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.
Selected theme from this week
Have a blessed day?
What? It seems important for a person to admit to themselves that
they may be a human being and explore what that status entails. I don’t know
the-ineluctable-truth and share my opinion to learn from fellow-citizens’
thoughts. Please consider each of these commitments and improve my
comprehension:
First, a human
being can develop the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) by which to
either acquire humble-integrity or accommodate infidelity. Therefore, it is
important to comprehend&practice responsible-human-independence (RHI).
Known dependencies include mystery, not working, crime, tyranny, evil, and
terrorism.
Second,
developing humble integrity rather than accommodating infidelity requires
self-discipline. The person who accepts self-discipline invites&facilitates
RHI.
Third, while
about 55% of the world population is considered “Abrahamic”---that is, Jew,
Muslim, or Christian---the early writing, for example, Genesis 1, reflect
political philosophy from “before Abraham was born”. To develop
humble-integrity, a civic-citizen must consider prior thought. The political
philosopher represented in Genesis 1:26-28 suggests that the-God of creation
blessed female&male-human-being with the independence to establish
order&peace on earth. Can a person increase the-God’s blessing?
Fourth, it is in
each person’s self-interest to develop humble-integrity rather than accommodate
infidelity. It is not necessary to unravel the mystery of what the-God is:
intelligent being, chaos, human-posterity, physics&offspring, or other.
However, necessity&justice demand RHI in order&peace on earth.
Fifth, HIPEA does not empower an individual to persuade the-God
to usurp their RHI.
Is a human-being positioned to say, “Have a blessed day”? Is
the blessing&responsibility already bestowed? How is Genesis 1 defied by
societies?
Quora
https://www.quora.com/If-you-could-change-the-way-society-works-what-would-you-change-and-why/answer/Phil-Beaver-1?
See my comment on upvote by Horace Thon
It
is interesting that this post is 5 years old, barely noticed, and received its
first upvote on 6/26/2021. Thank you Horace Thon.
I
admit: I should state in the first paragraph that the-egocentric-loves do not
express appreciation to the other party. I hereby make that update.
Agathon’s
speech, delivered about 450 years before-Jesus-was-born is indeed poetic.
However, reading it gave me curiosity about the statement the Apostle John
attributed to Jesus: “Before Abraham I AM.” For the first time, I perceived, in
Agathon’s appreciation of the human-being’s power, evidence for the “I AM”
claim. Perhaps Jesus, as the-Trinity, influenced Agathon. Or perhaps Jesus was
saying that his message—the human being can be perfect—-was expressed before
Agathon.
Recently,
I discovered that a political philosopher about 25 hundred years
before-Jesus-was-born and 7 hundred years before Abraham was born suggested
that necessity&justice require female&male-human-being to provide
order&peace to all living species on earth; at least constrain chaos in
their way of living. The message, in 45-hundred-year-old expression, is
recorded, in translation, in Genesis 1:26–28 from perhaps a couple hundred
years before Sargon of Sumer was born.
Perhaps
responsible-human-independence would appeal to more people’s self-interest if
John and the other apostles had been discussing Sargon’s politics: John might
have reported that Jesus said, “Before Sargon was born I AM.”
Jesus’s
possible message, female&male-human-being can&must perfectly-provide
order&peace in their way of living was not Abraham&Sara’s practice:
their infidelities increased chaos on earth. In 2021, the chaos seems
divergent. But it is not too late to reform, starting in the USA.
To Horace Thon:
Mr. Thon, I appreciate your words, especially “delayed
gratification”.
I have wanted to write a book for over 30 years. I just
finished reading “Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style” by Kurt Vonnegut and
Suzanne McConnell.
Vonnegut crushed me back into the awareness that I need to
learn from you, the aware fellow-citizen, more than to write without your
comments.
Nevertheless, I must get my message published. Presently it
is: each human being has the potential to perfect their unique person, and the
U.S., in 1787, proffered a republican constitution to encourage&facilitate
the required individual-humble-integrity.
It is not too late to establish the intended 5 public
disciplines and 1 purpose, respectively: integrity, justice, peace, strength,
and prosperity “in order to” encourage&facilitate
responsible-human-independence to “ourselves and our Posterity”, quoting the
preamble.
If so, the world will improve.
https://www.quora.com/Which-world-philosophy-resonates-with-your-views-of-reality-Why?
by Jen Ligan
Perhaps before Sargon of Sumer, which was before Abraham of
Ur, a political philosopher suggested that female&male-human-being can&must
independently provide order&peace to the earth and its living species.
