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Phil Beaver
seeks to collaborate on the ineluctable truth. Ineluctable means: Not to be assailed, avoided, broken, changed,
escaped, mystified, neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, resisted, revoked, or
voided. Some people erroneously imagine limiting the ineluctable truth, 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 to the good rather than the bad
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 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
President Donald Trump, the United States republic, and
humankind’s power, authority, and responsibility
Europeans don’t understand that democracy, as a form of government,
ruinously pursues chaos. And democracy as the opportunity to vote must be
constrained/licensed. They can’t comprehend that the 1775 revolutionary slogan “Don’t
tread on me”, carries the commitment “I have no desire to tread on you, yet self-defense
comes first to ourselves and our Posterity.” Consequently, the 13 independent
states of 1783 ratified in 1791 the United States constitutional republic --
intending to pursue statutory justice by discovering then amending unjust laws.
The civic faction of We the People of the United States
intends and pursues necessary goodness made plain by the consequences of the
laws of physics. For example, leaping to death is not mysteriously corrected; intemperate
practices like alcohol or drug use invite ruin; the
gender-change-industrial-complex imposes mystery onto customers’ lives; beliefs
grounded in mystery bemuse people from their desire for civic integrity.
These details were not known to the Sumer civilization, whose
polytheistic kings 5500 years ago successively developed law codes that accepted
the power, authority, and responsibility to rule to necessary goodness on
earth. About 3900 years ago, a Semitic monotheist parochially expressed the
Sumerian political philosophy in pre-Judeo-Christian Genesis 1:26-28: On earth, only Homo sapiens may and can rule
to necessary goodness according to the laws of physics.
But not every American avoids and resists democracy as a
form of government. The misguided 2024 DNC issued a platform with the preamble
ending, "History has shown that nothing about democracy is guaranteed.
Every generation has to protect it, preserve it, choose it. We must stand
together to choose what we want America to be."
The civic faction of We the People prefers “can and may” to
must and rejected the DNC’s phantasy democracy. They upheld United States
republicanism, the most promising governance on earth. I would not have expressed
these opinions without our fellow citizen, President Donald Trump and his
Vice-President, J. D. Vance.
#USpreambler, #acivicpeople
News
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/trump-travels-to-north-carolina-to-receive-hurricane-helene-recovery-briefing-5798278
The key to present civic integrity among We the People is to
accept, appreciate, and share President Trump's United States' appreciation for
each person, as they are and where they are this moment. Those who hate may
choose reform, constraint, or elimination, depending on their attitude:
stubbornness, crime, or evil, as adjudicated under the United States republican
form of government. By design, its republic defeats democracy as a form of
government while upholding democracy as the opportunity to the civil citizen to
vote.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/newark-new-jersey-officials-discuss-ice-raids-5798282
Mayor Baraka eloquently claims democracy and the
Constitution then recalls the 1st amendment. For his reasons, he
unconstitutionally believes "democracy in New Jersey", even though
the Constitution guarantees New Jersey and its people a republican form of governance.
People who do not understand that democracy as a right to
vote and negates neither the rule of law nor the importance of excluding
democracy as a form of government.
Democrats are willingly mislead by the Democrat Party to
think that passion to choose democracy can and may undo the rule of law.
Democracy originates and fosters chaos. Choosing democracy cannot overthrow
constitutional republicanism, which is not synonymous with the Republican
Party. The civic faction of We the People of the United States hope that
believers will reform the Democrat Party to constitutionalism and the rule of
law rather than "[standing] together to choose what we want America to
be”, quoting the 2024 DNC platform.
Presenting personal identification documents is the first
step of due process under the rule of law. Collaboration rather than arrogance
defines civic integrity. Civic integrity partitions necessary goodness from
dependency, crime, and evil.
Trump made clear that he felt the weight of Article II,
Section 3's clause: [The President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully
executed.
Trump erred to place his trust in Pence rather than call a
joint session of Congress earlier than January 6, or convince the reluctant
Supreme Court to consider State voting evidence, or other Constitutional
action.
