Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.
"Civic"
refers to citizens who collaborate for individual
happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or
society.
Consider writing a personal
paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and
paraphrase it for my 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
Promoting Genesis 1:26-28 for chaos constraint
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our
image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them
rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and
over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the
earth. So God created humankind in his own
image;
in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. God
blessed them: God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and
subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living
creature that crawls on the earth.”
Considering what humankind has discovered since 4 thousand
years ago, the above principles suggest the-God is male and female and charges
humankind to constrain chaos on earth.
We have observed and experienced that male and female not
appreciating each other, communicating, collaborating, and connecting for
safety and security to each other and to their progeny increases chaos. We
observe that civically conflicting and warring over the characterization of
the-God increases chaos unto divergence.
Both the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1787
Constitution propose a nation with humility to both “the Supreme Judge of the
world” and the-God that privately motives the human being to develop
responsible-human-independence rather than to tolerate the liberty another entity
licenses.
The time for We the People of the United States to adopt the
Genesis 1, 1776, and 1787 collective charge to constrain chaos in our lives has
arrived.
Quora
Physics and its progeny such as psychology follow the same
laws and do not respond to reason or human constructs. Human
error can change the course of human events, but the consequences conform to
physics. For example, Abraham Lincoln failed to make it clear that the February
1860 secession from the USA had military disfavor approximating the state
count: 7 CSA to 27 USA.
Albert Einstein’s second greatest blunder was speaking
at “science and religion” conferences in their language. Thereby, he produced
the nonsense “Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind.” My study of his political science
suggest he thinking was: Research without integrity is ruinous; integrity
without research is useless.
The “scientific process” is a research-method, and the
product is the-objective-truth as perceived by extant methods. Researchers
reserve appreciation for future instruments of perception that may modify the-objective-truth,
intending to more closely approach the-ineluctable-truth.
For their reasons, certain agents in the world have attached
the word “science” to statistical studies of subjective reasoning rather than
ineluctable evidence, called the products of subjective-research “science”, and
overlooked Einstein’s emphasis on integrity. The “new sciences” seem like old metaphysics.
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https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-thoughts-about-to-do-good-is-to-be-pure-to-do-evil-is-to-become-impure? by Casper John
It’s
an erroneous church-teaching. Moreover, church itself is a chaos-creator that
needs reform rather than annihilation.
Necessity motivates and inspires the human being to constrain chaos in
their life despite any hopes for their afterdeath. On the other hand, carnal
satisfactions---eating, sleeping, connecting, can motivate infidelity to
self-interest. Only self-discipline has the power to keep the human being on a
path to perfect their unique person.
Church
promotes dependency on a higher power---a doctrinal God or government---to
provide disciplines only the person can provide. Because cultures impose this
concept on their youth, instead of coaching and encouraging them to “Be
fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28, a
4 thousand year-old suggestion), cultures continue to pursue divergent carnal
satisfactions rather than to constrain chaos.
A
person must articulate the choice to be a human being rather than one of the
opposites---animal or plant. The human being must accept their individual
power, their individual energy, and their individual authority (HIPEA). The
human being uses HIPEA to develop humble-integrity in self-interest rather than
tolerate infidelity to self by self. Fellow humans who use HIPEA for crime or
tyranny can reform. I think only persons who choose not to be a human being can
intend evil.
The
moment a person accepts the above principles or better, they may begin the
perfection of their unique person as they are and where they are, chaotic as
the present characterization may be. I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth:
perhaps even developing beasts can reverse their choice not to be human.
These
principles seem unattainable, only because they have never been
articulated and promoted by any culture, at least that I know of.
However,
one such culture has been proposed. With my attitude or better, the 1776 colonial Declaration of Independence
from England and the 1787 U.S. Constitution for domestic order, express a path
to human compliance with Genesis 1’s suggestion to constrain chaos. First, it
expresses separation of church from state. In 1776 “the good People” appeal to
“the Supreme Judge of the world” rather than civically lessen the
American-Protestant Trinity the loyal-colonial British-subjects privately
worshipped. And they relied on France’s military providence when it seemed the
Continental Army would fall to chaos. Second, in 1787, We the People of the
United States appreciated that Posterity would resolve statutory injustices
“ourselves” were powerless to remedy: the Constitution can be amended. Also,
the preamble proposes 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength,
and prosperity, “in order to” promote responsible-human-independence “to
ourselves and our Posterity.” But it offers no discipline standards or
processes, leaving Posterity in freedom-from errors of the past.
