Saturday, February 26, 2022

Un-elect/fire public officials who claim civil-religion rather than civic-integrity

 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

Un-elect/fire public officials who claim civil-religion rather than civic-integrity

News

msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-york-lawyers-prosecuting-trump-resign-throwing-future-of-case-in-doubt

The prosecutor got the news from 2 vulnerable agents: Trump's lenders fear public disclosure of their collaboration on high real estate appraisals and the IRS fears public disclosure that they turned a blind eye to low real estate appraisals. Trump said during his campaign for President that he is expert at plying government-corrupted capital systems, so he is well qualified to restore public trust. I think he was correct.

True, it seems:  He was a playboy. But if a human-being cannot reform --- discover and adopt civic-integrity, none of us can qualify to vote.

Unfortunately, Trump chose a conservative Christian for running mate. That is, a Christian without the imagination to allow Jesus to judge whether a human-being observes the responsibility to constrain chaos on earth, as suggested in Genesis 1:28. Jesus reportedly claimed concurrence if not authorship, assuming he said, "Before Abraham was born I am". Pence would do himself a favor to move to another country, there to discover Jesus' opinion about Pence. 

If Trump runs again, may he choose a running mate with a record of civic-integrity more than civil-religion.
Regardless, I may not vote for Trump a 5th time.

Quora

quora.com/What-is-the-merit-of-bureaucracy? by VICENT MPONDI

Merriam-webster. com informs us bureaucracy means “government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority”. The U.S. bureaucracy proposed in 1787 seems worthy to establish rather than the corrupt Anglo-American tradition we suffer..

The Sumer civilization, in 5,500 year-old cuneiform records suggested, with a 2022 view, that female& male-human-being can& may, independent of other political power, constrain chaos on earth. See the 3,000 year-old colloquially-constructed interpretation in Genesis 1:28.

Human-beings who choose to constrain chaos on earth take charge to provide necessity& justice. They work to receive income with which to 1) sustain their chosen responsible-privacy, 2) provide public infrastructure, and 3) constrain dependent species, including fellow-citizens who choose to pursue dependency for life. The dependencies include sloth, crime, and tyranny. Necessity& justice require systems of imposed-constraint to practice, facilitate, and encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI). If a dependent citizen reforms to RHI, justice is served. Habitual-evil invites termination.

Necessity& justice require that most fellow-citizens, a nation, collectively earn income by continually increasing innovative supply of goods and services, in order to meet the needs of inhabitants, who increase in both number and in quality of life. Safety& security are essential to responsible human-development.

As much as possible national functions must be prioritized for human-kind survival, leaving responsible individual-development to private choice. In other words, civic-citizens choose their responsible intentions for life. First, there’s innovation to improve needed goods& services. Second, there’s reliable supply& delivery of necessary goods& services. Third, is quality of human enrichment: practice, education, facilitation, and encouragement to “ourselves and our Posterity” to take responsibility to discover unique-human perfection.

The management of the above 3 human functions, in a constitutional republic, is bureaucracy. In the U.S. republic, civic-citizens employ modified democracy to manage their state and the rule of law to manage the union of states; the nation. The state democracies are modified by multiple counties, each with s representative to local interests.

The U.S. preamble enumerates domestic discipline: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants. The bureaucracy can& must serve these U.S. intentions. That is, in the U.S., the hierarchy begins with “ourselves and our Posterity”: the civic-citizens of We the People of the United States.

As of 2022, past generations have accommodated 3 dependencies to take precedence over survival. First, the generations have developed appetite for adult, banal-satisfactions rather than for the self-interest of civic-integrity. We see this in the insatiable appetite for entertainment and the high premiums placed on gratification for the moment. The super-bowl is annually forgettable, and the half-time-shows increasingly salacious. They say it’s what the people want, but I don’t think so. Second, inhabitants accommodate 100%-premium salaries to bureaucrats. Third, most citizens wait for their God to relieve their descendants of $ 30.1 trillion U.S. debt and climbing. That’s $7.52 million to each of this years’ newborn babies.

The existing path to U.S. ruin need not be accommodated. We, the 2022 We the People of the United States, can& may establish constraint on U.S. bureaucracy. Constraint starts at the top: the people.

quora.com/In-intelligent-parlance-what-is-information? by Leonilo Lacbayen Jr

Merriam-webster. com opines that knowledge is “the sum of what is known”. Compare their “truth”: “the body of true statements and propositions’. It seems lies& speculation are included in “what is known” even though excluded from “true statements”. On the other hand, identification of a lie is the truth regarding that lie.

Thus, human-being can share the knowledge that neither freedom nor liberty can be warranted by any government or God. However, each human-being can& may practice independence.

For example, no human-being can “witness for” Jesus, a mysterious human construct. Only Jesus might opine that a person takes Jesus’ suggestions to consideration, intention, and practice.

How many human-beings constrain chaos in their way of living, in order to pursue perfection of their unique person, as Jesus perhaps suggested in Genesis 1:28?

quora.com/In-your-opinion-which-form-of-government-is-the-best-to-strive-for-and-why? by Alice

The representative republic that the 1787 U.S. Constitution demands, with a couple improvements, could& may promote an achievable better future.

My response begins with 3 old/ancient, promising documents.

First, about 5,500 years ago, Sumer suggested a political philosophy: Female& male-human-being can and may independently constrain chaos on earth. That is, there is no other higher authority to manage life in the factual reality of physics& progeny. The progeny include mathematics, biology, psychology, imagination, etc.

I call constraining chaos on earth “responsible-human-independence” (RHI), the hyphens to beg the reader not to separate one word from the expression. Hebrew scholars recorded the suggestion 3,000 years ago with personal vernacular in Genesis 1:28.

Second, the 1774 Continental Congress, in 1776 declared the above authority, also expressed by Agathon 2,500 years ago in his speech in Plato’s “Symposium” and I guess by other thinkers. They rebuked John Locke’s claim that as a property of the-God, a human-being cannot be governed.

Negotiating with France to join the USA war against England, the 13 colonies suffered the freedom that England extoled and the liberty France imposed, yet won independence as global states. (Today, we, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of the U.S. can& may change the name of the statue in NY Harbor to “The Statue of Independence”.)

