Revise the First Amendment to promote humble-integrity rather than religious-pride

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 Born a fellow-citizen, I choose to join We the People of the United States and aid 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” establish and maintain 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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Revise the First Amendment to promote humble-integrity rather than religious pride

Appreciating one civic-citizen’s view that the-God of humankind is necessity&justice, another’s than it’s the Jesus of their Bible interpretation, another’s that it’s Jesus the author of Genesis 1:26-28 (another Bible interpretation), and another’s that it is their truth, whatever that may be: accepting citizens who neither initiate nor accommodate injury to-or-from any person, association, or property, including self and family.

A culture like this or better is achievable, and civic-citizens can&must establish it right away. Already, it seems the train left the station 234 years ago (the signing of the 1787 U.S. Constitution) and won’t return.

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https://www.quora.com/If-you-do-something-of-your-own-free-will-do-you-do-it-by-choice-and-not-because-you-are-forced-to-do-it? by John Deang

I am beginning my fourth quarter-century with the conviction that I am learning to behave so as to survive the laws of physics&progeny; that is, wave fields, cosmic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, biology, psychology, imagination, and fiction (motivated by the undiscovered laws of physics&progeny and inevitably obsoleted by discovery).

In my daily choices, I am motivated by self-interest in necessity&justice. If I perceive I should take action, I consider whether my action would be just or not, and if it is ineluctably just, I may take the action if it seems necessary. If the action is not necessary and justice is unknown, I take no action. For example, if on retiring I recall that I did not lock an exterior door, risking self and family, I get up and check all door-locks.

I learned from Plato’s 2,400 year-old claims about Agathon that a good-citizen appreciates fellow citizens and neither initiates nor accommodates injury to or from a person, association, or property. Therefore, if I observe someone about to injure another or self, I either object or report the potential injury to first responders. If I feel a health-care provider is neglecting or harming the patient, I kindly say so and listen to the response. If their response is vocally negative, I repeat verbal objection or take it to the front office. I avoid vigilantism.

If I feel tired, and there are no family-demands on me, I take a nap. On the other hand, if a vital chore demands my work, I bypass the nap.

If someone is showing no appreciation --- for me or my person, I walk away so as to avoid conflict. If the other tries to follow me, I hasten my departure without drawing attention.

If, in my sleep an idea comes to mind that could help even one person lessen the chaos in their way of living, I get up and record it to start an essay or message. If someone wants to discuss a heartfelt concern, they have my undivided attention for as long as it takes --- without neglecting my family.

In such a conversation, a friend asked me to be kinder to believers in a given doctrine when they also develop civic-integrity. I immediately revised an essay to accomplish that improvement. A couple days ago, I thought for the first time that I have an open mind AND an open heart. I admit I may be wrong.

I perceive that I trust-in and am committed-to the laws of physics&progeny in self-interest more than by free-will. I am constrained by physics rather than metaphysics.

https://www.quora.com/Does-freedom-of-speech-include-the-right-to-lie-If-so-should-it? by David Morton Rintoul

I think so, for a couple reasons. First, if publishing lies is forbidden, the people have no means to discover liars. Second, if civic-authorities can’t equivocate, there’s no way for them to keep vital secrets.

Google Chrome offers for “equivocate”: “use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself” and Merriam-Webster-online offers: “. . . with intent to deceive”. Donald Trump exercised presidential-humility by quickly equivocating when the-ineluctable-truth would expose the entity We the People of the United States to clear and present danger. Democrats and the media giddied in presenting dangerous questions. Some Republicans didn’t get Trump’s personal humility. I cautioned my Senators not to criticize Trump’s responses when a Democrat or a “journalist” was in the room.

On the other hand, scholars promote lying, I think to aid the liars. Andy Smarick, in “Literally, Seriously, and Institutional Integrity” (current “National Affairs”) perhaps equivocated “equivocate” so as to avoid considering Trump’s humility rather than convicting Trump of “lies”; I wonder where Smarick would place “equivocate” on his 3 graphs. Meanwhile, Smarick left a lot of liars unmentioned. I wonder if Smarick erroneously thinks published-honesty equivocates to integrity. Anyway, Smarick wants the people to contend with 21 forms of lies from government authorities, responsible communicators, provocateurs, leaving only the lie and two variations on which to exclude someone from our serene-confidence.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Does-the-Universal-Declaration-of-Human-Rights-include-which-basic-rights-check-all-that-apply? by Diana Crisan

I check none, in order to encourage responsible-human-independence.

Political philosophers analyze “human rights” as a way to gain (not earn) money from the elites who seek to bemuse the people from what they need: responsible-human-independence. By expecting “rights”, dependents are enslaved to “God” and/or their particular government, perhaps a God-government partnership. The most egregious “human right” I encountered is “freedom from want”; it’s right up there with “the right to know mathematics”.

Many scholars preserve “God” as a means of bemusing the people from reserving sufficient appreciation&humility to the-God, whatever it is; I think physics&progeny. The Anglo-American pitch on this enslavement is that “Nature’s God” granted the human-being “natural rights” to “self-governance” for “the common-good”.

The elite’s intent is to impose the people’s happiness and coerce the people to accept that imposition rather than practice&facilitate responsible-human-independence. The proposition that the-God, or government, or their partnership will usurp the individual citizen’s humble-integrity is preposterous.

Nevertheless, U.S. scholars, for high income, debate “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” which no entity on earth can guarantee to the individual. In fact, the extant Democrat Party encourages individuals to risk health, life, and property by marching for socialism, and the Republican Party exacerbates the tyranny by encouraging national return to “God” rather than humility toward the-God, perhaps phsycis&progeny rather than metaphysics/mystery.

The civic-citizen preserves responsible-human-independence by earning their way of living, funding the development of statutory justice, and encouraging&facilitating reform to dependent-citizens, such as the indolent, the criminal, and the tyrant. In existing cultures, most citizens think they are too busy “living” (economizing affluence to image self-satisfaction) to develop responsible-human-independence in self-interest. The elites promote civil-satisfaction so as to defeat civic-self-interest.

The only reliable human-right I know of is the right to accept&practice responsible-human-independence.

I comment on questions so as to learn and, therefore, appreciate responses.

Thank you, Mr. Gutowski. Yes, I have studied the United Nations document on several occasions. Also, I read that Eleanor Roosevelt led the UN human-rights work. Her husband was author of the four freedoms.

Your response about responsibility reminds me of “don’t tread on me” and does not encourage&promote one of the points in my post: “. . . sufficient appreciation&humility to the-God, whatever it is; I think physics&progeny”.

What Anglo-American political philosophy obfuscates is that each citizen must comport to the laws of physics&progeny in order to survive. Thus, when a citizen is under higher-ground evacuation-order due to a tsunami, they do not jeopardize their safety by lingering to convince someone who prefers to pray to their God rather than risk the journey to higher ground.

Physics reliably corrects metaphysics, and Anglo-American political philosophy encourages citizens to rely on metaphysics.

To Gutowski again: I certainly don’t feel my speech is at a higher level and respond to you only to fill in gaps my writing left. You are kind to clarify.

I agree with you fully: we should do all we can to save someone who is so focused on the metaphysical that they will risk almost certain death under unstoppable physics; we should not try to grab a 250 lb person’s hand in prayer. The best we can do is yell “Leave with us and save your prayer for thanks!”

 

Again: Gutowski, I appreciate your upvote and work to clarify our shared, individual respects for responsible-human-independence (RHI), by no means novel.

I think the 5,000 year-old political-philosophy expressed in 3,000 year-old terms in Genesis 1:26–28 implies that humankind can&must provide RHI to the earth and its living species.

 

 

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-treating-success-as-duty-obligation-and-responsibility-important? by Isreal Ntewo

Ntewo, you ask a profound question in political language that protects tradition. Of course I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth and can only share my experience&observations.