Alas,
in 1791, Congress imposed on We the People of the United States “freedom of
religion,” a tyranny ourselves of 2020-21 can reverse in order to restore the
Genesis 1, 1776, and 1787 U.S. humble-integrity needed to constrain chaos in
this country.
FB
add on: With humble-integrity, a human being can
recover from chaos during their life on earth.
https://www.quora.com/Does-the-study-of-epistemology-add-any-practical-benefit-outside-of-intellectual-stimulation? by David Gomez
Mr. Gomez, “epistemology” is controversial. But it’s
essential to humble-integrity.
My first interest in considering your question is
Merriam-Webster online; its definition is: “the study or a theory of the nature
and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity”.
I glanced back at the Google definition: “the theory of knowledge, especially
with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the
investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion”. Hmmm.
It seems “justified belief” is a proprietary phrase, for
example, the author uses it in https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/.
From there, we click on https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justification-public/,
and discover an advocate: John Rawls. His social theory, in my view, is that if
someone is not behaving as a human being, the public is required to provide
care in a veil of ignorance. In other words, it matters not if the person has
elected to be an opposite of human being. There are two phylum of opposites:
animal and plant. For examples, beasts and poisons. Among human beings, dissidents
such as dependents and criminals can reform. I do not support veils of
ignorance.
Rawls’ knowledge-ignorance may extend to a political philosopher
whose primitive idea was expressed perhaps 4 thousand years ago and reported in
Genesis 1:26-28. “Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, in the
likeness of ourselves . . . male and female he created them . . . God said to them, “Be
fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the
sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that crawls on the earth.”
Today,
December 19, 2020, the Genesis message can be viewed as the observation that
male and female must constrain chaos in life. In 2020-21, we observe that male
and female, or humankind in the-God-likeness, are grouped by Genesis appreciation
as follows: the ignorant, the willful, and the compliant. My demography speculation
is 23:69:8.
The
compliant female knows she may generate perhaps 400 viable ova during her
fertile years and will protect each one from chaos. The compliant male knows
every woman has the potential to originate 400 human beings, and he would not
threaten her or hers with chaos. Spouses know it takes a quarter-century for a
human being to acquire the comprehension and intention to live a complete human
life; by “complete” I mean develop psychological maturity rather than invite
chaos and young-death.
In
general, Genesis-compliant human beings constrain chaos in their lives, and thereby
aid a culture that develops humble-integrity rather than tolerates infidelity
to self.
To
demand interpretation of the above principles as dictate from the-God is arbitrary---religious.
It seems more likely that constraining chaos in life is essential to survival.
To label necessity as “justified belief”
or higher opinion is an attempt to accept either ignorance or willfulness,
neither of which is acceptable to human beings. And I doubt the-God,
whatever-it-is, appreciates personal Gods.
I
do not know the-ineluctable-truth. Therefore, I work to know previous thoughts
that could benefit my life. When I discover a thought which deserves humble
consideration, I ponder it with attention to recent discoveries, in order to
gain comprehension and intention to either use it or not. Pondering Genesis 1, and
admitting considerable losses and pain prior to 2020, I am convinced that
everything I can do to constrain chaos in life is good.
Just now, I
need to improve patience.
FB add on: To base knowledge and justice on “a veil of
ignorance” lessens responsible-human-independence and promotes not being human.
https://www.quora.com/Does-anybody-actually-deserve-to-have-any-inalienable-rights-Why-or-why-not? by Mike Norris
Mr.Norris, I think so. And I think your question is profound.
Deserve, inalienable, and rights are in question. I want to
revise “rights” to “independence” to support my response, in order to
appreciate obligation more than privilege. Forget “rights”, which no entity on
earth can warrant: right to life? In the 2020 U.S., BLM can deny life in the
dark of night with support of a Democrat mayor.
Merriam-Webster online (MW) says “inalienable” means “incapable
of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred”. “Alienate” means “to cause to
be withdrawn or diverted”. The shock here, is that according to MW,
“inalienable” can imply that a human being cannot withdraw, divert, surrender,
or transfer their independence!
Humankind has evolved for some 3 million years, language
perhaps 0.15 million years, spirituality perhaps 0.04 million years, and
monotheism perhaps 0.004 million years. About 4 thousand years ago, a political
philosopher expressed, adding human observations since then, that the-God
assigned to male and female the obligation to constrain chaos on earth, the-God
being whatever empowers male and female to develop humble-integrity in
self-interest rather than tolerate infidelity. See Genesis 1:27-28 for the
primitive expression of responsible-human-independence.
