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Phil Beaver
seeks to collaborate on the ineluctable truth. Ineluctable means: Not to be assailed, avoided, broken, changed,
escaped, mystified, neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, resisted, revoked, or
voided. Some people erroneously imagine limiting the ineluctable truth, for
example, trying to change it.
"Civic"
refers to citizens who collaborate for individual
happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or
society. Civic citizens neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from
anyone. Civic citizens are reliably responsible to the good rather than the bad
in connections and transactions.
Consider
writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens
mutual appreciation: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and
paraphrase its proposal as follows: A civic faction, We the People of the United States, proffer,
practice, and may amend 6 public pursuits —- integrity, justice, safety,
strength, prosperity, and responsibility --- “in order to” pursue goodness “to
ourselves and our Posterity”. I want to improve my interpretation by listening-to and considering other
citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787 text,
unless it is amended by the civic-people.
It seems the
Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one with status has challenged
whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this
independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states
deliberately managed by appreciative fellow citizens convinces me the preamble
is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the faction who
collaborate for statutory justice, We the People of the United States.
Every citizen
has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in
the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try
somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the
goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies
grandchildren to both born Americans and legal immigrants. Congressional
freedom of religion, which fellow citizens have no means to constrain,
oppresses freedom to develop integrity. This can be remedied by changing the
First Amendment from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.
Selected theme from this month
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior
Reared
in Knoxville TN by Dad, who was a Mason, and Mom, who was an Eastern Star, and
with their powerful support, achieving a B.S. in chemical engineering, I became
unchurched at age 82 and feel that a 75-year struggle is over. I appreciate
every church/religious discussion that aided my decision, yet object to their eternal
inculcation: You are a sinner.
Whereas
I was born to pursue perfect goodness (Matthew 5:48 NKJV), churches inculcated the
myth that I am a sinner – not in the image of the God(s) (Genesis 1:26-28 NKJV
and Psalm 82:6 NKJV). I regret that it took me 82 years to accept Homo sapiens
infantile potential.
I have chosen to no-longer attempt-to limit mysterious soul salvation, in order
to discover and practice goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
Other people may have reached similar commitments under different influences; I
appreciate Yeshua, the Judean of 2000 years ago, who, in my interpretation,
always encouraged and suggested goodness and never affirmed badness. The only
disturbance he caused was turning over trade tables in a synagogue, and that
was, in my opinion, a civic act.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
News
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-strikes-down-californias-policies-hiding-gender-switches-from-parents-5961936
“…
burdening many parents’ First Amendment right to train their children in their
sincerely held religious beliefs,” the judge wrote. A civic nation does not
impose religion on children.
The religion clauses of the first amendment, a December 15, 1791 product of the
First Congress rather than the delegates’ framing of September 17, 1787, are
obsolete.
The US Supreme Court shirks responsibility to define religion. I think it is
primitive:
first, imagining mystery to explain an unknown, and, second, rationalizing
legislation that might comport to the mystery.
Quantum biology is being researched to explain psychology as constrained by the
laws of physics. As research discovers the laws of physics, mysteries lessen
and religion becomes futile. It is no mystery that war in Gaza is sustained by
sectarian beliefs in Allah, Christ, Yahweh, and others.
Here, the Catholic Church is embroiled in liberation theology’s Marxist
violence rather than work, in order to impose redistribution to the poor. When
the entrepreneur must yield to violence, the consumer forfeits provisions for
survival.
Research has moved humankind past religion as a means of promoting, encouraging
and facilitating discovery of goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
Congress may and can amend the First Amendment, and both the Supreme Court and
the Administration can encourage the civic faction, We the People of the United
States, to demand it.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
I think the civic faction, We the People of the United
States, is remiss in not demanding protection of "ourselves and our
Posterity" from corrupt governors, mayors, and other officials. I want to
do my part.
I'm only a chemical engineer, not a lawyer. However, in one
review, https://cis.org/Report/Federal-AntiSanctuary-Law-Constitutional, I see
no judicial humility toward the civic faction. If Congress is remiss, the
Supreme Court can say so, in time to save girls and women from rape or prevent
the next murder.
I think Congress upheld the civic faction in creating
Sections 1373 and 1644, and the Trump administration is acting for the civic
faction. The Supreme Court acts unconstitutionally by supporting Sanctuary
Cities and States. I don't know the ineluctable truth.
In this republic, only the civic faction, defined in the
preamble to the United States Constitution, can hold the Supreme Court
accountable.
A responsible court may and can act in its own best interest
by requiring states to cooperate with the administration in protecting the
civic faction, We the People of the United States.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Opinion
Quoting the article, “[C]ivic thought programs are the best
means in the present circumstances for restoring a traditional liberal
education, one that serves the public interest by forming young men and women
capable of exercising their rights effectively and preserving and improving
free and democratic institutions.”
“Free and democratic” might be useful in other nations.
However, the civic faction, We the People of the United States, pursues
statutory justice in a constitutional republic. The Constitution proffers
responsibility and prevents democracy “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
Civic citizens appreciate and defend each other’s
opportunities to choose goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. “Posterity”
includes legal immigrants, who may be non-religious yet appreciate the United
States republic.
Not every United States citizen seems civic in good times.
Then, “democracy” does not bother the civic citizen. However, when the United
States republic seems threatened, civic integrity prevails. For example, in the
2024 presidential election, fellow citizens in 2633 of 3144 counties voted to
preserve the republic rather than risk falling to social democracy, which is
chaos. In 2016 it was 2626 for the republic. Votes for democracy were 487 in
2016 and 421 in 2024.
People who write phrases like "free and democratic
institutions" cannot create educational reform in the United States
republic.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Quora
https://www.quora.com/Wheres-the-line-between-brutal-fact-and-offensiveness Andrew C
I think any ultimatum that does not express humility
reflects offense more than actual-reality and fact. For example, “citizens must
believe in God” is offensive, whereas “civic persons reserve humility towards
whatever constrains the consequences of human choice” is prudent, if not
factual.
The modern person who discounts Socrates lessenes personal
opportunity for wisdom.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-freedom-and-peace, Atwine Derick
I think freedom and peace expresses opportunity to discover then choose
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior and governance
that pursues statutory justice. Thereby, humankind may develop humility to
whatever constrains the consequences of human choice.
On earth, only Homo sapiens develops brains with speed and
capacity to accumulate experiences and observations that justify the power,
authority, and responsibility to choose goodness rather than badness. When they
err, they react by not repeating the action. If their error harmed another
person or group, they apologize and make restitution. I call the practice civic
integrity and the practitioners civic citizens.
Not everyone participates in the pursuit of goodness and governance, so there
are un-civic fellow citizens. Some prefer erroneous living and classify
themselves by order and degree of badness: dissidents, rebels, criminals, the
spiritual, the wicked, and the evil. Badness produces injustice.
Statutory justice is pursued by improving the law when
injustice is discovered. Civic citizens aid continual amendment to improve the
Constitution. For example, civic citizens accept that some people honestly,
erroneously think DNA evidence is admissible for exoneration but not for
conviction. Aware that integrity exceeds honesty, civic citizens aid constitutional
amendment to establish and maintain majority
rather than unanimous verdicts in
jury trials. Imagine attempting to limit the Supreme Court to exclusively
unanimous opinion!
Justice is discerned by ineluctable evidence, which is
sometimes unknown – a mystery. No one knows the ultimate goodness humankind
will attain before extinction or annihilation: the limit of human goodness is a
mystery. Some people claim that a higher power -- a spirit -- prevents
humankind from pursuing perfect goodness. This belief seems insidious and worse
than wickedness and evil, which are more immediately addressed. One need look
no further than the 2025 Gaza Strip to observe influences of spirits developed
in the recent 4000 years: Allah, Christ, and Yahweh.
Humankind is in charge of goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior and statutory
justice on earth, in other words, freedom and peace.
Humankind may and can pursue perfect goodness. Attainment is not possible where
there is neither intention nor humility.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.quora.com/In-order-to-make-people-equal-you-have-to-treat-them-differently-If-you-treat-people-alike-the-result-is-necessarily-inequality-Agree-or-disagree?, June Eleanor Loughty
I agree with you.
I think every infant Homo sapiens has the tendency to discover
and choose goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. If so, infants are equal in
opportunity to pursue goodness.
If they encounter badness, they are perplexed until they accumulate enough-experiences
and observations to empower judgment. Depending upon the complexity and passion
of encounters, sometimes their judgment may weaken. If so, they may err then or
later.
Often, the error empowers judgement, and they will not repeat it. However,
sometimes error weakens judgment and may become habit. If so, the person is
practicing badness. The person may discover the habit and reform.
The public reacts to goodness and badness differently, and
if judicious, equitably. Thus, the public reacts to behavior more than to
persons. The public acts to facilitate goodness and constrain badness. If, not
they are allowing bad practices to prevail.
Not constraining bad actors creates inequality.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-relationship-between-ethics-and-civic-engagement anonymous
Civic integrity amends unjust civil codes, in order to
pursue public perfection or goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
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No doubt to me, outcome matters more than intention. Yet bad
intentions must be avoided, changed, or resisted, in order for humankind to
survive if not flourish.
For example, a research team could intend to harvest the
energy of the Moon on the premise that the Sun’s energy is too harsh. The
outcome of their work would be fruitless, because the Moon reflects rather than
radiates energy.
Likewise, a people may and can intend to perfect
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior rather than establish and maintain
quid-pro-quo-constructs on mysteries.
For example, many primitive peoples worshipped the Sun,
observing that it could kill them (due to overexposure). As Homo sapiens
discovered the Sun is a natural nuclear reactor, its worship faded almost to extinction.
Humankind may use for goodness observations and experiences respecting the laws
of physics.
To persons and groups who pursue life rather than death, the
fact that Sun-worship and other logical-reason yields to physics lessens the
reliability of every mystery-construct. Consequently, humankind gains upon
discovery and practice of goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior rather than on
studying doctrine that might favor mysterious ends, such as souls in
afterdeath.
