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 appreciation: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and
paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows We the People of the United States proffer &
practice 5 public disciplines —- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and
prosperity, “in order to” encourage & facilitate
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
Behaving according to the-God, whatever that entity may be
I was an East
Tennessee Southern Baptist, 11 and 13 years old, respectively, when the U.S.
added “. . . under God” to the pledge of allegiance and adopted the motto “In
God We Trust” instead of the 1782 motto “E Pluribus Unum”. I heard about affluent&
frightened fellow-citizens building and stocking nuclear-fallout-shelters for
their families.
As husband and
later father with 3 children, I questioned the hypocrisy of “God Bless America”,
hyped by our government. Reagan’s “city on a hill” came after I’d spent 15
months with family in Greece, learning humility about provincial opinions. I intended
to develop my open-mind, appreciating my wife’s differing Christian religion,
developed together for our children. That was half a century ago.
My appreciation
for my wife’s religion and our children’s religions has never been stronger,
and my trust-in and commitment to the-ineluctable-truth has never been as
articulate. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. I am
sorry Mom and Dad did not experience that word. I have yet to meet a person who
claims to know “ineluctable”. After discovering it, I feel that I am
open-hearted as well as open-minded.
The impact of
that sojourn in Greece as well as more recent foreign visits, including
Jamaica, Mexico, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and England,
opened recent imagination to the-God: whatever controls the consequences of
individual human-being’s choices and collective choices. It could be physics
and its progeny. My travel days are over. Never again will I have the arrogance
to risk sufficient humility toward the-God, because I do not know the-ineluctable-truth.
And not knowing neither frustrates me nor stymies my listening habit.
I hope many
readers comprehend my point: for all I know, the Jesus who reportedly said “before
Abraham was born I AM” is the metaphysical author of
Genesis 1:26-28’s 5 thousand-year-old message: homo sapiens can independently constrain
chaos on earth.
News
Kevin Mattson illustrates postmodern-journalism’s alien-determination
to persuade U.S. citizens to fail 1787 U.S. intentions.
“[T]he sociologist Robert Bellah . . . becoming known as a
“communitarian” argued that Carter could . . . present the vision . . . “people
participate in each other’s lives because they are mutually committed to values
that transcend self-interest.”
According to the U.S. 1787 proposal, people civically encourage&
facilitate responsible-human-independence (RHI) when they constrain chaos in
their personal-privacy.
“Carter . . . added . . . “We’ve learned that piling up
material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or
purpose.”
The proffered 1787 U.S. domestic-discipline is stated in the
preamble’s purpose-clause: in
self-interest, the-civic-people in
their states practice integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity and
encourage& facilitate responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
Therein, “ourselves” includes children, and “Posterity”
includes legal immigrants. The disciplines exclude religion/none, reserved in
personal-privacy. Discipline-standards are to be discovered in the continuum
“ourselves and our Posterity”. The goal is independence, a human duty&
opportunity, instead of liberty, too often licensed by the winner in war or in
mob-frenzy.
Mattson finishes his article “Slow down and think about what
really matters in our lives . . . was the best part of Carter’s message, and
many Americans, I think, would still respond to it. But the
intervening decades of American politics have made it very hard to imagine any
president going there, ever again.”
It is not difficult to imagine the next president responding
to the entity We the People of the United States revising the First Amendment
so as to promote the civic humble-integrity required for RHI rather than civil
religious pride. We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” can make it happen.
Contact your U.S. and local representatives.
To Barry Duncan:
To kindly share civic-concern, this reader is constrained to
ask why the famous Plains, Ga Baptist Sunday-school teacher is the worst
ever-president, excepting Biden. I'm asking my Baptist Church to consider
Genesis 1:28's message, in 2021 awareness: female& male-human-being can,
for necessity& justice, provide order& prosperity to the living species
and to this world. I make the case that this message can be deduced from the
metaphysical Jesus's reported sayings, like "Before Abraham was born I
AM". So far, "my" pastor (once saved, always saved) won't return
my phone call. In my fourth quarter century I can say that only
"freethinkers" more arrogantly claim a higher pedestal of
"tolerance".
Quora
https://www.quora.com/With-the-way-things-are-going-on-in-the-world-is-honesty-still-the-best-policy?
by EKPEM CHIMEZIE
GODKNOWS
Honesty is the policy that created the divergent chaos we
are observing. The human-being is served by humble-integrity, by which they can
gage personal-integrity. In humble-integrity, the person retains their youths
ready-acceptance “I don’t know” when that is so, followed by consideration as
to the need to know, then the required research-work if there is a need.
By acting on necessity& justice, a person can constrain
chaos in their way of living.
https://www.quora.com/Freedom-of-speech-Do-you-believe-all-opinions-should-be-respected-even-the-bad-ones?
by Basti Waynex
I do, because opinions represent the person at their point
and time in their development of psychological maturity: responsible-independence
from internal and external constraints. For example, earning their living and observing
the law or not.
If liars can’t lie, we cannot learn they are liars.
If people who fear their civic-speech can’t be silent, they
cannot suggest their anxiety, notice your silent empathy, and consider reform.
If the other party interrupts your explanation with “I know
what you mean”, you know they don’t think they have time to learn what you mean.
If the other party talks over you, you know they are
stonewalling.
If the other party says “Let’s agree to disagree” you know
they can’t counter your opinion.
If the other party expresses tolerance, you know to switch
to small talk.
If the other party says “You don’t understand” you know they
don’t want to hear your information.
If the other party asks if you are an atheist, you know they
never considered the-God --- the entity that controls the consequences of human
decisions.
If the other party says sooner or later you’ll submit to
their God, you accepted long ago that you will die and face afterdeath, that infinite
time after body, mind, and person stop functioning.
If someone claims the U.S. sovereign is We the People of the
United States, you know they don’t understand the nation’s domestic disciplines
to the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity” now in its twelfth generation,
growing $7 million debt to each newborn-citizen and legal-immigrant.
If a friend can’t express ignorance, you cannot help them
observe& correct the error. If they can’t express your ignorance, there’s
no way they can assist you.
If your priest won’t return you call, you know they fear
the-priesthood-the-God-grants-each-believer and to encourage& facilitate
open-mindedness and open-heartedness when possible.
If you senator won’t respond to your call for civic-humility
instead of religion-pride “to ourselves and our Posterity”, you know they don’t
represent you. You plan to find a candidate who understands 1776& 1787 U.S.
intentions.
If someone rebukes you, you know it does not frustrate you
and you need not respond, unless in so doing you accommodate harm/injury to
someone.
