Will&reason is distraction from necessity&justice

 

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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Will&reason is distraction from necessity&justice

In humankind’s quest to constrain chaos on earth, scholars waste a lot of money on whether or not an individual has free-will; also, law by reason rather than by the-ineluctable-truth; also, justice as metaphysics rather than as physics&its-progeny. The scholars, lawyers, and judges aid this tyranny for affluence in a world that is controlled by elites.

Chaos in the U.S. has become divergent. Perhaps the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” will assume the role of citizen who intends to constrain chaos in their way of living and demands accountability in every government office: agents who encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence rather than trust-in the-God.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Should-anything-exist-to-impede-human-free-will? by Rodney Vessels

“Should” gives an interesting perspective. I don’t know the answer.

However, physics and its progeny, such as mathematics, don’t yield to free will.

A person is free to create a formula a + a’ = 2a+1, or a’ = a+1. Thereby, twice 2 fruit should equal 5 fruit, by free will. However, put 2 apples plus 2 oranges on the table, and you’ll count 4 fruit; every time.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-will-and-reason-affect-moral-behavior-in-terms-of-planning-and-execution-of-important-moral-experiences? by Jenie Rose Alauig

I think will&reason are individually bemusing. Together they ruin a person’s unique . . . singular . . . chance to establish the humble-integrity that is needed for responsible-human-independence (RHI). RHI is the-good’s purpose.

I think necessity&justice inform each human-being to constrain chaos in their way of living, and the ones who respond develop self-discipline. Developing self-interest, they accept the responsibility of being a human-being. Some human-beings discover their individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to pursue humble-integrity rather than tolerate&nurture infidelity to themselves. With practice, a few human-beings accept the responsible-happiness they desire and pursue it rather than submit to the vision someone else has for them. Tragically, only a few develop the intention to perfect their-unique-person before death comes.

Perhaps the year 2021’s global-chaos signals the abyss of the human will-to reason that necessity&justice oppose the-good in human living. Political philosophers have, for less than 10 millennia constructed reason to justify elite-tyranny over fellow-citizens. I just now searched “history of tyranny” on https://plato.stanford.edu/ and happily found 2825 documents whereas Google has 30.3 million hits with no key to the top 0.3 million. I can’t wait to select 5 from Plato and study them: 1,2,3,8,&10 or better from the second 10 or beyond. Interestingly, the search “the history of independence” has the same document count. But this takes a back seat to answering questions as profound as yours, Alauig.

I think most philosophers earn their living by serving the “elite sages” who deign to control fellow-citizens for reasons they may or may not comprehend. Often, power is their only motive, and the philosopher merely wants sufficient wealth. But the philosophers&sages are really serving the people who are apathetic to the demands of necessity&justice, uninformed that they are developing infidelity to themselves. It’s no wonder, since the human-culture I described in the second paragraph seems unattainable. But it seems so only because it has never been encouraged&facilitiated.

An intention to RHI is devised and recorded in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. It’s amend-ability by posterity to the 1776 founders’ “good People of these Colonies” plus its abstract preamble proffer a people’s proposition. In my view: the continuum We the People of the United States commit-to and trust-in 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. The document excludes religion from the disciplines. It is up to a posterity to appreciate “independence”, a human duty rather than “liberty”, license bestowed by the war-victor. Perhaps it will be the “ourselves” of 2021. I hope so.

So far, past generations have allowed will&reason to lessen if not ruin their descendants’ chances for necessity&justice----living according to the-good.  

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-by-winning-societys-competitions-are-the-only-way-to-find-peace? by Arielbright

Absolutely, I think.

The people who want peace must accept the human challenge, posed by necessity&justice, to constrain chaos in their way of living and encourage&facilitate reform to the people who tolerate infidelity in their lives.

When 2/3 of the population is constraining chaos in their lives, an achievable better future will emerge, and humankind will approach peace, I think.

There will always by tyrants who think war&violence rewards them. The people who demand peace must identify and constrain them.

