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
Will Mike Pence choose to lead U.S. reform to
humble-integrity?
I think the world counts on the U.S. to eventually fulfill
its 1787 intentions: responsible-human-independence; that is, the
humble-integrity to constrain both external and internal infidelities to self.
Responsible-human-independence is my interpretation of the
demand in Genesis 1:27-28: female&male human-beings are charged to constrain
chaos on earth, independently of the-God.
A human can intend to constrain chaos only while alive. An
act in hope to benefit individual afterdeath, that vast time after body, mind,
and person have stopped functioning is private, not civil. Acting on private
belief causes chaos on earth. Causing chaos does not conform to the demand in
Genesis 1.
Mike Pence proudly witnessed for Jesus Christ on January 4,
then on January 6, 2021, betrayed the entities represented by the
Commander-in-Chief for the United States including Genesis 1. Pence was
egocentric: For all we know, the-God who
authored the political philosophy in Genesis 1 is the Jesus of “before Abraham
I AM”. Regardless, by alienating responsible-human-independence, Pence rebuked
both church and state. He tolerated both private and civic infidelity. He is
not alone.
The infernal, bemused church-state-partnership is not the
1787 U.S. intention. Congress imposed a religion-Congress-partnership in the
1791 Bill of Rights. Genesis 1, the 1776 Declaration, and the 1787 Constitution
disapprove the First Amendment claim “Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof”. Furthermore, the U.S. Supreme Court is defiant against
the-God of Genesis 1 to claim the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” is
“niggling” to express opposition to legislative prayer. Fellow-citizens are
charged to constrain chaos.
Essays this week explore these
principles and suggest We the People of the United States of 2021 revise the
First Amendment so as to promote humble-integrity rather than religion. Mike
Pence could lead the movement.
Quora
https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-right-to-life-mean-to-you?
By Lydia Mimiaga
It’s
an ineffectual political promise among several bits of nonsense produced by
seventeenth and eighteenth century western thought. Neither government nor
the-God intervenes in intentional and accidental deaths. Personal chaos-constraint
as an individual conducts their life is strictly up to them. Persons are free
to be responsible or irresponsible.
I
have yet to think of a valid human right other than the opportunity to develop
humble-integrity. Thereby, a civic citizen earns enough to live and pay taxes
and reserves sufficient humility to the-God, whatever it is. Thus, they can
develop the responsible-human-independence they prefer rather than submit to
someone else’s vision for them.
In
popular jargon, “right to life” refers to the Catholic doctrine that a
conception must be gestated and delivered because of its dignity and equality.
But what ovum wants to become a person to be abused until death? And what
magistrate will force a woman to gestate a child she believes will be abused?
I
think the right to dignity and equity begins with the viable ovum. The ovum is
owed a responsible female who does not befriend an irresponsible man. Under
widespread humility to the-God, that is, female&male human-beings who
constrain chaos during their lives (Genesis 1:27–28), the abortion-industry
would lessen.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-concept-of-acceptance-and-freedom-for-you? By
Queen Loving
I
accept that I am a human being and therefore have the individual power, the
individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop
humble-integrity to my person.
I
accept freedom from external constraints by earning enough to pay taxes and pay
them and to otherwise conform to civil law. Additionally, I reserve sufficient
humility toward the-God, whatever it is. Finally, when I recognize a habit that
threatens my life, I constrain if not stop it.
During
the summer of 2020, it became evident that if I lived in a Democrat-controlled
city, the politicians might license the liberty to trash property and kill
citizens. Therefore, I no longer advocate liberty and want to change the name
of the U.S. gift from France to “The Statue of Independence”.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-do-equality-and-securing-an-individual-s-interest-go-together? By
Eman Mussa
They
don’t go together. There’s only equity under responsible-human-independence
(RHI).
The
reliable female takes care of her body and mind, knowing that during her
fertile years she may bring forth about 400 viable ova. Her caring instincts
inspire prudence in forming relationships with males, and she does not develop
confidence in an unreliable man. If any man tries un-wanted intimacy with her,
she reports the behavior to first responders. The reliable male comprehends
these principles and there is no way he would threaten a woman’s future or the
ova she may bring forth. His intention is family-monogamy for life.
Every
ovum is unique. When spouses activate an ova’s life, conceive an embryo,
uniqueness is not lessened. Nothing during gestation or delivery lessens the
newborn’s uniqueness. Thus, from ovum to newborn, the human being is due
dignity and equity as a unique person. Few people, even the political Justices,
would agree with my view.
I
earned my view by also studying the ancient political philosophers.
For
example, 4 thousand years ago someone primitively suggested, in my 2021
interpretation, that female&male human-beings are charged with the RHI to
constrain chaos over the living species and the earth.
Persons
who develop RHI accept that they must include dissidents (criminals and
tyrants) in the living species they must constrain. Therefore, they behave to
develop equity under statutory justice. They recognize that equality under the
law is politics rather than RHI. “Liberty” is political license rather than
freedom. For example, no statutory justice licenses the liberty to kill and
destroy.
Therefore
RHI developers neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person. When
they perceive harm, they report it either directly or to first responders. If
under attack, they apply sufficient strength to defend.
Under
all these principles, they accept that they have neither the omniscience nor
the omnipotence to evaluate or influence a fellow-citizen’s intentions toward
RHI and the perfection of their unique person. RHI developers can only evaluate
and adjudicate harm done.
Each
human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual
authority (HIPEA) to perfect their unique person. With freedom-from oppression,
there is no place for either equality or liberty among human
beings: there’s only responsible-human-independence.
The above principles reflect my opinion: I do not know the-ineluctable-truth. I
write to learn and would appreciate comments.