The expression is recorded in Genesis 1:26-28, and I
consider it evidence that necessity&justice independently suggest that each
human-being can&must independently constrain chaos in their way of living.
Further, I think the 1776 USA Declaration and the 1787 U.S. Constitution
together propose a culture to develop responsible-human-independence in conformity
to the Genesis-1 suggestion, whether confined to the USA or not.
https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-philosophers-that-are-not-very-well-known?
by Sean Zuniga
Albert Einstein is not known as a political philosopher, but
his ideas are outstanding (as I view them).
For example, he asserted that integrity and
physics&offspring (such as biology) conform to the same laws. His political
philosophy in this case was obscured by the title “The Laws of Science and The
Laws of Ethics”, where “science” is a research process and “ethics” is the journal
of discovering the-ineluctable-truth, or discovering integrity. His only
illustration of the principle is that people of integrity never lie, accepting
that physics&offspring will eventually expose the lie. See https://samharris.org/my-friend-einstein/
to read Einstein’s essay.
Writers attribute "Science without religion is
lame, religion without science is blind" to Einstein, and I don’t doubt them.
However, his political philosophy translates more like: Research without integrity
is ruinous, integrity without research is ineffectual.
I
especially like an Einstein-quote about Jewish tradition: "The
pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and
the desire for personal independence—these are features of the Jewish tradition
which make me thank my lucky stars that I belong to it"; https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/global-citizen.
In my view, humble-independence is more civic than personal-independence.
https://www.quora.com/Is-morality-based-on-personal-opinion-or-based-on-actual-fact?
by Daniel Butt
Mr. Butt, your question is critical to the entity We the
People of the United States, the fellow-citizens who aid U.S. development of
statutory justice. It can be “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021.
I work to find words and phrases that ring true to most
U.S.-individuals’ experiences&observations.
The-ineluctable-truth, according to Merriam-Webster online
is “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. Humankind works to discover
the-ineluctable-facts with which to hold both their-God and their-government
accountable. As humankind improves instruments for perception, discovery
improves and may eventually reach/approach the-ineluctable-truth. For example,
the earth, once thought to be flat, is like a globe. Psychologically, the
prudent person never lies, accepting that physics&offspring eventually
exposes the lie. For example, DNA evidence now facilitates crime-discovery.
The U.S. Supreme Court fails these principles by insisting
on “the rule of law” or legal precedent. The Court seeks to impose legal
tradition when the laws of physics&offspring dictate the consequences of
human behavior. For example, some persons attempt to deny that they are
human-beings by claiming they are due skin-color-consideration, or
gender-change, or ethnic favor.
We the People of the United States has accommodated the negation
of the Genesis 1:26-28 suggestion that female&male-human-being has the
power, energy, and authority to provide order&peace to all living species
and the earth. For people who find comfort&hope in Jesus’s teachings, the
Genesis-1 suggestion came before Abraham was born and may complement Jesus’s
suggestion “be perfect”. The 1782 motto “out of many one” has been sidelined
for “in God we trust”. And this motto invites arrogance toward the-God,
whatever it may be.
As we prepare for the annual celebration of independence, we may reflect on the
Genesis 1 encouragement of responsible-human-independence (RHI), or perfection
of your unique person, perhaps a human obligation. We may also reform
accommodation of U.S. freedom&liberty, bestowed in tyranny by the war
victors and licensed by their magistrates, respectively. We may
encourage&facilitate RHI.
In keeping with Genesis 1, the 1776 declaration of war for
independence from England, the 1787-proffered U.S. constitution, and RHI, we
may---must---revise the First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate civic
humble-integrity rather than promote civil religious beliefs. And we must hold
the Supreme Court accountable to the-ineluctable-facts rather than “original” or
“traditional” opinion.
The 1776 declaration based its authority on “the good People
of these Colonies”. We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” are charged by Genesis
1, the 1776 Declaration, the 1787 constitution, and physics&offspring to
constrain chaos in the USA rather than accept religious-division. Let’s start
before 2022 ushers in.
Incidentally, I sincerely represented Jesus in a positive way after breakfast today with Phil Chialastri, of Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
https://www.quora.com/Will-the-culture-in-the-United-States-ever-swing-back-towards-honesty-and-integrity-or-will-it-continue-to-erode-until-theres-nothing-of-value-left/answer/Phil-Beaver-1?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=22944985439&comment_id=207407148&comment_type=2?
by Tim Orum
Mr.