Third, Shays’ rebellion demonstrated that the free& independent states were not independent of domestic tyranny, so 12 states sent delegates to 1787 Philadelphia to strengthen states unity. The 55 delegates surveyed Western political philosophy and specified a republic with 5 domestic disciplines “in order to” practice, facilitate, and encourage RHI to “ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants who earn citizenship. For their reasons, 16 delegates did not sign, so only 39 delegates proposed the 1787 U.S. Constitution. It promised the states a republican form of government and contained provisions to prevent democracy, well known a wrongful politics.

A few Constitutional improvements are needed. The preamble can& may lose the word “liberty” to “independence”. The First Amendment can& may be amended so as to practice, facilitate, and encourage civic-integrity rather than civil-religion. The Supreme Court can& may discover using the-ineluctable-evidence rather than opine based on obsolete precedence. “Ourselves and our Posterity” can& may require Congress and the Supreme Court to uphold the 1787 Constitution, especially when conflicted by Anglo-American English-precedent. Finally, tax and other favor to philanthropists including churches can& may be terminated, because it empowers legislation without representation.

Most importantly, the license to vote or to serve in government can& may be denied citizens who demonstrate opposition to the RHI or better that is expressed in the 1787 Constitution and its preamble.

The 1787-intended U.S. republic is the best form of government, primarily because it intends the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity” to continually amend the law so as to approach necessity& justice.

Updated this afternoon for clarity.

To Alice:

RHI, responsible-human-independence, is not a political party. It’s a way of living that can& may be developed by a society, a nation, a civilization, or humankind itself.

It’s predicated on 5 principals.

First, most mature human-beings want, during their lives, to accomplish the-good. They discover that neither the-God nor government can usurp their opportunity to develop the required civic-integrity. In self-interest to the-good, they adopt RHI, a practice by civic-citizens.

Second, there will always be persons who prefer a dependency, such as indolence, crime, or tyranny. Therefore, the civic-citizens must earn enough to fund their lifestyle, civil infrastructure, and the justice system required to constrain dependents and facilitate their reform.

Third, while 3 documents, namely, Genesis 1, the 1776 declaration of war against England, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution propose an RHI-culture, one has never been initiated. The 1789 Congress reinstated Anglo-American tradition as Blackstone legal precedent and factional-American Protestant-Christianity, now fading.

Fourth, we, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2022 can reform to 1787 U.S. intentions by educating the nation’s youth to develop themselves as human-beings. The human-being can& may develop body, mind, and person, in order to approach unique perfection before death. The mature person has humility, humor, appreciation, intentions, and accomplishments.

Fifth, parents can require Education Departments to practice, facilitate, and encourage children ages 3-7 to comprehend the power of being a human-being; ages 8-13 to comprehend the power of monogamy for life in families with female& male spouse and 4 pairs of grandparents; ages 13-21 to acquire the comprehension& intention to live a complete human life; and ages 22-30 that career is a vehicle for earning the opportunity to develop their person.

It’s shocking that such reform is needed in 2022. However, the U.S. debt of $ 30.2 trillion is $7.5 million to each 2022 newborn. It’s astounding that today’s adults accommodate ruination of their children’s future.

I am glad RHI is proposed in 2022, as suggested 5,500 years ago. Starting the U.S. reform will disclose how quickly it can be accomplished.

The light of reform to civic-integrity will excite now dependent U.S. citizens to change. The tyrants in Congress, the Supreme Court, the administration, the regulators, and the media may either reform or seek new employment. One of the keys to RHI is that it accepts that there will always be sloth, crime, and tyranny, and that they can& may be constrained by a civic-people.

 

quora.com/What-constitutes-something-as-wrong? by Vexin Dude

Factual reality conforms to the laws of physics& progeny, including mathematics, chemistry, biology, psychology, imagination, and everything else.

Statistical anomalies do not change the laws. The human-being is the only species that can& may choose to conform to the laws of physics. To attempt to defy physics is wrong.

For example, the person who claims they witness for Jesus yet do not practice Genesis 1:28 are wrong. Jesus claimed “Before Abraham I am”, which implies he endorses or authors the suggestion that humankind can& may provide order and prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth.

quora.com/What-is-an-example-of-organized-irrationalism-as-in-this-quote-from-Stephan-Jay-Gould-Skepticism-is-the-agent-of-reason-against-organized-irrationalism-and-is-therefore-one-of-the-keys-to-human-social-and-civic? by Caleb Radićh

I am ever grateful to you, Mr. Radićh, for introducing me to this poem at this time, age 78 rather than perhaps 48, when I first read “The Prophet”. I express gratitude on my “appreciations” post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

To your question, I quote the poem, “Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff” and answer you that Gibran expresses freedom as voluntary enslavement.

I think he expresses and you rhetorically suggest that accepting external constraints and releasing internal wishes restores the “fettered” independence a human-infant received.

Gibran completes his thought in “. . . your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom”, yet leaves the “greater” mystery.

I think Gibran is suggesting what I call responsible-human-independence (RHI), which is constrained only by physics& its-progeny, including mathematics, chemistry, biology, psychology, imagination, and everything else. In RHI, the civic-citizen chooses to earn their way of living plus taxes for infrastructures including the system to maintain statutory justice in necessity.

Furthermore, “truth” is no mystery when the intention is to discover the-ineluctable-truth. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster. com. My Sunday-school class, Nomads, is studying light, and I will mention your focus and a Gibran quote to them.

quora.com/How-is-individual-identity-shaped-by-collective-knowledge-1? by Peter Coultas

Humankind knows that they can& may independently constrain chaos on earth. Some people develop the self-interest to live that way. Others choose indolence, crime, tyranny and worse. As a person behaves they may become subject to constraint based on the collective awareness of personal-choice.

quora.com/What-is-an-example-of-organized-irrationalism-as-in-this-quote-from-Stephan-Jay-Gould-Skepticism-is-the-agent-of-reason-against-organized-irrationalism-and-is-therefore-one-of-the-keys-to-human-social-and-civic? by Barbara Young Capalbo

I wish I knew what Gould meant by “civic decency”. I use “civic” to mean mutual fidelity in human transactions& connections more than observance of civil rules.

Also, I don’t know “organized irrationalism”. Perhaps it means systematically thinking negatively to imagine a positive argument.

