Thinking about rationalist-adjacent poetry. I plan on making a post about this once I have a decent collection to seed discussion, then invite others to share what they have.
Tennyson’s poems Ulysses and Locksley Hall both touch on rationalist-adjacent themes, among other themes, so I’d want to share excerpts from those
Piet Hein has some ‘gruks’ that would be worth including (although I am primarily familiar with them in the original Danish—I know there exist English translations of most of them, but I’ll have to choose carefully, and the translations don’t always capture the exact feeling of the original)
I have shared two works of my own here on my shortform that I’d want to include
Shakespeare’s “When I do count the clock that tells the time” is a love poem, but it invokes transhumanist feelings in me
Hey, “When I do count the clock” is my favorite sonnet too! “And death once dead, there’s no more dying then” <3
I also recommend “Almighty by degrees” by Luke Murphy (only available on Kindle I think) – I bought it because of an SSC Classified Thread, and ended up using a poem from it in my Solstice last year. There’s also a poetry tab on my masterlist of Solstice materials. Damn I love poetry.
Thinking about rationalist-adjacent poetry. I plan on making a post about this once I have a decent collection to seed discussion, then invite others to share what they have.
Tennyson’s poems Ulysses and Locksley Hall both touch on rationalist-adjacent themes, among other themes, so I’d want to share excerpts from those
Piet Hein has some ‘gruks’ that would be worth including (although I am primarily familiar with them in the original Danish—I know there exist English translations of most of them, but I’ll have to choose carefully, and the translations don’t always capture the exact feeling of the original)
I have shared two works of my own here on my shortform that I’d want to include
Shakespeare’s “When I do count the clock that tells the time” is a love poem, but it invokes transhumanist feelings in me
Hey, “When I do count the clock” is my favorite sonnet too! “And death once dead, there’s no more dying then” <3
I also recommend “Almighty by degrees” by Luke Murphy (only available on Kindle I think) – I bought it because of an SSC Classified Thread, and ended up using a poem from it in my Solstice last year. There’s also a poetry tab on my masterlist of Solstice materials. Damn I love poetry.
Daniel’s secular sermons are good.
Thanks for the link 👍