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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
Yeshua died. People discover Yeshua. Yeshua prevails when people choose his civic influence
Yeshua was unjustly executed. People discover his mom and dad called him Yeshua. Yeshua impacts
the good when people pursue and practice his civic influence. “Civic” means
reliable responsibility to the good rather than accommodation of the bad in
human connections and transactions.
Yosef and Miryam unintentionally left in conversation with rabbis,
their 12 years old son, Yeshua (pronounced “ye shu a” with the accent softly on "shu" yet interpreted “Joshua”, accent on "Jo" in English). Happily, “Yeshua grew both in
wisdom and in stature, gaining favor both with other people and with God.”
“God” represents the mystery that constrains the consequences of human choices.
Constructing dogma about mystery produces psychological phantasy. It’s
wonderfully expressed in Gustav Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart”. Artistic as
Flaubert is, the story is psychologically violent in Flannery-O’Connor
sentiment. I oppose such violence.
The people who left to future generations Genesis 1:26-28 sought to escape ceremonial human sacrifice in polytheism. They constructed a god who bargained on blood sacrifice from non-humans and smaller factions subsequently improved their construct. Various factions developed gods that exclude blood sacrifice except in war. Competitive monotheism thrives on war. Human sacrifice through war will not stop until most human beings humble their god to thegod that authorizes and empowers humankind to provide order on earth.
I do not know what thegod is but accept the power and authority to three pursuits: appreciate civic persons, suggest that dissidents and rebels reform, and aid the elimination of villains. "Civic" means accepting the power and authority to be reliably responsible to the good and not accommodate the bad on earth.
Humankind
may and can reform from competitive fantasies to civic integrity, by accepting
and improving the Sumerian political philosophy reported by Semitic-speaking
people in Genesis 1:26-28, NIV and CJB, and affirmed in the religion-free, 1787
United States Constitution: Humankind is
in charge to advance the good and to constrain the bad “to ourselves and our
Posterity”.
Prior
generations have left to us, the people of 2024, the wonderful opportunity to
articulate, establish, and practice these principles.
#USpreambler
News
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/nikki-haley-to-end-2024-bid-paving-way-for-trump-to-get-gop-nod-5597025
Attention to the Civil War may and can always remind civic
people that it was a white Christian versus white Christian devastation
grounded in false theology. Southern doctrine held that abolitionists were evil
for trying to accelerate God’s plan for redeeming blacks from their ancestors’
intentional evil (sin). Only 4 facts need be known. First, both Baptist and
Methodist church conventions split, north vs south, over this issue in 1845.
Second, Bleeding Kansas started in 1854, as the number of non-slave states
began to pass the majority. Third, R.E. Lee described the above repeated
“abolitionist evil” in a letter to his wife dated 12/27/1856 . Fourth, Lee was
so misguided by locally popular Christianity to General the war loss. Before
1861, Lee could have chosen to sell all his property and moved to a non-slave
state. His ministers misguided him, professing to know the mystery of thegod.
Reaching further back in history, Christianity is culpable for accommodating
slavery itself. It’s past time for Christianity to accept the mystery of
thegod, drop the Judeo-Pauline squabble over anointed one, and promote Jesus’
civic influence. For example, Matthew 19:3-8, CJB — especially “But it was not
this way from the beginning.” If there are any remaining Lee statues, bronze
plaques with these facts should be attached and the remembrance preserved: A brilliant man was ruined by his religion,
and his family perished with him.
Quora
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-natural-law-theory-founded-on-morality, Charlene
Mmandikisi
Natural law theory seems immoral.
Natural law posits that human-beings pursue justice that
subtends the statutory laws of society. That is, to pursue justice, a society
must, upon discovery, amend unjust law. Persons may and can choose civic living
– reliable responsibility to the good rather than accommodation of the bad
under civil rules. Natural law proponents opine that reason is sufficient to
pursue statutory justice.
The laws of physics and its progeny, such as chemistry, biology,
and psychology, do not yield to reason. Natural law theorists rationalize that
research is not reliable, because theories of physics change with progress. And
when necessary instruments have not been invented, discovery is delayed. Only
when discovery is always repeatable and comports to interrelated laws of
physics is law the consequence of research.
However, reason erroneously opines that it is master of the
facts. Consider, for example, the enlightenment claims in the U.S. Declaration
of Independence. Quoting, “. . . the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle [us]. We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness.”
“God” is and always was a mystery. Rationalizing mystery can
only produce phantasy. No nation can assure citizens any of life, liberty, or
the pursuit of happiness. Economics, a progeny of physics, requires the
human-being to either responsibly earn their way of living or take what a
bureaucrat decides to grant them. Citizens who have not the humility to yield
to physics cannot pursue happiness.
This is only an example of
natural law, with its assumption that reason can overtake the laws of physics, constructs
immoral principles and conduct.
