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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: A civic faction, We the People of the United States, proffer,
practice, and may amend 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
Goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior
Physics delivered a bullet to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s
ear, effecting salvation of his life. He was saved by the mystery which
constrains the consequences of human choices.
A terrorist chose to pull his trigger several times. Trump chose to turn his
head. A firefighter died. I don’t know the ineluctable truth, so can’t fault
anyone who thinks religion saved Trump’s life and took the firefighter.
President Trump used religious poetry at this year’s national
Christmas-Tree lighting. Who would fault rejoicing, grace and truth, love,
salvation, and service during the annual season of goodwill to all? We heard
that religion for all is coming back to America, then “Merry Christmas”, “Happy
Hanukkah”, and “Happy New Year”. These are familiar expressions of the
traditional season. Yet they are exclusive to 72% of the world’s population.
Having spent 75 years’ aware-attempt-to-accept Christian-church,
my perception is that the world’s greatest hidden commission -- to discover and
practice goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior – unfortunately became the most
dominant wokeism – a belief in injustice toward blood sacrifice – culminated in
incarnate-God, on the cross.
It’s no burden to me for civic citizens to pursue the
wokeism they like, as long as they don’t break my window. However, the traditional
poetry church imposes no longer appeals to me. I prefer good behavior and pursue
perfect goodness, an idea which was expressed by Yeshua, the Galilean political
philosopher.
While President Trump coined it and konws, I think MAGA is
civic, including Judeo-Christian. I think MAGA lives without attempt to impose
religion on anyone. Civic citizens preserve opportunity and amend civil law
when they discover injustice.
MAGA is expressed in Genesis 1:25-28: on earth, humankind is in charge of
peace. Genesis-1 MAGA is accommodated by the United States republic, which was
specified and ratified on December 15, 1791, 234 years ago: in this republic, “ourselves
and our Posterity” pursues goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
News
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/treasury-secretary-calls-for-end-to-filibuster-warns-of-new-shutdown-in-january-5949024
As this chemical engineer comprehends it, Senators have
6-year terms and half their state's influence within the Senate's 101 votes, giving
them more experience and power than Representatives, with 2-year terms and
power diluted proportionally by population and 435 House-votes. Bicameral,
unbalanced legislation is part of the United States republic's intentional
defeat of democratic governance, which is chaos.
While not a Constitutional provision, the filibuster seems a
flawed yet additional guard against democracy's chaos and toward United States
republicanism in governance. United States republicanism proffers
responsibility more than rights. The fact that today's Democrat Party favors
violence over responsibility, makes a strong case for the Republican Party to
preserve the filibuster, in order to encourage their voters to make certain the
Senate has at least 60 intentional republicans -- not in name only. If that
means 70 republican senators, so be it.
I appreciate Bessent's support for civic citizens and his
consequential support for President Donald Trump and V.P. J.D. Vance.
The Democrat Party seems so evil it would not bother me to
witness them unable to win elections during the next 100 years. I perceive
their 2025 abuse of the filibuster as an invitation to that outcome.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.ntd.com/house-passes-resolution-denouncing-socialism-in-all-forms_1109370.html?
Woodrow Wilson confounded the harm of tradition, for
example, “freedom and liberty”, a propaganda imposed by France after they aided
the American revolt against England -- especially at Yorktown VA in September
1781. Wilson arrogates the negotiated and ratified United States Constitution
of December 15, 1791. It guarantees to the citizens in their states
republicanism that methodically prevents democracy.
Wilson stopped at “policy”. Democracy is the policy that
50%-plus-one-vote establishes public power. Socialism is the policy that the
public owns the property. Together, the policy is chaos.
Wilson was as un-American as Abraham Lincoln, the
sentimentalist who promoted the Declaration of Independence from England,
confounding the United States’ godlessness. U.S. godlessness assures humility
to whatever constrains the consequences of human choice. Each individual may
and can constrain chaos in his or her way of living, whether they believe a God
or not.
I think the civic faction, We the People of the United
States, in successive generations, comprehends goodness which motivates good
behavior. The civic faction pursues statutory justice “to ourselves and our
Posterity”.
We observed U.S. civic integrity when the House condemned
socialism while President Trump and Mayor Mamdani negotiated NYC’s future
goodness.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
This Congressional Meeting invokes the 2500 year old
Euthyphro Dilemma --- a philosophical question posed by Plato's Socrates,
asking whether something is good because God says so, or if God commends
goodness. This dilemma pits divinity against ethics. Only ethics stands the
test of time.
