Saturday, December 10, 2022

the-God may be the ultimately-good human being (verb)

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 month

An epiphany for me: the-God may be the ultimately-good human being (verb)

In other words, humankind knows more than every about how to practice, facilitate, and encourage the-good behavior. Yet, so far, civic-citizens have tolerated elected and appointed officials who pledge-to but do-not uphold the Constitution and pursue statutory-justice “to ourselves and our Posterity”. When the civic-citizens start requiring government officials to be of We the People of the United States as defined in the preamble, an achievable better future will begin.

Then, the continuum of “ourselves and our Posterity” will begin to observe improvements in human being (verb). No one knows how powerful, energetic, and reliable human being (verb) can be.

News

Kari Lake Responds to Speculation She May Drop Trump After Midterms (theepochtimes.com)

The citizens who did not get to vote should organize their own lawsuit. They could overturn both the governor’s race and the senate race.

Wray Refuses to Answer Whether FBI Had Sources ‘Dressed as Trump Supporters’ on Jan. 6 (theepochtimes.com)

Thank you, Rep. Higgins.

Congress funds the U.S. government. It is time to defund the FBI and create a new agency dedicated to pursuing statutory justice according to the U.S. Constitution and the-ineluctable-evidence.

Ineluctable means: not to be avoided, escaped, changed, neglected, or resisted. Without the evidence, an agency must admit to itself and to the public, "We don't know the-ineluctable-truth".

Asked for "the truth", FBI bosses seem to obfuscate lies. Congress tolerates the circus, and only a civic-people, We the People of the United States as defined in the preamble, can stop the tyranny --- demand the-ineluctable-truth.

A-civic-people can& may initiate an achievable better future.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mcconnell-blew-the-midterms-says-trump-of-gop-election-losses_4861522.html

This report re-establishes my hope to cast my 5th & 6th votes for Trump as president.

 However, because he did not respond to even one earnest letter to reform the U.S. from Anglo-American traditions to the responsible-human-independence (RHI) proffered in the 1787 signed Constitution, I will not contribute one dime to his campaign or any other one. I am also apprehensive that he might choose another self-styled "witness for Christ" as a running mate.

Either the civic-citizens, We the People of the United States, accept the self-interest to come forth and practice RHI, or the U.S. dream awaits a new, as yet un-seeable, opportunity.

Want to know why there is so much homelessness in America? Comprehend Democrat-Party-policy, RINO competition over it, and the administrative-state's exponential-growth.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-court-blocks-congress-from-getting-trumps-tax-returns_4833962.html?

This is wonderful news.

No citizen& human-being should suffer the harassment, hatred& evil the Democrat Party and their sympathizers proffer.

The United States, at least the civic-citizens, otherwise called We the People of the United States, wants every person to progress toward the perfection they can achieve, and Donald Trump is such a person.

The Supreme Court justices are also such persons.

Columns

Why I prefer Roundheads to Royalists - Beardy History

 

The Classics Are for Everyone, Not Just Old, Dead, White Men (theepochtimes.com)

Christ is a construct of Christianity. Writing “Christ” seems an offense against Jesus, who may not be a dead, old, skin-colored man. Authors are responsible for what they write.

But Will Elections Change Anything? (theepochtimes.com) , Jeffrey A. Tucker

Tucker's valid concern has good urgency but insufficient agency.

Humankind is at the bottom of history's regression and has the opportunity to rise.

Each person can accept the evidence that only human being (verb) can pursue comprehensive-safety& security on earth (SECURITY). Only the individual who chooses to aid SECURITY can hope that humankind will promote responsible happiness to every person who pursues civic-integrity.

Read Donald Trump's inaugural address to perceive hope that he can& will overcome the administrative state. At least, you might choose to do your part -- accept agency.

Again:

Tucker would exercise agency by suggesting concrete change in public opinion that would accomplish the task. For example, the entity We the People of the United States could accept the obvious: humankind is solely responsible for comprehensive -safety& security on earth.

Accepting this obvious reality, they could amend the First Amendment so as to remove the confusion Congress, in 1791, imposed on the 1787 U.S. Constitution. That is, Congressional religious freedom.

