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
2022: the people can& may unleash the-ineluctable-truth
“Ineluctable” was published as a translation in 1571. It was
published with truth as “ineluctable truth” and “the ineluctable truth” in
1906. These facts may be viewed on the Google ngram viewer. So far, I have not
discovered the publishers of the phrases.
I am proud of my education: Staub Elementary, Tyson Jr.
High, West High school, and the University of Tennessee, all in Knoxville. I am
also glad that my wife, Cynthia, and our 3 children and our associations taught
me the can& may of being a human-being.
Yet I object that my educators, “journalists”, professors,
scholars, the clergy, Justices, and politicians left it to a chemical engineer
to coin the phrase the-ineluctable truth, the hyphens inviting the listener to
not disassemble the phrase. My list reminded me of philosophers, so I searched “ineluctable”
at plato.stanford .edu with its 11 documents and found no “ineluctable truth” and
ep.utm .edu with its 4 documents and none with “truth”.
In my few contacts, I perceive a certain portion of our
fellow-citizens resist the phrase “the-ineluctable-truth” for reasons they may
comprehend. However, not one civic-citizen has expressed less than delight on
being informed to consider it. Especially when I share the scenario of being
sworn in to testify and clarifying with the judge that you are swearing to
the-ineluctable-truth: when you express, “I don’t know” that’s as far as you
will go, when that is so.
Justices& lawyers who encounter the public unleashing of
the-ineluctable-truth will be prudent to take appreciative caution not to
attempt to avoid, change, or resist the tsunami-like reformation of the rule of
law based on legal precedent to law grounded in the-ineluctable-evidence.
I am grateful to Harold Weingarten, who in 2006 asked: Are
you citing ultimate truth, absolute truth, God’s truth, or Phil’s truth? In
perhaps 2019 or later, the articulation “the-ineluctable-truth” emerged.
It’s pursuit was expressed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution,
repressed by the 1789 Congress, and since then bemused by the U.S. Supreme
Court. We, the 2022 “ourselves and our Posterity” can& may unlock
the-ineluctable-truth for eternity.
Quora
quora.com/Confucius-said-To-see-what-is-right-and-not-to-do-it-is-want-of-courage-or-of-principle-What-would-you-say-is-a-good-modern-example-of-this-happening?
by Graham C Lindsay
People can& may speak to the-ineluctable-truth, often
admitting to self, then in public, lack-of-knowledge (simply, ignorance).
Unfortunately, many people accept belief.
“Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or
resisted” merriam-webster .com, a word published 400 years ago and used with
“truth” 116 years ago.
quora.com/What-do-you-think-is-the-common-good?
by Liezl Cayanan
I think necessity& justice motivate the human-being to
practice, facilitate, and encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI). Relying
on the-ineluctable-truth, the individual can& may independently constrain
chaos in their way of living. The consequence of constraining chaos is fidelity
in human connections and transactions.
But not every person chooses the civic-integrity required
for RHI.
Some persons prefer dependency, and some of them take advantage of the
civic-people. For example, some people think crime pays. Others strive for
tyranny over the minds of men --- psychological tyranny.
Among the psychological tyrants of the past, none has
generated more loss in fewer centuries than the Englishman John Locke, d. 1704.
Locke seems the source of the erroneous, RHI-distracting term “common good”.
He uses it 3 times in “Two Treatises of Government”, 1690.
But here’s Locke’s
worst, to my knowledge: The emphasis is mine in, “The state of nature has a law of nature
to govern it, which obliges every one: and
reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult
it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another
in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: 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, whose workmanship they are, made to last during his,
not one another's pleasure: and being furnished with like faculties, sharing all in one community of nature,
there cannot be supposed any such subordination among us, that may
authorize us to destroy one another, as if we were made for one another's uses,
as the inferior ranks of creatures are for [our uses]”.
Physics and the-ineluctable-truth do
not yield to reason. Nature is physics and it answers to the laws of physics.
To purport to behave for the common good takes hubris against
the-ineluctable-truth, most of which has not been discovered. That is,
the-ineluctable-truth exists, but most of it is not known.
I do not know the-ineluctable-truth,
so can only share my opinion, which I did. To see how insignificant my
considerations are, search “the common good” at plato.stanford.edu/. Notice
that 2,870 documents were found. The first, “The Common Good”, 2018 is 24 pages
long and scholarly. It mentions Locke 5 times without referencing the
Locke-tyranny I raised above.
