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.
Selected theme from this week
It’s time for civic-citizens to consider the 1787 U.S.
Constitution.
The 1787 framers did not intend Anglo-American tradition. It is time to assign
John Locke’s “common good” to the British trash bin and practice, facilitate,
and encourage the civic-integrity that is required for
responsible-human-independence (RHI).
The preamble to the U.S. Constitution affirms the Sumerian political philosophy
that is expressed by Hebrew scholars in Genesis 1:28: each human-being can&
may pursue comprehensive-safety& security to life on earth.
News
Ending Federal Ban on Guns With Removed Serial
Numbers, theepochtimes.com/judge-rules-federal-ban-on-guns-with-removed-serial-numbers-is-unconstitutional_4795949.html?
The court must uphold existing law: only legislators can
change the law.
Legislation is promulgated by Congress. When both branches agree on a law, it
goes to the President for approval or veto, and with approval becomes law, also
called “statute”. Congress authorized some regulatory agencies, and if one of
them issues a rule, it is called “regulation”. Often regulations are challenged
and ruled unconstitutional, and only rarely is as law ruled unconstitutional.
Either way, Congress is responsible for laws.
The U.S. intentions,
are stated in 2 parts in the 1787 Constitution.
First, the civic-citizens in their states, We the People of the
United States, authorize and limit a central government. Authority they do not
assign to the central government is reserved to themselves, and civic-citizens
in their states assign some of their authority to their state. Neither the
central government nor a state can usurp the civic-citizens’
responsible-human-independence (RHI). The civic-citizens defined
methods and procedures for amending the Constitution. Thus, no tradition is
binding to the-civic-citizens when they discover injustice and propose remedy.
Second, the civic-citizens
practice, facilitate& encourage 6 public disciplines – integrity, justice,
security, strength, prosperity, and RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
Religion is not among the civic-disciplines, and there are no disciplinary
norms, leaving Posterity free to remedy discovered injustice. Posterity
includes legal immigrants.
“Civic” refers to reliability to human being (verb). Not
long after language and grammar emerged, humankind recognized that some persons
never choose civic-integrity. Therefore, ancient kingdoms, for example in
Sumer, 5,500 years ago, developed codes of law. The codes were civic. For example,
widows and orphans were not subject to taxation. The 1787 U.S. Constitution is
an exponential improvement on prior law codes.
CONTINUTION: However, the 1787 Constitution has been
rendered ineffectual by judges and lawyers who do not observe the 1787 intentions
reviewed above. Only the civic-citizens, We the People of the United States can
end U.S. tyranny.
The first step is to end Congressional freedom of religion
at the people’s expense. This may be accomplished by amending the First
Amendment’s religion clauses to: Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or [promoting] the free exercise thereof.
Columns
The
Real Origins of American Progressivism (theepochtimes.com)
Journalist Lee
Smith illustrates the importance of freedom of expression. Without freedom,
thinkers cannot, innocently or not, express civic arrogance. “Civic” refers to
reliability in human connections more than to civil rules. Without free
expression, fellow-citizens might not detect errors of intention,
comprehension, or omission. The civic-citizen is grateful for the opportunity
to evaluate expression and may caution the author, hoping to improve personal
opinion to one side or to each person. The neutral journalist is a
civic-facilitator.
Dualisms are at
stake. Reasons people lie include ignorance and intentions. The will to express
may come from commitment or passion. Passion can be grounded in the-good or in belief,
which may be erroneous. The listener’s confidence can come from God-mystery or
from self-reliance. A person’s God can be either the-unknown or belief without
personal-humility toward the God’s awareness. Smith seems to practice these
principles in interviewing anti-woke historian Lee Harris.
I oppose wokes
yet share their frustration with tradition’s antinomians. I think only the
self-styled elect would cast Ralph Waldo Emerson as woke originator. Consider
Emerson’s “Divinity School Address” (1838) to grasp what readers may perceive
about Emerson’s “self-reliance”. Quoting Emerson,
“Once leave your own knowledge of
God, your own sentiment, and take secondary knowledge, as St. Paul's, or George
Fox's, or Swedenborg's, and you get wide from God with every year this
secondary form lasts, and if, as now, for centuries—the chasm yawns to that
breadth, that men can scarcely be convinced there is in them anything divine.”
Antinomians have, so far, missed the Genesis 1:26-28 political
philosophy: only human individuals can& may collectively provide order and
prosperity to life on earth and to the earth. My sentiment is: God knows God and heeds-not my opinion.
I think Lee
Smith gave Lee Harris the opportunity to consider whether Harris knows American
history, Harris-intentions regarding American history, or what Harris-readers
like. I am grateful to both Smith and Harris for my opportunity to read, listen
and, for the first time, relate Emersonian-self-reliance to Genesis 1:28.
Quora
quora.com/unanswered/Where-does-the-moral-authority-for-law-come-from?
By anonymous
Moral authority comes from the laws of physics.
