Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Reversing acceleration toward chaos

 The comment box below invites readers to comment.

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on theineluctabletruth, which can only be discovered. Ineluctable means:  Not to be assailed, avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, or resisted. Some people erroneously imagine limiting theineluctabletruth, for example, changing it.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society. Civic citizens neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from anyone. Civic citizens are reliably responsible in connections and transactions.


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: The civic faction, We the People of the United States, proffer & practice 6 public pursuits —- integrity, justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility, “in order to” pursue happiness “to ourselves and our Posterity”. I want to improve my interpretation by listening-to and considering other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787 text, unless it is amended by the civic-people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one with status 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 appreciative fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the faction who collaborate for statutory justice, We the People of the United States.

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 to both born Americans and legal immigrants. Congressional freedom of religion, which fellow citizens have no means to constrain, oppresses freedom to develop integrity. This can be remedied by changing the First Amendment from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.

Selected theme from a couple months

Reversing acceleration toward chaos

I perceive, in Genesis 1:26-28, authorization if not demand to each fellow citizen: humankind has the power to constrain chaos on earth. I think this political philosophy was primitively expressed 5500 years ago in Sumerian law codes and has been affirmed by the mysterious authority ever since. I think the authority is thegood.

Today, research and discovery empowers humankind to plan colonizing either Mars or the moon in a couple decades, yet adults employ competitive monotheisms and economic philosophies to sustain war against the world’s children. Church and state partnerships keep civic people bemused, and few citizens accept the power to constrain chaos in their lives by pursuing thegood (a word contraction to express singularity).

It takes a quarter century for a willing infant to acquire the comprehension and intention to pursue human being (verb) rather than animalism, spiritualism or other pursuits. Adults should do all they can to aid children. I think it is possible for humankind to accept the authority of thegood and reform to civic integrity in time to represent the good earth upon settling its first extension.

#USpreambler

News

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/in-depth-in-first-debate-a-shadow-war-between-establishment-reaganism-and-insurgent-trumpism-5481073, Phil Beaver comment on 8/27/23

@Joke Buyed-in

Obviously, no human can constrain the mystery of God. Nor can a human undo what is. History shows and Genesis 1:26-28 states that humankind may rule life on earth. Humankind may, and God cannot rule, without self-contradiction. No human can constrain the mystery of God.

#USpreambler

 

Columns

The Common Sense of the Hillbilly Thomist – (lawliberty.org)

I read your book review at LibertyLaw. As you continue, help comprehend and share O'Connor's thought On Page 81, of the nonfiction book, "Mystery and Manners" (1969), posthumously published.

“You may [erroneously] think . . . the reason I write is to make the reader see what I see, and that writing fiction is primarily a missionary activity.” I write for the sake of the art. “St. Thomas called art ‘reason in making.’ The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees. For him, to be reasonable is to find [in something] the spirit which makes it itself. It is to intrude upon the timeless, and that is only done by the violence of a single minded respect for the truth.” (changes mine)

What's fascinating is the word "violence". What do you think she means by that?

Note: below, please find mention of “Law and Manners”, spoken at the outset of WWI.

Anatomy of the Administrative State | The Epoch Times

“Free people act without regard for the public good” seems one of the worst thoughts I’ve read, starting my 9th decade. It shows the weakness of British influence in its provinces. Despite 247 years’ celebration of liberty and freedom from the British Parliament, the American civic faction thrives on “Don’t tread on” my opportunity to responsibly pursue the happiness I perceive rather than submit to bureaucratic impositions. “Civic” means responsibility in human connections and transactions rather than civility to rules. What empire people don’t comprehend is that the civic faction, We the People of the United States, thrives on responsible-human-independence in addressing the demands of economic viability. Anglo-thinkers just don’t comprehend that the civic-American accommodates “liberty& freedom” celebrations but demands independence. I appreciate Epoch Times for publishing modern British thought about America. I’m reminded of my view of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg dream; of, by, and for each civic-citizen.
#USpreambler

Tooting Your Own Horn | The Epoch Times

Roger Kimball gave us the opportunity to learn about British Judge Moulton, who described civic integrity as “obedience to the unenforceable” at the outset of World War 1. I think Moulton overlooked the authority of thegood, which drives humankind to its ultimate achievements.

