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
Who would have guessed a Judeo-Christian swamp?
The U.S. is straining at the 234-year old factional-Protestant-Congress
tyranny now morphed into a political, Judeo-Catholic U.S. Supreme Court.
This weeks’ essays promote a 4-thousand year-old suggestion
that female&male, in the-God’s image, is charged to independently constrain
chaos on earth. The U.S. 1776&1787 intentions affirm the suggestion.
President Trump has proved unusual resilience for the-good.
But he missed a chance to urge revising the First Amendment to promote civil
integrity rather than institutional religion.
We’ll see how it turns out. Meanwhile, every fellow-citizen
can, in self-interest, constrain chaos during their lifetime.
Columns
Pence set
precedent for Jack Dorsey (ISABEL VAN BRUGEN, The Epoch
Times) (https://www.theepochtimes.com/leaked-video-reveals-twitter-ceo-jack-dorseys-internal-discussions-before-trump-ban_3657802.html?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-15-1)
Quoting Dorsey, “I believe this was the right decision for
Twitter. We faced an extraordinary and untenable circumstance, forcing us to
focus all of our actions on public safety.” This reminds me of another egregious
event, starting on January 5, 2021.
In Georgia, on January 5, Vice President Mike Pence said
Trump voter’s case would be heard on January 6. Also, he witnessed for his faith
in Jesus Christ. On January 6, as President Trump rallied voters, Pence announced
he would not accept Trump’s directive to reject rogue-states’ Electoral Votes. (If
so, the U.S. Supreme Court might adjudicate existing illegal elections.)
Pence placed his view of fidelity to Jesus Christ above his
commitment to uphold the U.S. Constitution, which in Article II, Section 3
requires the President: “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
A Mesopotamian political philosophy from the cradle of
monotheism 4 thousand years ago suggests, in terms justified by discoveries
since then, that the-God (perhaps necessity, or Jesus?) assigns to
female&male-humankind responsible-human-independence in the universe. That
is, fellow-citizens are charged with providing peace on earth.
Together, the founders, in the 1776 war for independence from
England, and the framers in the 1787 Constitution for U.S. civic order, affirm
the Genesis 1 separation of church from state. According to the U.S.
Constitution, President Trump is the Commander-in-Chief, and We the People of
the United States elected Pence to aid Trump’s work to constrain chaos in the
U.S.
Pence, in betraying Trump, betrayed both the-God and We the
People of the United States. For all we know, the Jesus of “I AM” is
the-God, but Pence and others seem to reject that possibility.
To be continued
Continued
Dorsey’s quote can be mimicked for Pence: I believe denying Trump was the right decision
for factional-American-Christians. We faced an extraordinary and untenable
circumstance, forcing us to focus all of our actions on our discipleship under
Jesus Christ.
Pence and other elected Christians are without excuse. They
should know that we non-believing fellow-citizens also read the fallacies in
the Bible. Most egregious is St. John’s encouragement for aspiring disciples to
hate non-believers; John 15:18-23. Perhaps the Trinity indeed is the God of
hate. However, I choose the-God, which I speculate is necessity that is the
laws of physics and its progeny, which must be discovered and followed for
human success.
We the People of the United States could---should---in
2021 amend the First Amendment so as to protect and encourage development of
humble-integrity rather than religion, a precious-private rather than
imposed-civil interest. A reliable U.S. Supreme Court would have remedied
Congress’s unconstitutional 1791 partnership with religion decades ago. They
could take immediate action to separate church from state.
Quora
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-actions-such-as-refusing-to-admit-mistakes-or-acknowledge-ones-limits-or-failures-is-done-to-protect-the-ego-These-behaviors-put-the-egos-fragility-on-display-dont-they-How-does-one-protect-the-ego? by Chris Guerrieri
I don’t know. But I think acceptance
of the-ineluctable evidence offers reform that can begin today.
I think necessity requires a human
being to develop the self-discipline to constrain chaos during one lifetime in
order to develop civic-fidelity to self. A person must decide to be a human
being.
About 4 thousand years ago, political
philosophy initiated a transition from paganism to monotheism. A political
philosopher, in Genesis 1:26-28 suggested that female&male, in the-God’s
image, were charged with independence in the universe. The philosopher was not
aware that the earth is 4.6 billion years old, evolution to placental sex began
2 billion years ago, and dinosaurs died off in a cosmic collision 65 million
years ago.
Instead of accepting responsibility
for peace on earth, cultures constructed doctrine by which the-God’s
metaphysical powers would be influenced in their favor. As a consequence, chaos
on earth has exponentially increased in 4 thousand years.
One culture has been proffered,
predicated on public discipline in order to encourage
responsible-human-independence. The U.S., intentions proffered on September 17,
1787, is a domestic republic that separates church and state. Nothing in the
1787 Constitution lessens the separation of state in humble-integrity that is
expressed in the 1776 declaration of war for independence from England.
In 1791, Congress, by codifying an
unconstitutional alliance with theism, attempted to arrogate the-God of necessity,
the 1776 Declaration, the 1787 Constitution, and We the People of the United
States. A corrupt, political U.S. Supreme Court aids the unconstitutional totalitarianism
of “freedom of religion” instead of encouragement to integrity.