For example, Homo sapiens has the awareness to accept “Merry
Christmas” as goodwill to every civic person rather than insist that, Yeshua,
the Judean political philosopher 2000 years ago intended to compete-with if not
defeat the laws of physics, and incidentally, non-Christian doctrine.
I think Paul, the Jew who championed against
male-circumcision, promoted church/communitarianism, when he facilitated the
title “Christ”. Paul attempted, intentionally or not, to hide Yeshua’s
influence to goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
“Merry Christmas” can become a reminder to Homo sapiens that
Yeshua, one of history’s great philosophers, intended goodness consistent with
the laws of physics rather than competitive doctrine.
If so, humankind will have turned Paul’s intentions into
good outcome.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Nsubuga Jacob's Orphan Home commented on your
answer to: "Does intention really matters or just results?"
You raise a very thoughtful point that outcomes often matter
more than intentions because they reflect the tangible impact of actions on the
world and on others.
At the same time, your examples show that intentions are not irrelevant but
bad intentions must be recognized, resisted or corrected to prevent harm and
allow humanity to thrive.
I appreciate your emphasis on pursuing goodness grounded in reality rather
than relying solely on abstract doctrine or intentions that may not translate
effectively into action.
The idea that positive outcomes can emerge even when intentions are imperfect
underscores the importance of ethical awareness, foresight and adaptability.
Ultimately, intention and outcome are deeply interconnected: intentions guide
our choices but outcomes measure their real effect, shaping both the
consequences of our actions and the lessons we draw from them.
https://www.quora.com/Is-equality-laughable, David
Equality is laughable to all but the civic citizen. Civic
citizens do all they can to preserve fellow citizens’ opportunities to choose
good behavior. But some people choose badness, creating the need for justice.
The oldest known law code, of Ur-Nammu, created around 2100
BC in Mesopotamia, informs elites not to take advantage of the poor, widows,
and orphans. Poverty may and can be lessened by educating youth and adults that
Homo sapiens are in charge of order on the earth. Each person may and can
constrain chaos in the way they live. That humankind is in charge is made
obvious by all that has been accomplished through discovery of the laws of
physics since the Ur-Nammu’s kingship.
Every human infant has their opportunity to constrain chaos in the way they
live, even though each one must contend with state and church in the location
where they are born. Both church and state employ poverty to empower
themselves. Among both rich and poor, circumstances vary from goodness to
disability, passivity, dissidence, rebellion, criminality, spirituality,
wickedness, or evil. State redistributes GDP so as to preserve poverty, while
church persuades the rich to give to the poor and skims the revenues.
At any time during life’s journey, each individual may
accept their opportunity to discover and practice goodness-that-motivates-good-behavior.
The moment a Homo sapiens chooses to practice good behavior, constraints on
their attainments lessen. Public consequences of their life are limited only by
time and reach. However, they have personally embarked on perfect goodness, and
their life is fulfilled.
Every Homo sapiens is equally capable to choose goodness-that-motivates-good-behavior.
Some find goodness laughable.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.quora.com/Are-humans-evil, Flash
The idea
that humans are mostly evil is a delusion, which is imposed on the civic
faction by governments and religions; power and doctrine; submission and faith.
The delusion becomes despotism when government and religion partner. When the
civic faction supports both the civil authority and one religious doctrine,
injustice dominates.
During the
transition from polytheism to competitive monotheism, between 5500 years ago
and 3700 years ago, one civilization perceived that only humankind could order
life on earth. The perception is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28, an
ancient-Semitic-scribe’s expression. Quoting V 26, “And God said, "Let
us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish
of the sea and over the fowl of the heaven and over the animals and over all
the earth and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth." The
key phrase is “rule over . . . all the earth”. In other words, the world’s
4,000 to 10,000 Gods are too busy to constrain chaos on earth, and only the
civic faction of humankind can rule on earth.
It
may have seemed alright 3700 years ago to think Genesis 1 merely religious
opinion. However, we now understand the laws of physics enough to propose
colonizing our moon or the planet Mars. Humankind has accomplished too much to pretend
to usurp both religious perception and the laws of physics.
Past
generations have left to our generation the privilege to improve education
departments so as to keep infants in their natural state of goodness through
adolescence into young adulthood. Adults may and can aid children to acquire
comprehension and intention to discover and practice
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior for life. Accept whatever constrains the
consequences of human choice and nevertheless constrain chaos in personal
living.
Human infants are naturally good and adults may and can help keep them in that
attitude.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
I have a 3 year-old post and copy it here:
Q, thank you for a creative question.
First, let me say, I don’t think humans seem evil. I don’t
know. I think evil derives from individual& collective concern about the
unknowns.
Briefly, I ponder a few ideas:
1. It takes a quarter century for an infant to transition to
a human-being with comprehension& intention to live a complete lifetime,
both in time and in personal, psychological development.
a. A second& third quarter century, of employment in
customer-wanted service, can& may lessen human error and enable the
individual to approach perfecting their unique person.
b. The mature human-being can& may behave with
responsible-human-independence (RHI) in every action.
c. Without practice, facilitation, and encouragement, the
individual lives in fear of the unknown.
d. Most cultures inculcate fear for the soul, an imagined
entity. However, the soul-mystery can be entrusted to its origins, so that the
person can perfect their way of living.
2. Cultures with Education Departments that engage Item 1
have not emerged.
a. Sumer, 10,000 years ago, was a promising culture:
i. Civic citizens worked to benefit nature’s Gods and
constrain dependent fellow-citizens as well.
ii. There was no soul theory beyond humans going to the same
place on death.
iii. The Gods advised the kings.
iv. Some of the kings claimed divinity and eternity.
v. Priests occasionally sacrificed humans.
vi. See the Hammurabi Code.
b. Hebrews branched from a family that left Sumer (Ur) to
develop the Lord God to accept lesser-species sacrifice: animals& birds.
i. Citizens were to observe the law.
ii. See Moses’ law.
c. Islam made God the law: submission to God. See the Quran.
d. Christianity offers grace to believers– teaches
acceptance of Jesus. See the Bible.
e. Hinduism proffers salvation of the soul through moral
behavior, ultimately as a human-being.
f. Many godless philosophies commend conformance to their
political doctrine.
3. Reform to a human-being culture is possible:
a. Accept the Sumer philosophy that some citizens will be
dependent. Develop necessity& justice for safety& security so
civic-citizens may choose RHI in self-interest rather than for the
Gods.
b. The stage was set when, in 1763, the USA began to move
toward independence from dominant European influencers England, France, and
Spain. The 1776 Declaration claims authority from Nature’s God rather than from
the English, Christian Trinity.
c. A conforming culture is proffered in the 1787 U.S.
Constitution.
i. It proposes a union of states with their constitutions by
their people limiting a republican nation under amendable, statutory law.
ii. Nourishing hope for soul is a private choice rather than
civic demand.
d. However, the 1791 mimic of England 1689 Bill of Rights
re-established colonial English traditions that regressed the opportunity for a
culture of human being according to Item 1, above. It grants “freedom of
religion” to Congress.
e. We, the 2022 “ourselves and our Posterity” can& may
reform-to/practice RHI, no matter what country we live in.
If people ruin lives to benefit their souls, I think that is
evil. I do not think human-being is evil, so the first culture that
takes-advantage-of& improves these ideas will enjoy& share an
achievable better future.
I reiterate: I do not know the-ineluctable-truth.
Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”.
Substack
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-28-2025
Pine Ridge took its place in a continuum of abuse that does
not dwarf today's shootings.
5500 years ago, a cultural isolate, Sumer, developed kings
who supported polytheism yet developed codes of law by which to manage
citizens. Humankind was in charge of peace on earth. The succession of codes
pursued goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. Civic citizens collaborated,
and 4200 years ago, the civic code cautioned elites to not take advantage of
the poor, widows, and orphans. The middle class took care of disabled fellow
citizens and facilitated and educated and them to pursue independence.
A couple hundred years later, competitive monotheisms
emerged. Some nations addressed poverty by giving money rather than by educating
people to constrain chaos in their ways of living. Education empowers selective
and practical consumption. Later, nations taxed the middle class, fed the poor,
and skimmed the money-flow. Eventfully, elite entrepreneurs discovered they
could thrive by keeping people in poverty and ignorance. A nation’s resources
could be exploited to make the rich powerful.
Among the methods of controlling masses was religion –
belief in a mysterious higher power – a mystery. With dependency on future
salvation, trust-in and commitment to the mystery enslaved believers to teach
faith to personal children and grandchildren unto future generations. Some
religious institutions skimmed money-flow to the poor. Variations on doctrinal
mysteries divided believers, preventing civic integrity by which future
generations might overcome misery.
During the last 7 decades, the religion of Marxist-liberation-theology, which
in destructive-violence pits self-styled-victims against accused-tyrants, has
notified institutional-theisms that it is time to establish and maintain
humility to goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
Starting in 2026, this generation has the privilege of establishing
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior on earth “to ourselves and our
Posterity”, quoting the preamble to the United States republic’s Constitution.
I think our generation may and can meet the challenge.
Happy New Year.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-27-2025
Richardson chooses to ridicule people who honestly debate
whether America is a Christian nation or a nation of Christians, despite the
United States republic’s pride in separation of church and state. Pride ruins
humility to goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
President Trump confronts Biden’s support for Marxist Liberation Theology – the
un-civic religion of self-oppressed vs accused-tyrant. I think citizens can
trust Trump’s commitment to support each civic person’s religious beliefs.
Civic people neither cause nor accommodate harm to or from any person or
association.
Civic integrity in 2025 makes it clear that 1791’s ““Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof,” needs amendment to “promoting” rather than “prohibiting”. Presently,
religious doctrine may and can defeat the rule of law.