FB
add on: There’s
no place for either equality or liberty under responsible-human-independence
(freedom-from political oppression).
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-agree-with-the-following-statement-Individuals-have-a-duty-to-society-inasmuch-society-has-a-Duty-to-individuals? By
James Ronald
Yes.
And
I’d like to promote some ancient suggestions about how to achieve mutual,
comprehensive safety and security so that each human-being may responsibly
pursue the happiness they perceive rather than submit to someone else’s vision
for their life.
Necessity
demands that female&male human beings constrain chaos while they are alive
and extend the resulting safety and security to their children, grandchildren,
and beyond.
Consistent
with these principles, they accept that not all persons choose to develop as
human beings. Some want to develop dependency on fellow citizens: game
provisions for people who cannot be independent, attempt to make crime pay, exercise
tyranny over fellow citizens, and myriads of other offensive life-styles.
Therefore,
they behave for equity under statutory justice and make certain they neither
initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person. For example, when they
encounter abject ignorance, they kindly, clearly, sincerely offer an
alternative.
For example, if someone speaks of the sunrise as though they think the sun is
about to cross the sky, they say something like, “Yes, it is awesome to
perceive the earth’s rotation on its axis. With gravity, we don’t even feel our
1,000 mph rotation.” The other party may continue the cosmic reflections and teach
you something, or they may be silent so as to give themselves a chance to study
the physics of the sun’s daily un-hiding.
FB
add on: It’s erroneous to take lightly someone’s
erroneous belief, like “The sun’ll come up tomorrow.”
https://www.quora.com/Was-there-a-philosophy-of-politeness-If-so-what-were-its-key-elements? By
Graham C Lindsay
I
don’t know. It seems different cultures have different codes.
I think the human being is required to
appreciate fellow citizens by being lucid, pleasant, and sincere in all
contact; if the other party demands privacy, grant it.
Merriam-Webster Online’s first usage,
redirected to the adjective, is “of, relating to, or having the characteristics of advanced culture”.
Synonyms include civil, courteous,
genteel, gracious, mannerly,
and well-bred.
Antonyms include rude, and thoughtless in addition to opposites of the
synonyms. Lists of related words are extensive.
The search https://plato.stanford.edu/search/search?query=polite found 27 articles from diverse cultures.
There’s an interesting article on politeness or bluntness in the workplace,
which seems to conclude it’s a power choice requiring shrewdness.
I was surprised to see the words “civil” and “civility” often, but did
not encounter “civic” which I think is preferred. I think a civic
fellow-citizen behaves for equity under mutual appreciation. They are unassuming,
unpretentious, and kind. They anticipate equitable treatment if not
appreciation. However, they do not object to the other party’s preferences and
try to accommodate them if they are not injurious.
If conversation progresses to the point that the other party discloses
abject ignorance, a kind word of caution is in order. For example if the other
says something like, “Your soul is going to burn in hell, and I will pray for
you,” a kind response is called for. For example, “Are you certain? I feel I
owe myself sufficient humility to what I don’t know.” No more needs to be said,
as a human being will ponder your sentiment.
Kind caution when ignorance is expressed fulfills this demand: the civic
citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person.
FB add on: Politeness does not relieve the demand that a
fellow-citizen neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-such-basic-beliefs-and-the-concept-of-reality-itself-seemingly-being-challenged-IE-shape-of-the-Earth-vaccines-science-expertise-trust-in-nearly-all-institutions-Why-do-people-seem-to-cast-doubt-on-long? By
Chris Guerrieri
I
don’t know and can only speculate. I think it is erroneous reaction to the
obvious hypocrisy of Judeo-Christianity in the U.S.
I
think the long-standing U.S. Congressional tyranny of “freedom of religion” is
being harmfully challenged, after 230 years’ repression of the U.S. intention:
responsible-human-independence.
The
founders expressed separation of church from state in the 1776 declaration of
independence from England. They claimed human authority founded in “Nature’s
God”, choosing not to disparage England’s Protestant Trinity. In 1778, the
founders negotiated military providence from France. When, in 1787, free and
independent states accepted the need for a nation for strength in the world,
framers negotiated a federalism with local, state, and national officials held
accountable by a disciplined people. Some of the 55 framers disagreed for their
reasons, and only 39 delegates were signers. Nothing in the signers’ 1787
Constitution lessens the founders’ humble-integrity to separate church from
state.
Together,
the 1776&1787 documents affirm the Genesis 1:27-28 charge to
female&male human beings, independently of the-God, to flourish, to take
dominion over living species, and to subdue the earth. In other-words, the-God,
to which doctrinal Gods must preserve sufficient humility, will not usurp
responsible-human-independence. The female brings and the male activates a
family who together constrain chaos during life.
More
than any fellow-citizen among “ourselves and our Posterity” since September 17,
1787, Mike Pence clarified that church cannot partner with state. Apparently,
Pence’s Commander-in-Chief perceived that the U.S. Constitution holds the
President responsible to uphold the law; see “shall take Care
that the Laws be faithfully executed” in Article II, Section 3.
