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, safety, 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 month
An epiphany for me: the-God may be the ultimately-good human
being (verb)
In other words, humankind knows more than every about how to
practice, facilitate, and encourage the-good behavior. Yet, so far,
civic-citizens have tolerated elected and appointed officials who pledge-to but
do-not uphold the Constitution and pursue statutory-justice “to ourselves and
our Posterity”. When the civic-citizens start requiring government officials to
be of We the People of the United States as defined in the preamble, an
achievable better future will begin.
Then, the continuum of “ourselves and our Posterity” will
begin to observe improvements in human being (verb). No one knows how powerful,
energetic, and reliable human being (verb) can be.
News
Kari
Lake Responds to Speculation She May Drop Trump After Midterms
(theepochtimes.com)
The citizens who did not get to
vote should organize their own lawsuit. They could overturn both the governor’s
race and the senate race.
Thank you, Rep. Higgins.
Congress funds the U.S. government. It is time to defund the
FBI and create a new agency dedicated to pursuing statutory justice according
to the U.S. Constitution and the-ineluctable-evidence.
Ineluctable means: not to be avoided, escaped, changed,
neglected, or resisted. Without the evidence, an agency must admit to itself
and to the public, "We don't know the-ineluctable-truth".
Asked for "the truth", FBI bosses seem to
obfuscate lies. Congress tolerates the circus, and only a civic-people, We the
People of the United States as defined in the preamble, can stop the tyranny
--- demand the-ineluctable-truth.
A-civic-people can& may initiate an achievable better
future.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mcconnell-blew-the-midterms-says-trump-of-gop-election-losses_4861522.html
This report re-establishes my hope to cast my 5th & 6th
votes for Trump as president.
However, because he
did not respond to even one earnest letter to reform the U.S. from
Anglo-American traditions to the responsible-human-independence (RHI) proffered
in the 1787 signed Constitution, I will not contribute one dime to his campaign
or any other one. I am also apprehensive that he might choose another
self-styled "witness for Christ" as a running mate.
Either the civic-citizens, We the People of the United
States, accept the self-interest to come forth and practice RHI, or the U.S. dream
awaits a new, as yet un-seeable, opportunity.
Want to know why there is so much homelessness in America?
Comprehend Democrat-Party-policy, RINO competition over it, and the
administrative-state's exponential-growth.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-court-blocks-congress-from-getting-trumps-tax-returns_4833962.html?
This is wonderful news.
No citizen& human-being should suffer the harassment,
hatred& evil the Democrat Party and their sympathizers proffer.
The United States, at least the civic-citizens, otherwise
called We the People of the United States, wants every person to progress
toward the perfection they can achieve, and Donald Trump is such a person.
The Supreme Court justices are also such persons.
Columns
Why
I prefer Roundheads to Royalists - Beardy History
The
Classics Are for Everyone, Not Just Old, Dead, White Men (theepochtimes.com)
Christ is a construct of Christianity. Writing “Christ”
seems an offense against Jesus, who may not be a dead, old, skin-colored man.
Authors are responsible for what they write.
But
Will Elections Change Anything? (theepochtimes.com) , Jeffrey A.
Tucker
Tucker's valid concern has good urgency but insufficient
agency.
Humankind is at the bottom of history's regression and has
the opportunity to rise.
Each person can accept the evidence that only human being
(verb) can pursue comprehensive-safety& security on earth (SECURITY). Only
the individual who chooses to aid SECURITY can hope that humankind will promote
responsible happiness to every person who pursues civic-integrity.
Read Donald Trump's inaugural address to perceive hope that
he can& will overcome the administrative state. At least, you might choose
to do your part -- accept agency.
Again:
Tucker would exercise agency by suggesting concrete change
in public opinion that would accomplish the task. For example, the entity We
the People of the United States could accept the obvious: humankind is solely
responsible for comprehensive -safety& security on earth.
Accepting this obvious reality, they could amend the First
Amendment so as to remove the confusion Congress, in 1791, imposed on the 1787
U.S. Constitution. That is, Congressional religious freedom.
An amendment that could effect this reform is
suggested: Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or [promoting] the free exercise
thereof. Religion would then be assigned to privacy rather than to civility and
to legality.
Let journalists like Tucker get this reform done fast. They
can.