Orum, I appreciate your time to comment and found your profile reference to
your book, “The God of Statism”. I learned quite a bit by exploring the book.
I
like the idea that “the powers that be” impose the-God their population will
accommodate, suggested by Machiavelli in “The Prince” Chapter XI.
In
“humble-integrity” a person maintains their infantile “I don’t know” as long as
that is so. Merriam-Webster online (MWo) has “conformity to a standard of
right” or
“a particular moral
excellence” for “virtue”. I assert that “humble-integrity” conforms only to
the-ineluctable-truth, and thus takes no decisions/actions on unverifiable
mysteries such as “miracles”. That is to say, the choice to believe mysteries
is arbitrary.
MWo
has “concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly
centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry” for
“statism”. I appreciate your attention to this statism regarding how elites
employ the-God with neither integrity nor humility.
https://www.quora.com/If-you-have-an-absolute-freedom-will-you-still-follow-the-norms-that-you-are-following-these-days?
by Judith Lumantas
I don’t know the-ineluctable truth. I appreciate your
question, because it inspired thought. I count U.S.-citizen a unique privilege in
self-interest: it affords me the opportunity to choose the-good and licenses me
to develop humble-integrity. Therefore, gladly I pay my taxes, obey the law,
and write to reform injustices I perceive.
Freedom is bestowed by the victor in war, in the USA, the
colonial war for independence from England. In 1776, the founders acted “in the
Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies”.
Only 40% of colonists wanted independence, the balance either remaining loyal
English-subjects or being political-pacifists. Some slaves took independent
positions. When defeat seemed inevitable, the founders negotiated military
providence from France, and thereby won global recognition as 13 free and
independent states of the USA. I am of posterity from “the good People” and am
privileged to maintain my status, according to the agreements set forth by the
13 states.
Liberty, one of the European enlightenment-ideologies was
the watchword of victory, and in 1789, France would carry it to the extreme as
license to take fellow-citizens’ lives.
The founders could not sustain the USA as independent
states, so 12 of states sent delegates to Philadelphia to strengthen the union
of states. The 55 framers saw wisdom in proposing civic discipline by the good
people in their states. They proffered a republic, with provisions for
amendment so as to empower “ourselves and our Posterity” to continually improve
law-enforcement, in-order-to develop the statutory justice to be approached by
ultimate posterity. The republic left the individual free to choose the-good of
independence or to develop a dependency such as not working for their living,
crime, tyranny, extreme spirituality, and other infidelities that risk
constraint under the rule of law.
On September 12, 1787, a 5-delegate committee revised the
preamble to propose public discipline with, in my view, 5 goals and 1 purpose:
integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity in order to develop
responsible-human-independence (RHI), respectively.
Only 39 of the delegates signed the 1787 U.S. Constitution.
Some of the 16 dissidents did not support RHI. Some, despite the-God, wanted
to attribute responsibility for peace to their Gods---whatever controlled their
factional-colonial Protestantism. That is to say, they erroneously sought a-God
to usurp humankind’s responsibility for peace. Others wanted the states rather
than “ourselves and our Posterity” to hold the Union responsible for the 5
disciplines.
I am of the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” and promote
the revision of the First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate civic
humble-integrity rather than continue to accommodate the tyranny of
religion-Congress-partnership under civilly-imposed religious-beliefs.
All of these considerations comport to my view of a 45
hundred-year-old political&spiritual-suggestion in Genesis 1:26-28:
female&male-human-being is, of necessity&justice, independently
responsible for peace to all known species and the earth. The philosopher may
not have been aware that the dinosaurs had died unto extinction 65 million
years earlier. The philosopher expressed theology about the-God of creation.
Subsequent theologists claimed better knowledge of the-God,
using reason to construct their beliefs and doctrine. Creating a
personal/institutional-God is alright, including the Genesis 1 construct, as
long as the author retains sufficient humility toward the-God. Otherwise, they
invite individual&corporate ruin at the mercy of necessity&justice on
earth.
In my fourth quarter-century, I pursue humility toward
the-God, whether it be an intelligent entity, physics&offspring, chaos, ultimate-posterity’s
statutory-justice, or something else. I don’t know.
