(August 15, 2023 at 3:39 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(August 15, 2023 at 12:28 am)MarcusA Wrote: Rationalism is a religion.
Did you use reason to reach that conclusion?
(September 1, 2023 at 10:48 am)LinuxGal Wrote:(September 1, 2023 at 8:36 am)MarcusA Wrote: Haiku is more of a humanism than rationalism. It is magical and rebels against tradition.Sure, it rebels against tradition, that's why we always get haiku with lines containing random numbers of syllables.
Jack Kerouac thought of haiku as free verse as do I. If you want to write a sonnet, write it but don't bother me with it. Buddhism is but dharma and meditation. I hate rules and regulations, pomp and ceremony.