An amendment that could effect this reform is suggested:  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or [promoting] the free exercise thereof. Religion would then be assigned to privacy rather than to civility and to legality.

Let journalists like Tucker get this reform done fast. They can.

Book Review: Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It

Obviously, some readers like low content with high repetition.

McLaren claims reviewing past scholarship and discounting it. I do not condone McLaren's stages, having read Fowler, John W., Stages of Faith, Harper, New York, 1981.

I reject McLaren for temporal trashing: Donald Trump.

Readers who'd like to examine their own psychology can get help from H. A. Overstreet. The Mature Mind,1949. And people who doubt Christianity can get wonderful aid from Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Divinity School Address", 1838.
 
Lastly, consider 3 thoughts. First, people who appreciate their opportunity to develop human being (verb) experience civic appreciation. Second, people who commit-to mutual appreciation can& may bond unto love. Third, love cannot be imposed on whatever constrains the consequences of human choice, whether the limit is physics or God.

Quora

quora.com/Considering-the-sources-presented-what-is-the-best-way-to-establish-a-civic-nation-inclusion-rights-values-beliefs? by Amal Chehade

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https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-make-sure-that-in-a-democracy-power-is-truly-wielded-by-the-people-and-not-just-vested-interests? by anonymous

Humankind observes that democracy is one of the worst forms of government. In a democracy, power is wielded by either the majority, a coalition of minorities, or a blood-letting, property-damaging minority-mob.

At the heart of democracy’s failure is the fact that every human being has the autonomy to either constrain chaos in their way of living or not. Statutory-justice must be pursued, practiced, facilitated, and encouraged in order to establish& maintain human viability. Justice is a self-interest.

Consequently, the United States proffers three government constraints. First, a republican form of government: Article IV, Section 4, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”. Second, means for the people to amend the Constitution: see Article V. Third, intentions to 6 civic disciplines to pursue statutory-justice “to ourselves and our Posterity”, as preferred in the preamble.

With these three constraints, the civic-faction of Americans can& may require the U.S. to serve We the People of the United States rather than government. “Civic” refers to individual-reliability in human connections& transactions more than dependency on higher power.

The U.S. Constitution proffers the pursuit of written justice through the slow work of 1) identifying injustice, 2) considering possible remedies, and 3) selecting the best remedy. The 50 U.S. states try remedies when injustice is discovered, and the other states may benefit.

Congress can& may legislate a supreme remedy, provided Congress does not exceed powers granted by the Constitution; see Article I. The Administration executes the law and cannot exceed the Constitution’s limits; see Article II. The Supreme Court can& may consider a citizen’s complaint and like Congress cannot exceed the Constitution’s limits on the court; see Article III.

So far, the U.S. constitutional republic is not working, because individual neglect of civic-reliability has fostered a majority who prefer liberal-democracy rather than the-rule-of-statutory-justice. A remedy for this dilemma is to educate ourselves and our posterity that civic-integrity is a self-interest. Civic-citizens can hold government officials accountable for trying to effect a liberal-democracy rather than the U.S. republic. 

Ask not how to establish democracy. Ask how to establish& pursue statutory-justice “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

quora.com/How-do-ethics-influence-a-persons-total-being? by Damn........

Ethics is a scholarly pursuit by a particular group that bemuses the unique individual from pursuing personal perfection.


Everyone can& may know that actual-reality holds human being (verb) accountable for comprehensive-safety& security to living beings on earth and to the earth (SECURITY).

In “the west” the Sumerians commented on this political philosophy considering their system of Gods. Monotheism commented; different groups constructed their-God, purported to usurp human-responsibility for SECURITY. Hebrew scholars introduced Moses’ laws, by which usurpation could be negotiated. Christianity argued that Christ fulfills the law by correction. Protestants introduced good works as a condition. Ideologies in the rest of the world have some similarities, especially diversity.

With 8 billion people, the ideologies are countless, and with each one, there is an ethic. Followers have diverse understanding of their professed ethic, so there might be as many doctrine as there are inhabitants.

Meanwhile, the-laws-of-physics constrain the consequences of every human choice. By observing -- accurately, precisely& deeply – the consequences of every choice& action, people can& may pursue the-ineluctable-truth. Ineluctable means “not to be avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, or resisted”. With repetitious confirmation, humankind may approach discovery of the-ineluctable-truth.