In its current, dominant species, H. sapiens, humankind does not possess the humble-integrity that is required for self-discipline. To the typical person, discipline is something for their future. Influencers have learned that to tell someone they need self-discipline seems an offense and civic self-discipline would reduce political power to the elite. Thus, civil “rights” is a developed, political problem. Hopefully, H. integritas is emerging among us. In other words, maybe the next humankind-mutation will practice&encourage integrity.

Following the errant pursuits of the British, such as John Locke, d.1704, elites speak of “self-governance” under “Natural rights” granted to the human-being by the-God. However, the-God, whatever it is, assigned to humankind, female&male, the responsibility to provide order&fruitfulness to the earth. See Genesis 1:26-28 for this suggestion expressed 5,000 years ago.

As cultures developed, most civilized peoples constructed reasonable strategies to cajole the-God into usurping humankind’s responsibility: self-discipline. However, the-God does not accommodate human doctrine.

I know of only one proffered public-discipline proposition by a people. The entity We the People of the United States, specified in the 1787 U.S. Constitution, is the faction of inhabitants who take self-discipline as their self-interest, for themselves and their posterity. Every word in the 1787 Constitution is important to the individual citizen, either for preservation or for amendment, where there is injustice. And the critical sentence to the individual is the preamble. Each citizen should own a personal interpretation of the preamble’s intentions.

Mine, this morning, is: The good-people of the united States practice&encourage 5 disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” benefit-from responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Notice that neither the preamble nor my interpretation includes religion in the disciplines. Also, I replace Lockean “liberty” as a “right in governance” with “independence”, a human self-interest. (No one wants to wait in line for a bureaucrat to hand out a way of living.) Therefore, the U.S. accommodates the citizen who seeks comfort from the-God as well as those who develop the humble-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence. Humble-integrity is pursued in religion by retaining sufficient appreciation for the-God, whatever it is.

I write to learn and appreciate comments.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-obey-the-law-even-when-there-is-no-way-you-could-ever-be-caught-or-do-you-obey-the-law-because-it-is-the-right-thing-to-do? by Jack Ingram

In my 4^th quarter century, I obey the law for self-interest in maintaining personal independence and to encourage fellow-citizens to adopt their self-interest for the same reason: responsible-human-independence.

I want neither to spend my fixed-income on fines, spend limited time answering to the law, or more importantly, submit-to nor accommodate injury to-or-from any person, association, or property.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-statement-human-freedom-demands-responsibility? by Daizy Mae Empeño

Empeño, your question interests me because you ask about “human freedom” without specifying the individual or humankind. Consequently, the responsibility demand is to ether self, to responsible fellow-citizens, or to humankind. Please correct me if I am misreading your question. I think responsible independence earns freedom.

Recently, I ponder Genesis 1:26-28’s political philosophy, and your question augments my earlier interpretation to: The female&male-human-being can&must independently pursue necessity&justice to all species on earth. In other words, neither the-God nor government will usurp the human-being’s independent responsibility.

The individual who accepts that they are a human-being and therefore can perfect their unique-person will, in self-interest, constrain chaos in their way of living. The faction of citizens who constrain chaos nevertheless responsibly pursue the happiness they independently perceive, and are of a group I call “civic-citizens”.

However, some fellow-citizens, perhaps erroneously, perceive dependency in their self-interest. For example, some think crime or tyranny pays: they expect fellow-citizens to support their way of living. If fellow-citizens resist, the dependents may turn to irresponsible means to maintain the dependency, thus dividing themselves from their fellow, civic-citizens. If their behavior injures a fellow-citizen, the civic-citizens constrain the dependent, in order to encourage&facilitate them to reform from the dependency. The civic-citizens fund both law enforcement and revision to statutory-justice.

In this culture, there is no freedom-from dependency. Every citizen is impacted by the cost of statutory justice. Thus, the civic-faction is not free-from responsibility, yet they have accepted individual and collective independence, in order to preserve self-interests including reform.

My response is: Human-independence demands responsibility to civic justice.

https://www.quora.com/If-all-men-were-created-equal-why-are-there-first-class-and-second-class-citizens? by Ubazuonu Samuel Maduka

Mr. Maduka, your question seems a profound statement of widespread concern that has been neglected for so many thousands of years that chaos’s divergence seems unstoppable. But maybe an achievable better future is in the making.

What if we ask why most people accept division of humankind into 2 classes. Then we could ask:  What human equality is founded in the-ineluctable-evidence; “ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted” (Merriam-Webster online).

In 2021, humankind comprehends exponentially more this year than last year, last century, last millennium, indeed more than ever before. We struggle against necessity&justice to not only survive but thrive. In physics, we keep our home and loved ones prepared&alert-to expected natural disasters. In my location, south Louisiana, hurricanes&tornedoes are more feared than packing provisions and taking the escape route if so ordered. Recently, I put my mask back-on even though I’ve had 2 COVID19 vaccinations. In metaphysics, we never lie, expecting that inevitably, physics will out the lie by delivering predictable loss and misery. My initially-exemplary life is repressed with “white lies” yet I refuse to accommodate the ruin of my person.

Perhaps 5,000 years ago, a Middle-Easterner expressed a practical-political-philosophy in colloquial terms that need not distract “ourselves and our Posterity” from its essence. Hebrew scholars interpreted the suggestion 2,000 years later, in Genesis 1:26-28; https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201%3A26-28&version=NIV.

My studies convince me that both the 1776 USA declaration of war against England and the 1787 U.S. Constitution affirm a 2021 view of Genesis 1 and that the metaphysical Jesus I speculate would agree with me. I express my interpretation of the 1787 Constitution and its preamble for this post: the-good people of the united States practice&promote 5 public disciplines, “in order to” encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

My interpretations proffer the proposition that every newborn person who survives the first quarter century and acquires the comprehension&intention to live a complete life may experience the opportunity to choose to develop their person as a human being. Further, they may accept the human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop either humble-integrity-to or infidelity-to necessity&justice. On these three unlikely choices, the people divide themselves: civic-citizens and dependent-citizens. Accepting humble-integrity as the dividing practice, the civic-citizen accepts the RHI to develop statutory justice by which to influence dissidents to reform or perhaps lose their independence, even life, inviting statutory justice.

I think humankind itself is on the march toward the humble-integrity that is required to practice&facilitate RHI. The sooner individuals accept being a human-being, developing HIPEA, choosing humble-integrity, and assuring that their example affirms the perfection of their unique person, the sooner the dependent-faction will reform.

An achievable better future is more likely as each living person chooses RHI and encourages their family to observe the self-interest of humble-integrity. The individual, personal choice is ineluctable.

Thank you, Mr. Maduka. I added your name and this date to my “appreciations” post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

https://www.quora.com/Is-responsibility-integrity? by Adetayo Osho

Mr. Osho, I choose to respond, in-order-to learn.

I start with Merriam-Webster Online (MWO). Therein, “responsibility” seems-human-civic burden: accountability, reliability, and trustworthiness. “Integrity” seems-human-individual firm-adherence: incorruptibility, soundness, and completeness. By-the-way, “discipline” seems-human self-control. It seems obvious that to some persons, self-control is a burden and to some it is a privilege. Integrity seems a self-interest beyond codes or other arbitrary human-constraints.

I purposefully ignored adherence “to a code”, in order to strengthen “incorruptibility”. Integrity requires firm-adherence to the-ineluctable-truth rather than to civil (legal-precedent) values, such as qualifications to join the American Bar Association, qualifications as manicurist, or a golf club’s admission rules.

So far, no culture encourages&facilitates individual development of the humble-integrity required for self-control according to the-ineluctable-truth. MWO defines “ineluctable” as “not to be changed, avoided, or resisted. Without such guidance, it’s rare when a maturing person develops responsible-human-independence (RHI).

I think one of the keys to such self-development is to retain early-youth acceptance, “I don’t know”, when that is so. Unfortunately, society seems to facilitate “I believe” as a valid though unreliable replacement for “I don’t know”. The adolescent who develops the intentions to accept nothing but the ineluctable-evidence before deciding action is necessary and acting, further develops the judgement by which to aid justice. Thus, self-discipline to nescessity&justice empowers integrity. For example, President George Bush, given his world’s best beliefs, could have decided that U.S. invasion was not necessary.