As VP and running mate, Pence could not, should not have
tried-to, use his lawyers to defend defiance of the Commander-in-Chief.
Pence is the unfortunate victim of Pauline Christianity, a
personally ruinous distraction from Yeshua's civic influence. See the article
in Wikipedia and follow your own curiosity about Yeshua.
Every person has their opportunity, whether scant or
abundant, to comprehend competitive divinity-school doctrine and choose to
pursue personal, necessary goodness -- civic integrity, even as they consider
personal hopes and comfort.
It is not too late for Pence to reform to the ineluctable
truth, which I seek. I think Yeshua's civic influence is reliable.
#USpreambler, #acivicpeople
I recall Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural address to modify
a quote about opposing parties: "“Why should there not be a patient
confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal
hope in the world? [Truth and] justice will surely prevail by the judgment of
[the] great tribunal of the American people.”
The people judged on November 5, 2024, electing Donald J.
Trump the 47th President and J.D. Vance vice-President.
The United States Constitution, in its amendment provisions
and in its intentions sentence (in the preamble), proffers statutory justice
"to ourselves and our Posterity". The world benefits as the United
States gradually discovers and eliminates injustice. Nevertheless, some U.S.
citizens defy justice.
Until the Democrat Party purges injustice from its dreams
and goals, the American people has no option but to empower the Republican
Party.
The people know from direct experience and recorded
observations that power corrupts and absolutism pursues ruin. Therefore, the
people hold every hope that the Democrat Party will reform before the United
States republic is lost to democracy's chaos. Socialism prevents the reliable
responsibility that is required of human being (the practice).
So far, the extant Democrat Party insists on disregarding
the American people. The world hopes they reform.
#USpreambler, #acivicpeople
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/trump-not-ruling-out-using-military-force-to-reclaim-panama-canal-greenland-5787667
This is fake news. Trump said he would not answer questions
about military force. A reporter imposed, “Is it true … ?”, and Trump did not
answer.
Columns and Opinion
https://www.theepochtimes.com/bright/the-goodness-and-beauty-of-the-private-life-5758726
I have 2 problems with this article.
First, having a small group of acquaintances with whom you
can speak your mind is necessary to human being (verb). When a human-being
speaks frankly to other human-beings, the sounds heard are healing to all ears.
For example, in a formative Sunday school class, I was asked to say,
"Christ died on the cross to redeem me of my sins". I responded,
"I don't know that that is so. I think The God could have handled Pontius
Pilate upholding justice." Trust me. The experience was heart
pounding-emotional. However, these 30 years later I am comfortable with
humility toward The God. I still attend Sunday school at the same church and am
convinced that members there appreciate each other's unique pursuits of the
ineluctable truth.
Second, R. E. Lee, prior to the Civil War, was a victim of
his own denial. Fredrick Douglass had, in July 1852 in Rochester said that
everyone know slavery is wrong if he or she is the slave. In 1854, white
Christians were crossing into Kansas to kill white, Christian abolitionists --
the Civil War was underway but not accepted. In 1856, Lee wrote to his wife
that The God was punishing blacks for thousands of years, due to sins of their
ancestors, and that abolitionists were evil for trying to accelerate The God's
schedule. See
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/letter-from-robert-e-lee-to-mary-randolph-custis-lee-december-27-1856/.
Unfortunately, Lee's Sunday school did not hear his voice.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/the-priest-who-lost-it-all-then-found-an-unlikely-cure-5719645
Matthew 18:15-17 presents Yeshua’s process for resolving
human conflict
1. If
you perceive offense by someone, tell them in private.
a. Only then can there be resolution.
b. Their response may disclose your error.
i. If so, you may apologize and make any needed amends.
ii. If not, they may admit guilt and restore loss.
2. If
they don’t respond, present to someone else and persuade them to approach the
accused with you.
a. The third party may side with the accused.
b. The accused may reject the joint presentation.
3. If
accusation survived without reconciliation, persuade the public to hold a forum
to consider the case.
4. Intrapersonal
forgiveness and mercy prevent reconciliation.
