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
Catholic charities pick U.S.-citizens’ pockets
The protagonist in Chapter XI Machiavellianism (1513) is the
Catholic Church.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent willing illegal immigrants
from Texas to Washington D.C., and Catholic charities received the illegals.
How long will civic-citizens continue to accommodate Catholic-Church
tyranny in the USA?
News
theepochtimes.com/rnc-votes-to-withdraw-from-commission-on-presidential-debates_4404592.html?
A prudent Chris Wallace will retire to avoid further shame. See
nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rnc-votes-withdraw-commission-presidential-debates-rcna24443.
But then, who could expect a reporter to be prudent: there are no professionals
in U.S. journalism and therefore no standards. Only the
responsible-human-independent (RHI) can aspire to journalism.
theepochtimes.com/first-texas-bus-drops-off-illegal-immigrants-near-us-capitol_4401715.html?
Nicolo Machiavelli, in “The Prince”, 1513, Chapter XI, wrote
that anyone who would imagine stopping Catholic charities from picking the
civic-people’s pockets with immunity is a fool.
As a dreamer, he wrote on in case anyone insisted: the
evidence shows that the pope has developed such popularity and military power
that none of the princes can compete.
Of course, I’m speculating, but it seems to me world-wide
Catholic charities fund payments to coyote’s who risk desperate people’s lives
to reach and enter America before Joe Biden is removed from office. Catholic
charities take over the un-civic work once an illegal alien reaches American
soil.
Meanwhile, Protestants representing 45,000 sects pray to
their diverse Gods to grant them a better future. The-God makes it plain that only
human-being can constrain the chaos the USA accommodates.
There is a better way. Christians may both happily look forward
to salvation of their mysterious souls in their afterdeath, and accept the
Genesis 1:28 duty of order& prosperity during life. Genesis 1 came from the
Sumerians, 5,500 years ago. We non-Christians would appreciate Genesis-1 civic-integrity
Jesus endorsed.
Quora
quora.com/How-and-why-does-power-corrupt?
by Jacob Svendsen
“Power” means “ability to act”; politically, “possession of
control, authority, or influence over others”.
Homo sapiens acts on
necessity& justice to constrain the consequences of physics& and it
progeny, or everything. However, not every human constrains their way of
living. Some pursue a dependency, such as indolence, crime, tyranny, evil, and
worse; rather than responsible-human-independence (RHI).
Consequently, the civic people
earn enough to support their responsible pursuit of the happiness they perceive
plus necessary-taxes to secure safety: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and
prosperity. They hope statutory justice motivates dependent fellow-citizens to
reform to RHI. Thereby,
civic-citizens limit chaos on earth.
So far, no civilization has
inculcated these principles in their youth. Most individuals pursue a higher
power – their government or their God -- rather than develop the
civic-integrity that is required to practice, facilitate, and encourage RHI. Similarly, as civilizations
evolved, nations developed war powers rather than RHI. No one proposes RHI to human-kind. Consequently, the world
is in chaos.
With at least 2 of 3 citizens
practicing RHI, civic-citizens can&
may require government officials to discover& deliver
the-ineluctable-truth. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or
resisted”. Politicians hide “ineluctable”. The word was translated from an
older language in 1571 and combined with “truth” in 1906.
Few citizens employ the precision,
accuracy, and depth of the-ineluctable-truth. Most individuals settle for truth.
Politicians fear their loss of power if 2/3 of citizens stop accommodating
truth.
Fellow-citizens who fear RHI empower corruption.
Mr. Svendsen, I express gratitude
for your question today, in “appreciations” at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.
quora.com/unanswered/Have-parts-of-history-been-rewritten-since-collectivism-has-been-invented?
by Marc Bloemers
I wonder, Mr. Bloemers, what you are fishing for. What
history? What rewriting? What collectivism?
From 10,000 to 4,000 years ago,
polytheism dominated political philosophy. Sumer narrowed the field from
thousands of Gods to a few, including Enka, the-creation-God. Their political
philosophy was that the Gods could not provide order& prosperity on earth,
so female& male human-being must independently constrain chaos; note that’s
constrain, not terminate.
Accepting responsible-human-independence
(RHI), they invented the wheel, cuneiform as first writing, irrigation,
fortified cities, and many other wonders; until ignorance about soil
salinization through briny-irrigation domed their success. Four classes of
citizens cooperated or lost eye for eye, life for life.
Monotheisms kicked in, each
culture constructing their-God to defeat the enemy’s God in war. Cultures held
abject, mutual arrogance toward the-God. That is to say, arrogance toward whatever
entity controls the consequences of human-being choice& action. The
collective monotheisms repressed local polytheisms and produced global
replacement under the label “God” when the precise, accurate, and deep
expression is “the-God”. Chaos increased exponentially.
