Pretentious Today’s Thought returns

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, practice self-discipline for integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, so as to encourage human liberty to the continuum of living citizens and to develop 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

The Advocate restored G.E. Dean’s daily dribble in defiance of the whatever-God-is mystery after a one-week trial.

Did the editors respond to a flood of subscription cancellations or to a few letters-to-the-editor?

Eternity can wait forever for reform so as to appreciate whatever-God-is without pretense or defiance. But living people’s lives are too short for anyone to impose mysteries on them.

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Submission to anything but the-objective-truth seems irresponsible (Christopher Simon) (https://www.bethanyclipper.com/wp-content/grand-media/application/111418EntireEdition.pdf, Page 4)

Accepting individual, responsible human liberty is a personal challenge. Human performance requires integrity---the practice of discovering the-objective-truth; discovering the benefits of fidelity to the-objective-truth; behaving accordingly; when asked, sharing the reasons for your behavior; listening to the other person to perhaps learn a way to improve your behavior; and being alert for new discovery that demands change.

Simon writes, “. . . giving our lives over to a higher power and trusting that God will take care of us.” This mysterious bargain seems inconsistent with human experience and observations. The human, uniquely among the living species, has higher power.

The vagueness of the bargain---giving to a higher power and trusting God---seems unreliable. Yet that is the bargain religion offers:  By giving to a church you can trust a mysterious God. It’s another church of whatever-God-is.

Each human has the individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-objective-truth. Personal HIPEA cannot be consigned to another. That does not mean a human cannot hope for whatever he or she imagines. However, relying on a church’s mystery may be denying whatever-God-is. And resulting behavior may conflict with human responsibility to appreciate peace.

So far, history informs human beings that whatever-God-is does not relieve humankind of the responsibility to establish peace on earth. Accepting responsible human liberty requires the individual to neither initiate nor tolerate infidelity to or from any person or association of people.

Submission to a mystery seems no substitute for acceptance of HIPEA so as to individually collaborate for responsible human liberty---publically providing peace in this world.



Exposing official dribble about whatever-God-is (Hobby Lobby) (The Advocate, July 4, 2019, Page 7A, full page ad)

Some Americans have always been enthralled with the Bible as the word. But Bible-thumpers protect themselves from the hate passages.

The most obscure hate-passage I’ve found is John 15:18-23. It accuses me of hate, since I am not one that whatever-God-is (is that Jesus?) gave to Jesus. Online lists of hate in the Bible omit John 15:18-23.

Hobby Lobby quotes Thomas Jefferson but may not admit:  Jefferson omitted John 15:18-23 from the cut-and-paste Jefferson Bible. It’s a common practice.

News

Illegal allegiance to a foreign nation (Lea Skene) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_a8956a0a-a0f8-11e9-a3f4-d3d79f961dbe.htm)



U.S. citizens have the opportunity to collaborate for actual equity under statutory justice. The people develop statutory justice by reforming statutory law each time they discover injustice.

Dissidents and aliens oppose the march toward statutory justice. However, when they cause harm, even in moderation, they may suffer statutory law. It seems the USA Catholic Bishops are reluctantly transitioning toward statutory justice regarding sex-abuse in moderation. The bishops and the people who defend canon law rather than U.S. law are aliens for the Vatican City State against We the People of the United States.

In the USA, the civic, civil, and legal proposition under which fellow citizens collaborate for statutory justice is the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. The proposition states, in my interpretation: willing fellow citizens collaborate for five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the living people. We, a Louisiana civic-collaboration corporation called “A Civic People of the United States,” advocate a more civic, civil, and legal interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

Moreover, we collaborate for at least 2/3 of fellow citizens to establish individual civic power derived from five ineluctable evidences: 1) fellow citizens may encourage the feral infant, during his or her three-decades’ transition to adolescent person, to develop integrity; 2) integrity requires understanding then fidelity to the-objective-truth; 3) the young adult who accepted his or her human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) tends to choose integrity rather than infidelity; 4) U.S. citizens may collaborate for justice under the U.S. preamble’s proposition; and 5) humankind might benefit from the USA’s reform to its founding sentence, the U.S. preamble.

