(confused–being perplexed or disconcerted. Merriam-Webster

spiritual enlightenment--“self-realization,” etc., etc.

humility—my god is a prokaryote. Also, being a humble christian rather than a Christian! of knowing hubris.)

 

confused?  yes!  (i’ve done a little bit of studying of philosophy and religion/the humanities; psychology.)

 

confused? that’s the human condition?

 

confused?  some who supposedly loved him, thought my go(o)dly dad, who was not a religious church-goer, was going to hell?!!?

 

confused?  mom st. lousie was certain neither dad nor i lived in hell nor would go to hell.  she knew she guided us well and that we would be eternally OK!

 

confused?  i am certain that the Truth is:

we are over carrying capacity,

we are drawing down on the natural resource base,

we should be living sabiamente/wisely, simply, smally, slowly, steadfastly, sharingly, and sustainably  …  and in solidarity,

we need PEACEcology across campuses and curricula,

the religious reliance on invisible and visible hands of Gods/demagogues, neoliberal capitalism, and the military-industrial complex, etc. are serious barriers to restoration/regeneration and conservation of resilient, sustainable ecological community, i.e., quality life for all including other species,

individually & collectively we aren’t abiding by principles of: the golden rule, pacifism, less is more, precaution, the second law of thermodynamics, agroecology, positively ethical applied community ecology, critical thinking & decision-making, humility*

 

confused?  who’s to say that I am not spiritually enlightened???????

………………………..

* From: Games We Play (kite.pub)

pbm

7 S’s / VV->^^

(paul bain martin’s simplistic mental play:

thoughts on why “god” mostly seems to be human and not of any of the other taxa)

i am certain it is mostly mystery

and certainly not a biblical certainty

or a current norm of: human, male, white, autocratic, …

 

earlier, and later, it was and is pantheism and nature

and now many do attempt to project a caring female humanoid

personally … being a skeptic and agnostic, or perhaps ignostic … i simply cannot really comprehend theism, or atheism

 

my mom st. louise katherine kneuper martin; relatively poor rural/pig-farming, catholic upbringing; john 23^rd & the francises

attempted to instill in me … humility! humility! humility! … and even more humility

humility???  … can not god have been/be a lovely lowly prokaryote???

 

pbm

7 S’s /  VV->^^

shunned by a son who is fading out in my setting sun …

shutting another out  (i’m stunned)

with little to no attempt to respect, communicate, express regret, or show gratitude

such a callous, cowardly, unadmirable, diseased trait  (weeellll  …  probably laziness!! & lack of savvy!)

 

nevertheless change can happen

and would be immediately will be welcomed

and i for one, will always open the gate

i do not scarlet-letter, banish, or ban!

 

today is the first day of the rest of your life

you (and yours … and i and mine) can truly begin now to forgive … and repent

and become more decent

before my life, or your life, or other lives, are spent

 

yes son, i did GIVE you the best years of my life

as did your mom …

then you and yours TOOK os anos ainda melhores da minha vida

as y’all did also (me thinks) of your mom’s

 

as the sun sets

feelings of sadness and melancholy  and emptiness

have changed … over these circa six plus years  …

to a severe numbness and quasi -paralysis  (yes!  also a disease.)

………………………….

 

love, dad

(yes!  love for all biota  …

but also some sort of everlasting love for a sadly sick child

who’s considered his father toxically, hopelessly dead),

 

 

pbm

7 S’s / VV->^^

life is pleasant and pleasing

generous, glorious

“blessed,” beatified

(it is so wonderful!  …  life)

 

but if we of the homo colossus placate

through arrogant power, wealth,

capitalism, money, and stuff

(military, an over-abundance of inappropriate technology, & War)

 

if we ignore robert jensen’s call

for intelligent anguish, robust informed argument, and

critical thinking and concerted action in small groups

(locally and globally … and especially in this anthropocene)

 

we will take a dynamic homeostatic symbioses

which includes homo sapiens

down the drain … FAST!