The political philosopher’s expression suggests that male
and female should appreciate each other, collaborate, and connect so as to
coach and encourage their young to prepare for a future the spouses cannot
imagine. The people who accept the obligation need not contest the source of
the responsibility, since it is evident from necessity, often essential to
survival. Political philosophers today benefit from exponentially more
experience and observations. For example, Albert Einstein said, that good
people don’t lie so as to lessen human misery and loss to illustrate that the
laws of physics and of integrity come from the same source.
There remains the question “does anybody deserve . . .”? I
think the person who accepts that they are a human being rather than one of the
opposites—animal or plant; commits to monogamy for life with family; and
accepts individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA)
to develop humble-integrity, in order to practice
responsible-human-independence is deserving.
Also, I think people who use HIPEA to develop dependency,
deceit, crime, tyranny, evil, war, and such invite woe, and woe has a way of
finding them.
FB add on: By
choosing to be a human being and developing the attendant power, energy, and
authority, a person may either develop humble-integrity or tolerate infidelity
to self, and thereby either pursue responsible-human-independence or invite
woe.
https://www.quora.com/Within-the-political-domain-how-do-freedom-and-liberty-differ? by Robert Akridge
Mr. Akridge, you pose a profound question.
In the past, I expressed the proffered U.S. political
proposition as freedom-from oppression so that the individual has the liberty-to
develop humble-integrity. Some scholars suggest that freedom is innate to
humankind and tyranny (typically expansive government) grants liberty; see https://www.docsoffreedom.
org/student/readings/equal-and-inalienable-rights. Quoting, “[England]
approached the task of guaranteeing liberty by limiting government.” They did
so in arrogance toward necessity. Humankind cannot limit it’s own opportunity
to develop responsible-human-independence (RHI, the only acronym I’ll use).
Recently, I discovered a political philosopher’s suggestion
at least 4 thousand years old. As of December 2020, humankind discovered exponentially
more, especially evolution, and might comprehend the ancient idea: whatever
motivates the human being to pursue RHI does not usurp the responsibility to
constrain chaos on earth. Necessity requires the prudent individual to
constrain chaos in their lives. Plato’s Socrates might suggest human beings
pursue the good without trying to bargain with the-God.
The ancient philosopher’s reported message is: “So God
created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male
and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue
it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Genesis 1:27-28, CJB,
emphasis mine. Show me the scholarship that explains the observable
contradictions yet valuable advice in those verses.
After between 6 and perhaps 36 millennia of mystery as to
what controls the unfolding of human development, monotheism had emerged. During
the recent 4 millennia, theistic nations did not ponder their national Gods as
evidence of the-God, shared by humankind as the motive to be good. Nor did male&female
imagine they could appreciate their complimentary-human-powers and
their progeny and therefore constrain chaos. Accepting neither necessity nor
mutual appreciation, humankind divided on schemes to develop both the most
powerful national God and well-ordered tyranny to reign supreme on earth. In
other words, to construct a chosen nation. The chosen nation had the strongest
military power. I know of no nation founded on the principle that
fellow-citizens are to individually constrain chaos in humble-integrity to
the-God, as suggested n Genesis 1. Consequently, military power, intended to
protect fellow-citizens from aggressive nations, constitutes the power to
license liberty, in other words, constrain freedom. Fellow citizens need not
maintain this domestic tyranny.
If a nation embarked on the quest for RHI, they would accept
that not every nation will co-operate; some will insist on supremacy. Other
nations might view a culture that seeks peace on earth as vulnerable.
Therefore, the RHI-nation would maintain superior economic and military power
so as to discourage foreign aggression; in other words, to prevent the practice
of defense, with the attendant loss of RHI-youth. Further, not every citizen
would choose RHI, so the RHI-nation would develop statutory justice to
constrain domestic aggression. Having experienced psychological,
cultural, and technological evolutions neither their grandparents nor their
parents expected, adults would not try to constrain their children and
grandchildren from preparing for the unimaginable future they face. They would
encourage and coach their youth to accept the powers and responsibilities of
being a human being rather than one of the opposites: animal or plant.
Conservatism would reform from preservation of discovered tyranny to
posterity’s opportunity to constrain chaos during their psychological maturity.
Whether from the-God or from necessity, the human being has
the freedom to develop RHI and use it to constrain chaos in their lives.
Success requires discipline in self-interest. So far, no nation has developed
these principles, although one was proposed, I think intentionally. However,
when the proposal was proffered, free U.S. inhabitants were too dependent upon
a church-state partnership to accept RHI. U.S. tyranny-toleration persists today.
Another nation, Israel, seems to accept the necessity of
military power in order to protect fellow-citizens’ opportunity to pursue
the-God each one privately desires. Thus, while an individual citizen of Israel
may seem spiritually erroneous to the majority, there is no institutional
tyranny against them and the military protects them from foreign aggression and
threat. I don’t know enough to expand on this indication.
