> "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@comcast.net> wrote in messagenews:ytidnYYAyLTAvjHanZ2dnUVZ_sytnZ2d@comcast.com...
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> > "jayembee" <jayembeenos...@snurcher.com> wrote in message
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> >> "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@comcast.net> wrote:
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> >>> FINALLY! We don't just get answers.
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> >>> But the lostaways finally start ASKING questions!
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> >> There's one question that Hurley didn't ask, of the lawyer who
> >> visited him at the hospital: "Why would I want to trust anyone
> >> whose name is 'Abaddon'?"
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> >> Benet's READER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA (Third Edition):
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> >> "ABADDON The angel of the bottomless pit in The Revelation of
> >> St. John the Divine. Milton uses the name for the bottomless
> >> pit itself."
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> >> (Yeah, that was in the previous episode. Forgot to bring it up
> >> last week.)
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> > Not everyone studies the Bible. Look how many people confuse "Apocalypse",
> > which originally meant "Revelation", to mean "Armageddon", or think the
> > forbidden fruit was an apple when the Bible never specifies what kind of
> > fruit it is, or that the Bible says money is the root of all evil, when
> > the actual verse at 1 Timothy 6:10 is critical of the LOVE of money.
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> I'm pretty well educated in the Bible and literature in general, and I had
> never heard of "Abbadon".