For
example, a religious leader may protect awareness of murder, rape, and other
atrocities. Richardson may and can promote civic amendment of the civil
Constitution.
In
another example, the Justice of the Supreme Court, in the Presidential oath,
circumvents the Constitution (Article VI, Clause 3, “no religious Test”) by
posing the question, “So help you God?” It is well known that elected
officials are persons and therefore responsible for their religious opinions. That
includes the President. If a Muslim president-elect faces the standard
question, he or she may and can answer, “So help me Allah”. Or a kind Justice
can pose the question using “Allah”.
When I check Richardson’s stories, I cannot confirm the action. For example, the
AI-Santa-video does not appear on ice.gov/newsroom, so I disbelieve the story
and its purveyors.
Both Nigeria and the United States make it clear that Islamist terrorists
rather than civic Muslims are the offenders. Richardson could have chosen to
write, “. . . president Bola
Tinubu [approved] the strikes [and] foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar [reported]
trying to ensure safety for Nigerian civilians.”
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-16-2025
CBS News reported, "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on
Wednesday unveiled the new website for the Trump Accounts program, a
tax-deferred investment vehicle for American children. He also announced a new
Trump Accounts partner, billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio." When
the program rolls out next year, each newborn citizen will receive a $1000
stock fund so that every American can be a capitalist.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-15-2025
It seems unjust to debate national opinion upon mysterious
family-tragedy, so I want to address the writer’s political innuendo.
The United States republic (constitutional non-democracy) proffers
responsibility rather than rights; independence rather than liberty; goodness
rather than freedom; and civic integrity rather than civil injustice.
Liberty is government license. Adult citizens should be
licensed to vote if and only if they own an ethical interpretation of the
preamble to the United States Constitution and demonstrate continuous
commitment to its intentions. In my view the civic faction, We the People of
the United States pursues integrity, justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility “to
ourselves and our Posterity”. Posterity includes legal immigrants.
American
independence, won in 1781, ended England’s civil right to import African slaves
to this continent. Accepting aid from France, Spain, and Holland did not
obligate the consequential 13 free and independent states to perpetual European
conflict. I hope on July 4, 2026 the United States will rename the statue in
New York Harbor (a gift proposed by a French politician), “The Statue of
Independence”, rather than “The Statue of Liberty.”
I
propose the motto, “The USA pursues responsibility that motivates goodness”, or
better.
I think the ACLU opposes civic integrity.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/janetparks0528,
Jan 2
You can have Christ on the Cross -- for you and
fellow-believers, sectarian or not.
As a civic citizen of the United States republic, I prefer Yeshua the Judean's
2000-year-old-influence to goodness-that-motivates-good-behavior and its
application in today's living. Many follow citizens pursue
goodness-that-motivates-good-behavior even though they never considered
Yeshua's influence.
https://www.facebook.com/emily.toth.10,
Jan 2
In 2026, many people pursue
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
https://www.facebook.com/chas.kennon,
Dec 27
Genesis 1:26-28 informs each of us that our person has the
power, authority, and responsibility to constrain chaos in our individual and
civic choices. Humankind is the only species who can discover and practice
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior; call it goodnesswhich. I appreciate
that enough people accept their unique opportunity to trust-in and commit-to
goodnesswhich, and, so far, humankind remains viable.
The United States republic, in its Constitutional intentions, reflects Genesis
1:26-28.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.facebook.com/Evansjaydens,
Dec 26
What a civic people need is to accept the gift of salvation,
however provided, that is, without imposing personal opinion on the source's
provision. With that humility, read the complete Bible intending to discover
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior; call it goodness-which.
After 3 quarter-centuries studying the Bible, I discovered
Yeshua, the Aramaic-speaking Jew who lived in Judea 2000 years ago and
practiced political philosophy around Galilee and Jerusalem.
Yeshua did not write, so contemporaries were free to
speculate about his person. A tiny faction within Judaism speculated he was the
Messiah, king and priest anointed to unite the 12 tribes of Israel unto peace
in the competitive world.
Paul, a rascal who opposed Yeshua before rabbi's coerced the
government to execute Yeshua, led the competition. Paul solicited groups in
various cities and wrote letters to them about a decade after Yeshua's
execution. The groups were non-Jews who believed Paul's speculation that Yeshua
was God-incarnate, who came to earth to develop blood then sacrifice on a stake
to save divinely-elected believers.
Paul asked council of a small group of Jews, including two
of Yeshua's apostles, who wondered if Yeshua would come alive again to be
Israel's Messiah. Paul asked these few Messianic Jews to relax Moses' Law
respecting male circumcision. Paul's non-Jewish followers would not accept
circumcision yet were interest in Yahweh and Yeshua. Peter thought Israel would
be hypocritical to impose laws they did not observe. John was too contemplative
to take a position. James thought Yeshua would return soon, and it was
imperative that believers follow Yeshua's influence, in order to perfect
obedience to Moses' Law. The four compromised to relax male circumcision on 3
conditions: consume neither food sacrificed to idols nor blood or meat from
strangled animals and refrain from fornication. Israel ignored primitive
reduction to food and sex and continued to develop Moses' 633 rules.
A decade after Paul's letters to Pauline Churches, New
Testament writers commented and wrote for another 3 decades, through 100 CE.
Church writings continued, and by 200 CE, Pauline addition of Yeshua to Yahweh
and his Spirit became The Trinity. By 400 CE, The Churches with geo-political
headquarters canonized the complete Bible according to their selected books,
including Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Aksum,
Ethiopia.
Today, there are 45,000 competitive Christian sects and
Christ, a title rather than a person or trinity seems dominant. I think
collaboration on Yeshua's influence to goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior
would aid "ourselves and our Posterity", quoting the preamble to the
Constitution for the United States' republic.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.facebook.com/jason.khoo.1650,
Dec 25
In music, I'm reminded of https://genius.com/Gloria-gaynor-talkin-bout-jesus-lyrics.
I want churches to explore, borrowing from Ms Gaynor, my claim: I'm talking
about Yeshua, the person who influenced goodness.
Believers may and can encourage church to plainly accept
salvation of the soul as gifted yet discover and practice
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
Yeshua's influence could change the world in 2026, whereas
Church impacts only 32% after 1600 years' developing dominance. In music and
everything physics constrains us, regardless of Church-promise in infinity's
afterdeath.
https://www.facebook.com/ShadWhiteMS,
Dec 23
It's sad when people don't reserve humility to whatever
constrains the consequences of human choice. I'd have to hear directly from
Vance that he does not perceive civic justice.
https://www.facebook.com/carolyn.m.beaver,
Dec 25
Messages like yours have warmed my heart and stirred my
concern for at least 3/4 of a century. Thank goodness I lived through the past
year, during which I discovered and now pursue
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
It matters not how each person receives the gift of hope,
peace, and light. What matters is that they appreciate those gifts so much that
they extend them to fellow human beings and to life on earth. The foremost gift
is to appreciate self, at least enough to work for personally desired way of
living.
What I discovered last year is that Yeshua was a person born
in Judea 2000 years ago. Among Homo sapiens, he was a pivotal political
philosopher. He was the first person to understand the power of human goodness;
the civic-person's authority to encourage and facilitate good-behavior; the
responsibility to aid constraint of badness; unto perfection.
Since Yeshua did not write, contemporaries could write any
opinion they imagined. A tiny fraction of Jews, maybe proportional to today's
0.2 million Messianic Jews among 14.5 million Orthodox Jews and associates, met
in 49 CE to debate about the impact of Yeshua's execution in 33 CE.
The small group, 2 of whom had been Yeshua's apostles,
seemed to agree that Yeshua would self-resurrect before each of them died.
Paul, a self-developed entrepreneur to non-Jews, appealed to
the-Messianic-few for relief from Moses' Law, especially male circumcision,
which pagans/Gentiles strongly opposed. Peter was too conflicted about
covenants-to-chosen-people, lately Israel, to lead. John thought Yeshua was the
creator, self-incarnated to save humankind. James thought his brother, Yeshua,
would return soon and meanwhile believers should perfect obedience to Moses'
Law (613 rules). The group compromised to relax male circumcision on 3
conditions: consume neither food sacrificed to idols nor blood or meat from
strangled animals and refrain from fornication. Orthodox Jews disparaged
Yeshua’s influence.
Paul wrote letters to city-groups of believers beginning 10
years later, and other New Testament contributors wrote 10 to 40 years after
Paul's letters came out. In about 100 more years, The Trinity was imagined,
still based on Paul's letters. Opinion about these controversies produced
Judeo-Christianities of about 30 denominations and 45,000 sects pursued by 2.6
billion of 8.2 billion people in the world, excluding 68% of humankind.
Orthodox Jews develop independent literature.
Divinity schools and religious institutions use imagination
about mysteries to divide humankind. However, each of them claims power,
authority, and responsibility to believers. Yeshua influenced individual
pursuit of goodness unto perfection. Yeshua uniquely claimed that each human
may and can perfect civic integrity before death. He uniquely encouraged
personal responsibility.
It's not essential to learn from Yeshua to discover and
practice goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior, in other words civic
integrity. And it is not necessary for people who worship to stop worshipping
according to their preference -- Jesus, Christ, The Trinity, God, the Father,
the Holy Spirit, or many others. However, worshippers may and can learn about
Yeshua’s influence.
Plato suggested goodness was independent 2400 years ago, in
the Euthyphro dilemma: human beings may accept God yet can practice goodness. I
think it is essential for most people to discover and practice
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. I hope next Christmas most people will
perceive goodwill to humankind and the world will celebrate its month as the
season for all humans to accept the power, authority, and responsibility to assure
peace on earth.
On the other hand, since Christmas has not, in 1600 years,
extended hope, peace, and light beyond 32% of humankind, perhaps change is
needed. My first thought is widespread curiosity about Yeshua, a political
philosopher who advocated goodness without harping on badness beyond
Church-abuses. If churches, during 2026, discover Yeshua and promote good
behavior rather than salvation, humankind will suddenly enjoy 32% influence to
civic integrity.