Humility is the first principle of human being (verb). The civic person neither
initiates nor accommodates harm to a person or a society, regardless of civil
order. The religion-free, 1787 U.S. Constitution proposes a civic society, in
order to develop reliable responsibility “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
#USpreambler
Can you
answer this question: "Can you provide some examples of freedom of speech
being legally restricted but not by social norms or common sense?", Anon
You live in the United States and grow accustomed to safety and security,
because you earn your daily needs, save for plans and for retirement, and
observe city, county, state, and federal laws.
Suddenly, you witness people with or without permits-to-demonstrate
destroying property and injuring innocent citizens. You choose to stay informed
and avoid being in such places.
Then, you see the local government support if not sponsor
demonstrators. You see them avoid arresting damaging and injuring persons and
releasing them if they must take them into custody. With repetition of these
threats, you choose to move to another city, county, or state.
Then you see the FBI arrest people who oppose tyranny. Some
FBI-victims’ lives are needlessly destroyed. You decide to protect your family
by not civically sharing opinion.
In the church coffee room you say you’ve written a letter to
your congressperson suggesting legislation to protect human ova from women and
men who do not pursue physical and psychological wellness. The other party says
they would not help that congressperson, because they support Donald Trump. You
ask the other party if aid for ova can come from Democrats. They respond it’s
not their concern. You feel you are talking to an alien and decide to avoid the
“like-minded” forum.
Meanwhile, you continue to ponder the invasion at the
southern and northern borders, your ability to pay, threats to your family, the
willing loss of the U.S. republic, the neighborly silence, the news about media
personalities, continuous entertainment sensations, continual exposure of evil
with no remedy . . .
You get a question like this and answer with humble
integrity, thinking humility is the only way to relieve United States
oppression – restore the pursuit of statutory justice. Your being has almost
been censored by the unconstitutional legal system.
#USpreambler
https://www.quora.com/Can-moral-standards-exist-without-belief-in-a-higher-power-such-as-Kants-categorical-imperative?, Anon
I think religion is
the practice of constructing phantasy, given or adopting a mystery. This seems
obvious, yet most churches and ideologies preserve a social tradition:
sacrificing children to adult satisfactions. The adult alternative is to choose
humility in the image of its source.
Kant and other philosophers mistakenly assume that the laws of physics (and
progeny such as chemistry, biology, and psychology) yield to reason. However,
the laws of physics prevail, and everybody may experience and observe the
ineluctable evidence. [People tell me I have to define “ineluctable”. I have no
problem with Merriam-Webster’s usage.] Nevertheless, people don’t hope away a
hurricane or tsunami: they know better. Likewise, it makes no sense to pray for
relief from bad habits.
We perceive that Sumer invented
grammar, empowering language. They accepted the need for adult humility.
Successive kings developed codes of law that appealed to humble
people to both constrain-for-reform dissidents/rebels and eliminate villains.
The principles, developed unto the Code of Hammurabi, 3700 years ago, are
suggested in Semitic-speaking peoples’ vernacular in Genesis 1:26-28, NIV:
Humankind may and can humbly
rule on earth; that is, rule to the good under the laws of physics.
The power and authority behind that
statement has the humility
to trust humankind. So far, humankind has not acquired the humility
to accept that
trust and the
duty.
The chaos that humankind has
developed since Sumer may and can be reversed. Each newborn can read this or a
better statement about mirroring humility
and may accept their opportunity to constrain chaos in their personal way of
living. As civic people increase, civic societies may emerge, and eventually,
humankind may be dominated by humble
people rather than by adult war. “Civic’ means reliably responsible to the good
on earth, whereas “civil” means compliant to someone’s rules.
Moral standards can withstand the
test of time when they are grounded in ineluctable humility.
#USpreambler
At the recent edge of 200,000 years’ development by homo sapiens, what has been
said before seems evident: each person may and can constrain chaos in their way
of living. Constraining chaos requires choosing between the good, the bad, or
no action -- often without sufficient information to predict the outcome.
Not everyone thinks the good is in their self-interest. But
the person who stays well informed and maintains good intentions develops
decision skills and does not repeat mistakes. A few may pursue perfection
before death.
Unfortunately, education departments have not chosen to
practice, facilitate, and encourage awareness and intentions to pursue the
unique perfection the human-being is empowered and authorized to achieve.
Therefore, rather than a majority of civic citizens, where “civic” means
reliably responsible to the good, there exists an organization to every
imaginable variation between good and bad.
Humankind may and can develop education departments that
neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from any person or organization and
thereby resolve this systematic dilemma.
Both Genesis 1:26-28 and the 1787 U.S. Constitution propose
to develop human being (noun modifying verb).
