(urth) Standard Wolfean Riddle

Gerry Quinn gerryq at indigo.ie
Mon Aug 16 08:27:36 PDT 2010


From: "António Pedro Marques" <entonio at gmail.com>
> Gerry Quinn wrote (16-08-2010 15:48):
>> From: "António Pedro Marques" <entonio at gmail.com>
>>
>>> I can't see why God would send a 'better' Jesus to a given universe.
>>> Also, I think Severian comes too late in History to be the local Jesus.
>>
>> It may not be truly late in the history of Urth. Although there is some
>> contradictory evidence with regard to geological processes, my personal
>> view is that Severian's time is perhaps fifty to a hundred thousand
>> years from now. If so, there are still hundreds of millions of years to
>> go (and if the Sun gets too hot, as astrophysicists say it eventually
>> will, perhaps we can then ask for the black hole to be put back!).
>
> Yeah, not terribly late in geological terms, and the drowning of Urth and 
> the new beginning makes it perhaps not too late in cultural terms.
>
> But it's late in that it let so much of history go by without it. In our 
> universe, Christ came just at the earliest time possible. A little earlier 
> and his followers would not have had such a good opportunity to spread 
> across the earth.
>
> So why tens of thousands of years with the possibility of a Jesus and no 
> Jesus?

If Urth is Earth, or like Earth, Jesus came at the time he is known to have 
come.  Perhaps Christianity exists underground on Urth.  Severian doesn't 
tell us much about current religious beliefs.

- Gerry Quinn




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