Book Review: Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to
Do About It
Obviously, some readers like low content with high
repetition.
McLaren claims reviewing past scholarship and discounting
it. I do not condone McLaren's stages, having read Fowler, John W., Stages of
Faith, Harper, New York, 1981.
I reject McLaren for temporal trashing: Donald Trump.
Readers who'd like to examine their own psychology can get help from H. A.
Overstreet. The Mature Mind,1949. And people who doubt Christianity can get
wonderful aid from Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Divinity School Address",
1838.
Lastly, consider 3 thoughts. First, people who appreciate their opportunity to
develop human being (verb) experience civic appreciation. Second, people who
commit-to mutual appreciation can& may bond unto love. Third, love cannot
be imposed on whatever constrains the consequences of human choice, whether the
limit is physics or God.
Quora
quora.com/Considering-the-sources-presented-what-is-the-best-way-to-establish-a-civic-nation-inclusion-rights-values-beliefs?
by Amal Chehade
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https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-make-sure-that-in-a-democracy-power-is-truly-wielded-by-the-people-and-not-just-vested-interests?
by anonymous
Humankind observes that democracy is one of the worst forms
of government. In a democracy, power is wielded by either the majority, a
coalition of minorities, or a blood-letting, property-damaging minority-mob.
At the heart of democracy’s failure is the fact that every
human being has the autonomy to either constrain chaos in their way of living
or not. Statutory-justice must be pursued, practiced, facilitated, and
encouraged in order to establish& maintain human viability. Justice is a
self-interest.
Consequently, the United States proffers three government
constraints. First, a republican
form of government: Article IV, Section 4, “The United States shall guarantee
to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”. Second, means for the people to amend
the Constitution: see Article V. Third,
intentions to 6 civic disciplines to pursue statutory-justice “to ourselves and
our Posterity”, as preferred in the preamble.
With these three constraints, the civic-faction of Americans
can& may require the U.S. to serve We the People of the United States
rather than government. “Civic” refers to individual-reliability in human
connections& transactions more than dependency on higher power.
The U.S. Constitution proffers the pursuit of written
justice through the slow work of 1) identifying injustice, 2) considering
possible remedies, and 3) selecting the best remedy. The 50 U.S. states try
remedies when injustice is discovered, and the other states may benefit.
Congress can& may legislate a supreme remedy, provided
Congress does not exceed powers granted by the Constitution; see Article I. The
Administration executes the law and cannot exceed the Constitution’s limits;
see Article II. The Supreme Court can& may consider a citizen’s complaint
and like Congress cannot exceed the Constitution’s limits on the court; see
Article III.
So far, the U.S. constitutional republic is not working, because individual
neglect of civic-reliability has fostered a majority who prefer
liberal-democracy rather than the-rule-of-statutory-justice. A remedy for this
dilemma is to educate ourselves and our posterity that civic-integrity is a
self-interest. Civic-citizens can hold government officials accountable for
trying to effect a liberal-democracy rather than the U.S. republic.
Ask not how to establish democracy. Ask how to
establish& pursue statutory-justice “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
quora.com/How-do-ethics-influence-a-persons-total-being?
by Damn........
Ethics is a scholarly pursuit by a particular group that
bemuses the unique individual from pursuing personal perfection.
Everyone can& may know that actual-reality holds human being (verb)
accountable for comprehensive-safety& security to living beings on earth
and to the earth (SECURITY).
In “the west” the Sumerians commented on this political philosophy considering
their system of Gods. Monotheism commented; different groups constructed
their-God, purported to usurp human-responsibility for SECURITY. Hebrew
scholars introduced Moses’ laws, by which usurpation could be negotiated.
Christianity argued that Christ fulfills the law by correction. Protestants
introduced good works as a condition. Ideologies in the rest of the world have
some similarities, especially diversity.
With 8 billion people, the ideologies are countless, and with each one, there
is an ethic. Followers have diverse understanding of their professed ethic, so
there might be as many doctrine as there are inhabitants.
Meanwhile, the-laws-of-physics constrain the consequences of every human
choice. By observing -- accurately, precisely& deeply – the consequences of
every choice& action, people can& may pursue the-ineluctable-truth.
Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, or
resisted”. With repetitious confirmation, humankind may approach discovery of
the-ineluctable-truth.
