<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> James Wynn <A href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">crushtv@gmail.com</A><BR></FONT><BR>>>> Son o'Witz- I think it's perfectly clear that the Outsider is Christ or<BR>>>> logos. He's presented as the REAL diety outside of the false Pantheon.</DIV>
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<DIV>I think so too.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>>> Lee-<BR>>> I could be. But I just can't be sure. I have doubts. A similar discussion<BR>>> cropped up recently and I think it was Andrew Mason who pointed to a<BR>>> Christ-figure from a story in Long Sun. He was only a little bit perturbed<BR>>> that in the story, the Christ-figure was a man who was possessed by<BR>>> The Outsider while he was doing his thing in the Temple. I was rather more<BR>>> perturbed. Such possession doesn't sound like the modern Christian<BR>>> God to me and this doesn't seem like a casual mistake Wolfe would make.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>>James Wynn-</DIV>
<DIV>> It is from the first chapter of Nightside:<BR>> [referring to the merchants] "He would have to be firm with them, extremely firm. Remind them that the Outsider was known to</DIV>
<DIV>> esteem them last among men already--that according to the Writings he had once (having possessed and enlightened a fortunate</DIV>
<DIV>> man) beaten them severely in person."<BR>><BR>>This is of course the story of Jesus casting out the money-changers. The man in question was not just possessed, he was possessed >and enlightened. This is about as close as someone with Silk's religious training would get to describing homoousios.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Someone with Silk's training referring to a story possibly altered by the Chrasmologists that took place in a universe where the Second Person may never have been incarnated (probably wasn't, I think) and where stories echo those of our universe but aren't necessarily the same.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>>I wouldn't over-think it.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Can a mailing list have a motto?</DIV>
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<DIV>Actually, thinking about these things is fun, as Lee reminds us, but I'm also in favor of remembering the distinction between "resembles" and "is".</DIV>
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<DIV>Jerry Friedman</DIV></div><br>
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