The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffered pursuit of perfection, and the faction, We the People of the United States, may and can return the U.S. republic to independence from mimicking Britain’s church and state democracy. Congress’s freedom of religion can be ended by changing the First Amendment from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.

#USpreambler

Bible forum

What Does the Bible Say About Intentionally Sinning? (openbible.info)

Suggested James 4:17 on 11/29/23.

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/gcleve.wright , December 19, 2023

Our Sunday school class recently studied the book of James for six weeks. James advocates his brother, Jesus as the messiah promised to unite the Jewish tribes and meanwhile influence the Jews to live perfectly -- no repetition of error (sin). Shockingly, James addresses adultery and murder as "lawbreaking", implying equal severity. During the study, I discovered the enrichment of reading both the New International Version and the Complete Jewish Bible, both readily available online.

Neither NIV nor CJB capitalizes "him" in James 4:13. Interestingly, CJB has "power" where NIV has "strength".

Jesus' civic influence gives me power.

James 4:10-13 enriches understanding: your interest increases my contentment.

BTW, James 4:8 is one of my favorite poems. Cynthia had a beautifully framed art rendering, which we gave some friends leaving town after both had lost their jobs in truly bad circumstances.

https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/, Dec 12, 2023

This is my 80th season-of-goodwill-to-all and first to happily articulate that I accept without objection or characterization the mystery, whatever constrains the consequences of human choices and actions, in order to pursue and celebrate Jesus’ civic influence. “Civic” refers to reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions. I perceive Jesus’ civic influence by considering obscurely reported dialogues from his life, then pursuing Jesus’ principles "to ourselves and our Posterity", most of whom appreciate civic integrity. We study, listen, and learn.

My joy during Christmas 2023 is grounded in two recorded principles and an intention. First, Genesis 1:26-28, both New International Version and Complete Jewish Bible, reports that humankind has the duty to rule to the good on earth. Second, Matthew 5:48 reports that Jesus informs that a person may and can perfect their unique human being (verb) during life. We intend to know and perfect our behaviors; joy to all is my duty.

Phil Beaver

If Jesus had not been born, we could not celebrate his influence to the good. Beginning my 9th decade, I feel unquenchable joy -- appreciation to Jesus' civic influence.

 

https://www.facebook.com/luc.vanmuylem.7, December 11, 2023

I think the answer to your question is suggested in the literature combination of four principles: first, Genesis 1:26-28; second, Matthew 5:48; third, Matthew 19:3-9; and fourth James 2:8-11.

The first is 5500 year-old Sumerian political philosophy: female and male human being may and can rule to the good on earth. Churches, governments, and most people vainly attempt to construct an entity that can and will usurp human duty.

The second, 2000 years old, is Jesus' influence to perfect contribution to the good on earth, with no intention-to reward beyond self-rule under the first principle.

The third, again 5500 years old, is that a man is intimate to a woman in order to unite to her intentions to the good, and they become one, again according to the first principle.

The fourth, about 2900 years old, is that adultery is lawbreaking as severe as murder.

The ancient tradition of men subjugating women may and can be constrained by the rule of law. Armed with these 4 principles, men can unite to women to reform tradition.

https://www.facebook.com/grady.ferry, December 8, 2023

The path to October 7, 2023's barbarism awakened me to:

An idea: Adults compete for wealth and military power at the expense of humankind's children.

Ancient mandate: A 5500 year-old political philosophy (from Sumer) is that humankind has the power to rule to the good on earth, while the gods rule other worlds. Scribes expressed the philosophy 3000 years ago, interpreted in Genesis 1:26-28, NIV or CJB. The rest of the Bible discloses the consequences of neglecting Genesis 1:26-28, in order to construct competitive monotheism for wealth and war.

A reform: Religions and governments do all they can to suppress the Genesis 1 message. Individuals aid children if they constrain chaos in their way of living, caution harmful fellow citizens, and aid statutory justice. We the People may and can collaborate to constrain religions and governments.