The journal of the human quest, complete with errors& discoveries, may be
regarded the ethics of actual-reality.
https://www.quora.com/If-everyone-has-their-own-version-of-the-truth-how-can-we-resolve-conflicts?
by anonymous
Rudyard Kipling, in “The Man Who Would be King”, addressed
the dilemma of ineluctable-evidence vs human constructs. When the men decided
the king was actually a god and planned to marry him to a princess, the women
collaborated-on shared doubt and cut the king’s wrist. Blood convinced the men
they were wrong.
The-laws-of-physics always hold sway over reason,
revelation, doctrine, lies, gods, governments, and other human constructs.
The younger generations, who unfortunately seem to savor dependency, now
observe diverse chaos and may soon deplete their benefactors.
quora.com/unanswered/What-does-it-mean-to-have-dignity-in-the-eyes-of-society-and-how-do-we-ensure-that-everyone-has-an-equal-opportunity-to-achieve-it?
by anonymous
The question: “What does it mean to have
"dignity" in the eyes of society, and how do we ensure that everyone
has an equal opportunity to achieve it?”
Phil Beaver’s answer: Dignity means being worthy. The person
who aids comprehensive-safety& security, hereafter Security, to life on
earth comprehends& practices their unique human being (verb): they accept
their opportunity, power, energy, and authority to practice
responsible-human-independence (RHI). Fellow-citizens appreciate& celebrate
RHI-citizens.
I need a new word to explain my response. The new word is: “aphysics”. It
mimics “atheist”, which expresses non-participation in theism.
Non-participation would not exist if theism had not been constructed. In other
words, an atheist would not think to call a believer a “theist”. Also, it would
not occur to a theist that they may lack humility toward the-God, whatever it
may be.
Theism grew from humankind’s discovery experiences. Primitive human being
(verb) attributed unknown phenomena to spirits or gods, whereas they could have
awaited discovery. As discovery progressed, some mysteries were eliminated and
the god/spirit-count diminished. Some polytheisms converted to diverse
monotheisms, each group competing to posit the-supreme-theism or opposing
ideology. People who did not engage competitive-theism were labeled atheists.
There’d be no need for “atheism” if theists were not arrogant toward whatever
constrains the consequences of human choice. Because humankind has not
reformed, theism restored humankind’s chaos as aphysics.
Actual-reality conforms to the-laws-of-physics, hereafter,
PHYSICS. Human choices& actions encounter PHYSICS. For example, the person
who claims to be divine nevertheless bleeds. No man can witness for the divine
yet can& may render opinion, for example, that PHYSICS is not divine.
PHYSICS is discovered through research that is faithful to
the-ineluctable-evidence. (Ineluctable means: not to be avoided, escaped,
changed, neglected, or resisted.) Often research is stymied, waiting for discovery
of instruments needed for discernment. For example, no aware person doubts that
the earth is like a globe, now that space travel empowers direct observation of
earth’s entire mass in orbit.
Failure to discover leaves research with the conclusion, We don’t know. In
other words, when research does not confirm that perception represented
the-ineluctable-evidence, it is insufficient to render rational evaluation of
the results. That is, the-ineluctable-evidence does not react to reason.
To claim to know what has not been discovered is aphysics.
The fellow-citizen who avoids aphysics deserves appreciation by society. So
far, society has suppressed human being (verb) by not inculcating these
principles “to ourselves and our Posterity”, quoting the U.S. Constitution or
to humankind to pursue order& prosperity, quoting Genesis 1:28, a Sumerian
political philosophy.
Every person on earth can& may comprehend these
principles and establish SECURITY in their location. It makes no difference if
the RHI way of living gets established outside the United States: the
suggestion was expressed millennia ago and recorded by Hebrew
scholar-vernacular in Genesis 1:28, 3,000 years ago. When we begin to inculcate
these principles to ourselves, an achievable better future can& may emerge.
quora.com/unanswered/How-can-we-make-laws-more-uniform-throughout-the-world?
by anonymous
Each human-being can& may use their opportunity, their
power, their energy, and their authority to responsibly pursue the
happiness they prefer rather than submit to the dictates of another. Why would
anyone who accepts their unique autonomy give it up?
quora.com/Considering-the-sources-presented-what-is-the-best-way-to-establish-a-civic-nation-
quora.com/What-is-the-main-purpose-of-politics?
by Graham C Lindsay
Politics seems the umpire in humankind’s pursuit of
comprehensive-safety& security to life on earth.
