Saturday, November 28, 2020

Self-discipline constrains the chaos of infidelity

 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 equity:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows:  This good citizen practices the U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, "in order to” develop responsible human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity. I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and 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

Self-discipline constrains the chaos of infidelityPhil 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 equity:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows:  This good citizen practices the U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, "in order to” develop responsible human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity. I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and 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

Self-discipline constrains the chaos of infidelity

Three discoveries, to me, converged this week.

First, a Mesopotamian, 4 thousand year-old idea, expressed in Genesis 1:27-28, especially in “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it,” may be interpreted:  Man and woman are charged to constrain chaos on earth. The rest of the Bible is scattered with scenes of infidelity.

Second, fast forward 1600 years from Genesis, and Homer writes (according to some readers) of human wickedness and consequential misery, born in sex. (In my brush with Homer and other Greek writers, I accepted the impression that the ancient women made sense regardless of male folly.)

Third, after a quora question by Graham C Lindsay, I bought  J. B. Priestley's book, “Literature and Western Man” (1960). Priestley reviewed Western literature from Machiavelli (“The Prince,” 1513) to Tom Wolfe (d. 1938). On Page 444, Priestley laments his perception that man is lost, ““[W]e are now piling on to sex the whole gigantic load of our increasing dissatisfaction, our despair, a burden far greater than it can safely take.”

If that’s the way things are, as modern papal-concerns seem to confirm, it is regrettable. And slavery to sex is avoidable in individual self-interest.

When I fell in love with my wife, my vow of fidelity was for life and extended to any children (3) and beyond. Within our first year of marriage, I realized that I would need to court her for life, because her serene confidence was attractive to men. Moreover, I have to discipline my imagination and frustrations, now matter where they emerge.

Constraining chaos takes awareness and intention, and it is in each person’s self-interest to do the work to develop humble-integrity by which to measure honesty.

In fact, we can establish a U.S. culture of self-discipline in order to constrain chaos. The proposition was proffered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution that was signed on September 17, 1787. Nothing in the 1787 Constitution lessens the humble-integrity that is expressed in the 1776 Declaration of Independence from England.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Has-your-life-or-thinking-ever-been-radically-changed-from-exposure-to-a-classic-philosopher-Plato-Descartes-Kant-etc?

Fortunately, Staub School, Knoxville Tennessee introduced me to Ralph Waldo Emersion, and “Self-Reliance” stuck with me to this day.

In my mid-forties, I had 8 jobs at my Southern Baptist Church, including Chair of the Family Enrichment Committee. I had also been worshiping with my Catholic family each weekend, never taking communion. In my early fifties, Mom and Dad had died, and I felt released from these great providers’ wishes that I would be saved their divided ways. I was free to pursue my 4 decades trust-in the-ineluctable-truth and to commit-to discovering its precursor, the-objective-truth. It waits for the needed instrument of perception that might reach the-ineluctable-truth.

Then, I read Emerson’s essay from the American underground: “The Divinity School Address,” 1838. I thought, “Aha! One person might agree with me.” Ten years later, I was comfortably non-religious. My appreciation for whatever assigns humankind to lessen chaos on earth is unwavering, and my need to believe more than my commitment to constrain chaos in my life has gone the way of my concern before my ovum was inseminated: non-existent.

My wife’s Louisiana-French Catholic faith her way is precious to me for her. And my faith in the-ineluctable-evidence is precious to me for me. The last time I asked, she said she is glad I did not convert to Christianity. I don’t think I would have discovered myself without her. In other words, what if one of the Protestants I courted had accepted monogamy for life with me in the years before I met my bride?

FB add on: RWE in "Divinity School Address": accept your human being and develop the humble-integrity to perfect your unique person.

https://www.quora.com/Family-is-often-as-the-first-form-of-society-How-does-it-act-as-a-joining-institution-between-individual-society?

Imagine every family is committed to monogamy for life. That is, not only are the spouses committed to each other for life, they are committed to their children and grandchildren for life and impart this attitude within the family by example more than exhortation.

In such a culture, the awareness supporting the spouses is represented by 2 parents each or four total, the 4 grandparents to the children. The heritages supporting each of the four grandparents are each represented by two each great-grandparents to the children, or 8 great-grandparents. Adding the 2 parents and the 4 grandparents, the total ancestors at this point is 14. The progression to the 4th great-grandparents is 30, 62, 126, respectively.

In a geopolitical group, kinship is likely, yet limited, so there are subcultures.

However, humankind is joined by a majority desire for mutual, comprehensive, safety and security so that the individual may pursue the happiness they perceive rather than tolerate a way of living that society would impose on them.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-some-important-universal-laws-that-are-a-must-know-for-growth?

The first is that personal-integrity emerges from the humility to accept “I don’t know,” when that is so. I don’t know any others.

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-morality-virtue-ethics-and-integrity/all_comments/Terry-Vestal? A dialogue started in August, 2020

Vestal, since we last conversed, I discovered two new considerations and am staying with my journey forward.

First, the importance of Genesis 1:27–28, in my view. An ancient Mesopotamian, over 4 thousand years ago, observed that man and woman are constrained to control chaos in their lives (“Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.”) Unfortunately, the thinkers that followed focused on characterizing the source of the demand: “God blessed them.”

Homer’s description of life 1600 years later is not as interesting as the second discovery to me: J.B. Priestley’s 1960 review of literature from Machiavelli to John Stuart Mill and more in the book, “Literature and Western Man,” 1960. Priestley comments, on Page 444, “[W]e are now piling on to sex the whole gigantic load of our increasing dissatisfaction, our despair, a burden far greater than it can safely take.”

At the young age of 26, I recognized that if I did not control my sexual imagination, it would not take long to lose the love of my life. We are now in our 51st year of family-monogamy for life. By that I mean we are faithful to our children as well as each other.

I read the “Odyssey” during college, and turned to the philosophy of science as more interesting. I think I made a good decision.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-do-you-compose-your-own-peace-education-slogan?

Constrain chaos in human connections.

FB add on: Constrain chaos.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-evil-in-the-world?

Humankind is constrained to control chaos on earth. Churches compete for doctrinal-claims to the power from which the human-constraint emerges. Too many people become bemused in the bargain for church-favor, neglecting their human individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their life. I work to change this dilemma by persuading fellow-citizens to practice and encourage humble-integrity to physics and its progeny, keeping spiritual pursuits private.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-so-difficult-for-some-people-to-tell-the-truth?

I think the problem is that “truth” is too inexact.

In its demand to constrain chaos on earth, humankind performs research for ineluctable evidence and discovers the-objective-truth, either positive or negative, according to the research objective. Either way, the research-conclusion is retained, awaiting the invention of new instruments for perception. Thereby, the-objective-truth may be revised so as to approach the-ineluctable-truth.

For example, the sun’ll not come up tomorrow. It will be revealed after its midnight-hiding by the earth’s rotation on its axis.

Lying is another matter altogether. Some people don’t accept that physics and its progeny eventually reveal the-objective-truth. Ineluctably good people never lie, in order to lessen human misery and loss.

For example, I’d say to anyone present, at daybreak, “Look. The earth’s awesome rotation on its axis is un-hiding the sun.” If they ask, “Why awesome?” I answer, “It’s rotation speed is 1100 mph.”

FB add on:  The-objective-truth is easier to tell.

https://www.quora.com/Is-scientific-truth-the-only-truth?

By design, there’s no such thing as “scientific truth.” There’s only the-ineluctable-truth. In its demand to constrain chaos on earth, humankind performs research for ineluctable evidence and discovers the-objective-truth, either positive or negative, according to the research objective. Either way, the research-conclusion is retained, awaiting the invention of new instruments for perception. Thereby, the-objective-truth may be revised so as to approach the-ineluctable-truth.

For example, the path to the conclusion that the earth is not flat was gradual over centuries.

https://www.quora.com/Is-Whistle-blowing-is-ethical-or-unethical-in-interest-group?

It is ethical to report people who take the license to harm others or their property, including intellectual property.

The ineluctably good citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from anyone.

I was in a wonderful “open-minded” discussion group until the leader revealed he is anarchist who carries an AK45. I objected and stopped attending and let members who weren’t present that night know why. I think I showed my intolerance. If I had ever been with the group and they took the license to harm someone or their property for egocentric “liberty,” I would have left the scene and reported them to first responders.

The whistle blowing decision is critical and ought to be made in humble-integrity to self.

 

https://www.quora.com/Do-inalienable-human-rights-even-exist?

Thank you, Mr. Norris for reducing my ignorance.

Merriam-Webster online says “inalienable” means “incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred.” The definition is new to me, as I previously thought the word implied government taking rather than citizen alienating, surrendering, or transferring.

Life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness can each be alienated, and a government could not assure any of them if it reformed so as to want to.

Moreover, the human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to either develop humble-integrity or tolerate infidelity to self. HIPEA cannot be alienated, and government has no power over the individual’s choice. Influence, yes; power, no.

