Personal-chaos: a choice

 

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

Personal-chaos: a choice

The suggestion that the human-being can& may choose responsible-human-independence is recorded in two documents: artistically in Genesis 1:28 and abstractly in the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

Individuals in 2021 are asking what can be done, and this week, some proposals are offered.

News

Law prof suggests rewrites of First and Second Amendments that do not mention free press or bearing arms (msn.com)  (Be woke-to hold ineffectual the adolescent law professors)

To Donald Adams with thanks to Joseph Doherty 

The First Amendment can& may protect civic-integrity rather than spiritualism/metaphysics. It’s up to us, the people of 2021. The 2^nd Amendment was updated by Heller.

I have been writing proposals to amend the First Amendment since the late nineties. In 2021, I own a personal interpretation of the preamble which clarifies that the preamble does not include spiritualism in its 5 domestic disciplines: Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare (I prefer integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, respectively). I speculate that the 55 framers created the perception that spiritualism is neither a civic issue nor a civil demand and therefore must be assigned to privacy.

Only the 5-membered committee of style was privy to the debate that revised the draft preamble from a simple presentation of the Constitution to include a statement of intentions. Thus, even the 39 signers (thank you all) had not discussed the U.S. purpose. We, the "ourselves and our Posterity" of 2021 can& may establish responsible-human-independence rather than Anglo-American tradition, at last.

 

The foremost needed action is to amend the First Amendment so the-good people of the U.S. practice, facilitate,& encourage 1) civic-integrity rather than spirituality/metaphysics, 2) speech/assembly that neither initiates nor accommodates harm/injury to/from any person, 3) and commercially-journaling pursuit of the-ineluctable-truth. (Scholars hide "ineluctable", first published in 1571, which means "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted", merriam-webster. com).

The Anglo-American dominance of 1788 imposed the 1791 mimic of England's 1689 Bill of Rights, and amendments to assure conformity to the U.S. preamble's intentions are needed. That's a topic for another day.

 

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Quora

quora.com/Can-determination-responsibility-and-respect-be-taught? by Emily Burns

I think so, but not by the existing Education Departments. Several acceptances& reforms must take place, so as to induce individual responsible-human-independence (RHI) among at least two thirds of adolescents& adults.

About 5,500 years ago, a culture, perhaps in Mesopotamia, expressed the political suggestion that humankind can& may independently provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to Earth. Then about 4,200 years ago the Code of Ur-Nammu, in Sumerian cuneiform, listed punishment& fines in law enforcement. That is to say, Sumerians accepted that the-good citizens must work not only to earn their way of living but must independently pay for law enforcement& justice-development to reform/terminate fellow citizen who could but wouldn’t voluntarily constrain civic-chaos.

Tribes began to construct doctrinal-Gods to empower the-good --- usurp RHI. Tribal wars increased chaos on Earth rather than increasing peace under the 5,500 year-old suggestion. In 2021, humankind experiences& observes the potential for chaos diverging unto ruin.

The good-people must reform Education Departments from “training the workers we need” to practicing, facilitating, and encouraging the civic-integrity that is required for individual RHI. That is, they must motivate children to choose human-being rather than an opposite: passive, vegetable, animal, evil, or spirit.

The human-being is so individually powerful, energetic, authoritative, and obligated-to-self (HIPEAO) that it takes a quarter-century with exemplary facilitation& encouragement to consider& choose the work to acquire comprehension& intention to live a complete human lifetime. By complete, I mean achieving the RHI-perfection of her/his unique-person, before afterdeath, that vast time after body, mind, and person stop functioning.

No culture on earth has Education Departments with these intentions. However, the suggestion is recorded in two documents: artistically in Genesis 1:28 and abstractly in the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

Every considerate-citizen could& should own a personal interpretation of the purpose-sentence in the U.S. Constitution. My view, just now, follows:  We, the-good-citizens of We the People of the United States practice, facilitate,& encourage 5 domestic disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, "in order to” establish& maintain responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity”, including legal immigrants. Notice that the preamble does not include spiritualism/religion in the disciplines, and I appreciate independence rather than “liberty”.

What each person needs is appreciation-for the opportunity and determination-to develop as a human-being.

quora.com/Are-people-usually-in-denial-of-the-facts-to-mitigate-or-circumvent-their-responsibility? by Dillon Lowe

At first, I was stumped by “usually”.

However, necessity& justice demand that every person constrain chaos in their way of living. If two-thirds of fellow citizens practiced civic-integrity, there could be peace on Earth.

After 5,500 years’ grammar, humankind is travelling in space and groveling in adult-banal-satisfaction.

quora.com/What-does-the-Bible-mean-by-Gods-chosen-people-Israelites? by Mark Shulmann

Of course, no one knows the-ineluctable-truth, and “scholars” have “protected” humankind from the word “ineluctable”, meaning “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted” (merriam-webster.com opinion).

In 2021, fellow-citizens can& may apply what humankind has discovered so far. For example, we know that by physics& its-progeny we are exploring the former “heavens”, using jet propulsion to attain orbit and maneuver vehicles there.

Also, we comprehend that our mutation, homo sapiens, is about 300,000 years old. HS developed both grammar and the transition to monotheism about 6,000 years ago.

About 5,500 years ago, a polytheistic culture, perhaps Sumer, suggested the political philosophy, paraphrasing to 2021 comprehension: the species female&male-human-being can& may independently provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to Earth. Individually& collectively, the human-being could . . . should constrain chaos in their way of living. About 2,500 years later, Hebrew scholars journaled the philosophy in their art. Fog over the water was the spirit of God, and God as “we” created female& male in his image and assigned to them sole responsibility for peace on Earth. Study Genesis 1:28 to consider my view: female& male may practice civic-integrity.

