Friday, January 26, 2024

humility to theGod stands the test of time

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

During the past two millennia, the Church has promoted Christ as Israel’s expected Messiah but with the competitive caveat that the intention is not “the Lord God’s” unity and peace in this world for the tribes of Israel, but for Trinitarian salvation of souls through personal election by God’s grace. Neither of these competitive arguments reserves sufficient humility to theGod, a word combination that expresses singularity. TheGod might be physics and its progeny, such as forces, chemistries, mathematics, biology, psychology, and fiction. It might be the ultimate good humankind pursues. Jesus might be theGod; I doubt it.

I think Jesus was one of history’s greatest political philosophers to the good.

The citizen who observes chaos and does not attempt to offer civic integrity invites ruin. Fortunately, during my late 70s, I discovered my expression of Genesis 1:26-28 in both New International Version and Complete Jewish Bible. The message is: female and male human being is responsible to rule to the good on earth. Neither theGod nor government will usurp humankind’s responsibility and power. I think that message evolved from polytheistic Sumer civilization, 5500 years ago.

The civic Jesus (not Christ) affirmed Genesis 1:26-28 in at least Matthew 19:3-8 (husband unites to wife), John 10:34 (gods facing death), and Matthew 5:48 (be Genesis 1:26-28 perfect). Jesus’ process for free speech (represented as civic forgiveness) is in Matthew 18:15-17. I’ve scratched the tip of an iceberg of Jesus’ civic influence. “Civic” meand reliable responsibility to the good in human connections and transactions.

This political philosophy alerts believers to their self-interest in civic integrity to the good, over and above their comfort and hopes in the belief that they are saved by God’s election to believe Christ (how does Jesus perceive the name substitution?) died for their soul, or that the Messiah will unite their people, or any other spiritual beliefs.

In my ninth decade, know I am not antinomian and hope for a conversation with Jesus. Perhaps I am in a conversation and civic practice.

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News

Dr Jordan B Peterson on X: "A higher court in Canada has ruled that the Ontario College of Psychologists indeed has the right to sentence me to re-education camp. There are no other legal avenues open to me now. It's capitulate to the petty bureaucrats and the addle-pated woke mob or lose my professional…" / X (twitter.com)

Although it seems unjust, your acceptance of their imposition may and can be turned into a positive.

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Columns and Opinion

The Sordid History of the Minimum Wage | The Epoch Times

Mr. Tucker, thank you for at least 2 articles on economic eugenics.

Since Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”, the US government subsidizes people who don’t work and some who do, at up to 8 or 9 times minimum wage. Consequently, the eugenics game is pushed to the few who don’t-know-to-apply-for-welfare. Hard working people are in the economic squeeze between the elites and the welfare gamers.

Mr. Tucker, please write an article about my concern.

The Orwellian Assault on the Past Continues | The Epoch Times

A proverb instructs: truth stands the test of time. The past earned the “attack on the past for failing” to accept the truth: each human being may and can constrain chaos in their ways of living and thereby aid rule to the good on earth.

This real actuality was observed in Sumer, 5500 years ago, and reported in Hebrew vernacular 3700 years ago in Genesis 1:26-28: on earth, humankind may and can choose the good.

One of humankind’s greatest political philosophers, Jesus, informed: with intention, a human can develop perfection like Genesis-1’s theGod (word combination suggests singularity). 

George Washington seems to have pursued perfection, humble as he was.

After winning independence from England with aid from France and Spain, elites drafted Washington to preside over the framing of a new nation. He was among the 39 of 55 delegates who signed the 1787 U.S. Constitution. It proffered pursuit of statutory justice by the civic faction, We the People of the United States, standards to be discovered by “ourselves and our Posterity”.

Statues should be maintained with plaques that memorialize mistakes so that humankind won’t repeat them. For example, R.E. Lee could have, should have sold all his property and moved to a non-slave state. Lee Circle could be resurrected with a plaque.

Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, taunted the 7 seceding of 34 states: “justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people”.

Wrestling With the Founding in the Culture Wars – Thomas W. Merrill (lawliberty.org), Thomas W. Merrill

Jefferson was in Paris and consequently missed the 1787 Constitutional Convention. His friend James Madison was on the Committee of Style, led by Governeur Morris. The five men issued the preamble’s intentions on September 8, 1787.

      The six public goals had no standards, and the agents would be that faction of We the People of the Unites States who, in successive generations, accept the task: integrity, justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility, “in order to” pursue happiness “to ourselves and our Posterity”. “Ourselves and our Posterity” would develop statutory justice. Perhaps some of the 5 committee members understood this. The framers accepted the intentions statement.

      I don’t think James Madison accepted it, because as Congressman, he aided the establishment of deity-construct on par with Parliament, by authoring the First Amendment’s clauses that grant freedom of religion to Congress at the people’s expense. Congress’s God was on par with Parliament’s God. This tyranny can be remedied by replacing “prohibiting” with “promoting”.

      The preamble to the U.S. Constitution accommodates Genesis 1:26-28: humankind may and can choose to rule to the good on earth. Intentionally or not, Jefferson and Madison left it to us to privatize religion so that the civic faction of We the People of the United States may pursue the intentions stated in the preamble. We may and can choose to do so.

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Philip Carl Salzman: Who Is to Blame for the Anti-Semitism of Young Americans? | The Epoch Times Phillip Carl Salzman

Who is to blame for Semitism? Is Semitism favor to Jews? Why Jews, a minority of Semites? I think Jews may accept human power.

Genesis 1:26-28 accepts female and male human power to constrain chaos on earth. The words express no favoritism. I think Christianity influences favoritism. The Church argues that the Messiah, anointed to unite Israel, is Christ to the elect, thereby suppressing Jesus’ civic influence to the good. “Civic” means reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions. Jesus dialogued with everyone, encouraging them to the good.

Jesus, a Jew and a rabbi, was one of humankind’s great political philosophers, and people in every generation advance Jesus’ good. Perhaps 80% of earth’s individuals are positively influenced by Jesus, yet a third of the population bemuse the world with the Messiah/Christ debate -- excluding non-Judeo-Christians.

It is well established that universities are dominated by Marxists. The task is to replace Marxism with civic integrity. Reform “these people” to the good then replace the habitual dissidents and rebels. Statutory justice, a republic developing just laws, must dominate social justice in order to establish individual merit to the good as qualification to teach (and to vote in elections, for that matter).

Under the rule of statutory justice, there is no place for favoritism, and dissident groups identify themselves by requesting favor.

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What’s Really at Stake With ‘Harvard’ | The Epoch Times Roger Kimball

Kimball’s attention to Reb. Stefanik’s question captures the point:  No one should equivocate opposing annihilation of people because of their genes and memes.

Buried is thought that no one should be forced to favor Semitism.

The consequences of educating “our young in order to pass along the values of our civilization” is the chaos we are experiencing and observing. We wandered into Judeo-Christianity (more than 45,000 sects) when we should have been developing human being (verb) in order to rule to the good on earth (Genesis 1:26-28). Genesis 1 expresses Sumerian political philosophy: the creator willed that female and male human-being rather than the gods pursue order on earth.

Civic citizens accepting their obligations to constrain chaos in their personal way of living is a matter of reform, not revolution. The stretch from Sumer’s polytheism to the competitive monotheism expressed in the Holy Bible is “corrupt and mendacious”. The idea that Christ shifted favor from Israel to antinomians leaves the rest of humankind out of the debate. Jesus volunteered civic advice.

Domestic reform is a matter for each nation. Global reform could start with the authors withdrawing the curse against descendants of Hagar in Genesis 16:7-12. Christianity and Islam can collaborate to achieve this reform.

Academia and those they influence can live with the shame of not suggesting such reforms.

