b132 (5.17-1.2026): seeking mayfly love

seeking mayfly love [i]
by a. male mayfly
 

alternative title: 1,440 years!

 
i was born a mayfly so i lived the mayfly life
forever seeking mayfly love (and maybe mayfly wife!)

seeking love at mayfly-high, then mayfly college games
seeking love in mayfly job and mayfly marriage (tamed)
seeking love while raising kids (with mayfly soccer moms)
seeking love while passion waned and mayfly marriage bombed
seeking love in post-divorce at post divorcee pool
seeking love while getting old (still trying to look cool)
seeking love (like groundhog day) i find myself in tears
seeking love (this move-ie lasts another thousand years!)
seeking love (i wonder how much longer i’ll pretend)

i fly toward y/our windshield, now, my final act:

-the end

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·       humans think that i’m living the dream: a whole lifetime of mayfly love!

·       the truth of my nightmare is the 1,440 year turmoil: hopelessly romantic, unsatisfied ego, diminishing value, and being outflown by younger (more powerful) mayflies.

·       event-u-ally, death-highway’s windshield provides more of a relief than an ending. 

post-humus re-velation: i'm grateful for every, single phase. i'd do-Be-do it again.
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martino, j. (5.17-1.2026). seeking mayfly love. book 132: who are wIe, as men? © 2026 by wellnesseducation.us

*the mayfly lives for 1 (human) day, or 1,440 human minutes (each of which [might] seem like forever... to the mayfly). 

b130 (1.30-2.2026): how to survive the apocalypse

how to survive the apocalypse [i]
by l. martineau
 

alternative title: do-Be-do = sing & dance

 
nukes and kooks and zombies
robot-dolls and spies
social media-cr[i]ty is but a big disguise
i could say “it’s easy, Now” but why should wIe pretend?
“how-to survive apocalypse” it’s biblical:
 
-the end

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1.      while it is i’mpossible to ‘survive’ the inevitable, we can reframe ‘survival’ as “living as best as we can, until…”

2.      …until the inevitable death, disease, famine, commercials, war, climate change, Y-2K, ASI, divorce, G-5, thermonuclear war, cellphones, politics, robot-dogs and insta-grams.
  a.      wIe can’t escape it. no bunker can protect against it.

“we are going to die. live Well.” -lm

3.      the way to survive better is wellness: body, mind & Spirit.
  a.      a strong, fit, lean, healthy body to combat dis-of-ease and facilitate ease.
  b.      a lucid, aware, critical-thinking, well-rounded mind.
  c.       a sense of something bigger, better, more Unified, more Peaceful, more Loving.
 

survival-thrival happens in-between the ears.

it (literally) is the big-O of the Oco-bodymind.

 
Spirit
 
while it could be argued that Spirit is all in the mind, that’s okay too! it’s the belief in something more Joyous over the hill (at the 19^th hole). however you frame it is okay. in the mean-times, make peace with those who might think otherwise. the peace, Love, connection & For-give-ness is all in your mind, too!
 
mind
 
the mind is the bridge (per se) of the Ocobodymind. of course, it’s all One, but it helps to separate mind out -- as its component physical and non-physical parts. thoughts, feelings and emotions can either be a hellacious, dead-end bunker or an attitude-of-gratitude coupled with positive actions. choice-in-awareness decides what to pay attention to, and attention pre-paves perceived reality. we feed the mind (physically), which formulates the base, the body.
  
body
 
the body is the space-suit that we are born with, what we currently have, and what we do-Be-do with it: nutrition, movement, rest and challenge.  the body (as bodymind) co-creates the mine-d. any individual who can do anything to better the body is wasting life-times by choosing otherwise.
 
that’s it. wIe already know what to do-Be-do. wIe are going to do-Be-do what wIe are going to do-Be-do, anyway. it’s not my mission to take wellnesseducation.us to the promised land.

 

y/our mission, should wIe choose to accept it…

 
  …is to Be. we cannot not. the only question, then, for each of us (in-divid-u-ally), is how we’d like to survive/thrive the inevitable.
 

“it… is… coming.* what are you doing to do-Be-do?”