Take for example the case of the New York AG pursuing Donald Trump’s real estate loan applications and tax filings. During my first decision to vote for Trump (I was one of the 14 million who made it possible for the U.S. to elect him President) I was impressed that he unabashedly claimed he is an expert at legally using the corrupt system and asked whose better to clean it up? I think he delivered.

The hot news this week is that he and his children will be called into court to answer how they arrived at high values for loan applications and low values for tax reporting.

In my organized irrationalism, the corrupt system is on trial. The Trumps will be exposing a corrupt government that supports celebrity entrepreneurs in picking the people’s pockets and corrupt lenders who support celebrities in picking the people’s pockets. Civic-citizens can cheer for guilty lending and taxing officials to be discovered and prosecuted.

Already, by choosing a conservative-Christian running mate (much to my chagrin even in the primaries), Trump exposed Christianity’s corruption. A Sumerian suggestion reported in Genesis 1:28 --- human-being can& may constrain chaos on earth seems attributed to Jesus on the report that he said “Before Abraham was born I am”. Also, Jesus suggested aiding the civil command.

No human-being can witness for Jesus, much as they may claim to. Pence refused the U.S. Commander-in-Chief on January 6, 2021, after discounting Jesus’s opinion as to presence in Pence’s heart, on January 4, 2021. Under human social decency, Pence would do well to retire from the U.S. political scene.

The corruption of the Trump/Pence ticket has soured my will to vote for Trump a fifth time. I hope he rekindles my consideration but doubt he can. (I know he was a playboy. However, if society cannot allow a person to mature, there is no hope for even one of us.)

quora.com/Do-you-agree-with-the-statement-that-only-an-intelligent-being-can-be-truly-free? by Ivan Lara

No. Every human being is constrained by physics& its progeny. Further, sloth, crime, and tyranny constrain humankind.

However, each human being can& may constrain chaos in their way of living. For example, civic-citizens manage economic constraints by earning enough to pay their way of living plus the cost of infrastructure including legal systems to pursue necessity& justice in constraining sloth, crime, and tyranny. Here, “civic” implies fidelity in human connections& transactions more than adherence to civil rules.

The society that practices, facilitates, and encourages these principles promotes responsible-human-independence (RHI), fully aware that neither the-God nor government can impose freedom when each person can& may choose RHI.

quora.com/Is-being-a-smart-aleck-or-talking-back-to-your-parents-a-part-of-your-freedom-of-speech? by William Smith

Mr. Smith, I express gratitude for your question in the “appreciations” post at promotetheperamble.blogspot.com.

Not to attack society, rather to propose an achievable better future, the civil notion of “obedience” to elders rather than civic collaboration with youth is at the heart of your concern.

There are several points to consider, 4 directly pertinent:

First, while a foal can become a thoroughbred in 3 years, it takes a newborn person a quarter century to acquire the comprehension& intention to develop a human-being and couple more quarter centuries to develop psychological maturity.

Second, leaving the theism out to emphasize necessity& justice, Kahil Gibran expresses in “On Children” that we can try to mimic them: however, the march of time will not allow us to force them to be like us.

Third, the civic-citizens neither initiates nor accommodates harm/injury to-or-from any person or association. The adult who fails to do all they can do for a child accommodates harm.

Fourth, a civic culture practices, facilitates, and encourages personal intentions& accomplishments to the-good and toward perfection of each unique human-being.

Thus, parents who consider their infant a person whom they created/adopted and with whom to initiate the development of a human being find it a self-interested pleasure to consider the child’s every concern and respond with the world’s best aid.

On another note, many parents are at a disadvantage, because they are not yet psychologically mature. That’s why grandparents (perhaps 4) and great-grandparents (perhaps 8) are so essential to family.

As time marches on, the current working-adult’s skills are already obsolete. The 2022 chaos may make that clear to society and motivate reform for the next 10,000 year-era --- a reset larger in vision than racism, gender technology, over population, biological warfare, domestic tyranny, and invasion.

quora.com/Why-is-there-a-need-to-involve-ourselves-with-community-action? by Erica Agbay

I suspect by “community action” you mean Alinsky-Marxist organizers’ (AMO) public disruptions. They’re to be avoided like COVID19. There’s no need to be an AMO soldier.

Necessity& justice demand that the human individual constrain chaos in their way of living. Otherwise, they forfeit their one-time opportunity, power, energy, and authority to discover& develop their person’s intentions& achievements.

I know of no culture that teaches these principles to their youth. However, the 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers such a nation. It is amendable by the people and its purpose is 5 domestic disciplines “in order to” establish and maintain responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants.

There are no standards for the 5 disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity; successive generations are empowered to improve the law when injustice is discovered. Religion, such as AMO justifications for civic-violence is not included in the disciplines.

Only civic-citizens can reform the accommodation of tyranny that the U.S. has suffered since Congress was seated in 1789 and began the process of re-establishing English precedent in both the law and by imposing civil religion.

The citizen has duty to self to be aware of their role in government: voting in their best interest.

quora.com/Can-you-differentiate-claims-of-facts-policy-and-value? by Bts Edits

My name is Phil, I practice responsible-human-independence for civic-integrity.

quora.com/What-is-the-explanation-of-this-statement-Journalism-does-not-pursue-truth-in-an-absolute-or-philosophical-sense-but-it-can-and-must-pursue-in-a-practical-sense? by Mystique Cover

I don’t understand your “truth”. Yet I want to present a statement regarding the practical can& may.

Necessity& justice demand that human-being discover how to constrain chaos on earth. As inhabitance swells, proportional mistakes cost more lives. Consequently, it is important not to repeat political mistakes.

The journal of discovery is somewhat recorded by accomplishments.

Inclusive research literature adequately records discovery of the-ineluctable-evidence in physics& and its progeny --- mathematics, chemistry, biology, psychology, etc. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster. com.

