The U.S. Supreme Court awakening to the laws of physics

 

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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The U.S. Supreme Court awakening to the laws of physics

Turns out the woman’s decision to remain pregnant as a matter of physics rather than privacy. Maybe she wants to consult with a doctor and maybe only for agreement to a schedule.

If the court owns up to its blunder, Congress can then pass an act admitting that the pregnant woman has the sole prerogative to remain pregnant or not, until the conception has standing, which means a caretaker who is willing to monitor and support gestation and delivery then facilitate and encourage the child during their quarter-century transition from totally dependent infant to young adult with comprehension and intention to develop a complete human being.

It’s shockingly true: human-beings don’t merely exist: they develop.

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quora.com/When-you-are-still-a-child-you-have-no-responsibilities-yet-Do-you-agree-or-disagree? by JULIET TERANA

I think the newborn is totally ignorant and therefore has no responsibilities yet soon embarks on self-development and can& may succeed.

Infants have instincts that empower a whimper when their body detects hunger or bodily fluids. Neglect changes the whimper to an utter, the utter to cries, and the cries to tears plus misery-to-the-neglectful.

As soon as care is provided, happiness-expression follows. The whimper may change to that welcome sound of infant-contentment.

It is in the infant’s self-interest to learn the rote expressions of need followed by satisfaction in order to keep the care-taker informed. With practice, self-interest transitions to duty.

I think responsibility begins the moment the child is aware of this cycle. From then on, they acquire increasing responsibility and convert from infant to child, to adolescent, to youth who is acquiring comprehension& intention to mature, to adult serving fellow-citizens to earn personally desired way living, then to psychologically& physically mature responsible-human-independence (RHI).

Because no culture inculcates these principles in their youth and adults, few persons reach mature-human-being. Some progress to and die adolescent.

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facebook.com/douglas.moreman, May 6

Doug, thank you for you keen interest in the unbelievable.

 

Only a dreamer would think they might be close to an answer as to why more people don’t accept civic-integrity.

About 5,500 years ago, Sumerians observed: the-Gods cannot, so female& male human-being must constrain chaos on earth. Hebrew scholars expressed the suggestion in Genesis 1:28 but in Genesis 2 changed “the God” to “the Lord God”, extending polytheism’s mysteries to monotheism’s vain competitions.

Fast forward to 1776. The founders declared that “Nature’s God” authorized colonial-Protestant-USA to rebuke England and their reformed-Catholic Trinity. With sympathy& providence from France and Spain, they appealed to “the Supreme Judge of the world” for military victory. French military at Yorktown, VA outnumbered both American military and English military, each 3:1. And Spain helped pay the cost.

The 1787 framers specified a constitutional republic with relief from God-mystery and 5 public disciplines in order to practice, facilitate, and encourage responsible-human-independence (RHI) to willing citizens in their states. Colonial Anglo-American loyalists in at least 2 states would not ratify without a Bill of Rights like the 1689 English one. The first Congress granted themselves freedom of religion in 1789 and codified factional American Protestantism in 1791.

Faced with a February 1861 declaration of secession by 7 states, in March, President Lincoln said, “Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty”. The Civil War was Christian.

Erroneously, most people fear civic-integrity. They seek higher power to usurp their personal duty to constrain chaos in their way of living. In factual reality, neither the-God nor government can usurp the human-being duty to provide peace on earth.

It seems the Sumerians perceived the-Gods could not constrain chaos on earth, so it was up to human-being. Consequently, in only 6,000 years, they invented the wheel, fortified-cities, irrigation, writing, and many more wondrous innovations starting 10,000 years ago.

The introduction of monotheism seemed an improvement on polytheism. Unfortunately, the competing doctrines do not reserve humility toward the unknown: the-God.

Consequently, chaos has increased exponentially. Today, global population is divided 16% unaffiliated and 84% religious; folk religionists 6%, reincarnationists 22%, and monotheists 55%; Muslims 23%, Christians 32% (Jews 0.2%). There are 45,000 Protestant-Christian sects. Human-being is divided.

The warring tyrants of the world easily control divided citizens. Citizens can& may accept 2 precepts of civic-integrity. First, the Gods cannot constrain chaos on earth, so human-being must. Second, military power will not be used to constrain chaos if civic-citizens do not demand it. U.S. citizens can& may constrain government.

Civic-integrity is nothing to fear: The U.S. can& may amend the First Amendment so as to promote civic-integrity to every citizen rather than religious-freedom to Congress.

 

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/, April 8, 2022, May 5 comment

Me, too.

But we live in the best of times. Some very old habits are being challenged and the-civic-people is considering ineluctably needed reforms.

Hot on the agenda is the Supreme Court. The entity "ourselves and our Posterity" can& may require them to set aside Anglo-American-tradition& precedent to deliberate the-ineluctable-truth.