#USpreambler
https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-determine-the-truth-in-a-world-where-everything-is-a-human-construct-Is-it-possible-to-prove-the-existence-of-abstract-concepts-like-love-hate-and-morality?, Anon
Homo sapiens, still developing after 200,000 years’
adaptation to the laws of physics, primitively admitted, beginning about 10,000
years ago that constraining consequences of human choice is a human duty. The
first known (discovered) writing, grammar, and codes of law were developed in
Sumer, a Mesopotamian civilization.
Since then,
elites have constructed concepts intended to avoid, change, or resist physics
and its successive progeny, such as chemistry, biology, and psychology. So far,
the civic faction of the people have neglected ineluctable evidence of tyranny.
“Civic” refers to reliable responsibility to the good rather than to
accommodate bad behavior.
Bad
behavior has come to a global peak. It is evident that the Biden administration
is cooperating with the invasion of the United States at the southern
border. The fact that states are constitutionally opposing the tyranny, for
example, my state, Louisiana, now sending National Guard members to the Texas
border, indicates that the invasion construct is doomed. See https://www.ilrc.org/state-map-immigration-enforcement#:~:text=States%20are%20closely%20divided%20between,population%20of%2093%20million%20people)
for 2023 evidence that needs an update.
It is important
for fellow citizens to consider that we are observing the laws of physics
rather than ideological constructs. For example, the person who does not want
to earn the food they eat must accept whatever a bureaucrat decides to dole
out. Civic citizens may and can encourage dissident and rebel fellow citizens
to reform and aid repulsion of villains, especially the tyrants in office.
#USpreambler
https://www.quora.com/A-moral-dilemma-about-of-a-real-situation-and-you-have-to-choose-options-1-2-Why-do-you-choose-it, Kenjay Belia
Human being (verb) requires
reliable responsibility.
Encountering a
challenge, I’ve learned to first
consider: Must I act now or do I have
the opportunity to evaluate the options? With opportunity to think, I take that
time. Second, I recall that Genesis
1:26-28 empowers and requires me to consider necessity. Third, I recall that appreciation to the good requires that I
neither initiate nor accommodate the bad. Fourth,
I consider whether or not action is actually required. If not, I end the
self-debate. Fifth, I consider whether
or not I can effect the good if I act. If not, I call on fellow citizens or first
responders. In emergency, I am the first responder, hoping for backup, some
how. A couple examples might help.
I woke up with the feeling that my home had been invaded. I walked the
inside perimeter, in the dark, unarmed. I discovered the back door was unlocked
and froze in fear. Someone might be between me and my wife, and my guns were
near her. After much thought, I decided if someone was in my home I would
surprise them with the question, “How can I help you?” and respond accordingly
if possible. At last I moved, found no one, turned all the lights on to make
certain, locked the back door, then went back to sleep.
At a music festival, I saw a lone woman leave her blanket and purse on
the ground. I called, “Ma’am!” but she disappeared into the crowd. My mind
flashed taking her purse into protection. Terrorism flashed in my vision. I saw
the police, went there, and asked them assistance. As we approached the
blanket, the woman returned with some food. The police thanked me for caring.
With a remodeling contract that said I buy the materials and he install
them, the contractor started picking up his tools, because I insisted on
insulation materials he’d never installed. We negotiated a trip to the supply
store, where a salesman demonstrated installation. The contractor finished the
job without a change order.
My family needed a privacy fence. I read civic and civil guidance on
fence ownership. Placing it 3” inside my boundary avoided liability to
neighbors. The homeowner directly behind built a swimming pool and tied his
side fences to my fence. I called and explained to him that if I allowed that I
was taking liability if an intruder drowned in his pool and asked him to build
his own fence. He refused. I removed an 8’ section of fence. He built his
fence, and both parties lived happily until we moved for other reasons.
That neighbor had elevated the back of his yard with the dirt dug for
the pool. When I noticed flooding, I installed a catch basin and 160’ drain
pipe to carry storm water to the street.
#USpreambler
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/mick.kassem,
March 23
In this video, she understandably misses
one point: Always choose the civic action or statement then don't doubt
yourself when dissidents, rebels, and villains oppose what you did or said.
"Civic" means reliably responsible to the good rather than accommodating
to the bad.
At Barron's age, it would not seem humble
for her to claim that she always makes the civic choice. Also, it takes at
least 2 quarter centuries pursuing human being (verb) to begin to perform so
well that you imagine approaching your unique perfection (happiness) before
inevitable death.
The humility to realize you can only
approach perfection is what makes each civic person a god facing death -- not
an original thought.
Phil Beaver
comment
The faction of Semitic-speaking people who were
responsible for Psalms 82:6-7 shared the encouragement that we can be gods
facing death. Their offspring, Jeshua, shared that intention through the author
of John 10:34, Complete Jewish Bible.
Jeshua was unjustly executed. Jeshua arises
and comes again when humans choose the good and share resistance to the bad.