In human connections, the civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates injury to-or-from another person or association, including self and family. For mutual, comprehensive safety and security plus individual pursuits of personal happiness rather than submission, each party carries the burden of responsibility.

When each party practices civic self-control, firm-adherence to individual self-interest makes mutual integrity a privileged celebration of life --- nowhere near a burden.

When someone’s question teaches me, I add their name and the date to my “appreciations” post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com. Thank you.

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Christine Fowler | Facebook (see comments under post at July 22 at 5:21 PM)

Thank you, Cristine, for this fairly old quote, essential for today. It led to some enlightenment to the depth of 2021 tolerance of ignorance for the sake of emotion/passion.

And for the prompt to check copyrighted (plagerism tolerant?) deception. This month, in "Seriously or Literally", Andy Smarick, senior fellow, attributed the 2+2=5 riddle to George Orwell, born 1903, perhaps from a 1946, instead of Dostoevsky, died 1881. Smarick attributes metaphysical approval of the physical impossility as infernece that authoritarianism opposes physics: Dostoevsky’s, which is point in "Notes from the Underground", 1864.

I checked Wikipedia, which perhaps 2 years ago credited Fodor, and they still do but highlight Orwell in socialism/communism review respecting 2+2=4.

And this brings a thought about Wikipedia’s possible bias. I'm not certain the people's bias is anti-human-being. The fact that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5 now starts "best known in English for its use in the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell" is an opinion not necessarily opposing the-ineluctable-truth and supported by the best review I have read.

The article now contains much more history than this: "In the 17th century, in the Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the Existence of God and the Immortality of the Soul are Demonstrated (1641), René Descartes said that the standard of truth is self-evidence of clear and distinct ideas. Despite the logician Descartes' understanding of "self-evident truth", the philosopher Descartes considered that the self-evident truth of "two plus two equals four" might not exist beyond the human mind; that there might not exist correspondence between abstract ideas and concrete reality.

A fellow-citizen smarter than me once said, "Oh, that's easy. All you need to do is define a as twice a+1 to get 'twice a is 5 when a=2; its a matter of convention regarding the definition of a". The problem with such metaphysics is that 2 apples and 2 oranges on the table ineluctably yields 4 fruit. Physics&progeny ineluctably corrects metaphysics as beliefs encounter discovery.

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Unbelievably, Smarick presents 23 lie-styles and advocates that political officials must limit theirs to perhaps 15 styles, scholars can add 4 styles, provocateurs another 2 styles, and the reader must reject 2 styles.

Smarick's work makes the ruinous assumption that liars know "the truth".

One problem with scholarly debate, so far, is that no one accepts a word or phrase that expresses humankind's goal: To discover the-ineluctable-truth, where "ineluctable" means "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted".

I work to learn an art better expression than: Humankind researches to discover "the-ineluctable-truth" through integrity in continually updating "the-ineluctable-evidence" until the necessary instruments of perception have been discovered and applied. The reader who deletes the hyphens loses the meaning of the phrase.

As an example, we know the earth is in orbit rather than fixed in space. Furthermore, humankind is routinely exploring space, formerly held to be "the heavens" or the exclusive domain of the-God. We have yet to invent the means to discover the-God. What caused and unleashed the laws of physics?

 

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.

 

"The Christian thing to do"

 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 Born a fellow-citizen, I choose to join We the People of the United States and aid 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” establish and maintain 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 Christian thing to do"

Should female&male-human-being independently provide order&peace to all living species and to the earth?

I doubt the USA is the birthplace of the phrase “the Christian thing to do”. The Google ngram, book-usage frequency graph, shows introduction in 1872, ramp-increase from 1932 to 1940, exponential-increase from 1982 to 2013, and somewhat slower decline since then.

I doubt Jesus approved Mike Pence’s January 6, 2021 betrayal of both the Trump/Pence ticket of 2016 and the entity We the People of the United States. The event demands Pence-attention and perhaps reform. The event constrains U.S. civic-citizens, if not every person who aids the human quest for order&peace on earth, to examine what it means to “witness for Jesus” or to self-judge that you have “Jesus in your heart”. Note that this glib claim is nowhere near the claim to be a Christian: no two Christians believe the-God, as everybody knows. Thus, to claim to be a Christian is to claim personal interpretation of a doctrine.

Both the-God and Jesus are mysteries to the human-being; individually in 2021 and to all homo sapiens plus mixed-homo-species of the recent 300,000 years. Perhaps humankind now marches toward the next homo-mutation: homo humelim or homo fidem or homo integritas.

Recently, I discovered an interpretation of Western-Bible passages that empower me to advocate for Jesus yet retain my commitment-to and trust-in physics and it offspring, including mathematics, gravity, quantum fields, cosmic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, psychology, imagination, fiction, falsehoods, crime, and beyond; I call it “physics&progeny”.

We are told by writers of books in the bible that Jesus said “render unto Caesar . . .”,  “Be perfect [like the-God]”, “Before Abraham was born I AM”, and that he turned over the money tables in the temple. Whatever Jesus is, these reports were written some 70 years after the historical Jesus died, and they fit a mysterious political-duality: state and church; physics and metaphysics; life and afterdeath. I think success as a human-being rests on responsible intent to the-good-behavior during life.

It seems the human-being differs from the-God in that the person faces death:  Each person may develop into a god-facing-death. A Mesopotamian political philosopher some 5,000 years ago suggested that female&male-human-being is like the-God. Humankind can&must independently provide order&peace to the living species and to the earth. The human-individual can&must constrain chaos in their way of living.

Two thousand years later, Hebrew scholars interpreted the ancient suggestion in Genesis 1:26-28. Despite the 2-millennia gap, the human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to responsible-human-independence comes through.

Another 1000 years later, Jesus perhaps affirmed if not claimed the ancient suggestion: The human-individual can&must constrain chaos in their way of living. These 2000 years since then, humankind has attempted to coerce the-God into taking their responsibility.

In this mysterious view, “the Christian thing to do” demands performance more than promise, comfort, and hope. Perhaps in Jesus’ view of Genesis-1, conservatives can&must establish responsible-human-independence rather than dependency on mysterious higher power.

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https://www.quora.com/What-is-communism-and-why-do-people-think-it%E2%80%99s-bad/answer/Phil-Beaver-1 Comment by Tony Horne

Mr. Horne, thank you for appreciative-criticism. I improve my statement to: No human wants civil-submission to un-civic ways of living.

The person who accepts that they are a human-being has the cognizance and grammar by which to discover the-laws-of-physics&progeny and responsibly apply them for self-interest. The human-being neither initiates nor accommodates injury to or from any person or association of people. But not every person accepts that they are a human-being.

The library is a public provision for private pursuits with proffered constraints to encourage&facilitate mental-discipline. An office provides limited contact for supplier and customer with proffered constraints to protect their mutual interests. A factory is a strictly private location with proffered constraints for efficient manufacturing for the provider-to-customer connection.

The civic-citizen observes civic-constraints in self-interest.

https://www.quora.com/Is-tradition-a-good-reason-to-do-something? by Daniel Butt

Mr. Butt, I imagine only one tradition for the-good: celebration of responsible-human-independence (RHI) to encourage&facilitate the necessary individual&civic humble-integrity.

I know of no civilization, culture, race, or society that pursues humble-integrity. Integrity does not accommodate dissidence against RHI.

The proposed practice is proffered in the amendable 1787 U.S. Constitution. My 2021 paraphrase of its preamble is: “the good People”* of these united states practice&encourage 5 public disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” develop responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

* The 1776 U.S.A. declaration of independence from England.

https://www.quora.com/What-makes-a-human-right-a-human-right? by Graham C Lindsay

Evolution so far yielded homo sapien as the most aware living species and the only species, so far, with the cognizance to use grammar to advance language unto thought. Perhaps we are at the apex of human knowledge as a vehicle for survival and are entering the age of humility. We may be experiencing the struggle between homo integritas and homo superbus intermixing with homo sapiens.