Immediate action: Reform Education Departments to intend every youth to both comprehend and intend to develop their unique human being (verb, or practice) by age 25. Harm-and-killing is accepted in the animal world.

https://www.facebook.com/larry.nalls, Dec 6, 2023

I like the SEC. Let's happily roll up those wolverines in roses.

On Sunday after an unknown brutally flattened Jaden Daniels, preventing us from witnessing how he would finish the LSU game, I wrote a scathing post, read it, and deleted it. Coaches cannot control what adolescents do. (It takes 25 years for a human body to complete constructing the wisdom-gathering parts of their brain. If they have acquired necessary comprehension, they can then choose intention to develop human being (verb). Maybe in another 50 to 75 years, civic integrity will pan out.)

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009118567277, Dec 1, 2023

I regard your book-reading like picking flowers.

I read the wiki article, which I quote: the eruption was equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT (840 PJ)—about 13,000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb (13 to 16 kt) that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, and four times the yield of Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated at 50 Mt.

I'm busy composing letters to Mike Johnson, Speaker. He gives me hope during a time of immense opportunity.

facebook.com/rodger.kamenetz, November 26, 2023

Raachel Jurovics It's day one for we who are living.

We may consider Genesis 1:26-28, both New International Version and Complete Jewish Bible. The message is: Humankind, male and female, is in theGod's psychological image, so that they may rule on earth. And since theGod said they may, it follows that they can. And further, since it was theGod's will, theGod will not usurp the human power.

And Jesus' civic influence affirms the message: Be perfect in the image of theGod.

To rule is to effect thegood on earth. Therefore, citizens pursue both Jesus' influence and the Genesis-1 message, in order to practice, facilitate, promote, and continuously pursue statutory justice. As statutory justice increases, war mongers know they are doomed by their desires. Most of them reform in order to survive, and all humankind celebrates each victory.

PRB response, Nov 27


Raachel Jurovics You read my post in good response to the chaos we are experiencing.

Genesis 1:26-28 a nearly 3000 year old view of the creator god and consequential political philosophy in polytheistic Mesopotamia about 5500 years ago. They invented the rule of law, developed Sumerian codes updated by the conquering Babylonian, Hammurabi.

Legislation pursued human behavior to the good, with harsh punishment for bad and evil. As discovery of actual reality increased, polytheism lessened, and human evolution could have brought about widespread individual and collective rule to the good.

In Genesis 2, Middle Eastern scholars of competitive monotheism switched from "God" to "the Lord God" and used Adam to create a patriarchal religion. Descendants developed the law of Moses, then the Torah, and political philosophers switched from judges to kings. The kingdom fractured, north and south. A faction predicted an anointed king who would unite Israel. Israel continuously improves the Torah now and into the future.

A faction of the Southern Kingdom held Jesus to be the king, anointed to unite Israel. Paul developed politics of Jesus as savior to pagans as well as Jews. The movement adopted the Greek title for anointed one, O Xhristos, taking Jesus out of the political debate. European equivalent was Crist, which 500 years ago became Christ. Many people think and speak "Christ", leaving Jesus' civic influence out of their thinking.

Jesus' civic influence may be discerned from the reported direct dialogues. Typically, he stated the other person's error(s), observed their regret, and told them: go and choose the good. He confronted men who were going to stone a prostitute and they relented. He accused Judas, who did not reform from betrayal then terminated his own life. He accused Simon Peter, who wept with remorse and lived on.

Jews, Muslims, Christians, and many other religions appreciate Jesus. Yet there are some 45,000 Christian sects. Religions comprising about 80% of the world's population hold Jesus' civic influence for the good.

Reform from "Christ" to Jesus, leaving the Messiah for Israel's hopes and comforts, would benefit humankind, and thus the God of Genesis 1:26-28. I don't know, but think that God is physics and its progeny, such as psychology. For all I know, it is Jesus.

facebook.com/douglas.moreman, November 26, 2023

Chemical engineering neither engages in nor promotes political science. Some chemical engineers don't follow professional obligations.

facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007230735517, November 22, 2023

Consider Genesis 1:26-28 for example. It is loaded, and a skeptic like me can start with the Complete Jewish Bible's words:

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth.” So God created humankind in his own image; in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. God blessed them: God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that crawls on the earth.”