Only the individual citizens who
accept the Genesis 1 charge to constrain chaos during life can reform the U.S.
to its intentions: individual happiness through the self-interest of
responsible-human-independence. The intentions are expressed in the 1776&1787
documents as religious privacy, integrity, justice, peace, strength, and
prosperity “in order to” establish responsible-human-independence “to ourselves
and our Posterity”. The living independent voters are the 2021 “ourselves” and
it is on us to reform in order to free “our Posterity”.
To summarize, it seems to me the U.S.
regression to chaos in only 234 years provides ineluctable evidence that
the-God will not usurp the 4 thousand-year-old suggestion that female&male are
charged to establish peace on earth.
It should not require a mutation for
human beings to reform to self-interest.
FB add on: Placental sex evolved
in 2 billion years. The 4-thousand year-old suggestion that female&male, in
the-God’s image, is charged to independently constrain chaos on earth has not
taken hold.
The 1787 U.S. Constitution is only 234 years old, and neglect of
its affirmation of the 1776 separation of church and state (Genesis 1:26-28),
in order to promote necessary female&male responsible-human-independence,
delivered chaos in a short timeframe.
Only individuals who are willing to self-interestedly constrain
chaos in their personal lives can effect reform. Reform can happen in 2021
rather than wait for a human mutation.
https://www.quora.com/What-makes-some-people-so-easy-to-influence-Is-it-upbringing-education-or-a-compilation-of-things? by Paul Savage
After writing this essay, I’m
guessing: without well-developed self-discipline the quest for personal-power
enhances gullibility.
I speculate that the driver is the
worldwide, inculcation of the quest for higher power. When the majority of
people establish the discipline required to be a human being, an achievable
better future will unfold. And it will be evident the moment 2/3 of
citizens are participating in the reform.
Note, I said participating rather
than succeeding. Reforming civilization is difficult, as we observe daily.
However, individual participation and intentions precede success. Note also
that I said reform, which implies that a process to encourage human discipline was
already proffered.
The essential reform is for
civilization to inculcate during youth and beyond the conviction that
humble-integrity empowers the self-interest to develop personal happiness rather
than subjugation to an institutional construct. Let me repeat that: the
achievable possibility is individual happiness rather than subjugation.
The core educational reform is a set
of acceptances and commitments by the individual. First, the person commits to
develop as a human being rather than one of the opposites. Then, they commit in
self-interest to acquire the comprehension and intention to live a complete
human life---complete in both chronological and psychological maturity. Further,
they accept that their person is unique and has the opportunity to approach individual
perfection before death. They commit to the individual power, the individual
energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop humble-integrity rather
than tolerate infidelity to self. By “humble” I mean they accept that fidelity
to self is essential to a human being. They accept that some people use HIPEA
to develop crime and other civic-dependencies, and therefore, they behave for
human equity under statutory justice; when unjust law-enforcement is
discovered, statutory law is amended toward justice. They accept the difficulty
of developing self-discipline, and in human relations neither initiate nor
tolerate harm to or from any person or association, including self and family. They never lie, in order to lessen human
misery and loss as much as possible. They communicate and connect with
fellow-citizens to mutually improve these principles as events unfold. A
culture of civic-discipline has been proffered.
The framers, in the 1787 U.S.
Constitution proffer a system of laws and institutions to be developed by the
continuum “ourselves and our Posterity”. Posterity is empowered by
provisions to amend the Constitution when error is discovered; we are the
twelfth generation after the 1787 “ourselves”. The Constitution proffers public
disciplines including no-religious oaths, integrity, justice,
peace, strength, prosperity, and responsible-human-independence. The
constitution does not specify the standards or process Prosperity will employ
to approach statutory justice: The civic
culture is to be discovered in open-mindedness to the unfolding future. Only 2/3
of framers were signers on September 17, 1787.
Nothing in the 1787 U.S. Constitution
lessens the humble-integrity the founders expressed when they declared war for
independence from England. The 1776 Declaration does not debase the English
Trinity with claims that factional-American-Protestantism appeals to the-God;
that is, whatever the world’s competitive Gods answer to. For human integrity,
the founders relied on “Nature’s God”; for military integrity, “the Supreme
Judge of the world”; for civic integrity, “the good People”. In 1778, they
negotiated French-military providence.
England surrendered to France and the
colonies in 1781 at Yorktown, VA, and in 1784, the 13 states ratified global
status as “free and independent states”. In only 3 years, leaders accepted
George Washington’s 1783 urge to form a nation under the people (June 8, 1783
letter to states). The 1776 Declaration accepted separation of church from
state: colonists, whether loyal British citizens or other national origins,
would independently kill red-coated invaders. Inhabitants with
religious conviction against killing misappropriated their freedom to the good
People, who would become We the People of the United States in 1787.
In 2021, humankind understands that
the-God, perhaps of necessity under the mostly unknown laws of physics and its
progeny, assigned to the female the responsibility to remain pregnant or not,
depending upon her awareness of the child’s expected-future. That is, in the
beginning, a woman could devise ways to abort a life certainly doomed to
enslavement in some form. In seeking a reliable male, a child-caring female
resists intimacy that could lead to pregnancy yet remains in charge if
overpowered.
Even without awareness that dinosaurs
died off in a cosmic collision 65 million years ago, humankind could sense that
constraining chaos on earth is a formidable undertaking. They had no idea that
the earth formed 4.6 billion years ago or that sex began evolving 2 billion
years ago. However, no other species could “subdue” the earth.
