(urth) The argument for Intractability

[Jeff Wilson]

b sharp wrote:
> Jeff Wilson writes:
>  
>> A certain amount of this 
>> separation has to be in order for his mortal incarnations to be valid, 
>> but there's no enduring union of mortal and divine identities, just a 
>> few short flashes of insight of the former into the nature of the 
>> latter.  This doesn't make Severian a deity any more than a really good 
>> reception at Karaoke makes me Elvis, just someone who for a moment can 
>> experience a tiny piece of Elvishood.
>  
> Does this perhaps depend on your definition of a deity? Was/is Jesus a deity?
> Seems to me he had flashes of it, e.g.predicting his own death. But he had
> mostly human moments, growing up, eating, socializing, getting angry at the 
> money changers and at the end wondering why his Father had forsaken him.

Right, however Jesus did have/has enduring union with the divine, 
post-Ascension. Severian seems to *lose* union with the divine, taking 
up once again mortal habits like sleeping in his bower on Ushas.

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