Thank you, Carolyn for prompting my heartfelt message this
Christmas morning.
Dec 23
This infant, named Yeshua, studied and observed, and as an
adult informed listeners, "You may and can develop perfect goodness, if
you choose to", my view of Matthew 5:48.
https://www.facebook.com/jim.robertson.52687,
Dec 23
I think it is important to allow citation of fake news. It
helps civic citizens evaluate whether present company has civic integrity or
not. It's not deciding yet indicates. The civic faction, We the People . . . as
defined in the preamble, keeps the United States republic viable.
A civic citizen can defend his or her comprehension and
practice of the intentions stated in the preamble to the United States
Constitution. Civic citizens aid legislative amendments to pursue statutory
justice. Some don't articulate the preamble, yet its intentions are in their
memes and conduct.
I think President Trump's leadership expresses just-in-time
integrity, justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility "to
ourselves and our Posterity". Posterity includes legal immigrants, and
citizens who oppose the United States republic may and can emigrate.
The rest of the world may and can mimic the United States republic
in its pursuit of goodness-which-motivates-good-practice.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.facebook.com/50nerdsofgrey,
Dec 22
Beyond voter ID, the United States republic needs voter
licensing.
If a person does not accept the United States intentions to develop statutory
justice "to ourselves and our Posterity", quoting the preamble to the
Constitution, they have no comprehension of personal interest. For example,
modern Democrat-Party believers vote against We the People of the United
States.
The license should be issued only to adults who own a personal interpretation
of the preamble and can attest to aiding its intentions during the past year.
Here's the 2-thought sentence:
"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America."
https://www.facebook.com/hampton.peele,
Dec 22
I vitally want at least two Constitutional amendments.
First, I want the 2nd religion clause in the first amendment
to read, ""Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or [promoting] the free exercise thereof". It presently reads
"prohibiting". Some religions are un-civic, even evil, and thus
conflict with the rule of law.
Second, I want criminal jury decisions to accommodate
majority voting, for example, 9:3 in murder trials. Presently, citizens must
reach 12 to 0 decisions, whereas the Supreme Court often votes 5:4. The wisdom
of majority voting is well known. For example, consider a juror who thinks DNA
evidence is useful for exoneration but not for conviction.
Cathy already said she has nothing to say. What changes
would you want, Hampton?
https://www.facebook.com/james.finney.9469,
Jan 1, 2026
Let America change her name to "Statue of
Independence", in order to appreciate the 1781-Yorktown-VA military gift
from France.
No nation can negate physics' constraints on human choice, regardless of French
reign of terror under the vanity of "liberty".
Dec 31
The United States republic resists social influences that
oppose goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. Rights do not accrue without
responsibilities. Liberty does not license harm. Freedom does not empower
violence. Independence does not negate physics. Civility does not negate civic
integrity.
It's shocking how many modern teachers oppose the United States republic. My
teachers encouraged me to behave without badness so that I could greet a
policeman at my front door, "Whatchsay, flatfoot?" I'll never forget
that film clip.
Whatcha say about my teachers, Finney and like-minded citizens?
Dec 21 The
problem is that if such warped thinking convinces a person they are, for
example, free to change their gender and act on the folly, they self-enslave to
the trans industrial complex for life.
Dec 22, Mary Reeves I cited an
example of self-enslavement to an industrial complex.
Writers share examples, in order to give the reader the opportunity to think
generally, in this case, about similar self-enslavements.
For example, there are people who suffer heterophobia: the fear of monogamy
with a person of opposite sex, because it could lead to lifetime obligation to
a child/children and consequential obligations to grandchildren and beyond.
Some readers can't resist the urge to exemplify actual-reality respecting Homo
sapiens: The left oppresses, the right liberates. For example,
Judeo-Christianity oppresses and civic integrity liberates.
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman,
Dec 27
Douglas, I appreciate this introduction to Attenborough and
his expression of universal, cosmic humility.
In my 82nd year, I acquired the humility to become unchurched, after struggling
for 3 quarter centuries to find a church that might accommodate me. I could
never have discovered humility had I not fallen in love with Cynthia;
https://www.resthavenbatonrouge.com/obituaries/cynthia-beaver. I speak of
humility toward whatever constrains the consequences of human choice.
Attenborough explains that the universe is expanding so fast that the limits of
the James Webb telescope cannot prevent loss of contact beyond its sphere;
there is enormous existence beyond our universe. Think of a ship's hull hidden
by the Eastward horizon. Seeing sails frustrates the observer regarding the
hull. Regarding vastness that surrounds the universe, we must accept that we
cannot know.
Extrapolating physical actual-reality to psychology can draw attention to each
choice we make and each action toward the people we impact. It can give us
humility to appreciate our goodness toward others -- our civic humility in a
universe that imposes humility.
I remain humble to community-associations like churches yet cannot collaborate
with pride that would exclude Cynthia. I am grateful both to express my
perception of humility on this, our 56th marriage anniversary and to you,
Douglas, for the nudge.
Dec 26 The lie that concerns me most
is that in Ramos v. Louisiana, 2020, the court voted 6:3 to require states to
provide unanimous jury verdicts. In other words, the monopoly-on-force
accommodates 33% disagreement to require the people to reach 100% agreement!
A key question that an attorney may and can ask in vetting jurors for a murder
trial is "Do you think DNA is admissible for conviction?" However,
the attorney cannot rely on the response; many citizens think nothing of lying
in court. And if a juror acquits on opinion, no one can prove their
rationalization. The only way to defeat this problem is to allow majority
verdicts. The Supreme Court often opines 5:4 and calls it "decision".
I think jury trials should permit 9:3 decisions and 4:6 decisions. Until that
change is effected, justice in the United States hinges on a pool from which 12
civic citizens may be chosen -- statistically impossible in a 50:50 society.
Moreover, Ramos v. Louisiana was predicated on the lie that Amendment VI
requires unanimous jury verdicts. In 2020, it was well known that England
elected majority jury verdicts in order to lessen the influence of organized
crime. Amendment VI is a Congressional act aimed at injustice by Parliament. It
is not the Supreme Court's preview to undo US law. Send it to Congress? Yes.
But undo Congress? No.
But the civic faction of We the People of the United States could not care
less. They seem to think they are too busy "living" to aid the United
States republic. Most of them are not even aware that a constitutional republic
pursues the rule of law, in order to defeat democracy.
In Louisiana, every lawyer must belong to the Louisiana Bar Association, and
when they make a decision the civic faction is easily fooled. When the
legislature would not eliminate 10:2 jury verdicts, the bar association made it
a Louisiana Constitutional referendum grounded in Marxist Liberation Theology
touted as "the last Jim Crow law". I think then unique
majority-verdict was a precious consequence of Napoleonic Law in Louisiana.
The 3 dissenters in Ramos v. Louisiana give hope that the US Supreme Court will
eventually reverse Louisiana's greatest shame: egregiously eliminating the
treasure of non-unanimous jury verdicts.
Dec 17
Anyone who thinks imagination is Homo sapiens strength is
delusional. Homo sapiens research, discover, and act-on what-is.
Humankind's purpose is to experience and observe what-is, do the work to
comprehend how to employ what-is for goodness rather than for badness, and
choose goodness. I call this practice civic integrity.
The framers and ratifiers of the United States republic, which they amendably
Constitutionalized on December 15, 1791, proffered a civic faction, We the
People of the United States, as defined by the preamble to the Constitution.
The civic faction manages legislation, adjudication, and administration, in
order to preserve and defend fellow citizens and civil non-citizens.
Civil inhabitants categorize themselves: civic, passive, dissident, rebel,
criminal, spiritual, wicked, and evil. The civic faction pursues statutory
justice according to what-is. They practice civic integrity and aid
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior -- encourage passives to independently
vote, dissidents to choose goodness, rebels to resist badness, criminals to
reform, spirituals to constrain chaos, wickeds to cease; and they aid the
nation to annihilate evil.
State and church could partner to practice
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. It seems that church, empowered by
imagination, cannot collaborate to goodness. Past generations left to us, the
people of 2026, the privilege to promote goodness.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Loraine, what creative collaboration!
.
I think what humankind is missing yet confronting is this: Judeo-Christianity
and its resistances, like communism, have blinded humankind from the Sumerian,
polytheistic perception expressed in developing law codes, beginning 5500 years
ago.
.
For example, their earliest-known written-code informed the elites not to take
advantage of the poor, widows, or orphans. Monotheisms turned that principle on
its head, creating philanthropies that empower state or church or their
partnership to skim gift-revenues. Such states or churches are grifters.
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The framers of the United States republic surveyed the world's governances and
observed the evil of democracy. Their law code, the Constitution, accommodates
yet improves the intentions of the ultimate Sumerian code; empowers the civic
faction, We the People of the United States, rather than a king; provides
branched representative-governance; and intends statutory justice. When
injustice is discovered, the civic faction aids constitutional amendment that
pursues justice.
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The past 7 decades accommodated the rise of a Marxist DEI society based on the
oppressed collectively defeating so called oppressors. Rights oppress
responsibility. Liberation theology morphs to communism, an old evil. An
American faction proposes to reverse DEI's achievements using Christian
Nationalism.
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That movement faces the establishment clause you cite. And it is time to amend
the practice clause to "Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or [promoting] the free exercise thereof."
Religion, or imagination about mystery, may and can conform to civic integrity.
Again, Not
to drag this out, but trying to understand: You are brilliant light.
I have taken 4 courses in non-fiction writing and every instructor insisted,
"Write for the audience". One gave each of my essays an A minus and
noted: "Write for your audience". I've also read writing books by
famous writers.
I perceive my audience is humankind, which is so diverse I cannot imagine how
they would express my thoughts. AI can only learn from them, and shares a
problem: it cannot originally mimic my thoughts.