I recommend forgetting “the common
good”, in order to focus on civic RHI. It clearly strives to preserve
the opportunity to pursue the-good, which requires the civic people to
constrain dependent fellow-citizens, some of whom can but won’t reform. John
Locke could but wouldn’t, I think; we, the-civic-people, need to stop accommodating
the loss and misery.
quora.com/How-does-the-USA-balance-the-rights-of-the-individual-and-the-cohesion-of-the-state-and-nation?
by Graham C Lindsay
Mr. Lindsay, thank you. I think you are correct to imply
that the U.S. is a strange metaphysic: the individual human-being can& may
have sovereignty in their state and nation; city as well, and within some
cities, residents in some subdivisions may tax homeowners to fund additional
security, common grounds maintenance, perks for their governing board and such.
In Kenilworth Subdivision, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, and earth, I resist
adding another layer of political oppression a subdivision board offers. I
practice, facilitate, and encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI).
We understand homo sapiens is about 300,000 years old, and
about 5,500 years ago, cuneiform law-codes established civic constraints; for
example, widows and orphans would not pay taxes, and criminals were punished
not for revenge but to constrain crime and reform offenders. “Civic” implies
fidelity in human connections& transactions. The polytheistic cultures
credited the Gods rather than necessity for inspiring justice. In other words,
they expressed dependency rather than self-interested independence.
Metaphysical dependency evolved from primitive perceptions.
For example, the sun often killed people. Some people speculated that the sun
is a supernatural power that demands human flesh. Some developed human sacrifice
to bargain favor from a tribal Sun-God. In 2022 human sacrifice is almost
extinct, and we comprehend the sun is a natural nuclear reactor. Sun-Gods are
obsolete, but diverse-God-doctrine persists.
Primitive attitudes toward the sun illustrates that even
fiction is a progeny of physics -- through the un-discovered laws. Mankind
observes physical phenomena and begins the process of comprehension. If human
perception cannot design the research to unlock the unknowns, the human-being
tends to adopt their favored speculation and call it belief. Thereby, they
repress their potential for discovery; perhaps the perception was false, like a
mirage. In their self-interest, they ought to conduct a process: I think I
observe something, research to discover any reality and meaning, on failure to
prove its reality, wait for a new perspective by which to resume the research.
Meanwhile, accept and proclaim when needed: I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.
Physics& its progeny manage evolution in response to
changes in the environment. The laws of physics control the consequence of
every action, and physics’ progeny increase/decrease in number with changes in
the universe. For example, plasma chemistry could not produce the elements
until the universe cooled enough. And placental mammals were not possible in earth-atmosphere
with only 10% oxygen (200 million years ago) compared to 21% now.
Cuneiform script was developed in Sumer, in ancient
Mesopotamia. The kings who authorized it had no idea that dinosaurs had existed
65 million years ago. Otherwise, they might not have claimed that human-being
can& may order the earth so as to dominate the lesser species. Nevertheless,
we, the people of 2022 who seek the-good can be grateful to the culture that
suggested a political philosophy: human-being can& may independently
provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth. To the
individual, the cuneiform message seems:
Human-being, you can& may independently constrain chaos in your way
of living. That personal politic seems like RHI to me.
Then, like now, tribes competed for survival. Polytheists changed
to fewer, stronger Gods. Eventually monotheism dominated, with particular
tribes bargaining with their God for favor. Instead of many Gods controlling
cultural speculations, one God controlled everything for a particular tribe. At
war, one’s God would defeat the other’s God. The Western politics of RHI
could not develop under human-dependence on diverse Gods.
Competing monotheisms accelerated when the metaphysical
Abraham emerged, about 4,200 years ago. Ignoring the potential for chaos, he
and 3 wives created competing descendants. The consequence is a world with 45%
non-Abrahamic people with particular cultures and the rest Abrahamic
descendants with competing cultures. Chaos increased to divergence.
Briefly, the sequence of events pivotal to my response, Mr.
