"Why?" A human construct?

 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.

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Reviewing “why?”

I had not reconsidered “Why does anything exist instead of nothing”, which in the early 1990s I had thought was from G. Leibniz (d. 1716). I concluded it was not a valid question for the human condition: it's better to accept, consider, and act in self-interest for the-good. My study this week brought me to plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/, 2003, rev. 2022. It seems full of great information, far beyond “why?”. I am in the middle study and invite readers to join.

Also, I like the idea that G. Bernard Shaw in 1913 affiliated with Jesus as non-religious. It fits well with Jesus an advocate of Genesis 1:28: human-being can& may independently provide peace on earth.

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Tucker Carlson, intentionally or not, sustains whatever “democracy” means to overthrow the U.S. republic. See each msn.com/en-us/video/entertainment/tucker-everyone-is-lying/vi-AAVl0tT and bing.com/videos/search?q=Tucker+Carlson+defines+democracy&docid=608034337067243251&mid=2901E0EF4F49267609422901E0EF4F4926760942&view=detail&FORM=VIRE and defconnews.com/2022/02/03/commentary-tucker-carlson-reveals-what-every-powerful-person-in-us-is-talking-about-dismantles-them-in-12-minutes/

Merriam-webster Online opines that “democracy” means “government by the people, especially rule of the majority”. Celebrities brutalize the U.S. by not accepting that it is a republic with organizational features to prevent democracy. Too busy “living the life they want”, most fellow-citizens wonder what the celebrity means by “democracy”.

I like Tucker Carlson, and encourage him to reform his use of “democracy”. It seems contrived-to the segment’s argument. Democracy promotes chaos: persons need order.

In the first clip cited above, Carlson said “pluralism is a hallmark” then equivocated it as mythically-limitless freedom-of-speech in the U.S. The American civic-citizen has always been repressed by the elected regime. And civic-citizens fund both their way of living and the development of statutory-justice to constrain dependents, whether they be lazy, criminal, tyrannical, or evil.

In the second clip, he opposes election-by-majority-vote rather than-demonstrated-leadership as the vehicle to power; specifically, he addresses the Democrats’ violence that losing-an-election equals the-end-of-democracy. Why doesn’t Carlson state that the U.S. is a constitutional republic?

In the third clip, he erroneously said ““When the government does what its citizens want it to do, you have a democracy.” Current citizens defy economics by burdening their descendants with national debt. Also, Carlson weighs popular domestic-wants versus what the regime seeks. Egregiously, at the end of the segment, he promotes Christianity, which is its own democratic tyranny; there are about 45,000 Christian sects. Consider the Civil War: In 1856, a faction holding erroneous Christian opinion reigned terror in Bloody Kansas then in 1861 the CSA attacked the USA. The CSA secession-declaration justifies war-remedy on “more erroneous religious beliefs”. In today’s obfuscation, some Christians, North and South, agree it was about slavery.  [I did not seek to raise the Christian topic, but fervent-Carlson didn’t resist.] Only when the citizens want to conform to the-laws-of-physics does the 1787 U.S. Constitution support their cause.

The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a nation predicated on fellow-citizens working toward what neither government nor a God can do: provide order& prosperity in domestic living. It proffers 5 practices: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity. It is without religion. It sets no standards, leaving it to “our Posterity”, descendants and legal immigrants, to gradually develop responsible-human-independence (RHI). Under the 1787 intentions, every civic-citizen can& may take the opportunity to responsibly pursue the happiness they want rather than submit to someone else’s vision for them.

Responsibility requires conformity to the laws of physics rather than the dictates of George Soros or a pope. For example, a human-being cannot fly like a bird, and a God can inspire but cannot& will-not provide peace on earth.

The 1787 Constitution proffered and we, the civic-citizens among We the People of the United States, can& may establish an achievable better future in the USA. The first step is to amend the Bill of Rights so as to practice, facilitate, and encourage civic-integrity rather than civil-religion.

I invite Tucker Carlson to explore these ideas on his show.

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quora.com/Is-civil-disobedience-justifiable-If-yes-under-what-circumstances? by COLLINS ENEH

I think civil disobedience is practicable, provided the disobedient-individual is committed to accept the consequences. However, I cannot imagine myself in jail or dead for any cause. I want personal opportunity to develop civic-integrity.

In a civic-culture a few principles are observed by individual choice.

First, neither the-God nor government can usurp the human-being responsibility for order& prosperity to the lesser species& to the earth. The individual can& may constrain chaos in their way of living.

Second, the civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates harm/injury to or from any person or association. The “accommodates” portion of this principle invokes difficult questions. For example, should a citizen pay taxes when the government is corrupt? Should a citizen accommodate public disruption for a cause? Violence for a cause?

Third, the individual can& may accept the constraints that physics& its-progeny impose on them. The progeny includes mathematics, biology, psychology, imagination, economics, and military power. Only with sufficient military power can a government be overthrown, so the combination 1) paying taxes while 2) voicing opposition to tyranny and proposing adequate remedy seems prudent to the individual. For example, I write almost daily to persuade the 2022 “ourselves and our Posterity” to amend the U.S. First Amendment, so as to practice, facilitate, and encourage civic-integrity rather than civil-religion.

Fourth, a civic-nation operates on statutory law. The individual who objects to a law can& may study the law, contemplate suffering disobedience-consequences, and choose to disobey. The civil-disobedient person need not be totally correct to effect change. For example, Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted racial neutrality as factual reality plus check cashing to descendants of slaves. Necessity& justice demand the first objective, but not the second, unless the checks came from Africa, the Middle East, and Europe to the U.S. The U.S. is the 1774 cradle of relief from papal bulls of 1455 and 1493 “authorizing” African slave trade to the Americas.

AMO: Since the King assassination in 1968, there has emerged, perhaps from liberation theology, Marxist organizations inspired by Saul Alinsky (d. 1972) --- Alinsky-Marxist organizations. The leaders recruit soldiers to effect civil disobedience – property damage both public and personal, random injury, and public-murder. Being an AMO soldier should be avoided. To often it is an assumed license to let fellow-citizens’ blood for the sake of fellowship and solidarity the soldier did not accept in the emotional, recruiting moment and regrets in their suffering.

Note: In my opinion, initiating physical violence is never justifiable. Referring to my first principle, above, the civic-citizen pays for the necessity& justice regarding fellow-citizens who can but do not constrain chaos in their way of living: sloths, criminals, tyrants, and evil people. However, violence begets results that may be self-defeating. The problem is that necessity can prevent justice.