Humankind is appreciated as the
only living species that can& may provide comprehensive-safety&
security to life on earth and the extensions they may create, hereafter,
SECURITY.
The overarching threat to human
being (verb) is depletion of energy& mass under the general law of
relativity, discovered by Albert Einstein. In 2016, Einstein’s theory, that at
the speed of light, energy& mass are interchangeable (E=mc2),
was accepted as law.
Most facts about this law’s impact
on the universe are unknown, but the moment it happened, 13.8 billion years
ago, is called the Big Bang. Since then average temperature in the universe cyclically
declines as mass-emergence slows. Non-spontaneous conversion of mass into
energy or vice versa requires work, and efficiency-loss during the work causes
irreversibility.
Each lifetime, human or not, consumes
mass and energy and therefore is irreversible. Consequently, a human-being
(noun) ought to order personal ways of living so as to preserve human being
(verb) according to the laws of physics, hereafter PHYSICS. I call this mandate
self-interested civic-integrity. I call people who pursue SECURITY
civic-citizens.
A condition of human being is the
individual opportunity, power, energy, and authority to cheat responsibility-to
SECURITY. Forms of cheating include arrogant beliefs, indolence, crime, evil,
tyranny, traditional error, atrocity, and worse. Cheating has been a factor in
every generation since the beginning of time. Development of collective human
being hinges on applying the laws of physics to pursue SECURITY. To pursue
SECURITY, civic-citizens can& must develop& maintain statutory-justice
by which to constrain the consequences of cheaters. Cheaters develop doctrine
that opposes human being.
Most proponents of doctrine reason
to neglect PHYSICS and thereby cheat human being as a favored faction. They
feign to employ military force globally and unjust law-enforcement domestically.
Force prevails when civic-citizens accommodate it. Only intentional development
of statutory justice by civic-citizens can overcome the accommodation of
political tyranny.
The latest human-mutation is homo
sapiens, some 300 thousand years old. They developed language 10 thousand years
ago and both grammar and monotheism 4 thousand years ago. Monotheism is a human
construct that posits that a group’s doctrine can usurp PHYSICS. Monotheists
persuade fellow-citizens to accept& and serve a mystery.
Only 73 years ago, homo sapiens
applied PHYSICS sufficiently to place a man on the moon. Yet these 73 years
later civic chaos is remains divergent after 4,000 years, or more than 200
generations. This divergence may be attributed to the failure of doctrine to
ground SECURITY rather than PHYSICS.
Against the evidence, today’s
generation has no excuse for depending upon the future for reform to
humankind’s duty: SECURITY. By continuing to teach youth by erroneous example,
today’s adults promise failure of human being. It is not too late to reform,
and the key is the civic integrity to pursue SECURITY using PHYSICS rather than
tradition.
It is not too late. However,
today’s adults can& must stop practicing error: To youth, what adults do matters.
Law professors
lawliberty.org/book-review/was-there-ever-a-neoliberal-order/?
Anglo-American tradition caused the administrative state.
Only establishment of the 1787 U.S. Constitution can unleash
responsible-human-independence to “ourselves and our Posterity”.
Facebook
facebook.com/mike.gaudet.589, October 29,
2022
Mike,
I am frustrated, too, and appreciate your sharing. In my nearly 40 years in my
home, I have sported 2 political signs: Jay Dardenne for Governor, and your
sign in my yard now. Thank you for the privilege.
I think every Education Department needs reform, grounded in 3 evidences:
1. God asserts& appreciates that humankind can& may pursue order and
prosperity to life on earth and to the earth. This is suggested by the evidence
in every generation, by the political philosophy in Genesis 1:28, and by the
U.S. divergent chaos in 2022. Genesis 1 is a 5,500 year old Sumerian political
philosophy that was expressed by Hebrew scholars 3,000 years ago. So far,
humankind has not accepted God-given appreciation and responsibility. The
preamble to the U.S. Constitution proffers reform.
2. U.S. Education Departments can& may practice, facilitate, and encourage
responsible-human-independence (RHI) to our nation's youth and to adults who do
not perceive RHI in their self-interest. Most children who complete their
education experience should have the comprehension and intention to practice,
facilitate, and encourage the civic-integrity that is required for RHI. Civic
refers to responsible human connections more than civil rules.
3. Education Administrators can& may learn, practice, facilitate, and
encourage decision making based on ineluctable evidence.
"Ineluctable" means: not to be avoided, changed, escaped, neglected,
or resisted. With transparent commitment by administrators, the civic-citizens
can pursue the-ineluctable-truth. "Ineluctable" has been published
since 1570, and "ineluctable truth" since 1906, yet most
civic-citizens don't know the word and the phrase. Educators can change that in
a very short time -- rather than in decades or generations.
Even though I'm in my 80th year and have no grandchildren, I want to aid EBRP
schools and other schools to aid each child in their transition from innocent
to informed and intentional human being (verb).