The journal of the human quest, complete with errors& discoveries, may be regarded the ethics of actual-reality.

https://www.quora.com/If-everyone-has-their-own-version-of-the-truth-how-can-we-resolve-conflicts? by anonymous

Rudyard Kipling, in “The Man Who Would be King”, addressed the dilemma of ineluctable-evidence vs human constructs. When the men decided the king was actually a god and planned to marry him to a princess, the women collaborated-on shared doubt and cut the king’s wrist. Blood convinced the men they were wrong.

The-laws-of-physics always hold sway over reason, revelation, doctrine, lies, gods, governments, and other human constructs.

The younger generations, who unfortunately seem to savor dependency, now observe diverse chaos and may soon deplete their benefactors.

quora.com/unanswered/What-does-it-mean-to-have-dignity-in-the-eyes-of-society-and-how-do-we-ensure-that-everyone-has-an-equal-opportunity-to-achieve-it? by anonymous

The question:  What does it mean to have "dignity" in the eyes of society, and how do we ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve it?”

Phil Beaver’s answer: Dignity means being worthy. The person who aids comprehensive-safety& security, hereafter Security, to life on earth comprehends& practices their unique human being (verb): they accept their opportunity, power, energy, and authority to practice responsible-human-independence (RHI). Fellow-citizens appreciate& celebrate RHI-citizens.

I need a new word to explain my response. The new word is: “aphysics”. It mimics “atheist”, which expresses non-participation in theism. Non-participation would not exist if theism had not been constructed. In other words, an atheist would not think to call a believer a “theist”. Also, it would not occur to a theist that they may lack humility toward the-God, whatever it may be.
Theism grew from humankind’s discovery experiences. Primitive human being (verb) attributed unknown phenomena to spirits or gods, whereas they could have awaited discovery. As discovery progressed, some mysteries were eliminated and the god/spirit-count diminished. Some polytheisms converted to diverse monotheisms, each group competing to posit the-supreme-theism or opposing ideology. People who did not engage competitive-theism were labeled atheists. There’d be no need for “atheism” if theists were not arrogant toward whatever constrains the consequences of human choice. Because humankind has not reformed, theism restored humankind’s chaos as aphysics.

Actual-reality conforms to the-laws-of-physics, hereafter, PHYSICS. Human choices& actions encounter PHYSICS. For example, the person who claims to be divine nevertheless bleeds. No man can witness for the divine yet can& may render opinion, for example, that PHYSICS is not divine. PHYSICS is discovered through research that is faithful to the-ineluctable-evidence. (Ineluctable means: not to be avoided, escaped, changed, neglected, or resisted.) Often research is stymied, waiting for discovery of instruments needed for discernment. For example, no aware person doubts that the earth is like a globe, now that space travel empowers direct observation of earth’s entire mass in orbit.

Failure to discover leaves research with the conclusion, We don’t know. In other words, when research does not confirm that perception represented the-ineluctable-evidence, it is insufficient to render rational evaluation of the results. That is, the-ineluctable-evidence does not react to reason.

To claim to know what has not been discovered is aphysics. The fellow-citizen who avoids aphysics deserves appreciation by society. So far, society has suppressed human being (verb) by not inculcating these principles “to ourselves and our Posterity”, quoting the U.S. Constitution or to humankind to pursue order& prosperity, quoting Genesis 1:28, a Sumerian political philosophy.

Every person on earth can& may comprehend these principles and establish SECURITY in their location. It makes no difference if the RHI way of living gets established outside the United States: the suggestion was expressed millennia ago and recorded by Hebrew scholar-vernacular in Genesis 1:28, 3,000 years ago. When we begin to inculcate these principles to ourselves, an achievable better future can& may emerge.

quora.com/unanswered/How-can-we-make-laws-more-uniform-throughout-the-world? by anonymous

Each human-being can& may use their opportunity, their power, their energy, and their authority to responsibly pursue the happiness they prefer rather than submit to the dictates of another. Why would anyone who accepts their unique autonomy give it up?

quora.com/Considering-the-sources-presented-what-is-the-best-way-to-establish-a-civic-nation- quora.com/What-is-the-main-purpose-of-politics? by Graham C Lindsay

Politics seems the umpire in humankind’s pursuit of comprehensive-safety& security to life on earth.