In a republic, in particular, in representative government under constitutional law, absolute democracy cannot be allowed, because it increases rather than constrains chaos. This concern is acute when aliens& enemies can vote. Furthermore, existence as a person does not justify the right to vote in elections of government representatives. Only adult civic-citizens – those who comprehend, intend, and aid the nation’s purpose should be licensed to vote. Even with this constraint, effecting necessity& justice in law-enforcement is difficult.

Women’s suffrage is a case in point. It became an organized movement in 1840. Violence was introduced in Great Briton then practiced in the U.S. The specter of women in jail starving themselves to death broke the government’s will, and the civic-citizens were loath to take responsibility. Since then, chaos over “the right to vote” has accelerated, and in 2022, it seems violence prevails over elections.

The 1787 U.S. Constitution has 2 novel features. First, it stipulates procedures by which civic-citizens may amend the Constitution. It requires a 3 out of 4 supermajority of citizens and states to effect change. Second, the abstract preamble lists domestic disciplines – integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” practice, facilitate, and encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants. Citizens, aliens, and enemies who oppose these principles ought not be licensed to vote in the U.S.

With self-interest in responsible-human-independence (RHI), I think civil disobedience invites chaos and therefore should be avoided. I want to keep on paying taxes and write to persuade fellow-citizens to aid necessity& justice.

quora.com/We-humans-live-in-a-very-complicated-society-What-is-the-value-of-fighting-for-human-rights? by Question

I think the only defensible human right is the opportunity to develop the civic-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence (RHI).

quora.com/How-would-you-go-about-enforcing-an-unspoken-rule-versus-a-rule-that-was-explicitly-stated? by Laura Ann

You ask a thoughtful question, about rules rather than laws or civic behavior. Simply put, rules can& may be broken without contention.

The civic-citizen, in self-interest, neither initiates nor accommodates harm to or from any person. Their first action when they perceive another party intends harm is to caution, listen-to them, and either apologize or seek third-party arbitration. Every person who chooses to be a human-being discovers and adopts these principles (or better) for constraining chaos in their way of living. But not every person chooses to be a human-being.

When offenses are major, statutory law constrains harm/injury. Police and the military enforce statutory law and the courts seek justice. Necessity& justice demand civic-citizens minimize the expensive judicial system. 

Civic mischief is tolerated as long as there is no physical harm or injury. For example, breaking the queue to enter a concert is rude but does not cause harm sufficient to justify law.

Societies have rules and coerce cooperation by purging members who do not observe the rules. Some societies have rules intended to influence with neither coercion nor force. An example is the Golden Rule.

It is flawed, because some people do not want to be treated as others want to treat them. For example, a Buddhist does not want to be treated as a Christian. A person who chooses dependency does not want to be treated as an independent. A person who wants to develop the practical living that Jesus expressed and practice civic-citizenship in the U.S. may not want to be treated as a Christian, in particular a Protestant/Catholic, in particular a member of a given sect.

The church that excludes a Jesus advocate assumes Jesus would exclude that person and may be in error. I am not the first to consider that religion hides the practical Jesus. In 1913 G. Bernard Shaw thought Jesus was not religious and in 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that Jesus was a man who literally meant “be perfect”.

The saying “rules are meant to be broken” seems wise, and acceptance that a rule breaker may have acted in necessity& justice seems prudent. When justice demands legislation, law issues and may eventually rise to necessity.

One U.S. law that needs amendment is the First Amendment. Its religion clauses can& may be replaced with practice, facilitation, and encouragement to civic-integrity rather than civil-religion.

 

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facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, March 16, 2022 additional comment, but my original post seemed to disappear from Facebook. I’ll check again.

I think my past, being called a heretic by various fellow citizens, sheds a novel light on the-why of a debate. I was deemed a heretic by more than one mere fellow-citizen.

For example, in the early 1990s, I was asked to contribute to the formation of a new Bible class for 40-50 year-old men. The leader proposed to establish basic beliefs before embarking on the 40-year rotation of Bible-canon-coverage. We were to answer individually a series of questions. I perceive that the-God-I-can&-may-follow knows my thoughts: I do not intentionally lie.

When the leader asked: why did Jesus die on the cross?, answers before mine were alike: to redeem me of sin. I answered, “I don’t know. I think God could have handled Pontius Pilot freeing Jesus rather than Barabbas”. The class was silent. (Since then I learned that there are scholarly doubts about the historicity of Jesus’s trials, first before the Jewish Rabbis; see tektonics.org/gk/jesustrial.php.)

Soon, the class had a new leader. Nevertheless, not long after that I concluded I needed to seek more-nurturing fellowship (“Like-minded”? I don’t think so. Like-hearted? Maybe.). After another half-decade, I accept that I am not elect – not antinomian, and express that acceptance to fellow-citizens who listen to my story.

Today, I find empathy, sympathy, and civic-integrity in some one-on-one conversations, but not so much in study-groups, so far. It seems a study-group seeks parochial-like-mindedness, which I think closes the door to both discovery and to the larger potential-society: psychologically-human being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from my early-life as a reader, inspired self-reliance, especially in “Self-Reliance”. In my early 1950s, I first read his American-underground essay, “Divinity School Address”. Protestant-indoctrinated, it took me 2 decades to grasp:  Emerson attested to Jesus as a man. I can now add Jesus, a man with unusual insights to Bible interpretation, thanks to Aaron Biggers, a believer. Also, after John Parks’ quote and my study, I am aware that G. Bernard Shaw, in 1913, affiliated with Jesus as a non-religious man.

Agathon, in Plato’s “Symposium”, also expresses insights not unlike those by Jesus: appreciation’s greatest power is that it accommodates no wrong to-or-from any person. Ancients to the Greeks, perhaps Sumerians, suggested in Genesis 1: 28 that human-being can& may independently constrain chaos on earth. The New Testament suggests that Jesus understood Genesis 1. For all I know, Jesus authored Genesis 1 and is the-God. I do not need to ask why? in order to practice Genesis 1:28.

I read, write, and listen, in order to promote Genesis 1:28 and the 1787 U.S. Constitution, both of which encourage the civic-integrity that is required for RHI. I perceive affiliation with Jesus and accept that some fellow-citizens disagree, without pondering their-why: I consider it private to them unless they kindly share their thoughts. Nevertheless, I continually pursue improvement of my intentions and therefore attend groups who allow my expressions. (Tolerate? No. No person holds the higher ground from which to tolerate a fellow, psychologically-human being, IMO.)

