Does “the-High-God” express what constrains the consequences of personal choice?

 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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Does “the-High-God” express what constrains the consequences of personal choice?

This week, I asked Nalepa and Beard if my phrase “the-God” is mere bemusement or the intended suggestion:  Human-beings can& may reserve sufficient humility rather than claim to know God.

My hope, for the listener who considers the dilemma, is to follow with my opinion that the-God is whatever-controls-the-consequences-of-human-choice. It seems sufficient to take Crombie’s resolution:  We don’t know.

If pressed for my speculation:  The-God or the-High-Gopd could be the-laws-of-physics; yet I don’t know.

Acknowledgements: friends Bill Beard, Vaughn Crombie, Patrick MacDanel, and Christopher Nalepa took seriously my concerns and responded.

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quora.com/Is-political-correctness-the-enemy-of-freedom-of-speech-and-telling-the-truth? by Mr. Y.C

I try to interpret words and phrases so that they address integrity to human connections and transactions rather than popular perceptions.

Let’s define “political-correctness” to mean integrity in human connections and transactions. Next, free-speech intends no harm to human connections and transactions.

Then, political-correctness poses no threat to reaching the truth.

It’s only when political-correctness serves an agenda of favor to one group that the truth is compromised.

For example, the long-standing Judeo-Christian tradition bemuses humility toward the-High-God, whatever that entity may be (I speculate it is the-laws-of-physics). Pride in a doctrinal God is a leap I would not take.

quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-philosophies-that-absolve-all-choice-perception-and-responsibility? by Jonathan Allen

I haven’t perceived this philosophy and can’t imagine it. It seems like a condition: unattended infant, drugged prisoner, comatose patient, or such. Please forgive my innocence/stupidity on this one.

quora.com/What-will-America-be-like-in-2024/answer/Phil-Beaver-1? From 2019

Of course I have no idea what America will be like tomorrow much less 5 years from now. However, I know that I have been working on a dream into my sixth year now, and see progress.

The dream is that most American citizens, at least 2/3, will collaborate during their lives using the U.S. preamble’s proposition to order public issues. And also use the-objective-truth as the standard for continually developing statutory justice. This leading-edge articulation of the dream may represent the past six years’ work at public libraries (with appreciation to over 70 collaborators, positive and negative) plus a lifetime of study to pursue my individual interests.

The U.S. preamble’s proposition I interpret as: We, a civic people of the united states pursue statutory justice in the USA using self-discipline for integrity, justice, safety, defense, and prosperity so as to secure responsible-human-independence (RHI) to living individuals.

Statutory justice, a worthy goal, may be developed by collaborating to discover and benefit from the-objective-truth---the ineluctable evidence by which truth is judged. Individuals who are distracted by public insistence on a religion, a political cause, or other personal objective that is not only not shared but perhaps opposed by fellow citizens are not contributing to the discovery of statutory justice.

In my first half-century, “Mother, God, and Country: This is America: Love it or leave it” was good enough for me. I relied on attention to the Declaration of Independence to distract me from considering the U.S. preamble. An eastern-seaboard colonial-British tradition held my person in distraction from the revolutionary U.S. preamble’s proposition: RHI.

Starting from Magna Carta, 561 years English oppression led to the 1774 Continental Congress’s Declaration of Independence from England in 1776. France helped win the continental war. Consequently the 1783 Treaty of Paris is the global announcement that the 13 eastern-seaboard former British-colonies were free and independent states.

The confederation of states did not serve the people---was dysfunctional. So 12 of 13 states met for four months in 1787 and specified a nation with its purpose expressed in the 52 word U.S. preamble’s proposition: individual self-discipline to encourage RHI. Thus, the sequence is 561 years to 1776, 12 years to 1788’s ratification of the U.S. preamble’s proposition. The generations since then have left us the privilege of establishing the USA under the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

Fellow citizens of 2022 who want RHI; mutual, comprehensive safety and security; relief from conflict for dominant opinion despite the-objective-truth; and individual happiness with civic integrity will help the dream happen. In time, “ourselves and our Posterity” may approach the-ineluctable-truth. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. If you like this message, help it go viral, because under divergent chaos we need 220 million Americans who practice, facilitate, and encourage RHI.