If a family member takes you for granted without potential
harm/injury, it changes nothing.
If a neighbor doesn’t appreciate civic-responsibility from a
fellow-citizen with a differing pursuit of responsible-spiritual-happiness, you
know they are alien to the U.S. intentions.
If a scholar does not use the word “ineluctable”, you know they
write to exploit the truth.
If a politician does not present self as first a citizen
with a published, personal interpretation of the 1787 U.S. intentions, you know
they are alien “to ourselves and our Posterity” and won’t vote for them.
Individual citizens with such self-interest-negligence ought not be granted a
license to vote.
The list goes on. I think I have asserted that I appreciate
every negative/positive message I receive as something to ponder for
self-interest.
https://www.quora.com/Considering-the-sources-presented-what-is-the-best-way-to-establish-a-civic-
https://www.quora.com/Which-US-political-figures-in-the-last-10-years-most-contributed-to-recent-conservative-liberal-polarization?
by William Stark
Please accept that I have no clue and only express an
opinion, based on a few pseudo-facts my efforts on the Internet continually
open without negation.
Hands down, President Barack Obama seems the most alien
fellow-citizen I have encountered. During his first election, I was alarmed by
his acclaim in Europe, a people who resent America because of guilty-influences
during colonization.
Obama was such a profound candidate to win the
first “black” presidency the Bill-Clintons and their oligarchy could not pass
it up. Obama’s August 25, 2008 nomination speech, https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94087570
, stirred my imagination and hope for resolution of the consequences of
European imposition of slavery on this continent, the founders’ intentions to
end it, the framers’ intractability to reverse it, the Civil War’s failure to
resolve it, and the 1964-65 exacerbation of its Christian foundation: check
cashing.
Since adolescence, I have learned the promise of ruin in the
First Congress’s arrogance to create a Protestant-legislators-partnership to
mimic the egocentric “divinity” of the Church of England partnering with
Parliament. I cringe each time a Chief Justice presents to the president-elect
the interrogatory “. . . so help you God?” I’m silent during the pledge to the
flag, because I hold it, with the added prayer, “. . . under God” to be
coercive; furthermore, I will never again have the arrogance to turn my back on
the-God, whatever that entity may be, so as to trust my beliefs. I was a child
when the Knights of Columbus led the charge to negate the 1782 motto “E
Pluribus Unum” for “In God We Trust”, another arrogance toward the-God. The
1782 motto applies to the competitive-Gods this nation’s-factions worship and
the world promote. Obama made me aware of the second verse of a great blues
song “Amazing Grace”: “Twas grace the taught my heart to fear”. Only cowards
are moved by fear, and it is difficult to maintain metaphysical fear in a
human-being’s heart.
I accept that on these principles, the U.S. National
Archives invites what may be a revisionist history, labeled “Tewahedo” meaning
unity; The Ethiopian
Orthodox Tawahido Church - YouTube. The Google ngram from 1500 shows a blip
in 1846-1852 then nothing until 1968 yet Ethiopian Christianity has been around
since the beginning, with its Bible canon in 330 AD. I have no objections if
believers hope& assert-that their God has black/brown skin.
I understand that both Obama and Hillary Clinton were
Alinsky fans; https://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/03/15/hillary-clinton-barack-obama-and-saul-alinsky/.
And Saul Alinsky was groomed by Al-Capone-administrators; https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/03/still-alinsky-playbook-john-fund/.
Chicago currently ranks 10th in murder frequency in the U.S.
A continuing theme of U.S. failure is erroneous Christian
opinion. We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” can stop the pain and loss
by amending the First Amendment so as to encourage& facilitate civic
humble-integrity rather than civil religious-pride, the proceed to similar
reforms.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-wrong-with-Social-Justice?
by Chris Golden
Each person can accept that they are a human-being and
choose to develop the individual power, the individual energy, and the
individual authority (HIPEA) to practice the-humble-integrity that seems required
for responsible-human-independence (RHI).
They can choose to rely on the-ineluctable-evidence to guide
humble-integrity. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or
resisted”. Unfortunately, no society encourages& facilitates these
principles, so most people seek a higher power to usurp their RHI.
Some people look to government (physics), some seek the-God
(metaphysics), and some seek-to partner the-God& government for their
higher-power. However, it does not suffice, because government does not accept
the-ineluctable-evidence if they encounter it, and the-God cannot negate RHI to
discover the-ineluctable-truth. Societies that hope to use reason to avoid,
change, or resist the-ineluctable-truth mislead their members.
Human action is a necessity. For example, if an elephant is
loose, humans must constrain it. If a Category 5 evacuation is ordered, humans
must evacuate. If direct attack is underway, humans must control their emotions
so as to defend themselves. However, the action must be taken in justice. For
example, an armed homeowner investigating an open window halfway to dawn must
not shoot at a shadow under the table before his adventuresome son can speak
“Dad, it’s me.”
Necessity& justice informs every human action. If an
action is not necessary, a human-being can choose not to take it. For example,
if a trip seems too risky, they can delay it. If injury prevents planned work,
they can delay it. If the society, intentionally or erroneously, intends or
accommodates injustice, the individual need not participate and may report the
plan to first responders.
Accommodating social justice is ruinous if the society is
less than female&male-human-being.
https://ethicsandmorals.quora.com/?__ni__=0&__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=27879404014&__tiids__=40299975?
Julianna Anand sharing a post and https://www.quora.com/Do-good-and-bad-actually-exist-or-are-they-made-up?
by Jason
Stone, Aug 25
About 5,000 years with grammar, the recent of homo sapiens’
300,000 years, have passed, and people are regularly if not routinely
traveling-into and others orbiting-in the former “heavens”, a metaphysical
other-world dominated by the-God.
However, grammar has not helped humankind approach
psychological maturity. Why? What if most female& male-human-beings had
accepted and are now practicing the 5,000 year-old political philosophy,
expressed in my meager 2021 comprehension:
the human species has independence --- the individual power, energy, and
authority (HIPEA) --- to provide order& prosperity to this world: to practice
responsible-human-independence (RHI).
The ancient suggestion (perhaps from the north; https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Elohim) was recorded
2 thousand years later by a scribe in south-vernacular, as a blessing from the-God,
like a father blessing a marriage, with sincere hope for success. See Genesis
1:26-28. In Genesis 2 and mostly thereafter, the-God is more physical, walking
and talking with matriarchs& patriarchs; Eve& Adam, Sarah& Abraham,
Moses, and others. After Genesis 1, the Bible canon from the continents depict
female& male striving for a doctrinal-God to usurp the RHI suggested in Genesis
1. Therefore, few individuals intend the humble-integrity that is required to
develop RHI.
