Transparently dreaming

 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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A dream is worth transparently enduring

The 1787 U.S. intention is a culture that practices, facilitates, and encourages the civic integrity that is required for the individual citizen to responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive during each phase of their lifetime.

Today, at a local park, I conversed with 3 skate-boarding and trick-biking boys, aged 15, 14, and 11, respectively, as they sat down with Drew and me. The 3 affirmed that self-reliance and affiliation with Jesus empower human being. They agreed that transparent discussion of practical observations about Jesus help everyone discover the-good. I must have heard “opinion” a dozen times in 30 minutes.

When I said, it matters not if the individual attests to Jesus as God, the son of God, or a man, they agreed. When I asked why they were so outspoken, one said his mom taught him not to be shy that Jesus saved his soul. When I asked who can inform us as to the-ineluctable-truth about Jesus’ status, they were stumped – made a lot of noise but drew no conclusion.

I answered my riddle with “Jesus knows himself” and can tell us. They bumped my knuckles.

I think the acceleration to my dream is in the 2022 youth. I’m aware they may have been patronizing my self-reliance yet affiliation with the practical Jesus that transparent people share. I look forward to such conversation with adults.

I asked the youth if they had heard of Socrates. To my disappointment, they said, “No”. I told them that when each new word comes to them, to look it up on the Internet and assume it’s their one and only time to earn an opinion about it – take charge of accumulating their knowledge& opinion. I said, “I think Socrates died to defend the rule of law.”

I dream of establishing the 1787 U.S. intentions in the USA: responsible-human-independence (RHI).

News

The Will Smith slap offers journalism another chance to record a “more erroneous religious belief” so that henceforth the human-being who wants civic-integrity has a benchmark: the authentic man does not perpetrate violence to express attraction to an authentic woman.

Columns

Theodore Dalrymple (theepochtimes.com/questioning-potential-jurors-undermines-the-very-basis-of-the-jury-system_4329768.html)

Dalrymple’s equivocation of “impartial” with “dispassionate” reads like an English attack on America. A child-sex-trafficking trial might by traumatic rather than dispassionate.  And the English think “ineluctable” means unavoidable and irresistible: the Americans add unchangeable. The Brits just don’t get the accuracy, precision, and depth of the-ineluctable-truth. Americans get it.

Ghislaine Maxwell has citizenship in France (her homeland), England, and America. Maxwell is a convicted child-sex-trafficker. Anthony Malcolm Daniels, pen named Theodore Dalrymple is of communist& Jewish parenthood from England and claims atheism (whatever that means to him). Neither Maxwell nor Dalrymple understand the civic-integrity, appreciating theism/none, that is intended by the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

By early adulthood, the individual human-being joins by choice/default one of 2 collectives: individuals who practice, facilitate, and encourage self-interested civic-integrity or selfishly dependent fellow-citizens. Dependencies include sloth, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse. Verbal cunning is tyranny.

The civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates harm to-or-from any person and is unlikely to appear in court as the accused. They vote for the candidate who most closely practices, facilitates, and encourages responsible-human-independence (RHI). They may be religious/not and may attend a church for transparent civic-integrity among fellow citizens.

I’m surprised that Dalrymple did not share at least 4 controversies regarding unanimous verdicts. First, in England, the judge in criminal trial can call for a majority verdict, 10:2. See defence-barrister.co.uk/crown-court-trial-part-6-verdict#Majority-Verdicts. Second, the statistics of democratic bias favor non-unanimous determinations. Third, judicial institutions, which ought to be more reliable than the politically divided public do not demand unanimous-decisions. Fourth, due to tyranny by England over colonial Americans, the U.S. Sixth Amendment (1791) requires states to provide impartial juries according to state statutes. According to the prior 3 considerations, a state cannot use 12:0 verdicts to provide impartiality.

In 1967, England introduced majority decisions in criminal trials, in order to lessen the influence of organized crime. Current operating details are Online at defence-barrister.co.uk/crown-court-trial-part-6-verdict#Majority-Verdicts.

In the United Kingdom, representation is dominated by Conservatives, Labor, and Liberal Democrats (since 1998) with smaller parties representing locations such as Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Conservatives seek to maintain tradition more than civic-integrity and the other 2 dominant parties favor social democracy. If bias is split 50:50, statistics teach that 12-juror service-to necessity& justice  declines as bias-accommodation declines from 5 to 0. In the U.S., a hung jury is essentially acquittal.

Supreme Court justices ought to qualify as “the average citizen” yet they are not held to unanimous decisions. In England, Supreme Court cases are heard by panels of 3, increasing to 11, depending on importance of the case. The odd number is to allow for split decisions, 2:1 up to 6:5. In the U.S., the erroneous U.S. Supreme Court chose to consider and voted 6:3 to require Louisiana to provide 12:0 criminal jury verdicts; (Ramos v. Louisiana, 2021)! Imagine that: a split decision to require unanimous decisions. And, they cited 14th century British law to justify their U.S. tyranny.