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/ October 27, 2022
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is
ineluctable. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery (b. 1900)
Truth is what stands the test of experience. — Albert Einstein (b. 1879)
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/ October 26, 2022
“Woke” means: gullible to
social-democrat government expansion, such as, the gender-change industrial
complex, electric car tyranny, social-media enslavement, and social-democracy.
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/ October 25, 2022
Can anyone in the Biden Administration boast, "I did
not take the oath [of office] with the intention of presiding over the
dissolution of the world's strongest economy"? (Reagan, 1981)
facebook.com/chas.kennon October 13, 2022
Greetings Mr. Phil Beaver - It was a pleasure to speak with you at Chic-Fil-A!
Regarding Macroevolution, the point that
I was seeking to make in our discussion is that one of the many problems with
this theory is in regards to information.
I will attempt to outline my
Scripturally based argument here:
"In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1
“All things were made by him; and without
him was not any thing made that was made.” John 1:3
"For by him were all things created,
that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they
be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created
by him, and for him." Colossians 1:16
"Through faith we understand that
the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were
not made of things which do appear." Hebrews 11:3
1. All living organisms are essentially a
physical manifestation of "information" which is contained in its
DNA.
2. Information can be defined as a coded
message containing an expected action and intended purpose. (Under this
definition the words in my post here qualifies as information. They are encoded
- the words represent ideas. The intended/expected action is that the reader
will read, honestly consider, and either receive the truth thereof or provide a
rational and scientific rebuttal thereto.)
3. DNA qualifies under the definition of
information in that it contains a coded message and has an expected action -
the formation of proteins - with the intended purpose of design and life
4. According to the tenets of Information
Science:
A] There is no known law of nature, no
known process, and no known sequence of events that can cause information to
spontaneously originate by itself in matter
B] When its progress along the chain of
transmission events is traced backward, every piece of information leads to a
mental source, the mind of the sender.
5. The first tenet tells us that matter
does not spontaneously generate information and the second tells us that only a
mental source (mind) can generate new creative information which is necessary
for Macroevolution.
6. This truth is self-evident, for no one
reading this post would conclude that it was generated by a sequence of typos
that gradually accumulated over time. And whether one agrees or disagrees with
the information communicated, it is self-evident that a mind is ultimately
responsible for the information.
7. THUS LIFE CANNOT COME ABOUT OR EVOLVE
AS MACROEVOLUTION CLAIMS.
8. The initial information in the
"simplest" of organisms [Another problem for Evolution is the fact
that the simplest of organisms is not really simple but is rather IRREDUCABLY
COMPLEX demanding all of its many parts to be present and functioning
simultaneously thus precluding gradual part-by-part formation] necessitates a
mind.
9. Furthermore, even if the simplest of
organisms is graciously granted, [Another problem for Evolution which likes to
speak of the "Survival of the Fittest" but cannot account for the
"Arrival of the Fittest"
10. But according to science, MUTATIONS
HAVE NEVER BEEN OBSERVED TO ADD NEW INFORMATION TO THE GENOME AND THUS CANNOT
BE THE DRIVING MECHANISM FOR EVOLUTION.
"All point mutations that have been
studied on the molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information and
not increase it. Not even one mutation has been observed that adds a little
information to the genome." Dr. Lee Spetner [Mechanical engineer, applied
biophysicist, and physicist with PhD in physics from MIT]
11. Without NEW genetic information the
"simple" organism can never change into a more complex life form
because the difference in the two forms is different information
12. Therefore, there is no empirically
known naturalistic mechanism which can drive Evolution.
However, the Christian Worldview is fully
adequate to provide the intelligibility for the existence of genetic
information and the existence and complexities of life. An omnipotent and
transcendent MIND has created life as well as the complex information in each
and every organism - which by the way has only been observed to reproduce after
its kind.
The religious and un/anti-scientific
naturalistic belief of "Goo to you via the zoo as taught at LSU" is
actually irrational science fiction (1 Timothy 6:20)
Blessings to you sir!
Phil responds:
Hi Chaz,
I see you had a
birthday, and I wish you more happiness today.
I hope you will be
cheering for Tennessee to win the game with Alabama, but know there are lots of
Bama fans in these parts.
Your outpouring is
amazing and, as usual, beyond my expertise.
In my earlier message,
I sought to answer the question, "Can bacteria play a role in development
of human DNA" and thought I had found the answer, "Yes". You did
not think so, from the references I shared. This morning I looked harder and
found https://www.britannica.com/.../Biosynthetic-pathways-of.... I quote the
article, "DNA-based approaches used in the identification and
classification of species of bacteria include DNA-DNA hybridization, DNA
fingerprinting, and DNA sequencing. DNA-DNA hybridization, initially developed
in the 1980s, is used to determine the similarity of DNA sequences from
different organisms. "
The article features
an interesting depiction of the path from Eukaryote to placental mammals, which
includes homo sapiens.
Have a great week,
Phil
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.