For the most psychologically powerful species, it seems responsible-survival is the basis for right. That is to say, there is no justice in simply killing-off the lesser species, but responsibility requires the psychologically advanced species to encourage&facilitate reform to the lesser species. To the human-being, it seems integrity is greater than knowledge or pride. But how is integrity gaged?

Perhaps necessity&justice for survival is the key. An perhaps conforming to the laws of physics is the key to survival. Consider for example, a warning to evacuate to higher ground because a tsunami is expected.

The homo integritas has transportation arranged, food supplies, medicines, and confirmed destination to accommodate the family. Homo sapien speculates that the risks of escape are greater than the events of the last tsunami and chooses to stay again. Homo superbus values the properties to be left behind too highly to leave. Homo integritas has the right to accept the other two families’ decisions and leave them behind. People who perceive they know or are above risk lie to themselves and invite ruin.

In general, it seems to me the only right to a human being, a god-facing-death, is the right to develop the humble-integrity needed for responsible-human-independence.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-impugning-the-motives-and-intent-of-your-ideological-opposition-advance-the-conversation? by Michael Wayne Box

Merriam-Webster Online (MWO) informs us “impugn” means “to assail by words or arguments: oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity”. Is your question, Mr. Box, intended to impugn my work on which I earn my opinions? Anyway, I appreciate your question.

I assert that in a civic-conversation, both parties are expressing their hard-earned experiences&observations with mutual fidelity to the-ineluctable-truth rather than reason or personal opinion. MWO defines “ineluctable” as “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”.

By swapping roles --- speaking then LISTENING-TO-LEARN and vice versa --- the two parties iteratively reach a conclusion that accommodates each person’s responsible pursuit of happiness rather than forces either party to submit to an imposed future under someone else’s vision for them. For example, a Buddhist, an Orthodox Ethiopian Christian, a French-Catholic, an American Protestant, and a Muslim can leave such a conversation as enriched human-beings rather than religious doubters: each person appreciates the physical as a beneficial constraint on the metaphysical. Thus, in this usage, “civic” means behaving, in order to mutually, comprehensively pursue safety&security so that each may responsibly pursue their personal happiness.

Both parties accept that 1) they are a human being and therefore have the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to either maintain their infantile posture “I don’t know” when that is the case or to pursue their opinion, regardless of the ineluctable-evidence and 2) the laws of physics and its progeny, such as mathematics, force fields, chemistry, biology, psychology, and imagination, control the unfolding of human events. Thus, physics rather than metaphysics is in charge. Consequently, each party argues with humble-integrity more than free-will.

For example, if a person lives in a community that received an evacuation order due to a Category 5 hurricane and thinks “I can stay safe in this wonderful building and did so during the last Cat 5 evacuation” (does not choose the lesser evacuation-risks for self&family) more strongly invites death. The physics overrides the metaphysics.

When two parties present their arguments under such principles, neither party holds the other responsible for the-ineluctable-truth. Each party is sharing their hard-earned opinion then LISTENING for the opportunity to tweak or change personal opinion in order to more closely approach the-ineluctable-truth. Neither party expects more than the other’s openly shared experiences&observations; neither party is held responsible to express the-ineluctable-truth. But together, they hope each will advance their unique journey to comprehension, without compromising their responsible-human-independence to civically pursue the happiness they desire.

Recently, a good friend said my political philosophy arguments were attractive, and it would be nice if I would be more accommodating toward believers in Jesus. The conversation helped me realize I pursue an understanding of Jesus and am prepared to be judged during my afterdeath, even though I doubt there’ll be more to judge than my accomplishments in life: no soul to punish or reward. On hearing this, many Christians, some of whom never attempted to comprehend Jesus, tell me I will burn in Hell and that they will pray for me. I view the statements as honest expression of integrity-privation and sincerely respond “And I’m praying for you”.

In my 78^th year, I discovered a Jesus I support, doubt it is the historical Jesus, and accept that Jesus may not approve my view, just as my deceased son Stephen may not approve of my progress in the 3 decades since Stephen Boyd Beaver died. In my opinion, no man, alive or dead, can witness for the historical Jesus. The real Jesus may be the-good, or ultimate appreciation of humankind, the ultimate attainment of “ourselves and our Posterity”, or the-God.

Genesis 1:26-28 instructs, in my 2021 view, that the entity femal&male-human-being is independently responsible to constrain chaos to living species and the earth. That is, the-God will not usurp humankind’s responsibility. There are lots of details that were available neither to the speculative Sumerian-political-philosopher responsible for the perhaps 5,000 year-old thoughts nor to the Hebrew scholars who, 2,000 years later, recorded the observations in their expressions.

For example, the earth was the center of the universe, dinosaur fossils had not been discovered, H. sapiens had not separated from Neanderthal, and the last homo&homo-sapien mixed species had not died off. The ancient philosopher expressed the-God only as the creator, sometimes using the pronoun “we” and sometimes “him” and expressed “the spirit of God” as a fog over the water. Perhaps Jesus’ political philsophy was present beforehand.

However, 2021 necessity&justice make it self-evident that humankind can&must constrain chaos on earth, just as certainly as Jeff Bezos will travel in the space formerly regarded as heaven or the realm of the gods. How could self-evident political philosophy be not only resisted but denied for 5,000 years? Could it be failure to believe Jesus?

Jesus did not write, and “the rule of law” had not invented plagiarizing. MWO defines it: “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source”. Some of Jesus’ apostles wrote about him starting 70 years after Jesus died, and canonization continued until about 405 AD, differently in western Europe, eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa. Protestant canon developed after Martin Luther. No one knows what Jesus said. And in 2021, resources on the Internet make “plagiarizing” almost obsolete. For example, 2021 readers don’t trust writer’s references as sufficient: readers do their own searches by which to evaluate critical claims. For example, who first used the phrase “discipline of, by, and for the people”? Often it brings to mind Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, but Lincoln did not make that claim at all, and his quote is a dream rather than reality.

Apostles reported that Jesus said, “be perfect . . .”, “before Abraham was born I AM”, “render unto Cesar . . .“, and about spouses “Whoever divorces his wife . . .”, “. . . the two shall become one flesh”, “Honor your father and your mother”. These principles reflect the Genesis-1 political-philosophy. Abraham was reported 3,800 years ago, so Jesus may have claimed to have authored or influenced Genesis 1:26-28: female&male-humans can&must provide order&peace on earth.

There’s another literature evidence that Jesus’s principles influenced human-beings before Jesus was born. For example, 2,450 years ago, Agathon, as reported by Plato in “Symposium”, expressed that appreciation’s greatest strength is that the civic-individual can neither initiate nor accommodate injury to-or-from any person or association, including self and family.

In summary, in my 78^th year, I view Jesus as humankind’s pursuit of the-good rather than the-God. I hold my view as no more valid than the Catholic view that the Eucharist is the metaphysical embodiment of Christ nor the Protestant view that grape-juice is ceremonially drunk as an act of Remembrance.

The person who takes offense over my pursuit of the historical Jesus is responsible for judging my motives and intentions rather than considering statements based on my work. The may also be rebuking the-God as well as the-good. I don’t know.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-concept-of-civic-responsibility? by Beka Mbarouk

Google Chrome reports “Civic responsibility means active participation in the public life of a community in an informed, committed, and constructive manner, with a focus on the common good.” I think this is typical of modern thought, at least in “the west” --- western Europe and north America.

I consider the USA a civil, Anglo-American tradition, whereas the United States represents the civic entity We the People of the United States. “The common good” is a western notion, developed by elite politicians since the ancient Greeks to control the gullible masses; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_good. For deep consideration see https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=common+good. The first 2 of 2097 document titles reflect the importance of “community” in the Google definition, above.

In 2021, we may expand community to the world’s population. Then, clearly, civic responsibility requires mutually-satisfying human-connections everywhere rather than locally. This global way of living would seem to require either mastering the languages, religions, and other particulars of every community in the world or convincing everyone to learn a common language and culture. But there is another way.