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, March 26, 2022

Civic-citizens (including Supreme Court Justices) can& may follow an essential case in Louisiana: see msn.com/en-us/news/us/la-state-supreme-court-says-deray-mckesson-can-be-sued-for-2016-protest/ar-AAVv4CC? .

At stake is necessity& justice when either AMO (Alinsky-Marxist organizations) or other leaders (e.g. police departments) motivate agents who may cause harm in the passions of public demonstrations. This is the AMO case, and Capital Police tear-gassing January-6-citizens to-stampede is the other case I cite.

Civic-citizens pay the costs of both law-enforcement and the development of statutory-justice. Statutory-justice can only be established by repetitive consideration of ineluctable-evidence. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. Repeated discovery of the-ineluctable-evidence approaches the-ineluctable-truth.

So far, U.S. supreme-justices have hidden the-ineluctable-truth from fellow citizens by arguing legal precedent rather than ineluctable-evidence. This case is another of their many opportunities to reform to civic-citizenship rather than “divine” Anglo-American tradition.

Fellow citizens divide themselves on responsible-human-independence (RHI), some choosing dependencies such as indolence, crime, tyranny, and evil, and the others working to constrain chaos in their way of living. Civic-citizens practice, facilitate, and encourage the civic-integrity that empowers RHI. Dependent citizens who discover civic-integrity reform and are grateful to whatever drew their attention to the opportunity to develop RHI.

Justices are authorized under both Genesis 1:28 and the 1787 U.S. Constitution and are not exempt from the discovery of both civic-integrity and RHI.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, March 25, 2022

I promote the 1787 U.S. Constitution’s intentions. I think its purpose is at least 2/3 of citizens practicing, facilitating, and encouraging the civic-integrity required for responsible-human-independence (RHI). It is a long-range goal, now only 235 years old and repressed by the 1791 Bill of Rights. Something, I think physics, constrains the-consequences of each person’s choices& actions. Metaphysicians seek the-good; many attribute human-constraints to mystery, some to chaos, and a few to the-laws-of-physics. The individual has both personal-experiences and observations-of-fellow-humans as teachers. Human observations extend to the earliest known discoveries, tens-if-not-hundreds-of-thousands years-old. I think Albert Einstein asserted that the-laws-of-physics control integrity. He wrote, “Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.” I don’t think “truth” is adequate; I discovered the phrase “the-ineluctable-truth” as a more accurate& precise expression for factual reality. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed or resisted”. The hyphens invite persons to keep the expression whole for a given issue: “the” one and only ineluctable-truth. I think Einstein was saying that physics& metaphysics pursue the-ineluctable-truth, the process first using the-ineluctable-evidence and the second using "the test of experience". Human-beings each have the potential, the power, the energy, and the authority to choose integrity for life. Each may not know the-laws-of-physics, yet they observe the consequences errant fellow-humans face, and that helps perceive the-good. The person who does not observe a tsunami-warning drowns. The infidel loses spouse and family. Some habitual red-light runners cause horrendous accident and therefore suffer incarceration or worse. The indolent suffer hunger. The devout suffer doctrinal error. The arrogant suffer what they create. Philosophers study why some humans choose integrity; plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/. In Sumer, the first recorded civilization, kings used a-nature’s-Gods-polytheism to motive 4 classes of people to master the-laws-of-physics. The civic-citizens constrained dependents, whether the dependency was laziness, crime, tyranny, or evil: eye for eye& life for life. Together, they invented the wheel, writing (cuneiform), codes of law, irrigation, and many other firsts among homo sapiens. Their civilizations emerged perhaps 10,000 years ago -- then, the advanced edge of 300,000 years homo sapiens development. Unawareness of iron for weapons and accumulation of salt in the soil contributed to their downfall. Sumerian descendants are now dispersed, excepting perhaps the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, pale complexion with dark hair and many eye colors. These 5,500 years later, we can& may accept that integrity-to the-laws-of-physics constrains chaos in personal ways of living. We may choose to practice, facilitate, and encourage civic-integrity while allowing the infidelity-mystery pursue its own course. It’s now some 300,000 years old among homo sapiens and perhaps 3 million to 7 million years old among human-beings. That is to say, the individual’s opportunity to observe& benefit-from the-laws-of-physics entails first 25 years (a quarter century) to acquire comprehension& intention to be a human-being, then a couple quarter centuries to practice civic-integrity, then retirement to share lessons learned before dying; in all, perhaps a brief window in 85 years during which to choose integrity-to the-good and RHI. At best, we may perfect our unique person so our grandchildren might have an achievable better future rather than, in 2022, $7.5 million in national debt to each newborn/year. There’s no time in a life to perfect homo sapiens; unique-self? yes; another person? no. What's critical to each individual is to practice, facilitate, and encourage the civic-integrity that is required to discover, accept, and adopt RHI.

Comment:

In necessity& justice, each living generation has no time to impose the eternal questions grounded in reason rather than address the-ineluctable-evidence (physics). For example, should people reason that civic-integrity is impossible and therefore lie? Can human-being avoid repeating past error? Can human-being adopt RHI? We can& may accept that some don’t and promote civic-integrity to those who do.

The opportunity to develop responsible-human-independence (RHI) has been evident since the Sumerians developed their law codes, starting perhaps 5,500 years ago. Since then, many cultures have attempted to construct a God that will usurp RHI. The human individual is too God-like to yield the-good they perceive, no matter how dependent they may be. For example, a despot depends on the people they manipulate.

The U.S., in 1787, created a republic with the provisions to develop RHI. It’s predicated on 5 domestic disciplines that exclude religion: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity.  But the states ratification process and the first Congress imposed Congressional freedom of religion and codified it in the 1791 Bill of Rights. Also, they suppressed RHI by propagandizing freedom-from oppression& license to liberty, bestowed by the winner in war.

We, the 2022 “ourselves and our Posterity” can& may establish the RHI that was suggested by scholars who reported the Sumerian political philosophy. See Genesis 1:28. It suggests that the-God maintains creation and leaves-to human-being responsibility to provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth: Divergent chaos in 2022 renders evidence the-God will not& cannot usurp the human-being duty to constrain chaos on earth.

facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7  March 21, 2022

I forgot the name; something about smart. I'm serious.

Talk about ineluctable evidence that raccoons are aware of their capabilities and have the intelligence to adapt to new surroundings! ("Ineluctable" is a strategically hidden word that means "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted".)

There's ineluctable evidence that the individual human-being has the opportunity, power, energy, and authority to choose to constrain chaos in their way of living. Among the extant species, that is nothing short of amazing. We can recognize independent fellow citizens by their serene confidence in the-good.