It's shocking to hear government emphasis on "religious
freedom" as key to peace and prosperity among humankind. Plato pointed out
that God is a mystery which ought not be employed to lessen goodness.
The subcommittee cited education as a key to peace. Every
education department on earth may and can encourage, facilitate, and promote
youth to comprehend and intend goodness which motivates good behavior. Religion
is a private interest or not, much like choosing a favorite opera, or symphony,
or rock song, or sports team, or travel destination, or other personal
preference.
Homo sapiens is the species with the brain speed and
capacity to discover and choose goodness which motivates good behavior. The
United States republic is positioned, through its Constitution, to exemplify on
earth the pursuit of goodness rather than religion.
State and church brought humankind to the chaos that
religion facilitates and may and can change to goodness.
A civic people free goodness from the wokeness of religion.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
I think the Trump-Vance administration challenged the
Democrat Party to pursue transparent-goodness instead of organized-violence to
attract the civic faction --- We the People of the United States, as defined in
the preamble to the United-States-republic's Constitution.
So far, fellow citizens who are democrats are allowing their
party to self-destruct. If the DNC implodes, something non-violent will emerge
then take perhaps 70 years to gain footing.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
The civic faction, We the People of the United States, as
defined in the preamble to the Constitution, treasures the individual's
opportunity to discover and aid goodness which motivates good behavior.
President Trump and his administration uniquely express trust and commitment
"to ourselves and our Posterity" --- the American Perception.
Civic adults do all they can to aid children's natural
desire to discover and practice good behavior: each generation works for youth
to have increased opportunity.
The United States republic, negotiated after 13 colonies won
independence from England, was ratified by representatives of 14 states, on
December 15, 1791, completing the negotiated Constitution with its Bill of
Rights. Civic citizens maintain their state constitutions and the power to
amend the U.S. Constitution.
George Washington urged permanent separation from European
wars. Europeans never accepted an independent United States --- never stopped
trying to impose its will on a civic people.
During the past 7 decades, the Democrat Party morphed into a
liberation-theology-Marxist, LTM, entity that intends to divide the civic
faction. LTM promotes a competitive two-party politic to lawlessly, violently
oppress constitutional republicanism using collective socialism.
Judeo-Christianity seems the target of the Democrat Party's
support for violence and evil. I think goodness which motivates good behavior
will defeat competitiveness.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Quora
To start,
you’ll need to justify theism.
While I can observe reasons to choose a favorite opera, sports team, chocolate,
or fruit, I have never discovered a theistic mystery worth my pursuit. However,
just as I have no objection to fellow citizens choosing music, sports, and food
favorites, I do not object to others’ interests in mystery.
I think it is preferable to accept whatever constrains the consequences of
human choice, without attempting to characterize, name, or otherwise restrict that
mystery.
I do not think “atheist” is a term that applies to me but would be happy to
learn your opinion and associated definition of “atheist”.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-clearest-initial-sign-that-an-action-might-be-morally-questionable,
anonymous
If action being considered defies the laws of physics,
choose not to act.
For example, if a person says, “I know the God and would like to introduce
you”, exit. If authorities demand evacuation due to an approaching, massive
hurricane, either have ample transportation, route, food, security, and confirmed
destination, or risk defense at home. If entrepreneurs say they can provide
gender change, depart without debate. If someone says, 2+2=5, consider it
entertainment. For example, 2 apples plus 2 oranges = 4 fruit.
https://www.quora.com/Is-freedom-a-social-construct, Roman Tiker
Yes. Freedom is a social construct.
It is well known that the individual, groups, societies,
nations, and humankind is constrained by physics and progeny, such as
mathematics, economics, and psychology.
The Sumerians, with an isolate-language, primitively recognized the laws of physics
5500 years ago and began to write law codes so as to record discoveries regarding
goodness that motivates good behavior. Their political philosophy is that on
earth, humankind is in charge of goodness. Remarkably, they wrote that elites
should not enslave the needy, widows, and orphans.
A civic people educate their youth to accept power, authority, and
responsibility (PAR), in order to civically earn the way of living they prefer.
But most individuals, societies, and nations construct mysteries purported to
usurp responsibility. The construct may be government, religion, or a
partnership of the two. The consequence is competitive pursuit of advantageous
living rather than good behavior.