But political history is lacking. The end of the last ice age marked the emergence of civilization, about 11,000 years ago. Sumer developed laws recorded in cuneiform perhaps 5,500 years ago. Elite persons were buried with their servants to assist elite souls. Nevertheless, their political philosophers suggested that human-being can& may, independent of the Gods, constrain chaos on earth (Genesis 1:28). About 3,700 years ago, Terah left Ur with son Abram (to be Abraham) to establish a God that would accept animal sacrifice rather than human sacrifice. Abraham increased chaos, spawning at least 4 cultures. About 2,000 years ago, a culture claimed one man was sacrificed to atone for every believing soul. About 235 years ago, framers, then signers of the U.S. Constitution proposed a republic with 5 domestic disciplines, assigning soul-salvation to privacy. However, Congress, in 1791 restored factional-American-Protestantism --- soul salvation by the grace of God in his son, Jesus. Perhaps 5 soul mysteries cover 70% of the world’s population.

In 1861, America suffered a Civil War, because Christian ministers in the south preached the evil of slave emancipation before God’s plan for black-people’s salvation had played out. See encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/letter-from-robert-e-lee-to-mary-randolph-custis-lee-december-27-1856 and humanitiestexas.org/sites/default/files/page-attachment/Feller_Efforts%20to%20Compromise.pdf, in both cases toward the end of the document. Can such civic folly be driven by anything but fear for the mysterious soul? Was R.E. Lee dedicated to his Protestant ministers at the expense of his family? He had 5 years during Bleeding Kansas to sell everything and move to a non-slave state. Today’s U.S. citizens are being subjected to Civil War talk by sensational writers for the media.

History is unreliable, because ten witnesses to the same event produce ten opinions. It is the journalist’s job to discover and publish the big picture, such as this soul-mystery saga, so as to prevent catastrophic-error repetition.

Today’s writers for the media are aiding if not creating divergent chaos.

quora.com/Why-does-the-left-have-so-much-trouble-understanding-how-freedom-and-liberty-from-the-government-work? by Ted Baiamonte

Necessity& justice make it plain that civic-integrity requires responsible-human-independence (RHI). However, the U.S. government imposes legislative and judicial religious freedom, bemusing the people from RHI. No higher power can usurp the individual’s opportunity to constrain chaos in their way of living. Consequently, after 231 years under Congress’s factional-American Protestantism, morphed to the late Judeo-Christianity and now trying Judeo-Catholicism in the Supreme Court.

We, the civic-people of the United States, whether Christian or not, can end the Congressional freedom of religion by amending the First Amendment so as to protect civic-integrity rather than civil-religion.

quora.com/Is-economic-freedom-a-tool-for-prosperity-or-is-it-the-end-game? by Sara Alsh

Without doubt, I assert that income sufficient to support responsible-human-independence in civic-integrity, in order to pursue the responsible-happiness you perceive and pay taxes-due is conservatism at its best.

It takes the human-being a quarter century of intentional learning to acquire the comprehension& intention to choose a starting career during which they may practice, facilitate, and encourage civic living in self-interest. Errors hone intentions to constrain chaos in personal ways of living and aid discovery of unique intentions to achieve.

During a couple service quarter centuries, changing careers so as to fulfill chosen intentions might be expected. The service years are for self-discovery rather than to build wealth.

The last quarter century is for facilitating and encouraging human-beings.

quora.com/Which-better-defines-your-family-relationship-individualistic-or-collectivist-Why-do-you-say-so? by Diona Gwenn Reyes

Individually we are separate body, mind, intentions, and achievements. Collectively we are a family. Our next celebration will be my wife’s 81st birthday. My wife of 52 years has always been the stable, socially astute spouse. I am the clumsy worker and bill payer. We are both dreamers and managed to coordinate our dreams, so far. She is the best companion, enjoying every event with quick, dry wit. Each of our 3 children is a person, with their own dreams, intentions, and achievements. I say this, because each one expresses independence and togetherness.

Our son died at age 19 in an auto accident. It ruined our lives but will not ruin our persons.

Facebook

facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7, Feb 19

I think I see a central flaw in Romano's experiences& observations: "People who label you as the problem for bringing awareness to a problem, who are unwilling to address the problem will NEVER be able to clear the problems."

Maybe Winston Churchill really said: never; never; never give up on a fellow-citizen of the world.

Fellow-citizens have unique genes, memes, preferences, intentions, and accomplishments. Civic-citizens mutually appreciate as each is and where each is on their path to the-good.

One may try, but cannot advise the other to accelerate their progress or revise their direction. They can only express their thoughts without requirement that the other assess them. The other cannot assess a thought they do not have.

Romano seems to think "STUCK in relationships" means stonewalling anyone who disagrees. I disagree.

facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7, Feb 18

Invading Afghanistan set Russia back a couple decades. Lesson learned? Perhaps China funds this invasion. Maybe Ukraine will bankrupt both Russia and China.

Meanwhile, let's pay our U.S. debt, which just surpassed $30.2 trillion.

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.

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Accept soul mystery in civic humility

 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

Accept soul mystery in civic integrity

Since civilization got underway, some cultures have developed soul mystery and diverse doctrine for its salvation. Consequently, many fellow-citizens live to merit heaven. Their concern is so consuming they miss their opportunity, their power, their energy, and their authority to develop intentions to accomplishments by their unique person, perhaps unto perfection before dying.

We, the civic-citizens of 2022 can end the accommodation of self-tyranny by 1) confidently accepting a personal trust-in and commitment-to a soul-salvation doctrine or none and 2) developing the responsible-human-independence (RHI) by which to always choose the necessary& just action during every moment of life.

The civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates harm/injury to-or-from any person or association. In necessity& justice, they constrain dependent fellow citizens, whether the irresponsibility is indolence, crime, tyranny, or worse. The civic-citizen is mutually appreciated whether they hope for heaven or not.

Quora

quora.com/Has-tyranny-historically-been-built-plank-by-plank-a-little-at-a-time? by Marc Bloemers

I think tyranny is accommodated by the people in their culture, or the little in the plank.

In history the individual and their community fears the unknowns of their era and don’t instill in their posterity the serene-confidence to behave anyway.

In pre-history, every unknown power or influence was a spirit from another world. Many cultures had a sun God. Some thought death from overexposure implied the God wanted human bodies, so they developed sacrifice to appease the God. When they realized their bargains did not benefit them, they stopped regarding the sun a God, and developed another God. In other words, God theories never stopped.

