The U.S. Supreme Court exacerbates Chapter XI Machiavellian chaos

 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:  "The good People of these" united states facilitate and encourage five civic 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.

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The U.S. Supreme Court exacerbates Chapter XI Machiavellian chaos

It occurred to me this week that judges are more culpable than both priests and politicians in regressing the U.S. from its proffered intention to develop responsible-human-independence in conformity to standards to be discovered by future “ourselves and our Posterity” rather than preserve Anglo-American law.

I have long perceived that James Madison was aware of Machiavelli’s Chapter XI irony concerning governance by a priest-politician-partnership. The partnership lives high on the hog and fellow-citizens neither rebel nor emigrate, maintaining faith that their family-God will eventually relieve their descendants’ misery and loss.

The people ignore the 4500 year-old political philosophy in Genesis 1, which suggests that the-God assigns to human-beings the responsibility for order on earth. The Sumerian suggestion predates Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. There was a brief time, perhaps a thousand years, when humankind could have accepted the Genesis 1 necessity to establish peace on earth. However, individual tribes focused on attempts to harness the-God so as to usurp responsible-human-independence; to subjugate others to their-God-led tribe, despite the-God. The consequence is chaos that is divergent in 2021.

Events before 1774 convinced the USA-founders that they must establish humility toward both humankind and the-God; physics and metaphysics; civic-church and civil-state. Therefore, nothing in the 1776 declaration of war against England disparaged England’s reformed-Catholic Trinity. And in 1778, the founders negotiated military-providence from France. Ratifying the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the 13 free and independent states accepted that their confederation was too weak for global survival.

The framers, in 1787 specified a federal-republic with the states in a Union led by 3 equal and competitive branches: legislative, judicial, and administrative. Five days before the signers finalized the 1787 U.S. Constitution, the preamble became a statement of purpose: five public disciplines “in order to” develop responsible-human-independence according to standards to be discovered by “ourselves and our Posterity”.

When Congress unconstitutionally re-established English legal precedents, the Supreme Court should have rendered the acts unconstitutional. Under “the rule of law” the Supreme Court so thoroughly bemuses itself with precedents that it is confused when a man, persuaded by a metaphysical entrepreneurship, claims the right to be a woman.

Since 1513, Chapter XI Machiavellianism focused on the clergy-politician-conspiracy.  It’s time to recognize the court’s collaboration against the people, so far. I hope we, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” demand amendment of the First Amendment so as to encourage and facilitate civic humble-integrity rather than civil religious-opinion.  

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-honour-is-the-highest-virtue? by Paul Lucy Savage

No. Each ethics and honor may be subjective.

Merriam-Webster Online has usage 8.a, “a keen sense of ethical conduct: INTEGRITY.”

However, the integrity must be humble to physics and its progeny, including biology and psychology. Humble-integrity is the standard by which a person may gauge their personal-integrity.

Second, the ethics on which honor may be granted must be founded on the-ineluctable-evidence; never on metaphysics.

I think the greatest honor is to continually develop the humble-integrity required for responsible-human-independence. Thereby, an individual may perfect their unique person before dying.

FB add on:  Perhaps the greatest virtue is to continually develop humble-integrity during life.

https://www.quora.com/Did-human-rights-exist-before-the-UDHR? by Maciah MacPherson

Yes.

However, “rights” is a human construct by which the authors intend to arbitrarily bemuse most people’s attention to necessity, in order to license the authors. I think the only valid human right is inalienable/un-consignable; the human opportunity to-develop humble-integrity and to-constrain chaos in personal living cannot be consigned to another.

Necessity requires the entity female&male-human-being to constrain chaos. That is, each human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop the humble-integrity with which to practice, encourage, and facilitate responsible-human-independence (RHI) during life.