Now, let's apply Larry's rules, based on what humankind has discovered in the 2700 years since the writing.
1. The beginning could be before the Big Bang, or before the earth formed, or when the first cell formed or when homo sapiens emerged 300,000 years ago.
2. Before Chapter 1 of Genesis there was the Mesopotamian literature -- codes of law and national treaties. After, there's the entire Bible, which elucidates the consequences of not observing Genesis 1:26-28, I prefer NIV.
3. In Matthew 5:48, the writer claims that Jesus suggests that each of us pursue personal perfection in the image of God. In Mattew 19:3-9, man unites to woman to become one. In John 10:34, it says Jesus said your scripture says you are gods.
4. The Hebrew scribe for Genesis 1 perhaps expressed hearsay about ancient Mesopotamian geo-political philosophy regarding the beginning. In Genesis 2, the scribes leave God to take up the Lord God in a narrative about creation of man only, then addition of woman as a helper. However, the originator of Genesis 1, in V 26-28 conveys that humankind has the power and authority to rule on earth. God assigns responsibility to humankind. The key phrase is "in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule".
5-10. Accepting the directive in Genesis 1:26-28 as well as suggestions reportedly from Jesus, I do not yield to any person's censorship: I am authorized to constrain chaos in my way of living, and others have the power to rule their own lifestyle.
11. I claim I write well-earned opinion, because I do not know theineluctabletruth. I use this run-on word, because people are annoyed with my hyphens and to distinguish actual reality from truth made fluid by changing the object and other arts. "Ineluctable" means "not to be avoided, changed, or resisted" at least.

It is my opinion that when churches encourage people to pray for wisdom they are intentionally refuting God's will: Every human being may and can choose thegood and thereby rule their lives on earth. Jesus influences civic perfection.

I write not to annoy but to suggest that an achievable better future is already proffered and immediately available. Thank you Larry, for the topic.

https://www.facebook.com/gcleve.wright , November 10, 2023

At age 79, I discovered that "Christ" confounds me, so I stick to Jesus and encourage others to consider my discovery.

A guest minister at my church concluded the sermon by asking us to think who in our life most influenced us to follow Christ, and write their name. I was totally flummoxed during the 2 minutes he allowed. Then I thought of my dad, who never said, "Christ", and always encouraged me to consider and follow Jesus. I was relieved and joyful.

Then came the pastor's punchline: Now, write the name of the person whom you most influence to follow Christ. I only know that I profess Jesus and rely on fellow citizens to help me earn my opinions about Jesus.

In light of the chaos the world suffers, I think an interesting, hopeful and promising question is this: Can Jesus' influence overcome "Christ"?

I think so and think it would unlock an achievable better future to humankind.

Cleve asked.

In fall, 2022, I became concerned that European money was threatening Christian comfort in America. I think it is wrong for fellow citizens to let that happen and felt I had 3 ideas Christians could use to improve the U.S. and hence the world after 2000 years global failure and 232 years (2021) operation of the U.S. I decided to return to the church I exited in 1994: University Baptist Church (UBC) in Baton Rouge. The people there are the salt of the earth, and I am not a stranger there.

I had discovered that not only am I open minded, I am open hearted. And I have 3 major messages to share with Christians. First, humankind is pursuing the ineluctable truth. Second, there's more to gain from pursuing Jesus's civic influence for living than in worshiping his body and blood for dying. Third, the Church represses Genesis 1:26-28, NIV and CJB, which says: God assigned to humankind responsibility to rule on earth.

My articulation of these 3 principles improve greatly as I communicate and study with members of UBC. I publish my views of my Sunday school class studies each week. My email goes to about 30 people, including the 3 pastors. No one responds, so I don't know if anyone reads them. However, I feel accepted.

A principle I learned on returning to UBC is that seminary training produces sermons that bemuse more than develop. The problem is that there may be a wonderful story of Jesus' influence, but interspersed in the story is talk of God's power to you, of the Holy Spirit's advocacy to you, of Satan's competition, and ends with extolling Christ. For all I know, Jesus is God, but I don't think so.