Perhaps, 5,000 years ago, an unknown political philosopher in Mesopotamia suggested that female&male-human-being can&must, independent of the-God, provide order&peace to living species and to the earth. Two thousand years later, Hebrew scholars expressed this concept in Genesis 1:26-28, depicting female&male-human-being as the god that is independently addressing chaos unto death. The-God is not subject to death, and each person may develop responsible-human-independence (RHI) before dying. In other words, the god-facing-death can perfect their unique person.

To the individual, the suggestion is to constrain chaos in personal-living. No matter what a person’s pursuit of happiness may be, each day’s choices must constrain chaos. Human-mistakes cannot become habits. However, being a god-facing-death, the person has the power to choose temporal satisfaction, risking chaos. Developing the humble-integrity needed for RHI is in the individual’s self-interest.

Individual communities inculcated dependence on higher-authorities: doctrinal-Gods, governments, ideologies, or partnerships of two powers. The powers are competitive through physics&progeny versus metaphysics; the-ineluctable-truth vs reason; what-is vs what-someone-imagined; fidelity vs tyranny; RHI vs dependency. In gullibility, individuals are too bemused with “the common good” to constrain chaos in their way of living.

I think civic responsibility has two practices: 1) to constrain chaos in chosen ways of living and 2) to encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence to fellow-citizens.

I appreciate your question, Mbarouk, and hope these ideas help establish an achievable better future.

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.

Assign legal precedent to the trash bin

 

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 Born a fellow-citizen, I choose to join We the People of the United States and aid 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” establish and maintain 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

Assign legal precedent to the trash bin

Humankind can&must provide order&peace on earth. Preservation of erroneous or obsolete legal opinion creates chaos and divides fellow-citizens. Establish law on the-ineluctable-truth, which humankind researches using the-ineluctable-evidence rather than opinion.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-complete-the-sentence-as-your-own-Life-is-not-fair-but-should-be? by Judith Engelstad

opportunity to develop humble-integrity

https://www.quora.com/The-noble-aim-for-equality-between-people-seems-impossible-to-me-Is-the-demand-for-literal-equality-or-is-there-a-narrow-enough-margin-that-s-acceptable? by David Casey

I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.

I think human-equality a “noble-aim” is a fallacy derived from political tyranny. According to physics and its progeny, every person is unique. Making them equal would be antithetical to the human being, presently homo sapiens. That is to speculate that the next homo mutation that will be more aware and more connected than homo sapiens. Modern homo sapiens’ progeny lives among us.

Homo sapiens is only 300 thousand years old (tyo), language perhaps 50 to 150 tyo, grammar perhaps 10 tyo, and the last mixed-homos died off perhaps 10 tyo.

The suggestion that female&male-human-being is independently responsible to provide order&peace to the earth may be more than 5 tyo. Unfortunately, 3 to 4 tyo, humankind became bemused with theisms. The consequence is chaos, now seemingly divergent. Tyrants cannot impose happiness on fellow-citizens.

Necessity&justice demand that female&male-human-being independently constrain chaos in their personal way of living. Not only must they earn the way of living they prefer, they cannot impede another person’s responsible living. And neither of them can impose their happiness on the other; Jane may deny Jack’s claim “I’m in love with Jane”, common as unwanted attraction may be.

The next homo-mutation may accept that as a human being they have the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either independence or a dependency: passivism, plying religion, gaming welfare, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse.

It takes humble-integrity to choose to develop responsible-human-independence (RHI). There aren’t enough quarter-centuries in a human life to independently discover the self-interest of humility. Therefore, every education department on earth can&must reform to these principles and teach their youth to accept their HIPEA and employ it to humble-integrity. The reform can begin immediately.

We may now be starting the transition from homo sapiens to homo humilem. From “I know” to “When it seems I need to know, I do the required research, in order to benefit from integrity.”

The only equality I think government should encourage&facilitate is individual-opportunity to develop the humble-integrity that is needed for RHI.

https://www.quora.com/Who-among-us-can-pass-judgment? by Mike Norris

I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth. My thoughts follow.

Every civic-citizen must judge behavior and discourage&impede dependencies. The dependencies include: passivism, gaming welfare, plying religion, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse. Religion is useful to some civic-citizens who want comfort and metaphysical hope yet practice responsible-human-independence (RHI).

The civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates injury to-or-from any person or association, including self and family.

A Mesopotamian political philosopher 5,000 years-ago suggested, in my 2021 view, that the female&male-human-being can&must independently provide order&peace to the earth and its species. Hebrew scholars interpreted the philosophy 3,000 years-ago in Genesis 1:26-28.

Some persons choose to develop an opposite of human-being: soul, mineral, plant, animal, evil being, and worse. Therefore, the civic-citizen provides order&peace.

The civic-citizen chooses to constrain chaos in their way of living, which requires them to support the laws of physics&progeny and aid development of statutory justice.

Each citizen is unique, and their journey to the humble-integrity required for RHI is likewise singular. Therefore the civic-citizen judges not the person but their behavior and motives. Did they cause or accommodate injury, according to the-ineluctable-evidence?

Human necessity&justice drives these principles. Legal precedent serves neither necessity nor justice.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-a-blessing-to-live-in-a-society-where-you-are-marginalized-or-persecuted-since-most-people-in-position-of-power-tend-to-abuse-it-becoming-wicked-and-corrupt-while-those-without-power-have-little-choice-than-to? by Kiril Degtarev

Assuming you refer to humankind, so far, the good People --- I say civic-people, accommodate abuse by neglecting/rejecting a political philosophy that was expressed 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and reported 3,000 years ago by Genesis 1:26-28 Hebrew scholars.

I speculate that the ancient philosopher’s message, in 2021 comprehension, is: female&male-human-being is responsible for order&peace on earth. In other words, the individual is charged to constrain chaos in their way of living, and the civic-people must encourage&facilitate reform to dissidents against responsible-human-independence (RHI).

Dissidents demand to game dependency: welfare, religion, tyranny, crime, entertainment, and others. After indulgence unto habit, dependency is difficult to reform, even by the individual who at last perceives self-interest in humble-integrity.

In this conflicted world, it is a blessing to accept such principles and pursue the happiness you perceive rather than submit to the happiness someone else envisions for you.

The practice starts with responsibly-earning the way of living you want, obeying the law while striving to aid statutory justice, and being kind to people on their paths to RHI, low as your performance may be.

https://www.quora.com/How-come-Democrats-point-out-the-fact-that-former-President-Trump-dodged-the-draft-but-not-Presidents-Biden-or-Clinton-or-the-fact-that-President-Obama-never-served-in-the-military? Comment by Frank Battaglia

Thank you, Mr. Battaglia for supporting not merely President Trump but the entity We the People of the United States. Since 1787, people like James Madison and John McCain never understood the U.S. and used the English dogma of “freedom” and John Locke “liberty” to ply British, Chapter XI Machiavellianism so that their church-state-partnership could pick “the good People” pockets with immunity. Freedom is constrained by the winner of war or rebellion and liberty is licensed by the magistrates: independence is a human responsibility. The statue in NY Harbor may be renamed “The Statue of Independence” so as to express the United States.

For these 234 years, the U.S. has subjugated itself to “the rule of law” under obsolete Anglo-American precedent. We, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 are beginning to reform to the 1787 intentions: developing the humble-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence (RHI). RHI is grounded in the-ineluctable-truth, which humankind researches using ineluctable-evidence rather than legal-opinion.

These principles are not new and can be gleaned from three documents: the 5 thousand year old Mesopotamian political philosophy in Genesis 1:26–28, the USA’s 1776 declaration of war for independence from England, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution. The U.S. march to a culture of 5 public disciplines—-integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity” has resumed.