I work hard to select words to hopefully express my thoughts.
Civic integrity amends civil codes.
Recently, with help from others, especially Cynthia, posthumously, I discovered
that I want to practice goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
Maybe I should write a book to explain that phrase.
https://www.facebook.com/donna.yelverton,
Dec 16
5500 years ago, an isolate civilization, Sumer, began to
develop civil codes and by 4200 years ago wrote that elites among humankind
should not take advantage of the needy, widows, and orphans. They opined that
their gods, too busy managing hidden relationships, left to humankind the
responsibility for goodness on earth.
Competing civilizations began to develop monotheisms, each developing doctrine
respecting their God to provide goodness. Consequently, many people work for
enough wealth to split off a portion to feed the needy, widows, and orphans.
The recent 4000 years show that philanthropy does not work, because church and
state skim enough philanthropy for institutional revenue.
The generations so far left to us of 2026 the opportunity to reform every
education department on earth so as to inculcate in youth the comprehension and
intention to pursue civic human being (the practice). In civic integrity,
individuals, groups, and nations discover and practice
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
Churches may and can accept mystery and still collaborate for civic integrity.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/,
Dec 31
I think Tucker Carlson correctly cautioned Turning Point USA
to accommodate humble Muslims and other moralists; youtube.com/watch?v=c7I6UgCKdic. Furthermore,
Judeo-Christianity may choose Carlson’s bid to accommodation others, by
pursuing goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior, or goodnesswhich for short.
Mystery versus church
By “humble” I mean civic citizens who appreciate the mystery
which constrains the consequences of human choices. In his sixth decade, it
seems Carlson prefers humility to the mystery rather than to a church. He cited
Episcopalians. Church has not discovered that “atheist” is an un-natural
pejorative that was invented by arrogant theists.
Gloria Gaynor civically sings, “Well, I don't know what
you're talking 'bout, but I'm talking about Jesus”. She seems civic, because
she admits not knowing objects of other peoples’ choices. I prefer
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. I think I coined “goodnesswhich” after
developing my curiosity about what has been reported about Yeshua. He was the
Judean who influenced a few contemporaries 2000 years ago in Galilee and
Jerusalem. Yeshua improved but did not seem to constrain goodnesswhich.
Who was Yeshua?
Almost no one is curious about Yeshua, the actual person.
Paul began the New Testament, writing his first letters about a decade after
Yeshua’s execution. He chose Greek rather than Hebrew, because most Jews
opposed the suggestion that Yeshua was Israel’s Messiah. Yeshua might return
and unite the 12 tribes of Israel. Paul chose to use Iesous (Ἰησοῦς) rather
than teach Greek-speaking pagans the name Yeshua. Most contemporary Jews
adamantly opposed Paul’s theology.
Conflicting names and title began 1300 years before Yeshua
of Judea was born. Yehoshua, whose name means “Yahweh saves”, led Israel across
the Jordon. Ancient, Aramaic-speaking Jews shortened the name Yehoshua to
Yeshua. In English, it’s Joshua.
Translators who wrote the Septuagint, 2300 years ago used
the Greek “Iesous” for persons named “Yeshua”. Note that Yeshua of Judea was
born 300 years later. Writers completed the New Testament 1900 years ago, using
Iesous for Yeshua throughout. The original King James Bible, 414 years ago,
used Iesous, then the Benjamin Blaney version, 256 years ago, used “Jesus”, a
transliteration. Secular literature shows that Yeshua was then a common name.
In summary, literary events took “Yahweh saves” 3300 years
ago to “Jesus saves” 256 years ago in separate story-lines. Indirectly, Paul
lessened “Jesus” by creating the title “Christ” and Christian churches.
Borrowing from Ms Gaynor’s thought, I prefer to appreciate Yeshua of 2000 years
ago for influencing goodnesswhich. In secular conversation, I choose to
advocate goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. I apply actual-reality during
the recent 1900 years to improve application of goodnesswhich.
Contemporaries rejected Yeshua’s influence
Yeshua chose apostles to whom he would teach advantages of
civic behavior or goodnesswhich --- to neither cause nor accommodate harm to or
from any person or association of people. It seems Yeshua’s only act of civil
disturbance was a civic good --- turning over sale and exchange tables in a
synagogue. But the apostles perceived that their particular itinerate,
community-dependent lifestyle was a badge of kingship rather than of goodness.
Religion cannot tolerate goodness. Judeo laws opposed
murder, so religious leaders coerced the government to execute innocent Yeshua.
But whatever-constrains-the-consequences-of-human-choices could have
accommodated government justice. In other words, to the theist, Yahweh could
have accommodated government-justice against church-despotism.
Pauline projection of Yeshua of Judea onto ancient prophecy
Long before Yeshua of Judea, there was prophecy that a
Judean would be anointed both king and priest, a Messiah, in order to unite the
12 tribes of Israel and grant their kingdom peace. About a decade after
Yeshua’s execution, a scholarly Jewish entrepreneur, Paul, self-appointed
influencer to pagans, wrote letters to believers -- churches he established in
several cities. In those letters, he presented Yeshua as Yahweh incarnate, come
to earth to shed blood, in order to save the souls of people chosen to believe
the mystery, rather than people who chose to obey Moses’ law. Descendants of
Hagar could join as well as descendants of Sarah and of Keturah. In modern
terms, Jesus or Pauline Christ saves souls rather than Yahweh saves lives.
Yeshua the Judean of 2000 years ago and his influence to goodnesswhich is
excluded from modern churches.
Roots of controversy
A small fraction of then-contemporary Jews also imagined
Yeshua was the Messiah and were empathetic to Paul’s innovation. In a minority
meeting he requested in Jerusalem in 49 CE, Paul championed the pagan request
to delete male circumcision from Moses’ list of laws, in order to allow them to
pursue Yahweh. Peter thought Israel would be hypocritical to impose laws they
did not observe. John was too contemplative to share a position. James thought
Yeshua would return soon, so it was imperative that believers follow Yeshua's
influence to improve Moses' Law.
Reflecting its narrowness, the council reduced Moses’s 633
rules to 2 concerns: restrictions regarding food from religious ceremonies plus
abstention from fornication. It is logical that Israel would banish such rebuke
to Moses’ law, yet there remains the opportunity for humility to mystery. From
controversial commentary recorded through 110 CE, a few geo-political Churches
canonized their New Testaments, while Israel continued to improve their
literature.
Judeo-Christianity would restrict Bible representation
Returning to Tucker Carlson’s heartfelt concern, the
Biblical literature referenced above touches Islam and other theisms, such as
polytheism. Terah left Ur to avoid human sacrifice to provide “incense” to
gods. His son, Abraham served 3 matriarchs: Hagar, Sarah, and Keturah. Hagar
and Sarah each delivered one son, then Keturah begot 6 children. The prophecy
of Messiah to Israel, alternatively to non-Pauline Christianity, is exclusive
to Sarah.
But Yeshua’s goodnesswhich may be perceived to every civic
citizen of the world. Only 600 years after Yeshua, Muhammad reported that
salvation and guidance came through Hagar. Adding Eurasian religions and
philosophies --- Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, Carlson’s
inclusion-specificity is expanded.
Carlson’s independent goodness
Carlson said he is Christian and was Episcopalian, yet he
seems to appeal for goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. He says people
should not kill children because of how they were reared. I think this makes
Carlson a civic citizen --- one who maintains peaceful citizens’ opportunities
to pursue personal salvation yet makes certain they neither cause nor
accommodate harm to or from persons or associations.
Civic integrity
One other point, prompted-by Carlson’s wonderful speech: the
civic faction, We the People as defined by the preamble, pursues the United
States republic -- not a democratic republic. The Constitution assiduously
prevents democratic governance. The United States republic resists social
influences that oppose goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. Rights do not
accrue without responsibilities. Liberty does not license harm. Freedom does
not empower violence. Independence does not negate physics. Civility does not
negate civic integrity.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Jan 2
Here is a plan for humankind to use
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
People on earth may, can, and some do accept:
1. A
person’s origins abide, whether destiny is a mysterious soul or personal pursuit
of goodness until death. That is to say, soul mystery does not lessen the
opportunity to pursue goodness.
2. Each
person exists, in order to discover and maintain
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. Some persons choose badness.
3. Each
person may accept the power, the authority, and the responsibility (PAR) to
constrain chaos and confusion in their way of living.
4. Order
on earth may be approached when most individuals collaborate to discover and
practice goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
5. Yeshua
the person, unique among humankind’s political philosophers, suggested that
each person may and can both accept PAR and choose good behavior.Note 1
Some people collaborate to discover and choose good behavior, never perceiving
Yeshua’s influence.
6. Statutory
justice
i. rewards
the good doer; in other words, the civic person
ii. accommodates
the disabled person
iii. alerts
the passive/rebel person
iv. constrains
the criminal person
v. challenges
the spiritual person
vi. denounces
the wicked person
vii. annihilates
the evil person
b. Education,
observation, and experience disclose badness, not to be repeated
c. Integrity
informs the civic person to
i. Not
repeat any error
ii. Make
amends if he or she does harm
iii. Not
accommodate harm
iv. Collaborate
to goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior
7. Civic
governance assures individual opportunity to pursue good behavior and pursues
statutory justice (when injustice is discovered, that legislation is improved).
Note 1 For example, study
Yeshua’s process for attempting to resolve human conflict, in Matthew 18:15-17.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Dec 25
It matters not how a person receives gifts of hope, peace,
and light. What matters is that they appreciate those gifts so much that they
extend them to fellow human beings and to life on earth. The foremost gift is
to appreciate self, at least enough to work for personally desired civic
living.
Last year, I discovered that Yeshua was a person born in Judea 2000 years ago.
Among Homo sapiens, he was a pivotal political philosopher. He was the first
person to understand the power of human goodness; the civic-person's authority to
encourage and facilitate good-behavior; the power and responsibility to aid
constraint of badness --- unto perfection.