That is the norm that I encourage to
fellow-citizens, in hopes that they constructively appreciate my opinion; in
other words, openly think&comment to accommodate their experiences&observations,
giving me the opportunity to improve my unique journey, too.
https://www.quora.com/If-your-honor-and-dignity-were-asked-for-your-life-would-you-give-it?
by Kiril Degtarev
I thought the question hypothetical: no entity on earth can
evaluate my honor&dignity and fewer care. A few fellow-citizens value my
life, because some have observed, into my fourth quarter-century, that I pursue
humble-integrity by which to gage personal-integrity. Maybe it’s a worthy
question.
I don’t think I could bargain. My wife and family count on
me to continue supporting them. I would not volunteer to quit over someone
else’s opinion, even the rest of the family’s consensus. Also, I don’t pretend
to know that my honor&dignity is worth my life.
I value my opinion about a political philosopher’s
suggestion in Genesis 1:26-28: the human-being may accept the individual power,
the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in
their way of living with female&male-humankind and the other species on
earth.
Low as I may be, I want the opportunity to perfect my unique
person: I would argue for my life.
https://www.quora.com/Should-there-be-any-inalienable-rights-Should-all-rights-be-accompanied-with-terms-and-conditions?
by Kiril Degtarev
I appreciate the question and don’t know
the-ineluctable-truth.
I think the only human-right is the
opportunity to develop humble-integrity. I choose “ineluctable” to express
Merriam-Webster Online’s “not to be avoided, changed, or
resisted”. “Inalienable” expresses “incapable of being alienated, surrendered,
or transferred”. In the former, physics&offspring control: in the latter
the individual controls.
It takes arrogance to choose a
personal-God then develop reasoning that asserts that a doctrinal-God overcalls
the-God. The-God is described by a political philosopher in the age of Sargon
of Sumer, perhaps 45 hundred years ago. It seems acceptable to develop a
personal-God for hope and comfort, as long as the developer retains sufficient
humility toward the-God. That includes the Genesis-1 author of
the-God-of-creation.
The message in Genesis 1:26-28, with
a 2021 comprehension, is that the-God, whatever that may be, created humankind
able and responsible to constrain chaos on earth. For a physical example, with
warning of a local tsunami, the individual moves to high ground. For a
psychological example, the individual never lies, knowing that
physics&progeny eventually outs a lie.
The 2021 claim that government
bestows freedom and licenses liberty rather than encourages&facilitates the
humble-integrity required for responsible-human-independency is tyranny.
Fellow-citizens who accommodate tyranny suffer civil imposition rather than
civic opportunity.
I hope civic citizens share this
message, take it viral, and demand reform from civil religious-imposition to
civic humble-integrity. Happy independence day, and let’s put government
bestowal of freedom and licensing liberty in its proper place: accountable to
the entity We the People of the United States.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-something-we-were-taught-wrong-that-society-just-accepts-now?
by Helen Thomas
I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.
I think the widespread misbelief that a mysterious power-entity
is in charge of necessity&justice causes chaos on earth.
Perhaps this suggestion would be well accepted in 2021 if
Jesus’ disciple John, in John 8’s dialogue about Abraham that Jesus said, “before
Abraham was born, I am!” had reference Sargon instead.
A political philosopher some 7 hundred years before Abraham
was born suggested female&male-human-being are able&responsible-to
provide order&peace on earth. Unheeding, Abraham&Sara committed
infidelities that accelerated chaos on earth. In 2021, 38 hundred years later,
chaos is divergent.
Perhaps the philosopher advised Sargon. The suggestion is
recorded in Genesis 1:26-28, and perhaps John should have done the research to
write a dialogue about Sargon rather than Abraham.
In 2021, it should be clear that female&male-human-being
is independently responsible to address necessity&justice on earth. It is
not too late for “ourselves and our Posterity” to reform.
(Last evening someone directed me to take my meds. Do you
imagine there are words I could have written to open that person’s mind to
constructive appreciation?)
https://www.quora.com/What-carries-our-personal-identity/answer/Phil-Beaver-1?comment_id=207120266&comment_type=2?
by Phil Mohrman
Mr. Mohrman, I appreciate your concerns
and fully agree that we are manipulated by U.S. so-called leaders.
I am working (with my message as I
comprehend it) to suggest that the entity We the People of the United States is
accommodating U.S. tyranny.
For example, the fellow-citizen who
chooses to use HIPEA to develop the humble-integrity required for
responsible-human-independence does not accommodate government freedom-bestowal
or liberty-licensing. Nor do they pray to a personal-God to usurp their
responsible-human-independence to provide order&peace on earth rather than
increase infidelity&chaos. They may rely on a personal-God for
hope&comfort while aiding necessity&justice on earth.
