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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
Necessary goodness, often a mystery,
motivates good behavior
Please see https://www.facebook.com/rvinci1 , Sept. 13, below.
#USpreambler,
#acivicpeople
News
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/when-dead-enough-becomes-a-metric-5898208
Too often, a
writer’s premise is so false a plethora of characterization blinds the writer
to the obvious. In this case, the reader is asked to accept that society may
dictate spirituality, sacredness, and soul, human constructs hoping to explain
mystery.
[Once] we accept dying as a
managerial decision rather than a spiritual reality, we’re no longer just
optimizing a framework—we’re reprogramming the moral code of civilization
itself.
Civilizations don’t survive long
when they forget what matters most—and when they do, the harvest always comes.
First for the body, then for the soul.
When the sacred is subordinated to
the schedule, it’s not only bodies that are harvested.
Stylman imposed too many omissions before presenting his
monumental assumption: the laws of physics accommodate souls. In reality,
humankind is responsible for order on earth and has no clue as to soul
existence let alone sacredness.
There’s no way I want to decide whether a struggling body should stop
functioning or not. However, it is required for me to act for no harm, I will
render my opinion.
Quora
"Beyond
the immediate outcome, how do you weigh the long-term impact on personal
integrity or institutional trust when considering if the end justifies the
means?"
Humankind’s purpose is to pursue necessary goodness to life
and to the earth. That is, to keep track of consequences of choices, in order
to both avoid and resist error: repeating harm. The object is to individually
and collaboratively practice good behavior. Not every person chooses good
behavior.
These principles are expressed in the laws of physics and its progeny,
psychology. They are primitively expressed in Genesis 1:26-28, 31 and improved by
the civic faction of We the People of the Unites States, in the amended
Constitution and its preamble “to ourselves and our Posterity”. “Posterity”
includes legal immigrants.
Many nations pursue these principles in appreciation to
their children. However, so far, competitive churches hold adults exempt from
responsibility to the children of the world. Competitive churches promote
mystery rather than goodness; their theology rather than physics; their God
rather than the god; what could be rather than the ineluctable truth.
#USpreambler, #acivicpeople
Facebook et.al.
https://www.facebook.com/ella.thibodeaux.1,
Sept 13
Ella Dean, I think you and Adam Rabalais are on the right
track. Civic citizens may and can do all that is possible to aid children in
their natural desire to develop good behavior.
The recent spate of adult firings
over expressions of hate may and can be followed up with counselling so as to
lessen hate.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/,
Sept 13
People may and can protect themselves from
religious/ideological violence by understanding Plato's allegory of the cave: philosophyzer.com/the-allegory-of-the-cave-by-plato-summary-and-meaning/ . Please click on the URL and read the text.
A civic citizen neither causes nor accommodates harm to or from anyone.
#USpreambler, #acvivicpeople
https://www.facebook.com/margo.frey,
Sept 13
Kirk did not discover the ineluctable truth, which corrects
rationalization, speculation, and tradition. ("Ineluctable": see the
combination in Merriam-Webster, then think of a wrestling hold from which the
opponent cannot emerge.) I write opinion, only because I do not know the
ineluctable truth.
From September 10, 2025, I hope the civic
faction, "We the People of the United States", pursues necessary
goodness, the continually solved mystery that inspires and motivates good
behavior "to ourselves and our Posterity". If so, the rest of the world's
civic people will contribute.
Three of us, here in Baton Rouge, plan a
workshop to introduce a movement. See a draft plan at
https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/4578211154898336570 . If you like the
contents, contribute thought online or in person. We need participants and a
steering committee (personal opinion is insufficient to civic integrity).
Our Louisiana non-profit, education
corporation, A Civic People of the United States (2015), seeks no money in any
way; for a reason. And, we're in no hurry.
#USpreambler, #acivicpeople
https://www.facebook.com/margo.frey
, Sept 13
I tried to use the "Angry" mogi.
We should have better ways of discovering
desperate contractors. And your predicament feels like no end to the misery and
distraction from living. Through it all, maintain the excellence that you and
your loved ones are.
And explore a civic interpretation of
Yeshua's formula for human conflict-resolution, in Matthew 18:15-17, CJB.
(Forgiveness is not possible without listening discussion.) Matthew 18:18
reflects Genesis 1:26-28.
Psalm 82 says to me: Phil, you are a god
facing death, so fulfill Genesis 1:26-28: you may and can constrain chaos in
your actions. I hope each person alive discovers they are a Psalm 82 god. I
think you and yours are.
https://www.facebook.com/charlie.schladand,
Sept. 13
I'm not certain Charlie Kirk would understand Bernie
Sander's stand.
The person who says, to a fellow
citizen of the United States, in effect, "Since you say that Jesus Christ
is not your Lord and Savior, you are living a ruined personhood [or
equal]", does not meet Bernie's standard of free-speech.