Since Yeshua did not write, contemporaries could impose any opinion they
imagined. A tiny fraction of Jews, maybe proportional to today's 0.2 million
Messianic Jews among 14.5 million Orthodox Jewish associates, met in 49 CE to
debate the impact/consequence of Yeshua's execution in 33 CE. The small group,
2 of whom had been Yeshua's apostles, seemed to agree that Yeshua would
self-resurrect before most of them would die.
Paul, a self-developed entrepreneur to non-Jews, appealed to the-Messianic-faction
for relief from Moses' Law, especially male circumcision, in order to
accommodate pagan/Gentile opposition. Peter was too conflicted about
covenants-to-chosen-people, lately Israel, to lead. John thought Yeshua was the
creator, self-incarnated to save humankind. James thought his brother, Yeshua,
would return soon and meanwhile believers should perfect obedience to Moses'
Law (613 rules). The group compromised to relax male circumcision on 3
conditions: consume neither food sacrificed to idols nor blood or meat from
strangled animals, and refrain from fornication. Paul departed and developed
his Churches. Orthodox Jews disparaged Yeshua’s influence.
Paul wrote letters to groups of believers beginning 10 years later, and other
New Testament contributors wrote 10 to 40 years after Paul's letters came out.
In about 100 more years, The Trinity was imagined, still based on Paul's
letters. About 300 years later, the Roman Church promoted Peter’s theology.
Opinion about these controversies produced Judeo-Christianities of about 30
denominations and 45,000 sects pursued by 2.6 billion of 8.2 billion people in
the world. Judeo-Christianity excludes 68% of humankind. Orthodox Jews develop
independent literature.
Divinity schools and religious institutions use imagination about mysteries to
divide humankind. However, each of them claims power, authority, and
responsibility to believers.
Yeshua influenced individual pursuit of goodness unto perfection. He uniquely
claimed that each human may and can perfect civic integrity before death. He
uniquely encouraged personal responsibility.
It's helpful yet not essential to learn from Yeshua, in order to discover and
practice goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior, in other words civic
integrity. And it’s not necessary for people who worship to stop choosing their
preference -- Jesus, Christ, The Trinity, God, the Father, the Holy Spirit,
Yahweh, Allah or many others. However, worshippers may and can learn about
Yeshua’s influence and collaborate for civic integrity.
Plato suggested goodness was independent 2400 years ago, in the Euthyphro
dilemma: human beings may appreciate a god yet can practice goodness. I think
it is essential for most people to discover and practice
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. I hope next Christmas most people will
perceive goodwill to humankind, and the world will celebrate Christmastime as
the season for all humans to accept the power, authority, and responsibility to
assure peace on earth.
On the other hand, since Christmas has not, in 1600 years, extended hope,
peace, and light beyond 32% of humankind, perhaps change is needed. My first
thought is widespread curiosity about Yeshua, a political philosopher who
advocated goodness without harping on badness beyond Church-abuses. If
churches, during 2026, discover Yeshua and promote good behavior, accepting the
gift of salvation, humankind might suddenly enjoy 32% influence to civic integrity.
Among the 68%, existing civic integrity might flourish. The consequence might
be both preservation of Judeo-Christianity and progress toward world peace.
I hope something like this happens, and I hear Mr. President’s personal
expressions of Judeo-Christianity with appeal to all civic religions.
This essay was long and difficult. Consider the audience: humankind. I am
grateful to my friend Carolyn Beaver, Cleve Wright, and others for inspiring me
to write on Christmas day.
Dec 19 My library
work informs me this: A person who inspires another’s goodness might neither
know-of nor affirm the appreciation. Thus, I am grateful to deceased Dad, for
twice creatively moving to another state, in order to assure survival to his
monogamous family of four, without crossing a railroad-union picket-line. (By
“my library work” I mean meetings I offer to promote personal comprehension and
intention to practice the preamble to the United States Constitution.)
I am grateful to Terah’s family for departing the city of
Ur, in order to resist human sacrifice.
Most of all, I am grateful to Yeshua, who suggested to Homo
sapiens that the individual may and can perfect their unique goodness before
they die; Matthew 5:48.
I am grateful to George Washington for 4 nationhood-pillars,
expressed to the 13 states who had won independence in 1783; https://founders.archives.gov/.../Washington/99-01-02-11404
.
I am grateful to Ralph Waldo Emerson for, “Divinity School
Address”, 1838, in my view, extolling the Judean person, Yeshua, who urged
goodness to listeners in Galilee of 2000 years ago. Yeshua, the person, is
hidden by churches who promote “Christ” or other religious competitors. Yeshua
urged good behavior, which can and may save religion from imagined mystery.
I am grateful: to Sumerian kings, who by 4200 years ago
perceived that only Homo sapiens may and can provide order, justice, and peace
– on earth; to Semitic-speaking Mesopotamians, who perceived that the
substitute-king-practice was immoral; to Terah and family for departing Ur in
order to resist human sacrifice for incense to gods; to Agathon for recognizing
that goodness neither causes nor accommodates harm to or from any person or
group; to Israel, who, after destruction of the second temple in 70 CE, gave-up
blood sacrifice for the tentative future; to the framers of the United States
republic. who perceived that religion cannot be legislated; to Albert Einstein,
who asserted that physical goodness and psychological goodness have the same
source; Hugh Finklea, who perceived that sincere thought is worth parsing; to
Cynthia and hers, who never resisted responsibility; and to other thinkers.
I am grateful to almost everyone in my life. Collectively,
they influence me, at age 82 accepting both “unchurched” and non-atheist joy,
to trust-in and commit-to my purpose: to discover and practice
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
I hope goodness never ends.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Dec 17 I think humankind's purpose
is to research and discover actual-reality -- do the work to comprehend how to
employ ineluctable truth for goodness and for badness and to choose goodness.
Imagination and reason are humble to discovery. I call this practice civic
integrity.
Primitive people, particularly the civilly isolated Sumerians, in Mesopotamia,
perceived that humankind is solely responsible for goodness on earth. For
example, their first known civil code stated that elites should not take
advantage of the poor, widows, and orphans. In the 4000 years since then, it
has become obvious that human being (the practice) requires comprehension and
intention to earn the way of living the individual wants rather than depend on
public provisions.
The framers and ratifiers of the United States republic, which they
Constitutionalized with provisions for amendment on December 15, 1791,
proffered a civic faction, We the People of the United States, as defined by
the preamble to the Constitution. The civic faction manages legislation,
adjudication, and administration, in order to preserve and defend fellow
citizens and civil non-citizens. There remain needs for amendment, for
examples, to constrain wicked media, to prevent Congress from promoting
religious practices, and to license voting after a citizen reliably
assimilates.
Civil inhabitants categorize themselves: civic, passive, dissident, rebel,
criminal, spiritual, wicked, and evil. The civic faction pursues statutory
justice according to ineluctable evidence if not actual-reality. They practice
civic integrity and aid goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior -- encourage
passives to vote independently, dissidents to choose goodness, rebels to resist
badness, criminals to reform, spirituals to constrain chaos, wickeds to cease;
and they aid the nation to annihilate evil.
State and church could partner to practice
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. History shows that church, empowered by
imagination, cannot collaborate to goodness.
Past generations left to us, the people of 2026, the privilege to promote
goodness.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Dec 16 Readers
may and can detect fake news, for example, when the reporter misuses a
mysterious, private family-development of Greek-tragedy-proportions to target
the President of the United States, now Donald Trump. It’s doubly sinister when
a reporter reports another reporter’s evil, in order to disregard family
privacy, requested or not.
In the past couple days and in the meager searches and readings I undertook, I
saw no Reiner-regret for the fact that President Trump was shot in the head
during fortuitous, split-second neck-swivel; or that companion bullets struck
also-innocent bystanders. Does it take televised-murder to warrant common
empathy – common sense?
Can a family request civic privacy regarding internal tragedy and receive civil
cooperation by the press? Must the press explore reliability of the
deceased-persons’ lifestyles with no hope for ineluctable evidence? Does the
press and their readers care that some facts are undiscoverable in afterdeath?
Can the civic faction, We the People of the United States, given Rob Reiner’s
habitual injustices toward the person, Donald Trump, delineate media-greed, in
order to hear Trump’s frank response to Reiner’s weakness, whether TDS or not?
Can readers care enough to practice civic integrity?
Can humankind accept that Shakespeare mimicked Greek tragedies that made their
way into the Bible, only for modern repetition, best left alone? Must the
public pay for opinion about mystery?
I think the United States republic may and can discover and pursue
goodness-that-motivates-good-behavior, even among people who are “churched” or
"mosqued" or “synagogued”. Clergy seem willing to forgo believers’
lives for a mystery: “soul”. If so, mystery seems humankind’s greatest tragedy
for Christian-haters and the others. Past generations left to us, of 2026, the
opportunity to improve.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Dec 14 I’m happy that I survived to my 82nd Christmas.
At last I chose to accept pursuing civic human being – the discovery and
practice of goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
In 1999, a quarter century ago, the
Advocate, Baton Rouge, published my letter suggesting Santa is a metaphor
for goodwill to everyone. Much has happened since then, but my attitude remains
unpopular.
After 27 years pursuing my curiosity about what it means to
be, first, Homo sapiens and, second, born in the United States republic, I
resumed church attendance, intending to be supportive friend in this world,
which is seemingly hostile to Christianity. During 4 years’ time, I learned
much about communitarianism, most of all, that my work for civic integrity is
annoying to church. I conclude that the Bible message is this: Humankind treasures doctrine more than goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
And the religious violence that dominates 2025 suggests if not inspires social
change.
My curiosity about the studies informed me that Messianic
Jews think Yeshua, the Judean political philosopher of 2000 years ago was
titled “Christ” long after church-and-state-partners executed him in Jerusalem.