(If you have no objections, I will add your name to my appreciations page. Search “A Civic People”+appreciations, perhaps using Bing, and when you’ve found promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, use the upper left, internal search-bar and “appreciations” to find the page.)

https://www.quora.com/When-one-grows-in-knowledge-and-wisdom-does-his-former-ignorance-and-foolishness-become-visible-to-him?

I cannot speak for knowledge and wisdom.

My ignorance and folly come to me as misery, loss, and commitment not to repeat them and to develop humble-integrity more than personal integrity.

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-such-a-thing-as-influence-without-power-If-so-how-does-it-exist-or-how-does-it-work?

First, we must consider “power.” Imposition of political power is often met with military resistance. On the other hand, open-mindedness to the-ineluctable-truth invites civic influence. For example, even though my image is white-skin, it does me no harm for a fellow-citizen to pursue hope and comfort in red-God. Reading “God is Red,” by Vine Deloria, Jr., on Fred Bear’s suggestion, opened my mind to an ancient faith in physics and its progeny.

I typically converse about real life with strangers, for example, the kind person who was cutting my hair one day. I asked my Super-Cut provider, “Do you know the meaning of African-American Christianity? It does not seem inviting to me, a European-American.”

She responded, “Think of me as an Ethiopian Christian.”

Since then, I discovered (to me) the Ethiopian Tewahedo Bible and without objection expect believers to find hope and comfort in black-God---in their image. I may not study it more for now, and am grateful to be aware.

If the ultimate consequence of God-images is the proposal to enslave white-people, I would fear another dreadful military resistance and recall Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 words, “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”

(I suspect Barack Obama envisions black-governance with consent of the governed. Instead, I expect the U.S. to reform from British-colonial psychology/tradition, at last. The human demand and the 1787 Constitution’s intentions is for U.S. humble-integrity rather than for church-state-partnership.)

https://www.quora.com/What-classic-human-values-have-we-lost-in-today-s-contemporary-world?

We’re missing a majority fellow-citizens who pursue responsible human independence. That is to say, self-reliance in humble-integrity. We need reform from a large faction who erroneously want dependency and consequently will never pursue the happiness they want rather than accept what bureaucrats deliver.

Reform is possible with amendment of the First Amendment to encourage U.S. humble-integrity rather than support international religious institutions. The is would be a return to the U.S. 1787 affirmation of the British-American colonial 1776 “the good People” appeal “to the Supreme Judge of the world” for affirmation of the intentions for independence from England.

The unique U.S. promise to the world is expressed in the 1787 Constitution, especially its preamble’s proposition to “ourselves and our Posterity” and the provision for the entity We the People of the United States to amend the Constitution.

FB add on: Restore the 1787 U.S. Constitution's discipline to humble-integrity in the demand for humankind to constrain chaos on earth.

https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-some-people-who-seem-to-be-morally-upright-have-no-problems-with-those-who-have-no-morals-and-principles-Do-you-buy-the-excuse-that-its-not-their-job-to-judge-their-friends-or-that-the-company-their?

I think an ineluctably good citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person including self. In the presence of potential harm, objection may be sufficient and the potential offender may be innocent. Otherwise, reporting to first responders may be necessary. If attack is imminent, adequate defense is appropriate.

 

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-of-individualism?

Responsible human independence is essential to mutual, comprehensive safety and security. When the group you are with decides to take the license to harm people and their property for egocentric “liberty,” you can object, leave, and report them to first responders.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-protection-of-minority-rights-important?

When the majority, whether singular or collective, agrees that total destruction is the best option, they’ll be glad for the minority that convinces them to refrain.

quora.com/Jennings-and-Welch-wrote-that-a-true-intellectual-is-therefore-always-an-outsider-living-in-self-imposed-exile-and-on-the-margins-of-society-Is-this-a-fair-or-a-rather-an-odd-way-of-describing-an-intellectual?

I don’t agree with Jennings and Welch.

It seems to me intellectuals are mostly entertainers at the leading edge of deep consideration of shared human-issues. For example, 1) conservatism as covert tyranny versus 2) the right to love the one you appreciate. I’m thinking of the 1968 spectacular self-destruction by William F. Buckeley, Jr. when Gore Vidal extracted the threat, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddam face, and you’ll stay plastered.”

The reader ought not take my favor of Gore’s honor to mean same-sex couples ought to parent. I think every viable ovum is due the dignity and equity of conception in heterosexual-family monogamy rather than in either natural or technological gestation. I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth, and opine there ought to be no influence toward the same-sex living choice.

https://www.quora.com/Should-people-be-restricted-by-social-rules-and-ethical-code-Why?

Humankind is charged to constrain chaos in their lives. Thus, the ineluctably good citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from others. And they know better than to assume that good for them is good for others. But it is neither possible nor desirable to question another citizen’s privacy respecting the good. 

Not every fellow-citizen behaves for justice. Some think crime pays. Written rules, ethics, and laws make discovery of intended-injustice possible. Upon crime-discovery, erroneous codes may be revised so as to approach statutory justice.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-being-certain?

Discovering the-ineluctable-truth. For examples, the earth is not flat and the sun will not come up tomorrow.

https://www.quora.com/Is-free-will-a-topic-of-morality-and-ethics-and-less-of-science?

First, science is a method of study that self-constrains to discover the-ineluctable-truth. Often, the study must accept only the-objective-truth until researchers invent the required instruments of perception that may approach the-ineluctable-truth. For example, photos from space confirm that the earth is more like a globe than a dish. The-ineluctable-truth is constrained by the laws of physics and its progeny, and to choose to resist those laws is willful.

Each human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to either develop humble-integrity to the-ineluctable-truth or construct theories to believe in. The choice is willful and available only to the human species.

For example, so-called “social scientists” invent statistical studies that show that Republicans own guns, ignoring two key variables: 1) Individual commitment to hunting for self-development and food and 2) provisions and intentions to the strength to protect family and home. The “scientist” who dedicates self to deceitful statistical studies is willful. Even the label “scientist” is deceiving.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-foreigners-need-to-prove-their-value-in-their-host-society?

A nation neither needs nor wants aliens who intentionally or not would destroy the nation. For this reason, a person cannot simply decide to terminate the citizenship they have: it takes acceptance to change citizenship.

This is why citizens work so hard to prevent entry of illegal aliens. (Beware Joe Biden.)

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-powerful-things-in-our-existence?

Ultimately, it’s physics and its progeny. Within humankind it’s the humble-integrity needed to constrain chaos on earth.

 

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-morality-deteriorating-in-contemporary-society?

We’re at the leading edge of over 4 thousand years’ conflicts and wars over the author of humankind’s charge to independence: in self-interest, control chaos on earth. I’m interpreting Genesis 1:28 according to more than 4 thousand years under conflicting doctrinal Gods, no number in the 10s of thousands. Cultures bemuse themselves from their brief opportunity to establish peace on earth.

https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-slogan-Commitment-to-Excellence-through-Teamwork-anchored-on-integrity-and-Accountability-mean?

If the speaker is not grounding the promise in accountability to physics and its progeny, it’s time for the listener to exercise the responsible human independence to exit and share the experience with fellow-citizens.

The-ineluctable-truth delivers no mercy to erroneous teamwork, solidarity, license-to liberty, and other Alinsky-Marxist organizational (AMO) appeals.

AMO speakers can deceive, only if the listener co-operates.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-human-rights-to-you?

What is human rights to you?

The opportunity to develop humble-integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to your person.

I like my interpretation of a thought from Genesis 1:28. Man and woman, constrain chaos on earth. Unfortunately for humankind, cultures debate where that charge originates. I think it originates from humble-integrity expressed over 4 thousand years ago.

I think the only attainable human right is the opportunity to develop humble-integrity during each, unique person’s life.

Life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness cannot be attained by political power.

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-very-idea-of-a-liberal-order-which-in-the-context-of-international-relations-means-freedom-equality-and-consent-contradictory?

Is the very idea of a “liberal order,” which in the context of international relations, means freedom, equality, and consent, contradictory?

I think so.

Physics and its progeny constrain humankind such that there is only one degree of freedom: freedom-to develop humble-integrity toward the-ineluctable-truth. Every human individual has the power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop either humble-integrity or infidelity-to self. Nations have the same constraint. No nation can license liberty-from physics.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-proper-beliefs-necessary-for-obtaining-and-cultivating-higher-level-truths?

Accept that you are a human being with individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to comprehend physics and its progeny as humankind discovers them and develop humble-integrity during a complete human lifetime.

 

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Who-authored-the-Preamble-to-the-Constitution?

Who authored the Preamble to the Constitution?

My response addresses the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, signed on September 17, 1787 by 39 of 55 framers of the federal republic with both state and national governments held accountable by the willing people. Holding the government accountable is necessary to preserve responsible human independence, which is the natural human way of living.

But not everyone accepts being human. For example, Genesis 1:28 charges man and woman to constrain chaos on earth. Some people vainly try to consign their responsibilities to the author of the command, whatever that entity is.