‘Nature Rights’ Paganism Advancing in the West | The Epoch Times Wesley J. Smith

I appreciate Tucker’s attention to this regression in human being (verb). Ecuador’s constitution was amended to “nature rights” in 2008. See the Wikipedia article. Not too long ago, things were so bad human beings were sacrificed to Pachamama. See The Incas and Pachamama (tourinperu.com). Also, reports about child sacrifice “known as Capacocha”.

Apocalypse in the Air | The Epoch Times Jeffrey A. Tucker

As always, I appreciate Tucker’s opinions.

However, freedom is a human construct that bemuses otherwise civic people from responsibility to life.

At least the polytheistic Sumer civilization, 5500 years ago, recognized that their gods could not constrain chaos in the way human beings live. Therefore, the inventors of grammar invented law codes, in order for civic citizens to constrain dissidents and rebels.

The codes were impractical, taking hand for hand, and thus disabling the offender. More practical laws have been developed, but none can overcome the limitations of human being (verb). For example, one person is not free to enslave another. Beach dwellers cannot tell a wave to stop, in order to limit damage to their property. And prayer for favor to a person’s soul in their afterdeath cannot create either a spirit or its afterlife.

And Jesus died, but his civic influence lives every time someone benefits from it. For example, applying Matthew 5:48 to Genesis 1:26-28, which Jesus did in Matthew 19:3-8, I intend to practice perfect behavior to mirror Jesus during the rest of my life. I am grateful for Jesus’ civic influence.

Lastly, there is no joy in truth, which skillful politicians can change by changing the subject. But people may learn and apply “ineluctable”, which means, not to be assailed, avoided, changed, escaped, mystified, neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, or resisted.

The 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Time for Reflection | The Epoch Times

Every human-being  has the responsibility to choose dignity and purpose, and no one can make that choice for them. And theGod (a word contraction to express humble singularity) to whom we owe humility is a mystery. Our society is not free and open, because each adult must responsibly earn the living they want. Economic viability is a progeny of physics, not a grant by theGod. The first civic duty is to not be dependent on family, friends, and neighbors. And the internet empowers the weakest human to ask questions like:  What is the consequence of habitual laziness?  Or . . .  dependency? Good as Falun Gong may be, truthfulness is no surrogate for integrity, compassion does not offset irresponsibility, and tolerance is pretense of holding higher opinion. The 75th Anniversary of Mrs. Roosevelt's debacle is an occasion to reform to reliable responsibilities in self-interest rather than rights. These principles won't seem foreign once one culture adopts them.

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Carry on Caroling! Why Bizarre Warnings About Christmas Customs Should Be Ignored | The Epoch Times

Music’s songs are central to civic life. (“Civic” means reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions.) Music’s physics and beauty renew human appreciation, resilience, and humility. Citizens who work for their way of living have no time to judge, impose, persuade, or promote factional tradition. Individuals aid civic integrity where there’s opportunity.  

Children suffer adult pursuit of war for wealth, imposed by the partnership of church and state. Neither Genesis 1:26-28 nor the 1787 U.S. Constitution advocate this way of living.

English loyalists could lead reform to children by eliminating the 26 bishops’ seats in the House of Lords. The faction We the People of the United States could lead by amending the First Amendment from “prohibiting” to “promoting”. Nations who wait to rescue children from adult harm are humankind’s offenders.

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The 15 Years That Destroyed America | The Epoch Times, Paul Craig Roberts

I disagree with Roberts’ fallacy, I think: “No person subject to an income tax owns his own labor.”

While it’s true that consumption, corporate, and property taxes can be used to supply infrastructure, including pursuit of statutory justice, I think it is a privilege to earn enough to pay for the way of living you want and to earn enough extra to pay tax on your income.

It is especially egregious, in my opinion, to create welfare programs to make avid consumers of the poor, in order to transfer excessive income to suppliers – entrepreneurs, entertainers, doctors, churches, and others.

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Low Stress New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Your 2024 | The Epoch Times, Emma Suttie

I like the list of recommendations to the individual yet feel they did not adequately accommodate that a person cannot be happy if they isolate themselves within their family, friends, and neighbors – live their life in civic absence. There’s no substitute for open-hearted appreciation to fellow civic citizens plus commitment to inform and encourage dissidents and rebels to reform.

Suttie’s set of resolutions seems insufficient, like “mindefulness”, an egocentric product of “modern psychology”, in my opinion. Take care of me and let the rest fend for themselves.

I escorted my wife and attended her 4-aspect therapy sessions, in order to learn how to help her. At home, practicing, I harmed myself with a cruel statement to her. I asked the therapy institution for aid and they gave me 4 social-work sessions. I said I wanted this chemical engineer to be trained in how to assist, never scold.

The 4 sessions were on coping with my situation rather than the task -- how to support her. I get that I must be mindful of me in order to accept the real situation. It’s like a parent securing their oxygen mask before equipping their child. The next requirement may be to persuade the annoyed child not to remove the mask. But how?

Maybe someone will share my concern and comment.

Book Review: https://www.thomascreedy.co.uk/book-review-the-christian-doctrine-of-humanity/

I appreciate your work and the opportunity to converse with you.

Does any scholar support Ralph Waldo Emerson's assertion in "Divinity School Address" that Jesus informs us that we have the power to perfect our behavior during life? It seems to me, the developed intention to mirror Jesus' civic influence distinguishes human being (verb) from lesser choices: spiritualism, animalism, criminality, terrorism, and worse. Even Christianity is questionable, because it uses Christ to compete with Israel's Messiah and the Lord God. Thereby, it lessens Jesus’ influence. I'm certain I would not like someone replacing my name with another.

I write (to myself, because no one comments) on two other blogs, understandtheknowlede.blogspot.com and cipbr.blogspot.com (massive in volume). 

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-concept-of-being-a-human-doing-versus-a-human-being-accurate-What-is-the-reasoning-behind-this-idea, Anon


I don’t understand “being a ‘human doing’” and want to use “human being” as a verb to express a response.

So far, most civic citizens in each generation don’t accept that they are gods facing death. That is to say, each one may and can choose to act to the good in every decision they make, developing a path to personal, unique perfection, or the happiness they developed.

With the education departments the world has, it is almost impossible for individuals to accept that they may and can develop perfection before they die. Societies train the workers they think they need, failing to recognize that innovation develops too fast to imagine the needs one generation in the future. Consequently, it is necessary to reform education so that in their first quarter century willing persons  acquire the comprehension and intention to develop human being (verb), rather than wander into animalism, spiritualism, passivism, or worse.

It’s a quarter century not only because human being is a complex practice, but because it takes that long for the body to construct the wisdom-building parts of the brain.

The key to the practice is commitment to neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from anyone, including self. Harm inevitably comes, and the civic citizen practices forgiveness and aids prevention of repetition of the error, regardless of which party erred. “Civic” refers to reliable responsibility to the good in human connections and transactions.

I doubt a person can develop human being without fully participating to aid humankind’s responsibility to rule to the good on earth.

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quora.com/Can-an-ideal-society-exist-without-hierarchies-authorities-and-with-complete-equality-Are-there-any-examples-of-such-a-society, Anon

No. No entity can offer either equality or equity. And the good may and can rule.

Human being (verb) is too powerful to accommodate inefficiency, dissidence, and rebellion against reliable responsibility to the good. A civic people may and can provide order so that dissidents and rebels against the good do not dominate life and ruin individual happiness. A civic society pursues statutory justice. Whenever injustice is discovered, the civic people amend the written law so as to pursue if not provide justice. Thereby, dissidents and rebels may perceive self-interest in reform. Statutory justice provides for both dissidence-constraint and termination of habitual rebellion.

No such society exists, but one is proffered in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. It features a republic of, by, and for the civic faction, We the People of the United States. The civic people may and can accept the power to rule in the United States. The civic citizens may eliminate a minor bemusement, freedom of religion to Congress, by amending the First Amendment religion provision from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.