I think Jesus is the only political philosopher in history who read Genesis 1:26-28 then said to the continuum of humankind: Be perfect in the image of God. For all I know, Jesus authored Genesis 1.

The physical facts are: Isaiah prophesied an anointed one would unite the 12 tribes of Israel to rule a kingdom. Jesus was born. A faction of Jews speculated he was the anointed one, I guess after his execution. For example, James, his brother wrote 15 years after Jesus' death and encouraged individual perfection under the Torah, including circumcision, as Jesus had at age 8. Paul argued that baptism by emersion replaced circumcision to certify God's grace. He preached in Greece where anointed one is O Xhristos. In 800 CE, Old English had "Crist". And "Christ" came in 1500.

The resulting babel has the world at 45,000 Protestant sects, with no hope to rule to the-good on earth.

I think Jesus is appreciated in cultures covering 80% of the world's population. "Christ" bemuses and detracts.

I appreciate my dad for teaching me Jesus.

 

facebook.com/mick.kassem, October 28, 2023
Shared from Schultz: “When the Church and the world can jog comfortably together, you may be sure there is something wrong. The world has not altered. Its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was, and if Christians were equally faithful and devoted to the Lord, and separated from the world, living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did.” Catherine Booth

Phil’s response:

The people desire and pursue the good. A succession of Sumerian kings, 5500 years ago experienced and observed that their gods were too busy with the heavens to attend to the world. Therefore, they developed continual improvement of law codes, the oldest known, of Ur-Nammu created 4070 years ago, ending with conqueror Hammurabi, 3770 years ago. They empowered civic citizens to rule. “Civic” means reliably responsible in human connections and transactions.

Competitive monotheism supplanted polytheism. About 3000 years ago, Mesopotamian scholars wrote Genesis 1:26-28, which, especially in the New International Version, informs us that humankind, male and female, is charged to pursue order to the world.

Beginning in Genesis 2, the Lord begins a dialogue with Adam that continues until Moses, who receives the law. From then on, the Bible describes the chaos that ensues as leader after leader tries to construct a god that will usurp Genesis 1:26-28’s responsible human independence to pursue the good. Later, Isaac begot Jacob, who had 12 sons who founded the tribes of Israel. Israel continually improves the Torah, even today. The Church, especially Paul, used “Christ” to promote salvation of the soul rather than adoption of Jesus’ unique message: you can perfect yourself according to Genesis 1:26-28. The Epistle of James, Complete Jewish Bible, advocates Jesus rather than Christ.

Competitive monotheism has wrought chaos. For example, there are 45,000 Protestant Christianities. The way back to order is for each individual to pursue two political goals: the good and statutory justice. Most people pursue those two necessities.

Unfortunately a few choose the bad. Some wander into the bad and can be persuaded to reform by written law that is both correct and justly enforced. Some bad citizens confirm evil choices. Under statutory justice, the intentional murderer knows he or she must and will be killed. A few evils are so convinced of justice they terminate themselves.

facebook.com/acivicpeopleoftheus/, October 22, 2023

Dear fellow citizens and We the People of the United States,

Over a decade ago, I started this registered, Louisiana education corporation, in order to persuade the civic faction of the United States, We the People of the United States as defined by the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, to rule the nation to the-good.

The immediate purpose was to persuade civic-citizens of Baton Rouge to prevent separation of the city to create St. George, a wealthier portion of the city. I don't know if our work was effective or not, but Baton Rouge remains whole and St. George viability has not emerged. We always thought local success would motivate national collaboration toward an achievable better future to "ourselves and our Posterity", quoting the preamble.

We don't know of any achievements on that front, but think our Senators, congressman, governor, and state senators and representatives are aware of A Civic People of the United States. If messages got through the White House system, former President Trump is aware of the formative corporation.

My individual work will not cease. As a chemical engineer pursuing the-ineluctable-truth, so as to avoid ignorantly specifying equipment that could blow up, I never was an administrator or organizer.