In my opinion, if judges, lawyers, and the media let the strategic word, "ineluctable" out of its cage, people might start debating the-ineluctable-truth and ruin chances for Bidden-lies, Barr-lies, Pelosi-lies, "science"-lies, election-lies, and NYT-lies.

We can make 2022 the year "ineluctable" came out. It has been around in English-translation since 1570. Someone introduced "ineluctable truth" in 1906. It seems in England evidence is unavoidable and irresistible yet can be changed.

Fellow citizens who debate the-ineluctable-truth know they are mutually seeking responsible-human-independence (RHI) so each may pursue their personal perception of happiness with behavior for the-good. The politicians repress independence by bestowing freedom& liberty.

Survival in new circumstances is the objective. Beware the raccoon! If their brain evolves to start writing and develop grammar, they may take control of politics for the-good.

 

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52 March 21, 2022

Civil disobedience seems imprudent in a constitutional republic (the USA), which is to say, not in self-interest under intended statutory justice. In this civic-culture, the individual voluntarily observes six principles.

First, neither the-God nor government can usurp the human-being responsibility for order& prosperity to the lesser species& to the earth. The individual can& may constrain chaos in their way of living and thereby aid collective order& prosperity. History shows some person choose chaos.

Second, the civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates harm/injury to or from any person or association. The “accommodates” principle invokes difficult questions. For example, should a citizen pay taxes when their government is corrupt? Should a citizen accommodate public disruption for a cause? Accommodate violence for a cause?

Third, the individual can& may accept the constraints that physics& its-progeny impose on them. The progeny includes mathematics, chemistry, psychology, imagination, economics, and military power. Only with sufficient military power can a government be overthrown, so the combination 1) paying taxes while 2) voicing opposition& proposing adequate remedy to tyranny seems prudent to the individual. For example, I happily write almost daily to persuade the 2022 “ourselves and our Posterity” to amend the U.S. Bill of Rights so as to practice, facilitate, and encourage civic-integrity rather than civil-religion. I think amendment will happen as soon as 2/3 of fellow citizens want civic-integrity.

Fourth, a civic-nation operates on statutory law. The individual who objects to a law can& may study the law, contemplate suffering consequences, and choose to disobey. The civil-disobedient person need not be totally correct to effect change. For example, Martin Luther King, Jr. spent jail time, because he wanted racial neutrality as factual reality plus check cashing to descendants of slaves. Necessity& justice demand the first objective, but not the second, unless checks to the U.S. general fund come from Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The U.S. is the 1774 cradle of relief from papal bulls of 1455 and 1493 that arrogantly “authorized” Portugal then Spain to purchase, through Middle Easterner traders, African-captives to help colonize the Americas. Some other European countries said “me too” and shipbuilding in Liverpool gave England a competitive edge in the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Fifth, the civic-citizen funds the system that maintains necessity& justice regarding fellow-citizens who can but do not constrain chaos in their way of living: dependents such as sloths, criminals, tyrants, and evil people. If the civic-collective accommodates harm/injury, civic viability dissipates. In a republic, in particular, in representative government under constitutional law, social democracy cannot be allowed, because democracy increases rather than constrains chaos. This concern is acute when aliens& enemies can vote. Citizenship does not justify the license to vote to elect government representatives. Only adult civic-citizens who comprehend, intend, and aid the nation’s purpose should be licensed to vote. Even with this constraint, effecting necessity& justice in law-enforcement is difficult, because it is difficult for civic citizens to learn the facts. Citizens still don’t know that erroneous religious opinion of Christian ministers in the South caused the CSA to fire on Fort Sumter and start the U.S. Civil War.

Sixth, the 1787 U.S. Constitution has 2 novel features. First, it stipulates procedures by which civic-citizens may amend the Constitution. It requires a 3 out of 4 supermajority of citizens and 75% of states to effect amendment. Second, the abstract preamble lists domestic disciplines – integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” practice, facilitate, and encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants. These 2 provisions apply to female& male human beings regardless of religion, race, or other distinctions. Citizens, aliens, and enemies who oppose these principles ought not be allowed to vote in the U.S.

The intentions expressed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution conform to the first principle, above. Citizens divide themselves on the principle of constraining chaos in personal living. Accommodating violent demands for license to vote neglects these principles, ruining the possibility to maintain a republic.

I want to keep on paying taxes so I can write, speak, and listen to persuade fellow-citizens to aid necessity& justice.

facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7  March 18, 2022

Who is proud of that man's "championship"? Not his parents.

It's the entrepreneurs who took his money, the psychologists who founded the businesses, and the politicians who are expanding government: civil capitalism.

We, the 2022 "ourselves and our Posterity" can& may stop U.S. attempts to defy physics using reason and precedent.

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.

Physics discloses lies and corrects metaphysics

 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

Physics discloses lies and corrects metaphysics

The science& religion debates can be made transparent if they are expressed as metaphysics vs physics. Albert Einstein reasoned that everything, including the consequences of human choices, is controlled by the laws of physics. However, in expressing his thoughts for the science& religion audience, he made his message unintelligible.

For example, the quote, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" is nonsense. Try this: Physics without metaphysics is lame, metaphysics without physics is blind; more nonsense..

Quora

quora.com/What-human-rights-are-most-important-to-you? by Wayne Hardy

I appreciate the opportunity to develop responsible-human-independence (RHI).

quora.com/Did-humanity-improve-a-lot-in-its-treatment-of-a-person-deprived-of-liberty-Why? by Leo Caramat

No. And I think the reason is that both freedom and liberty are concepts fabricated to beguile people to believe that either God, government, or the pair owes them freedom& liberty. “Rights” distract the people from civic-responsibility.

I don’t know about predecessors, but the modern thought was developed by John Locke, an English rascal. He proposed that a person is God’s property and as such entitled to rights: life, liberty, and property. A property cannot harm a property, even self, because it is a property of God. Locke would saddle government with responsibility for “rights”. Locke wrote, “. . . 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”.

The 1763 Americans partially rebuked Locke, changing the “property” right to “pursuit of happiness”. Locke was Calvinist turned Deist, so it’s not likely his craziness is Christian. Nevertheless, “Two Treatises of Government” (1790) came from Christian debate. I do not trust people who bemuse fellow-citizens with salvation-of-soul at the expense of life. It seems Locke referred to the soul of society but not the individual.