Divinity schools teach forgiveness
and mercy, blinding humankind from Yeshua’s process for conflict resolution in
human being (verb).
Yeshua was one of humankind’s
greatest political philosophers. Promoting Jesus the miracle worker and Christ
the blood sacrifice obscures Yeshua’s civic influence.
This error is part of a transcendent,
global promotion of “a higher power”, in order to usurp human responsibility to
necessary goodness. However, humankind is aware of their power, authority, and
responsibility to pursue necessary goodness, by 2 experiences and observations.
First, discovering the laws of physics and how to use them to the good empowers
humankind to continually advance. For example, humankind explores the cosmos
near and far, formerly regarded as “the heavens”. Second, humankind’s
responsibility was expressed beginning 5500 years ago in Sumerian law codes and
again 3700 years ago in Genesis 1:26-28: female and male humankind may and can
rule, in order to flourish on earth. Reform is possible.
Failure to appreciate and pursue the intentions of the
United States’ constitutional-republic invites ruin. Democracy promises chaos.
1. Globally,
“democracy” is, blindly, the individual’s opportunity to vote, whether they
support tyranny or practice responsibility.
2. But
the civic citizen does the work to know how to vote in self-interest including
their family and posterity among fellow citizens. Civic citizens oppose
tyrants.
3. The
civic faction of We the People of the United States accepts the power, the
authority, and the responsibility to aid amending the Constitution whenever
injustice is discovered.
4. Each
member of the civic faction owns personal commitment to their personal view of
the intentions sentence in the preamble to the Constitution.
5. I
propose licensing only the civic faction to vote in federal if not all
elections.
#USpreambler,
#acivicpeople
Quora
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-such-a-thing-as-influence-without-power-If-so-how-does-exist-exist,
Manny Cabrera
First, we must consider “power.” Imposition of political
power is often met with military resistance. On the other hand, open-mindedness
to the-ineluctable-truth invites civic influence. “Civic” means
reliably-responsible to necessary goodness. For example, even though my image
is white-skin, it does me no harm for a fellow-citizen to pursue hope and
comfort in red-God. Reading “God is Red,” by Vine Deloria, Jr., on Fred Bear’s
suggestion, opened my mind to an ancient faith in physics and its progeny, e.g.,
economics, biology, psychology, and imagination about the unknown.
I typically converse about real life with strangers, for
example, the kind person who was cutting my hair one day. I asked my Super-Cut
provider, “Do you know the meaning of African-American Christianity? It does
not seem inviting to me, a European-American.”
She responded, “Think of me as an Ethiopian-Christian.”
Since then, I discovered the Ethiopian Tewahedo Bible and
without objection expect believers to find hope and comfort in black-God---in
their image. I may not study it more for now, and am grateful for the
awareness.
If the ultimate consequence of God-images is the proposal to
enslave white-people, I would fear another dreadful military resistance and
recall Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 words, “Why should there not be a patient
confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal
hope in the world?”
I suspect Barack Obama envisions black-governance with
consent of the governed. Instead, I expect the U.S. to reform from
British-colonial psychology/tradition, at last. The human demand and the 1787
Constitution’s intention is for U.S. humble-integrity rather than for
church-state-partnership.
On Nov 27, 2020, I shared this somewhat updated draft with
my friend Fred Bear, so it seems out of date on 12/30/2024.
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=601071082552022&set=a.162034566455678,
Jan 25
After walking in a local park for years, I think
"love" is overrated and often unwanted. Because I can only walk
alone, I discovered that appreciating every person I encounter enriches my
ability to grin to all the outdoors. For someone wearing earbuds, silence is
golden. I no longer take pictures of the birds. Consequently, I relish every
opportunity to stretch then go walking, and when I start, I can't help but grin
from mind to toe.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009118567277
It is difficult not to want to tar and feather California officials who do not
mimic Pepperdine fire resistance and safety, demonstrated in this report.
https://www.facebook.com/corteeny/posts/10162757885714068,
Jan 21
I walk in the park and try to talk to everyone who looks my
way, especially those who say, "Hello". When someone passes by
without even looking at me, I don't notice their passing out of sight. At the
park, people I don't know make me appreciate even more the people I do know.
