THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
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Tuesday 5 November 2024
The Blame Game: immigrants or the government?
Monday 4 November 2024
Vincent Bruno: "I hated voting for Trump - sell out Zionist shill who abandons friends"
— Real Vincent Bruno (@RealVinBruno) November 4, 2024
4:00 New leader of the Conservative Party
5:00 Leo Varadkar
7:00 Zionism
8:00 Jewish-Gentile relations
9:00 Cheap gas and groceries for the election?
11:00 Eurotrash
12:00 Steve Bannon
13:00 Cicero: "If you want gratitude, get a dog."
15:00 Laura Loomer
17:00 Trump's move to the centre
18:00 We have to hope for the best.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/trump-jewish-voters-antisemitism-event/index.html
22:00 Caleb Maupin
23:00 RICCARDO joins.
28:00 Being a desirable candidate
29:00 Doom and gloom
31:00 Vincent should not prejudge the issue.
32:00 We can only choose the least bad option.
33:00 Speakers Corner conspiracy theory about a global media blackout
34:00 Huffington Post ignoring Trump.
The Independent refused to report royal gossip.
36:00 How do we hold our politicians to a higher standard?
37:00 Joe Biden introduced the 1991 Education and Sharing Day.
38:00 Biblical values are the foundation of Western civilisation.
39:00 Noahide laws
40:00 The ideal and the minimum standard
Natty Kadifa
42:00 I am a political theorist.
We choose to believe.
43:00 Riccardo denies he is an atheist.
44:00 Riccardo says he is a socialist who voted for Bernie Sanders.
45:00 Riccardo grew up in England and been in the Middle East
47:00 Socialists are atheists.
48:00 A free house for everyone
Social contract
50:00 Affordable housing
51:00 Secular Koranism
53:00 You can't have capitalism without usury.
55:00 TUNA joins to discuss antisemitism.
57:00 The Talmud
59:00 Jill Stein
1:01:00 Palestine
1:02:00 Noahide laws
1:08:00 Trump proposing to get rid of the antisemites
1:13:00 CAROL joins to discuss the legal definition of antisemitism.
1:15:00 Carol voted for Trump.
1:19:00 Voting for Trump
1:22:00 Gay rights
1:25:00 STEPHEN BROUGHTON joins.
1:26:00 Drag queens
1:27:00 Mentally ill gay men
1:28:00 Vincent's grandfather
Vincent's gay accent
1:32:00 Homophobic parents
1:33:00 Suicidal transgender people
1:36:00 "Gay men are no longer as liberal as they used to be."
1:37:00 "America is turning into a degenerate shithole."
1:39:00 Culture on the coast and flyover country
1:41:00 SHARON joins.
1:42:00 H is Sikh.
1:43:00 Islamophobia
1:44:00 Tommy Robinson
1:46:00 Belmarsh Prison
1:47:00 Incest
1:48:00 The welfare state
1:49:00 Council house tenant
1:51:00 Israel
1:52:00 Gaza
1:58:00 Trump
2:01:00 Foreigners like Trump
2:04:00 Putin
2:06:00 Jews
2:07:00 Nick Fuentes
2:08:00 Netanyahu
2:09:00 "Overmining the Jews"
Suppliers and consumers
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) November 3, 2024
5:00 NATTY joins.
7:00 Chat up line for immoral women
8:00 Smart genes
Mike Buchanan not interested in abolishing no fault divorce.
Mike Buchanan is a charmless boomer.
11:00 Milk shake incident
12:00 Shereef's shtick
13:00 Sharia or Secular Koranism
14:00 Natty almost voted George Galloway.
16:00 Natty is not an Islamophobe.
17:00 Fellow travellers
18:00 The nature and purpose of religion
19:00 Christianity has been replaced by Liberalism.
20:00 Proposing sharia is proposing to change the law wholesale.
21:00 Religions without God: liberalism, communism, feminism
22:00 White men scapegoating everyone else
23:00 Noahide laws
Different standards of sexual morality
24:00 Lust and duty sex
https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-absolute-minimum-of-sex-between.html
26:00 A minimum standard
28:00 Once a week seems to be a generally minimum.
31:00 Regulation
33:00 Unmarried mothers
No fault divorce
35:00 Patriarchy defined
37:00 Matriarchy defined.
40:00 The female voter has more power than the male voter.
41:00 The fact that powerful individuals are men does not mean our society is a patriarchy.
44:00 Technocracy
45:00 Patriarchal hierarchy
46:00 Matriarchal egalitarianism
47:00 Kamala Harris
48:00 Simps
Worldly patriarchy v Christ-like patriarchy
51:00 Western men cannot even stick up for the eugenic practice of marriage.