Quoting Donald Trump’s inaugural speech, “Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America.”

 https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-know-who-is-on-the-right-vs-the-wrong-side-of-history-today? by Bruno Uzoka

Civic people neither initiate nor accommodate injury to-or-from any person or association, including self and family. Civic people constrain chaos in their way of living.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-you-so-presumptuous? by Bruno Uzoka

Why do you presume I express more than opinion?

https://www.quora.com/From-whom-does-morality-originate? by Hadissah Magoncia

I think right&wrong derive from the human necessity&justice the civic people observe.

History’s primitive expression of this principle I am aware of is perhaps 5 thousand years old, originated in Mesopotamia, in the Middle East, perhaps from the Sumerian culture’s mythical Gods and a political-philosopher’s deep observation. It was reported by Hebrew scholars 3 thousand years ago in Genesis 1:26-28. In my, 2021 viewpoint, the message is:  Since it can, the species female&male-human-being is responsible to independently provide order&peace on earth.

I call the individuals who perceive this principle and live it “civic-people”. They develop&maintain responsible-human-independence (RHI), while the rest of humankind seeks some form of dependency. They develop RHI using humble-integrity in every choice.

Civic people don’t lie, in-order-to lessen human loss and misery.

Civic people neither initiate nor accommodate injury to-or-from any person or association, including self and family.

Civic people sustain humankind’s viability.

https://www.quora.com/Is-no-harm-no-foul-a-good-policy-or-should-we-be-more-discriminating? by Daniel Butt

A good guide is:  The civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates injury to-or-from any person or association including self and family.

Two parties who did their best to apply this principle can happily part with “All’s well that ends well.” However, if a party needs to reform, the reform should be discussed immediately.

https://www.quora.com/What-system-of-morality-is-better-than-secular-morality-and-why-is-it-better? by Chris Ferguson

Mr. Ferguson, I appreciate your question. I think it’s erroneous to assume I understand what you mean by “secular morality”: what do you mean? (I’m sincere and want a response.)

Merriam-Webster Online defines “secularism” as “indifference to or rejection or exclusion of religion and religious considerations”.

Bipeds emerged some 7 million years ago (ma), and a branch produced primitive tools 2.8 ma. Homo-sapiens branched-out 0.3 ma, and mixed-homo stopped appearing 0.001 ma. Language developed perhaps 0.15 ma, and grammar 0.005 ma. Aboriginal spiritualism may have developed 0.08 ma, shamanism emerged 0.03 ma, and monotheism 0.004 ma.

To some people, spiritualism is life; see https://australianstogether.org.au/discover/indigenous-culture/aboriginal-spirituality/. Also, consider some Christian-belief that life is preparation for afterdeath’s consequences.

I don’t know how much secularism exists. A not-so-reliable source, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations, reports 99.8% 2020 survey respondents were religious “adherents”, 15.6% unaffiliated. Pew Research found 16% unaffiliated in 2015; https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/05/christians-remain-worlds-largest-religious-group-but-they-are-declining-in-europe/ft_17-04-05_projectionsupdate_globalpop640px/. Maybe that equates to 84% non-secular, a 21:4 disadvantage for “seculars” among Homo sapiens.

Considering political philosophy, most cultures inculcate in their youth the quest for a higher power, in-order-to guide life-choices. Most individuals expect their doctrinal-God, their government, or their partnership to provide order&peace, in-order-to assure their pursuit of the happiness they prefer rather than to settle for someone else’s vision for them. With no encouragement&facilitation to acquire responsible-human-independence (RHI), many persons die still seeking a reliable higher-power-for-life or hoping for reward in their afterdeath, that vast time after body, mind, and person stop functioning.

However, 0.005 ma, a political philosopher, perhaps Sumerian, in Mesopotamia, suggested, in my 2021 view, that necessity&justice require female&male-human-being to provide order&peace on earth. In other words, the individual human-being must constrain chaos in their way of living. I call the persons who do so “civic-citizens”. The suggestion was recorded 0.003 ma by Hebrew scholars, according to their views, in Genesis 1:26-28.

But not every person chooses to be a human-being. Some develop a soul, a vegetable, a mineral, an animal, a tyrant, a criminal, a welfare gamer, a religion exploiter, or to live some other form of dependency rather than to develop RHI. Consequently, the civic-citizen must develop statutory justice to get the dependent’s attention and alert them to reform in self-interest. The civic-citizen bears the burden of both law enforcement and research to discover legal failures and develop statutory justice.

Legal failures occur because courts do not base decisions on the-ineluctable-truth, which is “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted” according to Merriam-Webster Online. In the U.S., the Court uses legal precedent, even obsolete English-precedent to preserve “traditional” injustice. Instead the Court should comport to the-ineluctable-evidence acquired by research with humble-integrity. Research without integrity is ruinous: integrity without research is ineffectual. The U.S. Court is effectually ruinous.

This listener is constrained to ask:  If humankind, during the recent 0.005 ma, discovered how to travel in “the heavens” how can it be that there is no culture that encourages&facilitates RHI?

I think the problem is “indifference to or rejection or exclusion of religion and religious considerations”, which I understand is secularism. Because physics and its offspring involve so many laws that are as yet unknown, many human beings want to develop&nourish some form of spiritualism by which to enjoy comfort&hope. I do not want religion, because I trust-in and am committed-to physics and its responsible offspring. However, I defend with all my being the fellow-civic-citizen whose spirituality inspires&motives their humble-integrity needed for RHI.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-build-and-reinforce-national-identity-and-patriotism? by Hana Misaki

The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a proposal for a responsible culture, and we, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 can effect reform. An argument for reform is presented in 10 close-packed pages in the July 8, 2021 post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com. I wrote it for improvement by fellow-citizens. I express appreciation for perhaps 100 people on the blog’s “appreciations” post. Please read and improve the reform-proposal.

https://www.quora.com/If-you-are-silent-or-neutral-in-the-face-of-a-clear-injustice-are-you-then-morally-aligned-with-the-oppressor? by Christianos Williams

Yes.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-have-or-own-an-object-item-that-can-exemplify-one-of-your-personal-moral-values? by Nelson Vidinha

My wife and I designed and contracted the building of our home. When we moved in, for the first time in 15 years, our 3 children each acquired a pet. They couldn’t believe the privilege and asked why. We responded, because this is our home. For the first time, we are free of market pressures for resale.

We work hard to maintain our home and property, thinking that they are essential to responsible-human-independence. A home neither comes nor stays easily.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-and-most-effective-way-to-use-your-freedom-of-speech? by Graham C Lindsay

I don’t know.

I try to find words and phrases that will appeal to the experiences&observations of people who pursue the-good, for living, more fervently than they pursue the-God, a mystery. I try to be clear, inviting, and sincere.

I try to write for the reader, yet express my idea. That is to say, I try to imagine stumbling blocks I offered and eliminate them.

Some thoughts are elusive. For example, I discovered that by dedicating my life to my doctrinal-God, I could be turning my back on the-God, whatever it may be. Also, I think that when people debate God, they don’t realize that they are talking different, perhaps opposing, doctrinal-Gods, each party unaware that each is arguing a doctrinal-God that the-God may not affirm. When Presidents say “God bless America” they may be offending the-God.

I often take it for granted that the reader will comprehend “the-God” as reservation of humility respecting my doctrinal-God (physics and its offspring).

Trying to civilly impose God on the people or the troops may be inviting the wrath of the-God.

Here, I’ve written an annoying amount trying to express “the-God” and normally leave it to the reader to comprehend that I think “God” is insufficient.

I’ve been told to write a book: I am learning too fast.

https://www.quora.com/What-philosophy-transcends-all-sensitivities-and-sensibilities? by Sandy Ray

Necessity&justice requires female&male-human-being to constrain chaos on earth.

https://worldsnews.quora.com/Are-integrity-and-honesty-the-same-thing? by Bianca Andrea

Not even close. Honesty accepts ignorance, and integrity insists on “I don’t know” until the-ineluctable-truth is known.

For example, to the question, “Does the-God control the unfolding of the universe?” an honest answer is “I hope so” and integrity requires “I don’t know”.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-crime-and-punishment-and-its-implication-to-human-freedom? by Ifunaya Okoronjama

I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.