If I feel a friend has wronged me, I tell them so, intending to make amends. I
learn that they had no intention to slight me, let alone wrong me. So far, none
has responded that I wronged them, so there's been no need for apology or
amends.
I learned this from Yeshua, in Matthew 18:15, CJB.
https://www.facebook.com/iamnumerouno/posts/10162934198027853,
Jan 21
The speaker may and can try this: Never repeat a mistake
(and share the idea with his wife). They may discover pursuit of perfection,
confident they will reach their best possible achievement.
I think fear of reliable responsibility to achieve holds people back. It's much
like fear of winning a tennis match.
Yeshua's civic influence may and can help. See for example, Matthew 18:15, the
first step in conflict resolution between people.
https://www.facebook.com/james.finney.9469,
Jan 25
People came to America because they heard about "Don't
tread on me", and wanted to enjoin the reliable responsibility to live
that way. They took care of their own way of living and helped neighbors who
practiced civic integrity. When the British tried to stop them, Americans went
to war to preserve their opportunity to live without treading on other people.
Then, unable to manage 13 independent
states, they ratified the United States constitutional republic, which arranged
representative rule of law and provided for amendment so as to pursue statutory
justice.
US citizens negotiated with Native
Americans. Immigrants assimilated after learning the preamble to the
Constitution. However, some citizens born here lost sight of the and: "I
won't tread on you".
During the recent 70 years, domestic
ignorance of the United States republic became so widespread that the 2024
DNC-Platform's misguided preamble ends, "History has shown that nothing
about democracy is guaranteed. Every generation has to protect it, preserve it,
choose it. We must stand together to choose what we want America to be."
The civic faction of We the People of the
United States, realizing that democracy ruins the rule of law, rejected the DNC
and its November 5, 2024 candidates. At the rate they are performing since
then, it will take them another 70 years to accept that America is ruled not by
democracy but by the pursuit of statutory justice, as abstractly stated in the
preamble to the United States Constitution.
A civic people appreciate a 2-party system,
and when one is wounded it may and can reform. Please comment so I may improve
my opinions.
#USpreambler, #acivicpeople
Jan 21
In 2008, MWW voted for Obama, neutralizing my vote for
McCain. We always talk, and her reasoning was the Obama would be less likely to
send our troops into harm's way. I cheered her excellence, admitted Obama was a
great speaker, but did not like him campaigning in Berlin. Nevertheless, I
hoped he would succeed. In 2012, she was disappointed and voted for Romney.
There is no way I am going to collaborate with someone or a crowd who wants the
President of the United States to fail. And I hope my opinion will influence
some people to collaborate with the civic faction of We the People of the
United States.
James, I read the list and did not recognize a single name as a Louisiana
resident. I already knew I oppose Stephen King's politics. I regret that you
and others are hurt by the United States faction who elected Trump and Vance.
I think 2025 is a pivotal year wherein two global groups may intend to rule to
necessary goodness on earth. Both 1) people who think Christianity is
oppressive and 2) Christians, whether Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox,
Ethiopian Tewahedo, or other, comprehend and accept that the political
philosophy offered in Genesis 1:26-28 offers relief from harm's dominance.
Genesis 1:26-28 states, in 2025 terms, in my words: On earth, female and male
Homo sapiens, have the sole power, authority, and responsibility to discover
and practice necessary goodness. I think during the next 4 years, most people
observe preparation to colonize the planet Mars -- formerly held to be in
"the heavens" and off-limits to humankind.
I appreciate your practice of sharing your opinion, James.
Again, to Mary Reeves:
Mary, do you realize your mythology is obsolete?
We are out of the WHO, Ukraine is destroyed, billionaires earn tax cuts because
they help humankind rather than because they exist, and Trump is enormously
wealthy -- wealthy enough to survive the brutality of the Democrat Party's
9-year failed democracy-promotion in the nation that guarantees to the people
in their states a republican form of government.