The-laws-of-physics, hereafter PHYSICS, make it obvious that humankind is responsible for comprehensive-safety& security for living on
earth. Neither God nor government can usurp humankind’s responsibility.
Responsibility is both a physical and a psychological subset of PHYSICS.
Each person can& may acquire
responsibility for their way of living. If so, they aid humankind’s pursuit
of comprehensive-safety& security. I call the combined practice,
facilitation& encouragement “responsible-human-independence, RHI”. RHI is a
consequence of a dominant branch of PHYSICS: economics. Each human-being
can& may earn responsible pursuit
of personal happiness.
Each person can& may constrain their way of living so as
to continually produce the revenues needed to pay their way. Necessary revenues
pay each: direct living expenses, saving for the-unexpected and for retirement,
and taxes. In both expenses and taxes, the RHI citizen is paying for shared necessities
to human being (verb). If someone does not accept this responsible-self-interest,
they are dependent on fellow-citizens. Dependencies include arrogance, religion,
indolence, crime, tyranny, evil, atrocity, and worse.
A person who does all that PHYSICS accommodates to comprehend&
intend RHI needs assistance until they can sustain their chosen lifestyle. For
example, youth and disabled-adults deserve care. Each person can& may pursue
RHI. But some choose dependency. On that choice, humankind divides itself: RHI
and dependency.
Politics is umpire in the continual quest for
comprehensive-safety& security on earth according to PHYSICS rather than to
opinion.
quora.com/unanswered/If-a-moral-law-exists-who-made-it-and-why-should-we-follow-it?
by anonymous
Our branch of human-beings, homo sapiens, is about 300,000
years old, and beginning about 10,000 years ago, it became obvious that
humankind is solely responsible to pursue order& prosperity on earth. By
observing the consequences of human choice& action, observers can& may
guide advantageous response to events.
The answers are discovered through the-ineluctable-evidence
of the-laws-of-physics. For example, if female& male partners consent to
sexual intimacy, they may discover responsibility for a human-conception.
Unfortunately, subsequent civilizations adapted paganism’s
many gods to monotheisms many gods. The consequence is God, an entity to which
no civilization proclaims humility. Each civilization demands God to conform to
their doctrine. Meanwhile, many individuals compete for wealth& power so as
to satisfy sexual intimacy.
The consequence is babel. Thank goodness for the internet: we
are in the transition to reform.
Soon, cultures will develop each individual’s opportunity,
power, energy, and authority to pursue civic-integrity as self-interest. As the
faction of inhabitants who participate in the development increases, an
achievable better future will emerge.
quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-origin-of-our-moral-compass-How-can-we-make-it-stronger?
by anonymous
The consequences of human choices are constrained by the
laws of physics. Humankind continually improves by observing the physical
consequences of choices and applying what is experienced or observed, in order
to enjoy an achievable better future.
For example, a man realizes too late that the woman he loves
seeks a spouse who will provide lifetime family monogamy; that is, a man who
comprehends and intends to unite to her, her children, her grandchildren, and
beyond. Once she realized he was unaware, she terminated their courtship. Now,
he knows, but it’s over.
To the basic, the fact that the human-being must eat to
survive constrains human choices. This is only one of the laws of physics, in
particular, the law of conservation of energy to life on earth. For
responsible-human-independence (RHI) each person must earn their daily needs,
savings for personal future, and taxation. RHI is in the individual’s
self-interest, in order to make possible happiness according to their
responsible preferences. RHI springs from civic-integrity – awareness and
accommodation of fellow-citizens including self.
But not every fellow-citizen acquires comprehension and
intention to human being (verb). Each human-being has the opportunity, the
power, the energy, and the authority to pursue or accept a dependent way of
living. Dependencies include arrogant religion, indolence, crime, tyranny,
atrocity, and worse.
Consequently, taxation must cover law enforcement, in order
to constrain dependencies plus the research to discover and eliminate
injustices. The rule of traditional law is insufficient: the civic-people are
responsible to continually develop statutory justice. An RHI-culture can
facilitate and encourage reform to dependent fellow-citizens.