Major update on June 7, 2022 after posting on May 13, 2019.

 

quora.com/unanswered/How-would-you-define-social-construct-Is-my-definition-accurate? by Mike Wilson

I don’t know. Is your definition precise& deep?

quora.com/How-difficult-is-it-for-you-to-recognize-and-accept-the-truth? by Rodney Vessels

Vessels’ question:  How difficult is it for you to recognize and accept the truth?

 

Phil’s response: Usage renders both “truth” and “the truth” impracticable. Philosophy renders “truth” incomprehensible: Search (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). We human-beings are on our own, statistically constrained by the laws of physics.

 

I choose to pursue the-ineluctable-truth. The hyphens encourage preservation of the expression. The article “the” is necessary for precision, accuracy, and depth. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. None of its 3 characteristics can be omitted. Inescapable and other modifiers are no substitutes for “ineluctable”. That is, synonyms and other definitions are inadequate.

 

However, it is useful, as you’ll see, to consider the usage frequency for each “inescapable” and “ineluctable”. The ngram viewer (Google it) for English (see dropdown) shows a debate in 1550-1575, with “ineluctable” usage 50% higher. The British-English viewer shows the “ineluctable” peak in 1573 but no “inescapable” usage in that century. The American-English shows the “inescapable” peak in 1552 and “ineluctable” peaking in 1652, 100% more than the 1573 peak. I can’t explain the 1573 peak.

 

Does the sequence suggest European-Protestant debate about ineluctable/inescapable believer-election/rejection by Christianity's God -- related to German Antinomians of 1535 -- and percolating in 1652 America? I happily consider my person elect to promote Jesus’s advice we can glean from contemporarily updated experiences and observations of homo sapiens.

 

Both “the ineluctable truth” and “the inescapable” truth leave the abscissas in 1900, the latter at 10 times the usage in 2019. I suggest that “inescapable” offers escape that the rational person can& may choose; arrogance perpetuates the repression of "ineluctable". Humankind suffers the consequence.

 

The ngrams do not assess local, temporal dictionaries. In 2022, online, Merriam-Webster reports “ineluctable” usage: “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. American Heritage has “Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable”. Oxford Learner’s has “that you cannot avoid”. Collins has “that cannot be stopped, escaped, or ignored”. Chambers has “not to be overcome or escaped from”.

 

Etymology is elusive. There’s 1615–25; from Latin inēluctābilis, “to force a way out or over, surmount” and luctārī “to wrestle”. That leaves the 1550s usage unexplained and favors “escape”.

 

In evidentiary perspective, I admit to myself “I don’t know” when that remains so. I speak opinion without drawing conclusion, when no action is preferred. If I am being attacked, whether physically or psychologically, I may act if I deem necessity. For example, I would protect my person and family from injury.

 

The-ineluctable-truth exists and justifies neither rationality, arrogance, revelation, nor mystery. Without ineluctable evidence, it is prudent to accept, “I don’t know”. If action seems necessary, justice is in the agent’s hands.

 

I perceive discovery of the-ineluctable-truth when repeatable evidence affirms factual reality that conforms to the interconnected laws of physics. The continuum of human experience and observations adds persuasion. For example, it seems the-God is whatever constrains the consequences of human choice. For all I know, the-God is the laws of physics. I accept that I may be wrong to express my opinion.

 

The human-individual can& may choose to constrain chaos in their way of living. Each person who practices, facilitates, and encourages constraint aids humankind’s duty to pursue safety& security on earth.