Nobody knows why the Hebrew scholars started the Bible with the ancient political philosophy; I think it was a mistake to their intentions. In Genesis 2, they introduced “the Lord God” in competition with the-God of Genesis 1. Eve, rather than created in the image of the “we” God, was taken from Adam’s rib. And instead of having the image of the-God, Eve was gullible to a lesser species and betrayed Adam. Later, at Sarah’s behest, Abraham did a ménage a trois with Hagar, and created sons to beget enemies unto divergent chaos. The rest of the Bible journals female& male infidelity in competition to persuade the Lord God to usurp the Sumerian suggestion: responsible-human-independence (RHI) can provide peace on earth if female& male adopt the intention.

At some point, a messiah would make Israel rulers of humankind --- chaos enough to gentiles. However, a Hebrew-faction opined Jesus the messiah, greatly increasing spiritual chaos. Some gentiles created Christianity. By 400 AD there were many Christian orthodoxies. Then in 1537 Luther unleashed Protestantism, and today there are over 45,000 Christian sects.

Tragically, this review touches only 4.3 billion competitive believers, leaving 3.6 billion global-citizens subject to the civic chaos derived from Bible-spiritualties. I think, it is past time for Bible believers to take stock of Genesis 1:28’s RHI. Knowledge of the scholar’s forbidden word, ineluctable, might aid civic motivation to put spiritual pursuits in their rightful place: privacy, with humility toward the source of Genesis 1:28.

Armed with Genesis 1’s suggestion that humankind is solely responsible for peace on Earth Bible-derived civic-integrity could lead the world to domestic peace, preserving to the individual the opportunity to survive and pursue the spiritual happiness they desire rather than suffer in 2021’s diverging civic-chaos.

Can& may reflects choice. Why not peace at last?

quora.com/Do-you-believe-in-freedom-Why-What-do-you-think-about-freedom? by Esraa Ismail

I think freedom is a false human construct that pretends life without yielding to the constraints of physics& its progeny. To promote freedom, scholars obfuscate “ineluctable”, which means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster.com.

In John Locke’s “natural law theory” each human being is a property of what I call “Locke-God” and as such is due life, liberty, and property. The 1774 USA founders were more spiritually humble so changed “property” to “the pursuit of happiness”.

These developments were influenced by “the Enlightenment” arguments over secularism vs spiritualism; physics vs metaphysics; Catholicism vs Protestantism, not to mention Judaism, Islam, and Eastern religions and philosophies. The 1787 framers, accepting the world’s most diverse population, wrote a constitution grounded in domestic discipline. They assigned spiritualism to privacy, if pursued.

The intentions to domestic discipline are stated in the conditional portion of the 2-sentence preamble to the U.S. Constitution. In my December 2021 view, the intentions are:  The-good of We the People of the United States, practice, facilitate, and encourage 5 domestic disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” establish& maintain responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants. These 38 words propose a culture’s continuous journey to perfection in necessity& justice only posterity’s posterity might imagine.

It seems a novel proposal for peace in the U.S. that might influence peace in the world. In other words, if two-thirds of fellow-citizens in the U.S. chose to live according to the preamble, the civic-citizens would dominate so as to gradually reduce living in a dependency.

However, human-discipline  is not at all novel, as the political suggestion was expressed 5,500 years ago then artfully reported 3,000 years ago in Genesis 1. In my December 2021 view, Genesis 1:28 suggests: female& male-human-being can& may independently provide order& and prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth.

To obtain the fruits of the Genesis-1 suggestion, the human-being must appreciate fellow human-beings, collaborate to discover physics& its-progeny, and civically benefit from the discovery. Choosing to avoid, change, or resist the necessity& justice suggested in Genesis-1 leaves the person without freedom from ruin.

Freedom from physics is impossible, and responsible-human-independence (RHI) accommodates life. Government’s function is to practice, facilitate, and encourage RHI rather than bestow freedom and license liberty.

quora.com/unanswered/Which-human-rights-are-overlooked-but-are-important? by Christian Mora

It takes a quarter century for a feral human-infant to transition to young human-being with comprehension& intention to practice, facilitate& encourage the humble-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence.

The opportunity to discover& pursue humble-integrity for life is the-human-right.

quora.com/How-do-human-rights-lead-to-indispline? by James Mwansa

Mr. Mwansa, I am grateful for your creative, brief expression concerning a constructed conundrum, and say so in “appreciations” posted at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

People who scream about “rights” are vainly trying to convince themselves to accept personal-living without responsible-human-independence (RHI) and persuade civic-fellow-citizens to accommodate dependency. In necessity& justice, humankind cannot accommodate the imposition.

Merriam-webster.com opines that “indiscipline” (noun) means “lack of discipline”. That empty definition can be improved by considering the synonyms and antonyms. Also, consider “discipline” (noun), the last of 3 applications: “the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others”. That’s not to slight the first usage: “a region of activity, knowledge, or influence”, because either accepting RHI/not impacts personal-life outcome.

Reading Wikipedia (with the caution that it’s drift seems left-leaning), the article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights is informative. “The precise meaning of the term right is controversial and is the subject of continued philosophical debate . . . some thinkers suggest that human rights should be a minimum requirement to avoid the worst-case abuses, while others see it as a higher standard.” I’m pleased that the article includes “The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval natural law tradition that became prominent during the European Enlightenment with such philosophers as John Locke . . .” I will offer a wiki revision to point out that Locke boasted that each human-being is the property of what I’ll call “Locke-God”, and therefore no person is to be lessened by other people (properties) or self.