These principles were primitively practiced by the
Sumerians, some 5,500 years ago. Since then, discovery of the laws of physics
accelerated until lately, the U.S. is planning to place a nuclear reactor on
Mars/the moon in 15 years. However, no culture has improved on the Sumerian
political philosophy: humankind is solely responsible for comprehensive safety
and security to life on earth. Subsequent civilizations have erroneously
demanded diverse higher powers they construct to usurp human responsibility.
I know of one proposal in history to improve on the Sumerian
political philosophy. The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a civic-people, We
the People of the United States, intended to practice, facilitate, and
encourage 6 public practices: integrity, justice, security, strength,
prosperity, and responsibility “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
Achieving a better future seems impossible this November 2, 2022. However, the
first requirement is a vision, and this essay offers one. The purpose of
expressing it is to get started so “ourselves and our Posterity” can& may
improve it. I hope to see action and improvements soon.
quora.com/What-is-the-point-of-philosophy-What-are-its-benefits-for-us-as-individuals-and-society-at-large?
by anonymous
I think philosophers would like to know and report every
thought about a topic. However, they have a political problem: for survival,
they write for philosophers rather than writing for fellow citizens.
As a consequence, they only share opinions of fellow
philosophers and other self-styled “scholars”. In general, that’s the way
academia works. To compete for funding, most scholars ignore the public, whom
they should serve. Consequently, some powerful words get buried in scholarship.
Consider, for example, “ineluctable”. I think it means: not
to be avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, or resisted. “Ineluctable” was
published in 1570, yet most citizens don’t know the word. Synonyms include
“inescapable”, which suggests contention, and “inevitable”, which implies time.
That is, a person may survive cancer and heart attack to only postpone death.
Ineluctable death is the fact that body, mind, and person stopped functioning.
“Ineluctable death” discounts both delay and timing. “Ineluctable” is exact,
but scholars don’t promote the word for public usage.
Scholars published “ineluctable truth” and “the ineluctable
truth” in 1906. When I discovered the phrase, I wanted to make it specific, so
I used hyphens to invite the reader to refrain from disassembling. I want to
encourage readers to accept and express, “I don’t know”, when that is so. For
example, “What is the mystery of God?” I don’t know —- there’s no ineluctable
evidence. “Truth” means the actually-real facts about something. However,
people can always debate “something”: what is God?
I used a search engine for “the-ineluctable-truth”, and it
mostly ignored the hyphens. I switched engines and got only music references.
Readers can circumvent scholars who control search engines if they know to
combine “Phil Beaver”+“the-ineluctable-truth”.
I can only trust fellow citizens to teach each other
“ineluctable” and “the-ineluctable-truth”, two powerfully exact expressions.
quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-definition-of-integrity-What-is-the-definition-of-honesty-What-is-the-definition-of-morality?
by anonymous
Given integrity, honesty, and morality, integrity seems the
most essential to self-interest, both personally and collectively.
Submitting to belief, a person can, in honesty, destroy their
opportunity for responsible-human-independence (RHI). RHI means practicing,
facilitating& encouraging a way of living that aids fellow-citizens in their responsible pursuit of the happiness
they prefer rather than imposes on
them someone else’s vision for their life. For example, the person who believes
a higher power will relieve them from tyranny always suffers oppression. The
RHI-citizen manages the despots they encounter; the civic-citizen earns their
way of living plus enough to save for wealth and to pay taxes.
Submitting to a doctrine of morality, a person can
ruin their opportunity to benefit from the-laws-of physics. For example, “Here,
it’s mother, God, and country: if you don’t like it, leave”, is ruinous to the
believer. The speaker doesn’t realize the hearer silently pities him/her.
Unfortunately pity does not stop the ruin.
That brings us to:
What is integrity? First, it’s a practice with a consequence. In
practice, a person accepts sincere concern. They initiate research to pursue ineluctable*
evidence, aware of 3 possible outcomes: the concern was: founded in falsehood,
affirmed, or unresolved. If false, the concern and evidence are recorded so
that other& future-citizens can& may benefit from the research. If
affirmed, consideration of how to positively benefit from the discovery is
undertaken. If unresolved, further research is demanded; perhaps the negatives
suggest a new research-direction or new tools of perception must be invented.
