Redirect conservatism to responsible-human-independence

 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

Redirect conservatism from Anglo-American tradition to responsible-human-independence

The jargon that scholars employ to debate John-Lockeism 217 years after his English death empowers elite politicians to tyranny over the people who are too busy living their lives to develop opinion about Locke’s folly.

We know in 2021, that neither the-God nor a government can warrant “life, liberty, and property”. For example, the 12 people who died at the hands of Democrat-Party-licensed protestors in summer 2020 were victims of the liberty to let fellow-citizens’ lives. Necessity&justice require responsible-human-independence rather than government licensed freedom&liberty. And the-God requires humble-integrity to perfect your unique-person rather than either individualism or communitarianism. And each person can neither avoid, nor change, nor resist their opportunities to choose either integrity or infidelity to self.

No metaphysical civil-rights can replace the right to develop responsible-human-independence.

The present campaigns to enlist Christian voters as “conservatives” are annoying after Mike Pence demonstrated that Christians simply don’t understand:  No man can speak for Jesus.  Perhaps whatever Jesus is authored Genesis 1:26-28. These 5,000 years later, it seems self-evident that humankind can&must provide order&fruitfulness to the living species on earth: neither the-God nor government will usurp the human-being’s responsibility to constrain chaos in their way of living.

Maybe if Jesus said in a conversation about Abraham (3800 years ago), “Before Abraham was born I AM”, Jesus’ message was that responsible-human-independence was suggested now 5,000 years ago.

Regardless, each person can&must constrain chaos in their way of living. Conservatism can lead the needed reform from metaphysics to physics; separation of church&state; independence from Anglo-American tradition; reform from the-rule-of-legal-precedent to conformity to the laws of physics: responsible-human-indpendence.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Which-political-policy-is-morally-wrong? by Graham C Lindsay

In my view, Mr. Lindsay, you present an unusually open question. I think anyone who attempts to displace physics with metaphysics invites ruin.

There’s evidence that political philosophy grounded in metaphysics is eventually corrected by physics and its progeny --- mathematics, strong forces and weak forces, the chemistries, biology, psychology, imagination, fiction, religion, tyranny; everything.

In the year 2021, we are at the leading edge of discovery that has been exponential for at least 50 years in psychology and 200 years in technology, after homo sapiens emerged from bipeds some 300,000 years ago. There is no excuse for insisting on tyranny when order&fruitfulness are attainable. The individual need not weigh individualism versus communitarianism when their person needs&demands responsible-human-independence.

The party at fault in this reversible failure is the individual who does not accept that they are a human-being; that in self-interest, they can&must acquire the comprehension&intention to constrain chaos in their way of living. Human necessity&justice is the inspiration&motivation for this attitude, and as soon as 2/3 of the people accept it, an achievable better future will be visible. To put it another way, neither the-God nor government will usurp the human-individual’s responsibility to constrain chaos in their way of living.

The fact that I am in my fourth quarter century and only now can articulate these principles, low as my performance has been, attests to the reality that my birth-community, perhaps no civilization, culture, or nation on earth, encourages&facilitates the humble-integrity that is required to develop responsible-human-independence, within a lifetime. Yet the moment the human-being accepts these principles or better, their journey to perfect their unique person begins; only death can stop them. I read, write, speak, and LISTEN, in order to discover better expressions and principles: I invite comments so that I may learn.

I am able to articulate these suggestions, because during my second-two quarter-centuries a self-directed avocation would answer two questions:  With so many wonderful people in the world, why is there so much misery, and with such a wonderfully proffered representative republic, why is the U.S. divergent? The U.S. had to reach divergent-chaos for my articulations to formulate and have the chance for improvement by fellow-citizens. With improvements by over 100 persons, including you, Mr. Lindsay, the articulations may eventually approach reliability to the experiences and observations of at least 2/3 of the living fellow-citizens. Then reform may move rapidly.