Political philosophers 4 thousand
years ago were in the midst of metaphysical reasoning concerning powers that
control the unfolding of human civilization. Those who involved Gods in
politics discovered and developed monotheism. So far, it seems no culture has
identified the-God.
About 4 thousand years ago, from
metaphysical reasoning, a philosopher envisioned human-independence of
necessity. The metaphysics is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28 (CJB):
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.
Viewed with a 2021 comprehension of
civic humility, this passage may be interpreted: The-God of necessity assigns to
female&male the responsibility to constrain chaos in the universe. Viewed
this way, “the-God” can be viewed as “the-good” and accepted when the-good is
evident.
About 1600 years later, Plato wrote
that Socrates asked, in effect: Why
label the-good the-God? (We ask, why label appreciation “love”? Too often, love
is unwanted.)
Skipping the increases in human-chaos
constructed by religio-political philosophers since Socrates, in 1776, the
founders accepted responsible-human-independence, in humble-integrity to both
spiritual and military powers on earth. The founders accepted both emotional
and practical motivations and inspirations, with civic integrity, in order to
appeal to the oppressed-colonists to make war with their stronger adversary.
The founders declared religion private and independence civic. The framers
wrote nothing to lessen the founders’ humble-integrity in separation of church
and state. The signers proffered the proposition to the people. So far, this
seems a wonderful 1787 possibility. How did We the People of the United States
reach the chaos we are experiencing in 2021?
So far, the continuum “ourselves and
our Posterity” tolerate Congressional tyranny that was unconstitutionally
imposed in 1791 in the First Amendment religion clauses. Congress partnered
with theism in defiance of Genesis 1, the 1776 Declaration, the 1787
Constitution, and the good People, We the People of the United States who sincerely
interpret the proffered preamble’s people’s proposition. The preamble expresses
2 thoughts: presentation of the amendable articles and statement of the U.S.
purpose.
My sincere expression of the U.S.
intention this morning is: This
civic-citizen practices and promotes the 5 public disciplines---integrity,
justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” enjoy and encourage
responsible-human-intendance “to ourselves and our Posterity”. I do not write
“we”, because U.S. citizens are free to reject the civic proposition.
I hear on TV this morning that the
President-elect proposes to add $1.9 trillion federal debt to satisfy
“ourselves” with future debt to “our Posterity” to be followed by an
infrastructure plan. The people must take charge to constrain chaos today or
their children will not enjoy freedom.
Throughout U.S. history, the elected
and appointed officials who increased U.S. chaos let their belief in church
override their commitment to We the People of the United States according to the
U.S. Constitution. Here’s a sample if issues. Politicians in a couple of states
in 1788 required an English-like Bill of Rights, which requires a Protestant
monarchy. Congress repressed the 1787 Constitution as “godless” to restore the
factional-American Protestantism by tradition, in “divine” competition with the
English Parliament’s constitutional partnership with the (Protestant) Church of
England. Hapless R. E. Lee believed an erroneous Christianity in 1856 when he
labeled abolitionists “evil”. President G. W. Bush believed erroneous Christian
prayers when he invaded Iraq in 2003. Shameless Senator Mitt Romney denied
allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, claiming he is a “religious man”. Perplexed
Vice-President Mike Pence witnessed for Jesus Christ in opposition to President
Donald Trump, the U.S. Commander-in-Chief and the world’s most powerful force
to constrain chaos and drain the U.S. swamp (see Genesis 1 again). Voters can
discourage the next betrayal of We the People of the United States by an alien,
religious official. This essay and especially this paragraph is my opinion: I
do not know the-ineluctable-truth.
We, the 2021 ourselves and our
posterity can amend the First Amendment so as to promote civic-integrity rather
than religious-imposition. We can require local, state, and federal officials
to replace ceremonial prayer&pledge with unison reading of the preamble to
the U.S. Constitution. We can vote out of office elected officials who
demonstrate sincere alienation to the preamble’s proposition. We can restore
the motto “E Pluribus Unum” to end the “In God We Trust”, which may disrespect
the-God.
It is not too late for the
Judeo-Catholic U.S. Supreme Court Justices to admit that they have behaved as
politicians. First by not ending legislative prayer in Greece v Galloway (2014)
and by not addressing the chaos brought on by rogue states in the 2020
Presidential election. They can delay the inauguration in order to restore
order rather than tolerate chaos, expected to worsen. It is not fair to Joe
Biden to attempt to tolerate the objections to states changing their vote
verifications to defeat Trump.
Paul Savage, thank you for a creative
question that inspired this rant. My response is that political power is so
attractive that even Justices betray commitment to humble-integrity and to
fellow-citizens.
If there are no objections, I will
add your name and this date to my appreciations page at
premotethepreamble.blogspot.com.
I write to learn and appreciate
comments.
FB add on: If the people's chaos expands, responsibility
rests with the political U.S. Supreme Court.
Because the receiver comprehends
words and phrases differently from the sender, the sender must speak lucidly,
pleasantly, and sincerely or write clearly, attractively, and sincerely without
guessing about the listener’s comprehension. Upon completing the message,
sender hopes the receiver will ask questions in order to clarify the message
and adjust it to receiver’s comprehension. The collaborative receiver may then
offer an improvement on the message. Then, sender must become receiver, in
order to clarify the improvement. The cycle may be repeated. And so it goes
when there is collaboration to connect for an achievable better future.