In 2022, we know that neither God nor government can warrant life, liberty, property, or pursuit of happiness. The mob can take them all 3 in a flash, especially from the mob-soldiers. (Recall government agencies neglecting alerts to prepare for a mob on January 6, 2021. Capital Police stampeded fellow-citizens, gassing them. The government-authority-negligence-stampede crushed at least one citizen.)

The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffered responsible-human-independence (RHI) in a republic managed by the civic-people in the states civic-people also discipline. Civic-citizens observe 5 domestic disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity “to ourselves and our Posterity”, including legal immigrants. Dependents suffer statutory justice, whether their dependency is sloth, crime, tyranny, or evil. However, the Congress granted themselves “freedom of religion” on December 15, 1791.

While the 1776 Declaration claims authority from “Nature’s God”, the 1787 Constitution leaves God to privacy. This represents an improvement in the ancient Sumer political philosophy in a polytheistic culture. Nature’s Gods tended to nature, and the Sumer culture constrained chaos to the lesser species (including dependent fellow-citizens) and to the earth. The hierarchy of citizens practiced, facilitated, encouraged, and demanded RHI. Consequently or not, the Sumerians invented writing, the wheel, irrigation, and many other wonders starting 10,000 years ago and ending 4,000 years ago when enemy states develop iron weapons and tools. Current Sumer descendants are dispersed, and some are still in Iraq.

The 1787 U.S. Constitution’s intention improves on the Sumerian codes of law. Civic-citizens practice, facilitate, and encourage RHI to fellow citizens rather than from God or from government.

quora.com/If-no-authority-is-just-should-authority-even-exist? by Emma Keller

Cultures don’t teach that the-laws-of-physics are ineluctable: that is, the laws of physics cannot be avoided, changed, or resisted. They are the authority that exists and human-being works to discover and utilize for benefit. For example, physics doesn’t respond to prayer for rain to favor only your neighbor’s land.

The first recorded civilization, Sumer, grasped this concept as the can& may of human authority. That is, each human-being has the potential to learn the laws of physics and responsibly apply them in self-interest. Under these principles, the Sumerians invented writing, the wheel, irrigation, and many other wonders. But not every human who learns the laws of physics adopts responsibility. Some individuals prefer a dependency – indolence, crime, tyranny, even evil. Sumer was always at war, and cities that acquired iron conquered them.

Today, the civic-citizens, those who discover and responsibly-utilize the law of physics, develop a civil system to establish and maintain justice, both domestically and globally.

Necessity& justice to the-laws-of-physics demand that civic-citizens establish and maintain justice on earth. This principle, responsible-human-independence (RHI) was abstractly expressed in Sumer legal codes (5500 years ago) then interpreted by Hebrew scribes (3000 years ago) in Genesis 1:28.

RHI is also expressed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

We, the 2022 “ourselves and our Posterity” can go there and may. First, we must intend to.

quora.com/Are-humans-evil? by Michael Q

Q, thank you for a creative question.

First, let me say, I don’t think humans seem evil. I don’t know. I think evil derives from individual& collective concern about the unknowns.

Briefly, I ponder a few ideas:

1.    It takes a quarter century for an infant to transition to a human-being with comprehension& intention to live a complete lifetime, both in time and in personal, psychological development.

a.     A second& third quarter century, of employment in customer-wanted service, can& may lessen human error and enable the individual to approach perfecting their unique person.

b.    The mature human-being can& may behave with responsible-human-independence (RHI) in every action.

c.     Without practice, facilitation, and encouragement, the individual lives in fear of the unknowns.

d.    Most cultures inculcate fear for the soul, an imagined entity. However, the soul-mystery can be entrusted to its origins, so that the person can perfect their way of living.

2.    Cultures with Education Departments that engage Item 1 have not emerged.

a.     Sumer, 10,000 years ago, was a promising culture:

                          i.    Civic citizens worked to benefit nature’s Gods and constrain dependent fellow-citizens as well.

                         ii.    There was no soul theory beyond humans going to the same place on death.

                        iii.    The Gods advised the kings.

                        iv.    Some of the kings claimed divinity and eternity.

                         v.    Priests occasionally sacrificed humans.

                        vi.    See the Hammurabi Code.

b.    Hebrews branched from a family that left Sumer (Ur) to develop the Lord God to accept lesser-species sacrifice: animals& birds.

                          i.    Citizens were to observe the law.

                         ii.    See Moses’ law.

c.     Islam made God the law: submission to God. See the Quran.

d.    Christianity offers grace to believers– teaches acceptance of Jesus. See the Bible.

e.    Hinduism proffers salvation of the soul through moral behavior, ultimately as a human-being.

f.     Many godless philosophies commend conformance to their political doctrine.

3.    Reform to a human-being culture is possible:

a.     Accept the Sumer philosophy that some citizens will be dependent. Develop necessity& justice for safety& security so civic-citizens may choose RHI in self-interest rather than for the Gods.

b.    The stage was set when, in 1763, the USA began to move toward independence from dominant European influencers England, France, and Spain. The 1776 Declaration claims authority from Nature’s God rather than from the English, Christian Trinity.

c.     A conforming culture is proffered in the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

                          i.    It proposes a union of states with their constitutions by their people limiting a republican nation under amendable, statutory law.

                         ii.    Nourishing hope for soul is a private choice rather than civic demand.

d.    However, the 1791 mimic of England 1689 Bill of Rights re-established colonial English traditions that regressed the opportunity for a culture of human being according to Item 1, above. It grants “freedom of religion” to Congress.

e.    We, the 2022 “ourselves and our Posterity” can& may reform-to/practice RHI, no matter what country we live in.

If people ruin lives to benefit their souls, I think that is evil. I do not think human-being is evil, so the first culture that takes-advantage-of& improves these ideas will enjoy& share an achievable better future.

I reiterate: I do not know the-ineluctable-truth. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”.

quora.com/Do-people-have-the-right-not-to-be-looked-at? by Adrian Wan

I don’t think we have the right not to be looked at in public. It’s a matter of mutual safety& security.

Human-being has the responsibility, individually& collectively, to neither initiate nor accommodate harm/injury to-or-from any person.

A person may responsibly live according to personal preferences rather than submit to another’s imposition. In public, they can& may preserve privacy by monitoring without engaging other people.

To preserve privacy yet not accommodate harm/injury, a person observes their surroundings – looks at the scene -- yet does not make eye contact with another.

To demand that the other not look involves 2 breaches of privacy. First, only eye contact can confirm the other is looking. Second, it’s an attempt to restrict the other’s obligation to monitor-for& constrain harm (not accommodate harm). For example, if the private person is about to enter danger (imagine stepping into a hole), the other cannot caution without looking.

