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mousethief
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What the fuck is wrong with people?
(Short version for people who can't click after every meal: reader board in front of church says "WAKE UP CHRISTIANS / ALLAH IS NOT OUR GOD / MOHAMMED IS NOT GREATER THAN JESUS" on one side, and a similar message about the Bible and the Quran on the other side.
The pastor is so self-righteously "not politically correct." And the comments on Farcebark crow about how the "leftists" (they use this term almost like a longshoreman uses "fuck" to flavor every single sentence they say) are Muslim-loving Jesus-haters etc. yada.
I say this kind of thing brings the Gospel of Jesus Christ into disrepute. It turns people off God. It makes a mockery of Christ's message of love.
Dear Pastor Jerk: God's name is blasphemed among the nations because of you.
(And that's not even getting into the pig-ignorance of it. It's like saying "Christians worship GOD not DIOS.")
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From the article:
"Harrington says he harbors no hate towards Muslims or Islam, only that he's trying to educate others about his religion."
If this idiot had any sort of education, he'd know that "Allah" is simply the Arabic name for "God" and that Arabic Christians worship Allah.
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Wesley J
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Harrowing, the man.
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mark_in_manchester
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I suppose 'Mohammad not greater than Jesus' just sounded snappier than 'Christians affirm that Jesus was, is and ever shall be God, three-in-one with the Holy Spirit, and so all comparisons to humans (prophets or otherwise) are off'.
Maybe he ran out of 'e's before he got to the end.
Anyway, isn't Welsh meant to be the language of heaven?
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Wesley J
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Only if you like an abundance of consonants.
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Well, if you run out of 'e' and other vowels ...
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Wesley J
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Good point, Mr Llwellyn, good point.
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Golden Key
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Rumor has it that Welsh and Hawai'ian were once one language. When they split, Welsh got custody of the consonants, and Hawai'ian the vowels.
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Gamaliel
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There is an 'e' in 'Llewellyn'.
Come on, the Welsh have just as many (if not more) vowels than anyone else.
It's just that they denote them differently.
I mean, 'w' is mostly used as a vowel sound in Welsh.
Mind you, as to when a 'y' sounds like a 'u' and when it sounds like a 'y' and so on - and all the mutations with consonants that follow vowel sounds ... now you're talking complicated.
But then, I en no Welsh-speaker, I dah oarnly talk tidy, Wenglish like.
But I know how it should be said and sound.
As for the pastor in the OP ...
Cachau bant.
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I don't know, I do think it is possible to over-react about these things. Muslims have rather a habit of declaring that their faith is better than everyone else's.*
But then the Sikhs sometimes like to tell the world about why their faith is best, as did various historic churches (thinking of doom paintings). I'm sure there are many other examples from other religions.
It is a marketplace of religion, why is anyone surprised when they try to rubbish each other?
Personally, I'm much more comfortable with a religious group who resorts to putting up a sign saying why another religion is wrong rather than one which gets into the business of burning other religious books or provoking other forms of inter-religious strife.
*remembering, for example, that the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem has text on it which seems to be directed at Christians "So believe in God and His messengers, and say not 'Three' - Cease! (it is) better for you! - God is only One God. Far be it removed from His transcendent majesty that He should have a son. His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth." etc
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Originally posted by mark_in_manchester:
Anyway, isn't Welsh meant to be the language of heaven?
No. God's native tongue is Hebrew, with Latin as his second language.
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mr cheesy
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
No. God's native tongue is Hebrew, with Latin as his second language.
I'm pretty sure Jesus' first language was Aramaic, that he lived in a culture which used Latin and Greek and whose Dad spoke Temple Hebrew.
Of course, as we all know, by the 17 century, God had gone back to school and learned English.
These days I think he prefers to be addressed in Klingon.
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mousethief
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Originally posted by mr cheesy:
It is a marketplace of religion, why is anyone surprised when they try to rubbish each other?
Who said anything about surprise? No, I'm not surprised. I'm disgusted. I can't speak for Muslims, but Christians are meant to love even their enemies, not denigrate them and belittle them. And if you think this sign is merely meant to be a theological announcement that Christians don't accept Muhammad as a prophet, then I have a bridge to sell you.