Most descendants just want to live. Now! They expect either
Mom& Dad’s way of living (or personal-opposition) to serve them well.
However, too often, spouses choose each other on erroneously-perceived
like-mindedness, failing to accept evident opposite-heartedness. For example,
persons tend to want to create a family within their race, within their
religious institution, and within political views. Or not. They fail to accept
the RHI
to constrain chaos in their spousal-bond.
While homo sapiens benefits from nearly 10 trillion
person-years of experience and observations, the human-being takes a
quarter-century to complete the wisdom-building parts of the brain, another 1
to 2 quarter-centuries to accumulate their experiences& observations, and
hopefully another quarter-century to ruminate or share their experiences&
observations with family, friends, and perhaps fellow-citizens. There’s no lifetime
to waste if a person intends to perfect their unique journey to perfection. Too
often, individuals make decisions that prevent pursuit of the perfection they
perceive in each decade then ultimately seek. They fail to choose in
self-interest.
Why is this so? I think it’s because liberal-arts scholars
shield truth so that the elites who pay them handsomely can manipulate the people
who do not take charge of personal self-interest. The scholars write for their
choir in public-manipulative-language, such as “the common good”,
“self-governance” and “[God’s] property”.
The most egregious scholarly offense is hiding the word
“ineluctable”; I don’t know how old in foreign languages, but translated into
English by 1571, 450 years ago. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided,
changed, or resisted”. Modify “truth” with “ineluctable”, and the scholar
narrows the field. Add the article “the” and the scholar perceives exactitude.
Add 2 hyphens, and the reader is constrained to improve the writer’s accurate&
precise expression: the-ineluctable-truth.
Why don’t most chemical engineers know this? Personal
self-interest is served by the-ineluctable-evidence, which, upon discovery,
empowers invention of the instruments for perceiving the-ineluctable-truth. I
seek an expression more precise& accurate than the-ineluctable-truth, most
of which is unknown.
If I’ve made sense so far, perhaps I can offer relief to
Jason Stone’s angst. In my fourth quarter-century, I accept that my life is
ruined by its events. Eight months ago, I took the first of my 2 COVID-vaccine
shots and am not certain I am glad. Did they exacerbate the melanoma now on my
left arm, diagnosed benign 2 years ago? That’s only a sample of possible
damages my life has entailed. However, I continue to do all I can to support my
family while pursuing the humble-integrity I need for RHI.
I will not voluntarily let circumstances ruin Phil Beaver or
his family and other fellow-citizens. I do not think I am alone --- in fact, I
am a late-comer to the-ineluctable-truth. I hope this message offers relief
from widespread negligence of a 5,000 year-old suggestion: the female& male
human-being can choose-to constrain chaos in the way of living.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-key-examples-of-classical-conservative-political-thinkers-and-how-are-they-relevant-to-todays-political-climate?
by William Stark
This is far too big a question for a chemical engineer to
attempt to address, especially the first part, which is essential to the
second.
Lists can be learned by categories – variants, concepts,
thinkers, etc., using drop downs in the right panel at https://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Traditionalist_conservatism . Among the “thinkers”, I’ve argued with
only Hume, Burke, and Dostoevsky. A recent “Western” overview is at https://www.britannica.
com/topic/conservatism/Conservatism-since-the-turn-of-the-20th-century.
Access to 95 documents is at https://plato.stanford. edu/search/searcher.py?query=conservatism
. The documents count increases to 240 if you search “Asian conservatism”.
Erroneously, everything starts with Edmund Burke.
A longer list is available to me at https:// en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Classical_liberalism,
where “thinkers” I have considered include Bentham, Burke, Emerson, Kant,
Locke, Mill, Nozick, Pain, Rawls, Smith, and Weber. Emerson
It seems to me every thinker I studied was/is enthralled
with the search for a doctrinal-God that can usurp the female&
male-human-being-species’ responsibility to independently provide order&
prosperity to the living species and to this world. And to me, conservation of
the inferred responsible-human-independence (RHI) is our purpose and ought to
be our intention& practice. Further, the incentive& motivation for RHI
comes from necessity& justice rather than from some ideology, such as worshipping
and praising for privilege, behaving for a higher reincarnation, afterdeath in
heaven, or other metaphysical goal.
Another characteristic of these thinkers is that they seem
to write to compete with each other’s scholarly-truths, and consequently
obfuscate the truth from a more precise& accurate term. The word
“ineluctable” was first used in translation in 1571 or earlier. It means “not
to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. Google ngrams show that “the ineluctable
truth” and “ineluctable truth” (less) were used in 1906 and thereafter, but at small
frequencies. I use “the-ineluctable-truth”, the hyphens to beg the reader not
to disassemble the specificity of the phrase.
Just as “God” is defined by the believer, hopefully with a
reserve of humility rather than arrogance toward the-God, “conservative” is
defined by the thinker and may elude the reader/listener. I read, write, and
listen to persuade fellow-citizens to conserve the humble-integrity required to
practice RHI. No human-being should be denied the opportunity to develop
humble-integrity.
When 2/3 of fellow-citizens retain their youthful “I don’t
know” when that is so and debate the-ineluctable-truth rather than a person or
institution’s opinion, female& male-human-being fidelity will be powerful
enough, energetic enough, and authoritative enough to constrain the people,
elite or not, who pursue egocentrically-liberal-control rather than RHI.
Mr. Stark, I appreciate what I learned from your question,
and express it today at my post “appreciations” on
promotethepreamble.blogspot.com. I want to listen to comments.
https://www.quora.com/Can-you-define-modernism-and-postmodernism-in-a-short-and-simple-answer/answer/Phil-Beaver-1?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=27858657109&comment_id=227739548&comment_type=2
by Jean Rafenski Reynolds
I appreciate your good-hearted views and hope to share
suggestions that seem thoughtful if not helpful to you and other readers. I
think it’s a question of unreliable metaphysics, ever corrected by physics.
First, “modernists believe that churches (for example) are
divinely ordained institutions that always put God first.”
In personal struggles with “belief” I concluded that “God”
distracts minds and hearts from “the-God”, which humility would never slight.
In other words, no matter how fervently a church presents its doctrine,
prudent-members reserve sufficient-humility to the-God. And people who rely on
physics admit: the-ineluctable-truth about the-God does not submit to my
opinion. “Ineluctable”, around in English since 1571, means “not to be avoided,
changed, or resisted”.
To your point about sex being a central issue in some
churches, the above prudence empowers the believer to pursue happiness
(confidence in the-God) despite institutional hypocrisy. And if the institution
does not sufficiently reform, the member can stop participating, in order to
find another institution or be satisfied with their personal-view of the-God
--- yet ready to discuss the-God with family, friends, and fellow-citizens who
want to share ideas.