Pence, on January
5, 2021 in Georgia witnessed for Jesus Christ and the next day breached his
commitment to the President and to the entity We the People of the United
States by not duly blocking alleged-illegal Electoral Votes presented to the
Senate. Any allegation is controversial: The states would have to defend their
votes before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The
divergent-chaos we are experiencing has been developing since Congress
unconstitutionally, egregiously partnered with theism 230 years ago. The people
have tolerated the abuse, because they are inculcated to believe that their God
will relieve their descendants if not their children of the loss and misery. A
faction of fellow-citizens, including me, want relief from the totalitarianism
of “freedom of religion” so as to enjoy and encourage the pursuit of
humble-integrity. Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court codifies the abuse, for
example, in Greece v Galloway, 2014, wherein my concerns are labeled
“niggling”. The Court seems to think English common law has precedence over the
1787 U.S. Constitution! Good grief reform is needed.
Pence’s
offense against the-God of Genesis 1, the 1776 Declaration, the 1787
Constitution, the Presidency, and We the People of the United States is
shocking yet not surprising under the passing majority influence:
Judeo-Christianity. It’s a struggle for the supreme doctrinal God in abject
hubris toward the responsible-human-independence demanded by Genesis 1. It
ignores some fellow-citizens’ scripture such as the Eastern Orthodox Bible, the
Ethiopian Tewahedo Bible, the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita, the Tipitaka and others (https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/sacred-texts-of-major-world-religions.html). This problem can
be resolved the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 by each of accepting that
we are first human beings rather than one of the opposites (categorizing themselves).
Fox
News personnel are so enslaved to Christian hypocrisy their reporters strained
this morning when the NY Governor (I forgot its name) blamed the COVID19
pandemic on God. Fox News could shine some light on Genesis 1:26-27 then lead
the movement to amend the First Amendment so as to promote
responsible-human-independence and humble-integrity instead of theism and
liberty (government license to draw blood and ruin property). Thank France for
its military providence in 1781 at Yorktown, VA and change the name of its gift
in the NY Harbor to “Statue of Independence” on Independence Island, USA. I
could not reach them to make this suggestion.
If
Pence perceives his dreadful offense and seeks forgiveness from the entity We
the People of the United States, he will restore his greatness, in my opinion.
However, that apology would be premature if We the People of the United States
have not initiated the above mentioned reforms or better. Chapter XI
Machiavellianism persists in the U.S. because theists tolerate it and elitists
thrive on it. They both care more about religion than about humble-integrity to
themselves. (Again, see Genesis 1.) If Pence reads this, perhaps he will lead
the reform.
FB
add on: It would be appropriate for Mike Pence to
lead the reform from both “freedom of religion” and licensing the liberty to do
harm by re-establishing the 1787 U.S. intention:
responsible-human-independence. Even re-name to “The Statue of Independence”
and Independence Island in NY Harbor, after thanking France for its military
providence in 1781 at Yorktown, VA.
https://www.quora.com/When-in-the-history-of-the-world-have-individuals-enjoyed-freedom-as-a-sovereign-being? By
Kamal Bahrin
There
was “the good People” of We the People of the United States for about 9 months
ending June 21, 1788. The 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” can restore the
proffered people’s proposition.
About
4 thousand years ago, monotheism became a dominant theism in competition with
political philosophies that made no other-worldly-assumptions about the source
of human powers. A Mesopotamian political philosopher suggested that their God,
perhaps the-God, charges female&male human-beings to independently flourish,
take dominion over all living species, and subdue the earth. For all we know,
the philosopher was influenced by Jesus of “before Abraham I AM”.
Subsequent
monotheistic cultures constructed competitive-doctrine by which to coerce
the-God to usurp the responsible-human-independence described in Genesis
1:27-28. Benefitting from food-storage wisdom by Egyptian kings, Israel elected
kings and their tribes disbursed. Some claimed Jesus was the Jewish messiah and
others argued that Jesus saves all people who believe he is the-God.
Literature
commenting on these developments were canonized as bases of Christian
institutions by about 400 AD, including the Catholic, the Eastern Orthodox, and
the Ethiopian Tewahedo canon, among others. After Luther, 1517, competitive
Protestant canon emerged.
England’s
Magna Carta, 1215, agreed that the king would yield to a Catholic Bishop-Lords
Parliament responsibility for legislation. The “glorious rebellion” produced
the 1689 Bill of Rights, stipulating a Protestant monarchy.
From
1607 until 1774, settlement of the eastern seaboard of N. America was dominated
by England in competition with France. Spain competed in Florida and the west.
Loyal British colonists objected to local governance from England, and
especially objected to being made responsible for the African slaves brought
there for agricultural colonization. When England’s new king began to tax them
and take the proceeds in 1763, rebellion dominated. In 1774, Massachusetts
farmers liberated Worcester of British officials. Soon, 12 English colonies met
and formed the Continental Congress to officially urge local governance.
Colonies began to write state constitutions.
In
1776, the founders issued declaration of war for independence from England. The
document separates church from state. The founders claimed human integrity
under “Nature’s God” without disparaging England’s Protestant Trinity. They
relied on “the good People” for the will to kill red-coated fellow English subjects
and appealed to “the Supreme Judge of the world” for military victory against
their oppressor. In 1778, they negotiated with France for military providence.
The founders had expressed humble-integrity to the
responsible-human-independence suggested in Genesis 1.
England
surrendered to France (30,000 military) and the continental army (11,000) at
Yorktown VA in 1781. In 1784, the 13 free and independent states ratified the
1783 Treaty of Paris. However, they soon accepted the need to either strengthen
the confederation or form a nation to effect global strength in defense.
In
1787, framers from 12 states negotiated the U.S. Constitution. It features
separation of church from state, amendable by the continuum “ourselves and our
Posterity”, and federalism with local, state, and national officials held
accountable to the rule of law by the people. The preamble’s proposition to the
people specifies 5 public disciplines “in order to” develop
responsible-human-independence. No standards are specified, leaving development
of statutory justice to posterity, free from erroneous traditions.