Lindsay, is: 300,000 years ago homo
sapiens branched off from bipeds; 6 thousand years ago a culture suggested
RHI; 3 thousand years ago scholars attributed RHI to God rather than to
necessity& justice, spiritualism rather than physics; 1700 years ago
competing cultures canonized Bibles claiming Jesus is the-controversial-God –
anywhere from Unity to Trinity; 566 years ago, papal bulls “authorized” slavery,
African slave-trade to expand the kingdom of their God; 400 years ago, Europe,
at war over Protestantism began colonizing N. America and soon imposed slavery
for agricultural labor; 234 years ago, the free& independent USA issued a
Constitution that proposes RHI to every citizen; 230 years ago Congress
repressed the 1787 U.S. Constitution by ratifying the 1791 Bill of Rights, in
order to re-store British tradition in the USA. In 2022, the-good people
can& may adopt humility to whatever-controls-the-consequences-of-human-choices.
This year, 2022, is the first year since the significance of
the-ineluctable-truth has been fully expressed. “Ineluctable” means “not to be
avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster.com. Someone published “ineluctable”
in 1571 translation from a foreign language, so it has existed at least 400
years. It was published with “truth” as “ineluctable truth” and “the
ineluctable truth” in 1906. I added hyphens to invite the reader to not
disassemble the phrase. Without “the”, false truths can be imposed on
unsuspecting thinkers.
By focusing on the now un-hidden word, “ineluctable”, and
applying it to discover the-ineluctable-truth, the-good people of the U.S. can
accept RHI and may apply it to constrain chaos in their personal way of living.
Necessity& justice requires them to constrain fellow-citizens who choose
dependency rather than civic-integrity.
The can& may of the human condition, together with the
power of the-ineluctable-truth, seems proposed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution.
We, civic-citizens among We the People of the United States can& may
establish a culture of humble-integrity. We’ll have to amend the Bill of Rights
to empower an achievable better future.
In the U.S., it’s a matter of evolution more than revolution,
because the 1787 U.S. Constitution (235 years old) comports to Genesis 1:28
(5,500 years old).
Can-you-help-me-understand-Romans-7-15-25-What-does-it-fully-mean?
by Donna Rayne
First, I can only share my opinion, because I do not know the-ineluctable-truth,
which a considerate human-being works to discover (during their individual, 2nd
through 4th quarter centuries, after the 1st quarter century to personally
accept being a human-being). Fortunate is the person who employs
experiences& observations intending to perfect their-unique-good before
death.
Second, I think the
Bible canonizers erred when they included Genesis-1, a 3,000 year old
comprehension of a 5,500 year-old political philosophy, perhaps from Sumer.
I assert “erred”,
because a modern, 2022 comprehension (based on the recent 5,500 years’
discovery) holds Genesis-1 to be artful, neglected awareness-if-not-advice, astonishingly
at the dawn of both grammar and monotheism. Then, perhaps 150,000 year-old language& primitive knowledge
could be used to ponder individually
then collaborate in essential pairs,
female& male, then in groups.
Humankind divided
into two groups according
to willingness to choose for necessity& justice or banal
satisfactions --- responsible-human-independence
(RHI) or dependence; physics& progeny or metaphysics; the-ineluctable-truth
or speculation (belief). Those 2 groups subdivided unto 2 diversities. In
subsequent millennia, diversity diverged unto chaos.
My 2022
comprehension of Genesis 1:28 is this: female&male-human-being can& may
independently provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to Earth;
provide peace; constrain chaos in personal behavior& in societies;
develop humankind. The rest of Bible canon debates whatever-controls-the-consequences-of-human-choices.
Restating, the rest of the Bible journals, through 2000 years ago, how
“Western” civilizations developed today’s Western chaos.
If these opinions
seem plausible if not reliable, consider how to apply them: Societies ought-to
practice, encourage, and facilitate self-discipline to all citizens. That’s the
can& may, and there remains the how. I contend that each person
self-disciplines by learning-to-apply the-ineluctable-truth. “Ineluctable”,
first published 400 years ago in translation, means “not to be avoided,
changed, or resisted” merriam-webster .com. In practice, each individual
can& may accept& declare, “I do not know”, when they don’t know. If necessary, they share hard-earned opinion, claiming it is
not the-ineluctable-truth.
Now, to your question: By
developing integrity to the-ineluctable-truth, each human-being can& may
appreciate& avoid the miserable dependency Paul expressed
in Romans 7:15-25. Paul shamelessly cries “my mind . . . a slave to God’s law .