It does not take long for sincere
senders and receivers to connect, and they usually leave the dialogue with
increased humility and integrity: each personal integrity more closely
approaches humble-integrity. Also, they may leave the conversation with a plan
to effect change in civic integrity.
Political philosopher Albert Einstein,
attempting to speak the audience’s language, expressed some nonsense. For
example (see Einstein’s essay in https://samharris.org/my-friend-einstein/), he wrote “It
is the privilege of man’s moral genius, impersonated by inspired individuals,
to advance ethical axioms which are so comprehensive and so well founded that
men will accept them as grounded in the vast mass of their individual emotional
experiences. Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently
from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
This is problematic, because in this otherwise wonderful
paragraph, Einstein confuses ineluctable evidence with “emotional experiences”,
which Google informs us today means anger, fear, happiness, sadness, and disgust.
Einstein’s ethics confuses me, because in the preceding
paragraph he wrote, “For pure logic all axioms are arbitrary, including the
axioms of ethics. But they are by no means arbitrary from a psychological and
genetic point of view. They are derived from our inborn tendencies to avoid
pain and annihilation, and from the accumulated emotional reaction of
individuals to the behavior of their neighbors.”
Herein, Einstein seems to be blending ineluctable evidence
with uninvited interest in neighbors.
In an earlier paragraph he wrote, “However, ethical
directives can be made rational and coherent by logical thinking and empirical
knowledge [ineluctable evidence, in my view]. If we can agree on some
fundamental ethical propositions, then other theoretical propositions can be
derived from them, provided that the original premises are stated with
sufficient precision. Such ethical premises play a similar role in ethics, to
that played by axioms in mathematics.”
Herein, in my view, Einstein asserts that accepting the
ineluctable evidence provides a journal of discovery that can be an ethical
resource.
Still earlier, Einstein wrote, “There is something like a
Puritan’s restraint in the scientist who seeks truth: he keeps away from
everything voluntaristic or emotional. Incidentally, this trait
is the result of a slow development, peculiar to modern Western thought.”
With this paragraph, we have traced Einstein’s statements
back to seeming contradiction: While the researcher who seeks truth avoids the emotional,
the public accepts the research product “based on emotional experiences”. Is
this Einstein’s claim that the public is not capable of integrity? If so, I
strongly disagree. I see no excuse for Einstein to conflate Puritan conviction
with research integrity.
Einstein’s most famous nonsense was intended for a science v
religion audience: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind”. Science is a study practice to discover the unknown,
and religion is metaphysical reasoning to speculate about the unknown. I
speculate that in Einstein’s personal words and phrases he meant: Research
without integrity is ruinous; integrity without research is ineffectual. Of
course I don’t know. Yet on my view of his thoughts I consider Einstein an
exceptional political philosopher.
I express my opinion for my use, neither to convince anyone
nor to argue with Einstein.
However, I hope my response illustrates how difficult it is
for two human beings to communicate and connect in order to mutually improve
individual happiness to each party rather than submit to someone else’s visions
for them.
FB add on: The
sender’s best chance to communicate is to develop words and phrases that
express the integrity of the-ineluctable-truth rather than guess the receiver’s
definitions. The message will be received if the receiver does the work to
comprehend the sender’s word-usage. If so, the receiver may then improve the
sender’s expressions, IF the sender becomes receiver.
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-wrong-to-value-friends-more-than-family? by Sean Sohr
In general, it depends on
circumstances. However, the human being yearns to develop family for life, if
possible. In closest appreciation, a child has two parents and four
grandparents complete with their four relative families and the parents’
siblings. It seems good for family monogamy for life to be continuous.
I am a geek who married a beautiful
woman I met 53 years ago. I drove an old friend away and saw 3 work-colleagues
get fresh with her---two kissing her and one touching her breast. I did not know
it when I courted her, but enduring attraction is her serene confidence. When I
asked her about the incidents, she answered strait away, for example, “He
kissed me, but got no satisfaction: I did not kiss him back.” At a great night
out, I asked her why she was looking over my left shoulder. She answered, “You
ought to see the fine Italian sitting over there.” I objected, and she
responded, “What’s your problem: you eye the women at church every Sunday.” I
developed a discipline I still need. Now, in our fifty-first year of marriage,
I could not be happier (except perhaps if I was not lame where I used to play).
Also, I had female friends, and
anytime conversation became personal bordering on intimacy, I backed away
without objecting. I did many things to protect commitment-to-myself to
monogamy for life with her and our children.
If her response to those incidents
had been anything other than, for example, an impactful scene when that guy
touched her breast, our marriage would have ended, much as I adore her.
Likewise, there were internal-incidents wherein forgiveness was required and
thankfully reached. However, if adultery had entered the picture, an end would
be accepted. I would not have been the end of life.
When a friend in a small group I had
associated with for 35 years (only death would part us) offended me over my
wife, I dropped out of the group. They were shocked, and I think a few
understood it.
In Anton Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s
Fiddle,” Yakov spends 45 years with friends, ignoring his wife Marta. Reading
that story helped me comfort my wife in a circumstance wherein my behavior
before reading the story burdened her.
In William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,”
a ten-year old boy decides to leave his family upon experiencing justice for
the first time in his life. He was correct in his decision.