The preamble that was signed along with the articles was authored beginning September 8 to 11, 1787, by the 5-delegate Committee of Style. See https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/historyculture/the-committee-of-style-and-arrangement.htm. Especially notice the difference between the draft preamble they received and the preamble they authored. The draft merely names the states and presents the Articles. However, the final preamble names “We the People of the United States” and proposes individual self-discipline “to ourselves and our Posterity.”

I think the Committee of Style summarized the entire 4-months’ accomplishments in a 52-word, abstract sentence. Further, the 1787 U.S. Constitution does nothing that lessens the humble international-integrity that the founding fathers expressed in the 1776 Declaration of Independence against England. Therein, “the good People”-representatives appealed “to the Supreme Judge of the world” for their intentions, leaving spiritual authority out of their expectations. In other words, they separated church from state instead of mimicking England’s constitutional church-state-partnership.

Every citizen of the world may interpret the U.S. preamble to guide their civic, civil, legal, and private way of living in responsible pursuit of the happiness they prefer rather than accept the vision someone else has for them. My interpretation today is: Phil Beaver practices the 5 U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” enjoy and encourage responsible human independence “to ourselves and our posterity.”

I write to learn and would appreciate comments.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-absolute-truth-that-no-child-wants-to-hear?

A human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) either to self-discipline or to tolerate infidelity to his or her person. The first choice empowers humble-integrity and the second develops regret.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-better-to-possess-reason-or-wisdom?

Both reason and wisdom pale before humble-integrity. Humble-integrity pursues the-ineluctable-truth.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-measures-would-you-implement-inside-the-classroom-to-promote-peace-and-avoid-conflict?

What measures would you implement inside the classroom to promote peace and avoid conflict?

Using humble-pedagogy or coaching-and-encouraging methods to invite a nest of acceptances. That is to say, the teachers assume the student will perfect their unique future-adult whom neither the teacher nor the student can imagine.

From kindergarten through to grade 12 and beyond, teachers gradually invite the student to accept: 1) being a person rather than an existence; 2) taking charge of about 3 decades acquiring basic comprehension and intention to live a complete human lifetime; 3) discovering that they possess the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either humble-integrity or infidelity to themselves; 4) committing to neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person or institution; and 5) behaving for human-equity under statutory justice.

These principles are expressed in my view of the U.S. preamble’s proposition “to ourselves and our Posterity.” I share my view hoping to learn an improvement. It is:  Phil Beaver practices the 5 U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” enjoy and encourage responsible human independence “to ourselves and our [descendants and legal immigrants].”

A free and independent people have the humble-integrity to appreciate like-minded citizens. America has an achievable better future under the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

FB add on: In K-12 and beyond, coach and encourage responsible human independence to willing youth.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-philosophically-prove-the-harm-principle?

How can you philosophically prove the harm principle?

The harm principle holds that the actions of individuals should only be limited to prevent harm to other individuals.” (Wikipedia) I hold that the “other individuals” includes the self.

Let’s consider two human beings living in the same location. Each accepts that they are a human being and member of the family that begot them. Each is aware that their being represents a unique person with the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their lives and responsibly pursue the happiness each wants more than accept the visions their families have for them. Each accepts the other’s personal integrity, and they converse and discover that each other’s personal vision of happiness is neither objectionable nor desirable to the other. They develop the commitment and trust that both parties will neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person, institution, or natural event, so that their different pursuits of happiness can be perfected in their lifetime.

Philosophically they have each increased personal integrity and begun to develop humble-integrity: Acceptance-of and appreciation-for each other’s goodness, as it is where it is.

https://www.quora.com/Where-do-personal-values-come-from?

Where do personal values come from?

Of course, I only know my opinion and want to learn.

Each human being is unique and possesses the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to either develop humble-integrity or tolerate infidelity. It takes a complete lifetime for a human to perfect their unique person.

With good coaching and encouragement to accept HIPEA and self-discipline to develop integrity, it takes about 3 decades to acquire the comprehension and enthusiasm to live a complete human life. That is, to acquire the basics for living including the norms of civilizations to consider as they go on. People who tolerate infidelity may die young.

During the second and third decade, a person begins to experience and observe human practices and self-disciplines in self-interest. For example, if friends plan to misbehave, they bow out and say why the risk is not interesting.

After about 3 decades’ practice, the person may perceive they are following personal commitment and trust---personal integrity. In another decade or so, they may find some people of like minds and learn different viewpoints that could improve their performance. They adjust their personal integrity without compromising the responsible happiness they are pursuing. They approach humble-integrity within their unique person.

At FB post: Cultures ought to coach their youth to develop personal values.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-absolute-truth-that-no-teacher-wants-to-hear?

What is an absolute truth that no teacher wants to hear?

First, the-ineluctable-truth ignores human constructs (including mine).

Second, people who develop humble-integrity never lie, in order to lessen human misery and loss. Their attitude sustains them when they don’t know: “I don’t know, but we’ll do all we can to constrain chaos” (or equivalent). For example, “I don’t know if that’s a tsunami coming, but let’s responsibly move to the highest ground in these parts.”

These ideas may seem shocking to some people. That is because the diverse cultures inculcate dependency and infidelity rather than responsible human independence. I work to change that within my lifetime. A better future is immediately achievable when citizens collaborate with personal integrity in order to approach humble-integrity; to mutually accommodate the preferred happiness each pursues.

I write to learn and would appreciate comments.

Attached on Facebook: A culture of humble-integrity is possible by example and by sharing the self-interest in the practice.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-people-want-democracy?

Why do so many people want democracy?

You ask a timely question. Democracy as in “self-rule” is chaos, as we observe daily. Even democracy as the “right” to vote for representatives is questionable.

The viable alternative is the rule of statutory justice, with elected representatives held accountable by eligible citizens. By “eligible citizens” I mean fellow-citizens who behave for equity under statutory justice.

People divide over justice. Some want to control and some want to be controlled. The controllers want the rule of law to favor them, and the democrats want a mob to overthrow the controllers. Among the controllers are the criminals who game the rule of law and oppose statutory justice. There are a few people who want humble-integrity, by which statutory justice is developed. A humble-culture has been proffered since 1787 and has never taken hold.

The U.S. citizen may accept a personal interpretation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution for personal guidance toward civic, civil, legal, and private pursuit of the happiness they want rather than the vision a bureaucrat has for them. The preamble has two thoughts: presenting the Constitution, and stating the people’s proposition.

My interpretation today of the proffered, neglected proposition is:  Phil Beaver practices the 5 U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage responsible human independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.”

I feel the above interpretation is in my self-interest and have developed it in discussion with fellow-citizens. I share it to improve my interpretation. What change would improve my interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition?

To FB post: When mired in the chaos called democracy, it is difficult to perceive a way out.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-foreigners-need-to-prove-their-value-in-their-host-society?

Why do foreigners need to 'prove' their value in their host society?

Thank you, Luciano Ramírez Garea.

An ineluctably good citizen behaves for equity under statutory justice. But not all citizens are willing to so behave. An immigrant ought to consider and choose the people’s political proposition, or not join the nation.

But what of a born citizen?

I only understand U.S. citizenship. It needs reform to the above principle:  Only the citizen who chooses the behave according to the U.S. preamble’s people’s proposition ought to receive a license to vote.

Interesting related cites:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/guides/M-618.pdf

https://openborders.info/blog/immigration-and-the-us-constitution/

https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/the-naturalization-interview-and-test/naturalization-oath-of-allegiance-to-the-united-states-of-america

https://www.quora.com/Are-certain-people-more-likely-to-succumb-to-believing-untruths-or-what-some-refer-to-as-B-S-more-than-others-because-of-their-economic-or-political-ideologic-tendencies?

Are certain people more likely to succumb to believing untruths, or what some refer to as B.S., more than others because of their economic or political ideologic tendencies?

Thank you, Barbara Young Capalbo, for an important question.

In the culture I work to encourage, parents coach and encourage their young to accept being a unique human and to develop the humble-integrity by which to discover and perfect their person during a complete human lifetime.

Each human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop humble integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to the-ineluctable-evidence. Some neither discover HIPEA nor refrain from dependency, crime, tyranny, or worse. Some die young.

In the cultures that have evolved, parents do not behold their children as persons of equity, dignity, and potential to manage world affairs the parents cannot imagine, let alone constrain. Having been also subjected to this unfortunate reality, the parents inculcate misunderstood ways of living they thought their parents (that’s four parents per parenting couple) wanted for them. Misunderstandings for the children to apply during the children’s 3rd through 7th decades. One culture tried to change this “political ideological tendency” in families.

The torture can be worse in higher economic classes, and the principal remedy is humble-integrity “to ourselves and our Posterity,” quoting the preamble to the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Since the U.S. culture after 1791 imposed “freedom of religion” rather than encourage integrity, many of us discover humble-integrity from personal misery and loss.

