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So last night on History Channel's Brad Meltzer's Decoded, this very (stereo)typical team of TV mystery investigators, ya know, the pile-on of vital robust men and the one (sometimes two) bimbo, is scurrying all around NYC, attempting to learn if the Statue Of 'Liberty' is Luciferian. Surprise, all you Paracasters, this turns out to be a true fact. --However--, their very conservative and credential'd/credible Theologian/Authority near the end of this show, explained that the original guys behind the grand stone harbor gal and connecting her with Lucifer, MEANT "Lucifer" ONLY as a concept of a light toward the morning to herald in the dawn. This is likely. --However--, I just wonder how this Theologian knows the hearts minds and motives of those original guys? Isn't "Lucifer" a STRANGE moniker for "light"? I was just wondering why then, 'GE' doesn't refer to 'halogen' and 'incandescent' Lucifers. Probably because (?) it sounds really really wrong somehow, to say, "Let me go screw in my Lucifer?" I'm just sarcastically picking the man's logic apart, is all. The female team member is supposed to be some sort of scientific engineer, but she emoted and gestured and expressed and talked like a 'Valley Girl'. In this one instance, as she is reacting to information a witness expressed, by dramatically gesticulating (putting her face in her hands) and saying "This just like freaks me out!" I myself, then gesticulated dramatically to the TV, "Are you like, mental?!"
http://www.history.com/shows/brad-meltzers-decoded/bios/

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I guess you don't like the show very much based on the title of the thread.

However I've seen two episodes now and the last one I saw was very good. It was about Meriwether Lewis (Lewis and Clark) who, as far as our history goes, committed suicide while making his way back to Washington. I won't ruin for everyone but the information they were able to come up with is really worth watching the program. They come up with brand new evidence concerning this the apparent suicide and let's just say, ..... watch it and then make up your mind about the show.

So far I really like the show although I haven't seen the episode referred to here.
 
Yeah, I have watched 3 episodes so far. The Merriwether Lewis episode was the only one worth watching so far. The White House cornerstone episode was interesting just for the scenes filmed in the Scottish Rites Temple in D.C., but they were seriously stretching to make the material last the full hour.

Edit: I just remembered that matches used to be called "Lucifers", but they weren't made by GE. :)
 
The internet has the answers!

Lucifer

O.E. Lucifer "Satan," also "morning star," from L. Lucifer "morning star," lit. "light-bringing," from lux (gen. lucis ) + ferre "carry" (see infer). Belief that it was the proper name of Satan began with its used in Bible to translate Gk. Phosphoros, which translates Heb. Helel ben Shahar in Isaiah xiv.12 -- "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" [KJV] The verse was interpreted by Christians as a reference to "Satan," because of the mention of a fall from Heaven, even though it is literally a reference to the King of Babylon (cf. Isaiah xiv.4).

Lucifer match "friction match" is from 1831.
 
CapnG said:
The verse was interpreted by Christians as a reference to "Satan," because of the mention of a fall from Heaven, even though it is literally a reference to the King of Babylon (cf. Isaiah xiv.4).
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Excellent! Yes, and of course there is the controversial interpretation of Day Star and Lucifer to be Jesus himself with Satan or The Adversary being a separate character, supposedly the tempter in the wilderness, the accuser of Job and so forth.
 
Did anyone see the episode about John Wilkes Booth??

I did like this one quite a bit as well. Each time I've watched this show a bit of history is dug up that I had no idea about. Now, although the evidence is not quite as tight as the Lewis episode, there seems to be some legitimate concern and still some lingering questions about what happened to Booth after the Lincoln assasination.

All I can say is that it was pretty intriguing and entertaining. And what is even more tanatalizing is that we have the means to discover the truth (or error) in this mystery by doing comparative DNA testing in samples we know exist. We even know where to get the samples, but the exhumation of bodies isn't exactly encouraged by the representative authorities. I'll stop now and let anyone who is interested watch the episode.
 
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