Celebrate Responsible-Human-Independence on this July fourth and in the future.

 Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.

Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows:  "The good People of these" united states facilitate and encourage five civic disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, "in order to” develop responsible human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.”I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.

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Celebrate Responsible-Human-Independence on this July fourth and in the future.

Most fellow citizens’ experiences&observations show that the U.S. government restricts freedom, and its magistrate licenses liberty. As in 1789 France, liberty is often license to injure fellow-citizens and their property and kill them. We saw democracy’s license to let fellow-citizens’ blood in the summer of 2020.

The human-being can develop the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop the humble-integrity required to behave with responsible-human-independence. Let the entity We the People of the United States reform to 1787 intentions: 5 public disciplines that encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-can-we-redefine-ethics-and-respect-according-to-the-new-generation? by Nada Mounadi

The old generation must reform:  Ethics must conform to the laws of physics and its offspring, such as biology&psychology and necessity&justice. Respect follows appreciation when an individual behaves with responsible-human-independence. Unfortunately, these principles are not encouraged&facilitated as they should be; it is not too late for reform.

Good literature-advice is available to individuals who accept that they are civic human-beings rather than dependent entities. The individual can choose to humbly-appreciate, in modern discovery, the suggestions from the past and gage personal experiences&obervations with humble-integrity. Each person may either develop responsible-human-independence or attempt life in dependency: self-deceit, mind-fogging drugs, crime, tyranny, religious pride, evil, and worse. What scholars refer to as negative free-will-granted-by-the-God, seems arrogance against responsible self-interest. Here are 5 examples of useful suggestions from the past:

First, necessity&justice informs us that female&male-human-being can independently account for responsible-human-independence, in order to develop order&peace on earth. This perhaps 50-hundred-year-old Sumerian political philosophy is recorded in Genesis 1:26-28, according to 30-hundred-year-old Hebrew-scholar-expression, erroneous as it may be, especially regarding the-God. Many individuals live an entire lifetime erroneously seeking a higher-power, often the-God&government, willing to attempt to usurp their responsible-human-independence.

We are told that Abraham, about 38 hundred-years ago, with his father, Terah, escaped Ur-priestly human-sacrifices to practice animal-sacrifice to bargain with the-God. Abraham failed his civic commitment to Sarah, increasing chaos on earth rather than aiding order&peace. An angel told Hagar that “[Ishmael] will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers”.

Abraham divided Ur between Abraham’s descendants---pagans, Jews, Christians, Muslims and other religious factions, lessening the order&peace proposed in Genesis 1. Today, all these groups have factions, some of which are at war with each other and with the other religious groups. Global chaos has become divergent.

Second, necessity&justice informs us that appreciative-citizens neither initiate nor accommodate injury to-or-from any person or responsible human-association. This 25 hundred-year-old suggestion was reported by Plato in “Symposium”, regarding Agathon’s speech.

Third, the New Testament reports that Jesus said 1) before Abraham (which may extend backwards to before Sargon and forwards to Agathon), 2) aid civic integrity, and 3) be perfect. I don’t think so, yet cannot deny that Jesus may have influenced the philosopher of Genesis 1’s report as well as Agathon.

Fourth, the historic Jesus defiantly influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Divinity School Address”, 1838. Therein, Emerson asserts that Jesus delivered the special message that the human-being can perfect their person before dying. By deifying Jesus, churches obfuscate his political message.

Fifth, political-philosopher Albert Einstein suggested that appreciative human-beings never lie, because they expect physics&offspring to eventually expose the lie, causing human misery and loss.

I do not support at all the new generation’s physical&psychological violence. However, I think the older generation needs to reform, and their first accomplishment should be to revise the U.S. First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate civic humble-integrity rather than attempt to impose civil religious-pride.

https://www.quora.com/What-would-you-do-if-you-were-solely-responsible-for-changing-your-nation? by Billy Stacy, SSG Retired (U.S. Army)

If there are no objections, I want to answer what I am doing.

I think the U.S. in a unique development to establish responsible-human-independence (RHI). RHI was suggested about 50 hundred years ago by a Mesopotamian political philosopher. It was recorded in Hebrew scholars’ views, in Genesis 1:26-28, about 30 hundred years ago, and further interpreted by Christian scholars about 17 hundred years ago.

In the USA’s 1776 declaration of war against England, interpreting “the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God” as the laws of physics&offspring and their source, then the Genesis charge to human responsibility is advocated rather than either the English civil-Trinity or the factional-American churches. The consequence is appreciation of state to encourage&facilitate RHI while churches provide responsible-comfort to believers.