Same thing with criminals. Somehow, there will always be a few who think crime pays, and they must suffer the statutory justice they invite, in order to codify to them their self-interest in constraining chaos in their way of living instead of nurturing infidelity to themselves.

I appreciate your question. Please comment.

https://www.quora.com/I-am-13-and-I-barely-have-any-freedom-in-my-house-What-should-I-do-and-is-it-legal-to-deny-freedom-for-eating-what-you-like-etc? by Evan Austin

Evan Austin, I appreciate your question and published my appreciation on my blog, promotethepreamble.blogspot.com on 5/11/2021. Here’s why.

I am changing my recent statement to: The civic-citizen neither initiates nor encourages&supports injury to or from any person or association. You convinced me to replace “tolerates” with “encourages&supports”. There is no way I would want to influence you to tolerate rather than appreciate your fine parents.

A 13-year old must rely on his parents to preserve his chance at life through the first quarter-century. It takes that long for a male body to complete the construction of his brain. The last elements to be completed are the wisdom-building parts, which uses the accumulation of past experiences and observations to begin to build the grounds for personal choices that are consistent with their unique person. With encouragement&facilitation, parents should aid their children’s acceptance of responsible-human-independence and intention to take charge at about age 30-35 or so, giving the completed brain a few years more experiences&observations on which to initiate the development of wisdom. Soon afterwards, he should be ready to become a father.

So many children die young or lose their opportunity to develop their person, because their parents were not aware of what it takes to transition from a newborn infant to a young adult with the comprehension and intention to live a psychologically complete human lifetime. This discovery has been in the literature for about 30 years, but it is not widely shared.

Modern parents are not to blame, because most cultures do not encourage&facilitate development of humble-integrity to “ourselves and our Posterity”, quoting the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Instead, cultures inculcate dependency on the-God-of-creation or government to usurp responsible-human-independence. But neither the-God nor government will steal the individual’s opportunity to perfect their unique person (responsibly-perfect would be redundant). But keep in mind that responsibility marks acceptance of being human.  

Hear this: I do not know the-ineluctable-truth, and am only expressing my opinion, with no awareness of the history leading to your question. The government expects your parents to attend to your welfare. While you are considered an adult at age 18 and can vote at 21, hopefully your parents expect your body to complete its tools for wisdom at age 25. Therefore, they are going to suffer anxiety about your safety&security perhaps until age 35 or beyond. I don’t know if the two licensing ages, 18, and 21, should be changed.

Addressing your question, read the preamble, and realize that “ourselves and our Posterity” is the continuum of families and immigrants since 1787, even though the nation represses that fact. Ponder how that impacts your view of U.S. citizenship. Then read Kahlil Gibran’s poem “On Children”; https://poets.org/poem/children-1. Appreciate it with Gibran’s religious expressions. Then write in in your own words to reflect the demands of civic necessity&justice. By “civic” I mean, for example, connections between parents and the dignified persons whom they parent. When you feel confident in your understanding&appreciation, discuss with your parents your views and appreciation for their care so far.

Accept their reaction to the dialogue, and never give up on them. They are practicing what they expected parenting to be and will appreciate new insights you bring to them. Imagine your kindness&appreciation toward your parents as paying forward to your parenthood.

I hope this aids your responsible-wishes for your family and posterity.

https://www.quora.com/Can-a-person-be-moral-in-some-ways-and-immoral-in-other-ways? by Cheyenne Oliver

I don’t think so.

The divider is accepting being a human-being and responsibly developing the person you want to be.

Somewhere between the ages 3 and about 7, a child needs encouragement&facilitation to accept responsible-human-independence. Unfortunately most cultures erroneously inculcate their young to seek higher power---the-God of creation (whatever that is), their government, or, not so much, their fellow-citizens.

Physics and its progeny, including biology and psychology, control the-ineluctable-truth. Necessity&justice demand female&male-human-being to constrain chaos on earth. Every human-being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to either develop their unique person or tolerate infidelity to self. With intentions&action to perfect their person, they may become a-God-facing-death.