There is much to accomplish. Cultures who improve on these principles must reform their education systems so that they encourage&facilitate both adults and youth to 1) accept that they are human beings and therefore can develop HIPEA and use it to practice responsible-human-independence and 2) that in self-interest to humble-integrity, they can perfect their unique person before death.

When a person does not know the physics of the-ineluctable-truth, accepting I don’t know and will first consider if necessity&justice requires me to know, is better than bemusing precious life with metaphysics’ tyranny.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-more-valued-in-the-USA-individualism-or-collectivism? by Graham C Lindsay

My view is that privacy is paramount yet feared by politicians. Criticizing privacy would not be politically popular, so politicians promote collectivism. Consequently, individualism is not as popular as it would be in a civic culture.

The civic-citizen aids mutual, comprehensive safety&security so that each individual may responsibly pursue the happiness each perceives rather than submit to someone else’s vision for them.

Independent-privacy is not at all new: it is abstractly suggested in Genesis 1:26-28. Viewed with discoveries through 2021, the suggestion is: the species female&male-human-being can&must independently provide order&fruitfulness to the other living species and to the earth. To the individual, this means to constrain chaos so that their way of living will be fruitful.

The implications are far reaching. For example, if an individual does not find a mate with whom they can bond for life, so that their spouse-hood can be faithful to their children unto grandchildren and beyond, it’s OK. Their way of living still can&must constrain chaos.

The cultures that evolved do not encourage the human-being to perfect their unique person before dying. The culture that facilitates unique-personal perfection inculcates in their youth the principle that the human-being can choose to develop the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to practice humble-integrity. Without encouragement&facilitation, most persons never accept that they are a human-being and therefore can practice responsible-human-independence. They look to the-God, their doctrinal-God, or government for higher power. Cultures don’t accept that necessity&justice urge that they can&must establish peace on earth to all species.

I think many Americans practice these principles in privacy --- would not dare express them. They fear the popular notion that the-God will eventually overcome the doctrinal-Gods that partner with political factions, in order to bless America. And all the while, the-God expresses that humankind’s responsibility to provide order&fruitfulness on earth will not be usurped.

Merely adopting the usage “the-God” could help clarify this point. And it could help some people admit that their-God is circular to their perceptions rather than faithful to the-ineluctable-truth. A wonderful outcome of such U.S. reform would be independence from the Christian-collectivism that is imposed by Anglo-American tradition.

As things stand, both the U.S. and England are vulnerable to Ethiopian Tewahedo Christianity, a collectivism that promotes unity as they perceive it. They have not shared with me what they perceive. If they did, I anticipate that I would stay with my pursuit of responsible-human-independence.

Responsible-human-independence seems far more human that either individualism or collectivism.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-thoughts-on-the-phrase-the-founding-fathers-wouldn-t-have-wanted-this? by Sheeraj Mian

I assume by “founding fathers” you mean the loyal British subjects in the N. American eastern-seaboard who complained against British taxation of colonists to benefit residents of Great Britain. In 1763, some colonists were Whigs (classical liberals) and some were Tories (conservative to the monarchy). After England’s surrender, in 1781, some Tories returned to England. Others could not afford the return trip. Also, 20% of the seaboard population above Florida and east of the Mississippi were African-slaves. I guess the citizens who supported American independence were the founding fathers.

In 1776, they referred to “Nature’s God” rather than the Anglo-American Trinity for authorization to declare war. In 1778, they negotiated military providence from France, in order to secure victory.

Through 1787, the confederation of states proved too weak to survive, and 12 of 13 states convened to devise a central government under one head. They framed and proffered a republic under public-discipline by the people, amendable upon the discovery of injustice. Five days before the signing, 5 delegates issued a revised preamble containing a statement of intentions. Here’s my view of the intentions: Civic-people of the united States practice&encourage 5 disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, in order to facilitate responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Only 39 of 55 delegates from the 12 states signed the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

Tories ran for office in the 1789 initial U.S. operations under only 11 states. In Congress, they led the tyranny to restore, as much as possible, English legal precedent. The entity We the People of the United States has accommodated the tyranny ever since. We settle for bestowed freedom and licensed liberty rather than benefitting from responsible-human-independence.