Here’s an example. Accustomed to family living with a craftsman-breadwinner and some acreage for gardening and beef cows, I thought my city-family could mimic that dual-income style by owning rental property and managing it ourselves. We managed well and sought to expand. We ignored warning signs to buy a property on our CPA’s advice. We later learned he hid partnership in the overpriced property. During the 1980s oil slump, big NE money built thousands of apartments in “the sun belt” including our oil-slumped state. People were getting 3-days’ vacation on the Gulf Coast to sign a lease. We could not rent our apartments. A famous, local entrepreneur called and said he’d pay me the mortgage balance for my property. I sold it but kept the mortgage! Ten years later, the FBI interviewed me and others. The “entrepreneur” went to jail. My rental business had bankrupt immediately.

This story is incomplete if I don’t tell you my infidelity. A book I read advised me not to let mortgage payments exceed 17% of rent income. I doubled the percentage because of the oil patch, state capitol, and both LSU and Southern University here. In that fatal purchase, I took the debt ratio to 70%! I had lost humble-integrity to the books I read.

With my family’s income at risk, a crook with a crooked lawyer convinced me to escape my income loss. But I kept the mortgage! That’s what the sales contract read, but I could not accept what I read. How could I be so stupid?

Now, I have a private thought:  Never again will I stand on a chair and put my neck in a noose. I’m glad I have that thought but regret having to learn it.

More importantly, I have a personal interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s people’s proposition. Today, it is:  Phil Beaver practices the 5 U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage responsible human independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.” Notice that the U.S. preamble does not include religion in the 5 disciplines, so any pursuit of religion falls under “responsible human independence.”

The 1787 U.S. Constitution lessens the humble-integrity expressed in neither the 1776 Declaration of Independence nor the 4 thousand year old directive in Genesis 1:28, “"Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.” My Genesis-interpretation is: constrain chaos in your life.

I write to learn, so please comment.

https://www.quora.com/Has-America-ever-stood-for-freedom?

Has America ever stood for freedom?

Thank you. Yes, many times, for both political freedom and spiritual privacy. However, we are in Congressional and Supreme Court repression because more fellow-citizens are unwilling to be any of “the good People” (1776) or “We the People of the United States” (1787), or “man and woman” (4 thousand years ago). We can and should accept our role in 2021.

I think what’s repressing America is the hypocrisy the First Congress imposed on the U.S. as “freedom of religion.” The First Amendment’s assertion “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” is unconstitutional, vainly attempts to usurp spiritual authority, and is tyranny over the minds of “ourselves and our Posterity.” We owe nothing to founders, framers, or signers, except to know and not repeat the mistakes they made as we practice the U.S Constitution and improve it toward statutory justice.

The 1776 Declaration’s “the good People” and the 1787 Constitution’s “We the People of the United States” owe it to “ourselves and our Posterity” to restore the 1776 appeal “to the Supreme Judge of the world” to affirm geopolitical intentions and to the “image” that charged man and woman “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:27-28) to affirm human motivation and inspiration.

America, currently under British-American colonial-tyranny has 5 legal era including the future: 1492-1763 colonization by Western Europe---principally Spain, France, Holland, England, and Russia; 1763-1784 Eastern-seaboard colonial rebellion and establishment of 13 free and independent states; 1787-1788 when the U.S. was proffered as a psychologically free global nation; 1789 till 2020 with factional-British-colonial politics restored by 1791 Congress and later codified by the U.S. Supreme Court; and an achievable better future, 2021 unto posterity’s posterity, if at least 2/3 of fellow-citizens treasure their individual preamble-interpretation among their most precious possessions.

A personal interpretation of the preamble’s people’s proposition inspires this citizen to civic, civil, legal, and private independence. The preamble demands personal self-discipline under humble-integrity:  Each fellow-citizen constrains chaos during his or her life. My interpretation this morning is:  Phil Beaver behaves according the 5 U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” establish responsible human independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.” I share seeking improvement.

The U.S. preamble proffers freedom. So far, We the People of the United States have chosen neither freedom nor the responsible human independence charged to man and woman in Genesis 1:28. To “ourselves and our Posterity” our first responsibility for 2021 is to amend the First Amendment so as to promote U.S. humble-integrity rather than religion.

Thank you, Ryan Joesph Smith, for a provocative question.

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Both the 1776 Declaration and the 1787 Constitution call for religious privacy rather than imposition. In 2021, "ourselves and our Posterity" can and should amend the Congressional tyranny in the First Amendment, in order to encourage U.S. humble-integrity rather than promote the babel of international religions.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-can-we-apply-the-beatitudes-in-living-a-moral-life?

How can we apply the beatitudes in living a moral life?

Rather than trying to manage 8 mysteries, I think it is better to accept the earthly charge given in Genesis 1:28 to man and woman in God’s image (v. 27): ““Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.” Meet this demand by developing a life of humble-integrity to physics and its progeny rather than by tolerating infidelity to man and woman or its mysterious image.

Worry not about: whose “is the kingdom of heaven”; who “will be comforted; who “will inherit the land”; who “will be satisfied”; who “will be shown mercy”; who “will see God”; or who “will be called children of God.” Behave to constrain chaos in your person’s life-journey.

By all means, don’t defend St. John’s hate speech attributed to Jesus in John 15:18-23. There’s no civic place for human-hate accusations in the humble-integrity demanded by Genesis 1:28.

As we enter the annual season of goodwill, it seems appropriate to accept Genesis 1:28 as the individual interprets it and behave accordingly. By all means, the time to wait for God to usurp the responsibility that is assigned to man and woman has long since passed.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-definition-of-strict-interpretation?

What is the definition of strict interpretation?

I appreciate the question and can’t stop thinking how much I dislike any form of “originalism” that does not conform to the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. I can’t name a person who shares my concern; however, I feel there are many Americans who’d like to consider an achievable better future after 233 years’ Congressional repression of the preamble.

On September 17, 1787, the signers (missing 16 dissenting framers) completed both the 1776 founders’ intentions to establish humble-integrity by the 13 eastern-seaboard British-American colonies and the 1787 domestic-nation framers’ contentious affirmation of “the good People” in the willing of the 13 free and independent states. The required 9 states ratified and 2 joined before the U.S. began operations on March 4, 1789. Already, the preamble had been compromised by intentions to mimic the English Bill of Rights.

Focusing on your question, Ashwin Krishna. A Google-Chrome search “strict interpretation” uncovers:

1.    “Interpreting a legal provision (usually a constitutional protection) narrowly”; https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/strict_construction . URLs thereafter are about “strict construction.”

2.    Under your exact question, there’s “understanding and explaining the meaning of something based only on what the reader believes the author must have been thinking at the time the text was written”; https://www.translegal.com/dictionary/en/strict-interpretation/noun. Modern beliefs control.

A Bing search uncovers:

3.    Strict interpretation is an equivocal expression, for it means either literal or narrow. When a provision is ambiguous, one of its meaning may be wider than the other, and the strict (i.e., narrow) sense is not necessarily the strict (i.e., literal) sense.” John Salmond, Jurisprudence 171 n. (t) (Glanville L. Williams ed., 10th ed. 1947); What is strict interpretation of statutes? - Ministry Of Legal Updates (lawministry.in). (India)

4.    Strict interpretation means that the sense of the words of the canon and the scope of its application are limited as much as reasonably possible (J. A. Coriden, An Introduction to Canon Law, 202-3)”; What is “Strict Interpretation”? | Welcome to GeocentrismDebunked.org.

5.    Strict vs. Loose Interpretation. Thomas Jefferson believed in a strict construction of the Constitution. He believed people should follow exactly what was stated and allowed in the document. “;Strict vs. Loose Interpretation - HIS2011-Thomas Jefferson (google.com).

We see in the above interpretations British dominance, British-colonial reformation by India, and religious canon, respectively. The USA, also recovering from constitutional British-church-lords-partnership, can learn from India.

My view is that the USA, currently under British-American colonial tyranny is divided into four legal era: 1607-1763 colonization by Western Europe---principally Spain, France, Holland, England, and Russia, 1763-1784 Eastern-seaboard colonial rebellion and establishment of 13 free and independent states (nearly 90% of the land including territories still controlled by other European countries), 1787-1788 when the U.S. was proffered as a psychologically free global nation, and 1789 till now with factional-British-colonial politics restored by Congress and later codified by the U.S. Supreme Court. I work for a fifth era, when at least 2/3 of fellow-citizens consider their individual preamble-interpretation among their most precious possessions---because it inspires them to civic, civil, legal, and private independence. The preamble demands personal self-discipline under humble-integrity:  Each fellow-citizen constrains chaos during his or her life.

Consequently, my view is that strict interpretation follows the U.S. intentions that are proffered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Amendments that 1) occurred after 1787 and 2) do not support the preamble’s person-proposition are unconstitutional. For example, the 1791 First Amendment’s religion clauses, which oppose the preamble’s intentions to prevent civil religion, should and must be reformed so as to encourage individual citizens to develop humble-integrity, a self-interest.

U.S. “precedents” that reach back to English law to negate the proffered U.S. preamble are unconstitutional in the U.S. There is much U.S. reform to accomplish “in order to” encourage responsible human independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.”

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Firming opposition to "originalism," which denies that the preamble's-proffered person-proposition is "to ourselves and our Posterity."