Unfortunately,
when at least 2 states objected to the 1787 Constitution, the other 7 did not
hold out perchance 2 of the 4 laggard states would step forward to complete the
required 9 for ratification. They agreed to ratify with the condition that the
first Congress would negotiate a Bill of Rights. On December 15, 1791, Congress
ratified the U.S. Bill of Rights including an unconstitutional
religion-Congress partnership. Thus, Congress defied Genesis 1, the 1776
Declaration, and the 1787 Constitution. The entity We the People of the United
States has suffered the chaos that Chapter XI Machiavellianism delivers to
believers who overlook sufficient humility toward the-God of Genesis 1.
Female&male human-beings are, of necessity, responsible for peace on earth.
Neither the-God nor government will usurp that duty. The U.S. is still
experiencing Democrat-Party-licensing protester-liberty to trash cities and
people: responsible-human-independence is a better goal of freedom.
U.S.
inhabitants from September 17, 1787 until June 21, 1788, enjoyed freedom as
sovereign beings. The “ourselves and our Posterity” of 1788 have suffered
repression ever since. We, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 can end
the tyranny by amending the First Amendment in order to promote human,
humble-integrity rather than support religious businesses. We can restore the
1782 mottos “E Pluribus Unum” and apply it to responsible fellow-citizens’ Gods.
We can either delete the prayer phrase in the pledge of allegiance or introduce
humility with “under the-God”.
If so, the year 2022 can promise an
achievable better future with our fellow-citizens, and the world would breathe
hope in a restored U.S. intention: responsible-human-independence. The U.S. 230-years under “freedom of religion”, a
chaos-generator, can be reformed by freedom-to develop humble-integrity.
FB
add on: Let
2022 be the year the U.S. reforms from Congressional “freedom of religion” to
the people’s freedom-to develop humble-integrity.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-real-truth-of-life? By
Jerry Tan and Ralph Sawyer
The
“real truth” is just one among many modifiers of truth that invite human
opinion. It seems to me “the-ineluctable-truth” is a more exact phrase. Female
and male human beings work to discover and benefit-from the-ineluctable-truth.
About
10 million years after the dinosaurs died away, chimpanzees emerged. Between 6
million and 3 million years ago, humanoids adapted to upright walking.
Primitive tools emerged 2.8 million years ago.
Sun
(and moon) gods were worldwide 10 thousand years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_deity). Monotheism
became politically popular 4 thousand years ago. For all we know, Jesus of
“before Abraham I AM” influenced political philosophy in order to encourage
responsible-human-integrity long ago. Perhaps the-I-AM is the-good.
For
example, Genesis 1:27-28 suggests that female&male human beings are charged
to flourish, take dominion over other living species, and subdue the earth.
Perhaps the charge came from the-God or from Jesus. However, it seems
self-evident, once articulated, that each human being must acquire the
self-discipline to constrain chaos in their life. I am grateful that my wife
and I committed to each other 53 years ago and have been spouses for 51 years.
We faced a lot of chaos and still do. (Also, some men could not bear wondering
if she rejected strange advances.)
Perhaps
the-I-AM influenced Agathon 2,400 years ago to suggest in Plato’s “Symposium”
that the fellow-citizen who behaves for the-good neither initiates nor
tolerates harm to or from any person or institution.
The
principles I have expressed are plain to the person who accepts being a human
being and develops the comprehension and intention to develop
responsible-human-independence. Each human has the individual power, the
individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to either establish
humble-integrity by which to constrain chaos or to tolerate infidelity to their person.
The
individual who chooses some form of dependency may either not discover their
unique person or may use HIPEA to master their scheme. Criminals think crime
pays and many Congresspersons think tyranny pays.
I
think the-I-AM encouraged every human being to employ humble-integrity to
develop and perfect their unique person before their afterdeath begins---that
vast time after body, mind, and person stop functioning.
I
don’t know but am not alone. I think I expressed “the real truth of life”.
FB
add on: It seems “the real truth of life” is that
each human being can perfect their unique person before death.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-importance-of-respecting-the-freedom-of-other-people? By
Aerich Cherish Xyree Mina
The
human being, by necessity, must constrain chaos in life. With freedom, they can
survive, even thrive in this conflicted world.
It is self-evident that no power on earth
will choose to usurp humankind’s freedom to constrain chaos. The human individual
must learn and practice the-good, in order to attain freedom. Many human beings
develop responsible-human-independence. But not everyone accepts freedom as
self-interest.
Some humans, for reasons they may not
understand, develop dependency on fellow citizens. Some people game the welfare
system, which is intended for people who have not the ability to practice
freedom. Some people think crime pays. Some think tyranny pays. A few people
nurture evil unto the loss of their humanity---choose animalism or sloth.
The ineluctably good person neither
initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or institution. In this
capacity, they constrain people who cause chaos.
When a person accepts that they are a human
being, they develop responsible-human-independence, happily aiding
fellow-citizens’ freedom to constrain chaos.
FB add on:
Without freedom, a human cannot constrain
chaos in their life.
https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-some-people-admit-to-mistakes-to-ever-being-wrong-and-to-not-knowing-something-Do-they-believe-theyre-infallible-beings? By
Chris Guerrieri
I
don’t know. Indolence? Insufficient humility toward the-God (perhaps physics,
necessity, or chaos if not the Jesus of “before Abraham I AM”)? Enslavement to
public opinion? Enslavement to “scholarship”? Fear?
I
think self-reliance empowers an individual to accept being a human being yet
make choices to perfect their unique person.
I
learned lessons I value from/with my wife (courted 53 years ago and married 51
years with 3 children).
Accepting neighbors as they are and where they are in their
path to the happiness they intend is appreciated as serene self-confidence.
Always representing yourself rather than attempting to
please the other person is appreciated as humble-integrity.
Quick
wit to deflect coercion is appreciated as strength. Always read the bulletin
boards.
When
tradition seems harmful, self-reliance is preferred.