I think the 1787 signers would have wanted neither the tyranny nor its chaos through 2021. Even the signers could not imagine the challenges the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” face. For example, voluntarily-dependent citizens and illegal voters who could not care less about U.S. intentions.

The 2021 entity We the People of the United States must hold Congress accountable for reform, starting with reform of the First Amendment 1) to encourage&facilitate civic-humble-integrity rather than civil-religious-opinion, 2) require the media to journal Posterity’s progress toward statutory justice rather than legal precedent, and 3) require citizens to show evidence of individual aid to U.S. intentions for a license to vote.

https://www.quora.com/In-your-opinion-do-you-support-the-Quiet-Revolution-Explain-your-reason-and-rationale? by Emy Lahura

I don’t think so. First, are you referencing Susan Cain’s book, or something else?

If the book, I listened to a 7 minute Cain TED talk and my first impression is not so good.

First, “revolution” is a negative term. I’d prefer to advocate “Introvert-personality Appreciation and Facilitation” or better.

Second, Cain’s talk seems to accuse the extroverted-half AND management of abusing introverts. Necessity&justice require participation in responsible-human-independence, and it is frustrating when a fellow-citizen resists “being put on the spot” to contribute to necessity in the most judicious way. It’s doubly frustrating when management defends stonewalling due to personality. The creative “quite” person yields to less creative solutions by allowing extroverts to take command. Management’s job is to encourage&facilitate the introvert’s timely participation.

I think the introvert can self-improve for the long run. For example, the Dale Carnegie course “How to Win Friends and Influence People” can help.

I did not hear Cain considering what could be dubbed “Quiet Withdrawal” rather than “revolution”.

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-media-reflect-society-or-does-society-reflect-the-media? by Julie Crawford

I don’t think so. The media has a business plan that assumes the majority of the people are irretrievably gullible. The current media-split is divided: civil-religion vs secularism. However, “secularism” is defined by religion, so the media is betting on a circular falsehood. The mature human-being is powerful.

The human-being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their life. Necessity&justice motivates them to independently survive. Neither the-God, nor government, nor the media can usurp the human-responsibility to self-interest.

The 2021 chaos-divergence observed in the U.S. and across the globe calls for monumental reform, and female&male-human-being will rise to the challenge.

In the U.S., the needed reform can be summed up with the acceptance that “liberty”, often taken as the license to injure fellow-citizens, binds citizens to English tradition. Some scholars refer to England as our “mother country”, in order to defeat “E Pluribus Unum”, the 1782 motto. In retrospect, it applies to the doctrinal-Gods and none that yield to the-God, whatever it is.

The uSA declared independence in 1776 under “Nature and Nature’s God” rather than under the Anglo-American Trinity. The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffered five public disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, leaving religion/none to the mature-individual’s privacy. But 1789 Congressional-tyranny, supported by an errant 1790 Supreme Court, restored English tradition.

Freedom and liberty are not a worthy exchange for the humble-integrity needed for responsible-human-independence (suggested in Genesis 1:26-28, interpreting 5,000 year-old political-philosophy, under 2021 discoveries).

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-good-philanthropist? by Alex S. Gabor

I can think of only 1 good philanthropist: the fellow-citizen who fully pays their taxes, makes certain they earn enough money to pay for their responsible life-style, and appreciates fellow-citizens’ privacy and responsible pursuit of the happiness the fellow-citizen wants rather than what someone else envisions for them. Such philanthropists constrain chaos in their way of living.

Philanthropy is a human-construct that emerged from religion. It is intended to circumvent representative government, such as the 1787 U.S. Constitution, which prevents democracy.