The notion of government owing English “rights” in the USA was contested by both the 1774 USA founders and the 1787 U.S. framers. Only 5 days before the 39 of 55 delegates signed the 1787 U.S. Constitution, the 5-person Committee of Style added intentions to the presentation of the laws to “the-good People” of the USA.

In my December 2021 view, the intentions are:  The-good of We the People of the United States, practice, facilitate, and encourage 5 domestic disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” establish& maintain responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants.

The U.S. citizen who perceives sympathy/empathy for anyone who demands “rights” has not come to grips with what it means to be one of the-good among We the People of the United States. The-good citizen appreciates a fellow-citizen enough to clearly, kindly rebuke them when they offend, confirm that the accused received the rebuke, grant time for them to consider the rebuke& evaluate the incident. The appreciative-accused may rebut the rebuke if necessary or accept responsibility if the accusation is ineluctably-true, repent& apologize, and appreciate forgiveness. The accuser forgave the moment the accused showed appreciation-for attention-to-the-incident and if presented with ineluctable necessity& justice to recant, perhaps personally-reform, does so. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted” merriam-webster.com. Responsible fellow-citizens stand ready to repeat the appreciation-cycle-of-rebuke as often as needed, always collaborating for civic-integrity.

Such principles emerged not only from the domestic 1787 U.S. Constitution and the 1776 declaration of war against England, but from a 5,500 year-old Sumerian political philosophy artistically recorded in Genesis-1. In my 2021 view:  Necessity& justice inform female&male-human-being that they can& may independently provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth.

Every human-being can& may choose to practice civic-integrity rather than demand “rights” to be provided by fellow-citizens who practice, facilitate, and encourage RHI and will not accommodate fellow-citizens’ intentions to dependency.

In other words, peace on earth is an individual-human-responsibility& appreciative-obligation, not a right.

 

quora.com/Does-every-individual-have-the-responsibility-to-act-in-a-manner-that-is-beneficial-to-society-and-not-solely-to-the-individual? by Justine Reyes

As personal chronology demands the human-being to develop self, necessity& justice make it plain that he/she may take charge of constraining chaos in their way of living. In other words, responsible-human-independence (RHI) is in the individual’s self-interest.

We have evidence that this principle was expressed in a Mesopotamian culture nearly 6,000 years ago, perhaps in the polytheistic Sumer, some 5,500 years ago. However, 2,500 years later, Hebrew scholars reported the suggestion as a demand of “the Creator” or “God”. “We” created “male& female” in “his” image. That’s in Genesis 1. However, in Genesis 2, Hebrew scholars expressed “the Lord God” as taking woman from man’s rib, refuting the Genesis 1 “we” create male and female in “his image”. Further the scholars have Eve betray Adam, initiating a trend in Bible stories thereafter. Thus, the scholar attempt to establish Genesis 2 “the Lord God” in a hierarchy superior to the-God.

The rest of the Bible is a journal of the expanding competition for a higher power that will usurp the female& male-human-being RHI to the living species and to the world, and the consequences of individual choices to foster banal appetites that lead to ruin rather than peace on Earth.

Every person has the opportunity to accept the obvious: constraining chaos in your-chosen way-of-living is in your personal best-interest, and society is the incidental beneficiary of the individual’s civic-integrity. And we, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” are without excuse for accommodating Judeo-Christian chaos in the pride of the First Amendment’s freedom of religion to Congress rather than practice, facilitation, and encouragement to domestic civic-integrity.

The U.S. and the world suffer divergent chaos as a consequence of 5,500 years’ competitive quest to find a personal-God that will overturn the-God in favor of “my tribe”.

Of course, I don’t claim to know the-ineluctable-truth, so only write my opinion. I’m just glad to know “ineluctable”, which means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster. com. And we can& may amend the First Amendment for civic-integrity.

Law professors

lawliberty.org/melville-thoughts-on-liberty/

English Professor John E. Alvis reminds me that just when you think you have a novel thought you happily discover someone already published parallel thinking. I’m sincere in “happily”, because the discovery affirms your line of thought.

Recently, I have written in various forums that the only valid human-right I can imagine it the opportunity to develop the civic-integrity required for responsible-human-independence (RHI). I assert that this public discipline is expressed for the USA in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Alvis, erroneously I think, reaches back to the 1776 declaration of war for independence from England and forward to Abraham Lincoln’s unfortunate use of the declaration to supersede the Constitution, but otherwise parallels some of my arguments.

Quoting Alvis, “. . . political liberty for slaves and for non-slaves alike is at stake in America’s Civil War . . . inconsistency in respect of national first principles . . . ‘all men are created equal’.” I contend that the declaration of war negated superiority of each kings over individuals and Parliament over Congress. Also, reference to Nature’s God and “pursuit of Happiness” rebuked Locke-God’s property-ownership of human-beings. Nonetheless, the 1787 Constitution benefited from the national pressure to provide for emancipation of the slaves, and the framers paved the way, as Frederick Douglas said in his 1852, “4^th of July” speech in Rochester.

Again, “. . . a central character who seeks to assert a freedom he conceives as independence . . . the pursuit of freedom must be so conducted as to acknowledge and observe cognate responsibilities . . . a liberty to discharge duties is the most valuable of freedoms . . . man’s freedom is his greatest instrumental good because whether exercised for good or for ill, it is the faculty which distinguishes human beings from the lower animals . . . the American Constitution provides best ground for cultivating self-mastery.” In other words, Abraham Lincoln’s revisionist history is not worthy: the declaration of war led to the U.S. opportunity to devise a republic founded on domestic discipline, and the framers go the job done.