Refusing
responsibility for someone else’s error establishes credibility when apology is
required.
Appreciation
empowers love, fidelity, and joy---for life.
FB
add on: Acquiring the open-mindedness to accept your
human being.
https://www.quora.com/Activists-all-around-the-world-are-being-labelled-as-a-threat-in-their-own-government-Do-you-think-their-right-to-freedom-of-speech-is-being-restricted? By
Deus Weissman
I
don’t know. It depends upon whether their message is mere violence or sincere
work toward statutory justice.
What
I think is that Barack Obama, trained by the Marxist Saul Alinsky community in
Chicago (Industrial
Areas Foundation), has traveled the world influencing young people to be
disruptive to get what they want and to get it NOW!
Civic
Americans, meaning people who work for the style of living they want “to
ourselves and our Posterity”, are flummoxed by the tyranny of the Democrat
Party. Party members support violence in U.S. cities with Democrat mayors and
governors.
Traditionally,
a Chapter XI Machiavellian population, many U.S. parents inculcate in children
the belief that their God will eventually relieve them of unarticulated Congressional-Judicial
tyranny. Unaccustomed to reserving sufficient humility toward the-good or
the-God, they don’t realize that many American blacks await the Ethiopian
Tewahedo Bible. Understandably (yet erroneously), God is black, his people are
black, and whites will be slaves. Other blacks view Genesis 1’s “in God’s
image” as psychological likeness. That is, the human female and male is charged
to independently constrain chaos on earth to all living species (Genesis 1:27-28).
My opinions are rare and benefit from few conversations. I am thankful to Fred
Bear for encouring me to read the book “God is Red.”
The
possibility of a 2021 American to connect Genesis 1, the 1776 declaration of
independence from England, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution (before the 1791
Congressional tyranny in the Bill of Rights) is small to none. Whereas a serious
human error is failure to accept the independence by which to constrain chaos
in personal living, Barack Obama sings “Amazing Grace” and claims America’s
“original sin” is slavery.
I
do not accuse Obama of heresy. I accuse him of pitiable ignorance.
The
U.S. will restore its 1787 intentions to responsible-human-independence as soon
as the living “ourselves and our Posterity” amend the First Amendment so as to
promote humble-integrity instead of religion-Congress-Court hubris. Their
egocentric “divinity” is ruinous to the world.
FB
add on: Activists
who are violent deserve violence, unless they know they have the military power
to overthrow their nation to reform injustice. Genuine work toward statutory
justice is accomplished with ineluctable evidence of injustice and
law-amendment according to the-objective-truth.
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-futile-to-resist-change? By
Andrew Martin
I
don’t know how to consider the question. The only thing reliable is change.
For
example, the dinosaurs died away 65 million years ago. Humans transitioned to
walking upright during 6 million to 3 million years ago. Many cultures held the
sun to be a God under their name. Many cultures sacrificed fellow-citizens to
bargain with their God.
When
I was a boy, I could explore the neighborhood safely. In high school, I could
hitch-hike without fearing abuse. Safety and security in the U.S. woefully
declined under my watch.
I
assumed the U.S. Constitution was reliable. Now, I’m certain reliability will
never come unless the people stop tolerating the religion-Congress
totalitarianism recently codified by the U.S. Supreme Court. My concerns are
niggling to Justices.
Female
and male integrity is called for in Genesis 1:27-28, the 1776 declaration of
independence from England, and the 1787 Constitution for civic order in the
U.S. The U.S. intention, responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our
Posterity”, was regressed by Congress in the 1791 religion clauses.
We
the People of the United States, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” must
amend the First Amendment in order to establish human integrity rather than
religious competition.
The
U.S. can change to reliability after 230 years’ religious-legislative-judicial
tyranny.
FB
add on: Let the living “ourselves and our Posterity” change U.S.
religious-Congress-judicial tyranny to civic integrity in 2021.
https://www.quora.com/Should-a-person-who-develops-a-life-resembling-an-animal-or-a-plant-be-treated-as-a-human-being? By
Phil Beaver
David
Moore
Animals react to stimuli in quite
predictable ways. Eric Kandl won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2000 for
showing (among other things) why sea slugs retract their gills when
‘threatened’. In short, they remember what happened last time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Kandel?wprov=sfti1
More importantly, though, those
stimulating events become part of the organism’s architecture. Neural
behaviours are altered on a material level such that conditioning occurs. It’s
‘muscle memory’, if you will. However, just like the sort of thing that makes
pianists play more perfectly, such neuroplasticity is the basis of much of what
we identify in our own experience.
On the downside, Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder serves as an example of how certain stimuli appear to irrevocably
change neurophysiology regardless of a lack of repetition. Apparently,
regardless of our pride, we can be turned into Pavlov’s Dogs by cruel Fate
according to her whims.
Hence, are returning Soldiers or even more
garden-variety police, paramedics, nurses and doctors human anymore. Huh…maybe
that’s why people make certain comments about me… Same goes for plants. They
don’t do much, do they? Vegetative states seem pretty useless. They just
consume water and nutrients, and need sunshine. Babies are a bit like that,
too. And people who are anaesthetised or otherwise immobilised. Apparently,
having a window to the world is of more than just a metaphorical benefit.
Thus, in keeping with the concept of
evolutionary common heritage. Human life resembles that of animals and plants
in many ways. Perhaps the most unique feature of humans, however, involves
theory of mind - the potential to project personality onto objects and
organisms that might otherwise be philosophical zombies.
Ironically, the loss of such externalising
empathy might be regarded as the mark of diminished humanity. Who then, dares
say when another’s humanity is lost?