However, physics and its progeny such as psychology are imperfect, and not every person accepts these four human conditions: that they are a human being, that humble-integrity is in their self-interest, that they may use HIPEA to perfect their person before death, and if so, they can develop statutory-justice to-necessity, in order to constrain RHI-dissidents. Dissidents are in one way or another dependent on fellow-citizens. For example, the criminal needs a victim.

Thinkers who perceive these political theories could encourage an achievable better future. However, deep-thinkers prefer power and develop poverty, war, religion, ideology, and other means to bemuse and control fellow-citizens. A perfectly powerful political partnership may be entered by priests, politicians, and judges. The people inculcate in their children religious faith that ultimately the family-God will usurp RHI. Families neither rebel nor leave the country, and the priest- politician-judge-partnership lives high on the hog with immunity.

The UDHR is a consequence of the rule of judges’-law, a human construct that wraps on itself and drifts so far from physics as to facilitate metaphysical-industry, such as the one that offers gender-change for sale.

In the U.S., the evil First-Amendment-religion-clauses empowered the priest-politician-judge chaos that has develop since March, 1788, when 11 of 13 formerly free and independent states seated the first Congress and began to restore Anglo-American tradition (reformed Catholic/Protestant Christianity but with USA-factions) rather than embark on U.S. intentions (RHI). At the soonest possible moment, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 must effect amendment of the First Amendment, in order to encourage and facilitate civic integrity rather than religious opinion (a private, optional pursuit).

Evidence that the U.S., on September 17, 1787, embarked on development of RHI is in perhaps three documents. First, is 4500 year-old Sumerian political thought, in Genesis 1:27-28:  Female&male-human-being is charged to constrain chaos on earth. However, descendant tribes divided by creating a doctinal-God that would favor their tribe. But in 1776; the founders’ declaration of war against England and their 1782 appeal for French military-providence affirms the Genesis-1 separation of church and state. And the signers’ 1787 U.S. Constitution offered not one word that lessens the humble-integrity of the founders’ 1776 declaration. So far, fellow-citizens have not effected the 1787 intentions.

Each person who accepts that she or he is a human-being has the right to constrain chaos in her or his life, notwithstanding a confused world.

FB add on: The human right to constrain chaos in living is a unique, personal self-interest.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-benefits-of-volunteerism-to-society? by Francis Obieze

I don’t know. But my view is that it’s a big negative, especially when it escalates to “philanthropy”.

Necessity and power require female&male-human-being to constrain chaos on earth (Genesis 1:27-28 for example of primitive political philosophy). Throughout evolution, it has been plain to the individual that constraining chaos in lifestyle is a self-interest. Further, the human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop the humble-integrity with which to practice responsible-human-independence (RHI). So the first valid volunteerism is to develop the self-discipline to responsibly earn the way of living one desires. That is, to provide a good or service that fellow-citizens are willing to buy during enough years to pay the provider’s family-living and responsible retirement.

People who do not appreciate this human self-interest acquire and nurture dependency of two kinds: neglect and intent. Intent develops in to crime, tyranny, evil, and worse, unless constrained by statutory law-enforcement. People who indiscriminately volunteer exacerbate dependency of both kinds.

The U.S. Constitution, being based on legal constructs rather than physics and its source (“Nature and nature’s God”), is manipulated to restore English precedents, primarily elites vs the middle class mimicking lords/clergy vs commoners. Consequently, the U.S. generates millionaires and billionaires on entrepreneurship and entertainment and their managers. Included is tax favor for philanthropy.

Philanthropy empowers the ultra-rich to defeat the 1787 U.S. intention to develop statutory justice. I’m reminded of George Soros who has $8.5 billion but donated $32 billion to Open Society Foundations. I don’t know, but understand he influences leftist politics. The Democrat party seems alien to U.S. intentions: public discipline so as to develop RHI.

In summary, the volunteerism I favor is fellow citizens both initiating no harm and opposing harm to or from any person or group.