The 1776 separation of church&state is affirmed in the godless 1787 U.S. Constitution. Thus, the Genesis-1 RHI is affirmed in both the 1776 Declaration and the 1787 Constitution.

I work to express these principles to fellow-citizens in words and phrases that seem to ring true to their experiences&observations. My purpose is to promote RHI, a personal-duty and civic-obligation, rather than impose civil religious beliefs. The first action I promote is to revise the First Amendment, in order to encourage&facilitate civic humble-integrity rather civil religious-pride.

I write to learn and would appreciate comments.

https://www.quora.com/What-makes-things-morally-right-or-wrong? by Graham C Lindsay

Of course, I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.

However, I think action that conforms to the responsible use of the laws of physics and its progeny is right, and defiance of phyiscs&progeny is wrong. The progeny includes biology and psychology. When metaphysics comports to physics, it’s redundant, and when it defies physics it’s ruinous. The same with reason.

Many, at least 5, political-philosophers suggested this principle in their ways and times. First, a Mesopotamian, perhaps Sumerian, philosopher 50 hundred years ago suggested that, in 2021 awareness, female&male-human-being can&must independently develop order&peace for all species on earth. The suggestion, from perhaps before Sargon was born, followed a few hundred years by Abraham’s birth, is interpreted by Hebrew scholars a few hundred years before Jesus, and translated by the Greeks and others in Genesis 1:26-28. Without considering Sumerian gods, the ancient suggestion may be deduced from necessity&justice. Order&peace and necessity&justice lessen chaos, so we might say humankind is independently responsible to constrain chaos. In other words, each human-being can&should develop responsible-human-independence.

Second, almost 500 years before Jesus, Plato, in “Symposium”, reported that Agathon said, again in 2021 terms, that the appreciative human-being neither initiates nor accommodates injury to or from any person.

Third, the gospels report that Jesus said each: before Abraham was born I AM (which stretches back to before Sargon was born and forward to Agathon; render unto your earthly leader your civic integrity; and perfect your unique person. These statements comport to Genesis 1:26-28, especially if Jesus actually said that human-appreciation developed before Abraham was born.

Fourth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, in “Divinity School Address” wrote that Jesus was a man who perceived that each human-being can perfect their person before death, low as they may be when they choose to develop responsible-human-independence.

Fifth, political philosopher Albert Einstein wrote that integrity follows the same laws as physics&progeny. His only example is that appreciative human-beings never lie, perceiving that physics will inevitably un-hide the-ineluctable-truth.

“The rule of law” or the development of legal precedent must be set aside, in order to encourage&facilitate responsible-use of the laws of physics&progeny.

https://www.quora.com/Should-the-law-adjust-to-line-up-better-with-ethics-and-morality? by Jay Harewood

I don’t think so. Ethics and morality are no more reliable than precedent.

The people need to reform the rule of law so-as-to conform to the-ineluctable-truth. It is discoverable through the laws of physics&offspring, including biology&psychology.

https://www.quora.com/How-important-is-integrity? by Hana Dela Cruz

A person may live honestly and never encounter integrity, a practice that produces a product.

In the practice, a person encounters a concern then does the work to discover its validity according to the-ineluctable-evidence. If it’s a mirage, they make note of it. If not, they do the work to discover the cause. Next, they do the work to learn how to responsibly use the discovery and modify behavior accordingly. They declare publically the reason for their behavior and listen for constructive appreciation. They remain open to new discovery, such as new instruments of perception that might demand reform.

With this process, the person may gage their honesty and continually approach humble-integrity.

The product of the initial discovery is the-objective-truth. With perfect perception, the product is the-ineluctable-truth.

https://www.quora.com/Besides-Justice-what-cant-you-get-if-this-world-is-unjust? by Steven Chen

Order, peace, and individual happiness.

https://www.quora.com/How-has-our-knowledge-of-human-biology-affected-ethics? by Gaurav Pasari

I only know my experiences&observations. In other words, I do not know the-ineluctable-truth.

Biology, according to Merriam Webster online (the instant hit on Chrome-search) is “the laws and phenomena relating to an organism or group”:  I think biology follows the laws of physics and thereby so does the psychology of moral choices.

Ethics is either “a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right or wrong” or “rules of behavior”.

If a person belongs to a group, ethical behavior conforms to the group. The group may be immoral.