Neither British lords/church nor USA founders, framers, nor signers nor the First Congress prevents humble-integrity by the 2020 "ourselves and our Posterity." We own the HIPEA to develop integrity rather than tolerate infidelity.

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.

Three discoveries, to me, converged this week.

First, a Mesopotamian, 4 thousand year-old idea, expressed in Genesis 1:27-28, especially in “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it,” may be interpreted:  Man and woman are charged to constrain chaos on earth. The rest of the Bible is scattered with scenes of infidelity.

Second, fast forward 1600 years from Genesis, and Homer writes (according to some readers) of human wickedness and consequential misery, born in sex. (In my brush with Homer and other Greek writers, I accepted the impression that the ancient women made sense regardless of male folly.)

Third, J. B. Priestley, in “Literature and Western Man” (1960), reviewed Western literature from Machiavelli (“The Prince,” 1513) to Tom Wolfe (d. 2018). On Page 444, Priestley laments his perception that man is lost, ““[W]e are now piling on to sex the whole gigantic load of our increasing dissatisfaction, our despair, a burden far greater than it can safely take.”

If that’s the way things are, it is regrettable and avoidable in self-interest.

When I fell in love with my wife, my vow of fidelity was for life and extended to any children (3) and beyond. Within our first year of marriage, I realized that I would need to court her for life, because her serene confidence was attractive to men. Moreover, I had to discipline my imagination and frustrations.

Constraining chaos takes awareness and intention, and it is in each person’s self-interest to do the work.

In fact, we can establish a U.S. culture of self-discipline in order to constrain chaos. The proposition was proffered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution that was signed on September 17, 1787. Nothing in the 1787 Constitution lessens the humble-integrity that is expressed in the 1776 Declaration of Independence from England.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Has-your-life-or-thinking-ever-been-radically-changed-from-exposure-to-a-classic-philosopher-Plato-Descartes-Kant-etc?

Fortunately, Staub School, Knoxville Tennessee introduced me to Ralph Waldo Emersion, and “Self-Reliance” stuck with me to this day.

In my mid-forties, I had 8 jobs at my Southern Baptist Church, including Chair of the Family Enrichment Committee. I had also been worshiping with my Catholic family each weekend, never taking communion. In my early fifties, Mom and Dad had died, and I felt released from these great providers’ wishes that I would be saved their divided ways. I was free to pursue my 4 decades trust-in the-ineluctable-truth and to commit-to discovering its precursor, the-objective-truth. It waits for the needed instrument of perception that might reach the-ineluctable-truth.

Then, I read Emerson’s essay from the American underground: “The Divinity School Address,” 1838. I thought, “Aha! One person might agree with me.” Ten years later, I was comfortably non-religious. My appreciation for whatever assigns humankind to lessen chaos on earth is unwavering, and my need to believe more than my commitment to constrain chaos in my life has gone the way of my concern before my ovum was inseminated: non-existent.

My wife’s Louisiana-French Catholic faith her way is precious to me for her. And my faith in the-ineluctable-evidence is precious to me for me. The last time I asked, she said she is glad I did not convert to Christianity. I don’t think I would have discovered myself without her. In other words, what if one of the Protestants I courted had accepted monogamy for life with me in the years before I met my bride?

FB add on: RWE in "Divinity School Address": accept your human being and develop the humble-integrity to perfect your unique person.

https://www.quora.com/Family-is-often-as-the-first-form-of-society-How-does-it-act-as-a-joining-institution-between-individual-society?

Imagine every family is committed to monogamy for life. That is, not only are the spouses committed to each other for life, they are committed to their children and grandchildren for life and impart this attitude within the family by example more than exhortation.

In such a culture, the awareness supporting the spouses is represented by 2 parents each or four total, the 4 grandparents to the children. The heritages supporting each of the four grandparents are each represented by two each great-grandparents to the children, or 8 great-grandparents. Adding the 2 parents and the 4 grandparents, the total ancestors at this point is 14. The progression to the 4th great-grandparents is 30, 62, 126, respectively.

In a geopolitical group, kinship is likely, yet limited, so there are subcultures.

However, humankind is joined by a majority desire for mutual, comprehensive, safety and security so that the individual may pursue the happiness they perceive rather than tolerate a way of living that society would impose on them.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-some-important-universal-laws-that-are-a-must-know-for-growth?

The first is that personal-integrity emerges from the humility to accept “I don’t know,” when that is so. I don’t know any others.

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-morality-virtue-ethics-and-integrity/all_comments/Terry-Vestal? A dialogue started in August, 2020

Vestal, since we last conversed, I discovered two new considerations and am staying with my journey forward.

First, the importance of Genesis 1:27–28, in my view. An ancient Mesopotamian, over 4 thousand years ago, observed that man and woman are constrained to control chaos in their lives (“Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.”) Unfortunately, the thinkers that followed focused on characterizing the source of the demand: “God blessed them.”

Homer’s description of life 1600 years later is not as interesting as the second discovery to me: J.B. Priestley’s 1960 review of literature from Machiavelli to John Stuart Mill and more in the book, “Literature and Western Man,” 1960. Priestley comments, on Page 444, “[W]e are now piling on to sex the whole gigantic load of our increasing dissatisfaction, our despair, a burden far greater than it can safely take.”

At the young age of 26, I recognized that if I did not control my sexual imagination, it would not take long to lose the love of my life. We are now in our 51st year of family-monogamy for life. By that I mean we are faithful to our children as well as each other.

I read the “Odyssey” during college, and turned to the philosophy of science as more interesting. I think I made a good decision.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-do-you-compose-your-own-peace-education-slogan?

Constrain chaos in human connections.

FB add on: Constrain chaos.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-evil-in-the-world?

Humankind is constrained to control chaos on earth. Churches compete for doctrinal-claims to the power from which the human-constraint emerges. Too many people become bemused in the bargain for church-favor, neglecting their human individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their life. I work to change this dilemma by persuading fellow-citizens to practice and encourage humble-integrity to physics and its progeny, keeping spiritual pursuits private.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-so-difficult-for-some-people-to-tell-the-truth?

I think the problem is that “truth” is too inexact.

In its demand to constrain chaos on earth, humankind performs research for ineluctable evidence and discovers the-objective-truth, either positive or negative, according to the research objective. Either way, the research-conclusion is retained, awaiting the invention of new instruments for perception. Thereby, the-objective-truth may be revised so as to approach the-ineluctable-truth.

For example, the sun’ll not come up tomorrow. It will be revealed after its midnight-hiding by the earth’s rotation on its axis.

Lying is another matter altogether. Some people don’t accept that physics and its progeny eventually reveal the-objective-truth. Ineluctably good people never lie, in order to lessen human misery and loss.

For example, I’d say to anyone present, at daybreak, “Look. The earth’s awesome rotation on its axis is un-hiding the sun.” If they ask, “Why awesome?” I answer, “It’s rotation speed is 1100 mph.”

FB add on:  The-objective-truth is easier to tell.

https://www.quora.com/Is-scientific-truth-the-only-truth?

By design, there’s no such thing as “scientific truth.” There’s only the-ineluctable-truth. In its demand to constrain chaos on earth, humankind performs research for ineluctable evidence and discovers the-objective-truth, either positive or negative, according to the research objective. Either way, the research-conclusion is retained, awaiting the invention of new instruments for perception. Thereby, the-objective-truth may be revised so as to approach the-ineluctable-truth.

For example, the path to the conclusion that the earth is not flat was gradual over centuries.

https://www.quora.com/Is-Whistle-blowing-is-ethical-or-unethical-in-interest-group?

It is ethical to report people who take the license to harm others or their property, including intellectual property.

The ineluctably good citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from anyone.

I was in a wonderful “open-minded” discussion group until the leader revealed he is anarchist who carries an AK45. I objected and stopped attending and let members who weren’t present that night know why. I think I showed my intolerance. If I had ever been with the group and they took the license to harm someone or their property for egocentric “liberty,” I would have left the scene and reported them to first responders.

The whistle blowing decision is critical and ought to be made in humble-integrity to self.

 

https://www.quora.com/Do-inalienable-human-rights-even-exist?

Thank you, Mr. Norris for reducing my ignorance.

Merriam-Webster online says “inalienable” means “incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred.” The definition is new to me, as I previously thought the word implied government taking rather than citizen alienating, surrendering, or transferring.

Life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness can each be alienated, and a government could not assure any of them if it reformed so as to want to.

Moreover, the human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to either develop humble-integrity or tolerate infidelity to self. HIPEA cannot be alienated, and government has no power over the individual’s choice. Influence, yes; power, no.

(If you have no objections, I will add your name to my appreciations page. Search “A Civic People”+appreciations, perhaps using Bing, and when you’ve found promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, use the upper left, internal search-bar and “appreciations” to find the page.)

https://www.quora.com/When-one-grows-in-knowledge-and-wisdom-does-his-former-ignorance-and-foolishness-become-visible-to-him?

I cannot speak for knowledge and wisdom.