“We no longer define a family as one man, one woman, and
their children.”
Does the “we” identify you as a postmodernist? I doubt most
people, or “we” are ready to turn their backs on physics and its progeny
in-order-to depend on psychology-entrepreneurs.
Psychology-entrepreneurs, people who prey on the unknown,
are not new at all. For example, the competitive-priests to their diverse
tribes before Genesis 1:26–28 and afterwards persuaded listeners that they had
the keys to the-God of creation, and their tribe is the-God’s chosen race. The
religious-competition bemused people from the ancient message that female&
male-human-being can independently-provide order& prosperity to the living
species and to the earth.
Some led men to believe women were subservient, when, in
fact women’s bodies provide the eggs on which humanity survive. Their will to
care spills-over to the community. The authentic man wants to support his
authentic woman for life --- intends to support their children’s children and
beyond. The human-being is too powerful --- has too much energy, power, and
authority --- to yield to peddlers of chaos.
The consequence of divergent chaos is a world wherein most
priests can no longer persuade many people to fear by grace in-order-to accept
salvation by grace. Therefore, new priests are seducing adolescents to gender-change,
with technology-support for life. However, the viable ovum is due the unique
dignity& appreciation due each a single-cell embryo and a gestated&
delivered-infant. Also, the notion of same-sex partners rearing children whose
mature adult person won’t be satisfied without heterosexual-monogamy for life
have not the technology to deliver the adult happiness.
These thoughts are atypical, but that does not mean they are
uncaring or insincere —- only meant to “poke a finger in the ant hill”.
To Reynolds again:
Ms Reynolds, thank you for recognizing me as Phil. May I
address you “Jean”?
I did not mean to talk past you and sincerely want to
comprehend, in order to learn, for example, your “we”. In this post, it seems
you are church-conservative; “We don’t need to get involved in this.”
I think you are involved, if you pay taxes for
infrastructure, which includes both law-enforcement and research to amend
erroneous law so as to approach statutory justice. The challenge is to cast
your votes, local, state, and national, in responsible self-interest rather
than for a church that does not reform.
I was responding to “Churches have a long tradition of
protecting sex abusers, for example, instead of putting a priority on
protecting children” in your paragraph expressing postmodernists’ views.
Obviously, “church-conservative” is my impression of your
writing, and I would like to use your descriptive. FYI, I consider myself
responsible-human-independence-conservative, or RHI-conservative.
I carry that commitment to my Baptist church, which, in my
fourth-quarter century, does not accept my views. Thus, they take a narrow view
of “the priesthood of the believer”; see 1 Peter 2:4–5. Imagine the-God
choosing to influence Phil Beaver to think Jesus is the light to Genesis 1:26–28:
independent of other living species, female& male-human-being can provide
order& prosperity to the earth. Each person can constrain chaos in their
way of living. But not all persons choose to be human-beings. Some employ HIPEA
for dependency.
https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-can-you-form-a-fair-opinion-without-all-the-facts?
by Graham C Lindsay
It’s quite a challenge, but one that every human-being can
choose to face. The complexity can be perceived by reading perhaps 6 to 10 of
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays, with deep personal-comprehension. His awareness
in 1850 is unfathomable. I don’t always agree with him.
Consider a physical example. To the ancient landlubber the
earth was flat. But the island-dwelling seafarer saw, from the sun on the horizon,
slight curvature and wondered: why? The Greeks suggested it is a sphere in the
fifth century B.C. Yet Bible-believing seafarers were reluctant to explore the
world until about 1100 A.D. Views from space remove all doubt. Yet
flat-earthers are still around.
It seems Emerson believed in 1) the-God as a controller of
the consequences of human choices and 2) afterdeath-continuation as a “soul”.
However, he did not believe Jesus was the-God, rather that he was a unique man
who saw that each person may perfect their unique person before dying. I do not
think it is fair for a person to choose a God, because in so doing, there’s the
risk of not reserving humility that is acceptable to the-God. Thus, I give
Jesus the benefit of the doubt and perceive the possibility that the metaphysical
Jesus is the author of Genesis 1:26-28, charging humankind to constrain chaos
in this world.
The word “ineluctable” was recorded in 1571, so it was
available to Emerson. However, it was not coupled with “truth” until 1906, so
Emerson may have missed the opportunity. “Ineluctable” means “not to be
avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster.com. If a person retains their
posture from youth “I don’t know” when that is so, they can decide, based on
necessity& justice whether they need to know or not. If they need to know,
they can do the research to discover the-objective-truth based on
the-ineluctable-evidence. If the evidence is nil, or negative, they can put the
concern aside. However, if they discover
affirmation of the concern, they should learn how to responsibly apply
the-objective-truth. Having done this work with integrity rather than honesty,
they are then in a position to act on the-objective-truth. If they doubt
the-objective-truth and can wait for invention of instruments of perception
that will more closely approach the-ineluctable-truth, they’d be prudent not to
act.
The most severe test of fairness I know of is the decision
to condemn a civic-citizen based on their religious belief or none. For
example, the Apostle John, in John 15:18-23, uses the word “hate” 5 times,
condemning non-believers. Consequently John cannot influence me. However, the
metaphorical Jesus claimed “before Abraham was I AM”. Thus, he may be the
author of the suggestion in Genesis 1:26-28 that female& male-human-being
can independently provide order& prosperity to the living species and to
this world. I think it is fair to practice this suggestion.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-maxim-Do-whatever-produces-the-greatest-good-for-the-greatest-number-of-people?
by Cristel Mae Anillo
I don’t know.
But it made me think: constraining chaos in your personal way of living ought
to suffice.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-so-important-to-protect-the-liberty-of-those-whom-you-may-find-repugnant?
by Ngoc Truong
Frankly, I think this concept is not yours.
First, a civic-person appreciates other civic-persons and
grants the benefit of first contact for mutual affirmation: almost no one
invites immediate rejection. I encountered someone in the street who may have
been so drugged up he looked like Satan, and I felt pity for him so did not
give him money.
Second, we have been informed by the 1789 French reign of
terror and by Democrat mayors in U.S. violent cities in the summer of 2020 that
“liberty” is too often taken as license to relieve fellow citizens of the heads
and blood. I think “liberty” is granted by the winner in war or mob violence.
Civic-citizens work for responsible-independence.
Each citizen could . . . should encourage& facilitate
civic responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”, leaving
religion/none to personal-privacy.