In the process or journey, they may err in discerning the-ineluctable-truth. Or they may take an arbitrary opinion rather than cling to “I don’t know” when they don’ t know. For example, a civic-citizen never lies, so as to avoid the predictable consequence: human misery and loss. Without proper coaching against lies, a person may fall prey once. The key to perfection is not to repeat a mistake; avoid making the mistake a habit.

I think humankind is divided between people who tolerate infidelity to self and those who use HIPEA to develop humble-integrity. A moral person develops a way of living to perfect their unique-person rather than tolerating infidelity to self.  

https://www.quora.com/When-people-say-equality-do-they-really-mean-equality-of-opportunity-or-of-outcomes? by Jay Villas

I think it depends on the speaker. Speakers who propose equality are tyrants, and listeners who accept the promise are gullible.

DNA evidences that every human being is unique, so equality is a metaphysical-political topic. Since each human-being is unique, consequence of their choices, by civic necessity&justice is theirs. And that’s equity. For example, the person who claims distinction on skin-color or shade has not chosen to be a human-being in the world. Uniqueness begins with the viable ovum in a singular woman, and none of the events toward development of a human-being lessens the uniqueness.

People who want the power to pick other peoples’ pockets have learned that the equality/equity debate bemuses many people. It doesn’t have to be that way. The sooner most people are aware of the ruse, the sooner fellow-citizens will lessen that particular tyranny.

Necessity&justice demand every person to constrain chaos in their way of living rather than nourish infidelity to themselves. However, dominantl-cultures inculcate in their youth a life-long quest to find a higher power willing to usurp their responsible-human-independence (RHI). Plainly, neither government nor the-God of creation, whatever it may be, will usurp the individual’s lifetime-opportunity to develop humble-integrity. Also, the human individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) can neither be consigned nor condemned. Harmony on earth is the individual-human-being’s responsibility.

The sooner the majority of female&male-human-being accepts the self-interest of RHI, the sooner peace on earth will seem achievable if not inevitable.

I think these principles are expressed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution and repressed by the 1791 Bill of Rights. Until the First Amendment encourages&facilitates civic-humble-integrity rather than civil-religious-opinion, an achievable better future will not emerge.

I write to learn and would appreciate comments.

FB add on: The chaos being generated over “equality” and “equity” is a ruse by tyrants who are picking the people’s pockets. When most individuals (about 2/3 of fellow-citizens) accept that they are individual-human-beings and develop their person during their opportunity at life, they’ll weaken the tyrants.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-your-insights-about-the-essence-of-authority-in-a-conjugal-society? by Ann Styles

I think Genesis 1:27-28 is a 4500 year-old political philosophy suggesting that the entity female&male-human-being is capable and responsible to independently constrain chaos on earth. In 2021, the suggestion seems driven by necessity&justice yet substantially ignored.

I name female first, because she may deliver 400 viable ova during her fertile years. Also, her nature is caring for many (my wife had 3 toddlers and me, taught elementary school, and served her birth family and the community).

The mature male assists her and their progeny for life. Unfortunately, I feared my career as chemical engineer and missed a lot of joy, even as I am the most fortunate person I know. She’s 80 now, and applying lotion to her lower-legs is a fantastic experience. Why didn’t I know that when we were young? Prude?

One of the first things I learned after our marriage was consummated is this: If I approached my wife to make love and she said, “Not tonight” I could not keep an erection. When I pondered that, I was pleased that her “no” turned me off. One time in 51 years of marriage I persuaded her with the statement, “It’s true, we can make love tomorrow night, but why miss the joy of tonight.” She said, “That’s so cute. How can I resist?”

A couple we enjoyed for decades wanted to carry their argument about having sex to us. I responded, “In the first case, we rarely “have sex”. We appreciate each other, in other words, we make love.”

I may give the impression that this is all about me. However, everything good about me is my wife’s fault. I did not know it when I courted her, but my attraction to her was due to her serene confidence and wit. For the first quarter century I could not articulate that, and she did not divorce me. However, early on, I would say, “Cynthia, you are so beautiful” and she would respond, “I know. I know. You’re talking about my person rather than my looks” confident I was talking both.