What’s wonderful about Professor Alvis’s commentary on Melville’s legacy is that, ignoring Lincoln’s unfortunate bemusement, they affirm the 5,500 year old political philosophy that is expressed, in light of humankind’s discoveries since then, that humankind can& may independently provide order& prosperity on Earth. The philosophy is expressed, in 3,000 year-old local-scholarship in Genesis 1:28 and affirmed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

lawliberty.org/contact/

I just read lawliberty.org/melville-thoughts-on-liberty/ and so wish to compliment it's impact on liberty& freedom vs independence& duty.

I urge you to consider restoring your earlier provisions for readers to comment any time they wish. I realize controversies arise. However, America is about the responsible-human-independence and duty to comment.

Happy 2022.

Phil Beaver

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facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, 12/25/2021

Necessity& justice demand that every person constrain chaos in their way of living. If two-thirds of fellow citizens practiced civic-integrity, there could be peace on Earth.

After 6,000 years’ grammar, 300,000 year-old homo sapiens is travelling in space and groveling in adult-banal-satisfaction.

In 2020, the living "ourselves and our Posterity" can& may stop the divergent chaos.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, 12/24/2021

Please remember to look up "ineluctable", first published in English in 1571. It means "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted" (the merriam-webster.com opinion).

Ineluctable was published with "truth" and "the . . . truth" in 1906. I like to use hyphens to invite the reader not to disassemble the phrase, the-ineluctable-truth. (Thank you, Harold Weingarten, in a 2006 forum.)

Influential law professors and Justices "protect" us from this knowledge so as to preserve their "wisdom" in developing the-rule-of-law according to legal-precedent rather than the-ineluctable-truth. Beware “original meaning”.

By virally sharing this 2021 knowledge, we, "the-good People" among We the People of the United States can& may, in 2022, initiate civic-integrity in the USA; that is, chosen, individual& collaborative responsible-human-independence rather than continually-bemusing-government bestowed-freedom and licensed-liberty.

As we go forward, ask everyone you appreciate if they know “ineluctable” (perhaps anyone who offers "hello"). If “Yes”, ask what it means to future human-appreciation. If they don’t mention “the-ineluctable-truth” share that it is not to be avoided, changed, or resisted. Add your improvement to my opinion that our government is in divergent chaos after 234 years’ neglect of the “ineluctable”.

 

facebook.com/sherri.joubert, 12/24/2021

Happy birthday, Sherri

Here's a powerful word the scholars have "protected" us from knowing: ineluctable. It means, "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted", merriam-webster.com.

It was first published in 1571 in translation to English. In 1906, it was published in the phrases "ineluctable truth" and "the ineluctable truth". I discovered these facts after asking, has my development "the-ineluctable-truth" (thanks to Harold Weingarten, PhD, Chemist, recently moved from BR to California) been published before? The hyphens invite the reader to not disassemble the phrase.

In the future, if I am to witness to something in court and am presented an oath, I will pose 1 or 2 questions. Certainly, I will ask what "truth" I am being asked to represent. After the response, I will make the statement that I will answer "I don't know", when that is so, and to "The-ineluctable-truth" in case I know it; for example, my name is Phil.

I suspect law professors influence "scholars" to "shield" us from the-ineluctable-truth so that they can manipulate political power by keeping us bemused with "legal precedent". The scholars perceive preservation of high salaries by nurturing the bemusement indefinitely, all with immunity because it is traditional. We are now living the consequence: divergent chaos in the USA.

Thank you for the Higgs b post. The-metaphysical-Jesus is to human-appreciation what the Higgs boson is to force-resistance. The human-being appreciates fellow-citizens, in-order-to practice, facilitate, and encourage the-good. We fellow-citizens appreciate Sherri Joubert.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, 12/23/2021

Civil rights? The opportunity to discover& pursue humble-integrity for life is the-human-right.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, 12/22/2021

Belief in doctrine prevents humility to both self and the-ineluctable-truth. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster.com.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, 12/22/2021

Belief in freedom prevents responsible-human-independence, first privately then collectively.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, 122121 (A 2022 view of the “Golden Rule”?)

The appreciative caution/rebuke cycle: a 2021 view of "the Golden Rule"?

Practicing Leviticus 19:17-18, "[Caution] your neighbor frankly [in-order-to appreciate him/her] as yourself." Conversely, upon receiving rebuke/caution, appreciate the opportunity to discover/approach the-ineluctable-truth according-to necessity& justice.

In a civic-culture, the cycle of mutual appreciation --- speaker perceive harm/injury & caution/rebuke; listener consider & respond/reform; speaker forgive/respond, is repeated as often as harm/injury is observed.

The person who tries to avoid, change, or resist caution/rebuke, invites woe.

I don't like being instructed to "rebuke" my neighbor, yet I think communication is essential to fulfilling our obligation to provide peace on Earth.

Friends, please suggest improvement.

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.

Anarchy a choice

 

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

Anarchy a choice

People who choose anarchy demand excess dependency.

Quora

quora.com/Why-do-so-many-people-associate-anarchy-with-chaos-and-destruction-when-it-s-simply-being-free-from-a-state? by Rose

The civic-citizen accepts the necessity& justice of neither initiating nor accommodating injury/harm to-or-from any person including self.

Fellow-citizens who do not accept this principle are dependents---they rely on the civic-citizens to pay for the law-enforcement with research to discover& and remedy injustice. On accepting or rejecting the burden of justice, persons divide between being a human-being or choosing one of the dependencies.

The dependencies include passivism, indolence, spiritualism, infidelity, abuse, crime, evil, tyranny, and worse. Anarchy combines most of these dependencies.