Genesis 1:26-28 suggests, in my view,
that female&male-humans, made in the-God’s image, is charged to constrain
chaos during life. Such fidelity is grounded in mutual appreciation, and that’s
what humankind needs more than love.
It is difficult to imagine a friend
closer than my wife or one of our children.
FB add on: I cannot imagine a
friend closer than immediate family, my
best critics.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-a-social-contract-and-how-is-it-reflected-in-the-people-power? by Jinky Maglasang
Here’s a social contract. A Greek
political philosopher suggested that a civic citizen behaves for equity under
statutory justice. It’s a social contract that admits that citizens earn
according to their civic contributions with dissidents constrained by law-enforcement
in justice rather than arbitrary rules.
A similar social contract is
abstractly expressed in the combination of the 1776 Declaration of Impendence
(from England) and the 1787 U.S. Constitution (for domestic discipline). The
founders, in the Declaration, separated church from state by citing Nature’s
God (necessity) and the Supreme Judge of the world (military strength) rather
than competing with England over the Christian Trinity (Protestant in England
and sectarian in America). The framers, in the Constitution, did not lessen the
humble-integrity the founders had expressed. They specified a federal republic
with both the states and the nation reporting to “the good People”, quoting the
Declaration, or “We the People of the United States”, quoting the Constitution.
Both of these documents and the people who accept the social contract comport
to the suggestion in Genesis 1:26-28 that, in my view, female&male
humankind is charged to constrain chaos during life, independent of death. In
other words, fidelity for life is a human function.
However, Congress, in 1791 usurped
Genesis 1, the Declaration, the Constitution, and We the People of the United
States. Congress imposed a theism-Congress partnership on par with England’s
Canterbury-Parliament partnership. For 230 years, Congress has assumed that the
people would always wait for their personal God to relieve “ourselves and our
Posterity” from the misery and losses caused by Congress-religion and the
complicit U.S. Supreme Court, themselves politicians rather than developers of
humble-integrity.
The most recent, egregious failure to
separate church from state seems to be V.P. Mike Prince deciding to rebuke the
temporal Commander-in-Chief by favoring Pence’s interpretation of his
relationship with Jesus Christ. For all I know, Jesus, who writers
claim existed before Abraham (I AM), was the source of the Genesis 1:26-28
command for responsible-human-independence to dominion over life and to subdue
the earth. It seems President Trump intended to involve the Supreme Court in
accepting/denying rogue states’ election-processes and Pence ruined the people’s
opportunity for resolution.
In the case of the 1787 social
contract proffered in the U.S. Constitution, only when We the People of the
Untied States choose to accept responsibility for peace in the USA, will the
U.S. be established as intended 233 years ago in conformity to a suggestion 4
thousand years ago: separate church and state. Before 2021 ends, We the People
of the United States need to effect the amendment of the First Amendment in
order to promote U.S. humble-integrity rather than globally-competitive
religion.
In the U.S., “ourselves and our Posterity” has neglected the
social contract proffered in the U.S. preamble for 233 years. Hopefully, the
abyss in chaos has been reached and reform will come in 2021.
FB add on: Before 2021 ends, amend the First Amendment so as to
encourage U.S. humble-integrity rather than support globally-competitive
religion.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-consequences-will-you-face-for-not-listening-to-your-conscience? by Hima Ghiri
As the ethics which past influencers
impose on the individual’s recall, much of which was erroneous or temporal,
conscience is not a good guide for ordering daily choices. Developing responsible
self-reliance is the better option.
Was the person reared to be a human
being or one of the opposites? For example animal or plant. The person who is
reared by covert, successful criminals is likely to think crime pays.
A thoroughbred foal stands in about
an hour, finds food in about 3 hours, and may become a candidate for the Triple
Crown at age 3. The human being is exponentially more complicated. They must be
fed for 3 years or beyond, don’t walk until age 1, and don’t complete the
wisdom-building parts of the brain until a quarter century has passed.
If in the meantime, they are coached
and encouraged to take charge to accumulate basic comprehension to-start and
the intention to-complete a human lifetime. After more than 1 quarter century
of service to fellow-man, and a couple decades to reflect, they have a chance
to achieve the triple crown of unique personhood: external independence by completing
obligations, internal independence by resolving negative restraints, and
potential perfection of their unique person before body and mind stop
functioning.
If, during the first decade, their
caretakers believed in dependence on fellow citizens, their chances of becoming
independent may be lessened. For example, some welfare-smarts, criminals,
tyrants, and worse don’t admit that their living depends on civic-citizens.
They may never accept the self-interest of responsible-human-independence.
In this dilemma, a person must decide
to be a human being. If so, they may discover that humans have the individual
power, the individual energy, and the individual-integrity (HIPEA) to develop
humble-integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to self. If they choose
integrity, they rely only on the-ineluctable-evidence to discern
the-objective-truth on which to act. They do not allow erroneous standards
imposed by others to break their fidelity to self. They have no conscience,
because they accept and practice responsible-human-independence.
I think it is important to confront
the conscience as an imposed ethics databank complete with error to be avoided.
The person needs a journal of discovered humble-integrity based on
the-ineluctable-truth. The resulting ethics, founded in necessity, motivates
the self-discipline needed to constrain conscience.
