OT: More broadcast journalism

[Jonathan Lighter]

Could there be more than one at large?  I remember an important _X-Files_
episode involving an evil-doer who could "bilocate," i.e., be in two
different places at the same time. And he wasn't even the Antichrist.

Use of disguise would help too.

Food for thought.

JL
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> But believers would accept as fact that he *isn't* innocent and, even
> if he were, they would claim that he could still *voluntarily* have
> accepted the role of the Antichrist's beast of burden.
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> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 5/3/2010 11:05 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
> >> > Behalf Of Jonathan Lighter
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> >> > And it's something else again for an American to
> >> > suspect that the President of the United States, duly elected by tens
> >>of
> >> > millions of fellow citizens and vetted by an established national
> >>party is really
> >> > [the Antichrist].
> >> >
> >>True.  But on the other hand, if you were the Antichrist, wouldn't you
> >>incarnate yourself as a the President, use your Antichrist powers to get
> >>millions of people to vote for you, and put your Antichrist buddies in
> >>power in an established national party to vet you?  This seems a lot
> >>more likely than Antichristing at McDonald's by carrying the trash to
> >>the dumpster.
> >
> > Wasn't that theory discredited in 1692, when it was finally
> > determined (after the trials were halted) that the Antichrist could
> > not take the form of an innocent person without that person's
> cooperation?
> >
> > Joel
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