Justices don't want the entity We the People of the United States to use the word "ineluctable". It means "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted". Intentional murder is outlawed. Non-unanimous criminal jury verdicts are not outlawed in England. However, they are in the U.S., decided on 14th century English law. Louisiana is now beginning to consider retrying 1500 past murder cases due to the Supreme Court's 6:3 opinion that Louisiana's 10:2 verdicts were unconstitutional even though allowed in England in 1967.

More importantly "ourselves and our Posterity" can& may revise the First Amendment in order to facilitate& encourage individual& U.S. civic-integrity rather than religious-freedom-to-Congress.

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You changed topics, and I agree on your new premise: dependent fellow-citizens need reform. That includes the government officials who don't earn their keep; some do.

However, their change to responsible-human-independence can& may be facilitated& encouraged if the-civic-people reform the U.S. government.

facebook.com/margo.frey/posts/10223000630739099?notif_id=1651430686881061&notif_t=nf_share_story&ref=notif April 29

This thread turns my stomach.

The problem is not religious: it's physical. The Eurocommunists who are trying to destroy the U.S. and mixed economics (private capitalism, welfare, and infrastructure) understand that expansion of government eventually subdues civic-living. Therefore, they sponsor entrepreneurial complexes that can expand government fast. Every customer for sex change they can recruit unintentionally enslaves themselves for life. To proliferate the complex, they must force us to pay the bills.

Someone who perceives their psychology is in the wrong body is brainwashed. Empathy is best expressed by withholding transportation cost to their next appointment with the sex-change industry or its sponsors and redirecting them to a STEM consultant. Preacher? Never. Preacher turned social worker? Never.

If there are any preachers with civic-integrity, they have my apology for the oversight, and I'm waiting to learn the-ineluctable-evidence of the integrity. To appreciative fellow-citizens in the U.S., ineluctable means "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted". Apparently, Europeans allow change but not avoidance or resistance.

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Laurel Van Der Wende "Each person is made in the image of God and thus deserves respect."

I disagree. The person who chooses to develop as mineral, plant, animal, specter, or slave cannot be appreciated much less respected.

Approaching my 80th year, I discovered something that can& may help. Ancient advice, I think Sumer political philosophy expressed by Hebrew scholars is this: human-being cannot dictate the spiritual world and is independently responsible for peace on earth. Christianity ignores this suggestion and thus Christians live in divergent chaos. Consider the 45,000 Protestant sects in the world.

A non-Christian, Jesus, transcended the millennia -- so far, 300,000 years of homo sapiens, perhaps as a man reading the available literature and thinking civically. Monotheism poses 2 problems.

First, imposing God on Jesus confuses the available civic influence. By civic I mean responsible-human-independence (RHI) to choose the-good. Second, churches impose their doctrinal God, in order to bemuse people from considering the-God: whatever controls the consequences of personal choice& action. I guess the laws of physics control the consequences of human actions.

Some churches further bemuse believers by threatening them with the Holy Spirit: ineluctable mystery. Ineluctable means "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted". That is, the factual reality is that the Holy Spirit is a mystery.

The Sumer political philosophy, perhaps 5,500 years old, is expressed in Genesis 1:28 by Hebrew scholars from 3,000 years ago. Taking advantage of what humankind has learned in the recent 6,000 years, I think the message is: Female& male human-being can& may provide order and prosperity to themselves, the lesser species, and the earth (leaving “the heavens” to mystery, perhaps Jesus).

A few statements attributed to Jesus in doubtable opinions expressed decades after Jesus died tend to affirm Genesis 1:28's message. The statements include: be perfect, before Abraham was born I am, aid your government official, the creator made them male and female, and many more. I prefer to think Jesus was a man with special talent in interpreting literature available to him, including most of the Hebrew Bible. The Christian Bible books were not written. However, I see evidence in other literature, such as Agathon's speech in Plato's "Symposium", that Jesus influenced human-beings in any age. Maybe writers plagiarized Plato. I do not know the-ineluctable-truth and admit that Jesus could be the-God. God or man, I want to comprehend the-good, or civic-integrity, as Jesus saw it. I think I can learn that from people who speak and listen with transparency.

Fellow-citizens who claim to speak for the Bible owe it to themselves to consider the Genesis 1:28 message: The individual can& may constrain chaos in their way of living. Jesus affirms that message. Accepting it, fellow citizens may ponder: Does this option decrease chaos in my way of living? If the answer is "No". They can& may choose chaos anyway. But it is in their self-interest to constrain chaos.

The sex-change industrial complex increases chaos. Individuals can& may continue to support an evil industry.

 

facebook.com/courtney.washburn May 1, 2022

I own a disk and need partners to throw with. Choose Baton Rouge an early destination.

Also, I am back at University Baptist Church (after 27 years away) to share a discovery: the USA is losing to social democracy (worse than communism) because churches constrain Jesus and divide when some members favor their group. Consequently, there are 45,000 Protestant sects on earth.

A remedy is to unbox Jesus by transparently sharing concerns then civic-solutions that increase peace (Jesus) and decrease chaos (physics).

Learn to appreciate Jesus rather than "love my church".

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.