The anarchist chooses an opposite of human-being: maybe mineral, plant, animal, soul, or evil.  

quora.com/Is-there-more-freedom-now-than-any-other-time-in-human-history-If-so-why? by Mickey Maos

Both freedom-from oppression and liberty-to act are vain seventeenth-century propaganda to distract fellow-citizens from responsible-human-independence (RHI), so that elitists can control the-good people.

Back then, it was primarily an Enlightenment debate in Europe led by English-spiritualism vs French-secularism. In 1763, the 13 English colonies in America’s Eastern seaboard rejected English-imperialist taxation, and by 1774 started kicking the English out, beginning with Worchester, Massachusetts. With military providence from France, the colonies won independence in 1781 and ratified their global status as free& independent-states in January, 1784.

Shays’ rebellion, 1786-87 convinced 12 states that free& independent in confederation would not work, so they provided delegates to Philadelphia to propose remedy. The consequence was a national republic, leaving the states with their democratic constitutions, each serving under the constraints the citizens granted.

The good-people of We the People of the United States would employ 5 public disciplines to work out RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity” (including legal immigrants with citizens’ descendants).

Alas, Anglo-American elites prevailed in the 1788 state-ratification-conventions (at least in 2 of the 9 required states). The consequence was re-establishment of English-tradition when Congress began operations in March, 1789. English propaganda from the era of the 1689 English Bill of Rights included “self-governance”, “the common good”, freedom, liberty, natural law, and property. The John Locke premise of natural law is that the human-being is the property of the-God, and the-God is the Christian Trinity, preferably English, but tolerably factional-American Trinity or Unity. (Today, there are some 45,000 Trinities.

Under this 1789-91 Congressional imposition, the good-people of We the People of the United States have accommodated tyranny over “our Posterity” unto the twelfth generation.

These 234 years later, it is not yet too late to, at last, eject English tradition from the USA: Stop the cowardice of freedom& liberty and start individually practicing, facilitating, and encouraging RHI, in order to constrain the chaos of dependency.

I regret, Mickey: I do not feel like expressing gratitude for your question at the “appreciations” post on A Civic People, but I did add some entries there yesterday.

quora.com/If-identity-politics-whatever-that-really-means-is-as-divisive-as-people-often-say-it-is-why-is-it-still-a-thing? by Mike Wilson

I begin to address your question, Mr. Wilson, with a scholar-lawyer-educator-preacher-judge-politician forbidden-word: ineluctable, first published in 1571. “Ineluctable” means, “not to be avoided, changed, evaded, or resisted”. The-ineluctable-evidence is that identity-politics is older than grammar (perhaps 10,000 years), language (maybe 150,000 years), and homo sapiens (we’re told 300,000 years).

More than 5 different ways, we’re told that Jesus may have authored Genesis 1, for example, “Before Abraham was born I am”. Genesis 1 reflects a Sumer political-suggestion from 5,500 years ago, journaled by Hebrew scholars 2,500 years later, 3,000 years ago.

With 2021 comprehension, Genesis 1:28 suggests that female& male-human-being can& may independently provide order& prosperity to the living-species& to the-earth. No higher power can or will usurp the individual’s choice to aid peace on Earth or not: neither the-God nor a government nor a church.

Apparently, the Hebrew scholars, moreover, their sponsors, did not like female& male in the-God’s image, so, beginning in Genesis 2, they introduced their “Lord God” and lessened Eve as formed from Adam’s rib, only to betray Adam and doom humankind. The implication is that female is not in the-God’s image. Then, an angry Lord God drowned humankind excepting Noah& some family. Then Sara suggested Abraham to ménage a trois with Hagar. Together, the threesome increased chaos on earth, with more than 5 Abrahamic religions. The Lord God blessed both Ishmael and Isaac to beget many descendants and a messiah from the latter.

When Jesus emerged and associated with the people, some Jews and Gentiles claimed he was divine. Some say the Messiah, some the-God, others the Son-of-God, and others a prophet. Perhaps there were less than 100 Christian orthodoxies by 400 AD. Then Martin Luther, 1517, in Germany, inspired Protestantism, which exponentially grew unto perhaps 45,000 sects.

In review, the exponential Protestants are woke to the diverse Christian-orthodoxies, are woke to the Hebrews, are woke to the Sumerians, are woke to the-ineluctable-truth (most of which remains unknown). Recently, the portion of humankind who has no stake in the religious-division of humankind is woke to the problem and miserably flailing to object.

I think what civic-citizens need is mutual trust-in and commitment-to the-ineluctable-truth: to practice, facilitate, and promote the civic-integrity that is required to practice responsible-human-independence (RHI). Perhaps, humankind should reconsider Genesis 1:28, as an areligious political philosophy, whether the-God is involved or not.

By October 17, 2021, it occurred to me that this story offers 2021 relief to the U.S. betrayal of the intentions that are expressed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution, especially its preamble, the statement of U.S. intentions. The betrayal came when a 1788 dominant-faction, Anglo-American elitists intending to assure a Christian nation, imposed the Congressional promise to the 1791 Bill of Rights; to mimic the 1689 English Bill of Rights, which established a Protestant monarchy. The U.S. has suffered the tyranny ever since and may yet establish independence from Anglo-American tradition: Christian-chaos, now in its twelfth generation.

Since then, several conversations with fellow-citizens, including ministers, reflect peculiar joy with their comprehensions of Bible influences. My intention is to share some evolutionary words and phrases that they might improve to help establish U.S. independence under the preamble’s abstractly-stated purpose. Some phrases include: the-ineluctable-truth; the-God, whether it be an intelligent being, physics& its-progeny, chaos, a singularity, or something yet unimagined; appreciation before love; trust-in& commitment-to the-ineluctable evidence rather than doctrinal-faith or legal-precedent; Jesus’s influence rather than opinion about disciples’ words; the-metaphysical-Jesus rather than the-Son-of-God; human-kind rather than my-church; the-good rather than the-doctrine; open-mindedness rather than belief; open-heartedness rather than communitarianism.