. . my . . . nature a slave to . . . sin” as though there is no
Paul-personal-discipline to consider! Moreover, Paul disassembles the Trinity
in “. . . God . . . delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!” He essentially
discounts the-God for “our Lord” and the Old Testaments "the Lord God" and others OT Gods. And
where’s his regard for the Holy Spirit?
The Christian
scheme -- canonizing Jesus to compete with the Gods of the Bible is a
consequence of group-search for reliable dependency – bargaining for the-God
that is willing to usurp the civic-RHI that was suggested 5,500 years ago. Let me say that again: civilizations seek a God that will
claim to usurp RHI.
In Sumer’s era, the individual faced the uncertainty of physics&
its-progeny, as we do today. Long before, even more primitive humankind observed that
the sun could kill (now we know due to overexposure) and imagined the sun a
supernatural power, eventually labeled “God”. Many civilizations bargained with
sun Gods, and many speculated that the-God demands human flesh. Some sacrificed
their excellent citizens to the-God. Now, despite extant-modern
human-sacrifice, we know the sun is a natural nuclear reactor, yet have not
overcome dependency on the-God for competition among self, individuals,&
groups.
In addition to spiritual
hope& comfort to believers, does
Jesus offer civic influence? I think so: Jesus’s cryptic messages empower the metaphysics:
our collective quest to discover and apply the-good. Recall, we are at the advancing
edge of 300,000 years’ homo sapiens psychological development. We are obligated
to our posterity, including our direct descendants.
Just as Paul
expressed opinion 2,000 years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson expressed opinion 184
years ago: “Alone [Jesus] estimated the greatness of man . . . God incarnates
himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.
But what a distortion did [Jesus’] doctrine and memory suffer . . .
Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt”.
Emerson advanced
the-metaphysical-Jesus, the human collaboration to consider Jesus’ reported
statements: be perfect [in your can& may], before founders were born I am, help your magistrate
constrain chaos, you are gods-facing-death, be humble, be peaceful, and more.
It seems Jesus
affirmed Genesis 1:28, and we good-citizens can& may practice, facilitate,
and encourage civic-RHI while
privately pursuing personal-spiritual-happiness.
I hope
this helps and would appreciate your improvements on the opinions I expressed.
I expressed gratitude to you, Ms. Rayne, today at “appreciations” on
promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.
quora.com/Should-people-be-allowed-to-force-their-religious-beliefs-on-others?
by Zara Samsin
The person who appreciates& accepts that they are a
human-being is a god-facing-death and therefore ought to respond to
necessity& justice. However, not every person accepts that they are a
human-being, perhaps until death confronts them with the-ineluctable-truth.
The human-being can& may choose to be religious, and if
so, religion does not relieve them of 2 self-interests: civic-integrity and
spiritual-humility.
First, civic-integrity demands
responsible-human-independence (RHI); thereby, civic-citizens rely on neither
religious-doctrine nor civil-rule for good-citizenship. They neither initiate
nor accommodate harm/injury to-or-from any person/association.
Second, even though they hope-with& take-comfort-in
their spiritual-beliefs, they retain appreciation& humility to
whatever-controls-the-consequences-of-human-being-choices, for short,
whatever-judges-personal-choices, or response-to-can& may. In other words,
they never leave it to their person to approve their spirituality.
Under these principles, no one can force religious-beliefs
on appreciative-human-beings. However, if someone chooses to try, the
human-being accommodates the effort for 4 reasons. First, by allowing the speaker, the listener creates
personal-opportunity to learn. Second,
by sincerely listening, the human-being may choose to improve their opinion. Third, by considering the speaker’s
opinions, the listener might suggest improvement the speaker can use. Fourth, the accumulated chaos on earth
is lessened each time 2 people sincerely talk, and together they might create a
message all fellow-citizens can& may consider.
My thought is: never pass an opportunity to consider a peaceful
fellow-citizen’s heartfelt civic-concerns, no matter what they are.
Samsin, I think your question is awesome, and I express
gratitude today at “appreciations” on promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.
quora.com/Am-I-the-clearly-intended-and-expressed-beneficiary-of-the-U-S-Bill-of-Rights/answer/Phil-Beaver-1?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=31120722531&comment_id=241297513&comment_type=2?
by Richard Kohn
Fascinating: “extremely interesting” or not
AMO (Alinsky-Marxist organized).
