ruin of one’s own interests (merriam-webster) to kill (oneself) dictionary.com i have never considered it (too many of mom st. lousie katherine kneuper martin’s genes) (well this morning i was suicidally contemplating an aggressive Warring risk which might trigger nuclear war/”world war III. … yes, i do have some of dad alton martin’s genes) there […]
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50th Reunion, Devine High: Key Events Which … & Classmates et al. Who … Influenced Me (1952-ca. 64) paul bain martin, Class of ‘64
After moving from Stockdale in ’52, Tucker Irwin would take me to Catholic School & always played old country-western music on the way. (We didn’t listen to much music in our home, although Dad was a great singer & yodeler, & he often sang Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Lefty Frizzel & Hank Snow songs, but […]
Pacifist???
PEACE? Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology? I am a wannabe pacifist. It is the only way. But wait! Am I “flippantly” falando besteira … just bullshitting? I have experienced much of man’s inhumanity to humanity … AND inhumaneness toward other species (too much of it performed by yours truly.) Some small examples which […]
familial … local & global “solutions” (thoughts after a 1 & 1/2 hour “session” with a good, solid, intelligent, experienced psycho-therapist who tried)
my life spills over with wonderfully good experiences those in the now (but always including the before-now) … and the good i intend to soon realize heading toward eighty amazing years (yes sometimes with a rain, uncontrollable reign without rein, of tears) and a continuing on into the mystic “we were born before the wind also, […]
War & Penance by Philip G. Porter (Commonweal, January 2022) … sent to me by an angel from heaven, Dr. Darryl Birkenfield
War & Penance | Commonweal Magazine “A parish with veterans who have recently returned from war might take the opportunity to join them in penance, to recognize a shared culpability, to ‘bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ’ (Galatians 6:2). This would be far more appropriate—and surely far more pleasing […]
“Diagnosing him as such [Putin as a madman] assumes that sanity is the normative state of people … “
“Diagnosing him as such assumes that sanity is the normative state of people with power.” “Diagnosing him as such assumes that sanity is the normative state of people with power.” “Diagnosing him as such assumes that sanity is the normative state of people with power.” “Diagnosing him as such assumes that sanity is the normative […]
War Is a Crime!
Naw, … I’m not very fond of flag-wavers of many sorts Those who wave that of the U.S. of A., a “Confederate flag,” the Russian flag, MAGA flags of Trumpsters I’m not generally fond of patriots They can be dangerously nationalistic and even scarily fascist War mongers are the worst And we have […]
meaning in life. what keeps me going.
my dearest friend, lover, mother of our children, wife … Betsy, Elizabeth Florence Hoffmann Martin! true friends and family, netos!!! who communicate! … Alvaro, Miguelito, Anchieta, Helene, Marvel, Peggy, Darryl, Nathan, Gloria, Hilario, John, and many others! the beauty of the waters, the landscape, the sky, the biota, the people of south central texas … […]
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“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I can do something about it. So even if the U.S. was […]