My ignorance and folly come to me as misery, loss, and commitment not to repeat them and to develop humble-integrity more than personal integrity.

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-such-a-thing-as-influence-without-power-If-so-how-does-it-exist-or-how-does-it-work?

First, we must consider “power.” Imposition of political power is often met with military resistance. On the other hand, open-mindedness to the-ineluctable-truth invites civic influence. For example, even though my image is white-skin, it does me no harm for a fellow-citizen to pursue hope and comfort in red-God. Reading “God is Red,” by Vine Deloria, Jr., on Fred Bear’s suggestion, opened my mind to an ancient faith in physics and its progeny.

I typically converse about real life with strangers, for example, the kind person who was cutting my hair one day. I asked my Super-Cut provider, “Do you know the meaning of African-American Christianity? It does not seem inviting to me, a European-American.”

She responded, “Think of me as an Ethiopian Christian.”

Since then, I discovered (to me) the Ethiopian Tewahedo Bible and without objection expect believers to find hope and comfort in black-God---in their image. I may not study it more for now, and am grateful to be aware.

If the ultimate consequence of God-images is the proposal to enslave white-people, I would fear another dreadful military resistance and recall Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 words, “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”

(I suspect Barack Obama envisions black-governance with consent of the governed. Instead, I expect the U.S. to reform from British-colonial psychology/tradition, at last. The human demand and the 1787 Constitution’s intentions is for U.S. humble-integrity rather than for church-state-partnership.)

https://www.quora.com/What-classic-human-values-have-we-lost-in-today-s-contemporary-world?

We’re missing a majority fellow-citizens who pursue responsible human independence. That is to say, self-reliance in humble-integrity. We need reform from a large faction who erroneously want dependency and consequently will never pursue the happiness they want rather than accept what bureaucrats deliver.

Reform is possible with amendment of the First Amendment to encourage U.S. humble-integrity rather than support international religious institutions. The is would be a return to the U.S. 1787 affirmation of the British-American colonial 1776 “the good People” appeal “to the Supreme Judge of the world” for affirmation of the intentions for independence from England.

The unique U.S. promise to the world is expressed in the 1787 Constitution, especially its preamble’s proposition to “ourselves and our Posterity” and the provision for the entity We the People of the United States to amend the Constitution.

FB add on: Restore the 1787 U.S. Constitution's discipline to humble-integrity in the demand for humankind to constrain chaos on earth.

https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-some-people-who-seem-to-be-morally-upright-have-no-problems-with-those-who-have-no-morals-and-principles-Do-you-buy-the-excuse-that-its-not-their-job-to-judge-their-friends-or-that-the-company-their?

I think an ineluctably good citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person including self. In the presence of potential harm, objection may be sufficient and the potential offender may be innocent. Otherwise, reporting to first responders may be necessary. If attack is imminent, adequate defense is appropriate.

 

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-of-individualism?

Responsible human independence is essential to mutual, comprehensive safety and security. When the group you are with decides to take the license to harm people and their property for egocentric “liberty,” you can object, leave, and report them to first responders.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-protection-of-minority-rights-important?

When the majority, whether singular or collective, agrees that total destruction is the best option, they’ll be glad for the minority that convinces them to refrain.

quora.com/Jennings-and-Welch-wrote-that-a-true-intellectual-is-therefore-always-an-outsider-living-in-self-imposed-exile-and-on-the-margins-of-society-Is-this-a-fair-or-a-rather-an-odd-way-of-describing-an-intellectual?

I don’t agree with Jennings and Welch.

It seems to me intellectuals are mostly entertainers at the leading edge of deep consideration of shared human-issues. For example, 1) conservatism as covert tyranny versus 2) the right to love the one you appreciate. I’m thinking of the 1968 spectacular self-destruction by William F. Buckeley, Jr. when Gore Vidal extracted the threat, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddam face, and you’ll stay plastered.”

The reader ought not take my favor of Gore’s honor to mean same-sex couples ought to parent. I think every viable ovum is due the dignity and equity of conception in heterosexual-family monogamy rather than in either natural or technological gestation. I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth, and opine there ought to be no influence toward the same-sex living choice.

https://www.quora.com/Should-people-be-restricted-by-social-rules-and-ethical-code-Why?

Humankind is charged to constrain chaos in their lives. Thus, the ineluctably good citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from others. And they know better than to assume that good for them is good for others. But it is neither possible nor desirable to question another citizen’s privacy respecting the good. 

Not every fellow-citizen behaves for justice. Some think crime pays. Written rules, ethics, and laws make discovery of intended-injustice possible. Upon crime-discovery, erroneous codes may be revised so as to approach statutory justice.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-being-certain?

Discovering the-ineluctable-truth. For examples, the earth is not flat and the sun will not come up tomorrow.

https://www.quora.com/Is-free-will-a-topic-of-morality-and-ethics-and-less-of-science?

First, science is a method of study that self-constrains to discover the-ineluctable-truth. Often, the study must accept only the-objective-truth until researchers invent the required instruments of perception that may approach the-ineluctable-truth. For example, photos from space confirm that the earth is more like a globe than a dish. The-ineluctable-truth is constrained by the laws of physics and its progeny, and to choose to resist those laws is willful.

Each human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to either develop humble-integrity to the-ineluctable-truth or construct theories to believe in. The choice is willful and available only to the human species.

For example, so-called “social scientists” invent statistical studies that show that Republicans own guns, ignoring two key variables: 1) Individual commitment to hunting for self-development and food and 2) provisions and intentions to the strength to protect family and home. The “scientist” who dedicates self to deceitful statistical studies is willful. Even the label “scientist” is deceiving.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-foreigners-need-to-prove-their-value-in-their-host-society?

A nation neither needs nor wants aliens who intentionally or not would destroy the nation. For this reason, a person cannot simply decide to terminate the citizenship they have: it takes acceptance to change citizenship.

This is why citizens work so hard to prevent entry of illegal aliens. (Beware Joe Biden.)

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-powerful-things-in-our-existence?

Ultimately, it’s physics and its progeny. Within humankind it’s the humble-integrity needed to constrain chaos on earth.

 

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-morality-deteriorating-in-contemporary-society?

We’re at the leading edge of over 4 thousand years’ conflicts and wars over the author of humankind’s charge to independence: in self-interest, control chaos on earth. I’m interpreting Genesis 1:28 according to more than 4 thousand years under conflicting doctrinal Gods, no number in the 10s of thousands. Cultures bemuse themselves from their brief opportunity to establish peace on earth.

https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-slogan-Commitment-to-Excellence-through-Teamwork-anchored-on-integrity-and-Accountability-mean?

If the speaker is not grounding the promise in accountability to physics and its progeny, it’s time for the listener to exercise the responsible human independence to exit and share the experience with fellow-citizens.

The-ineluctable-truth delivers no mercy to erroneous teamwork, solidarity, license-to liberty, and other Alinsky-Marxist organizational (AMO) appeals.

AMO speakers can deceive, only if the listener co-operates.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-human-rights-to-you?

What is human rights to you?

The opportunity to develop humble-integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to your person.

I like my interpretation of a thought from Genesis 1:28. Man and woman, constrain chaos on earth. Unfortunately for humankind, cultures debate where that charge originates. I think it originates from humble-integrity expressed over 4 thousand years ago.

I think the only attainable human right is the opportunity to develop humble-integrity during each, unique person’s life.

Life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness cannot be attained by political power.

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-very-idea-of-a-liberal-order-which-in-the-context-of-international-relations-means-freedom-equality-and-consent-contradictory?

Is the very idea of a “liberal order,” which in the context of international relations, means freedom, equality, and consent, contradictory?

I think so.

Physics and its progeny constrain humankind such that there is only one degree of freedom: freedom-to develop humble-integrity toward the-ineluctable-truth. Every human individual has the power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop either humble-integrity or infidelity-to self. Nations have the same constraint. No nation can license liberty-from physics.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-proper-beliefs-necessary-for-obtaining-and-cultivating-higher-level-truths?

Accept that you are a human being with individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to comprehend physics and its progeny as humankind discovers them and develop humble-integrity during a complete human lifetime.

 

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Who-authored-the-Preamble-to-the-Constitution?

Who authored the Preamble to the Constitution?

My response addresses the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, signed on September 17, 1787 by 39 of 55 framers of the federal republic with both state and national governments held accountable by the willing people. Holding the government accountable is necessary to preserve responsible human independence, which is the natural human way of living.

But not everyone accepts being human. For example, Genesis 1:28 charges man and woman to constrain chaos on earth. Some people vainly try to consign their responsibilities to the author of the command, whatever that entity is.

The preamble that was signed along with the articles was authored beginning September 8 to 11, 1787, by the 5-delegate Committee of Style. See https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/historyculture/the-committee-of-style-and-arrangement.htm. Especially notice the difference between the draft preamble they received and the preamble they authored. The draft merely names the states and presents the Articles. However, the final preamble names “We the People of the United States” and proposes individual self-discipline “to ourselves and our Posterity.”