Also, one of humankind’s greatest political philosophers, Jesus, may be unhindered by promoting his civic influence to the good, keeping the mystery of the deity private.

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quora.com/Can-you-explain-how-the-concept-of-fate-works-when-our-actions-determine-the-outcome-of-events, Anon

Merriam-Webster’s easy definition of “fate” is final outcome.

      Faced with a mystery, a person who acts cannot speculate the outcome. If the outcome is negative, they may label it “fate”, perhaps to avoid guilt for acting on a mystery. Unless attack ensues, no person should act on mystery.

      Let me tell a story. As “master of the house” I have always been alert to strange noises, whether subconsciously noticed or not. I prepared to defend my family. Convinced there was an intruder, I took my handgun and slowly surveyed the house. I noticed a sheer blowing in the breeze – an unexpectedly-open window. I lifted my handgun and slowly looked under the dining table and saw a shadow. My son said, “Dad, it’s me.” I did not shoot my son, who had sneaked out then in, in order to visit a girlfriend.

      I did not act on a mystery and did not think of fate but was glad for the outcome.

quora.com/What-are-inherent-unalienable-and-natural-rights-How-did-these-rights-come-to-be-Is-there-a-specific-entity-or-individual-who-granted-them-to-humanity? Anon

      I don’t know the ineluctable truth but think the human right is the opportunity to rule personal living so as to lessen chaos. The opportunity is a human condition only the individual can accept. Few do.

      External forces lessen the opportunity. For example, a person may and can earn air and food with which to produce the energy that is necessary for life. They can tolerate crime and tyranny.

      Each person grants the opportunity to self, and neither church nor state can usurp personal power.

      The 1787 U.S. Constitution recognizes actual reality and proffers a culture that pursues statutory justice. The faction We the People of the United States may and can establish its republic. If not, perhaps another people will do so.

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quora.com/What-is-the-rationale-of-making-a-big-deal-of-the-distinction-between-positive-and-negative-liberty?
Bratha Dan

Liberty and freedom are unfortunate constructs that distract the individual from responsibility.

Responsibility has 2 aspects: physics and reason, external and internal, respectively, to each person, to societies, and to humankind.

Physics and its progeny – forces, chemistries, mathematics, psychology, fiction and the rest – constrain the external consequences of human choices. For example, the person who decides to ignore a tornado may lose their life. The person who commits adultery offends the other party and their potential to originate a human-being; James’s epistle calls it lawbreaking on par with murder.

Reason constrains the individual’s choices to act responsibly or not. The criminal rationalizes harming other people as a necessity to personal survival and collaborates with the criminal world. The civic citizen commits to neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from any person including self. “Civic” means reliably responsible in human connections and transactions.

The principles stated above originated 5500 years ago in Sumer, whose kings assumed that their-poly gods left to humankind responsibility to the good on earth. Semitic scholars mimicked the political philosophy as competitive monotheism in Genesis 1:26-28’s “so they may rule . . . earth”. Since then, competitive doctrine has influenced people to vie for liberty/freedom rather than pursue responsibility to the good.

The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a culture of doctrine-free, reliable responsibility. There are no standards, so that “ourselves and our Posterity” may pursue statutory justice – amend the Constitution to the good when injustice is discovered. So far, the civic faction of We the People of the United States have not turned from the doctrine of liberty, in order to pursue personal responsibility.

A milestone of choosing responsibility would occur if the civic faction effected elimination of Congressional “deity”, by revising the First Amendment from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.

The individual has no liberty to defy physics or to accommodate civic harm. Only responsible reliability offers hope for personal happiness.

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quora.com/What-qualities-make-a-leader-ethical-Can-an-ethical-leader-exist, Anon

An ethical leader neither initiates nor accommodates harm to or from any person or association. Leaders may choose to lead.

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quora.com/What-are-the-guidelines-for-censoring-someones-message-How-do-you-determine-when-to-allow-free-speech-and-when-to-censor? Anon

I think there should be no censorship, in order for the civic faction, We the People of the United States, to let evil thinkers to expose themselves. I think freedom of the press should be extended to the individual and that the expresser should be held responsible for any consequences. Just as the press has the opportunity to reject letters to the editor and other submissions for publication, the individual has the responsibility to listen to lies and neither support the liar nor share/promote the lie. If he or she communicates with the liar or sees the liar, the civic citizen should address the lie directly, in order to present the liar, whether mistaken or evil, an opportunity to reform. If harm to or from any person is suggested, the civic citizen reports the dialogue to first responders.

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quora.com/What-is-the-importance-of-having-principles-and-beliefs-to-stand-for? Anon

Principles protect your person from radical rationalizations such as constructed Alinsky-Marxist ridicule to you. Beware Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO). For example, they advocate conviction and execution without adjudication. Recall the French revolution’s 1789 reign of terror and the USA’s looting and murder in the summer of 2020.

Beliefs suppress a person’s opportunity to consider ineluctable evidence that their tradition needs amendment. For example, the Judeo-Christian anointed one debate, Messiah versus Christ or savior to the good in life vs grace to mysterious soul. Christ bemuses people from Jesus, who influences collaboration to establish and maintain human being (verb). As a consequence, lives and futures of countless children are ruined. It’s past time for Judeo-Christianity to behold humankind as depicted in Genesis 1:26-28, a 5500 year old Mesopotamian political philosophy that was first recorded in Sumer. It is time for a third of the world’s population to behold humankind and collaborate for civic integrity to the good.

Returning to principles, the human-being is so powerful it takes a quarter century for her or him to complete the wisdom-building parts of the brain. If they accept the challenge, it takes as long to acquire the comprehension and intention to pursue human being (v). It takes a couple quarter centuries of adult civic integrity to recognize the principles on which the harm of beliefs is avoided.

The importance of principles over beliefs is not widely recognized, because no culture teaches its youth to consider pursuing human being (v). The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers such a culture; but so far, Judeo-Christianity has dominated. Perhaps another nation’s people will improve the proposals and establish collaborative humankind.

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quora.com/Why-did-you-disagree-that-freedom-should-be-defined-as-the-absence-or-coercion? Jean Rose Garay Retonio

“Freedom” is a political-power motivated construct that promoters use to bemuse people from civic responsibility. It was especially effective to coerce Europeans 400 years ago, became a watchword in America’s war for independence from England, and was lethal as “liberty” in the French Revolution. “Civic” means reliably responsible in human connections and transactions. Human being (verb) is the practice of neither initiating nor accommodating harm to or from anyone, including self. The individual who pursues human being (verb) takes slight interest in freedom.

The human-being seems a god facing death. A human life is sustained by breathing air for oxygen, drinking water for kidney and other bodily functions, and eating nutrients and carbohydrates that are required for personal functions, including work. Work is required to provide daily food consumption and provision of water and air for living. Further, a person needs shelter, clothing, transportation, and other functionalities. All of these needs are efficiently provided in a reliable market of providers and consumers. The responsible person participates in civic integrity, pursuing human being.

Each individual is forced by physics and its progeny to pursue the necessities to sustain her or his life. Each one is coerced by efficiency to rely on civic citizens who maintain the market of goods and services. The individual who takes reliable responsibility for her or his civic integrity earns their way of living plus enough to pay local, state, and national taxes to provide and maintain essential infrastructure including the pursuit of statutory justice.

Justice is required, because some individuals want favor. Civic citizens provide government and assign them limited responsibility to legislate, administer, and adjudicate harm caused by dissidents and rebels against responsibility.

The civic citizen votes for candidates who intend to pursue and maintain statutory justice in the market, never supporting rights, favor, and other injustices to self.

I know of no culture that pursues civic integrity. However, one is proffered in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Perhaps a civic society will mimic and effect its principles.