(my personal anguish tells me this is a Truth in progress)

 

pbm

7 S’s / VV->^^

throughout most of my life i have always had a propensity to give the Haves Hell

year-round …

and including self-deprecation …

and especially to those of a or The Klan, arrogant aahmeericans, the Blessed, Christians (with the big “C”)

multimillionaires, the lorded landed, wealthy bankers, lawyers, big businessmen, doctors, politicians …

preachers … ESPECIALLY preachers

and those of rigorous & persistent self-imposed ignorance

 

i give all of them Hell, especially family and very close friends …

in my mind, heart, and soul …

if, in times of diapause, not overtly

i do fully realize that this is not particularly endearing

 

nevertheless, i hope that i might have built

or will build

enough personal/familial human, cultural, social, political, natural ecological capital

that i might maintain some friendships with my fellow Haves

and that a few, or many, others might join me in solidarity

in go(o)d’s fight

 

whether i do significantly develop these important ecological community capitals …

or not  …

because of the wonderful influences

of those admirably battling for sustainablity and socio-ecological justice & sanity

it is of utmost importance to me

to constantly work to loosen the gears, wheels, chains … capitals … of

and the tight grip on

POWER!!!

which we Haves of neoliberal capitalism have …

and work such that it is distributed it to the needy nots  …

human and otherwise

…………………..

i truly do love you all!

 

pbm

7 S’s / VV->^^

 

poetswithoutborders.org

 

 

moral humans, moral society, … and ecological community. 

negative approaches to human rights and responsibility

 

less is more!
it is a profound and holistic approach to human ecological rights
for individuals, societies, and ecological communities

“just say no” is your right,
your responsibility!
forget about nancy reagan for now
goal-set; strategically plan; develop objectives, tactics, and actions; measure, analyze and evaluate
replan

toward a relentless life of saying “NO!!!”
to nuclear armaments
to military drones
to militarism; military- and police-force
to ownership of weapons except for “reasonable” hunting and gathering … but not for sport
to artificial systems which involve high energy inputs, throughputs (and yes, outputs)
to greed, and “more,” and hoarding; and exorbitant salaries, per capita and collective consumption (just say “yes” to caring and sharing)

say “no” to borders and walls and prisons and ICE detention (to solitary confinement AND TORTURE! of any kind)
to inequity
to rash decision-making and ecological destruction
to individual decisions and actions; they should always be ecological community decisions

magically this will result in enhancement of positively ethical applied community
ecology/PEACE and
quality life for all into distant time
…………………..
power to the savvy, simple, small, slow, steadfast, sharing (caring), sustainable
who collaborate, cooperate, live lovingly, PEACEfully in solidarity

 

necessities of rights? …
(homeostatic biophiliac connections … and ecological community and human rights)

almost fourteen billion years says it is all too dynamic, ephemeral, and insignificant
that is, the right to quality life on earth for all
nevertheless, for biota in various dimensions on earth it is of the utmost importance
whether it be in a less-than-a-day-long life of an adult mayfly, ephemeroptera,
or in the thousands-of-years life of a bristlecone pine

all life and the various resources needed for that life are necessarily connected
and for strength in these connections
we should strive for equity of political power over “energy-power” and matter
in twenty twenty-one and beyond we should realize adequate maslow’s needs across the globe
and let go(o)d develop good … and then more good!

