From mystery's abyss to the-objective-truth

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.



Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “We a civic people of the united states, in order to encourage individual responsibility for integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity so as to secure human liberty for now and for the future, pursue statutory justice in the USA..” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one 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 disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

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. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.



Selected theme from this week

Has the Catholic Church used mysterious spiritualism to prey on believers for 1700 years? I do not know, but have an opinion: it’s only an extension of what went on before 1700 years ago. For example, during the era of the sun gods, human sacrifice was common. Sometimes the priests opined they needed protein even if in moderation. However the question can be extended to: how long will political power persist on the mystery of whatever-God-is? The mystery is a human construct based on the actual reality that whatever, if anything, controls the unfolding of events is not known---if such a control exists above chaos. The mystery arises from the temporal lack of discovery, which is lessening.

People in 2019 are asking (see News, below), “What would fill the void if the institutional church was removed from the public square?” I assume they are not asking, how would priests may develop their human appetites without people who will subjugate themselves and children whose curiosity is hazardous and younger children who have no clue as to what is happening to them. Chinese sex dolls and other toys are in the news, but don’t offer social contact. Artificial intelligence could partially fill the gap.

Just as human emotions can be invoked by hope and comfort in a mysterious God, people can be motivated by benefits from discovery of the-objective-truth. For example, the person who discovers that life is better when he or she does not initiate harm to another may next learn that likewise, life is better when they do not tolerate harm from other people. And unless physical harm will accrue, their intolerance can be verbal or written objection to the other party’s intentions. The demise of institutional religion offers focus on the-objective-truth, which ultimately prevails.

Perhaps the world is witnessing the church abyss and on the other side is the ascension on the-objective-truth.

News

The church-state partnership was exposed as Chapter XI Machiavellianism in “The Prince,” 1513 (Vanessa Gera, AP) (https://www.apnews.com/8fbab7877b7844b39e2e257f114c8a4a)

“. . . ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski had described discussion about clerical abuse as a “brutal attack” on the church.”

“Some wonder if Poland, which is already being reshaped by economic growth and secularization, could eventually follow Ireland, where the abuse crisis broke the Catholic Church’s hold on society.”

Rafal Suszek said, “. . . nobody has a clear-cut idea about how to deal with the void that would inevitably come about when you remove the institutional church from the public sphere.”

I suggest collaboration to discover the-objective-truth respecting responsible human liberty. Under ineluctable evidence, any individual’s responsible pursuits of hope and comfort in the face of inevitable death is harmless to fellow citizens.

There could be a world-wide termination of Chapter XI Machiavellianism.

Columns

Institutional propaganda (Jay Lapeyre and Gregory Rusovich (https://www.theadvocate.com/article_f56200b6-7cac-11e9-aaba-1780ec1900b9.html)

“America was founded on the ideal of individual liberty — the moral and inspiring idea that we are each an end in ourselves with the moral right and responsibility to make the best of our lives. After two centuries of progress, America explicitly claims and aspires to equal individual rights for all individuals.”

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution has two neglected propositions: 1) good people in their states authorized and now hold a Union of states accountable and 2) willing people accept the responsibility to perpetually provide the integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity required for human liberty.

The present generation has created debt to the next generation that threatens if not prevents freedom-from oppression. The Lapeyre and Rosovich view of “individual liberty . . . an end in ourselves” omits the U.S. premble’s proposition: responsible human liberty to children, grandchildren, and beyond.

I hope New Orleans businessmen and others read this and where needed reform to responsible fellow citizens.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/How-will-the-world-be-a-better-place-ten-years-from-now?

More people will be publicly collaborating for integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity so as to mutually encourage responsible human liberty under the-objective-truth.



I write this assertion because I promote the proposal and think individuals listen and act on it.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-realistically-make-the-world-a-better-place-for-future-generations?

If humankind has been developing awareness and grammar for 2.8 million years, perhaps 14,000 generations have left to us the privilege of initiating an achievable better future. In other words, our generation may create a step change in civic integrity that alters humankind’s path. I think we will do the impossible. We express that view with Responsible Liberty Day, 2019.

The key is human education and there are two essential elements under which there are myriads of issues subject to human collaboration (not cooperation, subjugation, submission, or worship). The first is a civic citizen’s individual agreement to collaborate for statutory justice or responsible human liberty. The second is for civic citizens to collectively discover the-objective-truth; that is, discover the ineluctable evidence on which truth is measured. Not everyone will volunteer, so there will remain the need for statutory law and its enforcement. Between nations, there may be skirmishes if not wars.

In the USA, each citizen has the opportunity to collaborate for statutory justice using the U.S. preamble’s propositions: 1) willing citizens in their states develop the self-discipline needed to hold their local, state, and federal governments accountable, and 2) each citizen collaborates to provide five institutions against oppression so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens in perpetuity. In other words, collaborate for freedom-from oppression so as to practice the liberty-to pursue individual happiness rather than suffer institutional impositions. The five public provisions are, verbatim to be always preserved, Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare and, in my interpretation to be collaborated for me, integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity.

This June 20 at 7:00 PM at Bluebonnet Regional Branch Library, Baton Rouge, LA, we are celebrating the June 21, 1788 ratification of the U.S. preamble’s propositions (along with the rest of the 1787 U.S. Constitution) as perhaps the world’s first Responsible Liberty Day. We will also mention the-objective-truth. The public is invited. Thus, we think realistic action is underway.

 https://www.quora.com/Is-working-for-a-collective-cause-better-than-individual-freedom

Each human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either appetites or integrity. Only the human species has the awareness and grammar with which to develop responsible liberty. In responsible liberty, a person neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person. With HIPEA, he or she employs grammar to resist harm unless self-defense is demanded.

Most individuals view mutual, comprehensive safety and security as freedom-from oppression so as to provide the liberty-to pursue preferred happiness rather than submit to someone else’s vision.

Other

https://fee.org/articles/why-the-pledge-of-allegiance-is-un-american/?fbclid=IwAR3bgDe0LXu21cJ6aIMiAO_npHf9LlpHw5ro9ILTuFRtePLUPVN1BOqdAdY

Join A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana education association for our sixth annual celebration of June 21, 1788, the day the people of the ninth (required) state ratified the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Prevalent, even in its fading neglect is the 52-word proposition, the U.S. preamble. I doubt there is a place for a pledge of allegiance in a civic culture under the U.S. preamble.
 
Perhaps the world's first Responsible Liberty Day celebration is scheduled for 7:00 PM until 8:45 PM on June 20, 2019 at Bluebonnet Regional Library, 9200 Bluebonnet Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70810. See our Facebook page, A Civic People of the United States, for more information.
 
Learn how we observed that the U.S. preamble's literal proposition is:  Willing fellow citizens collaborate for public Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare so as to encourage responsible human liberty. For living civic citizens we prefer collaboration for integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity to encourage responsible liberty yet would always preserve the original 52 words.

Fellow citizens who oppose the literal U.S. preamble do not accept responsible human liberty, one way or another. Some think crime pays, perhaps to face statutory law enforcement. Some cannot combine Tranquility and liberty in the privacy of their individual religion. Some have divided allegiance. The U.S. preamble's propositions divide citizens into civic groups and dissident groups. 
 Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth 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.