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quora.com/unanswered/What-are-common-values-like-strong-religious-faith-respect-for-authority-high-regard-for-amor-proprio-self-esteem-and-smooth-interpersonal-relationships? Rechelle Mae Gumaru

Ms. Gumaru, I appreciate your question. After 30 years’ self-directed study, I am re-studying the Bible at a liberal Baptist church from my past. Let me outline the progress.

      First, the conclusion, so far, is that Jesus was one of the greatest past political philosophers, and everyone can benefit by collaboratively pursuing Jesus’ civic influence. Traditionally, churches advocate “what Jesus taught”, according to doctrine.  For example, Jesus’ process for forgiveness (Matthew 18:15-17) is a civic process for living “to ourselves and our Posterity” rather than election to mysteriously favorable afterdeath (Romans 1:1-17). In Jesus’ process, people work, whereas in churches God elects. The difference is taking responsibility to rule personal life rather than accepting mysterious favor; work versus mystery; civic integrity versus antinomianism.

      Returning to the outline, these are opinions so far (I do not know the ineluctable truth):

1.    Homo sapiens (HS) developed during the recent 200,000 to 300,000 years.

a.    Primitive HS feared unknowns and constructed polytheism for hope and comfort.

b.    At least one civilization concluded the gods will never constrain chaos on earth.

c.    At least one culture pursued order under the rule of law.

d.    Competitive monotheism emerged. Some groups assigned to their God the authorship of the law. I know nothing about them.

e.    Jesus improved the law called the Torah.

f.     Civic integrity requires statutory justice – reform each time an injustice is discovered.

g.    The 1787 U.S. Constitution accommodates these principles without practice.

2.    Genesis 1:26-28: ruling to good consequences on earth is left to female and male humankind, who may choose civic integrity. Here are some examples of Jesus’ affirmation:

a.    Accept Genesis 1:26-28, in order to join the gods facing death (John 10:35).

b.    A man united as heterosexual pair doesn’t divorce (Matthew 19:3-8).

c.    Be perfect in Jesus’ image (Matthew 5:48).

d.    Nevertheless, be humble and don’t mislead anyone (Matthew 18:2-7).

3.    Jesus discussed the predicted messiah to unite Israel -- not Christ to favor God’s elect.

a.    Jesus objected to people not naming him (Matthew 5:48, Mark 8:38).

b.    He advocated behavior according to his example (Matthew 10:38-39).

c.    He advocated civic living regardless of gender or ethnicity (John 4:22-23).

d.    He advocated prefect behavior (Matthew 5:2-19, especially 19).

                                  i.    The wealthy may avoid distraction to worldly pursuits (Luke 18:25).

e.    He reiterated his civic forgiveness-process (Matthew 5:22-25).

4.    Earnest contemporaries tried to impose their opinion on Jesus.

a.    Bemused by history’s mysteries including resurrection of the dead, most Jews thought Jesus a man yet took interest in stories of his miracles.

b.    His brother advocated the law and Jesus’ civic forgiveness process (James 5:19-20).

c.    Paul advocated church under grace (Romans 1:1-17), neglecting civic integrity.

d.    Pilate could have exercised his civil authority to free Jesus (Luke 23:13-16).

If you decide to consider this report, you will notice that I work yet do not worry about words in the Bible. (I consider New International Version and Complete Jewish Bible.) Reporters 2000 years ago had imaginations on par with 2024 reporters and many more unknowns to work with. For example, 2000 years ago some people still thought the sun was a god rather than a natural nuclear reactor. I accept the discoveries humankind has accomplished, including that few reports are trustworthy.

            More importantly, I accept the responsibilities made clear to me by the common sense of Genesis 1:26-28. Since I may constrain chaos in the way I live, I can constrain chaos in the way I live. My lifetime experiences and observations instruct me that constraining chaos is in my self-interest. Accepting my opportunity to develop integrity, I do not seek approval to pursue Jesus’ civic influence. On the other hand, I cannot discover Jesus’ lessons without listening to and considering the experiences and observations of civic citizens. When someone prefers Christ/Messiah rather than Jesus, I accept their choice for them and expect civic integrity towards everyone. Thus, I read Paul expecting to learn, just as readily as I read James.

            About a third of the world’s inhabitants debate Messiah/Christ at the expense of Jesus’ civic influence. However I think 80% of the people consider Jesus an agent to the good. The discoveries I have listed above are the consequence of 2 years’ study ending my 8th decade of study. I hope it points to benefits that can be common to human being (verb): interest in religion’s history, humility to theGod (a word contraction to express singularity), acceptance of responsibility, and appreciation for fellow citizens. My hope is to lessen routine adult destruction of children’s lives.

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quora.com/unanswered/Can-you-explain-the-concept-of-independence-both-in-politics-and-in-life? Anon

      Independence is human responsibility, made obvious to every person in every generation. Most people don’t perceive the self-interest of responsibility. People divide themselves on whether they choose to rule their lives to thegood or not. “Thegood” is a word contraction to express singularity against the bad in every choice. These key principles are neither taught nor encouraged in any society.

      The political principle is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28, a 2700 year old Hebrew expression of 5500 year old Sumerian code of law. Politics is public power, and law codes accept that civic citizens need enforceable statutory justice, in order to constrain dissidents, rebels, and predators. “Civic” means reliably responsible in human connections and transactions. Passive citizens suffer the injustices civic citizens have not yet discovered and corrected plus the harm done by non-civic citizens and predators. Every adult experiences the opportunity to choose to develop human being (verb), low as their performance may seem.

      The civic citizen knows Agathon’s principle: neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from anyone or any association. The civic citizen practices Agathon’s influence in circumstances never faced before. Jesus taught the no harm principle, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that Jesus meant it when he instructed: be perfect.

      Within these principles, independence is a civic practice rather than an egocentric right. The person who does no harm responsibly earns the way of living he or she wants plus happily pays local, state, and national taxes in order to establish and maintain infrastructure, including the pursuit of statutory justice and national defense. When she or he votes, they pursue self-interest that will continually increase the civic faction, gradually eliminating evil.

      Independence is not widely practiced, because no society teaches, practices, facilitates, and encourages responsibility to self as human being (verb). I work to change that, not as fool, yet perhaps as a dreamer. The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffered such a society. Maybe another country will mimic it to thegood. I hope the U.S. reforms immediately.

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quora.com/How-difficult-is-it-to-determine-the-best-values? Lilitha Dambe

      I appreciate Agathon’s civic influence in Plato’s “Symposium”, published about 2500 years ago. In my paraphrase:  A civic citizen neither initiates nor accommodates harm to or from anyone including self and family. “Civic” means reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions. Perhaps Agathon expressed thegood, a word contraction to express singularity.

      Interpreting Agathon’s speech that way, I wondered if Jesus spoke with Agathon some 460 years before Jesus was born. That may sound crazy. But, for all I know, Jesus meant it when he said, “Before Abraham was born I am.” I don’t think so yet must be humble about things I don’t know. Before Abraham, perhaps 3970 years ago, includes before Ibbi-Sin, a king of Ur (b. 4135 years ago). Abraham was born there.

      Regardless, Jesus knew and affirmed political philosophy and civic advice expressed by kings of polytheistic Sumer in their law codes. In my paraphrase, The gods leave pursuit of civic integrity on earth to female and male humankind. This observation, made clear in every generation, is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28 by Hebrew scholars, writing about 3000 years ago.

      The person who pursues thegood according to these ancient ideas may habitually choose the best actions.

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quora.com/What-are-the-reasons-for-people-breaking-the-law-even-though-they-know-the-consequences-Should-all-laws-be-followed-even-if-they-seem-unreasonable-at-times? Anon

      I appreciate the opportunity to ponder this ineluctable mystery: why do people do wrong? I think the cause is personal fear, chosen folly, predictable failure, and egocentric forgiveness. The fear, folly and failure are personal choices, and the egocentric forgiveness is political philosophy. Ignorance is failed education.