Each July fourth, share and promote
responsible-human-independence rather than accommodating the government’s
freedom and liberty propaganda.
Again:
Mr.
Mohrman, I appreciate your patience with my approach to wellness.
Please
accept my views of my thoughts instead of your vision about them, then respond
with your appreciative criticism: I am well.
I
write to suggest improvement of the female&male-human-being’s response to a
political philosopher before Sargon was born. The political message in Genesis
1:26–28 is, in 2021 understanding: female&male-human-being is independently
responsible to provide order&peace on earth.
What
has happened in perhaps 45 hundred years since then is: civilizations,
cultures, societies, and nations have struggled to construct a responsive-God
that will take back responsible-human-independence in a way that will favor
them in competition with female&male-human-being.
I
focus on the U.S., not to divide a distant world, but to convince We the People
of the United States that 1) the founders’ 1776 declaration of war against
fellow-subjects in England comports to Genesis 1:26–28, and 2) the 55 framers’
1787 Constitution for domestic order&justice, enhanced by the 39 signers’
revised preamble comports to Genesis 1:26–28.
However,
the First Congress’ 1791 Bill of Rights affirms tyranny against
female&male-human-being by codifying a religion-Congress-power-partnership
that must be terminated in order to comport with the above 3 documents and We
the People of the United States’ posterity.
When
the U.S. accomplishes this essential reform—accepting the
responsible-human-independence that is suggested in Genesis 1,the world will
celebrate. Revise the First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate civic
humble-integrity rather than to impose civil religious-opinion.
Let’s
get well before 2022 ushers in.
https://www.quora.com/When-you-attempt-to-take-advantage-of-systemic-injustice-do-you-become-a-part-of-it?
by Viktor Bondarchuk
I think so.
And asking the question is insufficient. The individual must
address it. That’s what I struggle to do and then listen to fellow-citizens to
improve on my suggestions.
My suggestion is that each person must accept, develop, and
exemplify being a human-being rather than accommodating less. A human-being has
the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority
(HIPEA) to responsibly earn their way of living.
People who choose irresponsibility choose some form of
dependency: gaming religion, demanding entitlement&license
(freedom&liberty rather than responsible independence), crime, tyranny,
evil, and terrorism. Civic citizens develop the humble-integrity by which to
practice responsible-human-independence. Thereby, they aid the statutory
justice that is necessary to constrain dependent fellow-citizens.
Necessity&justice demand responsible-human-indendence.
Fellow-citizens who are not practicing, encouraging, and
facilitating responsible-human-independence are part of systemic injustice.
I’m listening for constructive appreciation of these
principles.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-idea-of-Respect-is-earned-not-granted-so-offensive-to-this-modern-generation?
by Victor Bailey
Perhaps posterity awoke to the possibility that forefather deserves
no appreciation and thereby earned no respect.
For example, with $30 trillion national debt perhaps, adding
state debt, municipal debt, and personal debt, the 4 million newborn persons/yr
face more than $7.5 million increasing national debt each. No new generation
appreciates their parents loading them with debt for pretentious adult-satisfaction.
This is not at all a new concept. It was expressed before
Sargon was born, say 45 hundred years ago. See Genesis 1:26-28, which in 2021
comprehension of the facts suggests that whatever controls physics&offspring,
by necessity&justice demands that female&male-human-being independently
constrain chaos on earth. We understand that about 7 hundred years later,
Abraham was born, and he and Sara practiced infidelities that increased chaos
among humankind.
Most civilizations, cultures, societies, and nations since
then have competed to construct a controller of physics&offspring so weak
as to attempt to usurp humankind’s independence. However, the ineluctable
evidence is that neither the-God, whatever it may be, nor a government will
usurp human independence. So it is in the individual’s best interest to develop
the humble-integrity needed for responsible-human-independence. (For example,
warned about a local tsunami, get to higher ground.)
Posterity is physics&offsring’s hope for the future. In 2021, posterity
cannot articulate the shocking failure that has accelerated chaos into
divergence. Forebears can observe and try to emulate posterity’s potential:
they must not try to impose past failures on the family’s grandchildren and
beyond. It is not too late for the reform that would warrant appreciation and
invite respect, at last.
Updated
at 11 PM.
Take an aspirin and nap and call me in the
morning.