Economy is feasible with capitalism among civic people: consumers buy according
to need or desire and entrepreneurs undertake the risks of inventing,
innovating, and providing viable goods and services. However, not all people
are civic, so statutory justice is pursued. Not all law is civic, so nations
are in competition rather than in collaboration.
So far, there have been enough civic citizens to sustain passivism, dissidence,
rebellion, crime, spiritualism, wickedness, and evil. If the civic faction does
not educate, promote, facilitate, and empower individual PAR, it seems
humankind may not remain viable.
I hope the United States republic will announce reform to PAR rather than
freedom and liberty, in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of
the declaration of independence from England, its king, and Parliament.
Twelve of 13 independent states negotiated the 1787 Constitution, which was
ratified by 9 states for amendment by the first Congress. Only 11 states had
representatives when operations began, and there were 14 states when the
intended Constitution was ratified on December 15, 1791. The United States will
be 250 years old in December 2041.
I hope by then the statue in NY Harbor will be renamed “The Statue of Power,
Authority, and Responsibility” or “The Statue of Civic Integrity” or “The
Statue of Independence” or better.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.quora.com/Is-a-good-act-still-good-if-its-done-for-personal-gain?,
Nsubuga Jacob's Orphan Home
A civic person
discovers and practices goodness which motivates good behavior. For example, they
prefer to choose personal food and shelter based on earnings from work rather
than on political or religious status.
They learn to discern fellow citizens who need assistance versus habitual
dependents. They avoid the badness of habitual dependency in order to preserve
opportunity to aid the needy person.
The needy survives to pursue the independence they desire. The
habitual-dependent finds usual aid and may perish before choosing to reject
badness.
The civic citizen perceives responsible-kindness.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.quora.com/Can-doing-the-wrong-ever-be-justified? ,
Nsubuga Jacob's Orphan Home
Human beings divide themselves on humble-appreciation for
life versus passivism, dissidence, rebellion, spirituality, crime, wickedness,
and evil.
With humble-appreciation, a person’s greatest strength is that he or she
neither causes nor accommodates harm to or from either a civic citizen or a
civil enterprise.
Civic citizens do all they can to preserve life. They discover and promote
goodness which motivates good behavior. Civil enterprise maintains the rule of
law, which civic citizens improve each time injustice is discovered. The
ultimate consequence is constitutional statutory-justice.
With such governance by civic citizens, humankind may pursue perfect human
being (the practice).
I know of one nation with such a constitutional faction: the
United States republic, or the USA, which began operations with 11 states on
March 4, 1789 then with 14 states, and completed the intended, amendable
Constitution on December 15, 1791. It has been amended 17 times since then and
needs amendment now.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Thank you
for sharing such a detailed perspective. I see how you frame justification in
terms of a broader moral and civic responsibility emphasizing that minimizing
harm, promoting goodness and upholding justice are central to a life aligned
with ethical principles.
I also appreciate how you connect individual morality to civic structures and
the rule of law suggesting that justification is not just personal but tied to
the society we help shape.
It makes me think about how context, governance and collective action
influence what we see as justified or unjust and how striving for civic
responsibility can guide us toward ethical choices even in complex situations.
Your view highlights that moral duty extends beyond survival or personal gain
toward sustaining a society in which goodness can thrive.
Thank
you.
I appreciate your collaboration.
Please note that I think the person who earns the way of living they desire,
aids provision of local and national infrastructure, and upholds the law; they
report seemingly observed injustice and aid consideration of remedy toward
goodness which motivates good behavior.
In civic integrity, they need not opine that another civic citizen is in error,
except when life is threatened.
People who effect or accommodate harm are neither civil nor civic and harmful
acts ought to be reported to the agency the civic faction authorized for that
duty. Civic citizens are not vigilantes.
Civic citizens mutually preserve public opportunity to discover and practice
goodness which motivates good behavior.
Again, I think the United States republic accommodates these principles.
https://www.quora.com/Can-morality-exist-without-consciousness?
Eslam Nour
I think so but don’t know the ineluctable truth.
I think goodness existed before the Big
Bang, 13.7 billion years ago. Humankind, emerging perhaps 7 million years ago,
could discover goodness. However, only Homo sapiens, who became the dominant
species, mating with none other perhaps a couple millennia ago have the
capacity to oppose badness.