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-US-switching-from-a-free-society-every-citizen-can-enjoy-freedom-to-a-totalitarian-society-only-selected-classes-can-enjoy-freedom-Why-or-why-not?
by John D.
Necessity& justice demand that the human-being develop
the-humble-integrity that is required to practice
responsible-human-independence (RHI). The 1776 declaration on independence from
England together with the 1787 Constitution proffered a culture of domestic
self-discipline to integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity “in
order to” encourage& facilitate RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”,
leaving the pursuit of religion/none to personal-privacy.
Freedom is a bestowal from the winner of either foreign war
or domestic violence, whereas responsible-independence is human character.
The First Congress bemused the people with “freedom of
religion”, because they could not relinquish power to the faction dubbed We the
People of the United States, who intend& practice the RHI to constrain
government --- local, state, and federal --- as well as dependent fellow
citizens. Dependencies includes indolence, infidelity, abuse, crime, tyranny,
evil, and metaphysics.
So far, “ourselves and our Posterity” has accommodated the
Congressional tyranny of the religion clauses in the First Amendment. We, the
2021 citizens who want responsible-independence more than bestowed freedom can
amend the First Amendment so as to encourage& facilitate RHI
rather than civil dependency such as “freedom of religion”.
Every human being is due the opportunity to reserve
sufficient humility toward the-God --- whatever controls the consequences of
personal choice --- rather than submit to a Congressional imposition such as
Judeo-Christianity or gender selection.
I think the faction We the
People of the United States will so amend the First Amendment then advance to
similar reforms.
https://www.quora.com/Can-you-have-freedom-without-belonging?
by Nicole Washington
No, you can’t “have freedom without belonging”. And the two
key words, “freedom” and “belonging” involve personal choice. Let me explain
the choices “responsible-human-independence” and “female& male-human-being”.
First, “freedom” is an opportunity bestowed by the winner of
war or domestic violence and their appointed magistrate. But the human-being
has the potential to develop the humble-integrity they need to
practice responsible-human-independence “RHI”, regardless of the magistrate’s
vision for them.
“Humble-integrity” means retaining for life the child-like
“I don’t know” when that is so and pursuing the-ineluctable-evidence if
necessity& justice require knowledge. When the-ineluctable-evidence is
negative, you report “I don’t know” but may add an opinion earned by your
study. If you are under attack, you express your opinion with dominant-defense.
If someone rebukes your opinion without attacking your person, you wait for a
more open-minded, more open-hearted future, regardless of which opinion needs
amendment to necessity& justice.
Choosing to belong is first the opportunity to be a
human-being. The female& male-human-being has the potential individual
power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to accept the
humble-integrity to constrain chaos in their way of living: to practice RHI.
But not every person chooses to belong to female&
male-human-being, or to be civic-citizens, where “civic” means practicing RHI.
Some individuals pursue an arrogant-dependency: indolence, infidelity, abuse,
crime, tyranny, evil, and worse.
These principles may be deduced, using humankind’s
discoveries during the recent 5 thousand years, from a 5 thousand year old
political philosophy. The philosophy was expressed 2 thousand years later, by a
scribe who could not possibly represent the ancient culture. Genesis 1:26-28
suggests, in my view: Female&
male-human-being is the only species that can independently provide order and
prosperity to the other species and to this world. Persons who choose to accept
RHI belong, and the others choose an opposing existence: animal, plant,
mineral, or soul-mystery.
Together, the uSA founders, in their 1776 declaration of
independence from England and the 55 framers, in the 1787 draft Constitution
for the U.S. and moreover the 39 signers who agreed with the intentions
expressed in the 5-day old revision of the preamble, intentionally or not,
claimed RHI consistent with the ancient suggestion in Genesis 1. It is
up to each citizen in the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity”, now in its
twelfth generation, to interpret the preamble and belong to their comprehension
of the entity We the People of the United States or choose a dependency.
My comprehension, today is: We the People of the United
States choose 5 domestic disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength,
and prosperity “in order to” encourage& facilitate
responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Religion is
left to personal-privacy, ultimate standards for the 6 practices are to be
discovered by posterity’s posterity, and “liberty” was negated by the French
reign of terror beginning in 1789 and violent mobs since then.
We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” may establish the
entity We the People of the United States, at last, by amending the First
Amendment so as to promote civic humble-integrity rather than Congressional
religious-pride.
Fellow-citizens can have RHI by choosing to belong
to female& male-human-being, and in the U.S. amending the Constitution
accordingly.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-focus-of-Social-justice?
by Steadman Blake
I don’t know and would suspect a social-justice warrior’s
opinion.
A political philosophy from 5 thousand years ago suggests
that of necessity& potential, female& male-human-being is the only species
that can constrain chaos to the inhabitants of this world. The stories since
then demonstrate the exponential consequences of female& male infidelity.
During the recent 5 thousand years humankind has researched
physics in order to achieve exponential technology advancements and have
neglected encouragement& facilitation to personal-constraint (in the
self-interest of fidelity) in human-connections and connections with other
entities; reliable friend to a pet, for example, and not littering as another.
The consequence of personal humble-integrity is individual
responsible-human-independence (RHI).
The personal self-interest in civic-integrity derives from
mutual necessity& justice. However, during these 5 thousand years, the
entity “ourselves and our Posterity” has not accepted& promoted the
necessity& justice demand to constrain chaos in personal living.
Consequently, we, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” are experiencing
exponential dependency: personal-demand for banal-satisfaction as entitlement
rather than as earnings.
The wealthy few encourage dependency, in order to maintain
egocentric materialism at the expense of gullible fellow citizens. The
dwindling middle class dreams of joining the elites, exacerbating, in the U.S.,
the Chapter XI Machiavellian repetition of the fall of the Roman empire. Believers
paying no attention to history hope the-God of human-choice-consequences
works in cycles and will eventually usurp RHI. The U.S. ranks 4th
in nations with wealth inequality: https://worldpopulationreview.
com/country-rankings/wealth-inequality-by-country.
Perhaps I have addressed 2 views of “Social justice”. The
first: egocentric materialism or the struggle by the rich to legally-control
the supply side of ever increasing demand, exacerbated by people who feel
entitled to the goods the wealthy promote. For example, the gender-change
entrepreneurs could not care less about the outcomes: they just need the
subjectable-customer or Joe Biden to pay for their services. In other words, government
intervention in necessary& just capitalism is deadly. The second: the
increasing $28.9 trillion national debt “ourselves and our Posterity”
accommodate to attempt to avoid, change, or resist the 5-thousand-year-old
suggestion to constrain tyranny in personal life style.