……………….
but really now!?!?

do the kapok trees have rights?
and anopheles mosquitoes in the forest pools below?
and the plasmodium in the guts of anopheles and other animals?

sure! we are all connected? we are all biophiliacs.
we all have individual rights to exist and thrive in community
and ecological community in which we subsist and more has the utmost right to exist and thrive

holistic biophilia
the complexity of homeostatic ecological connections, more complex than we can ever know/ever understand
emphasizes the inherent importance of ecological community rights and human rights

biophiliac connections,
ecological community rights and individual rights
are a scientific law, an ecological law, THE law

 

human rights of and to power

power to

simple, humble, globally astute localist campesinos
francis’ poor, hungry, homeless, landless
refugees, needy recent immigrants
those south of the tropic of cancer
matriarchal agrarian societies

(power to equitable quality life for all for as long as possible
to dynamic homeostatic symbioses)

BUT NOT TO

AGRILOGISTICS AND ARTIFICIALIZATION
MILITARISTIC NATIONALISTS, FASCISTS
TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
RAMPANT DESTROYERS OF SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL FABRIC AND NATURE, I. E., NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISTIC SYSTEMS
SELFISH MONEYED
THE LORDED LANDED, THE BOURGEOISIE (“GEORGE WASHINGTONS” WITH DE FACTO SLAVES AND CULTURALLY-ROBBED INDIGENOUS PEOPLES)
THE “BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE” OF ACCEPTED ETHNICITY, CULTURE, COLOR, DRUGS, BELIEFS, SEXUAL FORMS/NORMS, HEALTH CONDITIONS, SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS, AGE GROUPS (THE ETHNIC CLEANSERS, GENOCIDERS, WORLD POLICE, “DECIDERS” … AND THE LIKE)

pbm*
7 S’s / VV->^^

poetswithoutborders.org

 

 

 

(*paul bain martin (BS/MS-Texas A&M Univ., Ph.D.-Univ. Florida) was raised in a small 2-bedroom, non-air-conditioned home with 5 younger siblings (and worked with “migrant” laborcrews) during the drought of the 1950s on a very small south Texas (hog) farm near Devine,Texas—a farm which always possessed a large garden, fruit trees, chickens and a milk cow.  While in Florida during the “Energy Crisis of the 1970’s”, Martin researched population dynamics of natural enemies of key lepidopteran pests in a “model north Florida agroecosystem” (involving vegetable crops and wild hosts, and including studies of Trichogramma and lacewings).

Martin was significantly influenced by ecologists like E.J. Dyksterhuis (TAMU), Archie Carr & H.T. Odum (Univ. Florida) and David Pimentel (Cornell). Moreover, a considerable amount of applied ecological knowledge was developed in late night sessions with Miguel Altieri (UC Berkeley) and during years as a pasture entomologist in Georgia and Brazil. Martin learned/manipulated to the best of his abilities as sustainable agriculture coordinator in Jim Hightower’s Texas Department Agriculture, and later taught biology/ecology at St. Philip’s College. (Martin has developed numerous research publications, essays, and reports and has a recent book on applied ecology, Games We Play. More Than 200,000 Years of Living Truthfullyband 5,000 of Searching for Truth.)

Martin’s wife taught science at Seguin High School and they have been recently or are currently involved with various organizations and efforts toward researching, developing and promoting positively ethical applied community ecology (i.e., a quest for ecological communities which are socially just, humane and ecologically sound), including some volunteer work/ecologicalactivities with: Ogallala Commons (with humble collaborations on Lakota reservations, in NM Pueblos, etc.), Kids On the Land, HEB Foundation Camps, Seguin Outdoor Learning Center,Dos Pueblos-NY/Tipitapa & Episcopalian Latin American veterinary projects and other international programs, & LULAC and local community gardens … and for/with their children and grandchildren on small “family Lands” near Stockdale & Rio Medina, TX.)

 

pablo … don’t always try and get into a fight

You’re not always right

When you write

Think something of delight/something “out of sight!”

Before you go to bed this night

 

There’s really no dearth

Of mirth

On this Eaarth

And some say late in the year is the time of Jesus of Nazareth’s birth

A time to enjoy much quite merrily and even increase your girth

 

Well … Okay … I should not forever be crappy

(But I can’t be too extremely sappy)

Many on Eaarth are quite satisfactorily happy …

And that makes me very truly happy and slappy snappy

Now I’m off to bed for my nightly nappy

Deathly crazy!