Homo sapiens (HS) is distinct in that
their brains process information fast enough to instantaneously choose goodness
over badness, developing a database of experiences and observations. First, HS
had to invent writing and grammar, perhaps 10,000 years ago. Next, they had to
invent law codes, which the Sumer civilization did starting 5500 years ago.
Sumer’s polytheistic political
philosophy was that many gods, led by perhaps 10 principal ones, competed in
heaven, leaving humankind to compete on earth. The codes punished perpetrators
of badness. City-states served patron gods, who defend inhabitants from
invasion. However, the Babylonians conquered Sumer, and Hammurabi revised their
law codes about 3700 years ago.
Since then, the concept of patron gods
expanded into competitive monotheism, and today, there are 4,000 to 10,000
doctrinal Gods. As a consequence, the earth is in chaos. Hopefully, Homo sapiens
have reached the abyss and has consciousness to pursue goodness that motivates
good behavior.
The United States Constitution, 1791,
specifies a republic that may and can pursue statutory justice.
#USpreambler, #acivicpeople
Substack
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-25-2025
Fortunately
for Homo sapiens who want Tesla cars, the stock is at $420, near its all-time
high of $460.
Joy-Ann Reid
and her followers don't accept responsibility and reliability in a diverse,
equitable, individual's (dei) world.
Homo
sapiens' first concern is food. No one wants and almost no one accepts what an
organization may provide: organizers and bureaucrats never supply quality and
reliability.
Their second
concern is toilet. Almost no one wants toilet in public.
The majority
wants privacy, especially regarding sex.
In the dei
world, most people assure if not demand personal food, toilet, and privacy.
Organizers
disturb the dei world. They persuade demonstrators to forego food, toilet, and
privacy in order to join the disturbance.
Happily,
most people ignore Joy-Ann Reid-influence; it's pretty raw.
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/luc.vanmuylem.7,
Dec 6
Luc, I like your comment very much.
It gives a different view of my expression that civic
integrity is essential to statutory justice, the object of civil order. With
civic integrity, a citizen upholds the constitution even while he or she is
aiding discovery of injustice and suggesting legislation to improve the law.
At this moment, Christian Nationalism (a minority faction of
republicans) is making the claim that social democracy (a small faction of
democrats) cannot and will not ruin the United States republic. A faction
thinks Judeo-Christianity dominates the annual season of goodwill among
humankind. That faction thinks DEI's wokeism merely poked the mystery that
constrains human choice, arrogantly labeled "God".
However, Judeo-Christianity, featuring perhaps Pauline
Trinity versus Moshe's Hashem, is the dominant wokeism in the world, with 2.3
billion believers among 8.2 billion people (28 %). The disruptive-wokeist
Democratic Socialists of America has 0.1 million members among 250 million
adults. There are about 15 socialist nations.
Some celebrities express the view that Judeo-Christianity is
the emissary for whatever constrains the consequence of human choice. They
ignore the fact that 5.9 billion people are non-believers, after 5500 years'
writing and grammar which empowers collaboration. They seem to perceive that
the 28% need not accommodate the 72%.
https://www.facebook.com/missy.munch.marr,
Nov 25
Perhaps "soul" expresses appreciation.
Thank you, Missy.
https://www.facebook.com/jana.owens.73,
Nov 25
After some 75 years trying to adopt churches' eyes of the
needle, I simply accepted that something constrains the consequences of human
choices.
Without objection, I expect a stranger in my journey to be encourager,
listener, truth-speaker, and of good will. A few people don't participate.
After nearly 10 years practice, mostly at Perkins Road Park,
Baton Rouge, LA, I perceive that goodness sustains the smiles I encounter and
invites my participation.
I could be wrong but doubt I am.
https://www.facebook.com/ali.dadgar.3,
Nov 24
Your camera-lens wondrously produces smile-expression I've
never seen so consistently before: happiness that expresses joy.
Nov 18 Scholars
don't write it: Cyrus the Great was one of humankind's pivotal political
philosophers. It seems he advocated appreciation for-and-to each person.
https://www.facebook.com/rvinci1,
Nov 28
After 75 years pursuing church and state doctrine I tentatively trust-in and
commit-to, I realized that a principle of capitalism is being utilized to keep
the poor poor yet maintain flourishing consumerism and skim the revenues.
More than ever before, I want to influence people to appreciate economics.
First, a civic citizen earns his or her bread, warmth, and privacy, not simply
to avoid taking what a bureaucrat or pastor offers, but to accept power,
authority, and responsibility to constrain chaos in their way of living.