No fault divorce
52:00 Blame will be apportioned for any divorce and even the most amicable divorce would have a 50/50 apportionment.
53:00 Marriage contracts
54:00 Objective measure
55:00 Unreasonable behaviour
https://www.thelawsuperstore.co.uk/family/help-and-advice/unreasonable-behaviour-divorce-examples
58:00 Matrimonial Disputes Tribunals, Matrimonial Disputes Appeal Tribunals, Divorce Court
59:00 A history of the marriage and a marriage diary
1:00:00 Imagine if business partnerships were based on the rules of no fault divorce.
1:03:00 Marriage classes
1:04:00 Marital counselling
1:08:00 Judaism requires even men and women past the age of child-bearing to marry each other so that they do not live alone.
1:09:00 Parents staying together for the sake of the children
1:11:00 Applying to the government for permission to marry
1:12:00 Repeal of the Equality Act 2010
1:14:00 Lump sum
1:15:00 Dowry
1:16:00 Engagement ring
1:19:00 Coverture
1:20:00 The illegitimacy rate in Jamaica is often cited to be very high, with figures indicating that around 85% to 90% of children are born out of wedlock. This statistic reflects a notable trend in family structures within the country.
1:21:00 "It's not up to women to civilise men."
1:23:00 I am accused of "extreme legalism".
1:24:00 Minimum standard
1:25:00 No sex before marriage.
1:26:00 Making a distinction between the ideal and the minimum standard
1:27:00 Feminists are immoral women bribing men with fornication.
A union of women
Rad Fems
1:28:00 Sex positive and sex negative feminists
1:29:00 Words as weapons
1:30:00 Rush Limbaugh supported porn.
1:31:00 Men always want more sex than women are prepared to give.
1:33:00 WHITE MUSLIM WOMAN joins.
1:34:00 "Theosis, salvation" blah blah
1:35:00 Aunt the victim of mariticide
1:36:00 "Life isn't fair."
1:37:00 Married parenthood should be supported by law.
1:39:00 Late marriage and the old mother
1:40:00 Addressing the issues of men
1:42:00 Dating apps
Hotels must refuse to accommodate men and women in the same room unless they are married.
1:45:00 No feminist will support slut-shaming.
1:46:00 "Men should be slut-shamed."
1:48:00 Religion is the best group to find a spouse.
1:50:00 The government should take the lead.
1:51:00 Marriage license
1:54:00 Trump
1:55:00 Beliefs
1:56:00 Young people don't understand the point of marriage.
1:58:00 The government must frame the narrative.
1:59:00 Sharia and takfir
2:01:00 Sharia in Mecca
Prohibition
2:02:00 Hedonism undermines marriage.
2:03:00 California
2:04:00 NATTY returns.
2:07:00 Men and women should agree on the rules.
2:09:00 Pay housewives an income from the state.
2:10:00 Socialism makes men weak.
2:11:00 California is a socialist state.
2:12:00 Men who accept handouts
2:15:00 Sole provider men
2:17:00 Men thrive on problem-solving.
2:18:00 Men should not have help from the taxpayer to provide for their wife and children.
2:20:00 Sharia
2:22:00 Slut-shaming men
2:23:00 Lock and key analogy
2:24:00 Women can take action first.
2:25:00 Laws, beliefs and values need to be changed for society to change.
2:26:00 Marriage can only be supported by an official moral system that values marriage and the family.
2:27:00 Matriarchy is bribing people with sexual liberation to control them.
2:28:00 An irreversible process began when feminism took over.
2:29:00 What else but sharia would comprehensively correct everything that has gone wrong?
2:30:00 Our one word weapon of sharia
2:31:00 People assume.
2:32:00 Hedonism
2:33:00 Hierarchy
2:34:00 The Lebanese Hezbollah were the best behaved men on Hajj.
2:36:00 Babying men creates babies.
Men and women must be capable of feeling shame at not performing their gender roles.
2:37:00 NATTY sighs.
2:38:00 Individualism is crushing America.
2:40:00 Toxic Masculinity
2:43:00 "Worldly patriarchy" v "Christ-like patriarchy"
2:44:00 Paying women who manage to find a husband
2:46:00 Women can have everything.
Co-equal status of men and women
2:47:00 Equality Act 2010
2:48:00 Declining civilisations are matriarchies.
2:49:00 Men are primarily motivated by sex.
2:51:00 Simps are the male soldiers of the matriarchy while sluts are the female soldiers of matriarchy.
It would not be advantageous to women to have to negotiate with gay men who have no sexual desire for them.
2:52:00 Patriarchy
2:53:00 Can a feminist support sharia?