In every generation, a faction would like
to address Jeshua as his mom and dad, Mary and Joseph, did. The English
equivalent is "Joshua". I think Israel appreciates Jeshua
improvements to Moses' law. To have more immediate impact, Jeshua advocates may
opt for the English substitute, Jesus, yet keep Jeshua alive. That's "ye
shoo a" with short e, short a, and emphasis on oo like u.
Invention of the Internet made it possible
for people to realize and accept that the title "Christ" imposes
political strife Jeshua or Jesus never wants or asks for.
https://www.facebook.com/jim.gambill,
March 23
Great! You two are making wonderful memories. Keep a diary
so in future you don't miss some of the great, connected happenings.
Happily, I recall that Cynthia and I at a
fancy restaurant in Athens, enjoying Greek style baby skid and a jazz pianist.
I wondered if he played Dave Brubeck music. I wrote "Take Five" on a
napkin, put drachma with it and asked the waitress to take it to the pianist. I
saw him read the note, put the money in his tip jar, and go for a break. Witty,
school-teacher Cynthia said, "That'll teach you to credit Brubeck when you
should."
A quarter century later, for my birthday,
Cynthia gave me 2 Rochester-School-of-Music-event-tickets, airfare, and hotel
to see Dave Brubeck's concert. How creative!
With a kind usher's help at intermission
(she took my request backstage), I got Brubeck to sign my 1963 piano folio
"Dave Brubeck at Carnegie Hall". My all time favorite jazz album;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFrnCnbEJMQ.
Thank you, Jim, for flooding these memories
to me and prompting some listening.
Joe Morello's performance beckoned me to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek_8SnvEFI8. Then I could not leave without
hearing once more Brubeck's wonderful chord at 4:53 of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUxCJqdi6Mk. I'm reminded that not everyone
hears "Take Five" as I do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVLIcbUL64M.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/,
March 21
At
the recent edge of 200,000 years’ development by homo sapiens, what has been
said before seems evident: Each person may and can constrain chaos in their way
of living. Constraining chaos requires choosing between the good, the bad, or
no action -- often without sufficient information to predict the outcome.
Ineluctably, the outcome conforms to the laws of physics rather than to
mystery.
Not
everyone thinks the good is in their self-interest. But the person who stays
well informed and maintains good intentions develops decision skills and does
not repeat mistakes. A few may pursue perfection before death.
Unfortunately,
education departments have not chosen to practice, facilitate, and encourage
awareness and intentions to pursue the unique perfection the human-being is
empowered and authorized to achieve. Therefore, rather than a majority of civic
citizens, where “civic” means reliably responsible to the good, societies
compete to every imaginable variation between good and bad. They ponder mystery
and construct phantasies.
Humankind
may and can develop education departments that neither initiate nor accommodate
harm to or from any person or society and thereby resolve this systematic
dilemma.
Both
Genesis 1:26-28 and the 1787 U.S. Constitution propose humble human being (noun
modifying verb) in the image of humility’s source.
Humility
died. Humility is awakened. Humility will come again.
https://www.facebook.com/margo.frey/posts/10226943987920564,
March 21
When I was 48 we suffered loss that is
crushing my breath at this moment. Counselling and Chekov's "Rothschild's
Fiddle" helped me survive. On the first anniversary I remarked to my best friend
that my life is ruined. He said, "That will be true as long as you feel
that way." I reflected and decided to stop saying that. At age 60, I
recalled, "My life is ruined. But that will not ruin Phil Beaver."
The pain is severe yet the good prevails at age 81.
By age 78 I articulated 3 ideas:
First, elites, especially priests and politicians, "protect" us from
knowing "ineluctable". (Happily during recent years I have pursued
the ineluctable truth grounded in ineluctable evidence.) Second, our best characteristic,
humility, mirrors the power and authority of Genesis 1:26-28. Third, throughout
my life, I have survived church by trusting Jesus' civic influence.
When I read the Bible, I go first to
the Complete Jewish Bible, so as to lessen the European influence on my first
impression. It's amazing! Take for example, James 1:1, CJB, "From:
Ya‘akov, a slave of God and of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah To: The Twelve
Tribes in the Diaspora: Shalom!" I want to think "Yeshua" as his
mom and dad did when he was 12: "And Yeshua grew both in wisdom and in
stature, gaining favor both with other people and with God."
Then I notice that James starts
"Ya'akov", Jacob in English. Why doesn't CJB's New Testament start
with the book of Ya'akov? For the same reason I will not try to convince my
church to promote Yeshua when the Google ngram teaches the futility. Give me
Jesus' civic influence.
Jesus' civic influence is expressed
when he talks one on one with a person or crowd. It's kept alive by the
generations of civic people. Civic means responsibly reliable to the good on
earth. We experience Jesus' civic influence in the faces and voices and actions
of fellow citizens like you, Margo, and your wonderful family (and in mine).