The political reform can accelerate. Dissidents and aliens separate themselves on the U.S. preamble’s proposition. It takes millennia if the clergy reforms, so there’s no religious hope for today’s affected infants and adolescents. But there’s hope for most elected officials to be fellow citizens.

Perhaps this message will go viral so as to affect this fall’s elections. Perhaps candidates will state their interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition and present evidence of their past collaborations for responsible human liberty.





Columns

In a culture, who assimilates: legal immigrants or existing citizens? (Michael Gerson) (https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheright/michaelgerson/s-2227299)

Gerson seems to erroneously think the USA is established by the President rather than a civic people under a people’s proposition.

The U.S. preamble’s proposition allows people including government officials to divide into three groups: civic citizens, dissident citizens, and aliens. The civic citizens, We the People of the United States, collaborate to provide 5 public institutions---Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to the living people. Dissidents who cause harm may face the fellow citizens’ opportunity to reform; murderers and traitors could face execution. Aliens who cause harm may be deported.

A person who aspires to citizenship has the responsibility to consider the U.S. preamble’s proposition. If he or she applies for citizenship, the commitment to assimilate accrues to them. Civic citizens encourage immigrants to assimilate under the U.S. preamble’s proposition. However, civic citizens, We the People of the United States, are under no obligations beyond Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, Welfare, and responsible liberty. No president can change the people’s proposition.

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What “principles of liberty,” Dr. Williams? (Walter Williams) (http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams071019.php3)

Dr. Williams focuses on vital civic issues. Humans may choose to collaborate for equity under statutory justice. That is, statutory law that is ultimately just. In other words perfect legislation. Since perfection is unattainable, the worthy practice is to observe statutory law while collaborating for improvement. Certain speech is outlawed, such as false expressions that create panic in public places.

In any nation, the people are divided into three parts: those who agree, those who disagree, and aliens. In a nation that has a constitution, the political agreement is usually offered in the preamble. The USA is perhaps unique in the world, because the U.S. preamble is a people’s proposition. It legally replaced a confederation of states with a union of people in their states. In the USA, the civic, the civil, and the legal rules must ultimately conform to the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

Aliens who do not aspire to be U.S. citizens need-not but might benefit-from considering the proposition. Citizens are obliged to consider and comprehend the people’s proposition. Only 52 words, it is perhaps the world’s greatest political sentence. Being 232 years old, it is advantageous to study and interpret it for personal guidance during an individual’s one chance at life. My interpretation follows, below.

The U.S. people’s proposition:  We civic fellow U.S. citizens collaborate to provide 5 public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living people. (I interpreted the 5 actual public institutions: Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare.) Citizens who do not practice the proposition may consider personal reform while they speak to improve the proposition.

My interpretation continually changes and I think improves. This latest version allows both dissidents to the agreement and aliens to comprehend “principles of liberty” that are humanly motivating. The proposition is neglected by all but a civic people according to their interpretations. We work to increase We the People of the United States to at least 2/3 majority of fellow citizens and to pursue statutory justice under the-objective-truth rather than subjected to arbitrary political opinion.

No one knows the ultimate consequence of the 1787 U.S. Constitution. A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana civic-collaboration corporation works to establish We the People of the United States according to the U.S. preamble’s proposition and the-objective-truth.

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Fool hearty “justice as fairness” (The Advocate editors) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_e5cb7a8e-9f4c-11e9-9e37-370ce68f0c07.html)

This editorial’s phrase, “fairness to rule” comes from a deeply entrenched failure in civic integrity. A viable political regime is grounded in "justice to rule." Let's see how deep this argument can be.

1.    It takes three decades of encouragement for a human individual to acquire the understanding and intent to choose to develop integrity rather than nourish infidelity toward a standard.

2.    A key to adulthood is accepting human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to choose to develop integrity in order to pursue responsible human liberty.

3.    The standard by which human integrity is judged is fidelity to the-objective-truth, the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured.