Second, a civic citizen neither supports belief-against-evidence, passivism,
dissidence, rebellion, and wickedness nor accommodates evil.
Third, a civic citizen chooses a republican form of governance -- in the United
States constitutional pursuit of statutory justice. And votes, in order to
discover and practice goodness which motivates good behavior.
Fourth, a civic citizen offers goodness to fellow citizens who neither cause
nor accommodate harm to contemporary inhabitants.
Fifth, redistributing wealth, rather than facilitating self-interested pursuit
of goodness, is harmful. A civic church and state does all it can to prevent
poverty-acceptance.
Sixth, since churches do all they can to promote their
faction rather than discover and practice goodness, I choose to trust-in and
commit-to my city and state in the United States republic. Yeshua, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, George Washington, Machiavelli, Albert Einstein, Plato’s Agathon, our
children, Cynthia, and many others have been trying to inform me. I’m just glad
I lived long enough to listen with a little humility.
I am grateful for Thanksgiving, the beginning of the season of goodness to
everyone who wants goodness.
Nov 15 (also, see my revision, below, posted on my Facebook)
We are, so far, failing youth. Every American may and can own their
earned-interpretation of the amendable preamble to the United States
Constitution. I quote:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a
more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for
the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of
Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America."
My paraphrase and opinion is: A civic faction, We the People
of the United States, proffer, practice, and may amend 6 public pursuits —-
integrity, justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility --- “in
order to” pursue happiness “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
"A civic" invites other Homo sapiens to suggest
for collaboration to improve United-States-pursuit of statutory justice.
Inhabitants who don't own a reliable view of the preamble
ought not receive a license to vote in elections, whether local or national.
Again: In Genesis
1:26-28, God informs us that on earth, female and male Homo sapiens are in
charge of order. To pray to God, "You do my duty" seems arrogant.
The liberation-theology-Marxist violence of the past 7 decades alerts a civic
people that they are the faction that may and can reform, in order to intentionally
aid order on earth.
The United States Constitution, finally ratified on December 15, 1791 affirms
Genesis 1:26-28.
Voters licensed on whether they comprehend and intend the goals of the
Constitution's preamble vote in their individual interest rather than in
support of some collectivism, such as violence by self-styled victims or
dependency by religious believers.
Spiritual people or believers can also choose to be civic citizens.
#USprambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
https://www.facebook.com/margo.frey,
Dec 6
I'm the luckiest man alive.
Every time I got out of line Cynthia
told me so.
Like the first-anniversary dinner when she
ignored my speech and I asked; why? She said, "You ought to see this
Italian guy across the room." I objected. She said, "What's your
problem? You stare at every woman returning from communion." I made up my
mind to change -- no longer view women like flowers for everyone to enjoy. It's
not easy but worth it.
Or the time a snake was curled on the garage
floor next to her car door. When I shooed the garden snake off into the yard,
she said, "I'm going to go find me a husband who will kill a snake."
From then on, any snake was dead on Cynthia's sight.
Or, after she bought our lot and we planned
our house during the 8 years after Jimmy Carter drove interest rates too high
for us, I cried and said, although I had bought 5 properties I could inspect, I
could not risk signing the contract to build it. She said, "That's not the
husband I married." I stopped crying. We enjoyed home for 40 years and our
daughters and I preserve it.
Most of all, when I badgered Cynthia over a
mistake she made and apologized for, she got out of bed, turned the 5 lights
on, shook her finger in my face and said, "Let me tell you what you are:
you are unforgiving. If you don't stop badgering me, I am going to get a
divorce." I imagine it, got on my knees, and never spoke about the mistake
again.
I'm crying to see her again . . . sing to
her . . . touch her . . . feel her kiss. Still living the dream, I wear and
gaze at the ring she gave me --- the luckiest man ever.
Nov 10 Of course
I don't know the ineluctable truth.
However, I think the problem this guy expresses, without offering a solution,
is that males inherit the perception that God is in charge and in the family
the man is God's emissary. He never discovers either Psalm 82, which could
inform him that he is, in the image of God, a god facing death. Or John 10:34,
with its affirming lower-case "g".
The problem is exacerbated, because children are not taught the Genesis 1:26-28
Sumerian Perception: female and male Homo sapiens have the power, authority,
and responsibility to pursue on earth goodness which motivates good behavior.
Instead, they are taught they are sinners, unable to pursue perfection of their
person.