The 1776 Declaration was dominated by Unitarian enlightenment to express independence from the Church of England’s constitutional-partnership with Parliament. The English Bill of Rights, 1689, required a Protestant monarchy, ending civil war over the Catholic Church. The founding fathers looked to France rather than to the Trinity for the military providence to win independence.

In 1787, the 55 framers of the U.S. Constitution designed the world’s first government predicated on public discipline “in order to” develop the humble-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. The disciplinary intentions were expressed by the 5-delegate Committee of Style just 5 days before 39 delegates signed the 1787 Constitution, leaving 16 dissident or departed delegates.

The politicians who served in the first Congress, court, and administration were too politically adolescent to uphold U.S. independence “to ourselves and our Posterity” and re-established English tradition as much as they could. Many “modern Torries” proudly promote England as the U.S. “mother country” to this day. It is up to the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” to amend the First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate civic responsible-human-independence rather than civil religious-belief.

Global philanthropy in the U.S. is so out of control that it owns Congress, the Administrative State, the Supreme Court, and the press. The entity We the People of the United States is threatened like a hurricane lamp in its waning service:  The wick barely touches the oil, and the family anticipates the looming darkness.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Who-do-you-think-provides-the-strongest-argument-for-ethics-Kant-or-Bentham? by Meazina Chekole

Albert Einstein. See his essay in https://samharris.org/my-friend-einstein/. His only example is that civic-people don’t lie so as to lessen the misery and loss when physics discloses the lie.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-live-responsibly-in-society? by Syeda Sadaf

A 5,000 year-old political philosophy is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28. In 2021 ineluctable evidence, it reasonably says:  The species female&male-human-being is independently charged to develop order&fruitfulness to the living species and to the earth. Of necessity&justice, persons who accept this responsibility self-discipline and fund both law enforcement and development of statutory justice.

Neither the-God nor government can usurp the human-being’s individual power, individual energy, and individual authority to constrain chaos in their way of living. Each person can develop the civic-humble-integrity to practice&encourage responsible-human-independence.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-societally-wrong-in-being-good-and-kind-hearted? by Kingsley Akujobi

I certainly don’t know.

I’m thinking. “Being” infers acting . . . with goodness and empathy. I assume action is taken.

First, there’s necessity&justice: Is it necessary to act? Who is to judge that the action is justice?

Second, the kind and good-hearted fellow-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates injury to-or-from any property, person, or association, including self and family. Did the action cause unintended injury?

Third, goodness&empathy ought to encourage&facilitate like behavior by the other party. Did the action reinforce dependency, such as begging, gaming religion, crime, tyranny, or worse?

Fourth, in responsible-human-independence, mutually breaking privacy is precious. Is your action collaborative? Did they invite/accept connection with you?

Perhaps assuming the other party wants goodness and kind heartedness rather than privacy can be civically wrong.

 

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-humans-have-double-standards-in-every-sphere-like-scientifically-proven-class-systems-and-so-on? by Jaswinder Panesar

For the past 5,000 years, civilizations, cultures, and nations have taught their youth to look to a higher power --- their government or the-God or a doctrinal-God&government-partnership --- to protect them from chaos.

In the middle-east, some 5,000 years ago a political-philospher suggested, in 2021 comprehension due to exponential rates of discovery: female&male-human-being is independently accountable to develop peace&fruitfulness to the living species and to the earth. In other words, neither the-God nor government can usurp responsible-human-independence.

The message was recorded 2,000 years later in Genesis 1:26-28. Since then, most cultures have vainly tried to construct a doctrinal-God that can be persuaded to take humankind’s responsibility.