2:55:00 Our culture of casual sex
2:57:00 Redemption, remorse, penitence
2:58:00 Babying men as Natty proposes is not going to make them better.
UBI
2:59:00 Socialism and Communism
Communal living
Liberation theology
3:00:00 quran.com/24/2
3:01:00 Eugenics wasn't popular only in Germany.
3:03:00 Population reduction
3:04:00 Welfare dependence
3:05:00 Indians from India
3:07:00 Being doubleminded about everything
3:08:00 Whenever people feel unhappy, they think they must have made an error in their choice of one of the many lifestyle options they could have had eg being a member of the opposite sex, being gay etc.
3:10:00 A religious group is a moral group.
3:11:00 A tribe is a community.
3:12:00 Winning the arguments doesn't matter in our post-truth society.
3:13:00 Being principled
3:14:00 Who obeys the rules?
3:15:00 Policing each other's behaviour
3:17:00 Valet parking at the synagogue
3:18:00 quran.com/18/4
3:20:00 Muslims accepting the prophethood of Jesus
3:21:00 Opportunity cost
3:22:00 Historical tragedies of Europe
3:23:00 The narrative
3:24:00 Yuval Harari
3:25:00 Cost benefit analsysis
3:26:00 Women soldiers
3:27:00 Men have to die for the principle of being men.
3:28:00 The age of fighting men is 40.
3:29:00 Men refuse to die for the principle of being men.
3:30:00 Only the Abrahamic God is capable of in theory being able to reward good and punish evil in this life or the next.
3:31:00 Faking it till you make it.
3:33:00 People are prepared to pretend to believe in things they don't by virtue signalling.
3:34:00 The Koran condemns hypocrites to hell.
3:35:00 A task most Americans can do
3:36:00 Best and worst case scenario
3:37:00 The Islamic American Republic
3:38:00 The First Amendment is supported by quran.com/2/256
3:39:00 "We must with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion."
https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2021/02/washington-must-have-meant-islam-when.html
3:40:00 The Noahide laws
3:41:00 Allowing the bad people to reveal themselves.
3:43:00 Kulturkampf
3:44:00 Nietzsche: "God is dead and we have killed him."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead
3:46:00 Why didn't God reveal the Koran to the Chinese?
3:47:00 Why do only low status people get divine revelation?
3:49:00 Keep the Sunnis comfortable and the Shias poor to divide and rule the Ummah.
3:50:00 Breaking the four wives max rule
3:51:00 The Ottoman Empire
3:52:00 Absolute monarchy
3:53:00 Constitutional monarchy
3:54:00 An American monarch?
3:55:00 The War of 1812
3:56:00 What made America great
3:57:00 Slavery
3:58:00 Prostitution
3:59:00 RICCARDO joins.
4:00:00 Free love
4:01:00 Paternity suit
4:02:00 Prostitution and slavery
4:06:00 Generalisation
4:12:00 Paying for sex
4:14:00 Everyone should have a house.
4:16:00 What is Riccardo committed to?
Riccardo has no principles or convictions.
4:17:00 Homelessness
4:19:00 Riccardo thinks everyone is entitled to free love and free housing.
4:22:00 Riccardo's housing policy
4:25:00 Airbnb
4:29:00 TIM arrives.
4:33:00 Immigrant hostels
4:37:00 Speakers Corner
4:51:00 We hate what we envy.
4:54:00 Nazi?
4:57:00 Natty
4:59:00 Steelmanning
5:00:00 What men want
5:01:00 Welfare state
5:02:00 Unmarried parents
5:03:00 Equality Act 2010
5:04:00 Fundamental British Values
5:05:00 The values of Sodom and Gomorrah
5:06:00 Trump
5:07:00 Hatchet job
5:09:00 Hugh Muir
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/apr/29/stephen-bates-diary
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jan/02/hugh-muir-diary-bnp-conservatives
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jan/04/hugh-muir-diary-nigel-farage-card
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jun/27/hugh-muir-diary-edward-snowden
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/13/hugh-muir-diary-pickles-audit-commission
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/may/29/hugh-muir-diary-waterboarding-bbc
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jul/22/hugh-muir-diary-david-miliband
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/16/hugh-muir-diary-chris-grayling
5:11:00 The divine narrative
5:13:00 Idolatry
5:18:00 Monologues are not interjections.
5:20:00 Vincent Bruno
Sunday 3 November 2024
Living together: men and women
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) November 2, 2024
2:00 Space begins.
4:00 Christo-Liberalism is kaput.
5:00 The Hadith
Secular Koranism
6:00 Feminism
7:00 Sluts are the soldiers of feminism.