Practicing integrity often yields extending consequence: The concern seems valid, and we don’t know
the-ineluctable-truth. [*Ineluctable means: not to be avoided, changed,
escaped, hidden, neglected, or resisted.]
Perhaps the most contested concern in history is this: Only
human being (verb) can pursue comprehensive-safety& security to living
species on earth and to their extensions into space. Ineluctable-evidence
exists, yet groups construct opposing doctrine. Doctrine may eventually yield
to the-ineluctable-truth.
Each person who aids comprehensive-safety& security on
earth contributes to human being.
Law professors
To
Facebook
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, December 10, 2022
“When your options are rabidly partisan legacy media,
Democrat activists posing as a Capitol Press Corps, a pay4play Lincoln Project
blog, and ‘new media’ like Semafor (allegedly owned by Sam Bankman-Fried), of
course it makes sense to cultivate an alternative.” Christina Pushaw
With the same reasoning, in 2013, I started two blogs, promotethepreamble.blogspot.com and understandtheknowledge.blogspot.com. Later, I added cipbr.blogspot.com. Perhaps they'll be there long after I am
gone, and people can know my opinions while I was here.
Today, I discovered from The Epoch Times editor's opinion
about a death in China and my own experience that the-God is most likely
reliable human being (verb) that the continuum "ourselves and our
Posterity" (quoting the preamble to the U.S. Constitution) will develop.
We know that not everyone aids approach to perfection, and in the end, there
may yet be people who choose dependency. Physics is simply not perfect.
Chris Nalepa | Facebook
Nov 27, 2022
I tried to talk to a BR city council person about Baton
Rouge, a city influenced by the-metaphysical-Jesus, with the potential to
promote Jesus' politics, leaving divinity to churches. I said our youth need
that politics. We seemed to agree, vaguely. But . . .
Unfortunately, I mentioned that Santa is real -- as a symbol of goodwill to
all, including pagans -- during this season of distinct celebrations by each
Western religion and others.
He said, "Since you say that Santa is real, I have no time to talk to
you."
Not another word was possible. The horror!
facebook.com/john.parks.92505,
Nov 18, 2022
Critical “to ourselves and our Posterity” is how we respond to old thoughts. Was
Tolstoy positive toward the republican form of government? He seemed to advocate
the-metaphysical-Jesus or the aid humankind can& may glean from the Jesus
story.
I’ve studied and analyzed Ralph Waldo Emerson’s must
read, “Divinity School Address” (1838) since 1992 and only this week
came to grips with a small part of its failure
to Christian-woke-ism. Nowhere did Emerson highlight Jesus’ literal
self-defense on facing the death sentence. St. John tells us Jesus uttered: the
reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. I
think it is risky to try to embellish what the man, Jesus, may have said.
Emerson cannot be faulted for not quoting John. That leaves it “to ourselves
and our Posterity” to glean practical suggestions from the-metaphysical-Jesus.
Also, “truth” addresses the actual-reality about something. Defining
“something” leaves the speaker the expressive power to lie. I recall Bill
Clinton’s fame: That depends on what is is. I want to think Jesus
addressed “the-ineluctable-truth”, even though “ineluctable” was not available
in English until the sixteenth century. I think “ineluctable” means not to be
avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, or resisted. For example, it may have
taken centuries to get the perception right (views from orbit), yet there was
always ineluctable evidence that the earth is like a globe.
In a democracy, “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because
the majority share in it” and in a republic, majority opposition does not
render statutory-justice wrong. Did Tolstoy advocate constitutional
republicanism or the pursuit of statutory-justice?
PRB again, on Dec 3, 2022
This morning, I happened upon this sentence, in Historical Jesus - Wikipedia: "Leo Tolstoy saw Jesus as championing Christian
anarchism (although Tolstoy never actually used the term
"Christian anarchism"; reviews of his book following its publication
in 1894 coined the term)".
I resist "Christian anarchism", as it distracts
from Jesus' anarchism, which seems more political than religious. Jewish
anarchism seems appropriate, but also narrow. Jesus reportedly said, “Before
Abraham was born I am”.
My focus stems from November discovery, thanks to Keith
Holmes at University Baptist Church, that to non-Christians, "Christ"
distracts from Jesus. To discuss "Christ" invokes the Christian
debate with the Jews, and lessens potential to influence civic-citizens to
consider Jesus' political philosophy - perhaps collaborate for the-good.