At least 10,000 years ago, Sumer developed a system of Gods and by 5,500 years ago a creation story involving a minor God and mud to produce human-soul. Royalty had eternal life upon death, and servants were sacrificed to accompany them.

About 3 thousand years later, a scholar reported the Sumer political philosophy, changing the God of creation to “the Lord God” and suggesting that female& male-human being can& may independently constrain chaos on earth; see Genesis 1:28. The “spirit of God” was there, hovering over the deep (Genesis 1:2). Observance of the law merited heaven in the afterdeath.

Another culture developed a World Soul with emissaries sent to Earth for reincarnation until perfection to rejoin the World Soul.

Another culture develop merit for heaven on submission to God.

Another culture developed grace through Jesus as merit for heaven.

Covering at least 70% of 2022 earth-inhabitance we have 5 avenues for salvation of the soul: non-Sumer, wealth/royalty, civil obedience, submission to God, and grace. Additionally, some cultures developed ways of living that did not involve soul-mystery, unjustifiably labeled “secular”.

Resolving the humankind constructs of the mystery of soul is neither essential nor prudent. Tyranny follows a similar pattern of neglecting necessity& justice in order to develop “hope”.

Rejection of the responsible-human-independence (RHI) suggested in Genesis 1:28 marks a second major accommodation of chaos, the first being early, widespread failure to recognize that discovering the laws of physics& its progeny (math, chemistry, biology, psychology; everything) is essential to human progress.

About 3,700 years ago, Terah left Sumer and founded a new culture on animal sacrifice instead of human sacrifice (incidentally re-defining God). His son, Abraham, through marital chaos, begot Judaism and Islam, leaving non-believers; 3 spiritual pursuits, each of which sub-divided.

In Africa, 1700 years ago, Ethiopian Judaism spawned the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church, with the world’s largest if not oldest Bible canon. And in the west, the Churches canonized various Bibles. The Protestant canon came 490 years ago.

Civilizations used monism to increase chaos since the Sumer political philosophy was known, not as RHI, but the same in their vernacular. From human sacrifice to animal sacrifice to Jesus’s sacrifice. Today, there are 45,000 sects derived from Abraham’s descendants. Where does modern tyranny against Genesis 1:28-RHI come from?

About 1,700 years ago, Christian Churches canonized anti-Sematic books that have been a curse to humankind ever since. Only 570 years ago, papal bulls “authorized” African slave trade to assist Portuguese colonization of the east American continent and 50 years later to Spain for the west Americas. And 248 years ago, USA founders intended to free the slaves in concert with their independence but lost hope during war for their own independence. Yet 13 years later, framers created a Constitution and preamble for lawfully emancipating U.S. slaves a soon as the non-slave state ratio turned positive. When it did, erroneous Christian opinion in the South motivated elites to fire on the United States! See encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/letter-from-robert-e-lee-to-mary-randolph-custis-lee-december-27-1856 and focus on the section mentioning “evil”. About a hundred years later, a preacher, M.L. King, Jr., saw the chance to appeal for a retribution check. In 2022, global elites are using the COVID19 biological war to usher in “the Great Reset”. See Michael Rectenwald.

It is past time for the individual to happily accept salvation of the mysterious soul by whatever responsible doctrine they trust, in order to constrain chaos in their way of living. With 2/3 of citizens in a nation accepting RHI for living, the elites therein will have no choice but to reform to personal RHI. With most of the world’s nations so led by their people, the Great Reset may have an early death.

As long as the human-being believes they can persuade their God to usurp the responsibility suggested in Genesis 1:28, we will continue to prove both that the-God cannot be controlled by the people and that elites take advantage of personal neglect.

RHI is in the individual’s self-interest and humankind benefits when 2/3 of fellow-citizens practice, facilitate, and encourage it. The little is essential to the plank.

quora.com/Did-the-founders-of-the-constitution-put-more-responsibility-on-the-citizens-to-keep-its-principles-than-the-government? by Marc Bloemers

I think so.

First, let me express my view about “founders”. It is a term scholars have employed for self-promotion (high salaries and book revenues). “Founders” gathered in 1774 to take advantage of France’s opposition to England developing control of N. America. Spain helped fund the opposition.

In 1787, the political consequences of the France-Spain-USA victory in the war against England for USA independence as 13 free& independent states fell on 55 delegates from 12 states to a convention in Philadelphia, ostensibly intended to strengthen the Congress the founders had created. However, the Virginia delegation arrived with the intention to create a nation, and the 55 delegates became framers of the U.S. Constitution. The founders had been retired. The framers surveyed Western political thought to consider, judge, and improve the Virginia plan. Some of the framers withdrew for their reasons, and only 39 delegates signed the 1787 Constitution.

While I appreciate the 1774 founders and the 1787 framers, I am most grateful to the 1787 signers. The significance is that the intentions-sentence in the preamble did not exist until 5 days before the signing. I speculate that a handful of the 16 non-signers adamantly opposed the stated intentions. In the comprehension I earned, the preamble asserts:  The civic-faction 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 “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants; civic refers to mutual fidelity in human connections& transactions.

The perhaps 12 generations since 1787 have allowed attitudes about salvation of the soul to erode regard for life, and the consequence is divergent chaos in 2022. Freedom of religion to Congress was imposed in 1791’s First Amendment, and it dominates U.S. legislation as well as adjudication. Civic-citizens can& may accept salvation of their souls according to personal comprehension, whether it be through an institutional doctrine or their own pursuit. By putting the mysterious soul-concern to rest, fellow-citizens can then focus on U.S. intentions: RHI to the individual.

Every human-being can& may constrain chaos in their way of living so as to facilitate& encourage the government to practice RHI.

quora.com/unanswered/Does-the-constitution-possibly-have-the-most-safeguards-to-protect-the-individual-freedom-and-liberty-of-the-people-throughout-history? by Marc Bloemers

Mr. Bloemers, I appreciate your creativity and express gratitude in the “appreciations” post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

No. The 2022 U.S. Constitution safeguards English precedent and colonial, Anglo-American tradition. Freedom-from government tyranny and license-to liberty are a propaganda from European, primarily English versus French debate, during the enlightenment. The erroneous-conservation debate is well expressed by John Locke in “Two Treatises of Government” (1690). Locke was a Calvinist turned Deist, I think, so his theism is involved.