As an example of the woe conscience
can impose, protestors at the Capital in Washington on January 6, 2021 were
conscientious objectors to an obviously illegal Presidential election on
November 3, 2020. They had witnessed the perpetrators of a national disgrace
support protestors in the Summer of 2020. They committed $3 billion in property
damage, injured people and murdered people, and ruined many lives, with no
consequential law enforcement.
When violence broke out in
Washington, some conscientiously joined the mayhem and thereby joined the list
of arrestees. Their lives will be harder going forward. Others, in
self-interest, left or avoided the scene.
Conscience can deceive.
FB add on: Humble-integrity is more reliable than
conscience to guide responsible-human-independence.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Why-do-people-think-they-have-the-right-to-judge-people-based-on-differences-socially-morally-and-why-exactly-are-differences-viewed-as-something-bad-instead-of-promoted? by Jonathan Avery
The good-citizen neither initiates
nor tolerates harm to or from any person, including self and family. Also, they
behave for equity under statutory justice, accepting that not all citizens
choose the good. They allow fellow-citizens to express themselves and oppose
expected harm. They report to first-responders observed harm. If attacked, they
defend self, family, and property.
People who judge others without
ineluctable expression by the other initiate harm.
To Alex Watson:
I
appreciate your comments, Mr. Watson.
Let’s
unpack some fallacies. First, the-God is no substitute for “God”. Without
sufficient humility toward the-God, a human being may be inviting woe for
worshipping the wrong choice. Second, my focus on the expansion of religious
chaos during the last 4 thousand years addresses prevention of peace on earth
rather than initiates sectarian squabbling. Third, humble-integrity is not idle
talk: it is the standard by which a human being may measure personal integrity.
Let
me add that for 2 decades I have urged fellow citizens to amend the First
Amendment to promote integrity, a civic duty, rather than institutional
religion, a business enterprise. Even before discovery of the principles I
glean from Genesis 1, I stated it as the need to encourage humble-integrity,
from which civic integrity emerges.
Speaking
of sects, I fully anticipate that a Protestant, a Catholic, a Jew, a Muslim, an
Ethiopian with any of those beliefs, and I can civically appreciate the-God yet
could not attempt to discuss God, each having a different definition in mind
and heart.
https://www.quora.com/What-would-be-different-if-we-lived-in-a-fair-world? by Vitmor Gomes
Mr. Gomes, I appreciate that you
motivated me to consult the dictionary about the word “fair”.
At Merriam-Webster online I found the
best usage: “marked by impartiality and honesty: free
from self-interest, prejudice, or favoritism”. From there, it’s steadily
downhill in humble-integrity, as I see it.
What fellow-citizens need and many work for is equity under
statutory justice. Thereby, fellow-citizens accept that every human-being can
develop humble-integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to self.
Persons who cannot become independent on their own are
helped by fellow citizens; that’s why most adults who see a child in need lends
help. Human-beings are unique, so one does not judge another. But many
fellow-citizens choose dependency, through handouts, crime, tyranny, and worse.
The citizens who work for equity and justice do so out of
self-interest to all living citizens. They favor responsible-human-independence
rather than dependency. And they appreciate every fellow-citizen as capable of
humble-integrity rather than honesty, which may be erroneous. They encourage
errant fellow-citizens to reform or face constraint. They provide impartiality
when statutory justice must mediate harm an offender actually caused. They pay
the expenses of statutory justice.
After considering your question, it is clearer to me than
ever before that John Rawls’ “Justice as Fairness” is flawed.
Rawls’ promotion of “fairness” and intentional ignorance is
increasing chaos on earth.
FB add on: John
Rawls’ “Justice as Fairness” discourages responsible-human-independence.
https://www.quora.com/John-Cage-said-I-cant-understand-why-people-are-frightened-of-new-ideas-Im-frightened-of-the-old-ones-Which-ideas-of-the-past-or-now-do-you-find-frightening? by Graham C
Lindsay
Ralph Waldo Emersion (RWE) wrote, in
“Divinity School Address” (1838) “One is constrained to respect the perfection of this world . . . It
is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.” The
reader is invited to enjoy the poetry in prose in the 15-minute read; https://www.learner.org/wp-content/interactive/amerpass/archive/9000s/9049.pdf.
I re-read
Divinity many times in the last two decades and was aware that Emerson was
influenced by Genesis 1. Only recently did I imagine the depth and richness of
Genesis 1:26-28, taking into account what human kind has discovered in the last
4 thousand years. For example, the political philosopher responsible for
Genesis 1 was not privy to the recent discovery that dinosaurs roamed the earth
about 65 million years ago and humans evolved during 3 million years from
hominids emerging 7 million years ago. Like many philosophers of the time, a
Mesopotamian suggested that the-God (of necessity ?) assigned to
male&female-humans responsibility to constrain chaos on earth. RWE
encouraged “great [humans] to subdue and enjoy it”.
Alas,
during the past 4 thousand years as humankind accepts its technical
discoveries, civilizations insist on psychology that struggles to persuade
the-God to favor them in competition with other humans. Rather than encouraging
youth to develop responsible-human-independence, these civilizations inculcate
a life-long yearning to find a reliable higher power to provide safety and
security on earth. The person who chooses to be a human-being has the
individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA)
to develop humble-integrity rather than to tolerate infidelity to self.