4.    A group of humans will divide between those who trust-in and commit-to collaboration, communication, and connection in order to provide freedom-from arbitrary oppression so that individuals have the liberty-to choose fidelity to the-objective-truth. It’s a division between willing, civic citizens and dissidents including aliens. The consequence is a civic culture, more or less powerful, depending on whether the dissidents are in the majority or not.

5.    In order to encourage individuals during the period from infancy through adolescence to develop in less than three decades or beyond the understanding and intent to choose fidelity to the-objective-truth, the culture maintains a journal of discovery and re-discovery of the-objective-truth. For example, discovery that the earth is like a gravity-controlled globe unleashed world-exploration that had been suppressed for fear of falling off a flat earth’s edge. Imagination is included in the journal so as to enhance the adolescent’s understanding. For example, the mystery of whatever-God-is establishes the appropriate awe and uncertainty for the integrity to admit to self:  I do not know what I do not know; for example, I cannot inform whatever-God-is about God. This does not imply that a human has not the HIPEA to hope for a God.

6.    Empowered by its journal of the path toward the-objective-truth, the civic culture provides the adolescent citizen opportunity to accept responsible human liberty. For example, there may be a statement of purpose, such as:  In order to develop responsible human liberty we civic citizens behave for individual equity under the rule of law.

7.    The human being is so physically and psychologically powerful (through HIPEA) that some groups choose infidelity toward the-objective-truth. For example, some individuals think crime pays. For this reason, there will always be enforcement of statutory law, and the civic culture gradually reforms unjust law so as to approach statutory justice. Justice is absolute fidelity to the-objective-truth: perfection, a worthy goal yet an evolving object from the human perspective.

8.    In the USA, each existing or aspiring citizen may adopt the proposition that is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. On the U.S. preamble’s proposition inhabitants divide as in Item 4, above: civic citizens, dissident fellow citizens, and aliens. Each of these three groups has a particular perspective regarding statutory law enforcement. Within the groups there are many particular opinions and practices. Some dissidents arbitrarily label justice “unfairness” in a political fallacy that can’t survive. Some aliens want to overthrow the rule of law. Elites manipulate the proposition so as to perceive control of fellow citizens’ losses and misery. The U.S. preamble’s proposition requires appreciation for the-objective-truth and does not work on elite reasoning.

9.    When fellow citizens refer to scholarly ideas whose authors acknowledge that the ideas have flaws, they may act out of ignorance, yet are not innocent. They merely expose their failure to accept HIPEA. Therefore, they have not done the work to discover the fallacies. John Rawls’ attempt to portray justice as fairness is a well-researched yet popular political correctness among self-styled “progressives.” Apparently, The Advocate editors tolerate Rawls’ admittedly failed sophistry. Google “contractarianism+Rawls” to learn the Rawls apologetics that are available to The Advocate editors.

I hope The Advocate will reform, and first the editors must admit to themselves that they are not doing the work HIPEA demands.



“Today’s Thought” (G. E. Dean through The Advocate editors)

Relief from “Today’s Thought” was short lived. I first noticed the Dean-dribble return on July 8.

Then, Dean observed that before whatever-God-is I am more than a raven. Perhaps a flock of loud doubters made the short-term decision for The Advocate’s business. It’s been working for a long time.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/The-worlds-communities-seem-to-be-fragmenting-rather-than-unifying-What-must-change-to-reverse-this-trend

Humankind may accept that each individual has human power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to choose to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-objective-truth. Nations may encourage new citizens from infancy through adolescence to develop integrity.

I have studied the opportunity which is offered in the USA. The preamble to the U.S. Constitution is a people’s proposition that each aspiring citizen may interpret, accept, and collaborate for, or not. My interpretation follows:

We civic fellow U.S. citizens collaborate to provide 5 public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living people. (I interpreted the 5 actual public institutions: Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare.) Citizens who do not practice the proposition may consider personal reform while they speak to improve the proposition. Aliens may aspire to join We the People of the United States.