I think the Committee of Style summarized the entire 4-months’ accomplishments in a 52-word, abstract sentence. Further, the 1787 U.S. Constitution does nothing that lessens the humble international-integrity that the founding fathers expressed in the 1776 Declaration of Independence against England. Therein, “the good People”-representatives appealed “to the Supreme Judge of the world” for their intentions, leaving spiritual authority out of their expectations. In other words, they separated church from state instead of mimicking England’s constitutional church-state-partnership.

Every citizen of the world may interpret the U.S. preamble to guide their civic, civil, legal, and private way of living in responsible pursuit of the happiness they prefer rather than accept the vision someone else has for them. My interpretation today is: Phil Beaver practices the 5 U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” enjoy and encourage responsible human independence “to ourselves and our posterity.”

I write to learn and would appreciate comments.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-absolute-truth-that-no-child-wants-to-hear?

A human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) either to self-discipline or to tolerate infidelity to his or her person. The first choice empowers humble-integrity and the second develops regret.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-better-to-possess-reason-or-wisdom?

Both reason and wisdom pale before humble-integrity. Humble-integrity pursues the-ineluctable-truth.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-measures-would-you-implement-inside-the-classroom-to-promote-peace-and-avoid-conflict?

What measures would you implement inside the classroom to promote peace and avoid conflict?

Using humble-pedagogy or coaching-and-encouraging methods to invite a nest of acceptances. That is to say, the teachers assume the student will perfect their unique future-adult whom neither the teacher nor the student can imagine.

From kindergarten through to grade 12 and beyond, teachers gradually invite the student to accept: 1) being a person rather than an existence; 2) taking charge of about 3 decades acquiring basic comprehension and intention to live a complete human lifetime; 3) discovering that they possess the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either humble-integrity or infidelity to themselves; 4) committing to neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person or institution; and 5) behaving for human-equity under statutory justice.

These principles are expressed in my view of the U.S. preamble’s proposition “to ourselves and our Posterity.” I share my view hoping to learn an improvement. It is:  Phil Beaver practices the 5 U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” enjoy and encourage responsible human independence “to ourselves and our [descendants and legal immigrants].”

A free and independent people have the humble-integrity to appreciate like-minded citizens. America has an achievable better future under the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

FB add on: In K-12 and beyond, coach and encourage responsible human independence to willing youth.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-philosophically-prove-the-harm-principle?

How can you philosophically prove the harm principle?

The harm principle holds that the actions of individuals should only be limited to prevent harm to other individuals.” (Wikipedia) I hold that the “other individuals” includes the self.

Let’s consider two human beings living in the same location. Each accepts that they are a human being and member of the family that begot them. Each is aware that their being represents a unique person with the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their lives and responsibly pursue the happiness each wants more than accept the visions their families have for them. Each accepts the other’s personal integrity, and they converse and discover that each other’s personal vision of happiness is neither objectionable nor desirable to the other. They develop the commitment and trust that both parties will neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person, institution, or natural event, so that their different pursuits of happiness can be perfected in their lifetime.

Philosophically they have each increased personal integrity and begun to develop humble-integrity: Acceptance-of and appreciation-for each other’s goodness, as it is where it is.

https://www.quora.com/Where-do-personal-values-come-from?

Where do personal values come from?

Of course, I only know my opinion and want to learn.

Each human being is unique and possesses the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to either develop humble-integrity or tolerate infidelity. It takes a complete lifetime for a human to perfect their unique person.

With good coaching and encouragement to accept HIPEA and self-discipline to develop integrity, it takes about 3 decades to acquire the comprehension and enthusiasm to live a complete human life. That is, to acquire the basics for living including the norms of civilizations to consider as they go on. People who tolerate infidelity may die young.

During the second and third decade, a person begins to experience and observe human practices and self-disciplines in self-interest. For example, if friends plan to misbehave, they bow out and say why the risk is not interesting.

After about 3 decades’ practice, the person may perceive they are following personal commitment and trust---personal integrity. In another decade or so, they may find some people of like minds and learn different viewpoints that could improve their performance. They adjust their personal integrity without compromising the responsible happiness they are pursuing. They approach humble-integrity within their unique person.

At FB post: Cultures ought to coach their youth to develop personal values.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-absolute-truth-that-no-teacher-wants-to-hear?

What is an absolute truth that no teacher wants to hear?

First, the-ineluctable-truth ignores human constructs (including mine).

Second, people who develop humble-integrity never lie, in order to lessen human misery and loss. Their attitude sustains them when they don’t know: “I don’t know, but we’ll do all we can to constrain chaos” (or equivalent). For example, “I don’t know if that’s a tsunami coming, but let’s responsibly move to the highest ground in these parts.”

These ideas may seem shocking to some people. That is because the diverse cultures inculcate dependency and infidelity rather than responsible human independence. I work to change that within my lifetime. A better future is immediately achievable when citizens collaborate with personal integrity in order to approach humble-integrity; to mutually accommodate the preferred happiness each pursues.

I write to learn and would appreciate comments.

Attached on Facebook: A culture of humble-integrity is possible by example and by sharing the self-interest in the practice.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-people-want-democracy?

Why do so many people want democracy?

You ask a timely question. Democracy as in “self-rule” is chaos, as we observe daily. Even democracy as the “right” to vote for representatives is questionable.

The viable alternative is the rule of statutory justice, with elected representatives held accountable by eligible citizens. By “eligible citizens” I mean fellow-citizens who behave for equity under statutory justice.

People divide over justice. Some want to control and some want to be controlled. The controllers want the rule of law to favor them, and the democrats want a mob to overthrow the controllers. Among the controllers are the criminals who game the rule of law and oppose statutory justice. There are a few people who want humble-integrity, by which statutory justice is developed. A humble-culture has been proffered since 1787 and has never taken hold.

The U.S. citizen may accept a personal interpretation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution for personal guidance toward civic, civil, legal, and private pursuit of the happiness they want rather than the vision a bureaucrat has for them. The preamble has two thoughts: presenting the Constitution, and stating the people’s proposition.

My interpretation today of the proffered, neglected proposition is:  Phil Beaver practices the 5 U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage responsible human independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.”

I feel the above interpretation is in my self-interest and have developed it in discussion with fellow-citizens. I share it to improve my interpretation. What change would improve my interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition?

To FB post: When mired in the chaos called democracy, it is difficult to perceive a way out.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-foreigners-need-to-prove-their-value-in-their-host-society?

Why do foreigners need to 'prove' their value in their host society?

Thank you, Luciano Ramírez Garea.

An ineluctably good citizen behaves for equity under statutory justice. But not all citizens are willing to so behave. An immigrant ought to consider and choose the people’s political proposition, or not join the nation.

But what of a born citizen?

I only understand U.S. citizenship. It needs reform to the above principle:  Only the citizen who chooses the behave according to the U.S. preamble’s people’s proposition ought to receive a license to vote.

Interesting related cites:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/guides/M-618.pdf

https://openborders.info/blog/immigration-and-the-us-constitution/

https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/the-naturalization-interview-and-test/naturalization-oath-of-allegiance-to-the-united-states-of-america

https://www.quora.com/Are-certain-people-more-likely-to-succumb-to-believing-untruths-or-what-some-refer-to-as-B-S-more-than-others-because-of-their-economic-or-political-ideologic-tendencies?

Are certain people more likely to succumb to believing untruths, or what some refer to as B.S., more than others because of their economic or political ideologic tendencies?

Thank you, Barbara Young Capalbo, for an important question.

In the culture I work to encourage, parents coach and encourage their young to accept being a unique human and to develop the humble-integrity by which to discover and perfect their person during a complete human lifetime.

Each human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop humble integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to the-ineluctable-evidence. Some neither discover HIPEA nor refrain from dependency, crime, tyranny, or worse. Some die young.

In the cultures that have evolved, parents do not behold their children as persons of equity, dignity, and potential to manage world affairs the parents cannot imagine, let alone constrain. Having been also subjected to this unfortunate reality, the parents inculcate misunderstood ways of living they thought their parents (that’s four parents per parenting couple) wanted for them. Misunderstandings for the children to apply during the children’s 3rd through 7th decades. One culture tried to change this “political ideological tendency” in families.

The torture can be worse in higher economic classes, and the principal remedy is humble-integrity “to ourselves and our Posterity,” quoting the preamble to the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Since the U.S. culture after 1791 imposed “freedom of religion” rather than encourage integrity, many of us discover humble-integrity from personal misery and loss.

Here’s an example. Accustomed to family living with a craftsman-breadwinner and some acreage for gardening and beef cows, I thought my city-family could mimic that dual-income style by owning rental property and managing it ourselves. We managed well and sought to expand. We ignored warning signs to buy a property on our CPA’s advice. We later learned he hid partnership in the overpriced property. During the 1980s oil slump, big NE money built thousands of apartments in “the sun belt” including our oil-slumped state. People were getting 3-days’ vacation on the Gulf Coast to sign a lease. We could not rent our apartments. A famous, local entrepreneur called and said he’d pay me the mortgage balance for my property. I sold it but kept the mortgage! Ten years later, the FBI interviewed me and others. The “entrepreneur” went to jail. My rental business had bankrupt immediately.