So far, I’m finding personal-passion to share doctrinal-joy causes the individual to talk past “the-ineluctable-truth”. I cannot squeeze a phrase I’d like to improve through the other person’s experiences and observations past their heartfelt joy in the status quo. However, my clock is still ticking and there have been some exceptions.

quora.com/Whats-diffrence-with-Individualism-and-collectivism-Can-you-give-an-example? by Miniktm 125cc

Necessity& justice informs every person to constrain chaos in their way of living. The individuals who accept that reality may be referred to as civic-citizens: they neither initiate nor accommodate harm/injury to-or-from any individual, including self. As their life unfolds, some individuals personally approach if not achieve their person’s unique perfection.

During life, they practice, facilitate, and encourage civic-integrity, while some fellow-citizens establish& nourish dependency: passivism, indolence, spirituality, infidelity, abuse, crime, evil, tyranny, and worse. The civic-citizens earn (work for) not only their way of living but also for the means to pay for law-enforcement& research-to reform& approach statutory-justice; to constrain the collective chaos.

Society can& may survive, even thrive, provided most individuals practice civic-integrity rather than contribute to collective chaos.

Individualism runs in the human genes& memes of U.S. families and legal immigrants. Aliens& dependents cannot comprehend the individual power, the individual energy, the individual authority, and the individual obligations (HIPEAO) an American practices yet perhaps never articulates beyond a silent “Don’t tread on me”.

Even that patriotic poetry bemuses the un-American with the word “liberty”, an Enlightenment-age war cry, which hides the U.S. soldier’s intentions: responsible-human-independence.

quora.com/Is-health-a-right-or-a-privilege? by Mat Tam

Constraining the debate-criteria seems a deceitful attempt to control the response and must, by now, be one of the AMO tools---that is, Alinsky-Marxist organizations’ radical rules. You, Mr. Tam, attempt to avoid-change-evade-or-resist personal-responsibility, whether you are an AMO agent or not. Right? (Regardless, I express my gratitude for your rhetorical question on the “appreciations” post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.)

Personal-health is an obligation on at least 6 levels of responsible-human-independence (RHI). First, the authentic woman attends to her physical& psychological wellness, because she knows her body might produce about 400 viable ova during her fertile years. She accepts responsibility for two entities: her-person and her viable ova in human-connections that could impact shared-wellness. She does not invite intimacy with dependent men. Second, the authentic man appreciates the woman’s potential to originate, with his aid, offspring and doesn’t choose bonding-conversation with a woman who hasn’t chosen RHI. Sexual intimacy without mutual bonding for life is out of the question due to his reliability regarding ova and their potential to become a delivered baby. Third, the authentic culture practices, encourages, and facilitates reliable sexual intimacy between authentic woman& man who civically, civilly, and legally accept their mutual commitments to their progeny for life. Fourth, authentic humankind does not foster entrepreneurship that doesn’t appreciate the human-individual. Fifth, the civic-citizen accepts the obligation to neither initiate nor accommodate harm/injury to or from any person; including the obligation to constrain dependent fellow-citizens. Sixth, the person who was denied the above described culture during their first quarter-century owns the self-interest to discover& develop RHI. Many civic-citizens, who continuously practice the-good earned independent-integrity.

Fellow-citizens who clamor for egocentric rights& privileges hope their violence will motivate civic-citizens to accommodate dependency. Common dependencies include passivism, indolence, spirituality, infidelity, abuse, crime, evil, tyranny, and worse. Winners of war or domestic-violence, purport to bestow-freedom& license-liberty, in order to distract the-good citizens from the RHI they can& may practice.

In a civic-culture, it takes about a quarter-century for the well-coached-facilitated& encouraged youth to acquire the comprehension& intention to live a complete-human-life, both chronologically& psychologically. So much time is required, because the human-being has the individual power, the individual energy, the individual authority,& the individual obligation (HIPEAO) to acquire the civic-integrity by which to practice RHI.

Cunning-fellow-citizens& AMO-soldiers peddle personal dependencies, yet cannot defeat RHI. RHI dominates the USA, because it runs in the-good fellow-citizen’s genes& memes, including legal immigrants and their posterity. Aliens, such as AMO soldiers& dependents can’t imagine civic-integrity, because no one articulates the-ineluctable-truth. (I hope in just a couple years, every American will know the phrases “the-ineluctable-evidence” and “the-ineluctable-truth” (most of which has not yet been discovered).

I read, write, and speak so as to LISTEN to fellow-citizens who took interest, so please comment.

 

quora.com/Why-does-criminality-in-the-world-seem-conserved-Is-there-almost-like-a-law-that-we-have-to-have-crime? by Hans-Ronny Lorentzen

Homo sapiens emerged 300,000 years ago, the suffered the recent ice age that ended about 11,500 years ago, allowing cave-dwelling to end. About 5,000 years later, grammar emerged and complete thought enhanced awareness in human-connections.

As human-being discovered phenomena formerly thought to be spiritual were physical, they developed the physical for benefit and conserved the spiritual for dependency. For example, the Sun, once thought to be a God that demanded human sacrifice is now understood as a natural nuclear reactor with no intelligence. Also, humankind routinely travels the former “heavens”.

Preponderant discovery suggests there is no God. Nevertheless, some people yet sacrifice humans for spiritual reasons; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice.

The problem is that past and present generations allow government to manage Education Departments that “train the workers government needs” rather than facilitate& encourage their youth to self-discipline for the happiness their mature person will want rather than submit to the happiness a bureaucrat intends for them.

