Well, I'm certainly not making the case that he is literally Jesus. But he is far from the literal anti-christ.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:58 AM, John Watkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.watkins04@gmail.com">john.watkins04@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">That's is an awfully thin reed for "Severian is supposed to literally<br>
be Jesus" rather than "Severian is supposed to parrallel Jesus in<br>
important ways". Perhaps the distinction is irrelevant for a<br>
non-believer, but the author is not a non-believer.<br>
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Jordon Flato <<a href="mailto:jordonflato@gmail.com">jordonflato@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> And Wolfe is on record as saying that the only thing we're ever told that<br>
> Jesus the Carpenter's son made was a Whip.<br>
><br>
> Witz and I have always been in agreeance on this, and because of that, I'm<br>
> more likely to find textual support for the idea than for the idea of him as<br>
> some sort of anti-christ.<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:20 AM, <a href="mailto:Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a><br>
> <<a href="mailto:Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:05 AM, David Stockhoff <<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > There's a bit in John that says (I paraphrase): Jesus does not come to<br>
>> > put the world on trial or to condemn it, but to rescue it.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Severian comes to carry out a death sentence.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I definitely feel that "the Sev is not divine" arguments are fine and<br>
>> appropriate, and I don't care to try to convince anyone, but I think it's a<br>
>> shame that people get hung up on this idea that Severian did a bad thing,<br>
>> that he "carried out a death sentance".<br>
>> This view is not, er, holistic to the themes. The most boiled down theme<br>
>> in this book, holographically repeated, is Death and Resurrection. We must<br>
>> not forget that.<br>
>><br>
>> Severian brought renewed life to the planet. the death of Urth was the<br>
>> birth of Ushas, and the resurection of the dying planet. To miss this is to<br>
>> fundamentally misunderstand the books, I think. To view this as a death<br>
>> sentence, one is basically taking the short sighted selfish side that<br>
>> Severian's foes had. They would deny the future for a few more years for<br>
>> themselves.<br>
>> Fuck that. This is a cycle that we see in nature. The forest has to burn<br>
>> for it's own good, periodically.<br>
>><br>
>> I'm sorry, just about any reading goes, but to just see Severian's act as<br>
>> a just tradgedy seems to completely miss the point.<br>
>><br>
>> It had to be a torturer to deliver the death stroke that brought new life.<br>
>> No one else would obey. Everyone else prefers to save themselves and cling<br>
>> to their attachments like children. Severian did a difficult, necessary,<br>
>> and beautiful thing.<br>
>><br>
>> ~witz<br>
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