(urth) Standard Wolfean Riddle

[António Pedro Marques]

Gerry Quinn wrote (16-08-2010 16:27):
> 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.

I find that likely, but apparently moist others don't.