The-laws-of-physics, hereafter PHYSICS, make it obvious that humankind is responsible for comprehensive-safety& security for living on earth. Neither God nor government can usurp humankind’s responsibility. Responsibility is both a physical and a psychological subset of PHYSICS.

Each person can& may acquire responsibility for their way of living. If so, they aid humankind’s pursuit of comprehensive-safety& security. I call the combined practice, facilitation& encouragement “responsible-human-independence, RHI”. RHI is a consequence of a dominant branch of PHYSICS: economics. Each human-being can& may earn responsible pursuit of personal happiness.

Each person can& may constrain their way of living so as to continually produce the revenues needed to pay their way. Necessary revenues pay each: direct living expenses, saving for the-unexpected and for retirement, and taxes. In both expenses and taxes, the RHI citizen is paying for shared necessities to human being (verb). If someone does not accept this responsible-self-interest, they are dependent on fellow-citizens. Dependencies include arrogance, religion, indolence, crime, tyranny, evil, atrocity, and worse.

 

A person who does all that PHYSICS accommodates to comprehend& intend RHI needs assistance until they can sustain their chosen lifestyle. For example, youth and disabled-adults deserve care. Each person can& may pursue RHI. But some choose dependency. On that choice, humankind divides itself: RHI and dependency.

Politics is umpire in the continual quest for comprehensive-safety& security on earth according to PHYSICS rather than to opinion.

quora.com/unanswered/If-a-moral-law-exists-who-made-it-and-why-should-we-follow-it? by anonymous

Our branch of human-beings, homo sapiens, is about 300,000 years old, and beginning about 10,000 years ago, it became obvious that humankind is solely responsible to pursue order& prosperity on earth. By observing the consequences of human choice& action, observers can& may guide advantageous response to events.

The answers are discovered through the-ineluctable-evidence of the-laws-of-physics. For example, if female& male partners consent to sexual intimacy, they may discover responsibility for a human-conception.

Unfortunately, subsequent civilizations adapted paganism’s many gods to monotheisms many gods. The consequence is God, an entity to which no civilization proclaims humility. Each civilization demands God to conform to their doctrine. Meanwhile, many individuals compete for wealth& power so as to satisfy sexual intimacy.

The consequence is babel. Thank goodness for the internet: we are in the transition to reform.

Soon, cultures will develop each individual’s opportunity, power, energy, and authority to pursue civic-integrity as self-interest. As the faction of inhabitants who participate in the development increases, an achievable better future will emerge.

quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-origin-of-our-moral-compass-How-can-we-make-it-stronger? by anonymous

The consequences of human choices are constrained by the laws of physics. Humankind continually improves by observing the physical consequences of choices and applying what is experienced or observed, in order to enjoy an achievable better future.

For example, a man realizes too late that the woman he loves seeks a spouse who will provide lifetime family monogamy; that is, a man who comprehends and intends to unite to her, her children, her grandchildren, and beyond. Once she realized he was unaware, she terminated their courtship. Now, he knows, but it’s over.

To the basic, the fact that the human-being must eat to survive constrains human choices. This is only one of the laws of physics, in particular, the law of conservation of energy to life on earth. For responsible-human-independence (RHI) each person must earn their daily needs, savings for personal future, and taxation. RHI is in the individual’s self-interest, in order to make possible happiness according to their responsible preferences. RHI springs from civic-integrity – awareness and accommodation of fellow-citizens including self.

But not every fellow-citizen acquires comprehension and intention to human being (verb). Each human-being has the opportunity, the power, the energy, and the authority to pursue or accept a dependent way of living. Dependencies include arrogant religion, indolence, crime, tyranny, atrocity, and worse.

Consequently, taxation must cover law enforcement, in order to constrain dependencies plus the research to discover and eliminate injustices. The rule of traditional law is insufficient: the civic-people are responsible to continually develop statutory justice. An RHI-culture can facilitate and encourage reform to dependent fellow-citizens.