      Homo sapiens is about 300,000 years old and developed grammar by which to reason about 10,000 years ago. Two of the recent beneficial political philosophers are Socrates (d. 2422 years ago) and Jesus (d. 1990 years ago). Neither of them wrote, so it is difficult to earn opinions about what they said and did. Reporters don’t write the-ineluctable-truth (hyphenated to express a singularity). For example, it’s shocking to imagine resolving U.S. government lies about January 6, 2020. And the ancient reporters did not contend with plagiarism – had more freedom of the press against the people.

      Armed with grammar, homo sapiens could reason about physics*, faith, and statutory justice. *(and physics’ progeny like math, forces, psychology, and fiction.) The Sumerians, about 5500 years ago, reasoned that their gods left ruling on earth to the-good (another singularity) to female and male humankind. They wrote law codes to empower civic citizens to constrain wrong doers.

      Competitive monotheism displaced polytheism, and developing theisms each constructed a more powerful God, without retaining humility to whatever constrains the consequences of human choices, perhaps the-God (another singularity). Law codes from their God were influential in the constructed competition. Both Socrates and Jesus died for the beneficial messages they shared with fellow citizens of the world: each person can pursue civic integrity. “Civic” means reliable responsibility in human connections and transaction.

      Socrates chose to take the hemlock, in order to defend the rule of law even when it is wrong. A wrongful court had convicted him of promoting the-good in Athens as the-God. He defied Athens. Socrates chose death over exile where he could be visited by friends.

      Jesus chose death rather than to deny his message:  Each person may perfectly rule their lifetime – may choose to constrain chaos in the way they live. In Matthew 19:3-8, Jesus addresses both the law (the Torah) and that a human being can pursue the-good like the-God, referencing Genesis 1:26-28. He was improving the law, as each generation must, as they discover injustices. Jesus affirmed Sumerian political philosophy: on earth, humankind is in charge. In Matthew 5:48, Jesus said a person can be perfect.

      Would that my parents and community had groomed me to perfect civic integrity; maybe they did.

      It takes 25 years, a quarter century, for the human body to complete the construction of the brain, and the wisdom-building parts are the last to develop. Humankind’s benefit is to educate their youth to comprehend and intend civic integrity for life. If so, another quarter century of civic participation provides enough experience and observations to affirm thegood the person perceives. Yet another quarter century can instill a perception that a little more learning might bring a sense of wisdom.

      By age 10, I perceived that the Bible contained falsehoods; civic integrity could be pursued only by discovering and applying the-ineluctable-truth. At age 26, I did not let Protestantism prevent me from marrying my mate of 54 years, a Louisiana French-Catholic woman; yet I did not deny fidelity to my person, as I sorted out the opinions I express above.

      I think every child should leave K-12 education enthusiastically pursuing the civic integrity to the-good suggested by Socrates’ legacy and the personal perfection Jesus influences. Each person may and can be a civic citizen for life.

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quora.com/What-is-liberty-Distinguish-between-negative-and-positive-concepts-of-liberty? Ayush Sharma

      In Sumer, about 5500 years ago, polytheistic kings thought the gods left order on earth to discovery and practice by humankind, so they developed codes of law by which civic citizens could constrain dissidents and rebels. Each person was responsible to constrain chaos in their way of living, and offenses against fellow citizens invited harsh punishment.

      Later, competitive monotheists modified the codes and claimed they came from their God to benefit their people. After about 3 millennia, Great Britain opined that theirs was the greatest law on earth. They used police for domestic force and the military to impose on colonies and other nations.

      People wrote about liberty and freedom from the yoke of British law. English colonies on the eastern seaboard of the USA perceive that they had to take responsibility for their governance. They negotiated with Spain and France to support them in war for independence from England. Patrick Henry famously said, “Give me liberty or give me death”.

      Governments propagandize liberty and freedom. But the civic faction of We the People of the United States, wants independence and therefore takes responsibility for her or his way of living. The responsible U.S. citizen earns enough to pay local, state, and federal taxes and observes the law. Thereby, they have positive liberty and are not impacted by propaganda, the “liberty” that bemuses.

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quora.com/Do-people-have-the-right-to-do-anything-that-is-not-illegal-but-immoral? Kuang Huang

      Agathon, about 2500 years ago, suggested that an appreciative living agent’s greatest power is to neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from any person or association, including self. See Plato’s “Symposium”.

      It’s a simple message that is confirmed by physics and its progeny, such as chemistry, biology, and psychology. A person can ask the Internet about options they are considering. For example, ask, “What is the consequence of cheating?” Or alcohol drinking. Or adultery. Or running red lights. Or not working for your living.

quora.com/What-is-justice-in-terms-of-winning? Santa Santina Gatta M. A. Spiritual Discerner

      The polytheistic Sumerians, 5500 years ago, perceived that the gods leave to female and male humankind discovery and development of thegood* on earth. The abyss we are experiencing and observing affirm this perception. [*word contraction to express singularity]

      Agathon, about 2500 years ago, suggested that an appreciative living agent’s greatest power is to neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from any person or association, including self. See Plato’s “Symposium”.

      Jesus, humankind’s greatest political philosopher so far, asserted that the individual can perfect their civic integrity before they die. Jesus’ civic influence impacts about 80% of the earth’s population, lessened by the Christ-divided** 32%. [** There are about 45,000 Christian sects.] A few people articulate Jesus’ civic influence. Ralph Waldo Emerson did in “Divinity School Address”, 1838. I think Harvard contracts Emerson.

      The person who dies, never having repeated an experienced or observed error dies in victory and justice. See James 5:19-20.

      The nation that develops statutory justice to children rather than wealth to war wins.

      I speak, write, and listen to promote the civic faction, We the People of the United States, proffered in the 1787 U.S. Constitution and repressed in 1791 by British loyalists who demanded a 1689-English mimicking Bill of Rights. I advocate U.S. independence more than Anglo-American tradition and think U.S. reform is imminent. One element of the reform is to eliminate Congressional freedom of religion by amending the First Amendment to “promoting” instead of “prohibiting”.

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whathaveyoulearnedtoday.quora.com/Can-you-share-some-not-so-common-cultural-values-and-where-they-originated?, gary c. davis

The polytheistic Sumer civilization, some 5500 years ago, perceived that the gods left discovery and actions to order to the good on earth to female and male humankind. They developed codes of law to empower civic citizens to constrain dissidents and rebels.

Some 2500 years later, Israeli scholars expressed these principles in monotheistic terms in Genesis 1:26-28. Jesus studied Genesis and in Matthew 5:48 encouraged each person to pursue perfect behavior. In other words, Jesus’ civic influence is this: Each person who develops human being (verb) can perfect their behavior. This advice makes Jesus the pivotal political philosopher of all time: the good can prevail when most people intend perfect behavior.

In every generation, people discover Jesus and work hard to understand his messages, in order to improve their way of living. They accept the mysteries as unknowns and develop understanding of Jesus’ ideas that seem affirmed by their experiences and observations. For example, in Matthew 19:3-8, Jesus reportedly said “be united to” respecting Genesis 1:26-28. Families enjoy enduring fidelity when man unites lifetime intentions to woman (and her ova).

Most churches expound Christ as savior of souls for favorable aftherdeath, thereby lessening Jesus’ civic influence. They do not articulate Jesus’ civic influence to humankind and therefore aid division of “chosen-people groups”. When I objected, one pastor said, “I use “Jesus” and “Christ/Messiah” interchangeably.” I don’t think Jesus likes it. And there are some 45,000 Christian sects on earth, not to mention other “chosen” groups.

Pursuit of Jesus’ civic influence is practiced, without articulation, because a few people want to live without either initiating or accommodating harm to or from anyone. A value the world needs is expressed in Jesus’ dialogues with people, hidden between developments of competitive monotheisms that occupy most of the Bible.