I think the civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates injury to-or-from any person or association including self and family.

However, every person has the freedom to develop as an opposite of human-being: soul, mineral, plant, animal, or evil-being. Therefore, the civic-citizen has the responsibility to constrain individuals who choose not to develop as human-beings. Otherwise, dependent fellow-citizens have no incentive to reform.

Necessity demands that the civic-citizen constrain crime and other dependencies by paying the costs of law-enforcement and continual improvement, in-order-to approach statutory-justice.

Eugene Patrick Devany

So necessity demands that we harm (punish) people who need help? For their own good? The more the better?

 

Response to Devany:

 

 I appreciate your comment.

My sentence begins with necessity and ends with justice, with the civic-citizen responsible. The civic-citizen, whether aware or not, aids the development of necessity&justice rather than an abstract ideology, such as utopia or theocracy.

Physics and its offspring, including viable-life, require 3 provisions for humankind’s survival: constrain crime (and other dependency), encourage&facilitate reform, and terminate reform-denial. Incarceration-for-life or execution seem the ultimate options.

Neither the-God nor government will usurp a person’s opportunity to choose to pursue either responsible-human-independence (civic-citizenship) or dependency. Only confrontation with the civic-citizen can alert the dependent citizen to their necessity to reform for self-interest in justice.

These ideas are not new. For example, Genesis 1:26–28, in my view, 5,000 years ago, charges humankind to independently provide order&peace on earth; it seems self-evident that each individual must either constrain chaos in their way of living or invite notice to reform for order&peace. Also, nearly 3,000 years ago, Agathon expressed, in my view: human-appreciation’s greatest power is that the civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates injury to-or-from a person or association. Not accommodating means either preventing or reporting injury when you observe it, avoiding vigilantism when you have false perception.

Please suggest improvements to these principles.

https://www.quora.com/Something-which-has-always-bothered-me-about-politics-is-the-presumption-that-one-side-is-Right-while-the-other-is-Wrong-When-in-reality-there-are-only-Preferences-people-have-to-live-in-a-world-they-are-most? by Kelly Kilgore

I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.

What I think is that political philosophies that prevail make the assumption that it is necessary to consider every person a human being, when in practice, some people chose to develop one of the opposites: a soul, a mineral, a plant, an animal, or an evil-being. It seems better for the civic-people to accept that each unique person is free to develop as a human-being or not. Therefore, part of being a civic-person is to aid the development of necessary-justice. In other words, pay the cost of law-enforcement and creation of statutory-justice when injustice is discovered.

In 2021, the U.S. has discovered that “the rule of law” is not working. That is because seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe set aside the laws of physics to favor reasonable legal-precedent as the basis of law enforcement. In 1776, the USA colonies declared war for independence from European philosophy, neither disparaging England’s reforming-Catholic Trinity nor defending the factional-American Protestant dominance: they claimed authority on “Nature and Nature’s God”. But that phrase is from John Locke, who was pressing “God given rights”. This erroneous thinking has been debated ever since, and bemuses the entity We the People of the United States.

Recently, I discovered my view of Genesis 1:26-28, written by Hebrew scholars some 3 thousand years ago and reflecting a political philosopher in Sumer, about 5 thousand years ago. In other words, a philosopher from before Abraham was born, by about 700 years. The Sumerian philosopher represented the-God of their system of Gods, and the message was: the-God charges female&male-human-being to provide order&peace on earth. That is to say, the individual is to independently constrain chaos in their way of living.

Since then, groups of people have attempted to construct their doctrinal-God, in-order-to usurp what I call responsible-human-independence. The consequence these 5 thousand years later is divergent-chaos in the U.S. and in the world I comprehend.

However, the 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a proposal for reform, and we, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 can reform. An argument for reform is presented in 10 close-packed pages in the July 8, 2021 post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com. I wrote it for improvement by fellow-citizens. I express appreciation for perhaps 100 people on the blog’s “appreciations” post.

https://www.quora.com/Are-humans-born-corrupted-or-get-corrupted-by-society? by Political Corruption

To accommodate the physics (offspring biology and psychology), let me take this question back to conception. The woman or man who corrupts their body may conceive a corrupt single-cell embryo, and if the conception makes it through gestation and delivery, the infant will be corrupt, perhaps permanently.

Usually, the human-infant is born with total ignorance, and requires about a quarter century to acquire the comprehension&intention to live a complete human life. By complete, I mean accepting each 1) they they are a unique human-being, 2) that they can perfect their unique person, and 3) that perfection requires responsible-human-independence (RHI).

A culture to develop these principles was proffered and soon repressed. I develop this claim and propose initial reform in the July 8, 2021 post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com. I hope the message accelerates, and positive public action emerges before 2022 replaces 2021.

https://www.quora.com/If-one-perfectly-executes-everything-one-has-ever-done-including-wording-sentences-perfectly-executes-crimes-with-no-mistakes-made-in-execution-one-intentionally-gets-caught-according-to-moral-standards-crimes-are? by Jeffrey Palin (ジェフリー ペイリン) 

Necessity&justice invite a person to accept that they are a human-being rather than an opposite: a soul, a mineral, a plant, or an animal. The civic-person, whether by encouragement&facilitation by care-takers or by self-development, accepts their individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to acquire the humble-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence (RHI) rather than accept&nourish dependency.

Among the dependencies are: gaming welfare, gaming religion, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse. The person who developed humble-integrity will not accept dependency: they happily maintain RHI as a self-interest.

Perhaps the first step in developing RHI is to responsibly earn the desired way of living. Crime, which depends on a gullible public, can be perfectly practiced. However, crime dooms the criminal to a life of dependency.

Considering these principles can motivate reform by the criminal as well as the nation&culture they call “home”. I posted a 10-page plea for the initial reforms in the July 8, 2021 post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com. I hope the message accelerates, and positive public action emerges before 2022 replaces 2021.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-do-you-think-about-an-ideal-member-of-society-How-an-ideal-member-can-contribute-to-build-up-a-better-society-Please-Answer-elaborately? by Shakil

Necessity&justice demand that the civic-human-being constrain chaos in their way of living, during every quarter-century of their lives.

First, their caretakers and culture encourages&facilitates their acquisition of the comprehension&intention to live as-a-complete-unique-person, and during adolescence, they take charge of developing their-person. By “complete” I mean accepting each 1) that they are a human-being, 2) that they have the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to perfect their unique person, and 3) that it is in their self-interest to acquire the humble-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence (RHI).  In the second quarter-century, they accumulate the experiences&observations to make their RHI reliable and not repeat mistakes. In the third quarter century, they share their earned-opinion about RHI, in-order-to listen to the other party and appreciate their viewpoint for possible improvements. In the fourth quarter-century, they share with fellow-citizens the RHI they lived, again, listening to learn. When death comes, they are approaching perfection of their person. This experience is not possible for people who nourish dependency during life.

These principles have been expressed over the ages, starting 5 thousand years ago, but no culture teaches them to their youth, adolescents, and adults. However, such a nation&culture was proffered&repressed.

I posted a 10-page plea for the initial reforms in the July 8, 2021 post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com. I hope the message virally spreads&improves, and positive public action emerges before 2022 replaces 2021.

https://www.quora.com/If-someone-had-trusted-you-with-their-life-does-honor-demand-that-you-give-your-life-in-order-to-honor-their-trust-or-are-they-responsible-for-their-decisions-and-mistakes? by Viktor Bondarchuk

A civic individual neither initiates nor accommodates injury to or from any person or association, including self and family. Thus, what someone else imposes on you is not to be accommodated without your concurrence.

Your life is not unlike mutual appreciation. If someone is unilaterally attracted to you and eventually says they are “in-love-with-you”, you ought to point out that it takes a mutually-appreciative-and-bonded couple to be in-love. If they don’t catch the message, add that while you appreciate them you are not bonded to them.

