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Originally posted by Night Watchman
Jumping Demons?
Wouldn't the Demon eventually get too old to be jumping from President to President? And I wonder if there are teams of demons or is there just one? If so, does the Demon ever retire and get replaced by a younger demon?
So many questions...
The words daemon, dæmon, are Latinized spellings of the Greek δαίμων (daimôn),[1] used purposely today to distinguish the daemons of Ancient Greek religion, good or malevolent "supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes" (see Plato's Symposium), from the Judeo-Christian usage demon, a malignant spirit that can seduce, afflict, or possess humans.[2]
In Hesiod's Theogony, Phaëton becomes a daimon, de-materialized,[3] but the ills of mankind released by Pandora are keres not daimones. Hesiod relates how the men of the Golden Age were transmuted into daimones by the will of Zeus, to serve as ineffable guardians of mortals, whom they might serve by their benevolence.[4] In similar ways, the daimon of a venerated hero or a founder figure, located in one place by the construction of a shrine rather than left unburied to wander, would confer good fortune and protection on those who stopped to offer respect. Daemones were not considered evil.
The daemon as a lesser spiritual being of dangerous, even evil character, an invisible numinous presence, was developed by Plato and his pupil Xenocrates,[5] and absorbed in Christian patristic writings along with other neo-Platonic elements. The Greek translation of the Septuagint, made for the Greek-speaking Jews of Alexandria, and the usage of daimon in the New Testament's original Greek text, caused the Greek word to be applied to the Judeo-Christian concept of an evil spirit by the early 2nd century AD.
Originally posted by Night Watchman
Jumping Demons?
Originally posted by Albertarocks
Originally posted by Night Watchman
Jumping Demons?
Wouldn't the Demon eventually get too old to be jumping from President to President? And I wonder if there are teams of demons or is there just one? If so, does the Demon ever retire and get replaced by a younger demon?
So many questions...
Nope, it's the same demon every time. His name is NWO. Here's a dazzling photo of him:
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