My cofounder, Hugh Finklea, passed away last year. Beginning my ninth decade, family obligations and listening to fellow citizens, in order to improve my personal opinions take precedent for me. If any two of you would like to take charge of the education corporation, initially under my guidance, please step forward and let's see what can happen.

Sincerely and serenely,
Phil Beaver

#USpreambler

facebook.com/sherri.joubert, October 19, 2023

I voted for the business man and am not emotional about my loss.

In my middle decades, I tended to avoid swear words, but loosened to populism when I was lost for words. When email entered the work scene, I infrequently, thoughtlessly emphasized chemical engineering opinion.

One day, Ali Dadgar, PhD, did me a life-changing favor. He wrote something to the effect that there is no place for the f-word in chemical engineering and that he wanted me to apologize. I did and haven't repeated the mistaken choice, using the f-word.

I wish Gov. Elect Landry and Louisiana the best achievable future.

facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009118567277, October 3, 2023

We seem to live in an age of caution:

If it opposes physics, such as a man can change to a woman, or an apple can fall up, write a letter to the local Crime Stoppers.

If it's not vital to you, don't read it. If it is vital, scan, but don't react: wait for lie discovery. If you begin to perceive loss, re-read and consider viable relief. (For example, this spring, I put some rock wool insulation in my attic. I think isocyanates in foams will slowly deteriorate to poisonous gases: SO2 and H2S.)

The adage, "give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves" seems to be playing out for several entities, such as the Democrat Party, New York courts, and California governments. I think the civic faction, We the People of the United States, as specified in the U.S. Constitution will prevail.
#USpreambler

facebook.com/charles.taylor September 27, 2023

Chuck, the combination, "To God goes the glory. Thank Jesus......" ruins Ms Eddy's message (as much as her timing does) in my opinion.

In my 80th year, I think Church ruins everything, because it vainly attempts to characterize "God". I seek a church that accepts the-God with no attempts to characterize its actual reality and advocates Jesus' civic influence. Civic means responsibly reliable in living connections and transactions.

Jesus advocates the-good, and if a person knows the-good but chooses the-bad, the consequences, if early death does not come, informs the person not to repeat that error.

Thank you for the "hello", and I'd like to improve my shared opinions.

 

facebook.com/mick.kassem September 7, 2023

Thanks, Mick. I wondered if Rothmus is a paper mache artist so went there. I saw his Sowell quote and like Sowell's concern but have a different take: civic-citizens (the faction called We the People of the United States) may and can choose to manage government, in order to practice, facilitate, and encourage dissidents and rebels to reform to the-good rather than invite death.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, August 29, 2023


Some Maoist-leftist reporters, self-styled “wokists”, are putting MAGA people on the public spot with the street question, “When was America great?” I like the MAGA responses I heard, whether I agree or not.

Some MAGAs assert greatness in 1776, when the 13 English colonies declared war for independence from England. (Few Americans know the states counted on help from France and Spain, both of whom were competing with England.)


I didn’t hear anyone say America was great at Gettysburg when Lincoln expressed hope that the possibility of government of, by, and for the people will not perish from the earth.

I didn’t hear anyone cite the framers’ 1787-proposed U.S. Constitution. It is a document that proffers governance by a civic-faction, We the People of the United States. Civic-citizens may& can accept the responsibility to pursue civic-integrity to life on earth and its extensions. “Civic” means responsible connections and transactions in living; in other words, responsible human independence among humankind.

The Constitution’s proposition is amendable rather than fixed in time, in order to pursue statutory justice. Even the intentions, abstractly stated in the preamble may and can be revised to pursue statutory justice “to ourselves and our Posterity” as time and space march on.

Erroneously, free citizens of 1789, the majority Protestant Christians, did not object when the first Congress established congressional “divinity” on par with Parliament by hiring chaplains at the people’s expense. When Congress granted themselves freedom of religion and maintained the American side of Anglo-American law, they re-established English dominance, negating the American independence won by war. Congressional tyranny is promoted as liberty and freedom. Only the civic-citizens can stop American tyranny, now 234 years old.