If one party is accustomed to public greeting, such as “Hello”, they can accept without concern no response from a passerby. The passerby may be in deep concentration, listening to the birds, or otherwise not choose to respond.

quora.com/Is-dishonesty-evil/answer/Phil-Beaver-1?comment_id=253606137&comment_type=2 by Harley Mo

Mr. Mo, I appreciate your kind words about my post and you appreciative caution.

Since I posted this, I studied Genesis 1:28 and think its message started with Sumer kings 5,500 years ago. They used city-gods to instill fear in a hierarchy of citizens from slaves to workers to artisans to elite, in order to benefit the divine king.

Hebrew scholars expressed it as creation by the-God, who assigned the responsibility for order and prosperity on earth to human-being. That’s Genesis 1:28. Then in Genesis 2: 4 and beyond, the Lord God creates Adam and Eve who sin and pass it on to us. Eventually, Abraham enters the scene, begets branches including the house of David, which leads to Jesus. This categorizes them as “God’s chosen people”.

However, Jesus reportedly said, “Before Abraham was born I am” and many other statements equivalent to making him the-God. Setting Christianity aside, human-being is well advised to pay attention to the practical Jesus, especially if he authored Genesis 1:28.

I just bought, free for Kindle, and am reading the book “The Sumerians” (2016).

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Douglas and John, I appreciate your responses to my post.

Niccolò Machiavelli (d. Jun 21, 1527, age 58), in “The Prince”, Chapter XI, claims that the church-state partnership picks the peoples’ pockets with immunity and only a fool would object. The people believe their God will eventually relieve their children, grandchildren, and beyond (my interpretation).

I have long regarded my civic-opinion to be the work of a dreamer rather than a fool. BTW, Machiavelli gave his opinion -- in case anyone would ask.

My opinion (I would attest to the-ineluctable-truth if I knew it) is that without a doubt every human being who takes charge of their first quarter century to comprehend& intend to pursue a chronologically& psychologically complete lifetime can& may develop self-interest in civic-integrity. ("Free will" overlooks the constraints physics imposes on the human-being.)

Those who discover self-interest in integrity may eventually develop responsible-human-independence (RHI) and accumulate choices toward perfecting their unique person.

As a consequence, posterity enjoys a better future.

My dream is that civic-citizens review and establish the RHI culture that is abstractly proffered in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. It proposes a republic constrained by the people in their states who practice, facilitate, and encourage 5 domestic disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity "to ourselves and our Posterity". In tyranny, the First Congress awarded itself freedom of religion.

I dream that the civic-faction of We the People of the United States will amend the First Amendment so as to promote civic-RHI rather civil-religion. Please help make it happen.

Detailed version:

Perhaps Shaw (d. 1950, age 94) and Kennedy (d. 1968, age 42) disagreed with Niccolò Machiavelli (d. Jun 21, 1527, age 58). In “The Prince”, Chapter XI, Machiavelli claims that the church-state partnership picks the peoples’ pockets with immunity and only a fool would object: The people believe their God will eventually relieve their children, grandchildren, and descendants of current generation’s misery& loss. Writing about Italian city-states, Niccolo opined that the pope’s wealth and military power would eventually conquer the states. So far, that has not worked out, even in Italy.

Chapter XI Machiavellianism seems about the contest between the metaphysics of church reasoning and the physics of military power. For human-being to survive, physics must prevail over both military power and metaphysics, which steadily increases chaos. 

I have long regarded my civic-opinion to be the work of a dreamer rather than Machiavellian Chapter XI fool. Consequently, I work as though my dream will come true.

Recent discovery of two expressions make my U.S. dream seem imminent due to 2022’s chaos. First, the-ineluctable-truth lends accuracy& precision to dialogue. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. The-ineluctable-truth does not respond to opposing reason. Second, Genesis 1:28 abstractly suggests that female& male-human-being can& may independently provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth. That is, individuals who practice responsible-human-independence (RHI) can constrain chaos in their way of living. An RHI culture works to discover the-ineluctable-truth. The consequence is continually, increasingly-prosperous posterity: increasing order rather than progressive chaos.

I appreciate the prompt to introduce myself to G. Bernard Shaw, died 1950 at age 94. As a playwright, Shaw may have had more tolerance for metaphysics than his Scottish predecessor, economist David Hume (d. 1776).

And, like the rest of us, it is not Shaw’s fault that the great political philosopher Albert Einstein (d. 1955) wrote lamely for the science& religion audience when he asserted that the laws of physics control the-ineluctable-truth. Only a dreamer can extract the following, possible, hidden Einstein-thought: Research without integrity is ruinous; integrity without research is ineffectual. While metaphysics is dangerous, physics is reliable; knowing and positively applying its laws can be beneficial. The well-known Einstein quote makes no sense.

I especially appreciate the report that the 1913 Shaw aligned himself with Jesus as "a person of no religion". Starting today, I’ll mimic Shaw in that regard and add it to my appreciation of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Divinity School Address” (1838): Jesus meant it when he said a human being can& may behave perfectly.

Addressing how the U.S. arrived at its 2022 chaos rather than order, here are some dots readers may connect, from 5,500 years ago to 235 years ago and to 2022’s chaos.

First, Sumer, emerged 10,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Read “The Summerians”, Henry Freeman, 2016 presently free on kindle at Amazon.com. It is a review and gives resources for further study. My impression is that somehow, the kings of the first known& recorded civilization mastered the use of “nature’s Gods” the ancient, metaphysical view of physics& its-progeny, to inspire civic-citizens to build cities and irrigate farms even though there were warring tribes all around them. The inventers of the wheel were the inventers of a division of powers: nature’s Gods in control of metaphysics and human-being, the species, responsible for order and prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth. Human-being was led by kings& priests guiding three groups: lower, middle, and upper classes. Necessity& justice inspired strict laws.

We now know physics’ progeny includes mathematics, chemistry, biology, psychology, military power, fiction, imagination, economics, and everything else. We can& may accept “Nature’s God” as the laws of physics, leaving “the-God” in charge of metaphysics. Metaphysics can be dangerous. The entrepreneur invites reckoning when using metaphysis to persuade children to defy physics, for example, by changing their gender. The clergy who observes and does not report believer-abuse invites ruin. (I think sacrificing life for afterdeath-metaphysics is self-abuse.)