Religious passion can be violent, if the
civic listener wants to accommodate the religion to fellow citizens. Flannery
O'Connor labeled her passion for the Eucharist violent, and Bishop Robert
Barron seemed to understand if not agree.
I don't know if Charlie was saying that, but
if he was, he deserves and has my prayer for him, wherever he may be, to
consider humility toward the God, whatever it may be.
When someone says to a fellow citizen,
"You need Jesus Christ", they are citing a mystery: Does salvation of
the mysterious soul motivate and inspire good behavior? The ineluctable
evidence seems negative.
Sept 11
Charlie, your recognition of the importance of this religion
story and sharing is a gift to us.
At age 82, I have discovered that my mentor is necessary
goodness, a mystery that drives me to choose good behavior. I am preparing a
12-month workshop, in order to collaborate on the pursuit.
Two years ago, I discovered Yeshua and my Lord. Then, a
friend asked, "What does Yeshua mean to you." I answered, "I
want to mimic and extend the civic good he reportedly taught, according to the
Bible." I realized that Yeshua is only my intellectual construct, based on
what I read or hear.
Further, primitive speculation, like the Messiah, instigated
projections, like Yeshua's reported life, as the miracle worker, Jesus,
bettering hearsay, such as raising Lazarus' 4-day old corps versus Elijah
raising a person from the death bed. Still more, Paul speculates that the
executed Jesus, arose as Christ, savior of all believers, not exclusively
believing Jews; including Gentiles. Together, Messiah, Jesus, and Christ render
Yeshua non-existent to both Jews and Christians. Modern believers erroneously
equate Yeshua to Jesus.
For 75 years, I was bemused by Church, because it suggests
good, without performing goodness.
Mom and Dad wanted me to be a Baptist. They were not happy
when I fell in love with a Louisiana French-Catholic school teacher and married
the love of my life, I perceived but did not articulate Yeshua's influence in
Matthew 19:5, CJB, ". . . a man should leave his father and mother and be
united with his wife, and the two are to become one flesh". More
importantly, a man should leave his church, in order to support his wife and
their children without conflicting religion. Because I did not follow Yeshua's
influence, I failed my serenely confident better half.
I wish I could share my story with Gould and learn his
opinion. Thank you, Charlie.
https://www.facebook.com/hampton.peele,
Sept 5
Hampton, although I am not an advocate for any of the Gods
developed in the Bible or elsewhere, I never stopped praying, when I perceive
there is nothing I can do to aid goodness. For example, I support civil
annihilation of evil and pray for the end of child-abuse through war.
I pray that Rep. Massie be relieved from whatever drives him to such
sensationalism. I don't need to imagine he's facing a lawsuit: we'll soon know.
https://www.facebook.com/rvinci1 , Sept. 13
I've been aware, attending churches for 75 of 82 years.
Thanks to my current Baptist
Sunday-school class and videos by Yale Divinity School, I discovered Yeshua,
then the Complete Jewish Bible, a 1998 publication by Messianic Jews. They seem
to be Christians.
A wonderful listener and
open-hearted-responder asked me what Yeshua means to me, and I answered,
"My Lord". When I got home, I realized Yeshua is my mentor, who
teaches me necessary goodness. In each generation, goodness is often a mystery.
In necessary goodness, civic citizens live
better than civility or rules or laws, in order to preserve each other's
opportunity to pursue good behavior.
Every newborn human desires goodness. Civic
adults do all they can to aid children to comprehend, intend, and practice good
behavior.
At my church, thanks to Acts 15, CJB, I
realized that most people follow Paul, whom Yeshua did not choose as one of his
12 apostles. A few Protestants and most Catholics follow Peter, the rock who
was never reliably represented the 11 chosen apostles who did not betray
Yeshua. Some follow John, who equated Yeshua with the Biblical God. Some follow
Yeshua's brother James (not an apostle), who thought Yeshua was Messiah to all
believers rather than to Jews only.
Since I do not know the ineluctable truth,
none of these choices by fellow citizens bother me. But religious people may
and can choose to be civic citizens.
When a fellow citizen says to me, "Phil
since you do not accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you are going to
hell", I pray they will discover humility to whatever constrains the
consequences of choice.
I choose to be civic and hope fellow
citizens consider necessary goodness.
#USpreambler, #acivicpeople
Sept 1
Richard, thank you for the chance, on Labor Day, to object
to a confused imposition, substantially by a 1690s Englishman, John Locke:
freedom and liberty.
249 years ago, the civic faction which established and maintains We the People
of the United States declared war for independence from enslavement by
Europeans, primarily England, but including 1786 allies Spain, France, and,
indirectly, Holland.
Today, the naturally civic American citizen responds, "I don't care what
neighbors think or say as long as they don't interfere with my opportunity to
choose independent goodness".