Four thousand years later, there
are over 45,000 Protestant Christian sects among thousands of monotheisms. For
many Christians, God is a Trinity. Increased-chaos is divergent in 2022.
Constraining chaos is not on anyone’s agenda, despite Genesis 1:28.
Sumer practiced slavery, and
monotheism advanced its brutality. Necessity& justice demanded that the
U.S., specified in 1787, terminate Christian enslavement “authorized” in
fifteenth-century papal bulls.
However, collective Protestant
churches influenced 1788 ratification under the commitment to restore English
tradition. In 1791, Congress unconstitutionally granted itself freedom of
religion and used it to promote factional-American Protestantism. R.E. Lee’s
December, 1856 letter to his wife discloses that abolitionists are evil for
attempting to accelerate God’s plan to redeem blacks from the sins of their
fathers. Christianity’s culpability for both American slavery and the Civil War
is collectively repressed.
The collective Union-states then
outnumbered the slave-states and accepted the Civil War when erroneous
Christian zealots fired on Fort Sumter. More erroneous white Christians killed
erroneous white Christians and came face to face with failure to accept&
practice RHI. In proportion to today’s population, 8 million Americans died.
Liberation theology and
Alinsky-Marxist organization combined in the 1960s to sponsor an extreme
political reaction to the “non-violent” burning of U.S. neighborhoods if not
cities. The consequence is divergence of the Christian chaos that was underway.
The collective that can terminate
this madness is the civic-citizens. They are the U.S. citizens who cherish RHI
and therefore earn their way of living plus the taxes needed to preserve hope
for the 1787 U.S. intentions: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and
prosperity.
I dream that the civic-citizens
will prevail (and work for it). It will become possible when the U.S.
collective happily expects salvation of their soul-mystery, whatever its source
may be, and serenely& confidently attends to constraining chaos in their
way of living.
The reform that is needed is to
change every Education Department so that its intention is not “to train the
workers we need” (Obama) but to practice, facilitate, and encourage each
person’s transition from feral infant to young adult who acquired the comprehension
and intention to responsibly develop a unique human-being: their person.
Did I touch the history, rewriting,
or collectivism you had in mind? I’m sincere.
geniuslevel.quora.com/Can-an-idea-change-the-world?
by Bill Smith
Yes, an idea can change the world. It seems humankind is in
transition to a new stage of homo sapiens evolution, now about 300,000 years
into its path. Necessity& justice recall ancient-attention to
civic-integrity rather than religious-pride. The human quest is safety&
security for appreciative-happiness.
The question is: What controls the consequences of individual
human choices& actions? The renewed answers seem divided between discovery&
dwindling-unknowns.
A prudent adult-presence is: I
don’t know the-ineluctable-truth, when that is so. “Ineluctable” means “not to
be avoided, changed, or resisted”. That’s a new word for most readers, so give
it some time& attention. It appeared in translation in 1571, perhaps
involved in debate over “inescapable”. “Ineluctable truth” was published in
1906. I use hyphens to invite the reader not to separate the article “the”,
which makes the phrase “the-ineluctable-truth’ precise, accurate, and deep to
discoverable factual-reality.
In cultural evolution, first,
homo sapiens had only mutual perception& reason with no discovery. As the
earth rotated on its axis, they perceived the sun rose on one side, traversed
the heavens, and hid on the opposite side. They could not imagine let-alone
speculate that the sun is 93 million miles away and the earth’s surface speed
is 1,000 miles per hour. The sun was one of the Gods and a killer of men. Some
cultures attempted to appease the-God by sacrificing humans. The lesser light
was more accommodating. Developing cultures attributed every physical phenomenon
to a God.
Second, humankind divided
by location& heritage/tradition into warring tribes. Cultures reasoned that
Gods control human psychology and developed systems of Gods with hierarchy
depending on human function – projecting human characteristics onto the Gods.
Tribes constructed Gods of war expected to defeat another tribe’s Gods.
Agathon, in Plato’s “Symposium”
held that Eros was the strongest of the Gods. Eros neither initiated nor
accommodated harm to or from any God or person. Consequently, people and Gods
appreciate Eros. The laws of physics, like rotation of Earth around the sun,
were arbitrarily separated from human reason as natural law. Discoveries were categorized
as physics versus reason; science versus ethics; law versus virtue.
Third, one civilization,
Sumer, limited polytheism to less than 10 Gods. The Gods operated in another
world and could not manage the consequences of human choice. Therefore,
female& male human-being must do the work to bring order& prosperity to
the lesser species and to the earth. In other words, civic-citizens must
constrain chaos on earth.
Experience& observation made
it plain that some humans preferred a dependency: indolence, crime, tyranny,
evil, and worse. Therefore, the Sumerian political philosophy included legal
codes: an eye for eye, life for life. During the period 10,000 to 4,000 years
ago, Sumerian kings led 4 classes of fellow-citizens to invent the wheel,
cuneiform-writing, irrigation, fortified cities, the law codes, and other
wonders. They were doomed, not knowing that irrigation with salty water would
concentrate salt in the soil. Failure to master physics was their downfall. Descendants,
mostly Arab, dispersed to survive.