Messianic Jews number about 0.2 million among 14.5 million Jews, 2.3 billion
non-Jewish Christians, 1.6 billion Muslims and additional descendants of
Abraham’s 3 mates: Hagar, Sarah, and Keturah. I understand Muslims regard
Yeshua, translated “Isa”, a prophet and non-divine emissary of Allah.
“Jesus”, an English transliteration of the Greek translation
of Yeshua, is only 400 years old, and seems exponentially-subject to
media-bias. Media-bias increased, if not began, in 49 CE, when a minority of
Jews including Paul, James, Peter, and John agreed to include pagans in expecting
the executed Yeshua to return to life, priesthood, and kingship.
When I told a new acquaintance that I had discontinued 75 years’ struggle to “church”,
he suggested expecting human error, in order to contribute. I choose to accept
that competitive-church-doctrine is the error, and church discounts interest in
goodwill among humankind.
I hope I am wrong and that we are at an abyss, turning to
improvement. Perhaps the discovery and practice of
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior will accelerate.
Dec 10 Based
on last night’s speech and the little that I am privy to, I think President
Trump is the most authentic servant of this republic’s civic faction, We the
People of the United States – “ourselves and our Posterity”, quoting the
preamble to the Constitution.
There’s a scary wave of Christian Nationalism, a movement by
a minority collective. What is Christ to each believer? Is it a person or a
controversial construct? I don’t think it’s the person Yeshua, who informed
each of us we may and can pursue perfect goodness. Consider, for example,
Matthew 5:48. However, civic citizens’ religious pursuits are no burden to me.
Ancient Israel used the name Yeshua, derived from “yasha”
the Aramaic word for “saves”. In the Septuagint, published by 200 BC, or 200
years before 0 CE, the translation is Ἰησοῦς, representing the same entity. The
New Testament was written in Greek, using Ἰησοῦς to name the Judean political
philosopher, born in about 4 CE. During his time, there were other people with
the same name, Yeshua in Aramaic or Ἰησοῦς in Greek. But none was as political
as the Judean.
Some ancient Jews had prophesied an anointed king who would
lead Israel to peace and kingship -- a messiah. A few contemporaries of Yeshua
the Judean philosopher, after he was executed, in 33 CE, speculated that he
would return to life as Israel’s Messiah. A small group met in Jerusalem in 49
CE to hear Paul’s plea for relief from circumcision of males, in order to
attract pagans to the Jewish Yahweh, if not to Judaism. Entrepreneur Paul promoted
the executed Yeshua as savior and Son of God to all believers. It’s a gift to
which I am not privy. I am not antinomian. Some Jews are Christians, perhaps
0.2 million of 14.5 million.
The Spirit of God is cited in Genesis 1:3. “The Trinity” was featured in
neither Jewish literature nor the Greek New Testament, developed in the early
Pauline church around 130 CE, published in the late second century, and titled
"Χριστός" as the Father incarnate in first century theology about
Yeshua’s execution. The Latin Vulgate Bible, commissioned in 382 CE, had the
concept Father, Son, and Holy Spirit but not the phrase, “The Trinity”. The
Vulgate used Iesus for Ἰησοῦς and "Christus" for "Χριστός",
anointed one.
“Jesus” is a modern transliteration. The King James Bible, first published in 1611,
used "Iesus" and the 1628 Cambridge edition changed to “Jesus”.
“Jesus”, 400 years old, is a controversial, constructed-entity unlike the
person, Yeshua, the Judean political philosopher to goodness of 2000 years ago.
Yeshua died without the title "Χριστός".
After 75 years trying to qualify for one of the Christian sects, I prefer to
pursue goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. I think religion is not required
for a Homo sapiens to experience and observe the mysterious power that
constrains the consequences of human choice. Nevertheless, I appreciatively
think Yeshua influenced me to pursue goodness during my aware-lifetime, perhaps
since gestation and delivery by Mom. I found a Jewish passage that expresses my
thoughts about President Trump’s speech last evening.
Adapting Psalm 34:12-23, chabad. org, taking “the Lord” as
“goodness”, I express a Psalmist view of President Trump's humor-hidden
humility, as follows:
“Come, [citizens], hearken to me; I
will teach you [to appreciate goodness].
Who is the man who desires life, who
loves days to see goodness?
Guard your tongue from evil and your
lips from speaking deceitfully.
Shun evil and do good, seek peace and
pursue it.
The eyes of [goodness] are to
[good-doers], and His ears are to their cry.
The face of [goodness] is against
evildoers, to cut off their remembrance from the earth.
They cry out and [goodness] hearkens
[and] saves them from all their troubles.
[Goodness] is near to the
broken-hearted [and] saves those of crushed spirit.
Many evils befall the [good-doer], but
[goodness] saves him from them all.
[Goodness] guards all his bones; not
one of them was broken.
Evil will kill the wicked, and those
who hate the [good-doer] shall be accounted guilty.
[Goodness] redeems the soul of
[good-doers], and all who take refuge in [goodness] shall not be accounted
guilty.
Fellow citizens who are bemused by the Democrat Party and
other aliens to the United States republic may and can consider the frankness
of President Trump's good humor and humble service to the civic faction. I
write opinion only because I do not know the ineluctable truth.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.facebook.com/gcleve.wright,
Dec 25
I'm reminded of https://genius.com/Gloria-gaynor-talkin-bout-jesus-lyrics.
I want churches to explore, borrowing from Ms Gaynor, my claim: I'm talking
about Yeshua, the person who influenced goodness.
Pastors may and can encourage church to plainly accept
salvation of the soul as gifted yet discover and practice
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
Yeshua's influence could change the world in 2026, whereas
Church impacts only 32% after 1600 years' developing dominance.
Physics constrains us, regardless of Church-promise in
infinity's afterdeath.
Dec 23
In a universe that demands good behavior yet imagines that
piety rather than physics constrains life on earth, a civic citizen neither
disparages nor envies civic religious appreciation. Religion imagines
mysterious salvation, yet believers can choose civic goodness. Christ seems OK
for Mr.Spurgeon.
Christ, a title, never stood out to me yet it’s no burden to
me that Spurgeon is grateful for Pauline theology. Paul argued that Christ was
God-incarnate; divine blood saved all believers. Galatians 2:15-21 discounts
Moses’ Law respecting salvation, neither of which addresses civic integrity.
Happily, Dad, perhaps unintentionally, taught me to seek
Jesus’ influence to goodness. Dad pursued goodness while he developed
comprehension in a bemused world. Yet, he never claimed that quest --- never
reached past his quest to be a reliable economic provider, I speculate.
Perhaps Dad appreciated that “Jesus” is a name rather than a
title. It’s a 400 year- old transliteration of a translation,
"Iesus". "Iesus" Latin-translates the Greek
"Iēsous". Iēsous translates Aramaic “Yeshua”. (Aramaic is older than
Hebrew.) Thus, “Jesus” transliterates a translation of a translation of a
translation. The New Testament was written in Greek about the person who was
the controversial Judean, Yeshua.
A Judean political philosopher, a person named Yeshua, lived
2000 years ago. A small faction of contemporary Jews opined he was Israel’s
Messiah, executed, yet to self-resurrect as king and priest. Today, about 0.2
million “Messianic Jews” are Christians and 14.5 million Orthodox Jews do not
regard Yeshua, perhaps awaiting Israel’s prophesied Messiah. There are about
2.6 billion Christians with 45,000 schools of Bible-mystery.
Recently, I perceived Yeshua as the influence who led me to
goodness-which-motivates-good behavior. However, a friend helped me comprehend
that I was merely competing with opinions recorded in Acts 15 and Galatians 2
-– opinions by Paul, Peter, James, and John about the then-executed Yeshua.
Male circumcision was the chief contention in their minority-factional debate,
and Pauline theology proffered relief. Entrepreneur Paul turned the council’s
relaxation of Moses’ law into church-antinomianism. Some struggle for Paul’s
church to dominate civil order, but Peter’s Church and moreover civic people
won’t allow it.
Happily, I lived until this, my 82nd Christmas and
appreciate discovering Plato’s 2400 year old “Euthyphro Dilemma”. Socrates
suggested that goodness prevails when piety fails.
If most people imagine it, by next Christmas, widespread
goodness may and can motivate most earth-inhabitants to practice civic
behavior; “Merry Christmas” could mean, to everyone, “Happy Season of
Goodwill”, or better. The title “Christ” could be recognized as a personal
motivator for the speaking civic citizen, admitting that no human can imagine
humility to The Mystery yet everyone can try.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Dec 13
No time for shooting.
However, the art of hunting is huge in goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior
both in the wild and at the dinner table: training the mind and body for mercy
to the game; knowing where and when to hunt; having provisions to preserve
excellent meat; surgically recovering the meat so as to maximize excellence and
prevent gaminess; preserving best taste until cooking; choosing cuts
appropriate for an occasion; optimal preparation, seasoning, and cooking;
hosting the party. And at the hunt, properly disposing of the unwanted parts.
I've never tasted or celebrated food better than venison-tenderloin small chips
fast fried in a cast-iron skillet by Buddy Bergeron, may he rest in peace.
Dec 10
I'm adapting Psalm 34:12-23, chabad. org, taking “the Lord”
as “goodness”, to express my view of President Trump's humor-hidden humility
last night.
Come, [citizens], hearken to me; I will teach you [to appreciate goodness].
Who is the man who desires life, who loves days to see goodness?
Guard your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceitfully.
Shun evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it.
The eyes of [goodness] are to [good-doers], and His ears are to their cry.
The face of [goodness] is against evildoers, to cut off their remembrance from
the earth.
They cry out and [goodness] hearkens [and] saves them from all their troubles.
[Goodness] is near to the broken-hearted [and] saves those of crushed spirit.
Many evils befall the [good-doer], but [goodness] saves him from them all.
[Goodness] guards all his bones; not one of them was broken.
Evil will kill the wicked, and those who hate the [good-doer] shall be
accounted guilty.