Together, the United States 1776
Declaration of Independence from England and the 1787 Constitution for domestic
order propose RHI to the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity”. The
Declaration represents “the good People” and appeals to “the Supreme Judge of
the world” without questioning England’s Trinity. In both 1776 and 1787, their
Trinity was Protestant (1689), after Lords, Bishops, and King John had
partnered with Roman Catholicism (1215)---either way, at the unending expense
of commoners.
The U.S. Declaration expresses
humble-integrity to civic state (the march to chaos-constraint) as well as
private religion, consistent with Genesis 1. The Constitution provides for
amendment by Posterity (to constrain chaos) and does not lessen the humble
integrity expressed by the Declaration. Its preamble offers 5 public
disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in
order to” encourage RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”. It specifies neither
process nor standards by which Posterity will develop statutory justice,
recognizing that “ourselves” do not know the future. I perceive a culture of
freedom, provide the entity We the People of the United States will accept
responsible-human-independence as primitively suggested in Genesis 1.
I plan to post reference to your
question, Mr. Aldrich, and this response at the Quora Space “Preamblers”.
Readers, please contribute to the discussion there, too.
FB add on: Military power, intended to protect fellow-citizens from
aggressive nations, constitutes the power to license liberty; in other words,
constrain freedom. U.S. fellow-citizens, "ourselves and our
Posterity" of 2020-21 can accept responsible-human-independence and end
Congress’s domestic tyranny by amending the First Amendment in order to promote
humble-integrity.
To Gary Smith:
Mr. Smith, I appreciate your emphasis on an oppressive hope.
Government tyranny, no matter how limited, cannot provide freedom from want and
care.
The four tyrannies came from F.D. Roosevelt’s 1941 book,
Four Freedoms. They were: freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from
fear. No entity on earth can provide these freedoms. However, each human being
has the opportunity to constrain both civic and private chaos in their life.
For example, each citizen can coach and encourage their
children to accept being a human being rather than tolerating one of the two
opposites: 1) animal of one type or another or 2) plant. Considering this
choice is a matter of personal necessity, not someone else’s
political/religious ambition.
https://www.quora.com/G-K-Chesterton-said-Fallacies-do-not-cease-to-be-fallacies-because-they-become-fashions-Which-fallacy-do-you-think-has-become-popular? by Graham C Lindsay
The
fallacy: U.S. Congress was correct to impose “freedom of religion”—on the
continuum, “ourselves and our Posterity”, still tolerating the tyranny in 2020.
The
humble-integrity (regarding human responsibility assigned
by the-God in Genesis 1:27-28) that is expressed by “the founding fathers” in
the 1776 colonies’ Declaration of Independence from England was upheld by the framers of the 1787 Constitution
for U.S. domestic order. That 1776 and 1787 don’t agree is a fallacy: Both
documents are humble toward the civil “Supreme Judge of the world”, and neither
rebukes privacy regarding the English Trinity---Catholic in 1215 then
Protestant in 1689.
As
a consequence of fallacy, some framers rejected the 1787 Constitution; only 39
of 55 became signers. At least 2 of the 9 states required to ratify the
Constitution did so only on the promise that the First Congress would amend the
draft, especially to mimic the 1689 English Bill of Rights. It requires a
Protestant monarchy. The U.S. began operations with only 11 states.
Having
won physical
independence from England, the
First Congress created a Protestant-Congress-partnership tradition to compete
with the constitutional Protestant-Parliament-partnership, re-establishing psychological dependence on England. Defying the-God of Genesis
1:27-28; 1776s “the good People” and “the Supreme Judge of the world”; France’s
military providence in 1781; and 1787s “We the People of the United States” and
“ourselves and our Posterity”, Congress imposed an unconstitutional church
alliance that has delivered the civil chaos now being imposed by the Democrat
Party. The Republican Party had its chances to separate church and state and
could yet reform.
We
the People of the United States look to their God for relief, but in Genesis
1:27-28, they are informed that man&woman have
responsible-human-independence to constrain chaos in their lives, regardless of
hopes for their afterdeaths.
If
America is lost to socialism, then communism, after these 229 years under
“freedom of religion,” perhaps the lesson will inspire global reform to develop
humble-integrity, at last.
On
the other hand, it seems time for 2020s “ourselves and our Posterity” to defend
the world’s last hope for responsible-human-independence: the U.S.
humble-integrity, articulated.