Or consider someone’s concern for the mystery of soul. If they urge you to dedicate your life to a doctrinal-God to save your soul your opinion about soul is more important to you than their opinion. For example, if you think that when body, mind, and person stop functioning the only remanence is dust and your life-accomplishments, it is imperative that you continue to approach perfection of your unique person during life.

These are not new principles, but most cultures neglect them.

 https://www.quora.com/How-far-would-you-be-willing-to-go-to-avoid-making-enemies-Are-you-willing-to-compromise-your-principles? by Kiril Degtarev

I own guns and other equipment strategically placed in and around my home to protect my wife and adult-children or visitors when they are at home. In all other respects, I treat neighbors and family as citizens and care not if they consider me an enemy.

Many people use religion or ethnicity to imagine a neighbor an enemy. It seems civic to brook their opinion as long as they do not attack your person, loved ones, or property. It’s a matter of mutual independence more than privacy. In other words, responsible-human-independence (RHI) seems not subject to opposing opinion.

When a fellow-citizen gives me an ultimatum, I accept it. For example, a priest told me I’d have to convert to worship with my family, so I have never gone to communion. Again, a dear friend said that if we were to remain friends I must not discuss the preamble to the U.S. Constitution; I no longer speak of it with them. I learned that my brother (d.), a Baptist Deacon, told his only employee that he had no brother. I neither complained nor heard concern for his lie. My serenely-confident, Louisiana French-Catholic wife helped me discover my person: Phil Beaver, a non-atheist non-theist.

Nor is independence subject to the rule of legal precedent. Independence may be pursued under necessity&justice. It is determined by the laws of physics and its offspring, including biology and psychology. Necessity&justice continually changes the rule of legal-precedent, now erroneously pursuing its tail. The Court needs general reform, in-order-to develop statutory-justice under the laws of physics and its offspring.

Mr. Degtarev, I appreciate your questions. You may be interested in a close-packed, 10 page proposal for an RHI culture. See my 10-page letter to Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch, July 8, 2021 at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

https://www.quora.com/Do-morally-unscrupulous-people-fear-those-who-have-a-strong-conviction-in-their-moral-principles-and-a-sense-of-duty-to-stand-up-for-themselves? by Kiril Degtarev

Of course, I don’t know. However, it seems to me the unscrupulous people recognize individuals who practice responsible-human-independence (RHI) and stonewall them. I call RHI people “civic-citizens” of the world (and the U.S., if it applies).

Unscrupulous people fearlessly prey on gullible people. The public record speaks for itself: the U.S., not only the world, is in chaos.

I am in my fourth quarter century and only this week beneficially interpreted something Mom (d.) told me when I was an adolescent: “Phil, you trust people too much.” She was a Southern Baptist Eastern Star married to a Southern Baptist Mason, teaching me to seek Jesus’ higher power while speaking from necessity&justice. I did not grasp her message.

I thought she was being mean to the people I met and trusted, so discounted her observation with no appreciation. However, severe loss and misery taught me that neither the-God nor any government will take charge of my RHI: RHI is on me. To manage it, I must know the law and observe it and discern the-I-don’t-know-and-it’s-OK from ignorance-I-must-lessen---in-order-to manage necessity&justice.

Gullible-people fear the civic-citizen and trust the unscrupulous people. The civic-citizen accepts the gullible-citizen as at a point on their journey to RHI according to their unique perfection, unless they demonstrate that they are merely unscrupulous. The civic-citizen completely avoids the unscrupulous-citizen.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-three-moral-philosophies-What-moral-impact-have-these-philosophers-left-on-individuals-lives? by Shoail Ahmad

Thank you, Ahmad, for the right question at the right time.

Heretofore, I have called it a political philosophy. However, about 5 thousand-years-ago (5a) a thought was expressed, which, with discoveries since 5 ka, may be interpreted as follows:  The-God of necessity&justice requires female&male-human-being to independently provide order&peace on earth. In another view, necessity&justice demand humankind to constrain chaos on earth.

Immediately, I adopt the moral philosophy that I need not try to constrain the-God so as to favor my view of necessity&justice. Instead, I must behave with responsible-human-independence (RHI); that is, constrain chaos in my way of living.

I comprehend, perhaps mistakenly so, that the ancient thought developed in Mesopotamia and was reported 2 ka years later, by Hebrew scholars, in Genesis 1:26-28. I think my interpretation of the ancient expression introduces two new moral philosophies:  The belief that a people can bargain with a doctrinal-God to assume humankind’s charge to develop RHI versus the belief that the proposed usurpation of RHI is valid, except that government will take charge.

In summary, I adopt the moral philosophy that humankind is independently responsible to provide order&peace on earth rather than the philosophies that either a-God or a-government will eventually usurp RHI.

A culture for RHI was proffered by a nation then suppressed by their religious-tyrants. See my 10-page, close-packed letter to Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch, July 8, 2021 at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-deep-analysis-about-human-rights? by Violet Athena

I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.

The short deep-response is that human-rights is a competitive legal construct by the elites in the world, in-order-to abuse the individual. The individual wants mutual, comprehensive safety&security so as to develop the happiness they perceive in each stage of life rather than submit to someone else’s vision for them.

The individual will never have human-rights as long as they attempt to avoid, change, or resist responsible-human-independence (RHI).

No culture on earth inculcates these principles, which imply that RHI is achievable, to their youth, adolescents, or adults. Consequently, most persons live a complete life never considering what it means to be a human-being rather than one of the opposites: soul, mineral, plant, animal, or evil.

Each human being may develop the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to pursue their choice: dependency or RHI. Dependencies include gaming welfare or religion, crime, tyranny, violence, evil, and worse. RHI requires humble-integrity to self-interest in the-ineluctable-truth.

Humankind discovers the-ineluctable-truth by researching physics and its offspring: mathematics, chemistry, biology, psychology, imagination, and reaction to the unknowns, Options for reacting to the unknowns include admitting the lack of knowledge, deciding whether or not necessity&justice requires individual research to comprehend the-objective-truth, a perception of the-ineluctable-truth using the available instruments, and planning economically-feasible research. In other words, the human-being must first responsibly earn the means of maintaining the way of living they want.

Just as no individual can provide all their needs, such as repair shoes, make matches, make toothpicks, make floss, report the news, no individual can conduct humankind’s research. Therefore, it is imperative that every individual stay informed about discoveries and maintain the ability to discern pseudo news. Research without integrity is ruinous: integrity without research is ineffectual. The human-being takes charge of their responsible use of the-ineluctable-evidence.

Consequently, the human-being takes responsibility for their sole right: the opportunity to develop the humble-integrity that is necessary&just to RHI.

To read about a proffered, neglected culture for RHI, go to my 10-page, close-packed letter to Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch, July 8, 2021 at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

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It’s time to put legal precedent in its proper place: yielding to the-ineluctable-truth according to the laws of physic and its offspring, like biology and psychology.

Every civic-citizen must judge behavior and discourage&impede dependencies. The dependencies include: passivism, gaming welfare, plying religion, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse. Religion is useful to some civic-citizens who want comfort and metaphysical hope yet practice responsible-human-independence (RHI).

The civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates injury to-or-from any person or association, including self and family.

A Mesopotamian political philosopher 5,000 years-ago suggested, in my 2021 view, that the female&male-human-being can&must independently provide order&peace to the earth and its species. Hebrew scholars interpreted the philosophy 3,000 years-ago in Genesis 1:26-28.

Some persons choose to develop an opposite of human-being: soul, mineral, plant, animal, evil being, and worse. Therefore, the civic-citizen provides order&peace.

The civic-citizen chooses to constrain chaos in their way of living, which requires them to support the laws of physics&progeny and aid development of statutory justice.

Each citizen is unique, and their journey to the humble-integrity required for RHI is likewise singular. Therefore the civic-citizen judges not the person but their behavior and motives. Did they cause or accommodate injury, according to the-ineluctable-evidence?

Human necessity&justice drives these principles. Legal precedent serves neither necessity nor justice.

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.