We, the civic-citizens of 2023 have the privilege of restoring the journey proffered in 1787, regressed on June 21, 1788 when 9th state ratified the Constitution. Ratification came with the intention to add a Bill of Rights that mimics the 1769 English version. Tyranny was codified on December 15, 1791 when 10 of 14 states ratified the Bill of Rights. For example, the religious practice clause may and can be reformed to “promoting” rather than “prohibiting”, in order to grant religious freedom to the people rather than Congress.

Neither the-God-of-Gods nor the U.S. government can usurp a person’s self-interest to develop human being (verb) during their lifetime. Human being entails neither initiating nor accommodating harm to or from another person or association. Acquiring the comprehension and intention to pursue human being requires 25 years, because it takes that long for the human body to construct the wisdom-building parts of the brain. If the choice to pursue the good lasts their lifetime, they may approach their unique perfection. The person who chooses and practices civic-integrity seems a god facing death.

When 2/3 of voters are pursuing human being, America will be great again. It seems there will always be minority dissidents to civic-integrity:  The faction We the People of the United States also cannot impose responsible human independence. Thus, greatness does not imply utopia.

If someone asks, “When was America great?” I’ll respond, “When the civic-faction of the framers signed the 1787 U.S. Constitution.”

Please suggest ways to improve this message.

#USpreambler

facebook.com/mick.kassem, October 17, 2023

 

I agree re voting. Every time I vote, I feel that, first, September 17, 1787 is maintained by my action and, second, that the civic faction, We the People of the United States, still has a chance to establish responsible independence from England, declared in 1776 and won in 1781 with aid from France and Spain, instead of extolling the liberty and freedom propaganda Congress uses to enslave Americans.

Only the civic people can, by self-interested responsible-voting, reform the United States. "Civic" means responsible connections and transactions in personal ways of living.

The premier reform needed is to amend the religious practice clause of the First Amendment to "promoting" instead of "prohibiting".


1440 Daily Digest Admin

Hello, Drew,

     I am a civic citizen, meaning I am responsible in my human connections and transactions. I am a chemical engineer, long since a non-theist, retired and now 80 years old, with intent to live another 41 years yet happy to die when it comes.

     In the early 90's, I began writing letters to the editor of my local newspaper and a few others. By 2010, I had learned that it's freedom of the press, not its subscribers. 

     I began to contact my representatives directly and learned that the First Congress granted itself freedom of religion and most politicians seek to benefit. Only the civic faction, We the People of the United States could effect reform and it is neither on most people's radar nor remotely fathomable to them. But I write the suggestion often.
     Facing and objecting-to a 2013, education-motivated intention to racially-divide my home town, Baton Rouge, LA, by splitting off the wealthier portion as St. George City, I began writing blogs that are more or less repositories of my opinion writing. They are promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, understandtheknowledge.blogspot.com, and cipbr.blogspot.com. Until 2020, they seemed to be accessed in growing trends, but since then, I think Meta has repressed them. Occasionally, there are rushes, fueled by an entity in Singapore. I suspect AI, mining my opinion.

     Then, I also contributed heavily on lawliberty.org and on quora.com with interesting dialogues on each one. However, lawliberty ended accepting public comments, and it seems quora banned me.
      I don't know why, but 1440, yesterday, denied my attempt to renew under phillip@beaver.brcoxmail.com but happily to me let me in on philrbeaver@gmail.com. Maybe you understand.
      I don't have the means to resist people choosing to censor me. Nor am I inclined to do so. I am learning too fast to worry about actions strangers take to suppress my ideas, and I have a family of 4 who count on my contributions to home operations.

      On the other hand, I would use all the help I can get from strangers, because I have some timely ideas to share. For example, Genesis 1:26-28 shares 5500 year old awareness that only humankind can effect order to living on earth. And Jesus' brother, James, 2000 years ago, encourages fellow Jews by writing in James 4:17, "If anyone . . . knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is [error if not ruin] for them." James' clear writing is good for non-theists like me and could reverse current trends toward the abyss.
     I hope you find this useful and choose to further my work.
Sincerely,

Phil Beaver

 

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to theineluctabletruth, 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. He uses the hashtag #USpreambler.

No comments:

Post a Comment