By
the way, it’s possible that Chesterton (d. 1936, UK) read Thomas Paine’s
“Common Sense” and recalled, “. . . a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG,
gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT.” I prefer Paine.
Thank you, Mr. Lindsay, for the question.
I
write to encourage and learn and hope someone comments.
FB
add on: It seems time for 2020s “ourselves and our
Posterity” to defend the world’s last hope for responsible-human-independence:
the U.S. humble-integrity, articulated in 1776 and 1787.
https://www.quora.com/What-barriers-are-there-to-making-ethical-decisions? by Ammiel Jordan
Four thousand years ago, a political
philosopher suggested, in Genesis 1:27-28, that the-God assigned to
man&woman the responsible-human-integrity to constrain chaos on earth.
Primitive minds already had the habit of arguing and warring over who is the-God’s
people. Churches and governments partner to bemuse people from the discipline
to constrain chaos in their lives regardless of hopes for their deaths.
I know of only one proffered government that
proposes public discipline in order to develop responsible-human-integrity. The
1787 U.S. Constitution proposes humble-integrity, in civics “to the Supreme
Judge of the world” and to spirituality, whatever the fellow-citizen nurtures
for private hope and comfort in the face of human death.
The First U.S. Congress, during 1789-1791
usurped the-god, the Supreme Judge of the world, 1776s “the good People”, and
1787s We the People of the United States, especially in the First Amendment’s
religion clauses. No entity gave Congress authority to impose “freedom of
religion” rather than encourage the 1776 and 1787 U.S. humble-integrity.
“Ourselves and our Posterity” of 2020 have
the privilege of holding Congress accountable to so amend the First Amendment.
Church, a private, often international-alien association, has no place in U.S.
civic, civil, legal, and public security and constraint of chaos during life.
FB add on: For humankind, ethics is the journal of
discovered humble-integrity. The most egregious impediment I know of is
religion, a private pursuit that unjustly causes civic chaos.
https://www.quora.com/Are-human-beings-at-their-best-givers-of-gifts? by Michael Maher
I don’t think so.
At their best, human beings constrain chaos,
both personally and civically (not civilly---that job’s for the 1776
Declaration’s “Supreme Judge of the world”).
I perceive two potential problems. First,
the giver thinks they have a gift. Second, when they approach the potential
receiver, they assert that the other needs the gift. The consequence is 2
avenues for creating chaos. Chaos has a way of escalating.
When someone proposes to “save my soul” I
sometimes withhold the question “What gives you the authority to assert it is
lost?” Same with telling me I’m going to Hell or equal.
I write to learn, so please comment.
https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-to-treat-everyone-equally? By Ashwin Krishna
Neither initiate harm to or from any person
or association, including your person.
https://www.quora.com/Can-the-acceptance-of-lifes-unfairness-set-you-free? by Vincent Pisano
I don’t think so.
For 4 thousand years now, humankind has had
the suggestion that the-God, whatever-it-is, assigns to the human being the
responsibility to constrain chaos in life, regardless of hopes for afterdeath,
that vast time after body, mind, and person no longer has the chance to develop
humble-integrity.
Both churches and governments and their
partnerships influence people to tolerate dependency rather than develop the
responsible-human-independence required to constrain chaos in their lives.
The proffered U.S. proposed the people to
separate church from state. However, the First Congress repressed the 1776
Declaration of Independence and the 1787 U.S. Constitution, labeling its
preamble “secular” and in 1789-91 re-establishing the traditional
colonial-American-Protestant-Congress partnership to compete with the
constitutional Church-of-England-Parliament partnership, usurping the-God, the
Supreme Judge of the world, and “ourselves and our Posterity”. The
Congressional tyranny has gone un-assailed ever since.
We the People of the United States of 2020
have the privilege of holding Congress responsible to amend the First Amendment
so as to promote U.S. humble-integrity rather than support the chaos of
international religious institutions. The 2020 “ourselves and our Posterity”
can no longer brook the divergent chaos we experience from Congress and the US
Supreme Court.
FB add on: Time to end 229 years of Congressional tyranny nourished by
the U.S. Supreme Court; "ourselves and our Posterity" could, should,
can, re-establish U.S. humble-integrity and end the divergent chaos.
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-necessary-to-transform-personal-vision-into-shared-vision-Why-and-why-not-Justify-your-answer-with-logical-arguments? by Syed Waqas Raza
Accepting responsible-human-independence should be promoted.
It is necessary to encourage every human being to constrain chaos during
their lifetime.
Sharing the chaos-constraint-vision is necessary, in order to encourage
fellow-citizens to 1) accept the responsibility to develop their unique
psychological maturity, unknown as it may be, until death, and 2) to support
the statutory justice that may constrain those individuals who choose to
nurture/tolerate an opposite of human being.
