Reading these last few posts of this thread brought to mind an excerpt I placed in the "All Writing is Pig Sh
it" thread with heading
ANIMISM AND THE SACRED WINDS.
Specifically:
The ancient aleph-beth, as the first thoroughly phonetic writing system, prioritized the human voice. The increasingly literate Israelites found themselves caught up in a vital relationship with an all powerful human voice. It was a voice that preceded and outlasted every individual life. The written text became a portable homeland for the Hebrew people. Many of the stories are about displacement and exile. (Abram 1996)
The Hebrews were the first real caretakers of this great and difficult magic – alphabetic literacy.
The pain, the sadness of this exile, is precisely the trace of what has been lost – FORGOTTEN INTIMACY.I was unable to leave a link since the url address has the word sh
it in it. I'm getting so sick of this Nanny software built into the editor on freeboards, but what can I complain about? This message board is FREE!
You can find it by placing the following, piece by piece, into the URL address bar of whatever web browser you are using:
http://whybother.freeboards.org/what-now/all-writing-is-pig-sh
it/
msg1005/#msg1005
You can also find it in entry for
2011.11.11 (11 November 2011) in Dead End, Chapter 12 [
The Steppenwolf Rediscovers Downtown Freehold (El Barrio)]
Just follow the 2011.11.11 hyperlink above, then Ctrl+F and type 2011.11.11
That will take you to the interesting notes on that tragically confusing religion which I learned in my studies of phenomenologist David Abrams.
Take care and stay safe.
~ revived He Not Rich ~