Hopefully, the present chaos will encourage us to reform. Each individual human-being can&must constrain chaos in their way of living.

https://www.quora.com/Can-revolution-make-the-world-a-better-place? by Akor Ikechukwu

No. Revolution replaces political tyranny through military power. The victor imposes a new tyranny the gullible soldiers did not foresee. The young generation did not experience revolutionary-disappointment and are vulnerable to new Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO). See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfxnaFaHWI, especially the last 2 minutes: Alinsky-violence when his rights are at stake.

Humankind is in the era of H. sapiens (knowing) --- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human --- and hopefully is in transition to H. integritas (integrity). In integrity to self-interest, H. integritas knows to constrain chaos in their way of living. But H. sapiens is still present, and some remain dependent (alms, crime, tyranny, etc.). In civic responsibility, H. inegritas funds law-enforcement plus research toward statutory-justice, in order to constrain dissident-human-beings and encourage&facilitate either reform or submission to exile, perhaps death. Human-beings who cannot constrain personal chaos are supported until they can.

Recognizing the chaos invited by democracy, H. integritas requires 2 features of governance: 1) representation in a system that defeats democracy --- either majority or coalition-of-minority --- abuse of fellow-citizens and 2) a reliable journal of humankind’s research record, explaining failures as thoroughly as successes. Call it the journal of ineluctable-discovery or of responsible-human-independence or of human ethics.

The intention of research is to devise tests to evaluate heartfelt imagination to discern whether there’s opportunity for discovery or not; to discern whether what is imagined may be ineluctable-evidence or not. If the test reveals a mirage instead of evidence, the work is stopped until new instruments of perception that could change the mirage-conclusion have been invented. If there seems to be evidence, new tests are devised to confirm the initial conclusion. If the test results are positive, there may be new research to determine how to responsibly employ the discovery. If so, the discovery is utilized with caution that a newly discovered instrument of perception might require review of the conclusions.

This method of research has been dubbed “the scientific method”. The product of research is discovery, not “science”. Statistics is a tool of efficiency, and researchers are careful to constrain statistics’ influence on research-conclusions. Research without integrity is self-deceiving, and integrity without research is egocentric.

Pseudo-researchers devise data-gathering on subjective premises specifically to prove the researcher’s opinion or that of their employer. They design questions, select survey subjects, and evaluate the answers so that the results confirm the premise. For example, to show that Republicans favor gun-control, the survey questionnaire might ask if the applicant is Republican or other, a hunter, their marriage status, and whether or not they have children. If the data show that Republican, single, non-hunters, without children favor gun-control, they report the study conclusion. If not, they send it to Coventry/File-13, report to their employer, and take home the pay.

The ordinary fellow-citizen ought to carefully study the suggestion in Genesis 1:26-28: the-God will neither 1) usurp female&male-human-beings’s responsibility to constrain chaos on earth nor 2) provide government officials that prevent tyranny over fellow-citizens. Citizens who do not constrain chaos in their way of living voluntarily subject themselves to the civic-citizen’s responsible-human-independence.

Arbitrary violence has no place in the intentions of female&male-human-being, the species held responsible for order&fruitfulness to living species and to the earth.

https://www.quora.com/The-biggest-devide-between-East-and-West-are-their-ethics-Chinese-ethics-%E5%AD%9D%E6%82%8C%E5%BF%A0%E4%BF%A1-%E7%A4%BC%E7%BE%A9%E5%BB%89%E6%81%A5-filiality-fraternity-loyalty-trust-etiquette-charity-frugality-shame? by Jow Yuzo

I appreciate learning your view of the East. I will not accommodate imposition. I refer you to John Locke, died 1704, for authoritative views on the West. Western tradition emerged from Catholic/Protestant wars. Civil war ended constitutionally for England with the 1689 dictate that the monarchy must be Protestant.

I live in the United States, and most fellow-citizens still wait for independence from Anglo-American tradition. I read and write to practice&encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI) to fellow-citizens, both locally and globally.