Freedom and liberty tremble before necessary goodness.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-smith-5a07a06b/?, Aug 28
OK, but Cynthia died
on May 17, 2025. I didn't realize I'd be so broken and am adjusting to living
our dream without her presence, except through our daughters.
Perhaps Ed Fred would know: https://www.facebook.com/edgar.frederic.
Or maybe Chuck Kolich: https://www.facebook.com/charles.kolich.
Or they might have a clue.
Fred Anderson might know something or someone: 225-717-2132.
Aaron Dunaway might know something:
https://www.facebook.com/aaron.dunaway.3
I wish you occasionally read and commented on my Facebook. Happily, in my 9th
decade I discovered Yeshua is the Jewish person about whom a splinter faction
of contemporaries wrote. Because Yeshua enthusiasts were a splinter faction,
Yeshua is not a feature of Jewish literature. In other words, Christians err to
think that Jews consider Yeshua.
Christians are divided, not because Yeshua was controversial, but because
people who wrote about him did not understand his pursuit: necessary goodness.
In each generation, there are a few people who perceive that Yeshua uniquely
understood humankind's purpose: to pursue and practice necessary
goodness. In Matthew 5:48, I think Yeshua said: Be perfect as suggested
in Genesis 1:26-28,31. In 2025, there are so few people who grasp this idea
about Yeshua, I find no one to talk to.
https://www.facebook.com/JasonTHEmann
, Aug 28
You look like a wrestler; they acquire ineluctable
confidence in breathing.
(I learned that watching my son's matches, not by
experience.)
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman , Aug 28
It's important to click on the URL. I suspect AI yet embrace
the expression.
In the beginning, I thought I observed my wonderful wife fearfully bathing our
first infant. I took over, grasping baby's left leg, with her body face down on
my left arm, and scrubbed her, listening to peaceful sounds. I so bathed two
more infants, increasing Cynthia's serene confidence in me.
Alas, when they were adolescents, I confirmed Competitive Church confusion and lost
self-composure. Subsequently, each child filled Phil-gaps on their own.
However, I wish I had maintained loyalty to Cynthia's pure goodness, which she
passed on to each of our children.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52,
Aug 27
Mark 11, Complete Jewish Bible (a Christian version that
represents Yeshua the person), challenges the reader to choose either
communitarian doctrine (Competitive Church) or necessary goodness;
rationalization about mystery versus responsibility to life; rebellion versus
appreciation. In my ninth decade, I choose necessary goodness and perceive
Yeshua has always been my civic mentor. Thank goodness I lived long enough to
discover Yeshua’s influence.
Mark 11 invites people in each generation to aid civic
integrity – mutual respect among civil citizens. Yeshua’s contemporaries could
have chosen war against religious elites rather than civil collaboration to
kill an innocent man, Yeshua. Institutional excuses -- Jesus the miracle worker
and Christ the savior, appeared decades after execution of Yeshua and developed
centuries later. “Jesus” and “Christ”
are only 500 years old.
Modern humankind has no excuse to reject necessary goodness.
Delay prevents happiness I hope will lead to joy. Again, I’m just glad I lived
long enough to discover Yeshua’s influence to good behavior.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-anderson-1bb3b5a2/
Aug 26
Keith, I frequently wish we'd occasionally talk. I
discovered joy, in about 2023. Yeshua, humankind's foremost advocate to perfect
necessary goodness, is my mentor since perhaps age 10. Phil
https://www.facebook.com/rvinci1,
Aug 25
In winter, 1792, Cynthia and I, avid Winston smokers took 12
set nets, two babies, and a lawn chair for Olive LeJeune, Ma, and went to
nearby ditches to crawfish and quit smoking -- cold turkey. I never smoked
again. Cynthia did for about 18 months in the mid 1970s, seeking relief from
school teaching as a house wife and mother of 3. She never smoked after that.
We caught a good mess of crawfish and returned to Baton Rouge.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ , Aug 30
Dear Mr.
President:
Re: Necessary goodness
History has delivered two 2025 opportunities, which, if
taken simultaneously, can and may transform humankind.
First, it seems obvious that not only national government
but religious cultures may and can end the abuse of children in war and in
peace. Religions promote mystery-about rather than discovery-of necessary
goodness, making good behavior limited if not impossible. Religions may and can
teach children that they naturally want to develop good behavior during a
complete lifetime.
Second, it seems obvious that civic adults appreciate life
and want to do everything they can to aid children but don’t know what to do.
Acting on these two principles, you and the First Lady can
change the people's narrative from “my religion is important to me” to: I am
humble to humankind so manage my religion so that it pursues necessary goodness
on earth. My religious institution pursues and practices good behavior
according to civic integrity rather than to promote competitive mystery to
children.
I hope this idea helps your administration and We the People
of the United States.
Sincerely,
Phil Beaver
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQcpTPkPDKMkHsKjpmvkgWkgfsw?compose=new
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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