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mr cheesy
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Who said anything about surprise? No, I'm not surprised. I'm disgusted. I can't speak for Muslims, but Christians are meant to love even their enemies, not denigrate them and belittle them. And if you think this sign is merely meant to be a theological announcement that Christians don't accept Muhammad as a prophet, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Oh I also think it is the antithesis of the gospel. I just don't have time to get angry about things like that.
When I contacted the local mosque to ask if I could buy a Koran to replace one that a previous idiot pastor had burned, it was fairly clear that they didn't much give a shit either.
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mousethief
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This kind of thing exacerbates hatred and adds to an atmosphere that gives rise ultimately to hate crimes.
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Originally posted by mr cheesy:
These days I think he prefers to be addressed in Klingon.
Per "Star Trek: The Next Generation", the Klingon Adam and Eve killed their creator, on something like a "We don't need no stinkin' God!" basis.
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Gamaliel
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And in the febrile atmosphere that is the USA at the moment, with Trump demagogue-ing about, dumb-ass pastors posting dumb-ass signs isn't going to help matters.
I'm not sure I'd advocate a law against this sort of thing - at least not in that kind of context - but it ain't going to help.
There are plenty of ways of saying, 'Look, we are Christians, this is what we believe ...' without bad-mouthing anyone else.
Mind you, as Mousethief well knows, look at any Orthodox / RC / Protestant 'dialogue' on some social media sites and all you'll get is, 'No, you're wrong ... we're right ...' to which the other side will reply, 'No, it's us who're right and you that are wrong ...' and round and round and round and round ad infinitum ...
Not that there's anything wrong with that in and of itself, but it does get wearing when all it becomes is a rehashing of cliches and often false perceptions that each has of the other ...
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mark_in_manchester
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It is a marketplace of religion, why is anyone surprised when they try to rubbish each other?
Is Don King still around?
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Originally posted by mousethief:
This kind of thing exacerbates hatred and adds to an atmosphere that gives rise ultimately to hate crimes.
This.
It reminds me of folks who claim they don't "hate" homosexuals but tacitly add to a hateful environment for LGBT people.
Besides what does he expect Arabic speaking Christians to call God? "God"? "Deus"? "Dieu"?
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LeRoc
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Lyda*Rose: Besides what does he expect Arabic speaking Christians to call God?
Duh, *real* Christians speak English.
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I had a neighbour who was an Arabic speaking Christian, but she went crazy if you said that she was an Arab. Well, I thought that 'Arab' meant Arabic-speaking, but according to her, Arabs are all Muslim, and handy with a gun. But she did call God Allah.
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Lyda*Rose: Besides what does he expect Arabic speaking Christians to call God?
Duh, *real* Christians speak English.
Or Russian. Or, at a pinch, Greek.
Never Latin. Never, never Latin. Or German. Or [shudder] Dutch....
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But yesterday's reading from Acts (which I had the joy of reading at our main service) says that they were:
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Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs...
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Originally posted by mr cheesy:
I don't know, I do think it is possible to over-react about these things. Muslims have rather a habit of declaring that their faith is better than everyone else's.*
But then the Sikhs sometimes like to tell the world about why their faith is best, as did various historic churches (thinking of doom paintings). I'm sure there are many other examples from other religions.
It is a marketplace of religion, why is anyone surprised when they try to rubbish each other?
For me, this is a reason why we Christians shouldn't be doing this. Yes, the Muslims and Sikhs will claim that their faith is the best, but we shouldn't get into a slanging match.
The thing that really annoys me about this is that we should be seekers after truth. Wherever this truth is found. The essence of these messages I would actually agree with the basis of the message (that the Muslim God is not the Christian God, that the Quran is a book), but this is not the defining aspect of my faith, this is not what I want to proclaim.
Incidentally, Islam is a way of seeing and understanding God that can help us - Seekers of Truth - to understand our interpretation. The Quran is a book, not written or dictated by God. The Bible is also a book, written by people about their search for God.
I think the Bible and the Christian interpretation of God is primary. But that doesn't mean that I need to disparage others.
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Originally posted by quetzalcoatl:
I had a neighbour who was an Arabic speaking Christian, but she went crazy if you said that she was an Arab. Well, I thought that 'Arab' meant Arabic-speaking, but according to her, Arabs are all Muslim, and handy with a gun. But she did call God Allah.