I recently discovered that the 1787 U.S. Constitution is areligious (having read many times “godless”, and error). It is a proffered proposition for public discipline “in order to” develop RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”. The 5 disciplines are: integrity, justice, peace, strength and prosperity, leaving religion/none to privacy. By not specifying “God” the U.S. is humble to the-God, whatever it is. But behold legislative tyranny.

The first 9 states of 12 framing states to ratify the draft Constitution agreed to an English-mimic, a Bill of Rights, ratified by 10 of 14 states in 1791. The preamble was falsely labeled “secular” by the Protestant First Congress. Congress’s tyranny in the Bill of Rights has been accommodated by the entity We the People of the United States ever since, lately under a Judeo-Catholic Supreme Court. Talk about tyranny! These day, England beholds the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church, also emerged from Jewish literature.

Because the West is dominated by tyranny over a 5,000 year old political philosophy coming from the Middle East, the U.S., under Anglo-American tradition, has not accepted its opportunity to fulfill a 3,000 year old interpretation, recorded in Genesis 1:26-28. However, the U.S. has been in operation only 232 years, and I think it is now at its religious-pride abyss: a civic reform has begun. “Civic” refers to fidelity in human connections.

The message in Genesis 1:26-28, viewed with recent ineluctable-discovery, is that the species female&male-human-being can&must independently develop responsible order&fruitfulness to other living species and to the earth. In other words, each unique human-being can&ought-to perfect their unique person before dying . . . at least constrain chaos in their way of living. That is to say, neither the-God (perhaps necessity&justice by the ultimate Posterity) nor government will usurp the individual’s opportunity to choose humble-integrity and RHI. The individual may choose dependency.

Many U.S. citizens practice these principles without the articulation. However, if you approach a sincerely good American and try to tell them how to treat their neighbor, they’re likely to say, intend, and justify the statement: I don’t care about my neighbor, as long as they don’t try to impose their way on me.

Many Americans celebrate such a response. I do. When non-Americans begin to take Genesis 1:26-28 seriously, they might find opportunity to encourage the U.S. on its journey to statutory-justice under RHI.

Meanwhile, let the entity We the people of the united States amend the First Amendment so as to practice&facilitate civic humble-integrity rather than civil religious-belief.

https://www.quora.com/What-role-and-responsibilities-do-the-media-have-in-reporting-human-rights-violations-in-a-responsible-manner? by Shandre Thompson

The media is responsible to encourage&facilitate human-constraint of chaos to living species and to the earth. Worldwide attention to journalism’s failure to meet its obligations presents an opportunity for reform. It is essential for the individual person to develop from youth the humble-integrity to civic necessity&justice. Journalism’s obligation is to inform the human-being about ineluctable discoveries and failures of the past 5,000 years in a format that is available “to ourselves and our Posterity” for use during their brief lifetimes, hopefully approaching 121 years each person. That less than 3% of the existing chronological past but an exponentially small fraction of discovery.

Preserving Anglo-American tradition is ruinous. Just now, my Google-Chrome search, “John Locke+human right”, yielded the statement:  “Among these fundamental natural rights, Locke said, are "life, liberty, and property." Locke believed that the most basic human law of nature is the preservation of mankind. To serve that purpose, he reasoned, individuals have both a right and a duty to preserve their own lives.” Reference, https://www.crf-usa.org/foundations-of-our-constitution/natural-rights.html.

Locke died in 1704. His development of English political philosophy cited “the law of God and nature”, perhaps reflecting Socinian Christology. That’s a European religious-opinion against the Trinity: the divinity of Jesus. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socinianism#Christology. Locke’s early religion was trinitarianism; his life was absorbed in religious division.

Socinianism and Deism helped establish Unitarianism. The USA founders’ 1776 Declaration of Independence modified Locke’s phrases to “Nature and Nature’s God” and “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”. Thus, the 1776 Declaration’s phrases continue English Church-controversy beginning 1687; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socinian_controversy. Fortunately the 1787 U.S. Constitution is religionless, and We the People of the United States has the obligation to reform.