Adults who comprehend these ideas do all they can to aid children in their
desire for goodness which motivates good behavior.
The man who accepts these concepts or better serves his family fearlessly.
https://www.facebook.com/carolyn.m.beaver,
Nov 8
I'm sending you a hug and hopes for a night with enough REM
sleep.
When it became clear I needed to stop using alcohol, in order to provide
Cynthia the care she needed, I quit cold turkey. I wish I had taken that step
after my first beer, some 70 years ago.
https://www.facebook.com/layingdownlambert/reels/,
Nov 20
Infants are born with personal desire for goodness.
Successive generations inculcate ideologies that justify dependency, or
badness, or wickedness, even unto evil. Some happily say, "We are
sinners," resisting power, authority, and responsibility to goodness.
Consequently, the world is in social and economic chaos. There are some 4,000
to 10,000 gods and 45,000 Christian sects.
The prior generations, perhaps 100,000 as Homo sapiens, left to our generation
the opportunity to discover and practice goodness which motivates good
behavior, leaving to actual-reality whatever happens during our afterdeath. One
thinker said, "From dust to dust."
Will we accept 2025’s wonderful opportunity to pursue goodness "to
ourselves and our Posterity" (quoting the preamble to the
United-States-republic's Constitution)?
I think the civic faction, We the People of the United States, is talking to
discover goodness which motivates good behavior.
If so, “Our best time is ahead” is accurate, precise, deep, and happening.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Nov 8 Each person
may and can accept their opportunities to discover and practice goodness that
motivates good behavior.
https://www.facebook.com/gcleve.wright,
In 1994, "my Baptist church" offended my LA-French
Catholic sister-in-law, when she called to ask how to send money for Mass for
my deceased Father, Fred Beaver. Who does not comprehend Mass and a kind
response?
I read to discover my person in the world and in the USA. Incensed, I withdrew
from Baptism and discovered later I had withdrawn from Christianity.
In 2021, I perceived America wanted to repress Christians, I
returned to "my church" to help "the salt of the earth", by
expressing 3 ideas. First, everyone may pursue the meta-physical Jesus, whatever
it actually is. Second, we may rely on the ineluctable truth to guide the research;
"ineluctable" means, together, not to be avoided, changed, or
resisted. Third, Genesis 1:26-28 informs us that on earth, humankind is in
charge of order. Also, while I was neither Baptist nor Christian, my Catholic
wife could no longer provide social support and I appealed to them to
strengthen me and pray for her and our care-taking daughters. They did. I
shared my Catholic family’s 50-year history with "my church".
During the past five years there, I learned that reading about Yeshua, the
person whom Aramaic-speaking Yosef and Miryam named in Nazareth of 2000 years
ago, had always influenced me to choose good behavior. But I had to apply
modern discovery to primitive parallels to goodness, in order to benefit. For
example, Yeshua's process for conflict resolution, in Matthew 18:15-17, starts
with informing a fellow citizen you perceive they offended you. Doing so
positions you to discover their view; and, sometimes, the fact that, you were
the offender. The other 2 parts of the brief instruction are equally deep.
Adding V 18, Yeshua reflects Genesis 1:26-28; each person may and can constrain
chaos in their way of living. Eventually, I admitted that Yeshua had only begun
to inform me to discover and practice goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
On "all souls" day, November 2, our daughters and I happily planned
to attend the evening Catholic Mass that would commemorate my wife's passing.
That morning, when "my church" announced their celebration, they
omitted my wife’s soul, and a friend factually explained that Cynthia was not a
member. Friends have only one chance to first-time-commemorate loss, and I can
think of no greater loss than spouse. Applying Yeshua's third step, I left
"my church". My shadow will not visit there.
Celebrate that I lived long enough to accept goodness; after more than 75 years
trying to submit to church, I happily accepted Yeshua's influence, in order to
continue discovery and practice of goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior. In
the meantime, I look forward to meeting old friends at Perkins Road Park --- to
pray for churches, societies, and nations to discover
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
I think citizens who are perfecting goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior,
whether religious or not, don’t need to change.
Nov 16 My couple
years' fascination with Sumer civilization broke through to Mesopotamian
dynasties. Their attention to monarchical responsibility to care for the poor,
needy, widows, and orphans is at least 5500 years old. Intentions have not
progressed, so far.
The park where I walk enriches my society. If someone asks why I walk looking
down, I answer, "I'm looking for Ben Franklin". Most people think
they get it.