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The popular folly I perceive is that most fellow citizens want to ignore the Alinsky-Marxist organized (AMO) protesters. AMO soldiers are violent disruptors, and Trump courageously stands up to them. Neither "Stand down, Proud Boys" nor "stop their disruption and I'll pay your legal fees" will cause me to vote for a candidate I think is a worse choice than Trump, such as Biden. I am on deck for my 5th vote for Trump. However, his running mate cannot be a proud Christian. They cannot be trusted, as Pence proved.
Read with delight a 2018 article: realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/15/a_democratic_kick_in_their_own_shins_138349.html#! It omits Biden's 2016 wish to take Trump behind the gym.

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Among humankind, “civic” means reliability in personal connections and transactions.

The-High-God inspires appreciation.

The practical-Jesus of human experience and observations facilitates and encourages peace.

The civic-citizen, even the helpless, practices, facilitates, and encourages safety and security, including statutory justice, in order to responsibly pursue personal happiness.

Dependents get signals to either reform or risk civil/natural constraint.

 

(Update after discussing the first 3 sentences with Crombie and MacDanel on 6/10/22.)

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Among humankind, civic means reliability in personal connections and transactions.

The-God inspires appreciation.

The practical-Jesus of human experience and observations extends peace.

The civic-citizen, even the helpless, practices, facilitates, and encourages safety and security, including statutory justice.

Dependents receive encouragement to either reform or invite civil constraint.

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The problem Harvey did not perceive is that Congress, in 1789 granted itself freedom of religion at the people's expense and codified it in 1791. Ike exacerbated the harm in 1954. We, the civic-people of the United States can end the misery by amending the First Amendment.

Some Bible students are elect to believe a God. They promote their God's mysteries for personal reasons, assuming the-God approves. During our childhood at Staub School, I read the last page of the Bible and opined, "I'm not interested in a God who perceives such weakness as to threaten me." (Only now do I articulate what I then felt.)

I never found ways to give the Holy Spirit much thought, yet developed motivation and inspiration to comprehend and intend life.

When my Baton Rouge Baptist church offended my Catholic wife, Cynthia, she said with typical serene confidence "The married-couples class can bash Catholics all they want. I won't be there." Eventually, I withdrew from the Baptist brotherhood and from Christianity. I trust-in and commit-to the-ineluctable-truth. Through it all, I never lost practice, facilitation, and encouragement to guide modern behavior on the practical good Jesus seems to have expressed.

For example, from Matthew 19:5 on divorcing wife: Recall that the creator provided man and woman; therefore, the man shall leave his mother and father and unite to his wife. As I see it, that Jesus-advice extends to the spousal children, grandchildren, and beyond. That is, the man is reliable to her-ova derived spousal-family for life.

Another: The creator made you capable; therefore you can& may be perfect as a person. For the same reason, you can& may pursue safety& security to everything on earth. Another: Before Abraham was born, influence to the-good existed. Another: Appreciate and support the commander in chief to promote safety and security on earth and appreciate the-creator regarding mystery -- unknowns.

These particular Jesus influences each affirms Genesis 1:28's message: Each person can& may constrain chaos in the way they live. Good practices may be discerned by knowing what is attributed to him and sharing with contemporary fellow-citizens experiences and observations that may extend Jesus' influence to the-good.

I returned to my Baptist church as a friend, and after six months feel the silence of "heretic", much as I heard directly in the 1980s. It is difficult to accept the obvious, but wokism and political correctness began with European Christianity. (There are 45,000 Protestant sects worldwide:  Satan need not divide believers when Christianity serves so well.)

The United States had its chance in 1787 to stop Christianity's ruin here. However, Massachusetts and South Carolina each demanded a Bill of Rights, and subsequent ratifying states joined the demand. Free inhabitants were 99% factional-American Protestants. Just 235 years later, U.S. citizens have no safety& security.

This morning, inspired to take action by my friend Chris Nalepa, I wrote an actual proposal to amend the First Amendment as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or [promoting] the free exercise thereof.” In other words, if religion inspires a person to break statutory law, the law stands.

When the time comes, I hope civic-citizens will support the amendment, knowing they appreciate both their God and the-God and safety& security is their responsibility.

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.