Human beings cannot limit the opposites a person may nurture, but opposites
I found online include: animal, beast, beastie,
brute, critter,
immortal, devil, evil, robot, zompire, mortal soul, inanimate, immortal soul,
idea, god, dracula, concept, chamber, cat, apparition, abstract, zed, woman,
thunder god, team, group, community, person, civilian, dog, and adjectives apelike,
anthropoid,
nonhuman,
bloodless,
anthropoidal,
inhuman,
dehumanised,
dehumanized,
unhuman.
Relative to the society of human beings, I would add traitor, tyrant and
synonyms of both. On the other hand, people who think erroneously, like, crime
pays, may reform.
I write to learn and would appreciate comments.
FB add on: A person’s first step toward constraining
chaos during life may be to choose to develop a human being rather than
nurture/tolerate an opposite.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Which-is-more-important-reliability-or-validity-1? By Catherine Doucer
It depends upon whether the speaker has
chosen to be a human being or one of its opposites. A person who so chose is
both validly and reliably a beast. A traitor is validly and reliably a traitor.
A communist is validly and reliably a communist.
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-truly-a-common-ground-that-everyone-everywhere-could-be-harmonious-in?
by Melonie Tuttle
I think so.
Each person can decide to constrain chaos in their lives.
The consequence would be humble-integrity to self. Human connections would
benefit from fidelity instead of infidelity. Consistent choices to exclude
infidelity would accumulate to a perfect, unique lifetime for each person who
accepts the self-interest.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-your-top-5-classic-works-of-philosophy?
By Niklas Anzinger
Thinking first of how much time/effort I spent on a
literature, there’s The Bible (KJV, NIV, then CJB); Emerson; Faulkner;
Einstein; and Plato.
Respecting discovery of the person, Phil Beaver: Machiavelli
in irony; Overstreet’s mature mind; Chekhov on appreciating spouse; Gibran on
children; and Cecil J. Scnheer on philosophy.
Respecting citizenship: the key documents from 1774 through
1791; Paine; Twain; O’Connor; J.B. Preistley; Polanyi’s personal knowledge.
Some key humilities acquired from each author, respectively:
Don’t expect church or state to usurp individual,
responsible-human-independence, in order to constrain chaos in life. (Bible)
Your self-reliant human being can perfect your unique
person. (Emerson)
Justice is thicker than blood. (Faulkner)
Physics and integrity conform to the same laws. (Einstein)
“Good” is adequate and needs no substitute, such as “God” or
“virtue”. (Plato)
The clergy-politician-partnership picks the people’s pockets
with antinomianism and only a dreamer would suggest reform. (Machiavelli)
It takes a complete human lifetime to develop psychological
maturity. (Overstreet)
A wounded spouse can destroy the faithful, innocent other.
(Chekov)
Try to be like your children’s future adults rather than
constrain them to your vision. (Gibran)
Reason cannot defeat research on the-ineluctable-evidence.
(Schneer)
The U.S. developed and expressed humble-integrity toward
both church and Congress, then fatally partnered them, and must reform.
A fellow-citizen can redress a neighbor for folly without
being offensive. (Paine)
Fellow-citizens have the empathy required to sacrifice
religion for the other’s life. (Twain)
Worthy writing violently pursues the-ineluctable-truth.
(O’Connor)
The 4,000 year old suggestion that man&woman must
appreciate each other was abused by both Homer and 500 years of Western
thought. (Priestley)
An individual’s God can bemuse them from humility. (Polyani)
Thank you, Mr. Anzinger, for the incentive to review. I am
shocked with how many writers I passed over, now realizing they were bemused by
their opinion about ancient thought. For example, Albert Einstein is not
considered a political philosopher, but he was among the ancients in quality.
Of course, I do not know the-objective-truth.
I don’t think so---beyond the widespread neglect of
articulating the choice to be a human being rather than one of
the antonyms, like beast or critter; in my opinion, priest or minister is as
antonymous to “human being” as Mormon saint.
Over 4
thousand years ago, someone suggested that man&woman are charged to
constrain chaos on earth. People then struggled for carnal needs---eating,
resting, warmth, and banal satisfaction more than psychological needs. Men did
not take heed to appreciate women.
And the
equally-primitive scribe reported the earth-management message as a mystery from his God. Most people since
then have conflicted and warred over the God, intentionally or not, neglecting
fidelity to responsible
human independence for
survival of the human race.