Benjamin Franklin recommended government that provides for the needy without
discouraging responsible work. So far, government encourages dependency, and I
think Church and church are responsible for exponential harm during 5500 years
-- plying the needy, in order to skim or rent-seek the revenues. The cost is
staggering!
Instead, the civic faction may improve every education department on earth,
including in states in the United States, to inculcate in youth the
comprehension and intention to develop personal curiosity and intelligence so
as to personally pursue their unique, perfect journey through life.
I think a civic person earns their responsible way of living, aids local and
national government to encourage independent goodness, discourages badness,
resists wickedness, and aids just annihilation of evil. I think churches may
and can resist Church --- change to goodness which motivates good behavior for
life.
Cleve, anyone who would impose guilt on you, one of the few great people I have
known, should be left behind.
Nov 11, I do not know the
ineluctable truth so can only write my opinion.
I think the buzzwords are empty; "relationship with Christ",
"knowing Jesus personally", "the transforming power of
Jesus".
Further, "Christ" or "Jesus" reflects writings of Paul or
of John. A person is more challenged by Yeshua, the name his Aramaic-speaking
Jewish mom and dad gave him in ancient Nazareth.
Reading "The Complete Jewish Bible", 1998, for only 2 years gave me
insights unto Yeshua's influence. For example, in Matthew 18:15-17, Yeshua, a
political and religious philosopher, presents his formula for collaboration in
church: if you think a fellow erred, tell them in private so they can share
their vision and perhaps change yours; if he or she resista collaboration tell
another fellow and try to convince them to spend time on the issue; if that
fails, bring the debate to the entire church. And Matt 18:18 teaches that
whatever choices fellows make are not corrected by heavenly powers. Knowing
Yeshua's intentions facilitates solving human conflict --- promotes peace.
After 2 years accumulation of Yeshua-influence, I now pursue discovery of
goodness which motivates good behavior. I find it in Perkins Road Park, Baton
Rouge and on the phone after conducting business. I find goodness everywhere
but in churches and in speeches about "Jesus Christ".
The best way to help the poor is by motivating them to accept their natural
curiosity and intelligence that motivates them to accept power, authority, and
responsibility to constrain chaos in their way of living and to collaborate
with fellows to pursue their unique goodness.
Churches do not have to disappear or stop seeking Yeshua's influence, in order
to pursue goodness which motivates good behavior. But if necessary, they may
dissolve, because parks and libraries are available.
If a person seeks Yeshua's influence, it is reliable.
I hope my opinion inspires someone to suggest an improvement for me to
consider, so I may approach ineluctable goodness.
Again; A couple
weeks ago, a Fox news agent said about violent demonstrators for the Democrat
Party, "They need to find Jesus Christ."
I don't think that find would help erroneous citizens, whether Democrat or
Republican. I think fellow citizens and churches can discover goodness that
motivates good behavior.
The civic faction pursues and practices goodness.
Nov 9 Both the
Republicans and Fox News call the Democrats crazy and "the loonies"
while the Democrats support violence against the civic faction, We the People of
the United States as defined by the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.
Democrats support violence against the Constitution and its people.
For the past 7 decades, advocates for liberation theology have teamed with
Marxists to form a violent collective. It's the audacity of audacities! Until
the civic faction comes to grips that the Democrat Party is claiming America is
two-party competition with their side advocating violence as justice, the civic
faction will continue to pay the bills for the journey to doom.
And this cannot be addressed by telling democrat friends that they are crazy or
looney. The 2-party-competition to replace fellow-citizen-collaboration must be
addressed in sincere appreciation for opportunity to form opinion about what it
means to be of the faction We the People of the United States -- as defined by
the U.S. Constitution.
And you can't learn civic integrity by going to a university with its new
department of "civic thought", which is bemused with how it happened
rather than the intentions: goodness which motivates good behavior.
We know the goodness which motivates good behavior: individuals and
associations doing the work to constrain chaos in personal living. We just need
to stop trying to convince God or government to do our duty. With immediate
action by us, fellow citizens will quickly get the message and join.
A swing to a new Judeo-Christian-mystery revival cannot substitute for
individual goodness --- weak as present behavior may be.
#USpreambler,#civicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Nov 5 I think you
asked if anyone had an opinion about Jonah 4. I studied the book and published
the study on my blog, understandtheknowledge.blogspot.com. As you may see,
I think Jonah is a literal story about a man and his urge to aid fellow
citizens and erroneous doubt he has the ability to do so.