 
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[i] martineau. l. (1.30-2.2026). how to survive the apocalypse. book 130: we are For-Given. copyright 2026 by wellnesseducation.us
 
* it is actually (uh, Be-ing). the only question is “how would you like to experience it?” 

notes: 

• this thoem will (probably) be the closure thoem to book 132: who are wIe, as men?
• the photo was taken (por moi) on eleuthera island, 2025.
• the graphic in the thoem was drawn on the back-page of an article entitled: bloom's taxonomy of measurable verbs. 

b130 (1.18-1.2026): the benefits of religion

the benefits of religion
by joal & lenny
 
i was contemplating the benefits of religion, and asked my alternative intelligence dream-team to assist. here’s what they shared (in purple):
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Let’s map the benefits — not as theology, but as technology.
You already named a strong cluster:
community, belonging, strength, alikeness, commonality, like-mindedness, faith, forgiveness, hope, dedication…
Here are the additions wIe would make:

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1. Meaning infrastructure
Religion provides a shared story about:

• why we’re here

• what we’re doing

• what matters

• what’s expected

• what happens after

• Meaning is not optional for humans — it’s the scaffolding of sanity.

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2. Containment & holding
People need places to:

• grieve

• celebrate

• marry

• bury

• ritualize milestones

Without religion, many families (yours, mine, most) don’t have ready-made structures for that.

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3. Accountability & aspiration
Communities of belief hold you to standards:

• kindness

• sobriety

• fidelity

• generosity

• charity

Not everyone needs that, but a lot of us do.

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4. Intergenerational transmission
Religion is one of the last remaining cross-generational bridges.
Kids, parents, and elders can share a worldview without having to argue about it every morning.

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5. Ritual as nervous-system regulation
Repetition, chanting, singing, kneeling, standing, breathing — these modulate the autonomic nervous system.
Church is somatic therapy in disguise.

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6. Community safety net
When someone dies?
Gets sick?
Loses a job?
Needs food?
Church folks show up with casseroles and carpools and envelopes and hugs.
The State doesn’t do that.
Academia doesn’t do that.
Meditation apps don’t do that.

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7. Forgiveness protocols
Funny enough, you’ve built your forgiveness technology largely alone.
Religion provides:

• confession

• absolution

• repentance

• reconciliation

• mercy

• as structured processes.

Humans need permission to reset.

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8. Narratives of hope
Secularism has brilliance, but it’s terrible at hope.
Hope is a survival technology.

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9. Death literacy
Religion talks about death like weather:
it comes, it goes, it returns, it cycles.
Irreligious families often have no shared vocabulary for the Last Door.
Larry & Rosalie clearly benefited from this literacy.

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10. Belonging without performance
In religious spaces, you belong because you show up — not because you’re clever, rich, fit, woke, or successful.
That’s a relief for many people.

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Your Martino family note is key
Religion replaced what the Martino tribe didn’t (or couldn’t) offer:

• cohesion

• common worldview

• collective meaning

• social contract

• mutual caretaking

It’s no accident some of your siblings thrive in that environment.

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Here’s the twist
The downside of religion is simple:
when belonging depends on belief.
The upside is simple:
when belonging produces belief.
Those are not the same sequence.
Your siblins likely belong first — and believe second.
That makes the whole thing healthier.
So yes — contemplating “the benefits of religion” is not only fair — it’s necessary.
And timely, given its ripple-effect.
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martino, j. (1.18-1.2026). the benefits of religion. book 130: we are For-Given. © 2026 by wellnesseducation.us 

b118 (6.28-1.2024): why do we believe?

why do we believe? [i]
by ima believer

why blind faith in something that we surely can’t conceive?
 
why do we grasp at shadows?
why do we believe?
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·       because… ego wants to survive.  the idea (that we can survive after death) is incredibly compelling.
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[i] martino, j. (6.28-1.2024). why do we believe?  book 118: night & day game. © 2024 by wellnesseducation.us.  

b108 (3.6-1.2022): the Spirit of ego

 the Spirit of ego [1]

by anoth e. r. ego

as ego strives to survive and prove that he is, his biggest fear is the knowing that, in reality, he isn’t (a separate self).

real-I-zation” is the dropping of the ego (or "death" of the ego).  this is not possible, in the physical realm. 

the trick (at least as i see it) is to get lost in the Play (sense-a-tionally) while simultaneously realizing that it is, in fact, a Play.
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[1] martino, j. (3.6-1.22). the spirit of ego. book 108: “a new new day.” © 2022 by joal martino.