Yeshua was executed. Yeshua was
resurrected by people who appreciated his message: mirror the perfection of the
power and authority behind Genesis 1:26-28. Yeshua comes again each time one of
us acts to the good rather than accommodates the bad.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/,
March 19
Beholding global chaos, with locus in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, I coerce, promote, induce, encourage, and practice church and
political reform. The reform has 6 pillars.
First, accept
that the author of Genesis 1:26-28, NIV or CJB, is a known mystery. Developing
mystery can only achieve fantasy. But the message therein is no mystery: Humble humankind may and can choose to rule to
the good on earth. That’s because the known mystery is so humble as to yield control on earth.
Second, accept
that the complete Bible canon begins with Semitic-speaking people resisting elite
powers who impose human sacrifice; Israel expresses progress by changes, first
to animal sacrifice then more reform from blood. Abram leaves Ur and
substitutes animal and bird sacrifices.
Third, a faction
now known as Hebrews further specified sacrifices with which to worship their
God. It was not an easy reform. Baby burning people (Jeremiah 7:30-34) did not
have the Internet. Successive leaders marked reforms with covenants and trust
in reliable responsibility. Micah thought sacrifices no longer needed and
implied even worship and praise are not needed (Micah 6:6-8). A faction
envisioned an anointed king, a messiah, who would unite the 12 tribes under
their God.
Fourth, a smaller
faction of Hebrews believed Yeshua was the messiah, despite his execution. Execution
was demanded by the Hebrew faction on the scene in Jerusalem. Yeshua improved Moses’
law authenticating himself. Some, such as his brother, Ya’akov, thought he might
return to unite the 12 tribes of Israel. I wish I could use the name his mother
and dad gave him, but I do not know it, so I accept the English, “Jesus”.
Fifth, the Roman
emperor Constantine observed the political impact of the Yeshua movement
and imposed conversion to a Christ movement, constructed by Paul’s church,
thereby oppressing Yeshua’s
civic influence and church. I promote, facilitate, and encourage Jesus’ civic
influence, which I see in the faces and hear in the voices of humble people,
some of whom are affluent.
Sixth, the
religion-free, signed 1787 United States Constitution, proposes and
accommodates practices that are consistent with Genesis 1:26-28’s political
principle: Humankind may and can rule to the good on earth rather than
accommodate the bad.
The historical consequence of oppression of humility is the
incidentally developed name “Christ”. Ptolemy ordered translation of the Hebrew
Bible into Greek language, completed in 281 B.C. Greek for “anointed one” is χρισμένος.
A short talk on PBS
(https://www.pbs.org/video/what-was-jesus-real-name-pfsrdr) describes the
mechanics of replacing “Yeshua” with “Christ” but doesn’t consider the offenses
against Yeshua and his birth family.
More obscure is the offense against humankind in the conversion of “Ya‘akov” into
“James”. Perhaps competing with English Christianity, the Complete
Jewish Bible (CJB) has the book of James instead of the book of Ya’akov.
Chapter 1, Verse 1, says, “From: Ya‘akov, a slave of God and of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah .
. .” And Matthew 1:1, CJB, says, “This is the genealogy of Yeshua the Messiah,
son of David, son of Avraham”.
I
think Yeshua represents the humble author of Genesis 1:26-28, CJB. Approaching
Easter, 2024, we, the civic faction of We the People of the United States, can
celebrate that Yeshua lives via our humility, mirroring his intentions in our
personal way of living. In churches, synagogues, mosques, and elsewhere we may
and can together proclaim: Yeshua has died. Yeshua has risen. Yeshua has come
again through our mirroring humility to the good!
Notice
that the so-called Golden Rule does not promote attention to Yeshua. Many
Christians arrogantly promote Christ, without regard to Yeshua’s presence. I
wish I could use the name his mom and dad used when he was 12 years old and in
the temple (Luke 2:52, CJB)
I hope this helps.
#USpreambler
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/,
March 18
After expressing the child-imaged value of each human-being,
Jesus shared a process for civic forgiveness. “Civic” means reliably
responsible to the good in this world. The reported process is in Matthew
18:15-20. I like the Complete Jewish Bible (CJB). I think CJB is good for
readers who think Yeshua neither may nor can usurp personal responsibility to
the good in this world.
That is each individual may and can choose the good.
Intention to the good is left to individual choice, upon personal perception of
experiences and reported events. It takes a quarter century for a person to
comprehend and intend the good.
Not knowing the ineluctable truth, I paraphrase and
elaborate, for 2024 living and discussion in the United States, V 15-17:
Moreover, if a friend communicates to you and you think your opinion enhances
impact to the good, share your opinion freely – except: If you suspect your
comments might offend, talk privately.
If there’s free expression, and the audience listens, you
and your friend may have improved We the People of the United States – at least
the civic faction.