A multitude of western thinkers, throughout history, evidently did not appreciate the 5,000 year-old message that is interpreted in Genesis 1:26-28 (in 2021-comprehension, in other words, benefiting from recent discovery): the species female&male-human-being can&must independently develop order&fruitfulness to the living species and to the earth. That is to say, the individual human-being can&must constrain chaos in their way of living.

From a 2021 perspective, necessity&justice among humankind affirms Locke’s belief “that the most basic human law of nature is the preservation of mankind” (see above). Speculating that the-God of creation is the source of that human-responsibility merely divides believers, such as Trinitarians vs Unitarians; Jews, Christians, and Muslims; believers in Abrahamic churches and the rest of humankind; spiritualism hating secularism.

Recently, I learned of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTSDoevgQ8I. It seems to perceive Ethiopian religious-superiority regarding religious-interaction more than religious-tolerance, and thus to also lack appreciation for the political philosophy in Genesis 1:26-28.

Meanwhile, the media obsesses female beauty, encouraging&facilitating male-failure to preserve responsible-human-independence in order to develop humble-integrity. The human-right to constrain chaos in life, by avoiding observable error, is not bestowed by either the-God or government: it is an individual choice the media can&must journal.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-an-individual-s-moral-responsibility-relate-to-how-they-interact-in-social-groups? by Ivy Tuipulotu

I think (but don’t know) that a person who is civically transparent, pleasantly encouraging, and sincerely humble meets the obligations of a human-being, the most powerful living species.

After 300,000 years’ individual attempts to aid order and fruitfulness among H. sapiens, perhaps humankind is mutating into H. integritas.

I expect widespread reform to responsible-human-independence emerging from political-crisis and accountability-chaos.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-unalienable-rights-important? by Ketuxolo Makaula

“Unalienable rights” is a propaganda phrase used by the governmental priests and religious officials to bemuse the ordinary person from exercising the only ineluctable right they have: to constrain chaos in their way of living. Take care to master the word “ineluctable”, in order to end fascination with “unalienable”: it’s important to tyrants.

I interpret a political philosophy expressed some 5,000 years ago and recorded 2,000 years later in Genesis 1:26-28. It suggests female&male-human-being can&must provide order&fruitfulness to living species and to the earth. (Thank goodness the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago.)

Now, H. sapiens, only 300,000 years old, has begun to explore the former “heavens”. Obviously, controlling-chaos is only now appearing essential. Heretofore, cultures and cvilizations have attempted to cajole a doctrinal-God into usurping humankind’s responsibility: order&fruitfulness. Perhaps --- hopefully --- we are entering the age of H. integritas.

The person who thinks the government or the-God assures them life, independence, and happiness can read Genesis 1:26-28 and ponder who has neglected accountability to the-ineluctable-truth. I think voting needs reform: only fellow-citizens who think they can&must constrain chaos in their way of living should be allowed to vote.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-or-dont-you-agree-that-Facebook-and-Twitter-are-now-big-tech-dictators-and-tools-against-freedom-of-expression? by Bruno Uzoka

I write to encourage fellow citizens to accept the 5,000 year old message recorded 3,000 years ago in Genesis 1:26-28: humankind can&must independently provide order&fruitfulness to all living species and to the earth.

Facebook has made my posts visible only to me. I think the only way I can communicate is in person. Think about that: I do not find one reliable Internet site for expressing my message, with one exception: Quora.

Also, my first resource for conversational purposes is Wikipedia, which I regard as a journal of human ethics. When I discover an error, I correct it, citing references, and not one of my few corrections has been denied.

https://www.quora.com/Should-prisoner-rights-be-limited? by Jimoh Faizah

Not only should convicted criminals have no rights, ordinary citizens have only one valid right: the opportunity to develop humble-integrity toward the-ineluctable-truth. A few accomplish it, but no culture, civilization, or nation encourages and facilitates responsible-human-independence.