I write to learn, appreciate your question (see
“appreciations” at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com) and hope for comments.
https://www.quora.com/What-political-and-cultural-factors-led-to-the-recent-polarization-of-the-conservative-liberal-divide-in-US-politics-and-how-if-at-all-can-this-polarization-be-reversed?
by William Stark
I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth and feel I get closer
when I attempt to answer brilliant questions like yours, Mr. Stark.
I understand homo sapiens emerged about 300 thousand years
ago and mixed-homo died off about 10 thousand years ago. With perhaps 150
thousand years of language, grammar was invented about 5 thousand years ago.
Grammar empowered races, civilizations, cultures, societies, and tribes to reason
for mutual benefit, much as in trading goods. Philosophy, mythology, and
polytheism had been developed to explain both physical and psychological
experiences& observations.
About 5 thousand years ago, perhaps in Ur, in the Middle
East, a polytheistic philosophy suggested, in my 2021 viewpoint, somewhat
benefitting from 5 thousand years of human discovery: female&
male-human-being is such a powerful species, it can independently provide order
and prosperity to the living species in this world. This means the individual
human being can control chaos in their way of living. Since living is a
mutual-human experience, the individual may choose to develop the
humble-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence (RHI).
About a thousand years later, monotheism emerged. A few
hundred years later, a monotheistic scribe, a Hebrew, reported the ancient
suggestion as a blessing by the-God. The report is in Genesis 1:26-28. It does
us no harm to accept Genesis 1 as pre-Eve& Adam and pre-Sarah& Abraham,
since those stories come in subsequent literature. And they begin a
human-debate over whose doctrinal-God will usurp RHI.
The writing and canonization of each continental Bible-canon
stretches on to 1600 years ago, and Protestant competition appeared 500 years
ago. The various scriptures record two major themes: first, male-dominant
infidelity to spouse-hood for life, and second, organized avoidance, change,
and resistance to the necessity& justice of RHI to establish peace in
this world.
England, in the seventeenth century, perhaps the world’s
great empire ever, constitutionally established a Protestant monarchy,
codifying the Chapter XI Machiavellianism that empowers church-state
partnership to pick fellow-citizens’ pockets with immunity.
When the uSA founders, in 1776 declared war for independence
from England, they claimed authorization from “Nature’s God” rather than the
English reformed-Catholic Trinity. They also rebuked John Locke’s rights to
“life, liberty, and property [of Locke’s God, either Calvinist or Deist]” to
claim “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. They took responsibility
and separated church and state, intentionally or not, comporting to the 5
thousand year old suggestion: responsible-human-independence. The took
responsibility for killing fellow-English subjects in red coats.
Eleven years later, framers sent to strengthen states-unity,
upheld the 1776 Declaration’s independence, creating the world’s first proposal
for voluntary domestic disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and
prosperity “in order to” encourage& facilitate RHI “to ourselves and our
Posterity”. They left the choice to be religious to personal-privacy.
Alas, Protestant English loyalists negotiated a Bill of
Rights to mimic England’s 1969 version. The 1791 First Amendment re-established
factional-American-Protestantism to partner with Congress for “divinity” on par
with Parliament. These 230 years later, the U.S. is divergent and the world
awaits reform.
We, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 can amend the
First Amendment so as to promote civic-integrity rather than civil-religion.
The world could . . . would celebrate the awakening to a 5 thousand year old
suggestion: RHI for peace as human-necessity& justice.
I write to learn, so please comment.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Do-you-agree-with-the-contention-of-the-ethical-egoism-theory-which-says-that-the-promotion-of-ones-own-good-is-in-accordance-with-morality?
by Cristel Mae Anillo
I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth about ethical-egoism. Hoping
to express then learn necessity& justice I share my opinion.
I think “ethical” is too vague, and egoism must be gaged by
humble-integrity. That is, honesty is insufficient to a person’s self-interest.
The human-being can independently develop& achieve integrity to
necessity& justice. Some persons erroneously prefer honesty to integrity.
Human ethics is grounded in the laws of physics and its
progeny --- mathematics, forces, chemistries, biology, psychology, imagination,
fiction, lies --- indeed everything. Human-beings do not know the source of the
laws of physics. Many think “God” but would not say it’s “the-God” or whatever
controls the consequence of human actions; it could be chaos, but I doubt it;
it could be a singularity – perhaps infinitely small& dense; it could be
potential energy, but then, what sparked its conversion& reversibility to
kinetic energy& mass? Regardless, the ethics of being a human being is to
conform to the laws of physics& progeny. It’s beyond leading everyone to
higher ground in a tsunami. For example, lies are ultimately disclosed when
the-ineluctable-physics emerges: mortality is evident in blood; parenthood is
proven by DNA; the decision to remain pregnant rests with the woman; surprise!!
there were no weapons of mass destruction. The laws of physics cannot be
avoided, changed, or resisted.
Consequently, the serenely-confident, mature human-being
employed humble-integrity to gage personal-integrity during their journey. They
retained the acceptance& assertion “I don’t know” when that is so. If they
perceived necessity to know, they researched the-ineluctable-evidence and
accepted the results. For example, is the sun a god that demands human
sacrifice as some ancients thought? No: it is a natural nuclear reactor. Is my
hope& comfort the-God? Perhaps my physics-opinion is acceptable and my
doubt-reserve expresses humility acceptable to the-God.
What about the neighbor who contends that you hate the-God,
because you don’t attend their church? As long as their opinion does not
motivate harm/injury to any person or institution, I hope their
private-pursuits are fruitful yet urge them to consider sufficient humility to possible
assessment by the-God.
I think such humble-integrity is a matter of self-interest
or ethical egoism according to the-ineluctable-evidence.
https://www.quora.com/What-can-be-construed-as-an-attack-on-democracy?
by Aaron Hilliard
Social-democracy lessens extant successful government and
promises ruin.
In a monarchy, the king can decide to respond to the majority
who want necessity& justice, and keep the minorities who want economic-advantage
at bay.
In a representative-republic, worthy legislators uphold
law-enforcement and continually amend the constitution, in-order-to approach
statutory justice as demanded by the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity”.
That is, the people may gradually correct the errors of their ancestors and
constrain new attacks on responsible-human-independence (RHI), always responding
to necessity& justice.
In a democracy, a majority that accepts an erroneous
economic philosophy may ruin the lives of the unfortunate minority. Thus,
everyone is in jeopardy. A metaphorical mixed-herd of sheep with 10,000
following one leader vs 9,999 following another, if the majority-leader jumps
off a cliff, the 50% who survive may not carry on as before.