The United
States is predicated on the pursuit of statutory justice. That is, when the
U.S. Constitution lacks justice, intention is to amend law-enforcement toward
justice. It seems obvious that conformity to the-God, whatever-it-is, is a
necessity. However, the United States, by English precedent, operates a Judeo-Christian-Congressional-Court
partnership so as to compete with Canterbury-Parliament-egocentric-divinity. To
feign “freedom of religion”, elite politicians take for granted alienation of
We the People of the United States to defend any government official’s
religious beliefs.
The latest
evidence seems the most egregious tyranny in U.S. history, because in 2020, the
evidence of the principles expressed above seems ineluctable. The key evidence
is that humankind is responsible for peace on earth. The egregious evidence is
not Mitt Romney’s claim to an impeachment vote because he is a religious man.
It is not William Barr’s arrogance toward his Commander-in-Chief. It is not the
USA’s allegiance to “God” in infidelity to “the-God”.
It’s Mike
Pence in Georgia on January 5, 2020 witnessing for Jesus Christ; then on
January 6, 2021 egocentrically rebuking the Commander-in-Chief of the United
States.
It was
well publicized that President Trump had asked Pence to reject electoral votes
from states that did not follow their election laws for the November 3, 2020
election. Obviously, that action would challenge the Constitution. The Supreme
Court would have no choice but to adjudicate before January 20, 2021.
On January
6, people who had been called to Washington to rally for Trump heard Trump’s
encouragement for peaceful expression. However, many of them were aware of and
frustrated by Pence’s decision. They did not articulate angst over the allegiance
to factional-Christian beliefs rather than the responsible-human-independence
called for in Judeo-Christian scripture, but nonetheless cited Pence’s
culpability.
This
egregious tyranny has plagued the United States ever since Congress codified
its adolescence by creating a Congress-religion partnership in the 1791 First
Amendment. These 230 years later, it’s standard for politicians and judges to
attribute to their God the responsibility for their duplicity.
My
greatest fear is that We the People of the United States will never accept the
evidence of U.S. hypocrisy and demand amendment of the Constitution so as to
encourage humble-integrity (responsible-human-independence suggested in
Genesis 1 and by RWE) rather than religion, a human want, turned by managers
into business enterprises.
FB add
on: V.P. Mike Pence predictably erred on
January 6, rebuking the U.S. Commander-in-Chief in order to expresses his view
of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ (Jan 5 in Georgia).
Genesis 1:26-28 charges male&female humans to
independently constrain chaos on earth.
I's not new. Congress denied Genesis 1 when it partnered
with religion in 1791. R. E. Lee egregiously relied on Christianity when he
rejected President Lincoln’s appeals:
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Letter_from_Robert_E_Lee_to_Mary_Randolph_Custis_Lee_December_27_1856.
William Barr slighted We the People of the United States as his Christianity
cannot be bullied.
Religion is alright as a private pursuit, but not as a
civic, civil, or legal imposition.
(I express opinion because I do not know
the-ineluctable-truth.)
https://www.quora.com/Should-you-ever-have-to-ask-for-an-apology-Does-asking-for-an-apology-itself-mean-that-you-dont-respect-yourself-as-much-as-you-should-since-you-are-entitled-to-an-apology? by Viktor Bondarchuk then Aiziz Baqir at https://www.quora.com/q/thebeautywithin
It depends on whether or not harm was
actually done and done by the objective person.
An ineluctably good person neither
initiates harm to or from anyone, including self and family.
Apology-expectation assumes that the
other party is the offender and knows that is so. When an apology seems needed,
it seems prudent to confirm both that actual harm was done and to give the
suspected offender the opportunity to identify and accept guilt.
Of course, that does not hold if the
other party is a criminal and you have ineluctable proof of both harm and
guilt.
I shared opinion since I don’t know
the-ineluctable-truth.
https://www.quora.com/What-defines-a-good-person-in-todays-world? by Jonny Langwa
Not knowing the-ineluctable-truth, I
express opinion.
The good person accepts that they are
a human being rather than one of the opposites. They accept their human
individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to
develop humble-integrity rather than to tolerate infidelity. They accept that
some persons develop HIPEA for crime and other dependencies and therefore
behave for equity under statutory justice. They appreciate the-God, whether it
be physics, chaos, or an intelligent controller of the-ineluctable-events. They
encourage fellow-human beings to constrain chaos in the universe.
A good person practices the-good as
responsible-human-independence, accepting that the-God, whatever-it-is, takes
care of its own domain.
FB add on: Accepting responsibility for chaos control in
a life.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-give-their-opinions-like-it-s-universal-truth? by Michael Okeke
I think self-interest informs an alternate
question: Why would anyone take
someone’s universal truth as the-ineluctable-truth? The individual is
responsible to constrain chaos in their life.
For example, I worshipped with my
wife and three children in Catholic churches for 15 years, never taking the
Eucharist. Born Baptist, I did not feel any human being should interfere with another’s
pursuit of the-God, whatever-it-is. Baptists, as I perceive the belief,
participate in “The Lord’s Supper” in Remembrance of Jesus’ death-on-the-cross
to redeem believers of sin.
The doctrines of Christianity were
worked out by competing groups during the 400 years after Jesus was born to a
Jewish male&female. Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests, in “Divinity School
Address” (1838) that Jesus message, each human can perfect their unique person,
is repressed by religions debating Jesus’ divinity, even embodiment of God. I
like Emerson’s suggestion, yet am prepared for what I doubt: Christian judgement
when my body, mind, and person stop functioning; that is, in my afterdeath.
