OT: More broadcast journalism

[Wilson Gray]

Indubitably so! No one has ever presented the question to me in quite
that manner, before. ;-)

-Wilson

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Use of disguise would help too.
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> Food for thought.
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> 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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>> -Wilson
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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 ten=
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>> >>of
>> >> > millions of fellow citizens and vetted by an established national
>> >>party is really
>> >> > [the Antichrist].
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>> >>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 ge=
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>> >>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.
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>> > 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?
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>> > Joel
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>> -Wilson
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>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> =96Mark Twain
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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