Viewed this way, Christian proselytizing seems errant if not
offensive to the authentic Jesus, which I don’t know and study. The apostle
Matthew, in Matthew 10:32, reported that Jesus cautioned against such
practices. “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge
before my Father in heaven.”
The
historical Jesus was aware of the Jewish messiah, but “Christ” came during his
afterdeath. “Christ” comes from late-English spelling of the Greek translation
of “messiah” or anointed one. See Christ (title) -
Wikipedia. John, in John 18:37 tells us that, facing his sentencing,
Jesus said, “. . .the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify
to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” He said
nothing about “messiah”, “Son of Man” or other controversies. I don’t think
“truth” is a sufficient expression and therefore try to persuade citizens to
demand the-ineluctable-truth. Ineluctable means: not to be avoided, changed,
escaped, neglected, or resisted.
I
often say, in political terms, “Atheism is a leap of faith I cannot take.”
Likewise, Christianity is a leap of faith I cannot take. I don’t think “faith”
requires commitment, so speak of my trust and commitment. I advocate the
authentic Jesus and think the successive generations, “ourselves and our
Posterity” (quoting the preamble), can discern the-good, in order to develop
civic-integrity.
facebook.com/john.parks.92505,
Nov 7, 2022
I like your post, John Parks. The age-old-saw, "Don't
express politics or religion on Facebook" can& may be retired in order
to share rational thought that might save our republic. Fellow-citizens may
learn to converse about responsible pursuit of the happiness they pursue rather
than what someone else would impose on them. And your timing relative to
Thanksgiving was great. Sorry I missed it on Nov 7.
The-civic-people, We the People of the United States, as abstractly defined in
the preamble, may yet establish the pursuit of responsible-human-independence
(RHI). RHI is proffered in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. The 1791 Bill of Rights
restored Anglo-American woke-ism: the English belief that the-God competition
(especially Catholic v Protestant) will someday make some nation great. We
could perceive and now know that someday never came.
All the while, everyone could& should heed the 5,500 year old Sumerian
political philosophy: humankind is solely capable of pursuing
comprehensive-safety& security on earth. Hebrew scholars expressed
this, in their vernacular, in Genesis 1:28 as part of the civil competition to
convince the-God to usurp RHI. But they got hung up in Moses' law. Luther
objected, and the consequence is exponential polytheism.
These 5,000 years later, NASA aims to start a colony on the moon or on Mars in 10
years, yet civilization still competes to construct the supreme God.
All the while, the-laws-of-physics constrain the consequences of each person's
choices& actions.
Neither the-God nor a government can usurp RHI. Physics does not comport to
constructed law.
The "ourselves and our Posterity" of We the People of the United
States can& may vote in self-interest toward the civic-integrity that is
required for RHI.
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, November 17, 2022 and on Twitter
Each human-being can& may use their opportunity, their
power, their energy, and their authority to RESPONSIBLY pursue the happiness
they prefer rather than submit to the dictates of another. Why would anyone who
accepts their unique autonomy embrace dependency?
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, November 14, 2022 and on Twitter
Friends who are watching Mike Pence on TV
just now may consider that he betrayed both the ancient homo sapiens’ political-philosophers and fellows who are
civic-citizens, We the People of the United States, when he did not yield to
the Commander in Chief, his running mate, President Donald Trump.
Pence is as capable as any human-being to
observe the-metaphysical-Jesus, who reportedly said, “Render unto [Donald
Trump] what is of [We the People of the United States] and . . . “.
And the-metaphysical-Jesus expressed
presence in the beginning if he said “Before Abraham was born I am”.
And if the-metaphysical-Jesus corrected
Moses’ law regarding divorce (Matthew 19:1-8), he did so referencing the
ancient political philosophers, depicted in Genesis 1.
In claiming to “witness for Christ”, any
man who does not accommodate the-metaphysical-Jesus that everyone can glean
from the Bible, takes risk I would not take. It seems Pence did. We need not
follow.
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, October 31, 2022 and on twitter
Genesis 1:28: humankind is solely responsible to all living
beings for order& prosperity on earth.
(PRB, representing A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education
non-profit corporation).
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.