I thought Arab was a native of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Not every pastor who has a marquee sign out front for his pithy thoughts is an idiot. But every idiotic pastor has a marquee sign out front for his pithy thoughts.
We often pass one on our way to the next town, and no matter how hard we try we cannot read the whole thing as we pass while going the speed limit. Nevertheless, I make my husband risk our lives by slowing down because the message is invariably hilariously inane, illogical or pointless. Yesterday it said, "If you ever have to wrestle with God, pray that you lose."
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Dave W.
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Originally posted by balaam:
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Originally posted by quetzalcoatl:
I had a neighbour who was an Arabic speaking Christian, but she went crazy if you said that she was an Arab. Well, I thought that 'Arab' meant Arabic-speaking, but according to her, Arabs are all Muslim, and handy with a gun. But she did call God Allah.
I thought Arab was a native of the Arabian Peninsula.
Apparently it's complicated.
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mousethief
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Originally posted by quetzalcoatl:
I had a neighbour who was an Arabic speaking Christian, but she went crazy if you said that she was an Arab. Well, I thought that 'Arab' meant Arabic-speaking, but according to her, Arabs are all Muslim, and handy with a gun. But she did call God Allah.
That's interesting. I know a fair number of Arab Christians. They refer to themselves as Arab Christians, when not referring to themselves as Palestinians.
Pastors like this pustule had best not come to our church at Pascha, or they will hear "Lord have Mercy" in Arabic, as well as "Christ is risen / indeed he is risen" in Arabic, and the Paschal Troparion in Arabic (the latter: "Christ is risen from the dead trampling down death by death and upon those in the tombs bestowing life" but I can't sing it in Arabic without the music in front of me).
The Paschal Troparian, from a flash mob at a shopping mall in Beirut, in Arabic and Greek.
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That was beautiful. I will store the address.
However, the second time I played it, it went on to another Arabic Christian hymn, and my computer seized up and buzzed fiercely at me, so I had to do an emergency stop and start everything up again. I don't know if this was because of the site, or something else yet.
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You probably triggered some CIA alert (too many Arabic sites) and they're busy uploading some software agents to find out what your links to terrorist organisations are.
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Wow, that's beautiful. I could almost re-convert.
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Pastors like this pustule had best not come to our church at Pascha, or they will hear "Lord have Mercy" in Arabic, as well as "Christ is risen / indeed he is risen" in Arabic, and the Paschal Troparion in Arabic . . . .
Somehow, I suspect that the chances of pastors like this one setting foot in an Orthodox church—at Pascha or any other time—are exceedingly low. So there's at least one thing to be grateful for.
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Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
You probably triggered some CIA alert (too many Arabic sites) and they're busy uploading some software agents to find out what your links to terrorist organisations are.
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I've just replayed - I had been reminded of the doleful "evangelism" the Exclusive Brethren had tried hereabouts, and thought how the good news should be.
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Meanwhile we've got one here proving that being a man of the cloth doesn't stop you being a despicable little turd: shit of a vicar
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Pastors like this pustule had best not come to our church at Pascha, or they will hear "Lord have Mercy" in Arabic, as well as "Christ is risen / indeed he is risen" in Arabic,
Hehe... we got them to do that in Turkish in our Greek Orthodox Church here... it's a bit like Gandalf speaking the Dark language of Mordor in Rivendale: the walls shake, the sky grows dark, and a look of concern adorns every face. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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mousethief
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Originally posted by irish_lord99:
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Pastors like this pustule had best not come to our church at Pascha, or they will hear "Lord have Mercy" in Arabic, as well as "Christ is risen / indeed he is risen" in Arabic,
Hehe... we got them to do that in Turkish in our Greek Orthodox Church here... it's a bit like Gandalf speaking the Dark language of Mordor in Rivendale: the walls shake, the sky grows dark, and a look of concern adorns every face.
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Gamaliel
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What's with these oh so obviously unspontaneous flash-mobs in shopping mall things?
There are evangelical versions, Orthodox versions ... everybody seems to be staging them ... and staging is the operative word ...
Sure, the music's cool but it's no more spontaneous than changing the guard at Buckingham Palace.
Enough of this stage-managed false spontaneity already.
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Gamaliel:
What's with these oh so obviously unspontaneous flash-mobs in shopping mall things?
There are evangelical versions, Orthodox versions ... everybody seems to be staging them ... and staging is the operative word ...