I exaggerate a little. For example, I stayed true to my person, not converting to her Louisiana-French Catholicism. However, I discovered my person and dropped out of So. Baptism and Christianity altogether. I would not have discovered Phil Beaver if I had not fallen in love with Cynthia.

I can’t imagine feeling about a man as I do about my wife. Nor can I imagine bringing children who might prefer heterosexual family into a homosexual family. However, if partners form bonds and commit to care for each other for life, I celebrate their mutual appreciation and don’t need/want to question them. They should be able to take civil responsibility and benefits in caring for each other.

I don’t know what to say about homosexual’s obligations to constrain chaos in their lives, as suggested in Genesis-1. However, if I wanted to form a homosexual family, I’d resolve my concerns before expanding beyond the partnership. As I write, I know not how I could form a homosexual family.

Conjugal societies with multiple intimacies, such as polyamory, invite woe. Woe seems reliable.

I write to learn and would appreciate comments.

https://www.quora.com/Is-profit-incompatible-with-social-responsibility? by Cute Lil Mochi

I think so. Most people don’t want to risk entrepreneurship, especially invention of new products or services that would aid the lives of some people.

For example, I have arthritis and don’t go to the doctor about it, because a yoga instructor taught us to massage poor-yoga-injured joints. The art is to find the pain and massage harder there. It takes about 6 months to heal one joint. But you can massage as many joints as you have time for.

It works for trigger-finger as well. Just find the loop that is binding your ligaments, massage to find the pain, then massage as hard as you can stand less 20%. Trigger finger therapy works faster. Maybe 1 month at 5 minutes per day massaging.

I would benefit from a low-cost massage device that could find the pain and increase force just enough to cure without me screaming. If I were to set about inventing such a therapeutic device, I would expect profit to pay back the risks and time from my life I took.

But I prefer to live the life I have rather than try to invent the machine I’d like to own at an affordable price. Consequently, people who suffer arthritis as I do won’t have the chance to benefit from my idea.

If someone took up the cause, taking the risks and time from living, I would gladly pay the profit margin to reward them for doing what I will not do. In other words, part of their task is to keep the required price low enough to accommodate a reasonable profit margin. Otherwise, I won’t buy what I’d like to own.

I hope this helps.

https://www.quora.com/How-has-scientific-progress-changed-the-nature-of-society-and-its-sense-of-value? by Renzhao Bermac

I think so. Some people are beginning to perceive that mutual, comprehensive safety&security (hereafter Security) is in their self-interest. In other words, expecting a future with God-bestowed humble-integrity does not serve “ourselves and our Posterity”. We the People of the United States (and other nations) must establish responsible-human-independence now.

For example, in the 1787 USA, perhaps 99% of free-colonial-citizens were factional-American Protestants with almost 1% Catholics. Today, perhaps 1/3 of U.S. citizens think there’s something in control, are too prudent be arrogant toward it, and therefore do not attend a church. Call it the-God, to avoid the common practice of 2 parties finding some agreement about God without realizing they believe in totally different entities.

I think there’s emerging acceptance by most middle-class human-beings to practice necessity&justice in the march toward Security; assuring the lifetime-opportunity to pursue the humble-integrity that is necessary to develop responsible-human-independence.

In other words, the majority female&male-human-being is beginning to accept responsibility to constrain chaos in personal living by their person. No one is articulating this development, because the powers that emerged are competing for dominance, each bemusing the people with constantly changing jargon.

Conservation of the quest for statutory justice has become Judeo-Christianity or better, and progressivism has become unconstitutional passion---the license to kill.