In social-democracy --- nothing but minorities --- an
erroneous collective can accelerate the path to ruin. Returning to the sheep
metaphor, with the 10,000 divided into groups of 1/3, and the others similarly
divided, 84% may leap off a cliff, then the 17% who survived perish by
privation.
The 1787 U.S. intends a representative-republic. So far,
most citizens accommodate chosen and appointed officials who are alien to the civic-faction We the
People of the United States and care nothing about the majority: “ourselves and
our Posterity”. The economic feasibility of this accommodation is lessening
with each $ trillion national debt we aliens tack on our descendants and legal
immigrants.
We, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 can stop the
madness with three reforms: 1) amend the First Amendment so as to promote
civic-integrity rather than civil-religion, 2) require both voters and
legislators to prove membership in the faction We the People of the United
States, and 3) reform the Supreme Court to appreciate the-ineluctable-evidence
rather than opinion and precedent.
Please improve these proposals, and let’s get started with
the reforms.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-genuine-equality?
by Djanjo Nakkuruzu Fortis
Mutually intending& achieving humble-integrity in
responsible-human-independence (RHI).
Fortis:
Is
this a feat humans can achieve in less than 200 years?
I think the reform can begin when 2/3 of
civic-adults receive the message and personally-propose the necessary reform.
That is, 2/3 of people consider the message, comprehend its benefits to them,
and take responsibility to make it happen.
They will need their personal version of
the commitment and trust I express as follow: We, the civic faction of our
civilization, and spirituality/inspiration, and country, intend& practice 5
domestic disciplines —- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, in-order-to
encourage& facilitate responsible-human-independence (RHI) to ourselves,
legal immigrants, and our descendants.
“Civic” means mutual-appreciation in
human-connections. Since some persons arrogantly demand dependency, the
civic-citizens pay the cost of law-enforcement and research to develop
statutory-justice so as to continually lessen dependency —- indolence, abuse,
infidelity, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse.
Once
2/3 of inhabitants are some stage in the acceptance of being a human-being,
developing humble-integrity, and practicing RHI, I think an achievable better
future will emerge in 84 years. I hope to witness the start.
https://www.quora.com/How-would-Aristotle-answer-the-question-if-virtue-leads-to-happiness-and-happiness-leads-to-better-laws-does-virtue-exist-in-everyone-naturally-and-if-not-can-virtue-be-taught?
by Quora.com?
Aristotle (d. 322 BC) is less important than Ralph Waldo
Emerson (d. 1882). Emerson wrote, in my view: Would you see the-God? Then look
at me when you think as I do: both that the human-being’s purpose is to create
virtue in circumstances never before encountered and the actual Jesus said so
(“Divinity School Address”).
Furthermore, Emerson asserted that no one can persuade a
person to choose the humble-integrity to necessity& justice that is
required for RHI: responsible-human-independence (“Self-Reliance” and
“Experience”).
https://www.quora.com/Is-individual-freedom-really-the-highest-good-we-can-strive-for?
by Jordan Perkey
Freedom is bestowed by the winner in war or by the soldiers
in mob violence. The-good, acting on necessity& justice, results from
responsible-human-independence (RHI).
Neither government nor the-God will usurp the
individual-human-being’s opportunity to constrain chaos in their way of
connecting with others.
https://www.quora.com/Throughout-the-ages-has-acceptance-or-resistance-usually-been-the-general-reaction-to-new-ideas-about-established-truths?
by Godspower Ibitayo
Google ngrams show that “ineluctable” was first used in
English as translation of older words in 1571 and off and on until 1906 when low-usage
departed the abscissa. Also, in 1906, “the ineluctable truth” was used more
than “ineluctable truth” but declined to 60% of minimal-usage in 2018.
“Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or
resisted”, merriam-webster.com. I use hyphens to invite the reader not to
disassemble my expression.
Why aren’t we discussing the-ineluctable-truth rather than
established “truths” or any usage that empowers the writer to avoid, change, or
resist integrity?
https://www.quora.com/Should-youth-be-given-the-equal-rights-to-give-an-opinion-to-their-elders-Yes-or-no-then-why?
by Cristine Gille
Necessity& justice demand that
female&male-human-being constrain chaos in their way of living. When two
persons discuss personal behavior so as to neither cause nor accommodate harm
or injury to anyone, their opinions should be considered, regardless of
chronological age.
The human-being has the individual power, the individual
energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop humble-integrity. Some
develop faster. However, not all persons pursue personal-integrity let alone
gage it by humility to the-ineluctable-truth: Some people attempt avoidance, change, or
resistance.
It takes the human-body a quarter-century to complete the
construction of the wisdom-building parts of the brain. It takes a few more
years of experience& observation before a person should be a parent.
The psychologically mature person retained the attitude they
appreciated as a child, thinking and publically declaring “I don’t know”, when
that is so. However, survivors developed the practice of research when they
need to know.
In any dialogue, the two parties can be alert for statements
that are true to their experiences& observations. The considerate adult readily
shares stories about loss and misery that taught them humility. Typically,
youth has encountered fewer such incidents, and by listening to the stories can
both affirm the lesson and prevent future suffering.
Regardless of age, the person who pursues personal-behavior
to satisfy necessity& justice knows when to listen.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-personalism-a-good-thing-Should-personalism-be-established-from-an-early-age?
by Madelaine Claire
Ms Claire, thank you for introducing me to the topic:
personalism. Eventually, I may return to it to list my reactions to at least a
dozen theories “difficult to define as a philosophical and theological movement”; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalism.
I’m glad to learn 1) the Thomas Aquinas view “the
person is a good towards which the only proper and adequate attitude is love”;
I’ll grant “consideration” and if possible “appreciation”, without invoking
love, a mutual practice. And 2) that the wiki article refers to plato.stanford.edu.
After skimming the wiki article, my first impression is YES,
under Phil Beaver’s assumptions.
And the first theory to consider is a political philosophy
some 5 thousand-years-old, reported as a theology by Hebrew scholars 3
thousand-years-ago, in Genesis 1: 26-28. Reading with my sparse comprehension
of 5 thousand years’ research& discovery by humankind, female&male-human-being
can& must independently provide order& prosperity to the living species
and to this world.
I think a philosopher in Sumer, imagining
human-necessity& justice speculated that humankind is the only species that
can provide peace on earth: Neither
government nor the-God will usurp humankind’s responsibility. Possible impact
of this thought is far reaching. First, it suggests that the individual
can& must perfect personal behavior in order to positively impact the
living species. Second, persons who choose to perfect their behavior must
constrain fellow-citizens who choose dependency: indolence, abuse, infidelity,
crime, tyranny, evil, and worse.
