Wow, you are reading my mind...Just had a conversation about all of this, human consciousness, the "muck" of it all, culture and life, last night with my husband. We sat on the sofa, waxing poetic...and here is Hesse, saying it with much more eloquence. Thank you, right on time!
Yes, it does. But in the sense it's kind of a warning of the content. It means what is written is numinously beheld. It is also an invitation into a very personal space of the author willing to share. I think the form is an important part of the contract.
Please don't get me wrong. I am not against free verse, concrete verse, haiku, etc. Some of my favorite poets do nothing but that and it is true poetry. But there is more to poetry than merely splitting up remarks into lines. Herman Hesse should have known better, in my opinion.
I like the splitting. It slows down the reading. Makes you consider every line more carefully. Sometimes important lines are rushed over when you read a paragraph of prose.
"Salvation isn't illusory"-- He never said this. Did you even read the post? He said:
"Certified affiliations, lifelong
membership cards to organize
social structures guarantee
a false comfort, the illusion
of security, the illusionary
ticket to salvation."
Anyway, as Nietzsche once said: “A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.”
The big con is that people say they believe in God because they believe in something bigger than themselves, but then the Gods they worship are always angry, petty, humanoid, paranoid... I'll be impressed by the religion that models their God after a whale, or a rock, or a sunset. Oh, wait, they used to do that, and your God gave your people permission to run around and slaughter them.... nice guy, I'm sure.
Wow, you are reading my mind...Just had a conversation about all of this, human consciousness, the "muck" of it all, culture and life, last night with my husband. We sat on the sofa, waxing poetic...and here is Hesse, saying it with much more eloquence. Thank you, right on time!
that's so beautiful, feel ya.
'Life as we know it' is not a statement. It's really a question.
All words are trying to become MUSIC!!
Fact
I was also trying to articulate my faith in Spirit either earlier today or yesterday and then found this and it resonated with me.
Amen is right!
Not remotely poetry, but important words nonetheless.
This page isn't strictly poetry. "Poetic" isn't simply a genre. I've explained this in the "About" page.
taking statements
and thoughts
and splitting them
into lines
does not transform
mere commentary
into
poetry
Yes, it does. But in the sense it's kind of a warning of the content. It means what is written is numinously beheld. It is also an invitation into a very personal space of the author willing to share. I think the form is an important part of the contract.
Please don't get me wrong. I am not against free verse, concrete verse, haiku, etc. Some of my favorite poets do nothing but that and it is true poetry. But there is more to poetry than merely splitting up remarks into lines. Herman Hesse should have known better, in my opinion.
Hermann Hesse didn't split it. I did.
I like the splitting. It slows down the reading. Makes you consider every line more carefully. Sometimes important lines are rushed over when you read a paragraph of prose.
I see this splitting activity akin to the notion of a “found poem.” And I applaud Mr. Outlaws for it.
When you read it out loud, actually the splitting adds in punctuation that I loved. I could hear rhyme and it welled, tumbled, swirled.
Good to know.
Illusionary,
the idea of being
separate from Love.
paje foster
😄 🤣 😂 All will be revealed at the end could be a complete lie too Humans eh?
Does this inlclude Facebook groups?
sounds bout right.
Godless culture is anarchical and debased.
Salvation isn't illusory… Jesus Christ's blood apparently escaped Hesse.
"Salvation isn't illusory"-- He never said this. Did you even read the post? He said:
"Certified affiliations, lifelong
membership cards to organize
social structures guarantee
a false comfort, the illusion
of security, the illusionary
ticket to salvation."
Anyway, as Nietzsche once said: “A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.”
Godless culture is anarchical and debased.
No, I said it in response to his erroneous assertion. Maybe you should re-read it.
A beautiful way to call out the con most people fall prey to
The big con is that there is no God. No salvation. That we are our own gods. Sad.
The big con is that people say they believe in God because they believe in something bigger than themselves, but then the Gods they worship are always angry, petty, humanoid, paranoid... I'll be impressed by the religion that models their God after a whale, or a rock, or a sunset. Oh, wait, they used to do that, and your God gave your people permission to run around and slaughter them.... nice guy, I'm sure.
So appreciate this piece!!
Thank you Hermann!
The clamour and energies expended on certainties secures the non- thinking brain to rubber stamp DONE!!!!
I’m right there with ya