On the one hand, according to Machiavelli, in “The Prince”, Chapter XI, religion is expected to eventually build enough wealth to dissolve its partnership with state. On the other hand, monopolistic entrepreneurs are lessening the state’s power through dominant wealth, squeezing religion out. Both parties appeal to civic-individuals’ noble motives, such as either love-of-God or passion-for the politically weak. Believers don’t realized that God is not their church’s doctrinal-God but is the-God of control, perhaps physics&its-progeny. The first lesson of necessity&justice is that for survival, the human-being must responsibly-earn the lifestyle they want to live. The consequence of this battle for wealth is that the middle-class is being enslaved and murdered in the transition from capitalism to socialism. It’s too shocking to admit, let alone accept and resist. But it is essential to defeat the inevitable ruin of socialism.

The only person who can stop the state’s abdication to wealth is the individual in the middle class and its fringes and outliers. Here’s a plan with 5 initial actions.

First, immediately begin educating self to the recent history of this civilization-clash, religion vs capital-monopolies---in order to prepare to not only vote in self-interest and that of children and beyond, but to hold elected and appointed officials accountable for aiding wealth-builders, whether church or commercial monopolists.

Second, terminate the politician’s 232-year-ood-excuse of religion-Congress-partnership:  Revise the First Amendment so that it encourages&promotes civic humble-integrity rather than civil religious-opinion. Third, inform the Supreme Court that the rule of law by legal precedent is no longer accepted: necessity&justice must be discovered through the-ineluctable-evidence according to physics&its-progeny rather than by reason. Fourth, legislate that the license to vote is offered to residents who demonstrate trust-in and commitment-to the 6 public disciplines suggested by the 1787 U.S. Constitution: integrity, justice, peace, strength, prosperity, and responsible–human independence, in order for each citizen to responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive at each stage in life rather than submit to the image someone else has for them. Fifth, legislate termination of the laws that empower monopolies to oppose the laws of physics and its progeny, especially regarding economic viability of a human life.

About 5 centuries ago, methods of research were being developed and humankind did not appreciate that the-inevitable-truth can be discovered only with accurate and precise instruments of perception. Accepted discoveries sometimes had to be revised as new instruments of perception were invented. Some thinkers posited that rational thinking was more reliable than research-results; metaphysics seemed more powerful than physics. However, with human-beings exploring the planets, religion is proving a failure, and the people have not yet filled the void.

I’m suggesting that the action to take is to use physics&its-progeny, especially biology&psychology, to behave in necessity&justice. If religion privately-aids an individual to the humble-integrity needed for responsible-human-independence, that’s good.

FB add on: Discoveries in physics and its progeny such as psychology continually embarrass religious doctrine, producing a human-vacuum that empowers global slavery and murder. Only the civic-people can stop the march to ruin. Individuals must constrain chaos in their ways of living, whether they believe in the-God, or some doctrinal-God, or physics, or chaos. I don’t think it is too late, but I’m often wrong.

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When scholars set out to prove something, they often overlook that the customer is buying to learn something.

 

Whether the authors do or not, this book overlooks Machiavelli's 1213 "The Prince", Chapter XI, which asserts ironically that politicians who partner with the church get to join high-on the hog living, because the people are inculcating in their children the hope that their-God will relieve them of the church-state-burden. Machiavelli says it takes a fool to try to influence that, but then gives an example. In the example, the church gains so much power and wealth that they dissolve the partnership.

 

America declared independence from England, lost confidence in victory, brought France in for military providence, and won independence. Then, the U.S. proffered a people's proposition for public discipline in order to develop responsible-human-independence (RHI): the-good of national independence. Unfortunately, the first Congress un-constitutionally enacted and codified restoration of the Anglo-American factional-Protestant-legislative partnership, mimicking Canterbury-Parliament legislation.

 

The USA 1782 motto "E Pluribus Unum" morphed to "In God We Trust" in 1956 U.S. For the USA, English economic and religious oppression dominated American colonialism. When the colonies rebelled, their declaration clarified that the-God answers prayers of "the Good people of these Colonies", affirming that the motto applies in religion as well as in politics.

 

In factional prosperity, so far, the U.S. has accepted elites-power, pledging ". . . under God". Hopefully, we are experiencing the reform to the 1787 U.S. intention: RHI. It does not have to take a long time; we've learned enough from the church-state-partnership.

 

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.