If my dream comes true, Congress soon informs SCOTUS that
legal precedent can no longer supplant the-ineluctable-truth. The ABA (and all
state bar associations or equal), as of this moment, are awakened to public
awareness of the word “ineluctable”. Consequently, the ABA researches
foreign-language equivalents, its English publication in 1571, publications
“ineluctable truth” and “the ineluctable truth” in 1906, and publication with
hyphens so the phrase cannot be disassembled — “the-ineluctable-truth”. Most of
it is unknown and humankind works to-discover and-use it to reduce chaos to the
living species, to the Earth and beyond.
Law school? Are you kidding me? There is no way I would have
discovered “ineluctable” and “ineluctable truth” if I had attended law school.
History? There’s no way I would own comprehension of the U.S. preamble by which
to guide my civic decisions if I had studied history. Chemical engineering gave
me the physics-integrity by which to discover metaphysical-integrity.
If you are unable to read these thoughts, I suggest: get to
work. You can& may learn. I cannot teach you.
And your suggestion that I would move away from the
USA-republic suggests that the first class you should take is basic reading
without emotions.
Best wishes, and thank you for the response. Come again if
you have something that might improve my work, just for phunn, or for your
purpose again.
Law professors
quora.com/May-God-with-integrity-practice-infidelity-and-abuse/answer/Simon-Binks-2/comment/73410777?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=3250589111 from
last week
To
Facebook
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52,
January 14, 2022
People can& may
speak to the-ineluctable-truth (tIT), often admitting to self, then publically
declaring privation-of-personal-knowledge to tIT. Unfortunately, many people
accept/promote belief.
“Ineluctable” means
“not to be avoided, changed, or resisted” merriam-webster .com, a word
published 400 years ago and used with “truth” 116 years ago.
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, January
12, 2022
I think the Bible
canonizers erred when they included Genesis-1, a 3,000 year old comprehension
of a 5,500 year-old political philosophy, perhaps from Sumer.
I assert “erred”,
because a 2022 comprehension (based on the recent 5,500 years’ discovery) holds
Genesis-1 to be artful, neglected awareness-if-not-advice at the dawn of both
grammar and monotheism. Then, perhaps 150,000 year-old language could be used
to think individually and collaborate in essential pairs, female& male,
then in groups.
Two groups divided
according to willingness to guide actions for necessity& justice or none
--- responsible-human-independence (RHI) or dependence; physics& progeny or
metaphysics; the-ineluctable-truth or speculation (belief). Those 2 groups
subdivided unto 2 diversities. In subsequent millennia, diversity has diverged
unto chaos.
My 2022
comprehension of Genesis 1:28 is this: female&male-human-being can& may
independently provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to Earth;
provide peace to most living individuals& to Earth; constrain chaos in
personal behavior& in societies; develop humankind. The rest of Bible canon
debates whatever-controls-the-consequences-of-human-choices, both
individual& group actions. Restating, the rest of the Bible journals,
through 2000 years ago, record how “Western” civilizations developed today’s
Western chaos.
If these opinions
seem reliable, consider how to apply them: Societies ought-to practice,
encourage, and facilitate self-discipline to all citizens. That’s the can&
may, and there remains the how. I contend that each person self-disciplines by
learning-to-apply the-ineluctable-truth. “Ineluctable”, first published 400
years ago in translation, means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted” merriam-webster
.com. In practice, each individual can& may accept& say, “I do not
know”, when they don’t know.
By developing
integrity to the-ineluctable-truth, each human-being can& may
appreciate& avoid the miserable dependency-expressions Paul shared in
Romans 7:15-25. Paul shamelessly cries “my mind . . . a slave to God’s law . .
. my . . . nature a slave to . . . sin” as though there is no
Paul-personal-discipline to consider! Moreover, Paul disassembles the Trinity
in “. . . God . . . delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!” He essentially
discounts the-God for “our Lord” and the Old Testaments "the Lord
God" and others.
The Christian
scheme -- canonizing Jesus to compete with the Gods of the Bible is a
consequence of group-search for reliable dependency – bargaining for the-God
that is willing to usurp the civic-RHI that was suggested 5,500 years ago.