Second, read Genesis 1 through 2:3, the Hebrew interpretation of Sumer political philosophy under their God of creation (“God” is used 32 times), followed by Genesis 2:4, ff., perhaps other Hebrew scholars introducing Adam& Eve’s “the Lord God” (11 times). Eventually, the law of Moses is regarded as God’s law.

Genesis 1:28 suggests that God attends to God’s interests and cannot usurp human-being’s duty to provide order& prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth. I call that human-duty responsible-human-independence (RHI), admitting that a person may, for their reasons, choose to attempt to defy the laws of physics.

While Hebrew politics developed, the Hindus nourished reincarnation as the route to human being, and some Arabs begin to develop Sharia law and alternatives. Then, Christianity entered the debate with Jesus as fulfillment of the law (controversially the law of Moses). Each of these religious cultures: Sumerian, Hebrew, Hindu, Islam, and Christianity developed/dispersed/subdivided concurrently with competing political philosophies: Buddhism, Confuciusism, Taoism, etc. Subsequent chaos produced an astonishing 45,000 Christian sects along with fewer factions in each of the other religions and philosophies. The Sumer suggestion to constrain chaos on earth was& is neglected.

I have not met a Jew who shares civic-integrity, but it seems to me the modern Jew seeks to preserve the Jewish traditions they choose and nevertheless behave in civic-integrity as self-interest. If so, I appreciate their reliability.

Third, read the New Testament statements attributed to Jesus that affirm Genesis 1:28. Here’s an initial list, and I would appreciate suggestions to add: Matthew 5:48, 19:4-5, 19:17, 22:21; John 1:1-3, 4:24, 8:58, 10:34, 17:5; Colossians 1:15-16; James 2:19. To me, the Bible bemuses usage of “God” and confuses the meaning of “Jesus” by repetitiously juxtaposing Father and Holy Spirit, Lord, the Lord our God, and so on. I appreciate the practical Jesus I experience in my journey with fellow-citizens so far and am not bothered-by the controversies imposed on the historical man, Jesus. It’s alright with me if he’s merely a man who pondered Genesis 1:28 and took to heart his comprehension of RHI or better. If Jesus is in fact God, my civic-imagination shrinks to acceptance that is already in use.

Fourth, take the time to comprehend 2 aspects of the 1787 U.S. Constitution: its provision for civic-citizens to amend it and its intentions, stated abstractly in the second thought of the preamble. I comprehend the intention as follows:  The civic faction of We the People of the United States choose to, 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. The 1787 Constitution separates metaphysics from necessity& justice, and therefore comports to Sumer’s abstract suggestion in Genesis 1:28: nature’s Gods will not usurp human-being’s duty to constrain chaos on earth. In appreciation to fellow-citizens, I hold them responsible to civic-integrity and speak then listen if I perceive error.

However, I offer no demand that other fellow citizens impose Jesus-controversies or any other metaphysical constraints on their choice to behave according to the-good they responsibly perceive in any decade of their lives. I trust-in and commit-to RHI-fellow-citizens to correct erroneous opinions about the-good. And errors do occur. There’s no ineluctable-evidence that civic-people are naturally evil.

I think it is sufficient to leave metaphysical debate to the metaphysicians yet happily choose a belief, so as to take complete charge to constrain chaos in personal pursuit of the-good. My physician loves it when-I-talk-about-physics and does not object-to my metaphysics: trust-in the practical Jesus. My minister and our family priest? not so much.

I think there is a crying need for the clergy to switch to social working, coaching to appreciate the-ineluctable-truth, and other human-being services in order to let metaphysics evolve on its own. In appreciation toward the-ineluctable-truth, the human-being serenely accepts “I don’t know” when that is so.

More importantly, civic-citizens of 2022 or later need to stop accommodating Congressional freedom of religion, by amending the First Amendment so as to promote the civic-integrity needed for RHI rather than to accommodate legislative tyranny: civil-religion.

Second comment by PRB:

I appreciate John’s prompt to introduce myself to G. Bernard Shaw, died 1950 at age 94. As a playwright, Shaw may have had more tolerance for metaphysics than his Scottish predecessor, economist David Hume (d. 1776).

And, like the rest of us, it is not Shaw’s fault that the great political philosopher Albert Einstein (d. 1955) wrote lamely for the science& religion audience when he asserted that the laws of physics control the-ineluctable-truth. Only a dreamer can extract the following, possible, hidden Einstein-thought: Research without integrity is ruinous; integrity without research is ineffectual. While metaphysics is dangerous, physics is reliable; knowing and positively applying its laws can be beneficial. The well-known Einstein quote, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind" makes no sense. For example, the sun does not respond to religious beliefs, and some religions retain "God" even though, its ancient image, the sun, is now appreciated as a natural nuclear reactor. Einstein-language concerns don't lessen Einstein's brilliance as a political philosopher, IMO.

I especially appreciate the report that the 1913 Shaw aligned himself with Jesus as "a person of no religion". Starting today, I’ll mimic Shaw in that regard and thank John Parks for the motivation to consider Shaw.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52 3/18/22

I felt quiet-joy as I expressed to Derek Slocum that I encourage believers to happily accept the mysterious-soul salvation Jesus offers, appreciate Jesus alone for that spiritual gift, and perfect personal-life in civic-integrity. Likewise, another-believer can& may enjoy their inspiration& motivation while perfecting their unique person. I do not know the-ineluctable-truth about the soul mysteries and want to promote civic-integrity. Ineluctable means: not to be avoided, changed, or resisted.

Comments intended to unpack the above statement:

It takes a quarter century for baby to acquire the comprehension and intention to perfect their unique person. Most cultures inculcate in their youth belief in a doctrinal higher power.

Many cultures involve soul, or spirit, which can be developed through stories yet cannot be confirmed with evidence. No one alive has witnessed a soul. That any soul is lost and needs salvation is also developed in stories. The means of saving lost souls is unknown. Every aspect of soul is a mystery: origin, status, destiny, value, etc. Most citizens accept that deciding to act for soul, its condition during the path of life, and its need for salvation are private choices that ought not impact domestic discipline or civic integrity. However, most people accommodate leaders of their culture to inculcate fear for the soul in the youth and adults.

Jesus is also, a mystery. Was Jesus a man with unique opinions about human-being, or the son of God, or joined with God and Holy Spirit, God, or the source of factual reality, or physics, or chaos? No one can claim to reliably resolve the mystery of Jesus. People say “that’s what we believe” as though the universe responds to beliefs, reason, revelation, constructs, opinion, force, coercion, and other human constructs. One person’s faith does not negate another’s, because neither individual possesses the-ineluctable-truth.