Significance
is something we give, and sometimes we remove it. When an EEG is
invariant, or when respiration seems to never return then it is perhaps right
to say something is gone. We can make those decisions, sometimes with great
confidence. The problem is always, however, specifying what that ‘something’
was in the first place…
More importantly, though, those
stimulating events become part of the organism’s architecture. Neural
behaviours are altered on a material level such that conditioning occurs. It’s
‘muscle memory’, if you will. However, just like the sort of thing that makes
pianists play more perfectly, such neuroplasticity is the basis of much of what
we identify in our own experience.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948283/
On the downside, Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder serves as an example of how certain stimuli appear to irrevocably
change neurophysiology regardless of a lack of repetition. Apparently,
regardless of our pride, we can be turned into Pavlov’s Dogs by cruel Fate
according to her whims.
Hence, are returning Soldiers or even more
garden-variety police, paramedics, nurses and doctors human anymore. Huh…maybe
that’s why people make certain comments about me…
Prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder in Emergency Physicians in the United States
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6754196/
Same goes for plants. They don’t do much,
do they? Vegetative states seem pretty useless. They just consume water and
nutrients, and need sunshine. Babies are a bit like that, too. And people who
are anaesthetised or otherwise immobilised. Apparently, having a window to the
world is of more than just a metaphorical benefit.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15673638/
Thus, in keeping with the concept of evolutionary
common heritage. Human life resembles that of animals and plants in many ways.
Perhaps the most unique feature of humans, however, involves theory of mind -
the potential to project personality onto objects and organisms that might
otherwise be philosophical zombies.
Ironically, the loss of such externalising
empathy might be regarded as the mark of diminished humanity. Who then, dares
say when another’s humanity is lost?
Significance
is something we give, and sometimes we remove it. When an EEG is
invariant, or when respiration seems to never return then it is perhaps right
to say something is gone. We can make those decisions, sometimes with great
confidence. The problem is always, however, specifying what that ‘something’
was in the first place…
Mr. Moore, thank you for answering.
I did not intend “a person who develops a
life resembling an animal or a plant” to imply the development was forced on
the person. I was referring to the person who never accepts that they are a
human being.
Your focus on events that lessen a human’s
chances is interesting.
I would appreciate your knowledge applied
to my question. For example, should the habitual sex-offender who rapes a 9
year-old-cousin then dismembers her body to burry the parts be treated as a
human-being after found guilty?
My question is intended to prompt the
thought: have I accepted and do I promote the importance of choosing to be a
human being?
To David Moore
again:
I
would no more judge your “we” bad than judge my person good.
However,
developing responsible-human-independence requires a lifetime of choosing
humble-integrity in individual behavior. The person who never considers the
importance of being a human being is likely to tolerate infidelity to self.
Those who enjoy the infidelity invite ruin of their personhood, and some relish
becoming an animal. Thus, they lessened their individual-responsibility to the
extent of losing their humanity.
Does
humanism advocate open-mindedness toward fellow-citizens’ work to constrain chaos
in their country?
To David
Moore again:
I’m
surprised you included v 32 “Though they know God's righteous decree that those
who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give
approval to those who practice them.”
I
think our dialogue is better served by Genesis 1:27–28: “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.’"
This
political philosophy is about 4 thousand years old, after the dinosaurs died
off 65 million years ago, but perhaps under the influence of the Jesus of “before
Abraham I AM.”
It
instructs me that female and male human beings are charged to independently
constrain chaos on earth. That means that when a person being does not accept
being human and causes harm, fellow-citizens must constrain them, because the-God
will not usurp what is assigned to human beings.
The whole point of
humanism is that the value of a person is inherent, and doesn't vary with the
person's attributes. Thus a comatose person is equally human to the greatest
leader, scientist, artist or philanthropist.
I
agree with inherent human potential to perfect their unique person. Stephen
Hawking wonderfully made certain he could give his all.
Every
human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual
authority (HIPEA) to perfect their unique person in humble-integrity. However,
some choose to apply HIPEA for infidelity—-tyranny, crime, evil, and worse.
The
dissident’s life depends upon the fellow citizens who choose to develop civic
justice. The opposites ambition and sloth entice infidelity to
responsible-human-independence.
Just
as the greatest among us is entitled to death, the comatose person should not
be denied relief. And the snack-cuddling sloth deserves to either reform or
suffer.
To
David Moore:
Does humanism accept and promote the importance of each
person choosing to be a human-being rather than one of its opposites, such as
animal or plant? Is the person who has chosen to be a sex pervert and finally
murders a cousin “equally human to the greatest . . .”?
To Ivee Nia: You present
the evidence that bullies are like racists: they accuse the other part then
stonewall them.
To Tim ODonnell: It seems you intend the
metaphysical with the “deserve” consideration. Let’s take an example in physics
and its progeny, psychology.
A
cousin is known to nourish sexual phantasies that occasionally surface as
unwanted advances. He pays intimate attention to a 9-year old in the family,
and they say, awh, he means nothing by it. He loves her like a sister.
One
day he finds her in a cornfield, rapes her, kills her, dismembers the body for
burial in different places, and on ineluctable evidence meets unanimous-jury
conviction.
The
court has delivered statutory justice to the criminal.
What
does the girl’s family deserve?
To Tim ODonnell
again: Merriam-Webster online tells me
the first usage of “sympathy” is an affinity, association, or relationship
between persons or things wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the
other.”
The
girl’s family is very happy that their evil cousin was convicted and given the death
sentence: after that, their cousin in his person will not suffer such evil
again.
However,
they remain heartbroken over the fact that their 9 year-old cousin’s chance to
develop her unique perfection ended.
As
fellow citizens, we can suffer sympathy for both the family losses and the
male-cousin’s infidelity to self under statutory justice.