Jesus’ civic influence can and may reverse the chaos that now accelerates in the world.

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quora.com/Why-is-virtue-so-hard-and-vice-so-easy? Earth Robert

      Humankind, homo sapiens for over 200,000 years, has known since Sumer civilization in Mesopotamia some 5500 years ago that female and male human-being is responsible for order on earth. Responsibility begins with the individual constraining chaos in the way they live. This actual reality is more evident now than ever before.

      Parents rear their infants to earn their way of living and don’t take time to track experienced and observable consequences of choices in their locale. The don’t keep track of what their children must do to take responsibility. However, elites with the time to observe realize that civic citizens can be controlled through notice about factors to fear and promises to remedy the threats. Busy earning their way of living, most people yield their power to either choose fear or take responsibility for their welfare. The elites, pretending to serve, live high on the hog and the people neither rebel nor leave the country. This system works efficiently when political elites partner with church, in which case the people think their God is in charge and will eventually relieve them of the tranny they suffer. Because parents school their children in the faith, the abuse is continued from generation to generation. Consequently, adults war for wealth at the expense of children.

      The evidence for this claim is ineluctable: not to be avoided, changed, or resisted. The word “ineluctable” has been published since 1571, and it was used with “truth” in 1906. Yet most citizens have never encountered the phrase the ineluctable truth. Judges and lawyers and journalists “protect” the people from the ineluctable truth.

      Governments extol to the people freedom, liberty, and rights rather than responsibility for order in the way they live. Consequently, adult vices that children learn from their parents and neighbors become children’s hopes for adulthood. No facet of any education system teaches children how to develop human being (verb). The human-being is the most powerful species on earth. Civic responsibility is in the adult’s best interest.

      The Internet changes the situation. No longer must the people look to church and state for information on how to develop human being (v). Youth has the innocence by which to judge liars by their lies and cling to self-reliance to pursue the good. Look to the world’s youth to lead the reform from church-state partnership to government of by and for the civic faction of We the People of the United States.

      The youth know that virtue rather than vice is in their self-interest, and they intend to live life rather than wait for afterdeath.

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quora.com/How-should-humanity-use-knowledge? Eye of Unity

Female and male human being (verb) controls living on earth. Neither a God nor a government can constrain chaos here. Only humankind has to power to discover theineluctabletruth (a word contraction to express humble singularity) and how to apply it to thegood (another singularity).

Civic citizens know this, whether they articulate it or not. But few know “ineluctable”. Members of a civic culture neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from any person or association, including self and family. They aid the discovery and pursuit of statutory justice as well as technological progress: work to colonize a planet and to relieve children from adult pursuit of wealth and war.

They facilitate and encourage reform to errant civic citizens and aid the annihilation of evil. They pursue perfection by not repeating human error.

Female and male human being employs knowledge to aid thegood.

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https://www.quora.com/Is-a-moral-action-or-thing-necessarily-good? Yazan

Human being (verb) neither initiates nor accommodates harm to or from any person or association including self. Thus, choosing to do harm opts to not be a human-being. The human-being has the power to constrain chaos in her or his way of living.

An individual may and can learn morality both by experiencing and by observing the consequences of choices and actions. The Internet gives the individual the power to explore ideas. For example, search “What are the consequences of habitual alcohol consumption?” Try “religious zeal” and “religious fundamentalism”.

Wikipedia is a great source for pursuing bases for choosing thegood (a word contraction for singularity). For example, someone in my Sunday school class said we are chosen. I did not like the explanation so searched “chosen people” and found a Wikipedia article. I think female and male human-being constitutes the chosen people.

Life is so short: I think every individual may and can learn to choose thegood and not repeat the bad if they make a mistake.

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quora.com/How-does-power-manipulate-human-freedom-and-security? Mahmud Murtada

Mr. Murtada, you ask a timely question. Thank you.

I think security contradicts human freedom and power manipulates the oxymoron. Only female and male human-being among all the species has the power to order the earth to thegood (a word contraction to express singularity). Accepting that power necessitates reliable responsibility, which churches and government discourage. Politicians denigrate citizens as flawed, and priests say the parishioners are sinners.

The citizen invites personal harm when she or he accepts repression of personal power to constrain chaos in the way they live.

The civic citizen aids safety and security, in order to encourage and facilitate the unique happiness each fellow citizen responsibly pursues.

More importantly, the civic citizen neither initiates nor accommodates wealth and war that ruin children’s present and future.

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quora.com/How-can-one-maintain-moral-principles-in-a-society-where-others-do-not-value-morality-Is-it-possible-to-be-a-good-person-when-those-around-you-are-not? Anon

I think so. Every person has the opportunity to discover and pursue the self-interest of civic integrity. “Civic” means reliable responsibility in connections and transactions. Unfortunately, individuals are so reluctant to articulate this principle it is often expressed as “Do the right thing”, which only implies benefits to self.

Furthermore, “the right thing” is often grounded in civil law or religion, neither of which is reliable. Priests and politicians intend to grow their church or office rather than serve civic integrity. The people tolerate these tyrannies because they do not accept human power to choose thegood (a contraction of words to express singularity in each situation).

Every individual has to power to constrain chaos in the way they live. Today’s earth is steeped with worldly habits – lies, alcohol, drugs, and sex. The civic citizen rejects and discourages worldliness without being offensive.

For example, my church knows I accept the mystery called “God” without objection or characterization, oppose using “Christ” to argue against hope for the Messiah, and think thegood is aided by Jesus’ civic influence. Yet I feel welcome when I attend church events. I also feel welcome at the Jewish Film Festival, and in conversation with other Christian sects, Muslims, Hindus, Taoists, Buddhists and non-believers I know.

I am guided by a principle I paraphrase from Agathon, in Plato’s “Symposium”:  Neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from any person or association. Sometimes I call first responders, because I am not qualified to address public problems.

quora.com/unanswered/At-what-point-should-we-stop-trying-to-prove-ourselves-right-or-wrong-and-instead-accept-things-as-they-are? Anon

Each individual may and can accept that they have one opportunity to choose to pursue human being (verb) or suffer animalism or wander in mystery.

Humankind evolved unto homo sapiens some 200 to 300 thousand years ago and invented grammar 10 thousand years ago. Grammar empowers reason and talk, by which female and male human being may choose to rule on earth to thegood (a word contraction for singularity). Each individual may and can choose to constrain chaos in their way of living.

A man may and can choose to unite to a woman to conceive children, rear them, and prepare to assist with their grandchildren, in order to aid humankind’s march to thegood they can achieve. Thereby each descendant may and can responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive.

Unfortunately, education systems do not impart these principles to youth and adults, so the world is in chaos. I think we have reached the abyss and 2024 will enjoy a turnaround. If not, encouraging reform to thegood rather than nourishing the bad and tolerating evil cannot be allowed to prevail unto termination.

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quora.com/Is-justice-based-on-morality? By Vladimir Pidorasovich

Mr Pidorasovich, your question is timely. I doubt yet offer my best. Both justice and morality are grounded in human standards. Homo sapiens is 200 to 300 thousand years into development.

I think observations and experiences we can report in 2023 affirm the 5500 year old political philosophy initiated by successive kings of Sumer civilization in Mesopotamia. They invented codes of law that successively pursued reliable responsibility among citizens. Irresponsible action invited harsh penalty. Humankind has been gradually improving those codes of law and other contemporary political philosophies ever since. The Sumerians were polytheists.

Hebrew scholars, 3000 years ago, expressed the Sumerian principles in competitive, monotheistic terms in Genesis 1:26-28: Female and male humankind may and can choose to rule to the good on earth. Jesus read and affirmed Genesis 1 and asserted, in Mathew 5:48: Be perfect in order to reflect the image of the creator. I use lower case “creator” to confirm that I do not know, beyond thegood (a contraction to express singularity), what constrains the consequences of human choices.