 

We are all more or less deathly crazy

Some and sometimes much more than others

But always deathly crazy

(This COULD change???)

 

Lack of sharing

Too little caring …

Too much complacency, apathy, self-induced ignorance, de facto rotten immorality

Poverty; slums, favelas, ghettos, shanty towns; starvation, death???

Out of sight, out of mind

Deathly crazy

(This could be changed)

 

Nazi extermination camps and Soviet Gulags

Khmer Rouge mass killings, Rwandan Tutsi killings, Congo killing fields

Bosnia’s Srebrenica ethnic cleansing

Bear River Massacre, Sand Creek, Marias, Wounded Knee

U.S./Saudi killings in Yemen; many U.S. military killings elsewhere

And on … and on … and on …

So very deathly crazy

(But this could be changed)

 

Plowing out prairies, clear-cutting forests, damming rivers & streams

Constant biocide spraying to date of fields across the world after WW II

Over-grazing, over-browsing; so many dogs, cats

So many shrimp, carp, tilapia (and people)

So many individuals of domesticated species–crop species; fowl, swine, bovine

Artificialization-desertification

Cars, cars, cars; semis, semis, semis; pick-em-up trucks; recreationals …

Concrete, asphalt

McMansions and true mansions, excessive air-conditioning

So many mowers and blowers

Exotic artificial landscapes

Exotic and synthetic foods

 

Stuff, plastic … stuff, stuff, stuff

 

Fossil energy and materials, mining/mining/mining, Haber-Bosch, MANufacturing

Rampant energy transformations, anthropomorphic global-climate change

So very, very deathly crazy for all of humanity

(But this could change???)

 

Science/SARS-CoV-2/need to manage COVID-19 is a hoax

MY freedom is my sole soul desire

Masking?  Hell no!

And I’ll get as close to people as I (selfishly)desire

Vaccination!

Not in MY bless(ed) body

No matter the clearance, & recognition of ecological-community need

From morally ethical scientists, intellectuals, statespersons, expert bureaucrats

No matter a desperate need for positively ethical applied community ecologists/PEACEmakers

 

Why, why, why are we deathly crazy

(This COULD be changed)

 

Guns, AR-15s, nuclear arms, death drones

And more and more arms

Suicides, domestic violence and homicides, school shootings and DEATH, gun accidents

War … wars …

Human stupidity

Lack of critical thinking and decision-making

Deathly crazy

(But this could change)

 

Trophy hunting, hunting for sport

Rather than “hunting-and-gathering”

And instead of working toward regeneration

Of dynamic homeostatic symbioses

For all including all species

Deathly crazy

(This could change!)

 

More, more, more

For the blessed Haves

For the arrogant chosen ones

For GOD’s children

 

Disparity, overshoot, biocapacity drawdown

Who cares as long as I have my sheltering walls and artificial go(o)dness

As long as I can fly

To a fenced-in, walled-in, protected artificially-built space

Of cars, concrete, asphalt, plastics, stuff, stuff, stuff

A place of super-environmentally, super-genetically modified Nature

Perhaps with trophy-bucks with a gillion points

 

Deathly crazy

(But this could change?)

 

 

Neil’s “Look at Mother Nature on the run …”

Roberto Carlos’ “As Beleias”

Dylan’s “License to Kill”

 

Walsh’s “We’re killing everything that’s alive

And anyone who tries to deny it

Wears a tie

And gets paid to lie.”

 

Joni’s “Big Yellow Taxi”

McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction”

The man in black’s “Don’t Go Near the Water”

Journalist, scholar Robert Jensen’s thoughts on a dying? … or dead??? world

 

 

Adam Wright’s lamenting verse piercingly, hauntingly says it all

“I don’t doubt for a minute …

We’ll get right to rightin’ all these wrongs

Someday we will

But I wonder if the world can wait that long”

 

And much more by the better and best poets

Truthfully spoken in many languages

 

“I said come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
Right now
Right now”

(“Everybody” means love, respect, admiration, & wisdom for all biota

This includes other species, ethnicities, tribes, cultures, religions

With particular histories, education backgrounds, socio-economic statuses

Behaviors, languages spoken, skin colors, smells

Sexual orientations and persuasions, types of dress and ornamentation

Etc., etc., etc.)