One of my great satisfactions is being among the 14 million Americans who voted
for Trump in the 2016 presidential primary. In the 2020 Democrat primaries,
Harris got 844 votes compared to Biden's 19 million votes. That's 22,512
reasons to not vote for Harris in 2024.
With conviction you express, the Democrat Party will be out of power for more
than 70 years. I do not want that, because unchallenged power corrupts. So,
please think of me as a neighbor with the desire to not just survive, but to
pursue happiness that could bring joy.
Most readers don't comprehend that democracy seeks to destroy the United States
republic, wherein every individual has the power, the authority, and the
responsibility to earn the way of living they want as long as they don't lessen
any neighbor's equal opportunity.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002292088263,
Jan 19
I like the sign "Yeshua saves". Read about
Yeshua's person at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshua. If you like using the
Aramaic name of an Aramaic-speaking person, read about his influence in the
Complete Jewish Bible-CJB;
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201&version=CJB. Note
especially V 17. Let your curiosity in necessary goodness take you as far as
you like.
https://www.facebook.com/gregoryfrey1, Jan 18
With Rebekah's advice, I take 2 ea 1500 mg turmeric and 2
each 1000 mg Vitamin C per day, so that I can walk in the park and stretch
muscles every day, clothed for the weather.
Also, I am a teetotaler excepting my share of a bottle of Prosecco with our
daughters each New Years' eve and anticipating a glass of cabernet sauvignon
when Cynthia next takes a glass of Malbec. Now that I think about it, I'll make
certain hers is a barolo.
https://www.facebook.com/margo.frey/posts/10229715552407944,
Jan 21
I write about heterophobia: male fear of committing to a woman, in order to aid
her unto authentic family. Together with her mate, she may extend four
traditions unto a unique branch.
A woman represents a potential crowd of children, grandchildren, and
descendants. She has the psychology to care for a crowd including her authentic
mate. Intimacy with her requires trust-in and commitment-to personal
responsibility to aid her and consequential offspring for life. She has the
wisdom to aid her mate when needed and to assimilate his considerations, in
order to collaborate for necessary goodness. Together, they may educate their
children so as to comprehend and intend human being (a practice).
The counter to that psychological block is shared by Yeshua in Matthew 19:5,
CJB, "For this reason a man should leave his father and mother and be
united with his wife, and the two are to become one flesh". Cynthia is
paralyzed by PSP, so I consulted with her sister, who opines that "should
leave" refers to rededicating loyalty without losing personal identity. I
like that.
(If "Yeshua" is new to you, read the Wikipedia article. I was glad to
see, in yesterday's line in DC, a pre-made sign, "Yeshua Saves". The
Matthew quote affirms Genesis 1:26-28, 5500 year-old Sumerian political
philosophy: The married couple reflect(s) The God, whatever it may be. )
Alas, being overzealously Protestant and unschooled Genesis 1's distinction as
Semitic-speaking people's opinion about Sumerian-speaking people's discovery
and discipline, I was not prepared to fall in love (it takes two) with a
Louisiana-French-Catholic woman. I was awed to escort her to mass, and did not
comprehend her serene confidence when she expressed dismay that the church
discredited 93 saints in 1969. That should have convinced me on the spot to
stop trying to be Protestant and escort her, then later our 3 children to mass,
never denying Yeshua's civic influence.
Neither Protestantism, nor Catholicism, nor Islam, nor any other Bible-based
religion promotes the 5500 year-old (pre-Israel) message: Only Homo sapiens can
pursue necessary goodness on earth. Yeshua also affirms this message, in
Matthew 5:48, in my words: You may and therefore can pursue perfection on par
with your origins.
Jan 13
It's a good illustration of capitalism. An entrepreneur with
the will and means to acquire and manage resources, capital, labor, and risk in
order to supply a product or service at customer-affordable price is happily
rewarded by citizens who need or want that provision.
My professional-apiarist friend, formerly with LSU, is perhaps one of the
wisest people I've ever known.