Homo sapien emerged and has been developing for some 300,000 years. The last mixed-homo died off some 10,000 years ago, and grammar emerged 5,000 years ago. About that time, monotheisms started dominating theism’s competition to cajole the-God into usurping humankind’s responsibility for order and flourishing to all species and to the earth. This political philosophy was expressed 2,000 years later by Hebrew scholars in Genesis 1:26-28: it’s not “my” novel idea.

The human-being can&must hold governments and doctrinal Gods accountable for the chaos they each cause and exacerbate by partnering. Persons who choose to develop as a human-being may eventually accept that they have the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their way of living. I call them “civic-citizens” where “civic” implies behavior that neither initiates nor accommodates injury to-or-from any person, association, or property, including self and family. They practice and encourage responsible-human-independence.

Other persons prefer dependency, and employ their HIPEA to game welfare, ply religion, commit crime, or impose tyranny. They are dissident fellow-citizens and therefore should not be allowed to vote. Civic-fellow-citizens pay for law enforcement plus amendments in order to advance statutory-justice. Thereby, they encourage dissidents to adopt civic-integrity. The dissident citizen who is suffering law enforcement has the right to reform, unless the sentence is death.

Law professors

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-concrete-goods-of-political-excellence and Law & Liberty | Facebook

Quoting Professor Mahoney, “. . . reason must also carefully explore and delineate phenomena which came to light most fully in a biblical or Christian context.”

Recently, I re-read Genesis 1, again, and became fascinated with Verses 26-28. After a few weeks, the experience reminded me of 2 decades fascination with Agathon’s speech in Plato’s “Symposium”. Agathon remarks that prior speakers explained Eros’ influence to men and gods, and he was going to speak of Eros’ character. What follows seems to mirror adoration of Jesus. Eventually, I thought either the gospels plagiarized Plato or Jesus influenced Agathon some 450 years before Jesus was born. I filed that as historical suggestion to support the apostles’ claim that, in response to heritage questions, Jesus said, “Before Abraham was born I AM”.

In light of exponentially developing discovery in the past 5,000 years, Genesis 1:26-28 may be reasonably interpreted as follows: The species female&male-human-being can&must independently develop order&fruitfulness to living species and to the earth. In other words, neither the-God nor government can usurp responsible-human-independence. That is to say, each person ought-to constrain chaos in their way of living, in order to aid homo-sapien’s responsibility to lessen chaos on earth.

“Before Abraham was born” covers both Agathon’s speech and the political philosophy expressed in Genesis 1. And Jesus’ reported statement “Be perfect” comports to both “in [the-God’s] image” and the Genesis-1 inference you-can&must independently develop order.

The person who accepts responsible-independence cannot be influenced by either government bestowal of freedom and liberty or religious blessing and mysterious afterdeath. Too often liberty is license to let fellow-citizens’ blood. I read that Jesus said, “Render unto Caesar . . . “, emphasizing responsible-human-independence. In other words, the-God could have handled Caesar releasing Jesus from the Rabbis.

As a student of Jesus, I perceive Jesus’s influence on both Agathon and the 5,000 year-old political philosophy in Genesis 1. However, I see no need to resolve the question: Did the ancient suggestion come from the-God, from Jesus, or from civic-necessity&justice? I look to “ourselves and our Posterity” to discover statutory justice.

In my fourth quarter century I practice&promote the humble-integrity required for responsible-human-independence, low as my unique personal-standards may be. I think humankind is entering an achievable better-future.

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The human-right to constrain chaos in personal living, by avoiding observable error, is not bestowed by either the-God or government: it is an individual choice the media can&must journal. So far, journalism missed the recent 5,000 years.

The personal-right to constrain chaos in human connections by avoiding observable error, is not bestowed by either the-God or government: it is an individual choice the media can&must journal. So far, journalism missed the recent 5,000 years.

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.