Locke’s premise was that the human-being is God’s property and by necessity& justice neither a person nor an institution can lessen the individual: “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”. Further, a person ”cannot subject [self] to the arbitrary power of another; and having in the state of nature no arbitrary power over the life, liberty, or possession of another [, legislative power] is limited to the public good of the society”.

The 1774 “founders” rebuked Locke by, in 1776, changing his phrase to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, for reasons I have not discovered. That government cannot warrant life, liberty, and happiness is obvious. They also rebuked the English Church by claiming authority from “Nature’s God” rather than from the Trinity. I speculate that their boldness was grounded in negotiations with France to aid termination of England’s dominance on the eastern seaboard of the “New World”.

France joined the war for USA independence in 1778. France had conducted the Seven Years War (1756-1763), locally the French& Indian War, to resist English dominance in America. France provided the war strategy and military dominance at Yorktown, VA in 1781’s defeat of England: Cornwallis’s surrender.

The French debate, especially the slogan “Liberty” dominates the USA mind in 2022 and together with Locke-conservatism, represses responsible-human-independence (RHI). RHI enabled the settlers, beginning in Virginia in 1606, to overcome astounding resistance to their desire to pursue the happiness they perceived rather than submit to European elites’ plans for them. Regrettably, they depended on obligations to European colonialist entrepreneurs. They enslaved settlers personally and defaulted them to manage African slaves The English dominated purchases through traders for African kings to provide labor for the agrarian wealth-enterprises.

Wonderfully, the 55 delegates to Philadelphia surveyed Western political thought and incidentally specified a republic. Uniquely, the law is amendable by informed citizens under 5 specified domestic disciplines holding religious choice a private matter. The five disciplines are integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity “in order to” practice, facilitate, and encourage RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants. Only 39 delegates signed the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

Unfortunately, domestic Tories dominated the state ratification process and the nine required states agreed to mimic the 1689 English Bill of Rights. The First Amendment (1971) imposes freedom of religion to Congress, and since 1791 the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld the tyranny. The 2022 Justices seem Judeo-Catholic – a worldly influence rather than a U.S. defender and by all measures not a proponent of RHI.

We, the 2022 civic-citizens of We the People of the United States can& may end 231 years of constitutional tyranny by amending the First Amendment so as to promote civic-integrity rather than civil-religion. Civic means fidelity in human connections& transactions and requires RHI. Meanwhile, we can& may demand that elected and appointed officials reform to RHI.

I read& write to learn and would appreciate comments.

quora.com/Is-it-valid-to-argue-with-normative-statements? by Straelli

I comprehend that “normative” expresses an opinion whereas “positive” states the-fact. For example, to determine criminal guilt, U.S. trials must require unanimous jury verdicts: majority jury verdicts lessen criminal favor. Stated another way, in criminal trials, states must provide unanimous juries: states must provide impartial juries.

Arguments can& may be based on the-ineluctable-truth. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster. com. The-ineluctable-truth yields not to evaluation or opinion.

Often, the-ineluctable-truth is unknown. The positive argument is “We don’t know”. No action should be taken. However, if necessity demands justice, prepare the required defense and activate under attack.

I present the argument that a human-being can& may constrain chaos in their way of living. I perceive this is a positive statement (but could be wrong). First, I am stating the fact of personal choice to either constrain or allow chaos. Second, I am leaving it to the person to assess chaos.

I read and write to learn and would appreciate comments.

quora.com/What-is-the-deciding-line-between-a-person-who-can-make-choices-for-themselves-and-for-that-choice-to-be-decided-by-other-people-When-does-that-person-stop-having-freedom-of-choice? by Graham C Lindsay

A person can& may observe that civic-necessity requires justice, and, in self-interest, neither initiate nor accommodate harm/injury to-or-from any person or association. The moment a person acts unjustly, they invite restraint. Habitual infidelity is terminal to human being.

Necessity is a matter of physics and has nothing to do with religion’s mystery, a private rather than civic choice. “Civic” addresses reliability in human connections& transactions. For example, economics demands that each person choose to earn their way of living plus pay taxes to preserve necessity& justice. Those who do not earn are dependents, one way or another: fated incapability, indolence, crime, or tyranny.

 

Every person who individually accepts the opportunity, the power, the energy, and the authority to, within their first quarter century, comprehend& and intend to develop a complete, unique human-being before body, mind, intentions, and achievements cease, may perfect their unique human-being.

 

quora.com/Is-there-a-sustainable-alternative-to-meritocracy? by Liezl Cayanan

I think so. There’s responsible-human-independence (RHI).

Merriam-webster .com tells us meritocracy is “a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit.” This is an ideal society that depends on meritorious evaluators. I don’t expect them.

In RHI, first, the individual constrains chaos in their way of living. That means they earn enough to pay for the lifestyle that responsibly fulfills the happiness they want rather than the dictates of another. Additionally, they pay taxes in order to provide safety& security for domestic living. That includes the cost to constrain dependents, whether by sloth, crime, or tyranny.

Second, the RHI-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates harm/injury to-or-from any person or association.

quora.com/Are-there-moral-standard-procedures-to-pursuing-justice? by Kenneth Chukwuka

I’m thinking of 2.

First, neither initiate nor accommodate harm to-or-from any person or association. Appreciatively caution your neighbor if you perceive the plan or are enacting error. If necessary, call first responders.

Second, constrain chaos in your way of living.

 

quora.com/If-your-country-has-a-constitution-what-do-you-think-is-the-most-important-principle-and-why? by Mike Wilson

The U.S. Constitution is amendable by the people, difficult as the action may be.

This is my opinion; otherwise “ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants would be bound to British tradition and legal precedent.

So far, U.S. intentions have been regressed to “Anglo-American tradition” keeping the 1787-proffered purpose yet to be established. The preamble specifies 5 domestic disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” practice, facilitate, and encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity”, assigning religion/spirituality to privacy. There are no standards.

The “ourselves” generation cannot foresee the future and therefore strive to prepare posterity to advance civic-integrity. By discovering bad laws and reforming to statutory justice, a RHI-culture can& may promote RHI rather than the divergent chaos we are experiencing.