A decade ago, facing either $1100 to repair my wonderful 42" riding mower
with blades thick enough to shave all the cypress knees, or $5000 to update it,
I chose to pay a professional to mow our lawn. I estimate the pro provided and
maintains about $80,000 in equipment. My Christmas gratuity was about 4.4 % of
the annual cost. I'll probably increase payments about that percentage on this
year's first mowing, assuming that is attractive to the entrepreneur.
My overriding consideration is the fact that while I intend at least another 4
decades to read, write, speak, and LISTEN, I cannot guarantee my hope, even
though my awareness of what to eat and do is improving.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52,
Jan 25
Theocracy means, to Europeans or Americans, respectively,
Oxford languages (OL):
a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. Also,
divine means of, from, or like God or a god, in monotheisms; the creator
and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme being.
Merriam-Webster (MW):
government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are
regarded as divinely guided. Divine means of, relating to, or proceeding
directly from God or a god. God means the supreme or ultimate reality.
Considerations: I
see here a new application of “ineluctable”, the combination of conditions: not
to be avoided, changed, or resisted. Today, I recognize “ineluctable reality”; ineluctable
means collectively, not to be avoided, changed or resisted. MW attempts to
avoid God by using divinity, essentially a synonym. Interestingly, OL does not
capitalize supreme being, suggesting that worship&praise is not necessary.
Instead of OL’s “ruler of the universe . . . “ MW uses “ultimate reality”. I
prefer actual-reality, in order to avoid the implication that research is
complete, in other words, that the ultimate has achieved the actual. That leads
me to “the ineluctable reality”, as pleasing synonym to actual-reality.
When I must, in order to attempt effectual speech, I use “The
God”, to suggest humility to whatever constrains the consequences of human
choice. If pressed on what “The . . .” means, I say, “Whatever constrains the
consequences of human choice”. I select “constrains” rather than controls, in
order to appreciate Genesis 1:26-28, which informs me that in my life, my community,
my state, our nation, and on earth, my choice, while not controlled, may and
can, in self-interest, conform to the laws of physics that have been discovered
as well as extant laws that remain a mystery to humankind.
Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, at President Trump’s 2nd
Inauguration, wonderfully expressed gratitude for the “millimeter miracle”. Intentionally
or not, he invoked the statistical variations that are observed and experienced
as the laws of physics impact a human decision to act. A sharpshooter, choosing
the target’s head rather than heart, adjusts for wind and other factors but
does not, cannot, predict Trump’s instant decision to look to the right. I appreciate
the incident as evidence that The God constrained the sharpshooter’s choices
and am not about to characterize The God. It seems to me President Trump neither
claims theocracy nor corrects my opinion.
Thank you for reading my opinions. Please
improve them.
Jan 17
Familiarity
with politics breeds contempt.
Familiarity
with divinity brings fear.
Familiarity
with power threatens corruption.
Familiarity
with the laws of physics and progeny brings opportunity to pursue necessary
goodness.
Jan 7
The truth is ineluctable – neither avoidable, nor
changeable, nor resistible. When there’s doubt, humility and humor are options.
Jan 3
The civic faction of We the People of the United States can
and may improve public dialogue, by replacing “truth” with “the ineluctable
truth”, intentionally weakening opinion that would
avoid, change, or resist the evidence. #USpreambler
https://www.facebook.com/jim.robertson.52687,
Jan 25
I don't think Israel influences Trump, admitting I don't
know the ineluctable truth.
Jan 25 also
Jim, a couple thoughts.
I does me no harm if you never
consider Yeshua; however, what if Yeshua demands attention? What if Yeshua does
not respond to "Jesus" or "Christ", much as I would not
respond to "Gideon".
By affirming Genesis 1:26-28, Yeshua
suggests accepting the power, authority, and responsibility to rule rather than
"[believe] we are destined to govern". In Matthew 5:48, Yeshua
suggests pursuit of perfect governance. In Matthew 18:18 Yeshua says whatever
failure we accept will not be corrected by The God, whatever that entity may
be. Paul refuted Yeshua, and Matthew, Mark, and Luke supported Paul's ministry
to compete with Yeshua's message: you may and can pursue perfect behavior.