If in private your friend both 1) did not convince you that
you are mistaken and 2) doesn’t listen to your improvement, persuade one or two
fellow citizens to aid your consideration and to address every nuance. Be
prepared to accept their opinion that you erred then to report the outcome to
posterity. If your friend refuses to participate -- refuses to listen even to
the considerate faction of We the People of the United States, regard your
friend an alien or a tyrant against the good; hope for discovery and necessary
reform. Note: once a person intends to employ Jesus’ civic influence, we
discover that the practice requires unexpected humility, work, and commitment.
Now, quoting from V 18-20, CJB:
Yes! I tell you people that whatever you prohibit on earth
will be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be
permitted in heaven. To repeat, I tell you that if two of you here on earth
agree about anything people ask, it will be for them from my Father in heaven.
For wherever two or three are assembled
in my name, I am there with them.
That name is “Jesus” (Yeshua in CJB), and I accept without
objection his meaning of “heaven”. However, I experience and observe that a wrongful
act or perception, un-addressed, festers and may be repeated in this world by
the offender.
Unfortunately, churches do not teach Jesus, perhaps because
Jesus’ process for forgiveness facilitates discovery. Mystery rather than
humility promotes church.
Jesus encouraged considerate humans to accept Genesis
1:26-28 and choose to pursue personally perfect power and authority on earth.
With training and practice, acting to the good on earth could become tradition,
even though there might always be some dissidents, rebels, and villains. Then,
what’s permitted on earth might seem more pleasing in heaven. I don’t know.
As always, I appreciate discussion results from yesterday’s
Sunday school class and, this morning, a heartfelt post by a friend to Baton Rouge.
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman/posts/10231495078055083,
March 18
My doctor's nurse always asks if I smoke then if I drink
alcohol. If "yes", how much?
I felt alcohol was killing me, so stopped -- became a
teetotaler with rare exception: one glass of champagne on NYE or for another
toast.
They also, always weigh me, which could invoke a discussion
of eating habits. When I had high sugar, I was told to stop eating sugar.
I think I have a great PCP and staff, Dr. David Fontenot at
BRC.
https://www.facebook.com/iamnumerouno/posts/10161748435667853,
March 18
Forgiveness, per Matthew 18:15-20, after Jesus had expressed
the value of each individual.
Not knowing the ineluctable truth,
I paraphrase
and elaborate for 2024 living in the United States, V 15-17: Moreover, if a friend communicates and you have an opinion you think will develop impact to the good, share it freely – except: If you suspect your comments might offend,
talk privately. If free
speech, and the audience listens, you and your
friend may
have improved We the People of the United States.
If in private your
friend both 1) did not establish that you are mistaken and
2) doesn’t listen to your improvement, convince one or two fellow citizens
to aid you to consider and to present
every issue. Be prepared to accept
that you erred
then to report the outcome. If
your friend refuses to participate
-- refuses to listen even to the considerate faction of We the People of the United States, regard your friend an alien or a tyrant
and hope for reform.
Now quoting from V 18 CJB, “Yes! I tell you people that whatever you prohibit on earth will
be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in
heaven. To repeat, I tell you that if two of you here on earth agree about
anything people ask, it will be for them from my Father in heaven. For
wherever two or three are assembled in my name, I am there with them.”
That name is “Jesus” (Yeshua in CJB), and I
accept without objection his meaning of “heaven”.
Unfortunately, churches do not teach Jesus,
perhaps because Jesus’ process for forgiveness is open to error-discovery. Mystery rather than
humility promotes church.
Jesus encouraged considerate humans to accept Genesis
1:26-28 and choose to pursue personal perfect power and authority on earth, cited therein.
Shannon, as always, I appreciate your initiative regarding heartfelt and shared
concerns.
https://www.facebook.com/margo.frey/posts/10226926538524340, March 16
I want to change every education department so that it
practices, facilitates, and encourages each person, including the student, to
pursue human being (noun plus verb). It takes a quarter century to acquire the
comprehension and intention to develop your unique human-being
(adjective-noun).
One of the keys to human being is one on one communication.
A boy ought to try to talk to every girl who will talk. A girl ought to try to
talk to every boy who will talk. It's not a matter of finding the other with
whom you want to spend the rest of your life. It's a matter of choosing another
with whom you may produce a child or children and help them develop for life.
That is, through your grandchildren and beyond.
It's not the Hollywood idea of the perfect match. It's
finding a person with whom mutual appreciation and commitment for life may and
can develop. When problems come, fidelity enters the picture. Every 11 year-old
girl and 13 year-old boy ought to know if not accept these ideas.
Education departments will not change until their customers
decide the fear of sexual attraction impedes if not prevents the friendships
required for girls and boys to learn to talk and discover the mutual interests,
hopes, and comforts on which family monogamy is built. Education departments
may and can be reformed.
https://www.facebook.com/rodger.kamenetz/posts/10161393653674222, March 15
All the past generations have left to us, the civic people
of 2024 the opportunity to resolve a 5500 year old struggle to end human
sacrifice. "Civic" means reliably responsible to the good on earth.
