Appreciation: the key to an achievable better future

 

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, safety, 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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Appreciation: the key to an achievable better future

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Portrait of Faith: Meisha | armor training (armor-up.blog) 5/29/22 comment

PM, thank you for transparent, rich sharing.

Paul is one of my least appreciated Bible writers. I think he suffers. He did not marry a reliable-woman for life. Did not try to be her spousal-half to secure safety& security to their spouse-hood and their ova, conceptions, children& descendants (that's "to", as in Matt 19:5, not "with"). And it's for life by each half of the spouse-hood.

Moreover, I think Paul suffered pride, as in ". . . achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all”. All? Really?

The fact that I hold these opinions does not make them the-ineluctable-truth. Ineluctable means "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted".

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hame.quora.com/How-can-we-become-a-better-society? by Hamey Bradfprd

How can we become a better society?

Appreciation.

Appreciate the-God for necessity in civic-integrity.

Appreciate Jesus’ political-philosophy: “Peace unto you”.

Appreciate civic-citizens for each: safety& security, statutory-justice to facilitate& encourage reform to dependent fellow-citizens, and taxes to support helpless fellow human-beings.

Appreciate the self-interest to constrain chaos in personal living.

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6/1/2022

I found Greg Locke not my type at wikipediabio.com/pastor-greg-locke-wikipedia/and on a podcast. I speculate that behind every story of power& wealth is obsession with sex. I voted 4 times for Trump as the multiple lesser-lesser-lesser of 2 evils. My 5th vote is in jeopardy yet on deck.

Campbell at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Campbell_(Baptist_minister) seems a person you'd like to know to aid safety& security on earth.

I like one sentence in particular: "He is considered aligned with more recent postliberal theologians, who denounce the liberal (as well as conservative) esteem for civil society as a misplaced faith, a form of idolatry taking the place of God and Jesus Christ in Christian life." I suspect Campbell might not agree with the postliberal's claim.

"Civil society" constrains an interested reader to beg many definitions in the above quote.

What rules and what faction of humankind: what rulable faction? I work to persuade a civic humankind, where "civic" refers to reliability in every human connection& transaction more than conformity to rule& law.

That said, theology is an avocation that can misplace faith: the-God is a mystery and Jesus seems comprehensible. The Holy Spirit and the human soul increase the mystery. For a person to tether their one chance in life to theology, such as "the Christian life", does not seem prudent. And Christian practices affirm the mystery: for example, there are 45,000 Protestant sects on earth. Trust-in and commitment-to physics& its-progeny seems viable for one human life, whereas Christianity has been divergent for 2020 odd years. Theology developed divergent chaos.

Since the-God and the Holy Spirit are mysteries, their contributions to a person's soul-mystery can be happily accepted (I accept mine). In other words, anything a person does to improve the mysteries must be the-mystery no human-being owns. Therefore, the Bible-student can& may focus on practical guidance from Jesus. By studying reported circumstances wherein statements are attributed to Jesus, "ourselves and our Posterity" can mimic and further develop Jesus-guidance. (It's new to me, so I don't have a developed list, but so far, it seems Jesus-guidance affirms Genesis 1:28's message: humankind is charged with safety& security on earth. Like it or not, the mature human being practices responsible-human-independence (RHI). I speculate that Ralph Waldo Emerson was correct when he said Jesus meant: the human-being can perfect his/her person.

Finally, which liberal and which conservative. I think humankind can& may accommodate every person's path to RHI. And to preserve that opportunity, humankind can& may constrain persons who pursue dependency, whether indolence or tyranny. Just as it’s OK for a person to pursue spectator sports, they may pursue civil society as long as they maintain civic-integrity.

I shared my reaction to the cited sentence, hoping to learn from comments. I do not know the-ineluctable-truth, and together, we may approach its discovery.

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Each moment, no one can constrain chaos in your way of living if you don't.

facebook.com/chris.nalepa.7 May 2, 2022

Chris, I could not agree more. I have studied for decades to understand why Americans don't appreciate America and think elite preservation of Anglo-American tradition is the problem.

Some British loyalists returned to England after the USA war for independence. However, some loyalists had not the will or power to return. A powerful, small faction resisted ratification of the 1787 draft constitution without a mimic of England's 1689 Bill of Rights.

Nine of 13 states agreed to authorize the first Congress to amend the draft. Two states joined before operations began on March 4, 1789 under 11 states. Thus, framing of the U.S. constitution passed from brilliant, closed-door negotiation to political circus. Three more states joined later. The outcome was the U.S. Bill of Rights, ratified on December 15, 1791 by 10 of 14 states.

The First Amendment grants to Congress freedom of religion, empowering Christians to be as liberal as they choose. For example, Catholic Congresspersons can rule against doctrine and still receive the body of Christ. Meanwhile, many English citizens no longer cling to the Church of England.

An even worse example is the U.S. Supreme Court opining 6:3 that states criminal jury verdicts must be 12:0, grounding their vote on 14th century English law when 1967 English law approved 10:2 verdicts to reduce organized-crime's influences.

Appreciating your call "think for yourself" I'd like to add "in your civic self-interest". "Civic" refers to reliability in person-to-person connections and transactions, which is prerequisite to civil fidelity. In other words, civic corrects civil.

It is in the U.S. citizen's self-interest to amend the First Amendment so as to practice, facilitate, and encourage civic-integrity and end Congressional religion.

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.