The Bible teaches the reader anything and
any god any person/group wants to believe. Comprehending and adopting humility
to The God requires intention to pursue the ineluctable truth "to
ourselves and our Posterity"; that is from generation to generation.
I think Christians unintentionally express
humility when they speak and write in public "God" rather than
"the Trinity", which some seminaries and divinity schools impose. I
want to take that humility a step further with the term "The God" to
humbly represent whatever constrains the consequences of human choices.
Please improve these opinions.
Phil
Jan 23
Jim, I appreciate your posts and two dialogues they invite.
First, I recall and borrow from Abraham Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address.
"[T]he Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice . . .
will surely prevail by the judgment of the great tribunal of the American
people.”
Second, divinity schools and seminaries fail humankind by not promoting the
5500 year old (pre-Judeo-Christian) political philosophy that provincially is
expressed in Genesis 1:26-28: On earth, only humankind may and can rule to
necessary goodness, in the image of The God.
The laws of physics reflect The God, and Yeshua affirms necessary goodness in
The God's image.
I think both the United States Constitution and President Trump affirm Genesis
1:26-28, each often pursuing necessary goodness known only to The God.
Jan 2
The civic faction of We the People of the United States has
the power, the authority, and the responsibility to rule their governments in
the United States, in order to aid life to humankind. We know this, since the
laws of physics continually resolve mystery.
“Civic” means living in pursuit of necessary goodness, in
humility to the task. In other words, performance in civic integrity is judged
beyond the actor. One judge is the consequences of choices to either act or
retain humility.
Based on ineluctable evidence, choices may be good, bad, or
evil. Fellow citizens divide according to consequences of personal choices. The
civic citizens work to earn both the way of living they desire and to aid
safety and security to fellow citizens, including the bad and the evil.
The past seven decades have informed the civic faction that
passivity accommodates progressive divergence from necessary goodness. Divergence
is approaching chaos.
The necessity of goodness is disclosed by sincerely
considering pre-history’s political principle, expressed prior to
Judeo-Christianity in Genesis 1:26-28: female and male human being (verb) may
and can order life on earth. I mention female first because her vulnerability
to generate, host insemination, gestate, deliver a dependent, who may be
nourished unto necessary goodness requires an authentic male. Authenticity
requires dedication to their union for life unto grandchildren and beyond.
The civic faction earns enough to aid fellow citizens who
can’t earn their way, to reform those who won’t, to constrain criminals, and to
annihilate evil people. For example, discover and eliminate people who intend
to sacrifice their life in order to kill non-believers.
#USpreambler, #acivicpeople
Response:
Perhaps you can understand my view on relationships, by
considering the familiar phrase "I'm in love with . . .". I learned
decades ago that I may be sincerely attracted to a woman, while she may not
even notice my existence. I humbly believe my wife remains in love with me.
Similarly, I am humble to The God, whatever that entity may or may not be.
https://www.facebook.com/fred.bear.3323457,
Dec 30
Fred, if you ever come to Baton Rouge, let me know. I want
to try to arrange for you to speak at my church on the topic: What can
Christianity do to lessen the world's chaos? If not at my church, at the public
library, and that will take a few weeks for me to restore my authorization to
borrow a meeting room.
https://www.facebook.com/michaeldday198,
Dec 30
Michael D. Day, I find this post
coming to me on 12/30/24 "unbelievable" influence in my life.
Here are the remarkable facts from this morning. I think this image is of
Chato, Apache chief. However, Fred Bear is hot on my mind as I wish he could
speak at my church on the question: What can Christianity do to aid lessening
the world's chaos? So your reminder prompted me to Fred's Facebook page where I
wondered once more: Is Fred still alive? Tracing down, looking for a message
from him, I arrived at my post to Fred on November 27, 2020, "God in man's
image" with a quora URL. I clicked on the URL and discovered that my post
was still in draft. I updated the language a little and posted the message I
had (apparently) wanted Fred to affirm. Obviously, dialogue changes my thinking
(life), and I am grateful. Thank you.
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.