These principles were primitively practiced by the Sumerians, some 5,500 years ago. Since then, discovery of the laws of physics accelerated until lately, the U.S. is planning to place a nuclear reactor on Mars/the moon in 15 years. However, no culture has improved on the Sumerian political philosophy: humankind is solely responsible for comprehensive safety and security to life on earth. Subsequent civilizations have erroneously demanded diverse higher powers they construct to usurp human responsibility.

I know of one proposal in history to improve on the Sumerian political philosophy. The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a civic-people, We the People of the United States, intended to practice, facilitate, and encourage 6 public practices: integrity, justice, security, strength, prosperity, and responsibility “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

Achieving a better future seems impossible this November 2, 2022. However, the first requirement is a vision, and this essay offers one. The purpose of expressing it is to get started so “ourselves and our Posterity” can& may improve it. I hope to see action and improvements soon.

quora.com/What-is-the-point-of-philosophy-What-are-its-benefits-for-us-as-individuals-and-society-at-large? by anonymous

I think philosophers would like to know and report every thought about a topic. However, they have a political problem: for survival, they write for philosophers rather than writing for fellow citizens.

As a consequence, they only share opinions of fellow philosophers and other self-styled “scholars”. In general, that’s the way academia works. To compete for funding, most scholars ignore the public, whom they should serve. Consequently, some powerful words get buried in scholarship.

Consider, for example, “ineluctable”. I think it means: not to be avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, or resisted. “Ineluctable” was published in 1570, yet most citizens don’t know the word. Synonyms include “inescapable”, which suggests contention, and “inevitable”, which implies time. That is, a person may survive cancer and heart attack to only postpone death. Ineluctable death is the fact that body, mind, and person stopped functioning. “Ineluctable death” discounts both delay and timing. “Ineluctable” is exact, but scholars don’t promote the word for public usage.

Scholars published “ineluctable truth” and “the ineluctable truth” in 1906. When I discovered the phrase, I wanted to make it specific, so I used hyphens to invite the reader to refrain from disassembling. I want to encourage readers to accept and express, “I don’t know”, when that is so. For example, “What is the mystery of God?” I don’t know —- there’s no ineluctable evidence. “Truth” means the actually-real facts about something. However, people can always debate “something”: what is God?

I used a search engine for “the-ineluctable-truth”, and it mostly ignored the hyphens. I switched engines and got only music references. Readers can circumvent scholars who control search engines if they know to combine “Phil Beaver”+“the-ineluctable-truth”.

I can only trust fellow citizens to teach each other “ineluctable” and “the-ineluctable-truth”, two powerfully exact expressions.

 quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-definition-of-integrity-What-is-the-definition-of-honesty-What-is-the-definition-of-morality? by anonymous

Given integrity, honesty, and morality, integrity seems the most essential to self-interest, both personally and collectively.

Submitting to belief, a person can, in honesty, destroy their opportunity for responsible-human-independence (RHI). RHI means practicing, facilitating& encouraging a way of living that aids fellow-citizens in their responsible pursuit of the happiness they prefer rather than imposes on them someone else’s vision for their life. For example, the person who believes a higher power will relieve them from tyranny always suffers oppression. The RHI-citizen manages the despots they encounter; the civic-citizen earns their way of living plus enough to save for wealth and to pay taxes.

Submitting to a doctrine of morality, a person can ruin their opportunity to benefit from the-laws-of physics. For example, “Here, it’s mother, God, and country: if you don’t like it, leave”, is ruinous to the believer. The speaker doesn’t realize the hearer silently pities him/her. Unfortunately pity does not stop the ruin.

That brings us to:  What is integrity? First, it’s a practice with a consequence. In practice, a person accepts sincere concern. They initiate research to pursue ineluctable* evidence, aware of 3 possible outcomes: the concern was: founded in falsehood, affirmed, or unresolved. If false, the concern and evidence are recorded so that other& future-citizens can& may benefit from the research. If affirmed, consideration of how to positively benefit from the discovery is undertaken. If unresolved, further research is demanded; perhaps the negatives suggest a new research-direction or new tools of perception must be invented. Practicing integrity often yields extending consequence:  The concern seems valid, and we don’t know the-ineluctable-truth. [*Ineluctable means: not to be avoided, changed, escaped, hidden, neglected, or resisted.]