In Sumer’s time,
the individual faced the uncertainty of physics& its-progeny. Long before,
even more primitive humankind observed that the sun could kill (now we know due
to overexposure) and imagined the sun a supernatural power, eventually labeled
“God”. Many civilizations bargained with sun Gods, and many speculated that
the-God demands human flesh. Some sacrificed their excellent citizens to the-God.
Now, despite modern human-sacrifice, we know the sun is a natural nuclear
reactor, but have not overcome dependency on the-God for competition among
self, individuals,& groups.
In addition to spiritual
hope& comfort to believers, does
Jesus offer civic influence? I think so: Jesus’s cryptic
messages empower the metaphysics of our collective quest to discover and apply
the-good. Recall, we are at the leading edge of 300,000 years’ homo sapiens
psychological development. We are obligated to our posterity, including our
direct descendants.
Just as Paul
expressed opinion 2,000 years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson expressed opinion 184
years ago: “Alone [Jesus] estimated the greatness of man . . . God incarnates
himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.
But what a distortion did [Jesus’] doctrine and memory suffer . . .
Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt”.
Emerson advanced
the-metaphysical-Jesus, the human collaboration to consider Jesus’ reported
statements: be perfect in your can& may, before founders were born I am,
help your magistrate constrain chaos, you are gods-facing-death, be humble, be
peaceful, and more.
It seems Jesus
affirmed Genesis 1:28, and we good-citizens can& may practice, facilitate,
and encourage civic-RHI while pursuing personal-spiritual-happiness in privacy.
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52,
January 10, 2022
Here are some ideas in language few care to comprehend, as
the U.S.-chaos diverges.
My prime thought is: never pass an opportunity to consider a
peaceful fellow-citizen’s heartfelt civic-concerns, no matter what they are.
The person who appreciates& accepts that they are a
human-being is a god-facing-death and therefore ought to respond to
necessity& justice. However, not every person accepts that they are a
human-being --- perhaps until death confronts them with the-ineluctable-truth.
The human-being can& may choose to be religious, and if
so, religion does not relieve them of 2 self-interests: civic-integrity and
spiritual-humility.
First, civic-integrity demands
responsible-human-independence (RHI). RHI-civic-citizens rely on neither
religious-doctrine nor civil-rule for good-citizenship. They neither initiate
nor accommodate harm/injury to-or-from any person/association.
Second, even though they hope-with& take-comfort-in
their spiritual-beliefs, they retain appreciation& humility to
whatever-controls-the-consequences-of-human-being-choices, for short,
whatever-judges-personal-choices, or response-to-can& may do good. In other
words, they never leave it to their person to approve their spirituality.
Under these principles, no one can force religious-beliefs
on appreciative-human-beings. However, if someone chooses to try, the
human-being accommodates the effort for 4 reasons. First, by allowing the
speaker, the listener creates personal-opportunity to learn. Second, by
sincerely listening, the human-being may choose to improve their opinion.
Third, by considering the speaker’s opinions, the listener might suggest
improvement the speaker can use. Fourth, the accumulated chaos on earth is
lessened each time 2 people sincerely talk, and together they might create a
message all fellow-citizens can& may consider.
Hey buddy
PRB: Shipbuilder, if anyone ever asks me, Phil
can you say you have friends, I will respond, "Yes. Contact Cleve Wright
and when you are convinced, I'll give you another friend's name."
So, I wanted to
expand on my 2-decades-old phrase "god-facing-death" and googled to
find Jesus' statement about it in the Bible. I thereby stumbled upon a
comprehensive article: ucg.
org/the-good-news/the-surprising-sayings-of-jesus-christ-you-are-gods.
The author, Tom
Robinson, did not mention Genesis 1:28, a 5,500 year-old political philosophy
coming from Sumer, from which Israel emerged 3,000 years ago. The Genesis-1
author understood the creator made female& male in "our" image.
Considering all that humankind has discovered in the recent 5,500 years, my
comprehension of V 1:28 is: female&male-human-being, you can& may
independently provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to the
earth.
I think that
infers that the infant who lives within practice, facilitation, and
encouragement to choose to be a human-being, can& may perfect their person
before ineluctable death. A person can discover this on their own, but that is
unlikely.
Another point that
Robinson overlooks is that the-god-facing-death can only practice integrity
during life, so the doctrine to live for resurrection may be flawed. It may be
that some church doctrine defies Jesus.
Phil
Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which
can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it
obviously does not work.
Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.
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