The human-being is a God facing death, and it takes a quarter century for them to acquire the comprehension and intention to live a complete human life, both chronologically and psychologically. And it takes another quarter century or more for them to acquire the experiences& observations on which to choose the happiness their unique, mature person wants.

Without the education to become a human-being, many persons accept passivism, indolence, spiritualism, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse.

By considering, appreciating, and acting on this message, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” (including legal immigrants) can& may individually reform in order to constrain chaos in private-living and inspire dependent-fellow-citizens to reform to responsible, individual maturity and their attendant unique-happiness.

quora.com/Why-do-people-make-the-mistake-of-calling-privileges-rights-Is-it-not-true-that-a-right-is-something-that-can-not-be-taken-away-Is-it-not-more-accurate-to-say-that-something-is-a-privilege-if-it-can-be-taken-away? by Been Jammin

I agree with you: “privilege” can be taken away and “right” cannot. I express gratitude for your thought on the post “appreciations” at http://promotethepremble.blogspot.com.

Seeking to review what Thomas Paine had to say about the rights of man, I stumbled upon Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - Wikipedia according to the French Bloody Revolution of 1789. There are 17 articles!

It reflects the Enlightenment-scholarly-argument for “secular natural law” to replace natural law theory. Therein, John Locke asserted, in 1690, “for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker; all the servants of one sovereign master, sent into the world by his order, and about his business; they are his property”. In other words, “natural law” refers to the power of the-God.

Interestingly, there’s a third, neglected consideration: Necessity& justice demand voluntary responsible-human-independence (RHI). In other words, the civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates harm to or from any person or institution, including self.

This suggestion, RHI, was recorded in ancient, pre-Abraham expression in Genesis 1:28 and affirmed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Alas, Anglo-American conservatives dominated RHI conservatives in perhaps 2 states’ 1788 ratification conventions, and the consequence is the unfortunate preservation of Lockean, English, partnership by church& state to dissuade most citizens from practicing, facilitating, and encouraging RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

The Marquis de Lafayette and John Locke got it wrong to conflate civic-integrity with spiritual mystery: bemuse necessity& justice with secularism vs spiritualism.

Privileges are bestowed& licensed by the winner of war or with dominance in mob-rule (democracy). The only valid human-right is the opportunity to develop self-interest in the civic-integrity needed for RHI.

I think and write to learn from fellow-citizens, and therefore hope you will comment.

quora.com/Do-you-take-full-responsibility-for-and-ownership-of-your-mistakes? by Nandkishore Deopersad

Mr. Deopersad, I express appreciation to you in “appreciations” at A Civic People.

My consideration, acceptance, and commitment: do not repeat mistakes, wasn’t always the-objective-truth in my life. In my fourth quarter century, I trust it is so, yet expect judgement by the-ineluctable-truth in civic-reliability to fellow-humans and posterity. ”Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster. com. Please know “ineluctable”, as I use it again, below.

Here’s what’s new for me: I expect ruinous loss and misery from errors. Let me restate that: Each error I accommodate delivers personal pain and loss. Therefore, I do not allow error to control my activity or none yet do not repeat mistakes. When my daughters tell me I am mistaken, I LISTEN. I am in the old-man-era of Kahlil Gibran’s poem “On Children”. Likewise, I respond to neighbors.

I think some ancient civilizations perceived that female& male human-being has the individual potential, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their personal way of living. With all that humankind has learned in the last 10,000 years, civic-necessity& justice seem to demand what I call, “responsible-human-independence” (RHI).

We understand that homo sapiens developed during the last 300,000 thousand years, and only 5,000 years ago developed grammar, which empowered human-beings to visit the moon. The U.S. intends to place a nuclear reactor on Mars during the next 15 years. Spirituality has contributed nothing to these achievements and has brought humankind to the brink of divergent chaos.

The only spirituality I ever studied is diversely-presented in a canonized Old Testament in combination with a competitively-expressed New Testament. Therein are so many spiritualties, I cannot discern a reliable one. I perceive no hope for peace, and only preservation of division. Therefore, I can only trust-in& commit-to the-ineluctable-truth.

Yet, I perceive achievable-better-future in Genesis 1, perhaps 5,500 years old, expressing a political philosophy maybe suggested by a Sumerian polytheist. Alas, the suggestion was reported by Hebrew scholars perhaps 3,000 years ago; see Genesis 1:28. I think it means humankind can& may independently establish order& prosperity on earth.

The scholars 3,000 years ago didn’t perceive the woman as the provider of ova and the man the woman’s help-mate to build family-fidelity for life. So, beginning in Genesis 2, they imposed on the ancient story a vision of created-male hierarchy, the woman taken from the man’s rib.

Moreover, the scholars imposed male-reliability with stories of female mistakes. A snake beguiled Eve. Sara proposed ménage a trios to Abraham. Delila betrayed Sampson. Bathsheba betrayed her son Adonijah. In other words, Genesis 2 through to the end of the Old Testament is a journal of the consequences of female& male human-being choosing chaos in personal living: Divergence rather than personal& corporate happiness. Competitive dependencies on personal& tribal Gods rather than humble-integrity to RHI, that is, independent& social reliability to female& and male-human-being.

Authors and interpreters of the New Testament exponentially increased the OT chaos, by promoting individual& tribal dependencies on the Son of God---the mystery of God incarnate.

I once considered myself developing wisdom to select from the competitive Gods the one that represents the controller of the consequences of a human-being’s personal choices. (I use lower case “one” to express that I don’t know if worship& praise is wanted by the controller.) Once Genesis 1:28 impressed me that I may choose to constrain chaos in my way of living, I trusted my spirituality to its origins, and focused on never turning my back on necessity& justice.