 

 

We are deathly crazy

But this could be changed

This must be changed

Now!

……………..

pbm

7 S’s / VV->^^

 

 

16h45 13 de janeiro Chegada RIO (Viagem a Ouro Preto por um dia)

13-19 (Visite amigos no Rio)

19 de janeiro para São Paulo

20-22 (Visite os Mustafas)

[23 de janeiro Betsy volta ao Rio e deixará o Rio às 22h25, 26 de janeiro]

23 de janeiro paul para Novo Hamburgo 

24-25 (Visite Alvaro Kessler, Camilo, et al.)

26 de janeiro para Foz Iguaçu  

27 (Foz Iguaçu)

28 de janeiro para Campo Grande

29-fevereiro 2 (Visita Campo Grande, Bonito ?, Pantanal ?? – Zé Raul, Lelia, Koller, Marlene, Preto, Toti, Julia Boock, et al.)

3 e 4 de fevereiro para Barra do Cordo

5-7 (Visitar Anchieta, São Luís?)

8 e 9 de fevereiro para o Rio

22:25 10 de fevereiro Saia do RIO

[Esses planos são para viagens de ônibus após a chegada ao Rio. O Brasil é maior do que os EUA continentais e posso fazer alguns voos dentro, e posso tentar também ir para Recife e ver alguns amigos ???.]

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16:45 January 13 Arrive RIO (Travel to Ouro Preto one day)

13-19 (Visit friends in Rio)

January 19 to Sao Paulo

20-22 (Visit the Mustafas)

[January 23 Betsy back to Rio and will leave Rio at 22:25 January 26]

January 23 Paul to Novo Hamburgo & Santa Maria

24-25 (Visit Alvaro Kessler, Camilo, et al.)

January 26 to Foz Iguacu  (Probably not!)

27 (Foz Iguacu)

January 28 to Campo Grande

29-February 2 (Visit Campo Grande, Bonito?, the Pantanal??-Ze Raul, Lelia, Koller, Marlene, Preto, Toti, Julia Boock, et al. )

February 3 & 4 to Barra do Cordo

5-7  (Visit Anchieta, Sao Luis??)

February 8 & 9 to (Recife??? &) Rio

22:25 February 10 Leave RIO

[These plans are for travel using buses after arrival in Rio.  Brasil is larger than the continental U.S. and I might do some flying within, and may try to squeeze in Recife & see some friends???.]

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16:45 13 de enero Llegada a RIO (viaje a Ouro Preto por un día)

13-19 (visita amigos en Rio)

19 de enero a Sao Paulo

20-22 (visita las Mustafas)

[23 de enero Betsy volverá a Río y saldrá de Río a las 22:25 el 26 de enero]

23 de enero Paul a Novo Hamburgo

24-25 (visita a Alvaro Kessler, Camilo, et al.)

26 de enero a Foz Iguacu

27 (Foz Iguazú)

28 de enero a Campo Grande

29-2 de febrero (¿Visita Campo Grande, Bonito ?, ¿el Pantanal? – Ze Raul, Lelia, Koller, Marlene, Preto, Toti, Julia Boock, et al.)

3 y 4 de febrero a Barra do Cordo

5-7 (visita Anchieta, Sao Luis?)

8 y 9 de febrero a Rio

22:25 10 de febrero Salida de RIO

[Estos planes son para viajar en autobús después de la llegada a Río. Brasil es más grande que los EE. UU. Continentales y podría volar un poco dentro, y podría intentar pasar un tiempo en Recife y ver a algunos amigos.]