Perhaps the most contested concern in history is this: Only human being (verb) can pursue comprehensive-safety& security to living species on earth and to their extensions into space. Ineluctable-evidence exists, yet groups construct opposing doctrine. Doctrine may eventually yield to the-ineluctable-truth.

Each person who aids comprehensive-safety& security on earth contributes to human being.

Law professors

https://www.quora.com/May-God-with-integrity-practice-infidelity-and-abuse/answer/Simon-Binks-2/comment/73410777?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=3250589111  from last week

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facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, December 10, 2022

“When your options are rabidly partisan legacy media, Democrat activists posing as a Capitol Press Corps, a pay4play Lincoln Project blog, and ‘new media’ like Semafor (allegedly owned by Sam Bankman-Fried), of course it makes sense to cultivate an alternative.” Christina Pushaw

With the same reasoning, in 2013, I started two blogs, promotethepreamble.blogspot.com and understandtheknowledge.blogspot.com. Later, I added cipbr.blogspot.com. Perhaps they'll be there long after I am gone, and people can know my opinions while I was here.

Today, I discovered from The Epoch Times editor's opinion about a death in China and my own experience that the-God is most likely reliable human being (verb) that the continuum "ourselves and our Posterity" (quoting the preamble to the U.S. Constitution) will develop. We know that not everyone aids approach to perfection, and in the end, there may yet be people who choose dependency. Physics is simply not perfect.

Chris Nalepa | Facebook Nov 27, 2022

I tried to talk to a BR city council person about Baton Rouge, a city influenced by the-metaphysical-Jesus, with the potential to promote Jesus' politics, leaving divinity to churches. I said our youth need that politics. We seemed to agree, vaguely. But . . .

Unfortunately, I mentioned that Santa is real -- as a symbol of goodwill to all, including pagans -- during this season of distinct celebrations by each Western religion and others.

He said, "Since you say that Santa is real, I have no time to talk to you."

Not another word was possible. The horror!

facebook.com/john.parks.92505, Nov 18, 2022

Critical “to ourselves and our Posterity” is how we respond to old thoughts. Was Tolstoy positive toward the republican form of government? He seemed to advocate the-metaphysical-Jesus or the aid humankind can& may glean from the Jesus story.

I’ve studied and analyzed Ralph Waldo Emerson’s must read, “Divinity School Address” (1838) since 1992 and only this week came to grips with a small part of its failure to Christian-woke-ism. Nowhere did Emerson highlight Jesus’ literal self-defense on facing the death sentence. St. John tells us Jesus uttered: the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. I think it is risky to try to embellish what the man, Jesus, may have said. Emerson cannot be faulted for not quoting John. That leaves it “to ourselves and our Posterity” to glean practical suggestions from the-metaphysical-Jesus.

Also, “truth” addresses the actual-reality about something. Defining “something” leaves the speaker the expressive power to lie. I recall Bill Clinton’s fame: That depends on what is is. I want to think Jesus addressed “the-ineluctable-truth”, even though “ineluctable” was not available in English until the sixteenth century. I think “ineluctable” means not to be avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, or resisted. For example, it may have taken centuries to get the perception right (views from orbit), yet there was always ineluctable evidence that the earth is like a globe.

In a democracy, “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it” and in a republic, majority opposition does not render statutory-justice wrong. Did Tolstoy advocate constitutional republicanism or the pursuit of statutory-justice?

PRB again, on Dec 3, 2022

This morning, I happened upon this sentence, in Historical Jesus - Wikipedia: "Leo Tolstoy saw Jesus as championing Christian anarchism (although Tolstoy never actually used the term "Christian anarchism"; reviews of his book following its publication in 1894 coined the term)".

I resist "Christian anarchism", as it distracts from Jesus' anarchism, which seems more political than religious. Jewish anarchism seems appropriate, but also narrow. Jesus reportedly said, “Before Abraham was born I am”.

