of the pigeonhole? Most people intuitively would say: of course that's wrong. That's what racism, sexism and other -isms ...
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Posted by cseajay
If you could, would you
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Posted by FvckY0u
Why It's Better to be Single | 4 Reasons
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Posted by Matias
Robert Hughes, in his book "Culture of Complaint", hit the nail on the head (in 1993!) : "The all-pervasive claim to victimhood tops off America's long-cherished culture of therapeutics. To seem strong may only conceal a rickety scaffolding of ...
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Blogging again. "AS FOR SELF-DECEIT, MOST PEOPLE FIND IT AS ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVAL AS AIR.":
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Posted by Spinliesel
Another Rumi quote. I like that man, whoever he is.
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Posted by ErichZannIII
nobullies lgbtqia
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Reasoning - the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way. Reasoning requires free will to choose. Free will is the capacity of agents to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded. Critical thinking - the...
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Posted by puff
There has been quite a bit of speculation on how Russia invading Ukraine happened, what led to it. Russian expansionism? NATO expansionism? The 2014 coup and resulting civil war? Who is at fault? A thought occurred to me earlier. Intellectuals ...
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It is part of the logic of individualistic modern societies (with a certain tendency toward individual and collective narcissism) to celebrate minorities. Where emancipation and individuality are central values and goals, the minority becomes the ...
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Posted by Lorajay
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, ...
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Posted by Sofabeast
Roe v Wade overturned. I open a debate on the controversial subject of human abortion. Please keep it civil and argue objectively on the subject avoiding social clashes based purely on subjective opinions. The question is not reason why an abortion ...
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Posted by FvckY0u
I went to the bookstore (Borders) today. It was raining all day and although it's not now the temp is 76 and the humidity is 89%. A good day to stay inside and read. I bought, Seneca, Letters from a Stoic. The philosophy section was just ...
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Posted by isaiahfzell1990
So being an atheist, one of the most significant things that I struggling with is that since I also have a strong love for learning about different cultures, people, and countries, and I do not believe in any religous/spiritual/supernatural things ...
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Posted by Castlepaloma
What is worse, FEAR or GREED? I pick fear, because when people control their fear they can control mass hysteria, which politics , religion and superrich feed off of, so easily.
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Posted by Matias
Our minds manage to distract us from the terrible reality by filling our lives with stories about hopeful goals and encouraging us to strive to achieve them. The ups and downs of that struggle are part of our common history of striving for what we ...
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I didn't know...!
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Posted by rainmanjr
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Nothing Exists But You | The Philosophy of Solipsism
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Posted by mistymoon77
It's a pretty good feeling when this does happen. All about perspective.
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Posted by Advin
Islam isn't a religion because this is a Tererism.according to Quran 9:5...Ban the Islam from all non muslim contrys...
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Some of the leading figures of the so-called identitarian right in Europe claim to be no longer racists, but they call themselves "ethno-pluralists". The basic idea of this concept is that there are different races and peoples, and each of them has ...
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Posted by AtheistPeace666
agnostic is the most rational position to have because both Atheist and religious are more definite positions even though there is no possible way to prove or disprove God for certain.
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Posted by Matias
Nowadays, many, maybe even most of us do not live in the world described by science, but in some kind of "Fantasyland". In his eponymous book, Kurt Andersen describes and explains how we arrived at this point. The pivotal moment, he argues, was the ...
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No kidding...?
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We have recognised that people have a right to gender identify outside the biological/ physical attributes. I have seen up to 16 mentioned here alone Just kinda made me smile though with all this talk of abortion ie which ...
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Posted by towkneed
I was thinking about how I had tried to explain Marx's Theory of Surplus Value to someone once when it occurred to me - the starting point of Marx and communism in general is the absolute opposite of market theory. Market theory starts with price, ...
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Posted by rainmanjr
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Rebirth | A Shamanic Documentary by David Al-Badri
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Posted by Matias
Some excerpts from the book "Inventing the Individual" by Larry Siedentop "The roots of liberalism were firmly established in the arguments of philosophers and canon lawyers by the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: belief in a fundamental ...
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Posted by Ryo1
The definition of being 'COOL'. 😆 Click on the link to see the comic in full size.
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According to Bible(Book of Genesis):-human thinking test with temptation by god...This is god's technology.....😁😁😁😁😁
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“The pathetic thing that grows out of this condition is called faith: in other words, closing one's eyes upon one's self once for all, to avoid suffering the sight of incurable falsehood. People erect a concept of morality, of virtue, of holiness ...
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From the arrival of the earliest humans on earth to the present ,God has always been a human invention intendednto control others.
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Posted by Matias
When modern citizens cease to be religious they do not cease to be moral, they still have the same moral mind and the same moral impulses and needs that they used to channel through religion. They still have the same need for a moral identity, for a ...
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Steven Weinberg once said, "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." I've read this quote hundreds of times, and I never liked it, because it assumes ...
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I hope no one minds if I share this here. I lost my dad last year just before Father's Day. He was 94, a white liberal academic who led a very privileged life and he acknowledged that. He paid significant income tax and was happy to do so. He was...
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What does liberalism mean to you?
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Carlisle, Vervaeke, Spinoza, and voluntary necessities. .
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Christians believe in the miracle of the virgin birth : The Holy Spirit inseminated Mary and she gave birth to Jesus Christ. But many atheists and secular humanists also believe in a sort of miracle: the miracle of the Scientific Revolution and - ...