We, the civic-faction of We the People of the United States can& may get started in 2022 by amending the First Amendment so as to promote civic-integrity rather than civil-religion.

quora.com/Why-are-our-global-regimes-applying-a-degenerate-philosophy-for-our-societies-For-instance-appointing-illiterate-people-to-be-the-icons? by Wissam M Tahir

Because we accommodate the tyranny and pass on to our children, grandchildren, and future descendants the debt burden for adult satisfaction.

We, the 2022 “ourselves and our Posterity” can& may put a stop to U.S. tyranny.

quora.com/How-do-you-balance-maintaining-individuality-while-also-developing-peace-making-tactics-for-world-cohesion? by E Bow

If I have nothing to offer, I remain silent. If I think I have something to offer, I speak humbly yet firmly and briefly as possible.

My practice is to neither initiate nor accommodate harm to-or-from any person or association.

For example, my Sunday school class last discussed Acts 9. I pointed out that the text is replete with anti-Semitism and that we civic-citizens need to guard against the harm& chaos it causes.

That’s stated in the continuity that I do not know the-ineluctable-truth and therefore only speak opinion. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted” (merriam-webster. com).

These practices come from the civic necessity& justice that is suggested in Genesis 1:28.

quora.com/Is-liberty-an-invented-concept? by Jaden Riding

Mr. Riding, that’s a creative question.

       MW opines usage as follows: “the quality or state of being free”, as in “the power to do as one pleases, freedom from physical restraint, freedom from arbitrary or despotic control, the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges, or the power of choice”.

      Too often “freedom” is employed to explain. Physics restrains us whether we like it or not. Control is despotism. Rights and privileges are bestowed by the winner in war. Fellow citizens prevent “do as you please”. Choice is constrained by necessity& justice. It seems all the definitions have flaws in appreciation of factual reality.

      I think you are correct. “Liberty” seems a human-construct. Under this analysis, “freedom” is no better.

      Where does that leave us? What do you suggest?

 

quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-strongest-argument-against-partiality-in-ethics-Can-Confucianism-ever-overcome-it-Why-or-why-not? by Kin Hawk

Necessity& justice demand that the civic-citizen neither initiate nor accommodate harm/injury to-or-from any person or association. Partiality to one party, by definition, lessens the other.

For example the citizen who is licensed to vote even though they are alien to U.S. intentions, stated in the 1787 Constitution, enjoys the opportunity to pick the civic-citizen’s pocket.

My opinion comes from Western political philosophy. I have not studied Confucianism.

quora.com/Does-the-existence-of-global-cities-threaten-the-principle-of-equality? by Pleas Answer This Right Away

No. But managing global cities and nations for equality threatens human-beings – both individually and collectively, as 2022’s chaos shows. The individual human-being can& may perfect their body, mind, intentions, and living.

The Sumer culture, 10 thousand years ago, evolved the political philosophy that female& male-human-being can& may independently provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth. The suggestion is recorded in 3-thousand-year-old-art, in Genesis 1:28. It hasn’t happened.

Since then, most civilizations construct a “higher power”, intended to usurp the human-duty to provide peace on earth. Each individual has the opportunity, the power, the energy, and the authority to develop civic-integrity by which they may practice, facilitate, & encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI). Elites promote freedom& liberty to bemuse people from RHI.

In an RHI-culture, the individual constrains chaos in their personal way of living. They neither initiate nor accommodate harm/injury to-or-from any person or association. They work to fund their lifestyle as well as the cost to constrain fellow-citizens who prefer dependency rather than RHI -- whether the dependency be sloth, crime, tyranny, or worse.

To my knowledge, such a culture was preferred only once on earth. The proposal was defeated by political dominance to restore colonial-English-French-American traditions of freedom bestowed by the winner in war, liberty licensed by the authority, and the spirit of Protestantism – in short, Anglo-American tradition. The dominant politicians regressed RHI.

The 1787 U.S. Constitution proposes a republic with 5 domestic disciplines – integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” establish& maintain RHI to “ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants. There are no standards of performance, because each adult generation knows not what powerful goodness the next generation will need. There is no religion, because no religion offers the-ineluctable-truth. However, the intent is dynamic-responsibility to increase statutory-justice, with Constitutional-amendment to journal progress to the-good.

This unique nation was founded on the independence made possible by “discovery” in a land occupied by warring-tribes, each defending their part of the continent. The “invaders” were motivated to overcome any resistance or obstacle to their way of living -- “higher authorities” both physical and metaphysical, imposing lessened vision for the colonists’ happiness -- whether the authority be church, state, or wilderness. In the struggle for state dominance, France and Spain aided the colonists to win independence from Britain. But alas, dominant Anglo-American politicians regressed colonists’ intentions by imposing British-traditions and the 1791 U.S.-mimic of the 1689 English Bill of Rights.

The consequences of 235 years English-law-precedence over the 1787 Constitution with the late& fading Judeo-Christian dominance, is decaying major cities, sex& anarchy celebration at the Super-Bowl, state-mandates to empower crisis-vultures like COVID entrepreneurs, world-wide invasion threats, and $7.5 million U.S. debt on each of the 4 thousand/year newborn-U.S.-citizens; with stagnating birthrate, the debt/newborn will continue to increase. Unwitting illegal immigrants will either suffer or decide to leave when the debt comes due. These outcomes were not the intentions still stated in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. We, the 2022 “ourselves and our Posterity” can& may stop the divergent chaos.

We, the civic-faction of We the People of the United States, need not continue accommodating the waste of the world’s best hope: RHI. We can demand that no citizen can vote if they do not own& practice their comprehension of the amendable 1787 Constitution and its civic contract. Moreover, government officials who do not qualify to vote can& may be fired and unelected. The First Amendment can& may be reformed so as to promote civic-integrity rather than religion. Supreme Court rules can& may be changed, in order to uphold the preamble to the U.S. Constitution rather than wrongful-English-precedent and the consequential U.S. regulations. Education Departments (ED) can& may be reformed so as to facilitate in each child the personal intention to develop their unique perfection during their lifetime rather than ED working to “educate the workers we need”. Systems of national-revenue distribution can& may be reformed so that no person gains extreme wealth on the backs of civic-citizens, yet entrepreneurs receive domestic appreciation for the risks they take. This is only a start towards known, needed reform.

