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Faith and Truth

Gods, demagogues, money, agriculture, capitalism, the stock market, cryptocurrency, medicine, engineering & technology, artificialization is FAITH.  Life/Nature (God)/dynamic homeostatic symbioses/sustainable ecological community, mathematics, poetry & art & music & song, soil & quality air/quality water/ biodiversity & photosynthesizers/sun, … , birds and bees, health is TRUTH.  Science is a process of searching for a True […]

Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than It Is to Imagine the End of Capitalism?

From Commonweal (3/18/2025), a Catholic journal of opinion, and oldest independent lay-edited Catholic journal in the United State: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/thoreau-barnes-humphreys-buell-alienation?utm_source=Main+Reader+List&utm_campaign=0072bb7012-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_407bf353a2-0072bb7012-92668095&fbclid=IwY2xjawJOlS9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHatM3lto51gd85mw3krs1YKml8_y8a-zEQSB-ljewLZXV6LmjAeHxxWcLQ_aem_OTdx9VDyDyqIGtbUFsVdug **************************** “Thoreau’s understanding of Darwin is particularly illuminating. While later writers would extract from Darwin a justification for social hierarchy that saw the richest as the best-adapted, Thoreau, Buell writes, mined Origin of Species for ‘its […]

OK!!! Being a Trumpian “Conservative” or a Republican “Conservative” Has Little to Do with Conserving (Toward Sustainable Ecological Community)???

Thoughts (nothing new) after coffee and before I put in a day’s work with a hired helper … tidying up around here. (The stuff below … is not very organized …; however, I am ATTEMPTING to communicate, primarily with my friends to the relatively far-Right politically.) 1. I am definitely more conservative than most U.S. […]

Might (From Various Powers … Money & Economics, Military, the Electorate, Man-Made Laws, Charisma, Slick Flimflamming, Etc.) Does Not Make Right … Morally Good Policy & Actions Does

Might does not make right. … A demagogue’s winning of an election does not make him right. And we should have affirmative action and education and rehabilitation toward riddance of discrimination, disparity, and inequity. No one human should have such Power as an Elon Musk, Bezos, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, or Warren Buffett. ……….. Equity Inclusion […]

War and Militarism and Weapons. Unnecessary Evils

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/dads-mission-brain-injuries-60-minutes-video-2025-03-23/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJOgOFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHeD1YxZDPaoMIMXuSUjy4spXvyAVHYf-Gk_xhmdbGmdFdEYENuqH36foXQ_aem_k42ySUbieN95DknZDFgJhw ****************************** A great & necessary need toward sustainable ecological community: –de-weaponization & demilitarization!!! paul bain martin 7 Ss / VV->^^ *********** https://www.cbsnews.com/video/dads-mission-brain-injuries-60-minutes-video-2025-03-23/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJOgOFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHeD1YxZDPaoMIMXuSUjy4spXvyAVHYf-Gk_xhmdbGmdFdEYENuqH36foXQ_aem_k42ySUbieN95DknZDFgJhw

Trump & Trumpism. Realization of a Threat Because of Us Deplorables

Just a little thought while doing PT for my newly-replaced knee … after watching some morning “news” and while listening to some great 92.1-New Braunfels Americana music including good ol’ John Prine. … ******* SORRY!!! But … It could’ve been WW III and global nuclear warfare. It could have been global collapse of our precarious […]

A Piece All Should Read Concerning “Awareness” of Our Overly Complex Metaproblem & Existential Threat (of Extinction, or Worse) … & Need for Sustainable Ecological Community That Shifts to Our “Naturally-Evolved” K-Strategy/K-Culture

Sent from our son John Alton this morning (3/22/2025)! (URL below) (It is a great piece!!!) paul bain martin (7 Ss / VV->^^ ) In Solidarity towards Necessary Degrowth & Sustainable Ecological “Communitarianism” https://www.sustainable.soltechdesigns.com/climbing-the-ladder.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawJOcOlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXdkKUZJVmUFkSwt1pcvAoAK57zsiBZrdrKgxJ6iphDE9piVNThj-IJOVA_aem_PPIdtAjOIj0sGTRx0YyKWQ *********************************** And my response: “Dear son John, I do love you dearly!!! This is the most amazing little (succinct, Knowledge-filled, intelligent) […]

Results of the Genetics & Epigenetics from Louise Kneuper & Alton Martin, and Subsequent Environmental Influences from the Womb Immediately Following WW II to this Current Time of Trumpism … of One Insignificant Biotic Individual Among the TRILLIONS Which Have Existed (and Who Very Soon Will Dissipate Into the Mystic … as Will “The Great Demagogue” Donald J. Trump & Each of His Deplorably Enabling Trumpsters)

Yes!!! … I do focus far too much on ME in ecological community. And I AM a “toxic” pragmatic idealist and pain-in-the-butt, Don Quixote gadfly who is pretty much a utilitarian who strives for sustainable livelihoods across the globe. (Still … though I recognize ugliness & all the terrible violations of the Golden Rule & […]