It all started with a passage from Rumi that Paul Martin, philanthropist, artist, entrepreneur (CIO of Martin Capital Advisors)l, had posted on his Facebook page: “We must become ignorant of what we have been taught and be instead bewildered.”
To which Paul’s brother, the Nashville-based country music singer and song writer Jim Martin, posted a reply from someone named Sinz: “The philosophy of men is flawed by the tangibles of weakness. To say to do, is profound in corruptness. I’m assured in confusion, sanctified in the truth of derision, and I quantify my existence, rather than qualify my subsistence.”
Paul and others wondered who this Sinz might be. A pre-Socratic philosopher with whom we weren’t familiar? It was written in the same aphoristic style, after all, with a similar philosophical-poetic sensibility. Some of us went to Google to do some gumshoe work to search and prospectively ind out who Sinz was. Nothing came up. Turns out it was Jim Martin himself.
Paul then dubbed himself Esinz, and posted this: “The truth of quantification is buried in the minutia of qualities beyond our imaginations. To seek is to be.”
Here again, some of us weren’t yet in the know that Sinz and Esinz were Paul and Jim. We searched but we did not find. Equal blends re-Socratic, post-Shakespearean and post-Nietzschean, Sinz and Esinz have since been inspired to create hundreds of aphorisms and philosophical stories, all of which will be posted to the site.
Here on YouTube is the story of how it all began — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtSfzwgBcJw — and how to brothers have come together in a way that not only has forged a stronger bond between them, but shows how their fellow humans might take a cue from them to repeat their feat. To this day, some come across their profound passages on social media, and research to see whose these philosophers Sinz and Esinz are. It’s a high compliment that their writings mesh so well with the earliest philosophical tradition, in which boundaries of knowledge were traversed by boundlessly curious questioners.