8:00 Feminism bribes men with casual sex.
9:00 The fundamental beliefs of feminism are very easy to undermine. What is desirable in woman is not desirable in a man and vice versa.
13:00 Patriarchy and Matriarchy
14:00 Illegitimacy is the problem.
15:00 The corporatising of power
18:00 Common ground and communication
19:00 Sharia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_American_bastardy_laws
20:00 Marriage is a child protection scheme and not really about our happiness since it is a sacrifice and an onerous undertaking.
21:00 Patriarchy is a government breeding programme.
22:00 Annulment
If Henry VIII had been Muslim, he wouldn't have needed to behead or divorce his wives.
23:00 Why the barbarian kings found the offer of the Christian missionaries from Rome irresistible
24:00 Protestantism did not protect the institution of monarchy.
25:00 Christendom ended in 1918.
27:00 Republicanism > Monarchy
https://radicalisedrabbi.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-three-stage-legislative-programme-to.html
32:00 George Washington's Farewell Speech
33:00 Thoughtcrime
35:00 Affirmative Action is also thoughtcrime.
36:00 Hate speech is heresy.
43:00 Getting men and women to the negotiating table
44:00 Casual sex
50:00 Chivalry
Madonna-Whore
53:00 Monogamy
56:00 Downside of SK
57:00 Marry your rapist law
58:00 Date rape or rape rape?
1:02:00 Onanism
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=sin+of+spilling+seed
1:06:00 Japanese women on the pill
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/03/jonathanwatts
1:08:00 SK is different to sharia.
1:10:00 Prostitution is not forbidden.
Secular Koranism with Nevadan Characteristics
1:11:00 Immigration is a problem caused by feminism.
Friday 1 November 2024
An Australian review of my presentation on Secular Koranism
— Robert Cobb (@SgtLeoGLambert) November 1, 2024
5:00 Space begins.
1:32:00 CLAIRE KHAW joins.
Sam Hyde Explains Why Diversity Is Important To The Corporate World https://t.co/iecDwMRqV9 via @YouTube
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) November 1, 2024
1:37:00 The best product of activities are already available to the public.
1:38:00 The refined product of my intellectual exertion is already publicly available online.
1:40:00 "It was a little bit scary."
1:41:00 Asking the logical next question to show you understand
1:42:00 Incentive scheme
1:43:00 Sam Hyde
Narratives
1:44:00 Convincing the ruling classes to follow my advice
1:45:00 I am a "rogue force".
1:46:00 I meant to exude warmth and humanity in that interview.
"It was quite scary!"
https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2024/11/josie-and-i-meet-some-antisemites.html
https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2024/11/flow-state-calls-me-super-muslim.html
1:47:00 Jay Dyer
1:48:00 King Charles is more likely to convert to Islam than Orthodox Christianity.
1:50:00 Scientology
1:51:00 Roosh V
Inventing new wrong ways to try
1:52:00 Sam Hyde
Million Dollar Extreme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Extreme
1:54:00 Tony Hinchcliffe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hinchcliffe
Garbage dragged by ocean currents is washing up on PR's shores.
— Arturo Calderón🕵️♂️(Philosophus Autodidactus) 📚 (@Meta_Myself) October 28, 2024
Tony first primes us to expect he's going to mention the existence of a garbage patch in the Atlantic.
We're then surprised by the mention of PR, something no one had anticipated.
His joke led us on a garden-path. https://t.co/dfiKMzcCma
1:57:00 Caleb Maupin, Jews, Muslims and Commies, Dugin calling him the Messiah
1:59:00 War Hammer 40K
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000
2:06:00 Nagging Americans to vote
2:07:00 Biblical lore
Beowulf
2:09:00 Women looking for men
2:14:00 Bullying people for comedic value
2:15:00 Weekend house party
2:16:00 Epstein Island
Chequers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chequers
2:21:00 Khalid and me
2:22:00 Bobby Fischer
Magnus Carlson
2:23:00 Benedict Cumberbatch
2:24:00 The Queen's Gambit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Gambit_(novel)
2:27:00 Little policewomen
2:30:00 Aztecs
2:31:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto
2:32:00 The Emperor's New Clothes
2:34:00 The children of married parents
2:35:00 Marriage is not a matter of getting someone to have sex with you.
2:36:00 Marriage is making women aware of the rule about having sex after her wedding and sticking to it.
God's authority over the monarch
2:38:00 Warlords wanted the divine right of kings.
2:39:00 Charlemagne did not crown himself, but Napoleon did.