This story is incomplete if I don’t tell you my infidelity. A book I read advised me not to let mortgage payments exceed 17% of rent income. I doubled the percentage because of the oil patch, state capitol, and both LSU and Southern University here. In that fatal purchase, I took the debt ratio to 70%! I had lost humble-integrity to the books I read.

With my family’s income at risk, a crook with a crooked lawyer convinced me to escape my income loss. But I kept the mortgage! That’s what the sales contract read, but I could not accept what I read. How could I be so stupid?

Now, I have a private thought:  Never again will I stand on a chair and put my neck in a noose. I’m glad I have that thought but regret having to learn it.

More importantly, I have a personal interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s people’s proposition. Today, it is:  Phil Beaver practices the 5 U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage responsible human independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.” Notice that the U.S. preamble does not include religion in the 5 disciplines, so any pursuit of religion falls under “responsible human independence.”

The 1787 U.S. Constitution lessens the humble-integrity expressed in neither the 1776 Declaration of Independence nor the 4 thousand year old directive in Genesis 1:28, “"Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.” My Genesis-interpretation is: constrain chaos in your life.

I write to learn, so please comment.

https://www.quora.com/Has-America-ever-stood-for-freedom?

Has America ever stood for freedom?

Thank you. Yes, many times, for both political freedom and spiritual privacy. However, we are in Congressional and Supreme Court repression because more fellow-citizens are unwilling to be any of “the good People” (1776) or “We the People of the United States” (1787), or “man and woman” (4 thousand years ago). We can and should accept our role in 2021.

I think what’s repressing America is the hypocrisy the First Congress imposed on the U.S. as “freedom of religion.” The First Amendment’s assertion “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” is unconstitutional, vainly attempts to usurp spiritual authority, and is tyranny over the minds of “ourselves and our Posterity.” We owe nothing to founders, framers, or signers, except to know and not repeat the mistakes they made as we practice the U.S Constitution and improve it toward statutory justice.

The 1776 Declaration’s “the good People” and the 1787 Constitution’s “We the People of the United States” owe it to “ourselves and our Posterity” to restore the 1776 appeal “to the Supreme Judge of the world” to affirm geopolitical intentions and to the “image” that charged man and woman “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:27-28) to affirm human motivation and inspiration.

America, currently under British-American colonial-tyranny has 5 legal era including the future: 1492-1763 colonization by Western Europe---principally Spain, France, Holland, England, and Russia; 1763-1784 Eastern-seaboard colonial rebellion and establishment of 13 free and independent states; 1787-1788 when the U.S. was proffered as a psychologically free global nation; 1789 till 2020 with factional-British-colonial politics restored by 1791 Congress and later codified by the U.S. Supreme Court; and an achievable better future, 2021 unto posterity’s posterity, if at least 2/3 of fellow-citizens treasure their individual preamble-interpretation among their most precious possessions.

A personal interpretation of the preamble’s people’s proposition inspires this citizen to civic, civil, legal, and private independence. The preamble demands personal self-discipline under humble-integrity:  Each fellow-citizen constrains chaos during his or her life. My interpretation this morning is:  Phil Beaver behaves according the 5 U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” establish responsible human independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.” I share seeking improvement.

The U.S. preamble proffers freedom. So far, We the People of the United States have chosen neither freedom nor the responsible human independence charged to man and woman in Genesis 1:28. To “ourselves and our Posterity” our first responsibility for 2021 is to amend the First Amendment so as to promote U.S. humble-integrity rather than religion.

Thank you, Ryan Joesph Smith, for a provocative question.

Added for Facebook post:

Both the 1776 Declaration and the 1787 Constitution call for religious privacy rather than imposition. In 2021, "ourselves and our Posterity" can and should amend the Congressional tyranny in the First Amendment, in order to encourage U.S. humble-integrity rather than promote the babel of international religions.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-can-we-apply-the-beatitudes-in-living-a-moral-life?

How can we apply the beatitudes in living a moral life?

Rather than trying to manage 8 mysteries, I think it is better to accept the earthly charge given in Genesis 1:28 to man and woman in God’s image (v. 27): ““Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.” Meet this demand by developing a life of humble-integrity to physics and its progeny rather than by tolerating infidelity to man and woman or its mysterious image.

Worry not about: whose “is the kingdom of heaven”; who “will be comforted; who “will inherit the land”; who “will be satisfied”; who “will be shown mercy”; who “will see God”; or who “will be called children of God.” Behave to constrain chaos in your person’s life-journey.

By all means, don’t defend St. John’s hate speech attributed to Jesus in John 15:18-23. There’s no civic place for human-hate accusations in the humble-integrity demanded by Genesis 1:28.

As we enter the annual season of goodwill, it seems appropriate to accept Genesis 1:28 as the individual interprets it and behave accordingly. By all means, the time to wait for God to usurp the responsibility that is assigned to man and woman has long since passed.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-definition-of-strict-interpretation?

What is the definition of strict interpretation?

I appreciate the question and can’t stop thinking how much I dislike any form of “originalism” that does not conform to the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. I can’t name a person who shares my concern; however, I feel there are many Americans who’d like to consider an achievable better future after 233 years’ Congressional repression of the preamble.

On September 17, 1787, the signers (missing 16 dissenting framers) completed both the 1776 founders’ intentions to establish humble-integrity by the 13 eastern-seaboard British-American colonies and the 1787 domestic-nation framers’ contentious affirmation of “the good People” in the willing of the 13 free and independent states. The required 9 states ratified and 2 joined before the U.S. began operations on March 4, 1789. Already, the preamble had been compromised by intentions to mimic the English Bill of Rights.

Focusing on your question, Ashwin Krishna. A Google-Chrome search “strict interpretation” uncovers:

1.    “Interpreting a legal provision (usually a constitutional protection) narrowly”; https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/strict_construction . URLs thereafter are about “strict construction.”

2.    Under your exact question, there’s “understanding and explaining the meaning of something based only on what the reader believes the author must have been thinking at the time the text was written”; https://www.translegal.com/dictionary/en/strict-interpretation/noun. Modern beliefs control.

A Bing search uncovers:

3.    Strict interpretation is an equivocal expression, for it means either literal or narrow. When a provision is ambiguous, one of its meaning may be wider than the other, and the strict (i.e., narrow) sense is not necessarily the strict (i.e., literal) sense.” John Salmond, Jurisprudence 171 n. (t) (Glanville L. Williams ed., 10th ed. 1947); What is strict interpretation of statutes? - Ministry Of Legal Updates (lawministry.in). (India)

4.    Strict interpretation means that the sense of the words of the canon and the scope of its application are limited as much as reasonably possible (J. A. Coriden, An Introduction to Canon Law, 202-3)”; What is “Strict Interpretation”? | Welcome to GeocentrismDebunked.org.

5.    Strict vs. Loose Interpretation. Thomas Jefferson believed in a strict construction of the Constitution. He believed people should follow exactly what was stated and allowed in the document. “;Strict vs. Loose Interpretation - HIS2011-Thomas Jefferson (google.com).

We see in the above interpretations British dominance, British-colonial reformation by India, and religious canon, respectively. The USA, also recovering from constitutional British-church-lords-partnership, can learn from India.

My view is that the USA, currently under British-American colonial tyranny is divided into four legal era: 1607-1763 colonization by Western Europe---principally Spain, France, Holland, England, and Russia, 1763-1784 Eastern-seaboard colonial rebellion and establishment of 13 free and independent states (nearly 90% of the land including territories still controlled by other European countries), 1787-1788 when the U.S. was proffered as a psychologically free global nation, and 1789 till now with factional-British-colonial politics restored by Congress and later codified by the U.S. Supreme Court. I work for a fifth era, when at least 2/3 of fellow-citizens consider their individual preamble-interpretation among their most precious possessions---because it inspires them to civic, civil, legal, and private independence. The preamble demands personal self-discipline under humble-integrity:  Each fellow-citizen constrains chaos during his or her life.

Consequently, my view is that strict interpretation follows the U.S. intentions that are proffered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Amendments that 1) occurred after 1787 and 2) do not support the preamble’s person-proposition are unconstitutional. For example, the 1791 First Amendment’s religion clauses, which oppose the preamble’s intentions to prevent civil religion, should and must be reformed so as to encourage individual citizens to develop humble-integrity, a self-interest.

U.S. “precedents” that reach back to English law to negate the proffered U.S. preamble are unconstitutional in the U.S. There is much U.S. reform to accomplish “in order to” encourage responsible human independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.”

Comment added on Facebook:

Firming opposition to "originalism," which denies that the preamble's-proffered person-proposition is "to ourselves and our Posterity."

Neither British lords/church nor USA founders, framers, nor signers nor the First Congress prevents humble-integrity by the 2020 "ourselves and our Posterity." We own the HIPEA to develop integrity rather than tolerate infidelity.

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.

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