I think each generation, aware or not, encounters Jesus’ civic influence and continually improves. “Civic” means reliable responsibility to thegood in human connections and transactions.

It seems the vision of Sumerian Genesis 1:26-28 is flourishing and order to life on earth and Jesus’ influences civic perfection. Constraining choices so as to aid responsible living seems moral. Cautioning fellow citizens who do not aid living seems a necessity. Restoring order when someone caused disorder seems just.

Thank you for the question, Mr. Pidorasovich

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I think justice and morality are well served by 2023 improvements on Sumerian political philosophy summarized in Genesis 1:26-28 and by humankind together perusing Jesus civic influence.

quora.com/What-are-the-contributions-of-philosophy-to-humanity?

I think, philosophy, formerly a discovery process, unintentionally developed into a knowledge base that never resolves meaning:  What have scholars published about the fundamental facts humankind considers? But conclusions are left to the reader. Unfortunately, the consequence is neglect of integrity.

My favorite knowledge reference is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I rarely consider others. I go to “plato” to learn what scholars have written about a topic. Consider 2 examples: “ineluctable” and “truth”.

First, I hold that “ineluctable” means: not to be assailed, avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, or resisted. Searching, plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=ineluctable, we find only 10 articles. They cite “ineluctable” regarding each promotion, finitude, duties, outcome, laws, Zeus’ plan, deficiency, limit, consequence, and representation. There’s nothing about either ineluctable evidence or the ineluctable truth. I render the latter as the singularity theinelutabletruth. I tried another grammar trick to accomplish the singularity: the-ineluctable-truth, but readers don’t like novel use of hyphens.

Both “ineluctable truth” and “the ineluctable truth”, like “truth” can be changed by subjective objectification. For example, Bill Clinton infamously responded, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”, then skillfully explained. The prosecutor had not presented theinelutabletruth.

Second, the current plato search on “truth” yields 1810 documents. See plato.stanford.edu/search/search?query=truth. The first article, “Truth”, does not include the word “ineluctable”. That can’t be held a fault within philosophy, because philosophers work hard to avoid judgement. They seem to have the convention that the reader can review global thought and form their own opinion. The rub is that the scholarly presentation is not global; it only reviews “peer approved” literature. By all means, a retired chemical engineer’s blog is no reference for discussion of “truth”, even though chemical engineers are trained to make certain their equipment designs will not blow up or otherwise injure life. Yet scholarly hypocrisy is exposed by the ten articles mentioned above that modify 10 somethings using the word “ineluctable”. I hope there’ll come a day when I repeat this research and discover “the ineluctable truth” with an article featuring philosophical completeness. Stanford could consider this a request.

Meanwhile, some philosophers may know that a chemical engineer thinks they could improve their service to humankind by not censoring the faction of We the People of the United States who do not seek philosophical endorsement. Open their hearts to public literature, such as letters-to-the-editor or commentary. Serve freedom of expression more than favor scholarly publication. I think every citizen would benefit from encountering the word “ineluctable”, its history, its controversies, its competition, and choose their own usage. Every judge, every lawyer, every politician, every preacher, every educator, indeed every adult may and can know the word “ineluctable”.

I think it would be interesting for someone asked to take an oath to ask the judge, “Am I to witness to theineluctabletruth?” I speculate only a few judges would welcome the question.

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quora.com/What-does-it-mean-to-work-for-your-freedom?

Intentionally or not, the TV series advertised at 1883 (series) | Western Series Wiki | Fandom portrays reliable responsibility, which is necessary for freedom. It takes 10 hours to view the entire series, but each episode should be given time for reflection on 2 questions. First, what does it mean to pursue human being (verb)? Genesis 1:26-28 suggests female and male human being accepts the opportunity to choose thegood (contraction for singularity) in order to rule on earth. (Incidentally, Mathew 5:48 suggests pursuing perfection in choosing to rule to thegood.) Second, once a human-being chooses to oppose harmful behavior, how can they rule to thegood?

Upon viewing this series, I thought freedom is a matter of reliable responsibility. People who let religious zeal prevent them from learning to swim risk drowning. A woman is attracted to a man who unites to her for life. A man whose is broken by his spouse’s death can find freedom in death. Communal solidarity invites ruin. Possession of property may and can accommodate necessity.

Importantly, civic integrity is grounded in ineluctable evidence. “Civic” means reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions. “Ineluctable” means: not to be assailed, avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, or resisted.

Neither theGod, nor a government can usurp the individual’s opportunity to discover theineluctabletruth, use it to thegood, and thereby pursue responsible uniquehappiness.

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quora.com/How-can-we-use-our-moral-ethical-principles-as-a-guide-for-our-own-behavior-How-can-we-help-others-with-similar-issues-in-their-lives?

This is my 80th annual celebration of goodwill among humankind, and my short answer is: accept personal opportunity to aid the good humankind achieves and pursue, to personal and corporate benefit, Jesus’ civic influence. “Civic” means reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions.

I think I accepted some clues during my 78th year, after studying two questions, articulated perhaps in my 4th decade. The questions are: 1) what does it take to pursue human being (verb) and 2) is an American citizen different? My answers to those questions (too much for this forum) ground my response to your question:

1. Accept that you are an individual and may and can choose to constrain chaos in the way you live. Rise above the lesser species, such as animals and spirits: rule to the good on earth.

2. Do the work to comprehend and intend the morality that would achieve your happiness on earth.

3. Trust-in and commit-to perfectly not repeating error, whether observed or experienced.

4. Comprehend and practice forgiveness, a process involving talk, resolution, collaboration, and reform.

In addition to what humankind has discovered during my lifetime, I ground my opinion on 2 fundamentals gleaned from ancient literature.

First, some Mesopotamians, starting 10,000 years ago, assumed that the gods of polytheism left the responsibility to rule on earth to humankind and left clues in their codes of law and treaties with other city-states. Semites in Mesopotamia competed in constructing monotheism and a faction developed a concept of perfecting their law. See Genesis 1:26-28, expressing a perhaps 5500 year old political philosophy.

Second, a singular thinker combined these concepts to assert that individuals may and can perfect their behavior before they die. Read Matthew 5:48 as reflection on Genesis 1:26-28.

I think these non-religious principles are accommodated by the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

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Wikipedia appreciation

Thank you.

One thought: "love" is overworked and often neither wanted nor sincere.

Everyone wants to both receive and extend appreciation and treasure its mutual sincerity.
Consider being an agent of change toward an achievable better future.

In my life, the source of my interest in "appreciation" rather than "love" comes from Agathon's speech about Eros in Plato's "Symposium". Not everyone would view Agathon's speech as I do. My paraphrase summary is this: Appreciation's greatest power is that it can neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from any person or association, including self.
Thank you for reading my thought,
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https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, Jan 24, 2024 Also on X or twitter

Morality may and can conform to reality to the good. The civic faction, We the People of the United States, continuously pursues actual reality -- of, by, and for “ourselves and our Posterity”.

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I appreciate being informed of this long-developing competitive movement and don't know how to feel about things unknown to me.

I oppose Christian nationalism, favoring reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions.

I could be wrong but felt that Kish Seth and I shared the pursuit of a civic society. When he wanted to comment on soul, he would pause and say he knew I had more concern for person before expressing his thought. I learned from him. Talking during a few decades, we explored competitive ideas but never expressed harshness to each other. I miss him.

I attend a Sunday school class, Nomads, that behaves like that.

https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, Jan 20, 2024

Reading Acts 15, NIV and CJB: Apparently, political activists Paul and Barnabas traveled to Jerusalem, where James and Peter, representing Israel, worked out a compromise: Gentiles may and can observe a limited Torah, specifically excepting circumcision, yet requiring 4 practices: no food sacrificed to idols, no blood, no strangled meat, and no sexual immorality. I don't know much about the consumption-of-food-issues, yet sexual immorality seems evident. It entails adult actions that abuse ova and children.

