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how many Mike Schmitz and this is
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essentially cents so we want recently
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put out on the internet the question of
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what do you want father Mike to talk
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about alright answer any questions and
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so someone said a couple of people I
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think they've asked this question before
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and people ask it all the time how come
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the question is this how come the god of
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the Old Testament seems so much more
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harsh and judgmental and oriented
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towards justice than the god of the New
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Testament who seems more kind and gentle
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and merciful and I think great question
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there are two reasons for this one is
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you haven't read your Bible
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that's why how many go kind of I mean
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I'm saying this tongue in cheek and I'm
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saying this like just kind of poking fun
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so keep please take my sarcasm with a
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grain of salt I'm poking fun but
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whenever anyone says the God of the Old
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Testament seems more kind gent or
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opposite a harsh judgmental etc and God
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then they got a new assessment who was
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kind and gentle and merciful Dave just
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basically said they have not read their
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Bible because or at least they haven't
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paid attention to the Bible because it
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is absolutely fundamentally obviously
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clear that in the Old Testament God
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reveals himself yes to be clearly
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communicating to his people what right
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and wrong are and that there's a
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consequence for choosing right and
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consequence for choosing wrong but he
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also reveals his heart to be the heart
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of someone who loves the heart of a God
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who is is long-suffering the heart of a
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God who lets himself get beaten up by
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his people who turn away from him I mean
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not only are there are so many Psalms
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about God's heart that reveals his heart
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that being again long-suffering patient
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forgiving but also and also even started
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even the historical books that reveal it
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okay here's God's people turn away and
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he comes back brings him back and they
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turn away and he brings him back but
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there's also this beautiful book of the
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Prophet Hosea where the people of Israel
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people God's chosen people are likened
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to an adulterous wife that the the groom
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the husband God Himself says like I'm
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not gonna cut you off I'm gonna actually
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I'm gonna lead you into the desert and I
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will speak to your heart and you once
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again you'll give me your heart and even
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if you give your give
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your heart simply because your idols
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your false loves have have not delivered
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I don't care I just want your heart back
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I just I just love you so this is the
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picture more a full picture of God Gill
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testament also in the New Testament you
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spoiler there is one person in the
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entire Bible who speaks more about Hell
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than any other person in the Bible and
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his name is Jesus
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so Jesus speaks more about Hell judgment
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condemnation divine justice then pretty
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much anyone else in the Bible
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so again yes wait wait good merciful
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kind Jesus the one Jesus says come to me
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all you who labor and burden that'll
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give you rest
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yes the same same God also is very very
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clear about the consequences of our
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choices just like God in the Old
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Testament same God is clear about the
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consequences of our choices of good or
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of evil it's the same God and both Old
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Testament and New Testament in both of
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them God reveals himself to yes be
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intensely interested in justice and
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intensely merciful in both okay but
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father that's fine fine fine but why
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does it seem like in the Old Testament
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he's more interested in justice in the
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New Testament more interested in mercy
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there's a number of reasons here's one
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I'm just going to give you through by
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way of analogy if you have a good mom or
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dad I have I have a good mom and dad let
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me just give you my example I have a
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great mom I have a great dad but if you
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were asking me and my siblings growing
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up about our parents we would say oh my
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gosh we're like they're the strict
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parents they were the strict parents
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like all the other friends would be like
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oh yeah we're not gonna be expenses like
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it's their mama dad a pretty strict act
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that kind of a thing no not everyone was
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just was afraid of my mom and dad in
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fact my friends were not afraid of my
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mom and dad my siblings friends who are
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trying to get away with stuff were fraid
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of my mom and dad but my friends who
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were at good straight-laced kids not
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trying to mess around too much anyways
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but the point is my parents had to
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reveal themselves to be strict they had
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to reveal themselves to be deeply
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interested in justice and doing the
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right thing when we were growing up
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later on as I got to know them better as
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like an adult I'm like wow mom
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are there really funny mom and dad are
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really liked it all the positive things
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too right there they're patient and
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they're kind of like oh my gosh I
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thought they were so strict back then
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but they were so flexible I didn't even
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realize this this whole time now it's
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not like my parents became different
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like he gave to different people than
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they were when I was a kid but they were
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always this way but they revealed
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themselves to me into my siblings as
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like no we're interested in do this
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thing you know show up on time or else
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you're grounded
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do the chores or else whatever why
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because they knew that that's with how
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they had the degree they had to reveal
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themselves to us at that time because
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that's what we needed that at that time
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and as we grew up they were able to
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reveal more and more of themselves to us
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now they were the same person the whole
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time in fact even in the midst of that
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strict season of you know the parenting
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they reveal themselves to be kind and
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gentle and forgiving and merciful and
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wise I just didn't realize that my
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siblings and we look back we have all
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the fun stories about like number one
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you got in so much trouble for this and
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this and mom and dad were like this and
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this we could look back and say remember
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all the times that they were patient
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with us maybe all the times they forgave
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us member all the times that they were
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really really funny that we didn't
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necessarily notice until later on in our
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lives they were the same people the
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entire way through no it was the analogy
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breaks down and metaphor breaks down
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because parents actually do change and
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God does not change so it could be that
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your parents were strict and then they
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don't care anymore so they are more
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relaxed but when it comes to God he
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doesn't change he was one he's perfect
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so he doesn't change but our experience
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of him gets to change so when people say
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how come God seems to have changed in
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the Old Testament to the New Testament
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from just to merciful it's because a
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they have not read their Bible and
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because of be God doesn't change but is
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our experience of him as he reveals his
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heart to us we get exposed to various
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layers of his heart that he needs to
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establish for us that were he needs us
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to know that real right real wrong have
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real consequences and also in the midst
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of those real consequences he's willing
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to take upon himself
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the cost of our decisions but without
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the first we can't have the second
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without the whole thing held together
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with this common understanding that yes
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yes there is divine justice but there's
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also divine love to have that whole
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thing knit together we will only be
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giving a one-dimensional maybe
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2-dimensional vision of God so hopeful
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that helps promise here doesn't presents
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that's father Mike gob less and like
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subscribe comment me that made sense
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maybe there's another video out there
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that I made like three years ago that
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speaks about this in a more coherent way
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I don't know
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but search for it maybe you'll find it I
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don't know I'm just gonna drift off to
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the side here the rest of the room