[Goodness] redeems the soul of [good-doers], and all who take refuge in
[goodness] shall not be accounted guilty.
Fellow citizens who are bemused by the Democrat Party may and can consider the
frankness of President Trump's humor and humble service.
Dec 13, updated to Psalm 34, chabad. org, instead of
erroneous Psalm 84. I noticed that NKJV has 11-22 instead of 12-23.
https://www.facebook.com/john.parks.92505,
Dec 10
My pace is slower and undisciplined.
I have been following curiosity about the big picture in Mesopotamia from
10,000 years ago until 3700 years ago -- about when Hammurabi took over the
Sumerian law codes.
The first known law code said that elites are not to take advantage of the
needy, widows, and orphans. Nations and religions turn that advice on its head,
with various schemes to skim revenues from redistribution, philanthropy, or
charity.
What's intriguing to me is that the Sumerian language is an isolate -- not of a
primitive group, like the Semitic languages, for example.
https://www.facebook.com/ched.lambert,
Dec 7
In the past, some administrations have gone after companies
who employ illegal aliens -- striking at the heart of the injustice to the
middle class. That is, it is immoral for entrepreneurs to hire illegal aliens
at lower wage than it takes to live in the United States republic. ICE may be
addressing this evil, too.
Some businesses hire on wages without regard for legality. Judges and attorneys
empower this corruption and call it socialism or progressivism in the United
States republic.
However, the Biden administration flooded the country with killers. Attention
to the killers is touching wage advantages to entrepreneurs. That's part of a
larger moral problem that was pushed to a back burner by the Biden invasion.
https://www.facebook.com/margo.frey,
Jan 1, 2026
Thank you, Margo, for sharing (and nudging).
The colonial story brings recalls that many British loyalists had not the means
or acceptance-of-defeat to leave America, so their heritage vies for
un-American traditions, like English common law, unjust or not.
The most impactful harm came from one states' ratification convention, February
1788. Massachusetts ratified the 1787 draft Constitution, contingent on
amendment to mimic the 1689 English Bill of Rights. Five other independent
states had ratified without proposing amendment. On June 21, 1788, the required
9 state ratifications had happened. Laggards Virginia and New York supported
the Massachusetts requirement, provisionally taking 10th and 11th places.
The United States republic began operation with 11 states in March 1789, and in
November, North Carolina joined; it’s too bad North Carolina had not ratified
in time to prevent the American Bill of Rights. Then in May 1790, non-framer
Rhode Island joined, completing the original 13 colonies and accepting the
12-states’ draft. Congress negotiated the amendments and in January 1791,
Vermont ratified and joined. With 14 states, ratification of the negotiated
United States Constitution required 10 states' approval, on December 15, 1791.
The United States republic's 250th birthday happens on December 15, 2041. It is
important for citizens to know there were 16 years of world-changing events
between declaration of war for independence from the king and Parliament and
ratification of the United States republic. The republic is amendable "to
ourselves and our Posterity", quoting the preamble.
As an example of the abiding cost of loyalist of dependency, in 2020 in Ramos v
Louisiana, an erroneous 6:3 Supreme Court cited 14th century English law to
claim that "impartial jury" in the Bill of Rights means a 12:0
verdict -- unanimity. In 1967, England legislated 10:2 verdicts, in order to
resist organized-crime's influence on juries. Moreover, statistics inform us
that unanimity is nearly impossible in a 50:50 political jury-pool.
Perhaps July 4, 2026 will renew the United States republic's independence from
Europe, especially England, France, and Spain, whose revolutionary-war aids are
precious to every United States citizen, whether he or she is aware and
appreciative or not.
It is nearly impossible for citizens, let alone foreigners, to comprehend and
intend the United States republic's civic integrity: choosing
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior, in order to legislate statutory justice
-- improve common law.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Dec 7
A couple decades ago, I realized Cynthia was too occupied to
respond to my interest in accurate, precise, and deep consideration of
Christianity.
Intending to preserve my un-constrainable appreciation for her, I said,
"Cynthia, you buy plants for their beauty, wonderfully filling my life. If
I don't maintain them, they die, so I am your partner in the beauty we enjoy.
But I go to library meetings to discuss philosophy and want to share with you
my thoughts. However, you do not criticize them, so I can't benefit from your
excellence. There is, somewhere in Baton Rouge, a woman who would love to
collaborate with me. I'm thinking about finding her." Cynthia responded
with the love I knew she felt, consistently listening, considering, and
improving my views.
I recall her reading my draft letter to the editor and saying, "That's
typical of you, but I would not publish it." I asked her to show me the
words that turned her off, and on reading them said, "I also would not
publish that". I revised and published a better letter.
Later, we were reading together "Jane Eyre", by Charlotte Brontë. It
was Cynthia's turn to read, and Jane was considering a preacher's proposal for
Jane to be his token bride for a missionary trip to India. Cynthia interrupted
the text with Cynthia's admonition, "Don't you dare!"
Cynthia's education-principals praised Cynthia, and I am the luckiest man
alive.
https://www.facebook.com/james.finney.9469,
Dec 7
James Finney You claimed a false
assumption on which ignorant citizens and arrogant aliens attempt civil unrest
that invites trouble, if not jail or deportation.
The civic faction, We the People of the United States, framed and defend a
republic, in order to pursue goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior "to
ourselves and our Posterity". Each time the civic faction discovers an
unjust law, they uphold it and deliberate amendment intended to advance
statutory justice.
The civic faction ratified a written Constitution, so fellow citizens are
without excuse if they invite adjudication that costs them dearly. Yet the
erroneously accused can prove their innocence according to statutory justice.
I modify Jonathan Keith's statement: "Follow the law like [the civic
faction] or leave [in your own best interest]."
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Whitehouse
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ , Jan 2, 2026
Dear
Mr. President:
Re:
the United States republic:
In 2026,
most Americans will choose goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. Not everyone
will participate.
Sincerely,
Phil
Beaver
Dec
24
Dear
Mr. President:
Re:
the preamble to the United States Constitution
In
my December 20 message, I suggested incorporating emphasis on the preamble when
parents register children for Trump Accounts. I have been studying the preamble
for the past quarter century, and attempted to use it since 2013 to keep Baton
Rouge from splitting to form St. George, Louisiana.
Our
home is near St. George yet advantageous to the Baton Rouge Medical Corridor,
LSU, Baton Rouge government offices, the State Capital Complex, and the
airport. But I could not enlist representatives, from City Council person to Congressman,
to work with me on the preamble.
However,
as a consequence of that work, I regard the preamble as two thoughts: 1) We create this republic, 2) in order to
pursue 6 purposes. The “we” is the civic faction of “We the People”, as defined
by the preamble. I simplify the 6 predicate phrases to nouns. While I treasure
the intentions of the framers, much has happened since they penned the
preamble. I do not think I should trust-in and commit-to 1787 claims, so as to
apply discoveries since then. Also, the preamble could be amended. I wonder
your interpretation of the preamble.
The
preamble reads:
“We
the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,
promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United
States of America.”
The
interpretation I recently live by follows
A
civic faction, We the People of the United States, proffer, practice, and may
amend 6 public pursuits —- integrity, justice, safety, strength, prosperity,
and responsibility --- “in order to” pursue goodness “to ourselves and our
Posterity”.
Above,
“goodness” is new, perhaps influenced by you.
I
do not expect fellow citizens to ponder the preamble as much as I do. However,
I don't think people who never considered it should vote in this republic.
Also,
I regret substituting “preventing” for “prohibiting” in my last message.
Not
to assume too much, I wonder how you feel about my wishes regarding the
preamble.
Merry
Christmas to you and your family,
Sincerely,
Phil
Beaver
Dec 20 Dear Mr. President:
Re:
appreciating your goodness, Trump Accounts, and civic religion
In 2016, I was
among the 14 million who voted for you in the Republican primary. Some chemical
engineering colleagues made weak fun of my opinion and vote. Your speeches last
week help unbelievers realize your excellence for the civic faction in America.
It’s up to the world to observe and mimic American goodness. I think you are
making America great and want to offer two suggestions.
First, use
Trump Accounts to improve lives “to ourselves and our Posterity”, quoting the
preamble. Initially, require parents who register their child for Trump Account
to record their personal interpretation of the preamble to the United States
Constitution and report one practice in which they are aiding the civic
faction’s intentions. And require the child, upon reaching age 18, to do the
same.
Additionally,
require the progressing child to write briefly their comprehension and
intention to pursue human being (the practice) during their complete lifetime
-- at successive achievements in their education: entering 1st grade (spoken),
completing 6th grade, completing high school, and completing trade-school or
college. Influence states and philanthropists to contribute to Trump accounts
if and only if the account-holder reliably acquires education. Consider
releasing the fund at owner age 30.5, allowing their body the 25 years to
complete construction of the brain plus 5 years to develop some wisdom.
Second,
influence Congress to amend the First Amendment’s second religion-clause to
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
[promoting] the free exercise thereof”. The existing word is "prohibiting".
[Edited from erroneous “preventing”.]
Religion, the
imaginary pursuit of mystery, often conflicts the United States republic, which
civilly pursues statutory justice with civic integrity. “Civic” refers to
trust-in and commitment-to mutual opportunity to pursue
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. Some religions pursue the exclusive
salvation of believer’s soul in mysterious afterdeath, regardless of behavior during
life. Some religions are un-civic. A few are evil. It is contradictory for the
Constitution to endorse “free exercise” of un-civic/evil religion.
Also, when
enough people perceive you reached your goal, Make America Great Again, please
consider announcing further intention: Make America Greater, or your better
idea.
I hope these
suggestions aid your wishes.
Sincerely,
Phil Beaver
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Phil
Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to theineluctabletruth, which
can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it
obviously does not work.
Phil is agent
for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit
corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays
from the latest and going back as far as you like. He uses the hashtag
#USpreambler.