My focus stems from November discovery, thanks to Keith Holmes at University Baptist Church, that to non-Christians, "Christ" distracts from Jesus. To discuss "Christ" invokes the Christian debate with the Jews, and lessens potential to influence civic-citizens to consider Jesus' political philosophy - perhaps collaborate for the-good.

Viewed this way, Christian proselytizing seems errant if not offensive to the authentic Jesus, which I don’t know and study. The apostle Matthew, in Matthew 10:32, reported that Jesus cautioned against such practices. “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.”

The historical Jesus was aware of the Jewish messiah, but “Christ” came during his afterdeath. “Christ” comes from late-English spelling of the Greek translation of “messiah” or anointed one. See Christ (title) - Wikipedia. John, in John 18:37 tells us that, facing his sentencing, Jesus said, “. . .the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” He said nothing about “messiah”, “Son of Man” or other controversies. I don’t think “truth” is a sufficient expression and therefore try to persuade citizens to demand the-ineluctable-truth. Ineluctable means: not to be avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, or resisted.

I often say, in political terms, “Atheism is a leap of faith I cannot take.” Likewise, Christianity is a leap of faith I cannot take. I don’t think “faith” requires commitment, so speak of my trust and commitment. I advocate the authentic Jesus and think the successive generations, “ourselves and our Posterity” (quoting the preamble), can discern the-good, in order to develop civic-integrity.

facebook.com/john.parks.92505, Nov 7, 2022

I like your post, John Parks. The age-old-saw, "Don't express politics or religion on Facebook" can& may be retired in order to share rational thought that might save our republic. Fellow-citizens may learn to converse about responsible pursuit of the happiness they pursue rather than what someone else would impose on them. And your timing relative to Thanksgiving was great. Sorry I missed it on Nov 7.

The-civic-people, We the People of the United States, as abstractly defined in the preamble, may yet establish the pursuit of responsible-human-independence (RHI). RHI is proffered in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. The 1791 Bill of Rights restored Anglo-American woke-ism: the English belief that the-God competition (especially Catholic v Protestant) will someday make some nation great. We could perceive and now know that someday never came.

All the while, everyone could& should heed the 5,500 year old Sumerian political philosophy: humankind is solely capable of pursuing comprehensive-safety& security on earth. Hebrew scholars expressed this, in their vernacular, in Genesis 1:28 as part of the civil competition to convince the-God to usurp RHI. But they got hung up in Moses' law. Luther objected, and the consequence is exponential polytheism.

These 5,000 years later, NASA aims to start a colony on the moon or on Mars in 10 years, yet civilization still competes to construct the supreme God. All the while, the-laws-of-physics constrain the consequences of each person's choices& actions.

Neither the-God nor a government can usurp RHI. Physics does not comport to constructed law.

The "ourselves and our Posterity" of We the People of the United States can& may vote in self-interest toward the civic-integrity that is required for RHI.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, November 17, 2022 and on Twitter

Each human-being can& may use their opportunity, their power, their energy, and their authority to RESPONSIBLY pursue the happiness they prefer rather than submit to the dictates of another. Why would anyone who accepts their unique autonomy embrace dependency?

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, November 14, 2022 and on Twitter

Friends who are watching Mike Pence on TV just now may consider that he betrayed both the ancient homo sapiens’ political-philosophers and fellows who are civic-citizens, We the People of the United States, when he did not yield to the Commander in Chief, his running mate, President Donald Trump.

Pence is as capable as any human-being to observe the-metaphysical-Jesus, who reportedly said, “Render unto [Donald Trump] what is of [We the People of the United States] and . . . “.

And the-metaphysical-Jesus expressed presence in the beginning if he said “Before Abraham was born I am”.

And if the-metaphysical-Jesus corrected Moses’ law regarding divorce (Matthew 19:1-8), he did so referencing the ancient political philosophers, depicted in Genesis 1.

In claiming to “witness for Christ”, any man who does not accommodate the-metaphysical-Jesus that everyone can glean from the Bible, takes risk I would not take. It seems Pence did. We need not follow.


facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, October 31, 2022 and on twitter

Genesis 1:28: humankind is solely responsible to all living beings for order& prosperity on earth.

(PRB, representing A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation).

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.

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