In human connections, biology, using the laws of physics, develops the-good to comport to integrity and the-bad according to infidelity. As the person encounters moral decisions, their psychology develops according to their resolve to cause no injury. With habitual choices that injure self or other persons or property, the will to risk injury increases. As risky behavior continues, the biological affects become apparent in the person’s body, especially the eyes and the rest of the face.

An adolescent whose friends propose risky behavior, like throwing rocks from a highway-overbridge, experiences biological reaction. Consequently, the heart beats fast, breath comes hard, and the hair stands up on the back of the neck. For personal relief, they might say, “Someone could be injured or killed. Let’s not do this.” If they participate, they suffer the psychological strain of responsibility to injure others, whether there’s an event or not. Habitual risk-taking changes body chemistry and hardens psychology.

I hope such experiences&observations are being researched, but I don’t know.

https://www.quora.com/Do-societal-rights-trump-individual-rights? by Cheryl Williams

Society can&must encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence. The individual may develop dependency, such as privilege-gaming, religion-gaming, crime, tyranny, and worse. But they invite constraint in exercising that choice.

As far as I know, no society inculcates responsible-human-independence to “ourselves and our Posterity”.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-personal-definition-of-truth-and-how-does-this-vary-from-your-definition-of-fact? by Wayne Hardy

I perceive 2 research products: the-objective-truth is the product of discovery using existing instruments for observing the ineluctable-evidence, and the-ineluctable-truth is independent of perception. I think adoption of these two phrases could reduce confusion about perceived-truth, much as accepting “the-God” could reduce the arrogance of developing “God”.

Facts, such as a street name or the title for whatever controls the unfolding of the universe, are changeable, whereas the-ineluctable-truth yields to no human action. For example, when legislators claim that a fact equates to the-ineluctable-truth, they invite ruin.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-realization-after-discussing-the-different-forms-of-society? by Ivy Marie Gayanilo

Developing “the rule of law” by precedent is tyranny. The moment statutory law-enforcement opposes necessity&justice, legislators ought to discover the-objective-truth if not the-ineluctable-truth and revise the law so as to approach if not attain statutory justice.

Humankind can&must develop the law by discovering the-ineluctable-truth rather than by preserving precedent.

The entity that is responsible for this reform in the U.S. is We the People of the United States, holding Congress and the Supreme Court accountable to the-ineluctable-truth in order to improve the law.

https://www.quora.com/What-illustrates-the-principle-of-acceptance? by Emmarie Hayno

For example, the individual who accepts that their person influenced neither the ovum their mom produced nor the spermatozoon that fertilized it, recognizes no authority to choose a-God. Thereby, they retain sufficient humility toward the-God, whatever it may be.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-polices-of-the-code-of-ethics-against-the-conflict-of-interest? by Kadiatu Dumbuya

The individual who accepts their human power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) does not act against their person’s self-interest.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Have-you-been-in-a-moral-dilemma-What-did-you-do-to-resolve-the-situation? by John Cris G Lascuña

At age 26 and rejected by every woman I considered for life-long bonding, I decided I’d be a bachelor by default. I started into a list of the world’s top 100 non-fiction books. Then I met a beautiful school teacher and was attracted by her serene-confidence, even though it took me a quarter-century to articulate it.

During two years’ courtship toward marriage, I learned that my Baptist faith was no match for her Louisiana-French Catholicism. After 53 years and three children with her, I would not change anything about her.

Because my Protestantism holds that Catholics are doomed because they have not been baptized by emersion. My wife and children motivated my boyhood commitment-to and trust-in the-ineluctable-truth, most of which is unknown. I dropped out of Christianity. That was after 2 quarter-centuries of living.

My-wife&I feel true to our persons, to our bond, and to our family. I ask her if that is so, as long as we both live.

Now, beginning my fourth quarter-century, I make the case that Jesus, perhaps metaphorically influenced the 4500 year-old political philosophy that is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28. I doubt Jesus was born before Sargon, the time of that Mesopotamian philosopher, yet appreciate the responsible-Jesus-believers’ faith, comforts, and triumphs.  

The ancient suggestion, translated by Hebrew scholars 3000 years ago, interpreted with 2021 evidences:  Humankind can&must develop the responsible-human-independence required for peace to all living species and to the earth.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-tolerance-in-detail? by Chizorom Godson

I think the social “tolerance” of concern is an egocentric attitude toward another party: the tolerant party considers their opinion or person on higher ground than the other yet pretends to accommodate the other, perhaps for political reasons or to feel good about themselves. For example, a Unitarian may, without objection, tolerate a Trinitarian’s explanation of God “knowing” that eventually the Trinitarian will reform. The Trinitarian may be working the same bigotry in reverse.