Now, I perceive two liabilities: Inability to personally discern injustice and mistaken perception of necessity. However, spirituality can no longer dissuade me from civic-integrity: I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.

I now approach responsibility-for and ownership-of my actions with appreciation and determination to accept the-ineluctable-truth, most of which is yet to be discovered.

I wrote, hoping to learn something from you, so please comment.

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Thank you, Ms Klasson for the "like" that brought me back for a second chance to honor Lennon's open mind and open heart.

What I appreciate about the quote you shared is that, therein, Lennon was a deep thinker, who, unlike many scholars, did not want the final say. He felt like his LISTENERS, on considering the thought in light of their experiences& observations, could improve it.

Therefore, Lennon courageously shared then asked, What do you think about this?, with "Right?" People who had a response but did not share, took for granted stonewalling Lennon.

Of course, being my first serious encounter with Lennon the political philosopher, I am totally unqualified to support my suggestion. I don't know.

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Society thrives on responsible-human-independence (RHI). Our temporal chaos seems a consequence of the few who choose dependency in a clamor for rights they egocentrically declare.

Seeking to review what Thomas Paine had to say about the rights of man, I stumbled upon Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - Wikipedia according to the French Bloody Revolution of 1789. There are 17 articles! Preposterous dependency.

The list reflects the Enlightenment-scholarly-argument for “secular natural law” to replace natural law theory. Therein, John Locke asserted, in 1690, “for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker; all the servants of one sovereign master, sent into the world by his order, and about his business; they are his property”. In other words, “natural law” refers to the power of the-God. Let me repeat John Locke: each human-being is a property of the-God and therefore can neither be destroyed nor terminate itself.

Interestingly, there’s a third, neglected consideration: Necessity& justice invite voluntary responsible-human-independence (RHI). In other words, the civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates harm to or from any person or institution, including self.

This suggestion, RHI, was recorded as ancient, pre-Abraham expression in Genesis 1:28 art and affirmed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Alas, Anglo-American conservatives dominated RHI conservatives in perhaps 2 states’ 1788 ratification conventions, and the consequence is the unfortunate preservation of Lockean, English, partnership by church& state in order to dissuade most citizens from practicing, facilitating, and encouraging RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” need not maintain this 5,500 year-old civic neglect.

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When the shipbuilder writes "lol!" to 10 promising words, it's time to re-think humankind.

The short message: 5500 years ago, a Sumerian philosopher expressed that humankind can& MAY provide order and prosperity on Earth; Hebrew scholars, 3000 years ago, reported the philosophy in their poetry in Genesis 1; however, they wanted to portray the woman as the man’s helper, so their Eve came from Adam’s rib then allowed a lesser specie to influence her, invoking her subjugation to Adam; Sarah continued the reported woman-failure by suggesting ménage a trois for Abraham; nonetheless, from Sara’s ovum would come the messiah who would make Israel kings of the world; alas, the-God became man, died, and rose again in order to make Himself available to every human He chose.

The executive short: Sumer culture suggested: a person can& MAY constrain chaos in their life. Hebrew scholars objected; New Testament canon objected to the Hebrew stories; of the many Christian orthodoxies, Luther protested the Catholic Church; in 2021, there are some 45,000 Protestantisms. Human constructs have exponentially increased chaos, especially in the recent 400 years. Civic-citizens have personal-interest to revisit Genesis 1:28.

Another longer explanation: the only spirituality I ever studied is disparately-presented by diverse writers in a canonized Old Testament, in combination with a competitively-expressed New Testament. Therein are so many Gods, I cannot discern a reliable one! In spirituality, I perceive no hope for peace, and only division-preservation. Therefore, my person chooses to trust-in& commit-to the-ineluctable-truth.
Yet, I perceive achievable-better-future in Genesis 1, perhaps 5,500 years old, expressing a political philosophy maybe suggested by a Sumerian polytheist. Alas, the ancient suggestion was reported by Hebrew scholars perhaps 3,000 years ago; see Genesis 1:28. I think that verse means: humankind can& MAY independently establish order& prosperity on Earth. The “MAY” expresses intentions or none.
The scholars of 3,000 years ago didn’t perceive the woman as the provider of ova and the man the woman’s help-mate to build family-fidelity for life. So, beginning in Genesis 2, scholars imposed on the ancient story a vision of “created”-male hierarchy, the woman taken from the man’s rib.
Moreover, the scholars imposed male-reliability with stories of female mistakes. A snake beguiled Eve. Sara proposed ménage a trios to Abraham. Delila betrayed Sampson. Bathsheba betrayed her son Adonijah. In other words, Genesis 2 through to the end of the Old Testament (OT) is a journal of the consequences of female& male human-being choosing chaos in personal living: Divergence rather than personal& corporate happiness. Competitive dependencies on personal& tribal Gods rather than humble-integrity to RHI, that is, independent& social reliability to female& and male-human-being.
Authors and interpreters of the New Testament exponentially increased the OT chaos, by promoting individual& tribal dependencies on the Son of God---the mystery of God incarnate.
I once considered myself developing wisdom to select from the competitive Gods the one that represents the controller of the consequences of a human-being’s personal choices. (I use lower case “one” to express that I don’t know if worship& praise is wanted by the-controller---perhaps physics& its progeny.) Once Genesis 1:28 impressed me that I may choose to constrain chaos in my way of living, I trusted my spirituality to its origins, and focused on never turning my back on necessity& justice.
I perceive two personal liabilities: Inability to recognize injustice and mistaken perception of necessity. Regardless, spirituality can no longer dissuade me from civic-integrity: I know I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.

I'm excited about prospects for reducing future chaos rather than allowing divergence unto annihilation.

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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.