To Tim ODonnell
again: Interestingly, your
selective quote invited a concern I noticed earlier but left dormant.
Some family
members wondered if the male cousin lusted for his younger cousin. They imagined the
rape if not the murder. The learned a costly lesson: If you imagine harm,
discuss it before it happens. Thus, we can suffer both family losses: the
girl’s life and the lost opportunity to save it.
I
restate that we can suffer sympathy for the male-cousin’s infidelity to self
under statutory justice. However, there is no sympathy for the conviction,
verdict, and his execution. He invited justice when he killed her to hide the
rape.
There
is no sympathy to us, because we know he will not rape and kill again: public
safety and security is responsible-human-independence as demanded in Genesis
1:27–28.
To Tim ODonnell
again:
No.
I wrote “He invited justice when he killed her to hide the rape.” After the
sentencing, I would accept his statement about his life-choices.
To Steven Salamon:
Thank
you, Mr. Salamon,
Statutory
justice seeks to discourage human beings from tolerating infidelity to self
until animal behavior or total dependency becomes chosen habit.
We are offered a culture that encourages responsible-human-independence. The
person who accepts that they are a human being is likely to discover the
culture of fidelity to self. When they perceive infidelity to self, they
reform.
But
some fellow-citizens tolerate or develop dependency. Lazy persons take what
they game from the system. Tyrants and criminals depend on fellow-citizens
tolerance and gullibility, respectively.
The
civic citizen behaves for equity under statutory justice. They help discover
injustices and amend the law in order to encourage dissidents to reform. They
provide first responders to address actual harm—-stop the victim’s loss and
pain if possible, and identify the perpetrator.
When
the crime is heinous or less, the perpetrator has invited the statutory
consequences. Civic citizens support the outcome so as to preserve humble-integrity
to responsible-human-independence.
To David Devalera:
Thank
you, Mr. Devalera,
Your
response ignores the question, by not considering choices the person made to
nourish appetites that escalated to the heinous crime; that is, developed as an
animal instead of a human being. For example, the cousin who raped a 9 year old
girl and dismembered her body for secret burial.
Since
you can’t preserve, how do you restore the girl’s family, the wounded
law-enforcement personnel, the jury that rendered a death sentence, and the
responsible-humans who independently fund statutory justice?
To David Devalera again:
Justice
does not treat them as animals: they forsake themselves.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-democracy-promote-and-protect-human-rights? By
Nelson Vidinha
Democracy
destroys justice and thereby ruins the individual’s right to constrain chaos
during their lives.
Necessity
compels female and male human beings to constrain chaos during their lives.
However, for reasons they may or may not understand, some individuals choose
dependency on chaos. Chaos must be constrained by first responders. Among
nations, military strength must be maintained.
For
the-good, most fellow-citizens behave-by and promote civic statutory-justice so
as to discourage chaos-dependency. That is, to support written law enforcement
that encourages female and male human beings to behave in mutual self-interest:
fidelity to being human.
Developing
statutory justice requires discovery and elimination of injustices. There must
be standards in order to discover injustice. The-ineluctable-good allows
neither initiation nor toleration of harm to or from any person. Thus,
injustice can be determined by the-ineluctable-evidence of harm done.
Those
who thrive on chaos do all they can to obfuscate evidence. They appeal for
mercy when justice is due. They try to convert the rule of law into democracy:
My chaos counts above all else!
About
3 decades ago, I learned that if someone approaches you to save your soul, put
you hand on your wallet. Today, when someone promotes democracy, especially the
right to vote for chaos, I respond, “Let’s amend the First Amendment so as to
promote humble-integrity to the-good rather than to support religious
businesses.”
Democracy’s
intent is to spoil the U.S. march to statutory justice.
FB
add on: Beware: democracy intends to ruin the
individual right to constrain chaos in personal living.
To
Don Tracy:
You
don’t seem to realize the public has read Saul Alinsky’s rules for
Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO). If you are unaware of AMO, you might
consider it.
You identify as an
AMO victim when you attack someone without expressing grounds for your dissatisfaction
with their opinion.
Perhaps
you think of democracy as one person one vote. That’s not the intention of
voting in the U.S. Here, it’s one informed adult, one vote. AMO seeks to
enslave adults to vote the AMO preference.
You
could write your vitriol then delete it so as to protect your AMO appearance.
To
Don Tracy again:
Political
philosophy from 4 thousand years ago accepted that necessity demands the
female&male human-beings constrain chaos in their personal lives.
Fellow-citizens
who accept necessity develop responsible-human-independence (RHI) within their
families for life. They practice humble-integrity rather than tolerate
infidelity to self. But some fellow-citizens, having the ability to develop
RHI, choose dependency: unwarranted alms, crime, tyranny and other abuses of fellow-citizens.
In
democracy, when the dependents outnumber responsible-human-independents,
viability for life is destroyed. Only the rule of statutory justice can
preserve the human opportunity to constrain chaos.
Statutory
justice differs from the rule of law in that it continually improves according
to the-ineluctable-evidence rather than diverges under human reason.
To
Don Tracy again:
I
referred to religious businesses as deterrents to integrity and presented a
political philosophy. Do you doubt politics?
https://www.quora.com/Should-businesses-treat-people-equally-or-as-individuals? By
Liezl Cayanan
The
businesses closest to the individual might be competitive religions, Justices,
and the press.
I
think the business plan hinges on the owners’ objectives: encourage human
beings or develop the opposites---animals and plants.
Each
person may choose to develop into a human being---a unique individual with the
comprehension and intention to live a complete human lifetime, both
chronologically and psychologically; by age and by humble-integrity; under God
or under the-good; perfecting the person or tolerating infidelity to self.