The
infidelity to self-interest was acute when Israel demanded kings, and thereby
disbursed their race of people. It became worse when England’s constitutional
church-state-partnership accepted Catholicism in 1215s Magna Carta then, after
Martin Luther, “reformed” to English-Protestantism in 1689s Bill of Rights.
America, relieved of English disputes, under religious “e pluribus unum”,
shockingly re-establish colonial-English-American tradition with a
Protestant-Congress partnership, in 1791s Bill of Rights. In 2020, it seems
there are as many Christianity-s as there are believers—-religious chaos. It
seems self-evident that not just Christianity, but religion itself increases
chaos on earth. It also seems self-evident that neither the God nor a
government will usurp the human being’s responsibility to constrain chaos in
his or her life.
This is
2020, and 1776s “the good People” as well as 1787s “We the People of the United
States” have posterity who can choose to accept, at last, responsibility for
peace on earth, leaving anyone’s concerns about afterdeath to their mysterious
hopes and comforts—-whether religion is involved or not.
The
individual who would accuse me of being brutish is taking offense at my
appreciation of fellow-persons with objection to religion’s role in creating
chaos; religion could serve believers’ mysteries and still support peace on
earth. The human carnage caused by religion is staggering and exponentially
increasing!
It brings me
warmth to express this appeal to human beings who are also religious believers
to take advantage of this season of good will to start a much needed reform.
The 2020 “ourselves and our Posterity” can take the decision, at last, to
establish psychological independence from England by requiring Congress to undo
its 1791-2020 chaos: amending the First Amendment so as to promote U.S. humble-integrity---rather
than continue to support the international chaos that religion imposes on the
earth in defiance of whatever entity suggested Genesis 1:27-28.
FB add on:
In this 2020 season of goodwill, we human beings can bring peace
on earth by heeding the charge expressed in Genesis 1:27-28 rather than
tolerating brutes and tyrants who speculate and war over the entity that may
have inspired the 4-thousand year-old suggestion. It is in our self-interest to
stop expecing the God or government to usurp responsible human independence.
We can express humble-integrity and appreciation to the
msyterious God by controlling chaos both in our individual lives and our human
connections.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-there-any-hope-for-lessening-the-amount-of-moralization-in-society? by Rahul Kushwaha
I think so. In 2 steps, Merriam-Webster online tells the
meaning: “to explain or interpret principles of right and wrong in behavior.”
We can view what the ancients discovered, adding the experiences and
observations humankind has accumulated lately, then act in our own self-interest
to separate church from state.
More than 40 hundred years ago (HYA), a philosopher
suggested, in 2021 awareness, that necessity requires man& woman (the
androgynous pair) to constrain chaos on earth. That is,
appreciate each other and mutually develop responsible human independence. However,
their awareness, comprehension, and grammar was so primitive they could not
discern self-interest from carnal appetite. Often, it was
merely the appetite to survive, provided death was not preferred.
About 24 HYA, Greek philosophers, commenting on prior
opinion, rendered suggestions for lessening chaos. For example, is “the God” a
sufficient substitute for “the good”? Ineluctably good citizens (IGC) neither
initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person or association; in other
words, peace is a human responsibility. IGC behave for human-equity under
statutory justice. Meanwhile, written law must be honored, even if unjustly
enforced.
About 20 HYA, scribes suggested, again in 2021 awareness,
that human beings can perfect their unique person. Other
scribes suggested that only the elect were eligible and that the un-elect hate
both the elect and the electors. Introduction of hate between fellow-citizens creates
rather than constrains chaos. Therefore, the book that contains those
suggestions, no matter who authored it, is suspect.
In 1215, a developing military power, England, under King
John 1, partnered with the Catholic Church under the Bishops at Canterbury, in
the Magna Carta. Martin Luther protested in 1517, and England’s 1689 Bill of
Rights requires a Protestant monarchy.
In 1763, the constitutional Parliament-church-partnership
began taxing loyal American subjects to benefit their fellow subjects and
families on the island, Great Britain. The colonists had been complaining about
both Catholic encroachment from Nova Scotia and England’s African-slave trade
imposing slave-management responsibility on the colonies. Taxation tipped the
human-responsibility from dependency to independence. In
1774, the colonists stated their complaints. In 1776, in humble-integrity, representatives,
dubbed “the founding fathers,” declared independence, appealing “to
the Supreme Judge of the world,” the earth’s war power. With military providence
from France, the French and the colonists accepted Cornwallis’s surrender
in 1781. In 1784, 13 former British-colonies ratified their global status as free
and independent states. The human being needs freedom and
independence to develop humble-integrity.