Perhaps the James-Paul negotiation in Jerusalem some 1900 years ago is the origin of "Judeo-Christianity". Now, all private believers may and can know to publicly pursue “that the rest of mankind may seek [the good]” (Verse 17). But Pauline Christianity does not seem to embrace the compromise.

Christianity seems to accommodate antinomianism in broad application: spiritual, civil, civic, and especially sexual. Also, that Judeo-Christian believers accommodate killing children for the sake of temporal adult satisfactions may and can be reformed by the civic people.

I prefer to accept the mystery of theGod as the good, Israel’s hope for a Messiah, and Christianity's hope for favor in the afterdeath (that indefinite time after body, mind, and person stop functioning), yet to pursue Jesus’ civic influence to the good on earth. We observe Jesus' influence in choices to the good versus consequences of dissidence and rebellion. This generation collaborates to colonize a planet: there seems no excuse for rejecting Jesus' civic peace (not to limit Jesus' urge to perfection).

The wanton killing of children may and can be stopped.

 https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman January 16, 2024

Kennedy seems accurate, precise, deep, and good. I hope I get the chance to vote for him. Right now, it seems it will be Trump again.

https://www.facebook.com/mick.kassem, Jan 15, 2024

Jesus never met a stranger and shared the good with everyone who'd listen to him. He said we are in charge of the good on earth (affirming Genesis 1:26-28, NIV and CJB). He informed us that we can perfect self if we intend to (Matthew 5:48). In Matthew 19:3-8, he said civic integrity happens when a man unites TO his wife. In short, Jesus was one of humankind's greatest political philosophers, and Constantine obfuscated Jesus' civic influence when he promoted Paul's Church. The civic faction, We the People of the United States, can bring the civic Jesus to the classroom by privatizing religion. A minor action is to amend the First Amendment's religion clause to "promoting" instead of "prohibiting".

https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, Jan 12, 2024

From infancy, in 1943, I was totally ignorant --- especially unaware of the ineluctable truth.* As experiences and observations happened, I began to accept flaws (notice then reject error) in order to choose to pursue the good.

Mom and Dad and their community presented their competitive views of the Bible as God’s will and serenely tried to impose mysterious church doctrine.

I must have been about 10 years old, my large maternal family hoping that I would join their legacy of preachers, when I decided to read the first page and the last page of the Holy Bible, KJV. The first page astounded me. The last page awakened me.

At Revelation 22:18-19, I thought: The God I can choose is not so weak as to threaten human-beings. I think my reaction was born of good will toward civic** human-beings and mysteries to the good.

Now 80 years old, I am open minded toward “theGod”, my term for whatever constrains the consequences of human choice and action. I perceive flaws in KJV and in the Complete Jewish Bible’s competitive Gods: creator God (Genesis 1 and later); Adonai/the Lord God (Genesis 2:4 and beyond); Ruth’s Chemosh and other Semitic Gods; Egyptian deities: Arabian deities; Satan; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Messiah/Christ; Jesus; and God. I think every doctrine should reserve humility. I pursue the laws of physics and progeny to sustain my life, and think Gods are personal defenses against undiscovered or misunderstood actual reality. I would not lessen any civic person's hopes and comforts.

I now think the Bible contains flawed views of humankind’s research and development to the good. I study at a church, in order to hear and benefit from “flaws” other people advocate. I listen to civic citizens and consider the reasons for their beliefs. Sometimes I think they are projecting their good-will on a Bible God. If I share their viewpoint, I consider changing my pursuits. I encourage everyone to consider Jesus' influence on the individual.

Meanwhile, I do all I can to defend and preserve my family’s opportunity to practice civic integrity – to benefit from the consequences of our responsible choices. I don’t know, but think I always seek to mirror Jesus’ civic influence and hope to face his assessment. He tells us we can prefect our behavior, difficult as the task may seem.

This essay was initiated in a conversation about pride in Bible flaws, on January 11, 2023 with Phillip Chialastri, in Baton Rouge.

* Ineluctable means: Not to be assailed, avoided, changed, escaped, mystified, neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, or resisted (9 modifiers in my list). Merriam Webster omits assailed, escaped, mystified, neglected, obfuscated, and rationalized (6 omissions). Collins omits those modifiers plus "changed". English has used “ineluctable” since 1571 during a decades-long debate with "inescapable". Google books used “ineluctable truth” since 1906. It is shocking that few people use “the ineluctable truth”, a singularity. I think judges, lawyers, ministers, and politicians protect this secret. Some people, like chemical engineers, carpenters, and police are trained to discover ineluctable evidence and use it precisely, accurately, deeply, and responsibly.

**“Civic” means reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions, especially to self and immediate family.

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https://www.facebook.com/mick.kassem , January 12, 2024

I read an excerpt from Kafka's Metamorphosis with a group at Goodwood Library in the mid 1990s. Beforehand, I had remarked to my Sunday school class that God could have handled Pilot, who said Jesus was innocent, freeing Jesus. The class broke up, I think to avoid addressing my point: God can handle any decision an individual makes at any time in history. In 2023, I perceive that I am a stranger in a strange land yet share my folly without objecting to other civic citizens' follies.
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https://www.facebook.com/tony.medlin
, Jan 6, 2024

It is wonderful to monitor Mardi Gras so close by. With modern conveniences, we don't have to miss the music.

I appreciate your "like" on my page. I wonder if there's a fit in your education work for lectures on "A Civic People of the United States"? That entity is the faction of citizens in every generation who have done the work to comprehend and intend to aid the goals of the 1787 U.S. Constitution, stated in its preamble.

#USpreambler

xhttps://www.facebook.com/corteeny, January 1, 2024

The speaker does not share enough information about the reason for leaving for this to help me. I don't feel I have left anyone.

But consider Colonel Sartoris "Sarty" Snopes, the protagonist in William Faulkner's "Barn Burning"; https://archive.org/stream/WilliamFaulknerBarnBurning_20180508/William%20Faulkner%20Barn%20Burning_djvu.txt. He left his family at age 10 -- walked into the woods, because he had experienced justice for the first time in his life. He turned his back on imposed loyalty, in order to join humankind. Joining humankind is in a person's self-interest.

On another note, I am keenly interested in Jesus' peace. John, in Chapter 14:27 reports that Jesus said to his apostles, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." I cannot define Jesus' peace beyond "not as the world gives", since I think in human terms. However, because I pursue Jesus' civic influence rather than church doctrine, I am not afraid.

I do not want to persuade anyone to think as I do and especially do not want to lessen anyone's hope and comfort for their soul. However, I encourage everyone to consider Jesus' civic influence. For example, consider Matthew 5:48 regarding Genesis 1:26-28. Then consider Matthew 19:3-8 and notice "be united to" respecting Genesis 1:26-28. I doubt it, but if I get a second chance, I will ask Cynthia's agreement and PaPa's permission to sign my marriage certificate, Phillip R. Marionneaux.

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“Progressive Era” opposition to indoctrination is good. But “uninhibited by Christian strictures” seems unjustly restrictive; the world is awash with religions. Christianity’s offense against the good obfuscates one of humankind’s leading political philosophers: Jesus. The Church hid Jesus in the God mystery, attempting to substitute their Christ. What does Jesus think about Christ?

Inquiry cannot be free – must discover reality. Researchers may and can discover and conform-to actual reality, rather than accept and purport to-resolve mystery they accept or imagine.

The U.S. Constitution proposes to pursue perfect civic republicanism – statutory justice – rather than democracy. Only the civic faction, We the People of the United States, can accept and effect U.S. intentions. Neither God nor government can usurp humankind’s responsibility.

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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.

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