I oppose the Democrat Party and work to reform the Republican Party. I work to end the religion-Congress partnership that repressed the 1787 U.S. intentions and purpose. Even more culpable than Congress is the Supreme Court, who develop the law in defiance of physics and its progeny, including biology, psychology, and economic viability.

FB add on: I don’t think volunteerism is the apple pie it’s purported to be.

https://www.quora.com/Explain-the-paradox-of-sharing-your-right-with-another-and-yet-fully-having-it-What-is-the-moral-truth-behind-this-paradox-Illustrate-by-giving-example? by Yuri Beast

Maybe it’s folly more than paradox.

The notion that the-God or a government will assure a person life, liberty, property, or the pursuit of happiness is certainly a foolhardy notion. Consider the citizens who were killed by Democrat-sponsored license to the liberty-to trash property and injure and kill fellow citizens in the U.S. during summer, 2020.

The “rights of man” is a political propaganda developed by elite writers in Europe’s enlightenment era. In 2021, some would-be elites propose the “right” to mathematics.

In my view, the only valid right to female&male-human-being is the right to develop humble-integrity. It is a self-interest that would proliferate if encouraged and facilitated to fellow-citizens, especially the young.

Careful study of three documents shows that this is not a new possibility. Genesis 1:27-28 proposes constraint of chaos, the 1776 USA-declaration of independence from England separates church from state, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution has not one word that lessens the humble-integrity of the former two documents.

FB add on: The right to develop humble-integrity doesn’t seem competitive.

https://www.quora.com/Is-morality-a-burden-to-man? by 1 person

Taking “man” to mean female&male-human-being, burdens depend upon whether the individual accepts that they are a human-being. If so, throughout life, they perceive the-good in their self-interest rather than a burden. They accept the opportunity to neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person.

This principle was expressed perhaps 4500 years ago in Genesis 1:27-28, viewed with discoveries through 2021.

https://www.quora.com/What-drives-dissent? by Graham C Lindsay

Merriam-Webster online tells us “dissent” is “to withhold assent or approval”. You ponder what drives it.

The civic citizen’s greatest strength is that they do no wrong, neither causing nor tolerating harm to or from any person. The few who behave this way act in self-interest, because their greatest desire is civic, mutual, comprehensive safety and security that facilitates the responsible-happiness the individual perceives rather than subjugation to someone else’s vision for them. “Civic” in this usage refers to human connections rather than municipal conformity.

But not every person perceives the self-interest of responsible-human-independence. Some choose dependency on fellow-citizens: gaming the system, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse.

It seems dissent is driven by failure to accept and appreciate the opportunity to develop a human being rather than one of the opposites: animal, plant, or mineral.

FB add on: Dissent seems driven by failure to appreciate the opportunity to responsibly develop a unique person.

https://www.quora.com/If-Americans-only-understood-that-what-were-conserving-is-our-right-to-life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness-So-why-deny-anyone-those-rights-so-long-as-people-respect-others-right-to-life-liberty-and-the-pursuit? by Adam Creech

I do not agree with the violence the Democrat Party is conducting under V.P. Harris and President Biden. Neither do I agree with the tyranny imposed by Congress in 1789: freedom of religion, speech, and he press according to Congress rather than We the People of the United States.

Beginning my fourth quarter-century, I have always faced no appreciation for my trust-in and commitment-to the-ineluctable-truth, most of which is unknown. I recall I was 7 years old when fear induced by the minister at Calvary Baptist Church, Knoxville, TN motivated me to “quietly leave [my] seat with every eye closed and head bowed and walk down the aisle to give my life to Jesus.” Mom and Dad were such good providers that I struggled for the next 4 decades to choose one of the competitive Christian faiths they offered. To this day, I do not know who was subjugated by the other.

All during my first quarter century the politically correct saying was “the Christian thing to do” or “what would Jesus do?” Slowly I realized that “I am a born again Christian” meant the speaker planned to pick my pocket. People who learned of my opinions quickly labeled me agnostic if not atheist. However, my satisfaction increased in humble-integrity toward whatever controls the consequences of a person’s actions. I would never return to the risks I took in purporting to choose a doctrinal-God.