It is a privilege to accept the challenge.
The clues are published in the Complete Jewish Bible and affirmed by the
religion-free, signed, 1787 United States Constitution.
First, Genesis 1:26-28 asserts that humankind is to rule on earth. Second,
Psalm 82:6-7 says civic human beings are gods facing death. Third, Micah 6:8
says, rather than sacrifice, "act justly, love grace, and walk in
purity". Fourth, Matthew 5:48 says human purity can be perfect.
It is not necessary to demystify the source of these four points to choose to
pursue them. The 1787 U.S. Constitution specifies a republic that can pursue
perfection, through statutory justice "to ourselves and our
Posterity".
If the civic faction, We the People of the United States, does not accept this
challenge, perhaps another nation will.
Comment: Thinking overnight about ending human sacrifice,
the 4 points I listed do not mention worship and praise. Perhaps tradition that
conflicts with the source maintains the will to make war and the attendant
human sacrifices.
https://www.facebook.com/mick.kassem/posts/10227727959596866,
March 12
Ya'al tell me what society may and can change.
I think society can and should reform every education department, in order to
practice, facilitate, and encourage every person, from K-12 on through life, to
personally develop human being (noun modifies verb) rather than to "train
the worders we need". A developed human-being (noun on noun) understands
life and intends to act without error. Any mistake will not be repeated.
After my example, what do you think society should change?
https://www.facebook.com/rodger.kamenetz/posts/10161389030274222,
March 11, 2024
I hope to write "human being (noun modifying
verb)" and in the same essay "human-being (adjective -noun)". I
don't want to confuse my expressions with human being, meaning "kind
person". What does grammar demand of me?
I don’t trust Hollywood showmanship.
In my opinion, Genesis 1:26-28, Complete Jewish Bible, in Semitic vernacular,
wills that humankind rule events on earth perhaps leaving other worlds to the
gods, as primitively practiced in polytheistic Sumer, 5500 years ago - think
eye for an eye. It seems to me Hebrews reformed killing humans for ceremonial
food to the gods (polytheism and idols) or for royal service but remain bemused
by competitive monotheism: Our God-representative will defeat yours in war.
Thus, 4000 years ago, Adonai of God would defeat Baal of Shor-El under animal
blood burnt for sacrifice. Next, 3750 years ago, Jacob became Israel. Then,
3470 years ago, Israel constructed the Torah (improving Sumerian law codes).
Then, 1976 years ago, a small Hebrew faction believed Jesus was the one
anointed to unite Israel, partially because Jesus improved the Torah. Hebrew
leaders discussed issues, such as circumcision versus baptism, in Jerusalem,
about 15 years after Jesus died on the cross.
Saul/Paul left the meeting and arrogantly claimed Jesus was sacrificed (without
fire), supplanting the anointed one to unite Israel with Christ to save
believers’ souls. Lately, 1740 years ago, Constantine imagined political power
and imposed Christianity. Christ's blood is sufficient to believers, despite
the law.
Judeo-Christianity (about 33% of the world's population) is holding the world
hostage, even though Cyrus the Great Persian ruled 2560 years ago that a civic
people is entitled to their religious hopes and comforts. "Civic"
means reliably responsible to the good rather than to bad behavior.
Civic citizens who continue to ignore Genesis 1:26-28 seem without excuse.
#USpreambler
Judeo-Christanity
is holding the world hostage? There is no such thing as Judeo-Christanity.
There's Judaism and then there's Christianity.
PRB response:
And
there is the anointed-one-construct -- anointed either to appear and unite the
12 tribes of Israel under the Torah or Jesus to return for that purpose -- or
Christ to save the souls of believers despite the Torah, including
Judeo-converts who believe Christ. Other inhabitants of the world, a 2/3
majority have no stake in this 1740 year-old Judeo-Christian squabble.
It
is not too late for a civic Judaism and civic Christianity to reform.
"Civic" means reliably responsible to the good rather than to bad
conduct.
https://www.facebook.com/margo.frey/posts/10226898028891617,
March 10, 2024
What if James Woods' targets don't respond to the quotes
around "crime is down"? I don't trust Hollywood. After all, they're
responsible for the dinosaurs' myth!
https://www.facebook.com/john.lee.7370,
March 9, 2024
I think this feature of the work place empowers people to
enjoy and develop human being (verb) regardless of gender, ignoring colleagues
who nourish animalism. I deserved my wife's happy greeting each evening.
https://www.facebook.com/jim.gambill/posts/10232536662940585,
March 8, 2024
I most dislike silence. With free speech, liars disclose themselves.
https://www.facebook.com/gcleve.wright,
and https://www.facebook.com/maryann.nalls1/posts/10219682495812764 March
8, 2024
I entreat the clergy to accept thegod -- whatever constrains
the consequences of human choice, in order to mutually develop Jesus' civic
influence to "ourselves and our Posterity", or better. Only the
people who are humble to the ineluctable truth have power and authority over
fellow citizens, including humble clergy.
https://www.facebook.com/bill.beard.984,
video March 4, 2024
Makes you appreciate the comma. Bob Agee, at rest, tried to
teach me to write literally. Very late in life I got to ask him what he meant
by that. He said, "Your weekly reports needed to say what you meant."
