as journalists darren dunn, tess coody, & felicia frazer recently “de facto said” … and quite a few others in my life of 78 years (this month of november 2024) have pointed out i like most other individual humans or other life forms am relatively insignificant especially as a hog-farmer’s son, relatively superficial thinker with […]
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Religion and Science
i have tried to elicit a little thinking about religion & science on pages 152-3, 183-4, & others in games we play … more than 200,000 years of living Truthfully and 5,000 of searching for Truth* (and elsewhere, e.g., in this blog site of this blog post, paulpeaceparables.com ) but these efforts at getting myself […]
the challenges … and the only real solution
A plethora of thoughts (just thoughts! & ideas!) this morning (10/27/2024) after an amazingly fantastic Ogallala Commons “Discovery Days” get-together of elders and energetic youth of the Commons … and just before entering into Betsy Hoffmann Martin & friends & colleagues’ Seguin Riverside Cemetery reenactments (Saints Alive!) of local historical figures (of whom I will […]
LASTING CAUTIOUS JOY … BUT ALSO UNFULFILLED DESIRES FOR EVEN MORE JOY (i.e., heaven on Eaarth)
i suppose like many i cannot be unhappy with my life … my heaven on Eaarth! STILL … I WISH I COULD KNOW GRANDKIDS WILLIAM HARVEY, ABIGAIL ELISE, AND IAN BAIN … …………………………………. hog farmer’s son, raised on a diversified five-acre place & largely formed in the mixed agricultural (good) multi-ethnic village of divine devine, […]
Preparation for & Possible Introduction to Sustainability Discussions on October 20th & November 2, 2024 in Seguin, Texas
(Presentations to Local Governmental Entities Concerning Upcoming Sustainable Ecological Community Discussions, 10/20 & 11/2/2024 It does distress me greatly that so many in very levels of power, and the populace, or demos, which voted them in, have so much ignorance of ecological principles & processes, & appropriate values … and thusly some of the most […]
2024. The State of Eaarth, “Enjoying” Comforts within, and Improving It All for All (aka “The Golden Rule”) for the Immediate and Long-Term Future
Eaarth* in 2024 “Common sense” observations and soft and hard science tell us … o Ignorance is bliss but dangerous. That ignorance is very dangerous is particularly true when dealing with lack of profoundly holistic ecological knowledge. We must begin to have principles, processes, and values of applied ecology across curricula and campuses of all […]
Solid Thoughts Re PEACE/Resilient, Sustainable Ecological Community While Bicycling Around Seguin, Texas Today, August 8th, 2024
“Small Is Beautiful!” (E.F. Schumacher) “Less Is More!” (Jason Hickel) “Steady-State Economics.” (Herman Daly) “Moral Human Beings and Moral Society.”(Reinhold Niebuhr) rather than “Growth-Economics.” ……………………………. every “excessive” … mile that you travel, especially by air or automoble or cruise ship, number of electic or gasoline cars you own/operate, personal recreational, private defensive, or military gun, […]
Uncle Oscar Bain and How He Helped Influence Me Toward Pacifism & Antimilitarism & Disarmament (and Gun Control)
My namesake, Uncle Bain was killed 21 months before I was born. However, family stories about him and his calls for peace in his letters during World War II did greatly impact me.
A Focus on Degrowth & Socio-Ecological Justice. A New Profoundly-Holistic Golden Rule for Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACEmaking
https://xueyingyingxue.substack.com/p/roy-morrisons-a-new-golden-rule-for https://degrowth.info/en/blog/book-review-less-is-more-how-degrowth-will-save-the-world-by-jason-hickel I am sort of “trying” to not do “this” so much (i.e., posting of the sort of very sad Truths like that in the URLs far below). … Nevertheless, I do wish folk would truly begin to be very aware of our various processes of destruction of “a dynamic homeostatic symbioses including humans”, […]