The proffered United States is great and so far neglected unto diverse chaos. So far, the people have neglected a suggestion inscribed in cuneiform perhaps 5500 years ago: each human-being can& may constrain chaos in their way of living.

quora.com/Why-should-people-have-freedom-of-speech-without-consequences? by Alex Rodriguez

Speakers cannot escape their statements. We know liars by their lies, and cannot learn the lies if we silence them.

quora.com/What-is-a-real-free-spirit-and-how-do-they-live-today? by Alexander Indianer

A real free spirit behaves with responsible-human-independence (RHI), in order to constrain chaos in their personal living. They are comfortable with their opinion about the mystery of soul. Serene-confidence empowers them to focus on necessity& justice in civic-connections& transactions.

It seems the mystery-of-soul is at the heart of humankind’s chaos in the year 2022. Most of the world’s population is bemused by the mystery. It need not be that way.

The Sumer civilization existed in Mesopotamia 10 thousand years ago (tya). In their polytheism, An was Lord of the Heavens. Cuneiform records from 5.5 tya speak of soul and depict creation of man by Enki. Sumerian priests sacrificed servants to royalty’s afterdeath. See ancient-origins.net/human-origins-religions/sumerian-seven-top-ranking-gods-sumerian-pantheon-007787 and ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/death-pit-of-ur-mesopotamia-0010297. A Sumerian philosopher suggested that female& male-human-being can& may independently provide order and prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth: nothing can usurp human-being’s responsibility to provide peace on earth. See Genesis 1:28.

About 3.9 tya, Terah left Ur with family including Abram, who became Abraham. When they settled, they substituted animal sacrifice for human sacrifice, in order to bargain with their-God for military and other political powers. They wrote of “the Lord God” in Genesis 2 rather than “God” in Genesis 1. Genesis 1 also speaks of God’s spirit. A branch of Abraham’s descendants became Israel, and their literature, especially Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel anticipate a Messianic Kingdom. Another branch perceives salvation through total submission to God. There remain the non-Abrahamic peoples.

In India, thoughts of the individual soul, atman, began 3.5 tya. Virtuous Souls enter immortality in the Supreme Soul, Brahman, on merit. The faithful approach God through divinities. See archive.org/details/AtmanInPreUpanisadicVedicLiterature. This apparent religion is often dubbed a philosophy.

About 2 tya, another Abrahamic branch asserted that Jesus died to save human souls. Supporting literature begins in Jewish literature with ancient ideas from the Sumer culture. The New Testament seems to assert that Jesus supplanted the Jewish Messiah. One side of the resulting Abrahamic-conflict is called anti-Semitism. The conflict could be alleviated by modern Jews accepting Jesus as the messiah for humankind rather than for a kingdom. But there’s another way.

Many follow-citizens, persuaded by one of the soul-mysteries, perceive they either work for merit or tolerate life in order to reach meritorious rewards in heaven. Others admit they have not the comprehension to choose a soul-future, and therefore either take soul-salvation for granted or give it no thought. That is, they live without giving soul-mystery any importance. Many philosophers regard soul a human construct unworthy of concern beyond appreciation to the civic believer. However, appreciation of the soul-mystery is a private choice. Jews need not forego spiritual hopes and comforts as a bargain for civic safety& security. Nor should any other human-being relinquish civic pursuit of personal happiness.

The free-spirit comprehends a human-being as comprised of body, mind, and self-interest in happiness: their unique happiness more than what humanity would impose on them. In self-interest, they neither initiate nor accommodate harm/injury to-or-from any person or association. They accept that some individuals are dependent, one way or another, and therefore work for enough income to pay their personal way of living plus fund domestic services to constrain dependent fellow-citizens. The happily take care of persons who cannot care for themselves, constrain those who can but don’t, and fund statutory justice for criminals, tyrants, evils, and worse.

Through RHI, the free-spirit happily practices, facilitates, and encourages civic-integrity.

Mr. Indianer, I hope this helps. I am grateful for the response your creativity inspired, and express that on my “appreciations” post at promtethpreamble.blogspot.com. I read& write to learn and would appreciate reader’s comments.

Journalism?

msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-cardinal-sin-mike-pence-has-already-committed

Tara Setmayer is responsible for "cuteness" in the last 2 sentences. A 5,500 year-old political philosophy from the Sumer civilization states, in 2022 terms: human-being can& may independently constrain chaos on earth. See Genesis 1:28. And Jesus reportedly said, "Before Abraham was born I am", which associates him with Genesis 1:28. Also, he reportedly said, "Render unto Caesar . . . ".
 

A V.P. and potential running mate again, who would consult with Dan Quayle to excite personal ambition to 1) unconstitutional rebuke to the U.S. Commander-in-Chief 2) and arrogantly "witnessing" for Jesus is guilty on two counts.
 

Pence would do himself a favor to never be seen in political meetings again.

I can't image how this country could establish journalism.

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facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7 February 13, 2022

Thank you, Chris.

Boole addresses why I write ineffectually: I don't know enough to justify my audience's work to comprehend my concerns.

For example, who cares about the-ineluctable-truth? After all, only merriam-webster. com opines that "ineluctable" means "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted". Also, "inescapable" opines that "ineluctable" is escapable. Since I don't know the-ineluctable-truth, why should anybody consider my concerns?

Perhaps Boole's "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought" (1854) will aid my work to write a book. So far, the math seems too formidable for this chemical engineer. Maybe acceptance of the prose will suffice a humble purpose: to express concern.

facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7 February 12, 2022

This witness is absolutely wonderful under the chaos we have created. However, U.S. freedom is granted and U.S. liberty is licensed. There is so much more that is neglected for "tradition".

I work to constrain chaos in America, from freedom& liberty in British-vs-French-American tradition, to the 1787 Constitution's intentions: 5 domestic disciplines to provide public safety& security. Thereby, citizens who want responsible-human-independence (RHI) can& may develop the civic-integrity to collaborate with "ourselves and our Posterity", including legal immigrants, so that each individual may responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive during each stage of their life, rather than submit to the way of living a bureaucrat would impose on them.

It took me 40 to 60 years to discover that message, so I don't regret the effort it takes to get it.

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.