Insight is gained by considering a better word. Defined by Merriam Webster online: “intolerant” means

1: unable or unwilling to endure, 2 a: unwilling to grant equal freedom of expression especially in religious matters and b: unwilling to grant or share social, political, or professional rights: BIGOTED.

I am unwilling to endure tolerance toward either my opinion or my person. When I suspect tolerance, I change the topic to the weather, sports, clothing style, food, or other small talk. I’ve never taken this step and had the other party object. I take that as evidence they were not sincere in the prior discussion.

Perhaps intolerance is usually integrity, and tolerance is often deception.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-more-important-individual-liberty-or-the-common-good-of-the-majority? by Pascal Edouard

More important? To whom? For what purpose?

Perhaps 45 hundred years ago, a Sumerian political philosopher suggested that female&male-human-being can&must independently pursue order&peace to all living species and the earth. Responsible-human-independence requires the humble-integrity to discover and reliably employ the-ineluctable-truth.

The Sumerians had a polytheistic spirituality proud monotheists label “mythology”. In the Sumerian creation story, the primal sea, “Nammu gave birth to An, the sky, and Ki, the earth. Enlil separated An from Ki and carried off the earth as his domain, while An carried off the sky.” See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_religion to start to imagine the conversions of thought from 45 hundred years ago, before Sargon, to 38 hundred years ago and Abraham’s Eloah, to 30 hundred years ago and Hebrew scholarship with Yahweh, then to the German “God”.

We don’t know the meaning, but Genesis 1 attempts to represent the Sumerian-philosopher’s view of the-God of creation. In Phil Beaver’s 2021 privation, it means I can&must constrain chaos in my way of living, out of necessity&justice. In my fourth quarter-century pursuing the best I can do with my unique opportunity in life, it does not seem urgent to discover the ineluctable source of necessity&justice. It seems in my self-interest to practice humility in responsible-human-independence, as suggested in Genesis 1:26-28’s interpretations of the philosopher’s original expressions.

Both “liberty” and “the common good” were fascinations by John Locke. They emerge from Locke’s imposition of nature’s God into political philosophy. Whereas the Sumerian philosopher called for responsible-human-independence to both humankind and female&male-human-being, Locke claims individual liberty is granted by the-God and must be assured by government. The consequential appeal is for “consent of the governed” which authorizes the government that partners with the-God the freedom to abuse the individual with impunity. In other words, Locke’s political philosophy employs the mystery of the-God to keep the governing oligarchy in power. In the U.S., the oligarchy is only aided by religion and is a plutochrasy. The rich dilute church-power and thereby maintain power, whereas in Machiavelli’s Chapter XI example, the Church defeats government and takes over.

As we approach the 2021 independence day, it is prudent to reflect on the 1776 declaration of war against English colonization, the 1787 U.S. Constitution’s godlessness, Genesis 1’s appeal to responsible-human-independence (RHI), and the Lockean ideas of freedom to the plutocracy, their magistrate licensing liberty, and the individual’s opportunity to develop the humble-integrity required for RHI.

According to Genesis 1, the individual has to right to develop RHI. The government that continuously does not encourage&facilitate civic humble-integrity rather than civil religious-opinion is a tyranny that is accommodated by the people.

https://www.quora.com/Is-dignity-a-social-construct? by Naaras Alcata

I don’t think so.

The person eventually may accept that they are a human-being. Then they may accept that the human-being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to either exercise their dignity or accommodate infidelity to self.

It matters not how far into a person’s journey they accept dignity. Once they accept dignity they may develop their person and approach unique-perfection before they die.

Because it has developed the pursuit of “higher power”, society does all it can to hide HIPEA. It is not too late to reform.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-that-oftentimes-the-person-that-it-s-hardest-to-be-honest-with-is-oneself-What-makes-it-so-difficult-to-be-honest-with-ourselves? by Barbara Young Capalbo

I don’t know.

I think the problem is widespread atheism, under the hoax “freedom . . . of religion”. Most civilizations encourage their youth to try to avoid responsible-human-independence (RHI), by seeking a personal-God to usurp their unique opportunity to aid order&peace on earth. The chaos that is obvious in 2021 shows that RHI is demanded by necessity&justice.