My articulations were not as mature 2
decades ago when I asked a priest to allow me to unite with my family as they
practiced Transubstantiation while I exercised Remembrance; in other words, to
attend communion when they did. The priest responded that he loved the Church
too much to allow me to follow a different doctrine therein. We met no more,
and I begrudged neither his opinion about his job nor my opinion that he erred.
At his wake, someone noted his humility, and I responded, “Or pride, if so.”
Since then, I discovered the Genesis 1:26-28 charge to male&female to
constrain chaos.
The-ineluctable-evidence brooks
neither a priest’s universal truth nor a believer’s faith in a personal God.
The-God, whether it be physics, chaos, or an intelligent entity, commands
the-ineluctable-truth.
FB add on: The outcome in the U.S. January 6, 2021 events might have
been better if churches encouraged fellow-citizens to individually constrain
chaos in their lives rather than to pray for the-God to reverse the responsible-human-independence
suggested in Genesis 1: V.P. Mike Pence
might have announced he would follow the temporal Commander-in-chief's
directive.
https://www.quora.com/Does-anybody-teach-you-that-being-good-is-wrong? by Jack Chen
Hypocrisy
has been rampant in the world and in the USA for the duration of the human
species. It
need not be that way. There can be widespread responsible-human-independence.
The
human species evolved beginning some 3 million years ago from humanoids,
emerging from placental mammals beginning some 7 million years ago. In 2021, the newborn of the
species develops the comprehension and intention to either choose to develop a
human being or nurture an opposite; for example, animal or plant. That is, to
tolerate nourishment of banal appetites or to be dependent on humankind for
individual existence. Responsible-human-independence must be discovered, because
encouragement to self-discipline is ignored by worshipping the-God as surrogate
for the-good.
The
widespread inculcation of hypocrisy stems from neglect of the suggestion in
Genesis 1:26–28. Taking into account
4-thousand-years’ discoveries based on the-ineluctable-truth, male&female
may choose to thrive, take
dominion over all life forms, and subdue the universe.
A
few discoveries that occurred since then are: 1) dinosaurs died out about 65
million years ago and that awareness might have changed the philosopher’s
claims, 2) an event 13.8
billion years ago initiated physics and it progeny including biology and
psychology, 3) no one knows either a) what existed before then or b) how the
laws of physics came into existence, and 4) after physics, it seems there is no authority higher
than the male&female humans who constrain chaos during life.
It
seems the political philosophy reported in Genesis 1 came from Mesopotamia, from which
Abraham escaped. Perhaps he saved his family from human sacrifice to bargain with the-God. His people substituted animal sacrifice.
This seems improved monotheism, yet inconsistent with conservative dominion over lesser species. And, since
human sacrifice was not terminated, the escape increased religious chaos within
monotheism.
Abraham’s failure to
appreciate the-male&female entity led to infidelity and two major
religions: 1)
monotheism with
expectation of a savior for the chosen, Israel, and 2) the other, which
eventually became Islam in its diverse factions. When Jesus spoke cryptic philosophy, a Jewish-faction took him to
be the expected savior and political writing over the next 400 years led to
several Bible canonizations: Catholic, Eastern, Eastern Asia, and others.
Objections in 1517 led to Protestantism, quickly fractioning into sects. In
summary, human psychology after Genesis 1, focusing on the-God rather than
responsible-human independence, developed infidelity to the human necessity to constrain
chaos during a lifetime---to intend and develop self-discipline.
I think the necessity to discipline self so as to constrain
chaos during one opportunity to live is evident to a human being. A person must
nourish infidelity to self in order to invite chaos during life, perhaps
leading to early death. In other words, the thought in Genesis 1:26–28---humankind
is in charge of peace, was never particularly astute. At least, after the year
2020, fellow-citizens’ need to constrain chaos seems undeniable. Every day, on
TV, panelists express, “Somebody must do something.” Pity. Especially pity the
protectors of “freedom of religion” instead of encouraging humble-integrity in
self-interest.
It seems egregious that most humans, male&female, choose
infidelity to self and pray to a personal God for relief from the losses and
misery, defying Genesis 1. Thus, some religious beliefs, such as Christianity,
teach people “that being good is wrong”.
FB add on: Theism teaches that constraining chaos during
a lifetime rather than depending on the-God is wrong.
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I'm glad to see the U.S. enforcing the
rule of law, no matter what the cause. However, I cannot condone the special
attention Congress takes.
We the People of the United States must
start impressing elected and appointed officials that systematic deceit "
. . under God" will no longer work.
Most fellow-citizens are humble to
the-God, whatever that is (perhaps necessity by its simple label). However, no
two of us agree what God requires of us; we each have a personal God or
philosophy.
A middle-eastern philosopher 4 thousand
years ago suggested that male&female humankind is charged to constrain
chaos during their lives (Genesis 1:26-28). Since then, civilizations have
conflicted over the-God, neglecting the disciplines required for fidelity to
peace on earth. It starts with male&female appreciation for life.
We've learned a lot in 4 thousand years,
and I suggest that the proper expression, based on the origins of human life,
is female&male fidelity to family.
Congress persons and Justices are first
fellow-citizens. If they consider themselves elites, they must go.
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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