2:40:00 Mandate of Heaven
2:41:00 MRAs and Roosh
2:42:00 The marriage ceremony
2:43:00 The Tragedy of Oedipus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex
2:45:00 Anointing the king
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anointing
2:47:00 Geometric forms
2:49:00 Opposites attract
2:50:00 Vladimir of Kiev
Russia's conversion to Christianity is largely associated with the adoption of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the late 10th century. Here's how it unfolded:
1. **Pre-Christian Era**: Before Christianity, the Slavic tribes in the territory of what is now Russia practiced paganism, which involved the worship of various gods and nature spirits.
2. **Viking Influence**: The Rus', a group often identified with Vikings, played a significant role in the early formation of the Kievan Rus', a loose federation of East Slavic and Finnic tribes. The Rus' were exposed to Christianity through their interactions with the Byzantine Empire.
3. **Missionary Activities**: Christian missionaries had been active in the region, but the conversion process was gradual. The Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was particularly influential due to its economic and cultural ties with the Kievan Rus'.
4. **Vladimir the Great (Vladimir I of Kiev)**: The pivotal moment in the Christianization of Russia occurred under Prince Vladimir I of Kiev, also known as Vladimir the Great, around 987-988 AD.
- **Motivations for Conversion**: Several factors influenced Vladimir's decision:
- Political alliances: Marriage alliances with Christian states could bring political stability and economic benefits.
- The need for a unifying ideology for his realm, which was composed of various tribes with different beliefs.
- The impressive nature of Byzantine Christianity compared to other religions he considered, like Islam and Western Christianity.
- **Baptism**: After sending envoys to study different religions, Vladimir opted for Christianity, reportedly due to the grandeur of the Orthodox liturgy in Hagia Sophia. He was baptized in Crimea in 988 or 989, and upon his return, he ordered the mass baptism of the inhabitants of Kiev in the Dnieper River. This act is traditionally seen as the "baptism of Rus'."
5. **Spread of Christianity**: After Vladimir's conversion, Christianity slowly spread among the Kievan Rus'. Monasticism, the establishment of churches and monasteries, and the use of the Cyrillic alphabet (developed by the brothers Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius for Slavic languages) were instrumental in spreading literacy and Christianity.
6. **Cultural and Religious Development**: Over time, Christianity became deeply integrated into Russian culture, influencing art, literature, architecture, and statecraft. The Russian Orthodox Church emerged as a central institution in Russian life, with the Metropolitan of Kiev initially under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople but later gaining autocephaly (independence).
This conversion to Christianity not only provided a spiritual foundation for the Russian state but also tied Russia culturally and religiously to the Byzantine Empire, setting the stage for its future development as a major Orthodox Christian nation.
2:52:00 Consumers Guide to Religion
2:53:00 Written Tradition > Oral Tradition
2:54:00 Reason and emotion have to fuse for religious feeling.
2:56:00 King Solomon died an idolater.
The Book of Enoch
2:59:00 E Michael Jones
3:00:00 Narrative, science, art, culture, music
3:01:00 Celtic Christianity superseded by Roman Catholicism.
3:02:00 Council of Nicaea
3:03:00 Trinitarianism > Arianism
Heretic burning was a Christian practice.
3:04:00 Anabaptists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptism
3:05:00 Confirmation classes
3:06:00 Bar Mitzvah and the age of crminal responsibility
3:07:00 Chrismation
Talking to Independent Muslim
The medium is the message https://t.co/bJ7Q62i8iR
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) October 31, 2024
4:00 Space starts.
5:00 I am Muslim my understanding but not confession.
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6:00 My agnosticism
8:00 RICCARDO joins.
10:00 Idolatry
11:00 Muslims
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15:00 Sex before marriage
16:00 Religionlessness
17:00 Casual sex
18:00 Government should support marriage.
19:00 Degeneracy
INDEPENDENT MUSLIM rejoins.
20:00 Riccardo's antipathy towards my ideas.
21:00 Alcohol, gambling, usury, casual sex
I am a catalyst.
22:00 I am promoting Islam.
23:00 Atheists can understand the nature and purpose religion.
24:00 Returning the trolley
25:00 Carrot and stick
26:00 Trump
27:00 The remnants of the liberal order want to kill Trump.
28:00 Islamophobia
The big interview
29:00 Clarism
God agrees with me!
30:00 Muhammad lost a war.
33:00 The matriarchy
34:00 Western foreign policy
35:00 Simps
36:00 Feminism
37:00 The meaning of life
42:00 36 capital offences of the Torah
The Blame Game: immigrants or the government?
35:00 CLAIRE KHAW joins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ubkxFTmOyY&ab_channel=GhostSpeakersCorner 38:00 Cultural Muslim 39:00 Secul...
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