By the end of my second quarter century, my serenely-confident, Louisiana-French-Catholic wife and our 3 children helped me accept what I call responsible-human-independence. I would never go back to before and would not encourage anyone to follow my path. Let each person pursue their unique perfection.

Quoting the 1776 Declaration, there’s “Nature and Nature’s God”. Then there’s “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”. These human provisions, excepting “liberty” were not repeated in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Instead, its intentions are 5 public disciplines with unconstrained standards: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity.

We learned from the 1789 French Revolution and again from the U.S. Democrat-Cities summer of 2020 that “liberty” is often taken as license to injure/kill fellow-citizens. I prefer responsible-independence to freedom and especially liberty.

It seems plain that neither the-God nor government can assure the individual life, liberty, property, or the pursuit of happiness. Peace on earth can only come when most individuals behave with responsible-human-independence. My confidence in this message comes from the combination Genesis 1:27-28, the founders’ 1776 USA Declaration, and the signers’ 1787 U.S. Constitution. All 3 documents represent separation of church and state plus responsible-human-independence.

We, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 must effect reform to humble-integrity rather than religious hubris, a reform due since March 4, 1789.

The Democrats are effecting tyranny against We the People of the United States. Tyranny is tyranny whether it comes from “woke terrorists” or the Christian majority. It’s past time for reform to U.S. humble-integrity, the intention that was proffered in 1787.

FB add on: Neither the-God nor government will usurp the responsible-human-independence to assure fellow-citizens civic life, independence, property, and the pursuit of happiness.

https://www.quora.com/If-all-people-made-up-their-own-minds-about-who-is-good-or-bad-without-the-influence-of-clergy-political-parties-and-the-media-would-we-live-in-a-kinder-more-equitable-society? by Mary Bunbun

First, from the statistical anomalies that occur in physics and its progeny, such as biology and psychology, I do not think “all” can ever apply. The best we can hope for is “most” and it seems regarding the basics open-minded people are split into thirds: active, passive, and middling. When an issue is well understood, it seems the people arrive at a 2/3 preference. For example, it seems 2/3 of Americans oppose forcing/coercing a woman to remain pregnant more than they oppose abortion.

Education of men and women to not become sexually intimate in circumstances that threaten the woman’s viable ova is the common-sense approach to lessening abortion.

To your point, in the U.S. the clergy-politician-partnership created by the First Amendment’s religion clauses positions men to subjugate women by tradition. U.S. women can lead the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” to amend the U.S. Constitution so as to encourage and facilitate humble-integrity rather than religious-opinion. The reform should apply to all three branches of the federal government, the media, and the state governments. Thus, instead of “Congress shall . . . “, the effective First Amendment will read “No elected or appointed official in the United States shall act to lessen encouragement and facilitation of the individual citizen’s development of humble-integrity” . . . or better.

Many reforms would develop from this first step. For example, the purpose expressed by the signers of the 1787 U.S. Constitution is public discipline with 1) unconstrained standards of discipline-achievement and 2) provisions for “ourselves and our Posterity” to amend the law toward statutory justice. From the USA founder’s 1776 Declaration, “Nature and Nature’s God” rather than law as the standard of human development, and military-providence (strength) by “the good People” is “the Supreme Judge of the world”. Thus, with the reformed First Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court would be compelled to turn from English precedent, obsolete or not, to U.S. intentions to pursue the-ineluctable-truth rather than human reason.

These principles are so shockingly plain as to seem incredulous. However, a few hours contemplation of Genesis 1:27-28 might convince many citizens who want mutual, comprehensive safety and security so as to responsible live according to personal happiness rather than submit to someone else’s vision for them to perceive the Genesis message as: female&male-human-being is charged to constrain chaos in life. With most individuals doing so, dissidents would be motivated to reform, and peace on earth might be more possible. In other words, the promise of Genesis 1, the 1776 Declaration, and the 1787 Constitution is not restricted to U.S. citizens.