In other words, each newborn can be reared to choose to be a
human-being rather than one of the opposites: “soul”, “reincarnation”, animal,
plant, or mineral. And fellow-citizens who choose a dependency must take care
to neither initiate nor accommodate harm/injury in order to prevent accusation,
possible indictment, and possible subjugation to law-enforcement, even if
research is proffering revisions toward statutory-justice.
I write to learn and appreciate your teaching today in the
post “appreciations” at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.
I appreciate comments, too.
Law professors
https://lawliberty.org/forum/an-american-story-but-how/? And Law & Liberty | Facebook
Like Gamble regarding McClay, I’d like to write a complete
essay to respond.
However, only one point stands out: my response to Gamble’s
“As a Christian . . . I don’t look to the City of Man to give me transcendence
or to tell me the meaning of life.”
We non-Christians don’t accept “being a Christian” as
justification for arrogance against human-beings.
The typical Christian is focused on the shadows on the
cave-wall and cannot benefit from the metaphysical Jesus. In their canonization
of books by the year 405 AD, the churches have Jesus saying key-ideas like
“before Abraham was born I AM”, “render unto Caesar . . . “, “be perfect”
during life as the-God is in heaven, the Son of God is not the messiah, hate
people who are not my disciples, and those who hate you hate both me and
the-God.
Counting it deplorable Old Testament writing, Christians
don’t ponder Genesis 1’s message. It is older than Eve& Adam, Sarah&
Abraham, Bathsheba& David.
We have no idea the intentions of the 5-thousand year old political
philosophy expressed in Genesis 1, because it came to us as Hebrew scholarship,
2-thousand years later or 3-thousand years ago. Furthermore, we cannot imagine
the Hebrew scribe’s intentions. It is more important in 2021 to consider
Genesis 1 in light of the physical and psychological discoveries in the recent
5 thousand years of homo sapiens’ 300 thousand years self-development, language
perhaps 150 thousand years ago, grammar perhaps 5 thousand years ago, and
monotheism perhaps 4 thousand years ago. In my 2021 view, Genesis 1:26-28
contains the message: female& male-human-being can
independently provide order& prosperity to the living species and to this
world. To the individual, it means they can constrain chaos in their
way of living. I imagine an ancient culture deducing this suggestion from
necessity& justice at 98.3% of the journey to 2021-representative
homo sapiens. Due to the responsible-human-independence (RHI) Jesus may have
authored, we, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 are responsible for
peace in this world.
There’s no doubt the canonized Jesus represents political
arguments among polytheists, the Greeks, Zoroastrians, Russians, Arabs,
Ethiopians, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and beguilingly more
factional-groups. In other words, the historical Jesus is misrepresented by the
scribes writing for the competing religions. And for what are the religions
competing? A doctrine that will persuade the-God --- whatever controls the
consequence of human choices --- to usurp their tribe’s RHI. No one knows
the-God, and those who attempt either to avoid, to change, or to resist that
entity beg ruin.
My life is littered with accusation of heresy, when I always
perceived I was open minded. Three young Christians open my heart to their
hopes and comforts, and help me see in my fourth quarter century that I have
always had an open heart my Christian parents and community could not
accommodate. I hope to change the Christian perspective to RHI rather than
dependence on Jesus’ body --- to embrace his metaphysical message: the
human-being has the potential to perfect their person before death.
I read and write to share and learn, so please comment.
Twitter
https://lithub.com/how-truth-became-a-controversial-subject-in-classrooms and Molly Castner,
@mcastner1
I
think a better future is achievable if students learn "ineluctable",
available since 1571, and research to discover& re-discover
the-ineluctable-truth.
To
assist, teachers can encourage& facilitate the student's acceptance&
public-declaration "I don't know" when that is so, with follow-up to
discover the-ineluctable-evidence, positive or negative. If necessity&
justice is at stake, the student may follow with a well-grounded opinion or if
under physical attack, adequate defense. For example, does the-God exist? I
don't know but hope the view I nourish is acceptable to the-God.
One
other point hot on my mind this morning: there is no place in this world for hate:
defense, YES; hate, NO. The person cannot know without appreciating fellow
human-beings. Some choose not to be a human-being yet may reform.
To
Caleb: The problem is that "dozens of geniuses working on each
other's work to reach [ widespread ignorance]” of the 450 year-old word
"ineluctable" is the cause of today's chaos. Scholars prefer
"truth" so they can express their construct rather than
"the-ineluctable-truth" so humankind can discover it.
To Babbete and to Jan Priddy:
I can't reply to only one of you and Babette
without slighting one. I'll modify quotes for emphasis on my earlier suggestion
about un-hiding the 450 year-old word "ineluctable".
Babette wrote "We are victims of [our]
implicit endorsement . . . of only one ultimately "true" view . . .
prevents [the world's] balanced examination . . .".
The scholar's power to construct
"fundamental truth" in order to aid tyranny over the minds of
human-beings is lessened when educators encourage& facilitate students to
pursue the-ineluctable-evidence and the instruments of perception by which
the-ineluctable-truth may be pursued. Discovery of ineluctable-evidence
routinely crushes "critical thought".
And Priddy provided a perfect example by
citing flat earth believers (precedence conservers).
Shockingly, defense of precedence rather than
the-ineluctable-truth bemuses our Supreme Court's erroneous pursuit of
"the rule of law". While justices preserve Judeo-Christianity and
Blackstone, necessity& justice, or the laws of physics and its progeny, are
draining U.S. fiscal viability, now approaching $30 trillion in debt. With only
4,000 newborn citizens per year, and increasing the debt, each newborn faces $7
million federal debt. The illegal immigrants don't know it, but they're risking
their lives for a dream that died 68 years ago.
We, the 2021 "ourselves and our
Posterity" can& must stop the madness by amending the First Amendment
to encourage& facilitate the humble-integrity needed for
responsible-human-independence (RHI) rather than Congressional-civil-religion.
Then, establish the entity We the People of the United States, those who
practice the 5 domestic disciplines for RHI, the preamble's intentions, as
people licensed to vote and to hold local, state, and federal officers
accountable under the-ineluctable-evidence.
The
nation's teachers are the perfect society to lead this U.S. reform.
Humble-integrity is in the individual's self-interest, and the tyrants and
Marxists cannot resist power, even alien money and violence, if the people
don't constrain them.
Twitter: Hello, Ms Castner, I read, write,
& listen, to learn from fellow-citizens, during my 4th to 8th decades. I
think a better future is achievable if students learn "ineluctable",
available since 1571, and research to discover& re-discover the-ineluctable-truth.
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.
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