The laws of physics and its offspring (chemistry, biology, psychology, imagination, discovery, and unknowns), control the consequence of every event. This seems ineluctable. For example, if someone tells a lie, the consequence is discovery of their infidelity.

The human-being has the individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to never lie, especially to self. Preventing self-deceit empowers humble-integrity, with facilitates responsible-human-independence (RHI). To avoid self-deceit, a person accepts that they are a human-being and preserves unto maturity their infantile “I don’t know” when they don’t know. Thereby, a mature person may say they don’t know the source of the laws of physics&offspring.

I’m expressing these principles in my June 2021 art. However such 2021 views were suggested 45 hundred years ago, initiating humankind’s transition from accepting mystery to researching the-evidence. A Sumerian political philosopher, before Sargon, probably thought in words like Dingir (“God”) and Enki (creator). Hebrew scholars employed “Elohim”, which is polytheistic to Eloah. Modern political philosophy imposes on the prior art the word “God” and translates NIV’s Genesis 1:26-28 as follows:

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Ignoring the scholarly imposition of “God”, this ancient text suggests that the human-being is prudent to independently constrain chaos in their way of living.

So, 45 hundred years ago, a political philosopher suggested that the human-being can&must provide order&peace on earth. However, accelerating with Abraham’s infidelities 38 hundred years ago, chaos on earth is emerging divergent.

Most cultures inculcate in their young the quest for a personal-God that will usurp the RHI that is needed for self-discipline. Recognizing this, we could encourage&facilitate civic humble-integrity rather than impose civil religious-beliefs.

In the U.S., we can&must revise the First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence rather than impose civil religious beliefs.

 

Law professors

https://www.quora.com/May-God-with-integrity-practice-infidelity-and-abuse/answer/Simon-Binks-2/comment/73410777?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=3250589111  from last week

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Facebook, 6/28/2021, 8:24 CST.

https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/

Rejecting appreciative criticism, Facebook is leading the people into the abyss. Biden's managers are cheering from their headquarters. It's not too late for the entity We the People of the United States to stop Facebook's alien power.

https://www.facebook.com/james.finney.9469/posts/3642141136010410?notif_id=1625147566457388&notif_t=nf_share_story&ref=notif

Absent necessity&justice, race remains a bemusing tyranny to fellow-human-beings.

I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth, so attempt humble-integrity that seems reliable to most people’s experiences&observations. I publish my work with the hope that fellow-citizens will improve my expressions so as to accommodate their pursuit of responsible-self-interest: responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive rather than accommodate someone else’s vision for them.

I think the 1787 U.S. Constitution proffered the world’s best opportunity to solve global-evolution’s race-problem. It was developed by the founders, 1774-84; some of the 13 free&independent states, 1784-87; the 55 framers, May-September 1787; and the 39 signers, September 17, 1787. The preamble, advocating public discipline, was finalized 5 days before the signing.

In the state ratification conventions that followed, politicians took over and restored Anglo-American “rule of law” repressing the entity We the People of the United States through history to this moment. Erroneous, Anglo-American political-philosophy is predicated on “free-will” allowed by the-God, rather than individual choice to responsibly-pursue self-interest. The suggestion is not new and can be deduced from Genesis 1:26-28 regarding female&male-human-being’s independent responsibility to flourish, order, and constrain life on earth.

As we prepare for Independence Day, 2021, we may focus on the reality that freedom&liberty is to fellow-citizens the alienated war-winner’s restraint&licensing, or domestic violence, or popular overthrow of responsible-human-independence. Existing cultures do not encourage&facilitate the humble-integrity required for responsible-human-independence. However, the human-being may develop the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to self-discipline, in order to practice responsible-human-independence. The 1787 U.S. Constitution proposes such a culture. Let’s make July4, 2021, our first Responsible-Human-Independence Day.

The encouragement&facilitation the individual human-being needs is to articulate acceptance that they have a lifetime opportunity to perfect their personal responsibility, trusting the soul-mystery to its source, no matter what entity created the soul. The sooner they accept each 1) that they are a human-being, 2) can develop HIPEA, 3) can choose responsible-human-independence, and 4) can choose-to perfect their person before death, the sooner most of We the People of the United States will enjoy an achievable better future. When that happens, the world will celebrate responsible-human-independence and improve the U.S. model.

Happy Responsible-Human-Independence Day, 2021!

As always, I write to learn how to improve my opinion, in order to accommodate the fellow-citizen’s responsible pursuit of happiness.

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.