Some civic-citizens believe their scripture is the word of God. Scripture seems controversial. The reader can and may either choose or construct interpretations or accept that they don’t know the-ineluctable-truth. Recognition that fellow-citizens share this opportunity and duty seems civic-integrity or duty to human responsibility.

Genesis 1:28 seems to require human-being to take the responsibility to develop order and prosperity to the lesser species and to the earth. At least 11 statements attributed to Jesus affirm the human responsibility expressed in Genesis 1:28. Genesis 1 makes Jesus’ statement “be perfect” seem necessity and justice rather than radical or humble. Entreating Jesus to order personal lifestyle seems arrogant toward both Genesis 1:28 and the literal Jesus.

Since human-being is one species, Genesis 1’s demand for order on earth can and may apply to every culture. Some people choose chaos rather than order and thereby invite constraint under the law. Likewise, some nation’s leaders prefer chaos. For necessity and justice, members of a society require statutory justice. Likewise, humankind requires military justice among nations.

So far, these principles have not taken hold among humankind. Too many people are willing to label “non-believer” a fellow citizen who perceives either a different way to provide order on earth or a different soul theory. So far in 5,500 years since the Genesis-1 suggestion, the motivation to provide order on earth has not surpassed concern about the soul mysteries. I think 2/3 of members of each culture and 2/3 of cultures can and may intend to provide peace on earth.

Comprehending, considering, and accepting self-interest in peace can motivate individuals to constrain chaos in their way of living rather than to accommodate the hope that a higher power will usurp what seems to be an exclusive human-responsibility. Meanwhile, they can accept salvations of souls as the completion of each soul mystery.

I hope this helps the impact of my post.

It does not address my purpose, which is to restore the intentions expressed by the 1787 U.S. Constitution: responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants.

It gave me joy to write my original message and even more joy when Chris Nalepa expressed the uncertainty of my expressions. If these comments increase understanding, wonderful. If the ultimate consequence is an achievable better future for even one person, all the better.

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A better future might emerge if just one culture started teaching their youth and adults that the-laws-of-physics are ineluctable: that is, physics cannot be avoided, changed, or resisted. The-laws-of-physics are the authority that exists and human-being works to discover and utilize for benefit. For example, physics doesn’t respond to pleas for rain to favor only your land.

The first recorded civilization, Sumer, grasped this concept as the can& may of human authority. That is, each human-being has the potential to learn the-laws-of-physics and responsibly apply them in self-interest. Under these principles, the Sumerians invented writing, the wheel, irrigation, and many other wonders. But not every human who learns the laws of physics adopts responsibility. Some individuals prefer a dependency – indolence, crime, tyranny, even evil. Sumer was always at war, and cities that acquired iron conquered them about 4000 years ago.

Today, the civic-citizens, those who discover and responsibly-utilize the-laws-of-physics, develop a civil system to establish and maintain justice, both domestically and globally.

Necessity& justice to the-laws-of-physics demand that civic-citizens establish and maintain justice on earth. This principle, responsible-human-independence (RHI) was abstractly expressed in Sumer legal codes (5500 years ago) then interpreted by Hebrew scribes (3000 years ago). See Genesis 1:28; it's like God has heaven and assigns earth to us. We are without excuse.

RHI is also expressed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

We, the 2022 “ourselves and our Posterity” can go there and may. First, we must intend RHI.

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Phil Beaver

I reviewed the news and got the impression the civic-citizens of Boise are acting in the vital interest of Baby Crus. A baby is a person and entitled to civil-protection when their mother habitually accommodates malnutrition.

Jim Robertson

Thank you Phil for publicly exposing your citizenry civic duty understanding. I encourage you to read the preamble of our Constitution which clearly states that “We the people….” originated and established the current contract with our Government—not the other way around. In order to flip the current breach of contract back to the original intent our civic duty is to re-establish innocence until guilt is proven one person at a time. In my own life that began with Jesus Christ cleansing me by His blood from all my sin and still continually does. I encourage you to check that out and have a wonderful day.

Rebekah Lamb

Phil Beaver but, that isn’t what happened. Did you read the actual story from the family?

The mother had been working with doctors trying to find out the cause of his vomiting. The baby was being well cared for in her care.

Jim Robertson

Yes. Thank you Rebekah. There could not have been a better example of a mother and father trying to work with other responsible people in their lives to care for a child. The tragedy exposes how thousands of other parents are experiencing the same violation.

Phil Beaver

There are always 2 sides in a dispute.

The civic-citizens of We the People of the United States seeks the-ineluctable-truth rather than public

Jim Robertson

Hi Phil: Yes, Marrisa and Levi Anderson are on one side and the central power is on the other. Thankfully we have a Constitution that limits the Central Power, defining their boundaries when such disputes occur. The Central Power has openly and egregiously violated those limitations and exceeded their rights on many levels and with no accountability in this dispute. The 9th and 10th amendments state that the people, not the United States, have the reserved power, specifically to protect their unalienable rights, when such violations in a dispute occur.

There is nothing that the Andersons want more than the truth of what has occurred to be openly evaluated.

After the Court Decision

It is wonderful that in Idaho, a baby is considered a person with the dignity& civil-standing for possible-opportunity to develop their unique human-being during their first quarter-century of essential, appreciative care. With practice, facilitation, and encouragement, the person can& may choose to enter young adulthood with the comprehension and intention to perfect, through civic-integrity, their unique journey to death. That wonderful opportunity is the intention expressed in the 1787 U.S. Constitution: responsible-human-independence (RHI) "to ourselves and our Posterity" including legal immigrants. The five domestic disciplines -- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity leave religious pursuits to privacy and do not authorize Congressional freedom of religion. We, the civic-citizens among We the People of the United States can& may amend the First Amendment in order to advance civic-integrity rather than civil-religion.

Again:

I appreciate& benefit-from responsible prayer. However, I do not think opinion contingent on a court decision is a matter for prayer. After all, I do not claim to know the-ineluctable-truth.

I recall an errant-parent bruhaha like this in the 1990s. Grandparents who believed in poisonous-snake-handling were suing the non-believing grandparents for custody of children orphaned when their parents died of snake bites.

The court stipulated visiting rights to the believers.

 

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I think the reform I want takes me out of the public arena. I could be wrong.

I want Education Departments to practice, facilitate, and encourage fellow-citizens in the transition from child to young adult with comprehension& intention to live a complete human lifetime. By complete, I mean constrain a way of living that empowers the self-interest to psychologically perfect their unique person before death.

This ancient idea in new words has never been attempted.

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.