Each
person has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual
authority (HIPEA) to choose humble-integrity or infidelity; civic conduct or
crime or worse; independence or reliance on fellow-citizens.
Individuals
who prey on fellow-citizens beg for mercy when they discover that neither the
developed animal nor the tolerant plant is equal to a human being.
Businesses
have to decide their business plan for survival if not success. The businesses
that appeal to animals and plants eventually lose. The human being is
self-reliant and chooses promising businesses. I stopped appreciating religion,
the U.S. Supreme Court, and the press perhaps a quarter century ago. Congress
is too distant to consider.
FB
add on: Should a person whose life resembles animal
or plant be granted human equity?
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-achieve-real-life-freedom? By
Pitana Sudjana
I
don’t know. However, consider opinions and accept what seems good to you.
Accept
that you are a human being. Therefore, attend the individual power, the
individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop
humble-integrity rather than infidelity to self.
Accept
that some fellow-citizens use HIPEA to develop crime and worse. Such persons
must be constrained until they reform. It is in the individual’s self-interest
to aid civil statutory justice.
Accept
that the-God demands the-good, regardless of the diverse eternal hopes God
offers. Also, government partners with God to control believers. Therefore, the
individual must responsibly pursue the unique happiness they want rather than
tolerate someone else’s dream for them. If a personal God helps, reserve
sufficient humility toward the-God.
No
matter how unlikely it may seem at this moment, each human can perfect their unique
person before their afterdeath---that vast time after body, mind, and person
stop functioning.
https://www.quora.com/Should-we-leave-the-tech-companies-such-as-Google-Amazon-and-Twitter-considering-the-privacy-and-freedom-of-speech-issues-If-so-what-are-the-best-options? By
Sean Baldwin
It
seems to me the best way to live is to make choices that increase self-reliance
and focus on the happiness you perceive rather than contend with force.
Responsible-human-independence is in each fellow-citizen’s self-interest.
“Responsible” means to hold local, state, and federal officials accountable to
1787 U.S. intentions: humble-integrity.
Congress
ought to break up the monopolies that are crippling public communication.
However, Congress is the source of the problem, as always. Congress is using
the monopolies to control the entity We the People of the United States. It’s
only the latest since their first tyranny: creating a religion-Congress
partnership in 1791s First Amendment.
In
2021, We the People of the United States ought to require Congress to amend the
First Amendment so as to empower civic-integrity rather than institutional
religion.
With
that change, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” might at last take heed of
Genesis 1:27-28: female&male-humans must independently constrain chaos
during their lifetimes. The-God will not usurp female&male duty to self, to
other living species, and to the earth. Nor will the-God partner with Congress.
You
may think I wandered far from you question. However, no one knows what the U.S.
would be like under the-good the-God demands rather than the eternal hope God
offers.
FB
add on: What would the U.S. be like under integrity to the-good that the-God
demands rather than the diverse eternal-hopes God offers?
https://www.quora.com/Which-is-more-important-individual-rights-or-public-order? By
Michael Okeke
Each
person has the right to accept developing a human-being rather than one of the
opposites such as animal or plant. But not everyone participates, so order must
be provided.
The
human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual
authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to his
or her person.
The
civic-citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or
association, including self and family. They voice objection to intentions to
harm. They reserve the responsible-human-independence to report their group to
first-responders if their group decides to cause harm.
The
choice to use HIPEA to develop civic integrity rather than nurture infidelity
is a self-interest. Consequently, most people exercise their right to be a
human being and constrain fellow-citizens who nurture infidelity.
https://www.quora.com/What-doesn-t-define-you-What-do-you-scratch-off-the-list-of-things-that-people-use-to-define-themselves? By
Barbara Young Capalbo
Heretic.
I am open-minded to the-God---whatever controls the
unfolding of the universe. For all I know, much as I doubt it, the-God is the
Jesus of “Before Abraham I AM”. For all I know, the-God is chaos. I am prepared
to be so judged but do not recommend the preparation to anyone. On the other
hand, I work day and night to encourage civic-integrity in the United States.
I think there’s sufficient inspiration and motivation in
female&male-human acceptance and appreciation for the opportunity to
constrain chaos during one lifetime. I trust-in and am committed-to
the-ineluctable-truth. I think it conforms to physics and its progeny,
including human psychology. Perhaps the-God started the unfolding of physics.
If so, I doubt the value of the question: Why?
As in all my opinions, I could be wrong in all the above
principles. However, I neither can nor want to avoid my human-individual power,
energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity to my person rather than
tolerate infidelity during my lifetime, low as I may be.
As a citizen, I do all I can to promote the 1776 declaration
of war for independence from England and the 1787 Constitution to establish a
federal-republic. Therein, the intended people’s civic-discipline holds local,
state, and national officials (elected and appointed) accountable to
responsible-human-independence. I think those two documents together separate
church from state so that every citizen can discover HIPEA and apply it for
responsible, personal happiness rather than conform to someone else’s idea for
their life.
In these 234 years since the Constitution was signed, we have learned that the
Congress-religion partnership the 1791 Congress codified in the First Amendment
invites and delivers chaos.
Observe Mike Pence’s antinomian-betrayal of We the People of
the United States on January 5, 2021 in Georgia. In 2021, let’s amend the First
Amendment so as to encourage civic-integrity rather than support competitive
religion.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-define-integrity-in-one-sentence? By
Angelica Usi
Integrity is the practice of doing the work to discover if a
heart-felt concern is a mirage to journal, and if not, extending the work so as
to comprehend the discovery, how to responsibly benefit, behaving to benefit,
and remaining open-minded for new discovery that demands change.
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.