Doing research, I never knew what to write until the work was done, which was
often a matter of months. Each week, I could have tried, "I don't yet know
where this mystery is leading us." I miss Bob, and am still trying to
write what I mean.
https://www.facebook.com/gcleve.wright,
March 4, 2024
Approaching my 81st b'day, I'm suggesting 5 ideas.
First, the Father is a mystery to everyone who is humble to the mystery. But
most of us are so busy pursuing the good and constraining the bad it's easy to
overlook this: the mystery of the Father makes the Son and the Holy Spirit each
a mystery. Cynthia taught me these secrets.
Second, life is an opportunity, whereas favorable afterdeath is a mystery I can
neither define nor elect. Therefore, in every decision to act, I want to favor
good consequences to everyone who is living and their posterity.
Third, every person has the opportunity to experience and observe the evidence
for the mysteries and decide whether to choose the good or the bad. If the bad,
I hope that person will seek and accept someone's encouragement to the good and
offer mine.
Fourth, when a person chooses their perception of the good, I accept them
without question. If it so happens that they want to share their practices and
intentions, I relish the opportunity to listen and learn from a god facing
death.
Fifth, of the political philosophers I have studied, I favor Jesus' civic
influence, which I experience in the faces and voices of people pursuing the
good to the moment. Jesus suggested that a person may and can pursue perfection
before death.
nice! My thoughts aren’t so defined as yours …I do like and
embrace most of what you think in those 5;
Will tell you this, I am the miracle!!
I just had double pneumonia ( all lobes affected) with stage
3 kidney failure. Drs said 90% of folks with this die, then when I was released
from the hospital I was told if I got 60% lung function I would be lucky, and I
would have CKD the rest of my life….. but I prayed/ had others praying …. I am
at 90% lung function, and improving each day; Thursday the Nephrologist
released me, kidneys function is normal! While God is a mystery, and I believe
that is his intention, His purpose and intention/ his mercy is real.
Cleve, your human affirmation, both as observation and from
direct experiences, makes my decade -- quarter century, let alone day.
Most of all, I am glad -- grateful -- you recovered; for the
doctors who cared for you and the family and friends who appealed to the
mystery.
thanks ole buddy
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman, March 4, 2024
I may be foolish to respond to my body. I started walking
faster a couple years ago when I saw theories about vaccines causing clots. My
idea was to circulate my blood faster. I feel better, and my cardiologist said
he agrees I'm in good condition. An added benefit: walking faster feels
better than before. -- does not cause pain.
Comments on Article
https://www.foi.org/2023/06/23/who-is-jacob-the-lords-brother,
Cameron Joyner
I appreciate your scholarship in this article and am writing
to connect and collaborate more than to congratulate, which I do.
I suggest you update this article, changing to "To
avoid confusion, this article will refer to him as Ya‘akov" and make other
updates required; use only Yeshua, demanding appreciation to that person. The
human-being may and can choose, and I think discovery should always be shared
in the clearest way, trusting the other human-beings to also desire discovery
and practice. Human-beings cannot reform dissidents and rebels, in order to,
together, eliminate villains, by preserving tradition.
I am 81 years old, in good health, reared Southern Baptist,
to a Mason father and Eastern Star mother, and fell in love with a
Louisiana-French-Catholic woman 53 years ago. She is serenely confident under
our daughter Rebekah's care and our daughter Holly's assistance (and mine). We
have 3 children, Stephen deceased in 1991 yet influencing us -- all four. My
wife is bed-ridden, being parallelized by a brain disease (PSP) and with facial
expressions lights up a party. (Consequently I am in heaven.) I practiced
chemical engineering for 35 years at one company that made hazardous chemicals
humankind needs and no equipment I ever specified can blow up. I apply the
professionalism behind that statement in my study of humankind and its
potential for perfection according to the ineluctable truth.
Please tell me about yourself.
I am developing the premise that Hebrews are in the process
of eliminating royalty's human-sacrifice, practices as Semitic-speaking peoples
suffered in ancient Mesopotamia. Avram established animal and bird and blood
sacrifices. His descendants added grain and oil sacrifices. I am drawn to
Ya‘akov's admonition against blood consumption, in Acts 15. Could it extend to
ceremony as well? Regardless, I think Hebrew debate and refraction of Moses'
law is exemplary to humankind. Have you written anything about Israel's work to
eliminate human sacrifice?
Best wishes for a great 2024 and relief from our present
concerns.
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.