I think Theodore Dalrymple either opposes or does not understand the 1787 U.S. republic’s intentions: civic-integrity, which requires impartial systems that practice, facilitate, and encourage civic-integrity rather than either English tradition or socialism. The U.S. bemusement with Anglo-American tradition represses “ourselves and our Posterity” and only civic-citizens can stop the tyranny. America’s aliens are in its institutions and can& may be identified and disenfranchised.

Quora

quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-are-leaders-born-or-are-they-made? by Dan I

A person forms opinion using experiences and observations. The newborn is totally ignorant --- dependent. Without practice, facilitation, and encouragement to experience, observe, and choose the-good, dependence prevails.

Biographies of great leaders allow the reader to observe without experiencing.

About seven biographies on Abraham Lincoln suggest he was of relatively narrow view point and an exceptionally skilled politician. It seem Frederick Douglass in 1852 held the better opinion of the U.S. Constitution’s intentions regarding emancipation of the slaves. Lincoln felt the Constitution was so weak he diminished it by promoting the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution specifies a republic with provisions for its people, “ourselves and our Posterity” to develop civic-integrity and continually improve its standards. The Declaration expresses that Nature’s God will defeat the English Trinity.

In the news, Donald Trump grew up a rich playboy and benefitted from experiences that convinced him civic-integrity with civil assurance is in his best interest. People can’t brook a leader who acts with responsible-human-independence.

George Washington’s experiences, like losses in the Seven-Years War led him to the conclusion that the-good is found in civic-integrity.

R. E. Lee’s fervent religious error (abolitionists are evil for trying to accelerate Christianity’s schedule to redeem blacks from their ancestors’ sins) ruined his family.

Many people can’t brook the-ineluctable-truth: each human-being can& may do the right thing.

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Journalists have the civil duty to record consequences of human error so as to aid posterity in the quest for civic-integrity. Herein “civic” means reliability in personal connections and transactions. A-civic-people need research rather than reason; the-ineluctable-truth rather than political ploy. For examples, research shows that erroneous Christianity motivated the U.S. Civil War, and observation shows males project their egoism on females.

So far, journalists have not accepted that science is a research process that requires renewal each time human-beings invent a pertinent new instrument of perception. For example, ancient seafarers could imagine the horizon’s curvature reflected a large globe yet were unbelieving, because they were unaware that gravity& the continents constrained the seas. Landlubbers argued the earth was flat.

Journalists accommodate academic “truths” needed to support reason when what a-civic-people need is comprehension of how to reliably employ the-ineluctable-truth. For example, rather than a God, the sun is a natural nuclear reactor. Instead of accepting God-mystery to focus on the human-being’s responsibility to provide order& prosperity, journalists accommodate reason, which empowers tyrants. Male brawn suppresses female safety& security.

What the people need is the-ineluctable-truth. Necessity& justice require the journalist to report factual reality, reserving the humility to say “I don’t know”, if asked for explanation. For example, it seems a black celebrity slapped a black celebrity on live TV. How does the event impact America? “I don’t know” is essential to the reporter, giving journalism the time to research& report the observation.

In civic-integrity, individuals can& may act to provide order& prosperity. A person can refrain from action unless necessity& justice is threatened. However, they may erroneously act on belief. They and everyone alive are then subject to the consequences of the action. The perpetrator may suffer.

Everyone else can observe and may commit to never enact now-known error. If a choice produced misery, repetition re-invites misery. Observing consequences of choice is the companion to discovering ineluctable-evidence.

The difference between physics-research and civics-research is that physics’ ineluctable-evidence exists and is discoverable, whereas civic-integrity is discernable on either direct experience or observation of the past. The roll of the journalist is to record observed consequences that harm the perpetrator. For example, violence harms the perpetrator. The roll of the civic-citizen is to be aware and not repeat journaled error. When the journalist denies their role, the citizen cannot beware.

For example, the 1861 Civil War was caused by erroneous religious conviction that abolitionists were evil. Abolition would accelerate Christianity’s indefinite schedule, perhaps thousands of years’ duration, to relieve black people from the sins of their fathers. See R. E. Lee’s letter to his wife in 1856; encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/letter-from-robert-e-lee-to-mary-randolph-custis-lee-december-27-1856. Lee was aware of Bleeding Kansas, beginning May 1854: white-Christian slavers killed white-Christian abolitionists. Six years later erroneous white-Christians fired on Fort Sumter, the USA. For reasons, journalists suppress the cause of past ruin: white-Christians killed white-Christians over erroneous religious belief.

When a man commits violence to impress a woman does he suffer from another erroneous belief? May a man attribute his violence to a woman?

Journalists fail their duty: journal the consequences of infidelity to the-ineluctable-truth. Given the journal of observations, the-people can& may make prudent choices. Only when that journal is available and maintained may people discern the-good.

The laws of physics are made plain by researching both the-ineluctable-evidence and the consequences of past infidelity. Negative observations need not be re-experienced by posterity. An achievable better future has no time for harmful tradition. The laws of physics control the consequences of human choice whether for the-good or in error.

If erroneous belief inspires a person to commit violence, journalists can& may record the consequences so as to discourage the belief.

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.