FB add on: Through individual, responsible-human-independence there can be more peace on earth.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-the-principle-The-customer-is-always-correct-be-optimized-among-human-beings/answer/Bob-Copeland-22 appreciating commenter Bob Copeland

Speaking of history, in 1774 there was talk of Nova Scotia being the 14^th American colony. British North America thereby might have become part of the United States.

Also, the Continental Congress wrote 3 letters to Quebec, hoping their French citizens would join the war for independence from England.

I don’t know why it did not work out. Do you know some of the reasons? Interestingly, France, in 1778 dedicated some of its ongoing war with England to American soil and was dominate in the victory at Yorktown, VA, 1781.

My wife could have a French passport, too, because her maiden name is Marrionneaux, with direct Parisian ancestors who immigrated to New Orleans, Louisiana. She has two Acadian-French ancestors, LeJeune and LaBauve, who immigrated to Louisiana’s prairie country from Canada.

To me, it would be altogether appropriate for the U.S. to observe an achievable better future in Canada, predicated on Canadian, 2021 updates of Genesis 1:27-28, the 1776 Declaration for USA independence from England, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution with the preamble revised for clarity and to change “liberty” to “independence”, if not “responsible-human-independence.

The bravery of individuals who undertake habitation of space will be at least on par with the American settlers. Indeed, they will offer humankind a renewal of the opportunity to develop peace on earth, which so far, the U.S. “ourselves and our Posterity” have neglected under the unconstitutional Congress-tyranny of Protestantism morphed to Judeo-Christianity, perhaps now Judeo-Catholicism, and covertly tending toward Judeo-Tewahedonism.

To Bob Copeland again:

I’ve seen your point in my studies today.

I read or scanned each:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/french-immigration-in-canada, which led me to a map of provinces that informed me Nova Scotia is lost in the Atlantic Provinces, east of Quebec. Quebec was New France when Nova Scotia was Acadia. The Acadians were “Roman Catholic” but different. (There goes some biased reporting, I think.)

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/catholicism, which does not date Acadia-French arrival in Canada and understand how they are different. (Biased reporting, I think.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadians, which vaguely informs that the Acadians were different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain, which gives and overview of New France and suggests the next item:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-Royal_National_Historic_Site, which was France’s first permanent settlement, 1605, and became the capital of Acadia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis_Royal, which reports the 1755 deportation of the Acadians.

A Catholic-history of France was too much for me, but it must contain information about the SE French Catholics who were exiled to Canada, why, and when; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Catholic_Church_in_France.

The above articles made it clear that both Canada and the U.S. were resolutions of French and English wars with aid from indigenous peoples and slaves. Not so much Spain and the Netherlands. I found a UN 2010 survey on religions in global-regions and nations therein at http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/regions/europe. I tabulated the data and was surprised.

Unaffiliated varies from 12-16 for Denmark, Italy, and U.S., respectively; 19 Spain; 24-28 Canada, Germany, and France; 42 Netherlands. Catholic is 14 England; 24 U.S.; 29-39 Netherlands, Germany, Canada; 60-81 France, Spain, Italy. Protestant is 1.0 – 1.8 Spain, Italy, France;  22-34 Netherland, Canada, Germany; 48-50 England, U.S.; 82 Denmark. The variations are mostly filled by Muslim then 1% or less. I did not include Ireland, even though it was mentioned in the Canadian articles.

 

https://www.quora.com/When-did-freedom-of-speech-become-allowed-for-all-people-and-where-did-it-start-first/answer/Phil-Beaver-1 appreciating commenter Bill Sands

Thank you.