By collaborating for the 5 public institutions with the-objective-truth as standard for equity, there may emerge attention to a common desire: mutual, comprehensive safety and security. With freedom-from arbitrary oppression, each individual may discover the liberty-to responsibly pursue individual happiness rather than the dictates of another.

We work to persuade at least 2/3 of U.S. fellow citizens to adopt the U.S. preamble’s proposition with the-objective-truth as standard for equity. (There will always be a few people who use HIPEA for infidelity.) Acceleration of interest could reform the USA to a civic culture rather than the preservation of colonial-British traditions quickly. With the people of the USA collaborating for responsible human liberty, the concept might catch on in 2/3 of the rest of the world.

https://www.quora.com/Which-roles-should-the-government-and-the-civil-society-play-to-make-a-development-project-successful

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution offers this proposition:  We the People of the United States collaborate, communicate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions---Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living individuals.

Under the U.S. preamble’s proposition, inhabitants separate into three groups: civic citizens, dissident fellow citizens, and aliens. Since some inhabitants choose dissidence or are aliens, the civic citizens collaborate to provide the 5 institutions under statutory law. Moreover, as the civic citizens discover injustice, they amend statutory law so as to pursue statutory justice.

With 2/3 of U.S. inhabitants collaborating for equity under the U.S. preamble’s proposition, the USA can achieve a better future---pursuit of individual happiness with civic integrity rather than competition for dominance. With the USA’s example, the rest of the world may also choose to develop statutory justice.

A civic culture begins with individuals choosing freedom-from oppression under the 5 public institutions (or better) so as to encourage the human individual liberty-to choose integrity to the-objective-truth rather than develop, nourish, and satisfy appetites.

These ideas are developed on our blog, promotethepreamble.blogspot. com. Fellow citizens are encouraged to spend ½ hour per month getting acquainted with the ideas. Also, we manage a Facebook Page, A Civic People of the United States.

https://www.quora.com/What-advice-do-you-have-for-every-individual-to-make-the-world-a-better-place

Each person may accept the human individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity to the-objective-truth rather than infidelity.

To Clayton Burns

I like this advice with one caveat: recognize your limitations. If a scholar’s ideas don’t make sense to you, set them aside for another time. Perhaps your view will change so as to rekindle your interest. However, it’s more likely that the scholar wrote nonsense.

Let me illustrate with an example. Plato’s “Symposium” records opinions about love according to over 10 philosophers. Only one speech rings true to me, and that is the speech by Agathon. After 20 years’ contemplation, his speech informs me to neither initiate nor to tolerate harm to or from any person or god.

I doubt another human being would interpret Agathon’s speech as I do. However, my interpretation seems a key principle for living under responsible human liberty. I share my interpretation for a selfish reason: I want other people to consider it and offer improvements for me to consider and adopt.



Law professors

https://www.quora.com/May-God-with-integrity-practice-infidelity-and-abuse/answer/Simon-Binks-2/comment/73410777?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=3250589111  from last week

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Blog 7/9/19

President Trump seems prepared (intending and well advised) to defy the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the census question: Are you a U.S. citizen?





I would be the last person on the block to claim that President Trump does not understand the U.S. preamble's proposition. I would like to learn from his interpretation as a fellow citizen. Moreover, I'd like to know yours.





Judicial review is picking the people's pockets and only a civic people can restrain the courts when judges deviate from the people's proposition that is stated in the U.S. preamble.



Blog

https://promotethepreamble.blogspot.com/2017/07/traitorsor-victims-walter-williams.html

Phil Beaver July 8, 2019 at 10:46 PM

Mr. Korkus, I apologize for missing your post for so long. My writing has improved, I think, because I stopped referencing scholarly opinion so as to write only what I propose for civic collaboration.

In my sixth year inviting civic meetings at libraries, a recent consequence is an interpretation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution: willing citizens collaborate for five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and welfare---to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.

The preamble says nothing about religion so as to assign it to responsible human liberty.

I encourage every citizen or aspiring citizen to write the interpretation of the U.S. preamble he or she would like to live under in order to develop and practice statutory justice. This is only a part of my work, and I hope it restores your interest in it.
Phil Beaver

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.