(urth) Aside on Christ figures in TBotNS

John Watkins john.watkins04 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 15:52:56 PST 2008


On 12/12/08, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: John Watkins [mailto:john.watkins04 at gmail.com]
> >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 03:44 PM
> >To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
> >Subject: Re: (urth) Aside on Christ figures in TBotNS
> >
> >On 12/12/08, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Are you asking for my philosophical and theological speculation, or
> >> >are you asking about the teachings of the ancient Christian churches?
> >>
> >> no, I'm merely asking one to strip away the PLOT and try to deal with what the story is getting at.  He's cast aliens as angels, metaphorically. It seems really obvious to me.  Who cares if their "not" literally angels in Severian's world. They're metaphorically Angels doing the work of God.  Of course, that can be doubted to the ends of time.
> >>
> >
> >This is the actual definition of begging the question.
>
> Dis me all you want, but it makes PERFECT sense to apply circular logic to a book about intractable timeloops where you can never extract what happened first of which the most explicit description of is given by Heirodules when they describe a two headed snake eating it's own head.
>
> So you want to solve a metaphysical paradox with logic?  Good fucking luck, buddy.


Ok, I think I'm out of this discussion.  Sorry.

> ~witz
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