Sure, the music's cool but it's no more spontaneous than changing the guard at Buckingham Palace.
Enough of this stage-managed false spontaneity already.
What makes you think they're meant to be spontaneous? And what makes spontaneity such a god in your eyes? Nobody in their right mind thinks they're spontaneous, particularly when they make use of the shopping mall's tannoy. Hence nobody in their right mind thinks they're meant to come across as spontaneous.
"Oh yes, I just happened to be walking down the square with my cello and saw a bunch of people playing "Ode to Joy" and thought I'd join in." No. Nobody expects that's what's going on.
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The cool thing is that an unexpected (to those who witness it) performance pops up in a mundane moment and place. Musical theater comes to the streets/malls/metro stations. The world becomes a lower key version of Bollywood.
I like it. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Meanwhile we've got one here proving that being a man of the cloth doesn't stop you being a despicable little turd: shit of a vicar
Oh good, one of my brother clerics in the Church in Wales. Glad he's in another diocese, my chances of meeting him and explaining my view of his views are much reduced... ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Originally posted by mousethief:
"Oh yes, I just happened to be walking down the square with my cello and saw a bunch of people playing "Ode to Joy" and thought I'd join in." No. Nobody expects that's what's going on.
But wouldn't it be fun to live in a world like that?
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
The cool thing is that an unexpected (to those who witness it) performance pops up in a mundane moment and place. Musical theater comes to the streets/malls/metro stations. The world becomes a lower key version of Bollywood.
I like it.
Exactly. I'd love to have one happen where I am.
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Gamaliel
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It's the way these things are filmed and edited, MT, to make it look like they are spontaneous when they aren't.
I'm not saying spontaneity is a big deal. I just don't like faux-spontaneity.
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mousethief
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If I didn't like you I'd say you were an idiot. Let's just say you're speaking foolishly.
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Flash mobs are a performance. And, like any performance, to be done well requires rehearsal. Therefore, they are not "spontaneous". But, done well they appear spontaneous.
It's no different from theatre. When the actor playing Hamlet starts to question "To be, or not to be ..." if he's good then we are able to suspend our actual knowledge that he's said this a thousand times, and feel like he really is Hamlet, that he really is contemplating death and suicide and these really are the new-formed thoughts he has. But, I guess Hamlet is also "faux-spontaneity".
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Golden Key
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AIUI, they're not necessarily rehearsed as a group. Someone may put out a notice that there'll be a dance flash mob, include a video of how to do the dance, and tell the time and place. Then people who see the notice and want to participate just practice on their own, and show up.
And sometimes it's a matter of "show up here, wearing this".
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Alan Cresswell
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I didn't say rehearsal needed to be as a group. I doubt the lead in Hamlet only ever rehearses with the rest of the cast. But, if you're going to claim they are examples "faux spontaneity" then you need to be fair and say the same of Hamlet.
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The thing that does look spontaneous in that video is some members of the public or staff who recognize the setting joining in. You can tell they aren't "performing" in the same way that those who were planned to be there are. And the looks of delight and/or amazement on some faces are obviously spontaneous.
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Yeah, ok ... perhaps it's some of the more evangelical versions I've seen of this sort of thing that puts me off.
Besides, whilst I appreciate that they'll have shopping malls in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria (apart from where they've been bombed) and so on, it doesn't look right ... out ro be a souk or a bazaar ...
Ok, I'm teasing but I hate f'kin' shopping malls.
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Originally posted by mousethief:
What the fuck is wrong with people?
(Short version for people who can't click after every meal: reader board in front of church says "WAKE UP CHRISTIANS / ALLAH IS NOT OUR GOD / MOHAMMED IS NOT GREATER THAN JESUS" on one side, and a similar message about the Bible and the Quran on the other side.
The pastor is so self-righteously "not politically correct." And the comments on Farcebark crow about how the "leftists" (they use this term almost like a longshoreman uses "fuck" to flavor every single sentence they say) are Muslim-loving Jesus-haters etc. yada.
I say this kind of thing brings the Gospel of Jesus Christ into disrepute. It turns people off God. It makes a mockery of Christ's message of love.
Dear Pastor Jerk: God's name is blasphemed among the nations because of you.
(And that's not even getting into the pig-ignorance of it. It's like saying "Christians worship GOD not DIOS.")
I like him.
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