In 1787, delegates from 12 willing states in Philadelphia created
domestic order with a union of states under 3 branches rather than with the
confederation under Congress. The republic would be held accountable
by willing citizens called “We the People of the United States”. Ratification
by 9 states would create the USA, leaving dissident states still free and
independent. Nothing in the framers’ 1787 document lessens the
humble-integrity the founders expressed in the 1776 Declaration. Among some
framers’ dissatisfactions was that the 1787 Constitution broke the
tradition of Congress-Protestant-partnership. Only 39 of 55 framers signed the
document. Some states required commitment to amend the 1787 Constitution with an
English-like Bill of Rights in order to ratify. With that provision, the USA
began operations in 1789 under eleven states, and in 1791, with 14 states, Congress,
with the U.S. Bill of Rights, re-established some British-traditions, including
Congress-Protestant-partnership. Neither the necessity to constrain chaos, the
1776 founders, the 1787 signers, nor We the People of the United States authorize
Congress to usurp the human being’s freedom and independence from
religion.
In 1860, the Confederate States of America (CSA), believed
Bible interpretation that African-slavery was God’s punishment for black-heritage
of sin. Rather than abolitionists, only God could decide the duration of black-punishment.
The CSA resumed aggression (Bleeding Kansas, 1854) holding abolitionists evil
Bible-interpreters, declared secession from the USA, and opened-fire at Fort
Sumter. CSA had a 7 states: 27 states military disadvantage. Only religious
zeal can motivate such folly! The consequence, in proportion to the 2020
population is 8 million Americans killed in a white-Christian war against
white-Christians.
Many scholars write about the U.S. development of civic
humble-integrity as freedom and liberty, interchangeably, often in the same essay.
In doing so, they overlook that the U.S., in the 1787 Constitution, codified
its separation from England in psychology as a progeny of physics.
The 80% of inhabitants who were free to develop civic humble-integrity were too
dependent on church to take responsibility to constrain chaos in the United
States. The 12 generations of “ourselves and our Posterity” since then have
left to us, “to ourselves and our Posterity”, the privilege of separating
state from church, at last.
Neither the God nor a government will usurp our opportunity
to amend the First Amendment so as to encourage responsible human independence
rather than dependency on religious liberty or freedom of religion.
Fellow-citizens who know this is correct yet hesitate have
lost the opportunity, and someone else intends to destroy the entity We the
People of the United States altogether.
I hope most of us will act to restore ’76 and ‘87 U.S. humble-integrity
in 2020 and get it done in 2021.
FB add on: Hope
lies in separation of church and state so that the human being can focus on
constraining chaos in life rather than depending on the mysterious afterdeath. The 1776 and 1787 U.S. proposition
is responsible human independence rather than freedom (a human trait) and
liberty (licensed by the victor in war). We are the 12th of the latest
generations to receive the privilege of establishing psychological independence
from England's constitutional church-state-partnership. Our chance is
disappearing as I write.
Appreciators, Quora Space
12/13/2020.
To people who recently joined this discussion space, thank
you. Please invite people you perceive would like to join.
Today, I realized I should clarify my intentions for this
space. It is for people to freely develop human appreciation, as they see it,
rather than tolerate infidelity to self/humankind. That is to say, it is not
intended for me. Presently, I am the only administrator, and I hope there will
be others. I hope each Appreciators-member will treat the space
as theirs, to communicate and connect for responsible human independence
as they perceive it.
I discovered that I learn by listening.
I chose Quora Space, because I have acquired tentative trust
that its management intends to create human dialogue for a better future. I did
so after a 2 decades, withdrawn for 3 years now, participation in “letters to
the editor” then online comments for my local newspaper. At last, I accepted
that it’s freedom of the press, not the letter writer. Therefore, I created
blogs, so that I could express myself without restriction beyond sincerity and
decency.
I chose not to generate revenue, because of the importance
of my 2 concerns: what it means to be a human being and what it means to be a
US citizen. My opinions in response to my own 2 questions are no longer first
priority to me, because I discovered immense creativity in the questions I face
on http://quora.com
(and less frequently on other venues). People who are interested can sample my
weekly responses at Voluntary
Civic People of Baton Rouge.
In summary, I hope Appreciators will experience the joy of
immediately ignoring questions/concerns that do not attract their interest, in
order to clearly, attractively, and sincerely respond to every questioner whose
concern seems worthy. I have been doing this in open forums for the recent 7 of
the 20 years until I stopped press-participation. I cannot imagine what will
happen among Appreciators-members (and the companion group, Preamblers). Both
spaces are for the volunteers who join, and it is my intention for the space to
serve “ourselves and our Posterity”.
Appreciators, Preamblers Quora Spaces
Interest seems low for now.
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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