Perhaps the Marsh Arabs of
southern Iraq are descendants. They have black hair, light skin, and
multi-colored eyes. They work to constrain chaos in their way of living despite
disfavor in Iraq. Most are Shiite Muslims.
Fourth, many cultures
sprang from Sumer and its local adversaries. Most of them developed monotheism,
separating the laws of physics from natural human virtues and responsibilities.
The monotheisms bemused legislative necessity& justice with mysterious
religious virtue. For example, John Locke held that human-being is the the-God’s
property,
and therefore cannot be denied life or liberty, even
voluntarily – can be governed only by consent. In another example, Sharia law
is civil& religious.
Fifth, humankind seems to be transitioning into acceptance that
survival is at stake. It may be alright to hope a personal-God will provide for
children, grandchildren, and their descendants. However, it seems evident that
that the-God will not usurp the human-being responsibility to provide
safety& security on earth. Mature adults can& may attend to their own
debts.
With safety& security,
civic-citizens can& may pursue the happiness each perceives, rather than
submit to the vision someone else has for them. Neither the-God nor government
can prevent the human quest for peace.
In 2022, divergent-chaos holds the
quest for peace in question.
Note: This submission is pending
as of 4/12/22 at 4:23 PM central time.
quora.com/Why-do-some-people-believe-that-the-arts-can-contaminate-a-persons-ethics-Is-this-purely-a-political-way-of-thinking-or-what-are-other-motivating-factors?
by Graham C Lindsay
This seems a semantics problem grounded in diversity
regarding both “art” and “ethics”.
First, “art” is creative
expression of the-ineluctable-truth. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided,
changed, or resisted”. If an expression does not reflect the-ineluctable-truth,
unknown as it may be, it is sensationalism rather than art. For example, humans
can& ought-not claim to know the-God.
Truth is the factual reality about
something. Human-being has not discovered the evidence by which to identify
facts, reality, or something regarding the-God. In humility, one human-being
claims to not know the-God, and in civic-humor, the other claims to
comprehend& understand.
Second, “ethics” is a relative
term that may refer to a club’s rules of conduct& membership or to more
fundamental purpose such as humankind’s survival. Safety& security can only
be assessed by physics and its progeny --- mathematics, chemistry, biology,
psychology, imagination, fiction, indeed everything.
The human being can& may employ
imagination to create falsehoods when the-ineluctable-truth is unknown. The
falsehood can prevail until the-ineluctable-evidence that negates the lie is
discovered. For example, the sun, once thought to be the-God is comprehended as
a thermo-nuclear reactor. Human sacrifice to appease the sun is no longer
accepted.
That rascal John Locke (d, 1704)
claimed that a person is a property of the God and as such can only be governed
by consent. To this day, politicians proffer Lockean boasts to warrant life,
liberty, and property while they pick the people’s pockets with consent of the
majority. The U.S. ruins Lockean democracy with a constitutional republic that
replaced “property” with “the pursuit of happiness”. Locke expressed religious
opinion because he did not pursue the-ineluctable-truth.
Facebook
facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7
April 13, 2022
Such tragedies
are unbearable. We, the civic people, need to stop accommodating this way of
living. Neither the-God nor a government will usurp our duty to constrain chaos
on earth. Eliminate chaos? No. Constrain it? Yes. That's the human-being duty
on earth.
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52 (April 11, 2022)
Human
being is a civic activity. Human appreciation is beyond civil.
Hum…… the more dealings I have with humans
, the better I like my dog!
It takes 5 weeks to
train a dog.
A human being can&
may choose the-good after a quarter-century acquiring the necessary
comprehension& intention.
Unfortunately, no
culture inculcates the required civic activity: practice, facilitate,&
encourage responsible-human-independence.
Phil Beaver Ok! The older I get , the few folks I care to be
around; miss our chats in the park, eatting shrimp from Tony’s and
philosophically discussing life.
Me too. I appreciate your comments. They
always stimulate my dream. And the spontaneity we share helped change my life
to sincere transparency. Thank you. I look forward to our next visit.
Your wit is dry like Cynthia's.
I still have to woo her every day.
Two nights past, for the first time, she
did not move her silent eyes from Jimmy-Fallon-TV to me even once as I
typically sang "Let me call you sweetheart" before good-night kiss.
Hurt: I complained I must not be her sweetheart. She looked squarely into my
eyes and puckered for a kiss. I'm the luckiest puppy alive!
Phil Beaver that’s great stuff
Phil
Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which
can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it
obviously does not work.
Phil is agent
for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit
corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays
from the latest and going back as far as you like.
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