Enlightenment writers, especially in 17th-18th century Great Britain and France, suggested that freedom is an un-consignable human condition. In other words, a human-being cannot consign freedom if they want to. And that is consistent with Genesis 1:27–28, which suggests that humankind is assigned, perhaps by necessity, to independently constrain chaos on earth. That is to say, neither the-God/nature nor government will usurp the individual human’s responsibility to offer peace in world-order.

The writers also suggested, with less clarity, that liberty is not license-to prevent a fellow-human’s freedom. For example, a fellow-citizen does not have the liberty-to impose their personal God on another; that is to say, each civic-citizen has the freedom-from civil religious opinion. Church and state must be independent of each other.

Too late for the 1787 U.S. Constitution, France demonstrated in the 1789 Bloody Revolution that, too often, errant-citizens take “liberty” to mean the license to shed fellow-citizens’ blood. The U.S.-alien Democrats of 2020 cheered blood-in-the-streets as domestic and foreign terrorists burned and looted Democrat-controlled cities and injured and killed citizens and stormed the Capital in 2021.

Clearly, “liberty” in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution must be reformed to “independence” if not “responsible-human-independence”. And the statue in NY Harbor must be renamed “The Statue of Independence” on “Independence Island”. Appreciation to France for their 1778–1781 civil-providence in the USA’s war for independence does not require civic-submission to license.

Moreover, we, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 must, preferably by 2022, amend the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, in order to deny the license of any elected or appointed official in the U.S. to constrain individual freedom to develop the humble-integrity to practice responsible-human-independence, whether by religion, speech, or reporting. The First Amendment’s pretension of constraint on Congress is shared-license to all government officials, especially the U.S. Supreme Court, the President, and the media.

FB add on: Freedom-to develop responsible-human-independence is inalienable to the individual human-being. Liberty is arbitrary license-to abuse fellow-human-beings’ freedom.

https://www.quora.com/Should-mercy-compassion-and-sympathy-be-a-privilege-for-the-deserving-or-an-entitlement-for-all? by Idris Abdullah

Neither: The practice is judgmental. Philanthropy, beyond judgmental, is unjust, as some of the world’s billionaires demonstrate.

Three pivotal documents, in combination, charge “ourselves and our Posterity” to constrain chaos on earth: Genesis 1:27-28, the 1776 declaration of war against England, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution. The combination expresses appreciation for the female&male-human-being.

The civic-citizen, the individual who applies this combination, be they a U.S. citizen or not, offers each fellow-citizen equity and statutory justice in human-appreciation. Citizens who deny appreciation risk constraint until they reform. When injustice is discovered in written law, civic-citizens aid amendment toward justice.

Physics and its progeny, including biology and psychology, imperfectly controls the consequences of action. For example, often, global variations in the earth’s atmosphere produce local variants that are destructive: ice storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, and more. In human action, lies cause loss and misery.

In human reproduction, babies need 100% care until age 3-7 then develop themselves into viable young adults in about a quarter century. Young adults, those who acquired comprehension and intention to be a human being rather than one of the opposites, develop, during a quarter-century or more of service to fellow-citizens, the humble-integrity by which to judge and develop personal integrity. During retirement, the individual may approach perfection of their individual.

In the statistical variations resulting from physics, consequences of human life are infinitely variable. Some babies are born incapable of self-development and should be aided until they can sustain self-development or for life. Some individuals can be incapacitated by accident. Life-support should be provided.

Otherwise, the combination mercy, compassion, and sympathy seems judging rather than appreciating a fellow-citizen’s responsible-human-independence.

Unfortunately, no civilization teaches their youth that a human-being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop the reliable-independence to responsibly-pursue the-happiness-they-perceive rather than submit to someone’s mercy, compassion, and sympathy. No culture teaches Genesis 1:27-28 as a charge to human independence.

I think the nation that improves and applies these principles will have an achievable better future and that the U.S. intends such as future, considering the 3 documents mentioned above.

FB add on: Philanthropy subverts responsible-human-independence, increasing chaos on earth.

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.

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