Men wrote that Jesus said, “Before Abraham
was born I AM.” Genesis 1:26–28’s suggestion that female&male-human-being
is charged to independently provide order&peace on earth might get more
attention if they had reported that Jesus said, “Before Sargon was born I AM.”
https://www.quora.com/Which-ideology-world-view-philosophy-is-the-most-harmful-to-human-beings?
by Emirey Jackson
A political philosopher from 45 hundred years ago, perhaps a
Sumerian advisor to King Sargon, suggested that the-God of creation assigned to
female&male-human-being the independent responsibility to provide
order&peace on earth. Both slavery and human sacrifice were practiced in the
region. About 7 hundred years later, Abraham left Ur to form a new religion
using animal sacrifice rather than human sacrifice to bargain with the-God.
However, Abraham and Sara increased chaos through female&male infidelity.
During the consequential 38 hundred years, humankind has exponentially
increased chaos; many civilizations, cultures, and societies within them
compete to persuade the-God to take responsibility for the human independence
the-God created.
Large portions of humankind teach their youth to seek a
higher power for self-interest in coercion or force to guide their behavior.
The quest, which often fails after many changes of chosen higher-power, and
life passes without the person ever accepting the advantages of
self-discipline.
For example, no two Christians worship&praise the-God,
because not only are there thousands of Christianities, but within a faction,
no two believers have an identical, personal-God. If Bible-writers had reported
that Jesus said, “Before Sargon was born I AM” there might be more appreciation
for the Genesis 1:26-28 message: Female&male-human-being is the only entity
that has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual
authority (HIPEA) to provide order&peace on earth.
If this opinion seems confirmed by your
experiences&observations, share it with others: Civic-citizens can and must constrain chaos
on earth. No higher-power will usurp humankind’s responsibility.
https://www.quora.com/Will-the-culture-in-the-United-States-ever-swing-back-towards-honesty-and-integrity-or-will-it-continue-to-erode-until-theres-nothing-of-value-left?
by Robert DeVault
Mr. DeVault, I appreciate your question and just now posted
gratitude on my “appreciations” post at promotethepreamble.bogspot.com.
Honesty preserves ignorance and is thus insufficient to
integrity. U.S. integrity had a window of opportunity between September 17,
1787 and June 21, 1788, when the ninth required state ratified the Constitution
with the agreement that the First Congress would amend to at least mimic
England’s 1689 Bill of Rights. Thus, the negotiated Constitution was not
complete until December 15, 1791 when 10 of 14 states ratified the Bill of
Rights.
As long as the Congressional tyranny of partnership with
religion prevails, the U.S. cannot claim either honesty or integrity. The
republic that was negotiated by the 55 framers was signed by only 39 delegates.
Some did not like the godlessness and some did not like the public discipline:
the integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity needed for the
responsible-human-independence to hold government accountable.
The founders, in the 1776 declaration of war against England
reserved humble-integrity toward both physics and metaphysics; state and
church; military might and mystery. They drew human-authority from “Nature’s
God” and appealed to “the Supreme judge of the world” for victory. When failure
seemed inevitable, the founders negotiated military providence from France, who
delivered at Yorktown, VA in September 1781.
Writers reported that Jesus said, “Before Abraham was born,
I AM.” That report seems “fake news” since Abraham and Sara so accommodated
infidelity that major religions have increased chaos for some 38 hundred years.
Today, some 55% of the world’s population claim religious beliefs emerging from
Abraham’s legends. Another major percentage represents Abrahamic enemies.
Too many people overlook a Sumerian philosopher, who
suggested 700 years before Abraham was born that the-God of creation charges
female&male-human-being to independently constrain chaos on earth. The
suggestion is recorded in Genesis 1:26-28 and the philosopher might have
advised Sargon. If the report on Jesus had him saying “Before Sargon was born I
AM” the message in Genesis 1, humankind is responsible for order&peace on
earth, might carry more influence.
I don’t observe many people pondering Genesis 1:26-28 and
saying: We the People of the United States cannot pretend dependency on the-God
for peace when the-God has charged us with that responsibility. Until 2/3 of
fellow citizens are at some point in personal development of the
humble-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence, I think
the chaos will continue to diverge unto ruin.
The reform must begin with civic-fellow-citizens demanding
Congress to stop partnering with religion so as to bemuse the people. Revise
the First Amendment so as to encourage& facilitate humble-integrity rather
than religious-pride.
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6/25/21
A corollary to this, from "On
Children" by Kahlil Gibran with my modification: "[Children's
potential-goodness is for] tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your
dreams. You may strive to be
like them, but seek not to make them like you."
Child-care may employ humility-toward
necessity&justice, in-order-to monitor exemplary personal-discipline.
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.