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Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it.
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Posted by Beachslim7
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I want to know how you lefties explain this one Feminist facing 3 years in prison for saying men can't be lesbians Lets say he was born as a man but identifies as a female lesbian. Since he is a woman, why isnt this statement ...
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Men cant be a lesbian
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Posted by Matias
It is one thing to originate an idea, and it is another thing to live according to this idea. Example: The Founding Fathers deemed it self-evident that all men are created equal, but they did not include black people or women in the category "men"....
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Posted by Silver1wun
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Saw this and it reminded me of so much more than mere religions.
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Posted by Matias
One of my pet ideas is that one can hardly overestimate the hidden influences Christian ideas still have in our Western societies, even among people who call themselves atheists and rarely miss an occasion to rail against Xtians. One prime example is...
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Posted by MsKathleen
To Have or To Be? and The Art of Being In the mid-1970s, twenty years after his influential treatise on the art of loving and four decades after legendary anthropologist Margaret Mead turned to him for difficult advice, Fromm became interested in ...
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Posted by Jolanta
Paulo Coelho. The Winner Stand Alone. An interesting book with lots to think about.
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Joshua Knobe - What is Intentionality?
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Posted by Advin
The sky according to Islam😁😁😁
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Posted by Partyhawk
Our Home is actually in the Milky Way Galaxy, one in a 100+ Billion Galaxies. I've been lately watching a bunch of "The Universe" different documentaries on YouTube. I'm thinking we are no more then a particular Germ inhabiting a grain of sand. I ...
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Posted by Matias
Many atheists don't like it at all, to say the least, when science is called the child of religion. Nevertheless, this metaphor is correct from a purely historical point of view. First, what we call science today was born in a thoroughly religious...
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Posted by Word
For as long as people have been seeking knowledge, they have sought after and philosophized about the secret or hidden knowledge that has and will always elude the pursuit. However, an understanding of the secret knowledge has been revealed to ...
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Jun 1
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Posted by Matias
Why the Golden Rule is overrated. Whenever I write about morality in this forum, or that a society needs something like a social glue, I am always lectured that this is just religious rubbish, and that the Golden Rule is quite sufficient when it ...
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May 31
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Posted by Matias
"We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It’s our own concept – our own selves – that we love. This is true in the whole gamut of love. In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we ...
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Posted by skado
A little Spinoza for your Memorial Day from Will Durant’s “The Story of Philosophy” published in 1926 “The essential principal of is that the language of the Bible is deliberately metaphorical or ...
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Posted by Matias
We in the lucky countries of the West now regard our two-century bubble of freedom and affluence as normal and inevitable; it has even been called the "end" of history, in both a temporal and teleological sense. But this new order is an anomaly, it's...
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Posted by Julie808
What are your thoughts on the idea of "collective consciousness" as something we absorb not necessarily through religion or formal education but through the shared real world experiences of humanity? By that I mean as told through stories, ideas, ...
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May 29
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Posted by Matias
To borrow an expression from novelist Margaret Atwood, I'd say that we are "doomed by hope". Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty ...
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May 28
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Posted by puff
When there is more action done regarding restricting access to books in schools when compared with restricting assault firearms, something is severely awry with society.
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May 28
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Posted by Matias
Question : Is something morally wrong, reprehensible, because individuals , or a whole society, judge it so, or is something intrinsically wrong, no matter what people think? Example: Imagine a world where slavery is ubiquitous and universally ...
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Posted by skado
Does love exist?
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May 24
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Posted by Matias
I am not a Conservative (at least not in the American meaning of this word), but I have to acknowledge that this political "tribe" has understood something about politics in general that their opponents and critics seem to have forgotten: that in ...
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Posted by TheMiddleWay
It's not a perfect rule, but it's as close as we've gotten.
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Posted by Matias
Nowadays it is fashionable to constantly pillory white people and to put Western culture in the dock. The list of charges is long: sexism, racism, imperialism, colonialism, slavery, etc.... Shouldn't we also remember once in a while that most of ...
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Posted by Archeus_Lore
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary. - - "Karma" - - "The force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person's next existence." . I do not...
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found in my twitter timelines....looks intersting
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Posted by callmedubious
While sitting at our breakfast bar this morning, with a coffee, i watched my neighbor walk her dog by our house & had an epiphany: the actual weight of human beings is only about 3 lbs. our brains are what makes us human so, basically, the rest is ...
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Posted by Matias
Do animals have morality? - - - - No. One may say that they show 'moral behavior', but this would be a kind of behavior that we - the only moral animals on earth! - interpret as 'moral'. Morality is a set of norms, rules, commandments and values. ...
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A thought experiment: Let's imagine a utopian society that wants to abolish all differences between male and female. This society raises children in a completely gender neutral, uni-sex way: same haircut for girls and boys, same clothes, same ...
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Posted by FvckY0u
I'd like to explore stoicism more in depth. Any comments regarding stoicism?
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I think the kids have the moral high ground on this one. And that's not even considering climate change.
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Shouldn't those who call themselves humanists protect human life just as bird lovers protect the lives of birds ? They also protect nests containing eggs from which chicks have not yet hatched, because they know that inside those eggs are ...
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There are many creators on here that may enjoy this video...
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There's no better example of dogmatic thinking in some atheists.. ... than some atheists' response to their thinking being called dogmatic. 😏
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