The appendix, about Genesis 1:26-28, is always an update.
Nov. 6 Jonah
observed an opportunity to aid humankind by pointing out that Niviah was
misbehaving and could choose goodness. But Jonah questioned his goodwill would
be effective. His fear worked to Jonah's loss when Niviah independently
reformed.
Every civic citizen has the opportunity to discover and practice goodness or
wait for new information, unless being attacked or worse killed. The
opportunity for good behavior is often fleeting and fear to act can invite
evil.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/,
Dec 2
This is my 82nd season of goodwill to everyone. the world
seems at a 70-year economic crisis: will capitalism prevail over social
Marxism? Will the United States republic survive “democracy”? Will wanton TDS achieve
annihilation?
NYC seems to desire social democracy, or chaos. Fox News seems to advocate
“Jesus Christ”, not admitting the obvious: there are 45,000 Christian sects.
Some of the United States Cabinet conducts Bible reading: As
Judeo-Christianity, or to include Hagar, Sarah, and Keturah?
Humankind has 2000 years’ evidence that humankind cannot look to higher power,
whether rational or intricately-constructed mystery; whether church or state or
their partnership. Add the prior 1700 years’ divine covenants, and we can look
back to primitive thought for possible relief from chaos.
One conclusion from polytheistic Mesopotamia, the so-called Cradle of
Civilization, was that the gods were too busy struggling over the heavens and
therefore left to humankind the power, authority, and responsibility (PAR) to
order life on earth. This political philosophy seems expressed in Sumerian law
codes dating from 5500 years ago.
In every generation, the individual who perceives PAR intentionally constrains
chaos in his or her way of living. With practice, they discover goodness which
motivates good behavior. They easily recognize like-minded-people, whether they
articulate “goodness which . . . “, or not.
I think goodness which motivates good behavior is preferable to any
mystery-tradition. I did not invent this thought and consider it a consequence
of 3 quarter-centuries of Bible reading, ending with my view of Genesis
1:26-28.: On earth, female and male human persons unite to order life on earth.
The Genesis 1 suggestion is repeated in the specification of the United States
republic, the Constitution -- "to ourselves and our Posterity".
We may and can make this the season of goodwill to all late as accepting PAR
may be.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Again: Cleve, I appreciate your response and, as you may
know, have been there, done that.
In fact, my 82nd season of goodwill would not have been
possible without my past 4 years attending a local Baptist church. I went
there, sharing with the senior pastor then that I was returning after 27 years
hiatus to discover my person, in order to share that humankind may and can
pursue 3 opportunities: the ineluctable truth, the metaphysical Jesus (a label
which church unintentionally informed me hides the person, Yeshua the Nazarene,
who discouraged badness and promoted goodness), and Genesis 1:26-28, which
informs that on earth humankind is in charge of order to living things and to
the earth.
The Bible represents Genesis 1:26-28 as the word of God, so
when churches teach believers to pray for God to provide order on earth, they
are teaching arrogance rather than obedience: badness rather than goodness:
Humankind is in charge on earth. If the Bible is accepted as the word of God,
its first chapter cannot be ignored.
The person who considers and accepts Genesis 1:26-28 has the
authority and power to constrain chaos in his or her way of living -- to reject
badness and practice goodness. Collectively, the faction who constrain chaos in
their way of living sustain life on earth -- make passiveness, rebellion,
crime, wickedness, evil, and spirituality possible. If there are no civic
citizens, civilization ends.
Accepting the Bible does not require rejection of church.
Brothers and sisters in church meet, intending to discover and practice
goodness that motivates good behavior. Those who accept the first chapter of
the Bible, especially the commission in V 26-28, may and can discover the
improvements their church pursues. Otherwise, church, now expanded to 45,000
sects, will continue to deviate unto total destruction.
This is a lot to consider. A lot has happened.
Again: Divinity schools ruin fellow citizens who choose to
be clergy, by not informing them that education to goodness that motivates good
behavior is the way to care for the poor, rather than to subsidize
impoverished-consumerism in order to help the elites, such as the preachers who
collect and skim the tithe. Capitalism depends on informed consumers selecting
beneficial goods and services. Socialism redistributes revenues, in order to
keep the poor satisfied with poverty and the middle class satisfied to support
elites. The partnership of church and elites is ruinous to a nation.
Civic citizens, who pursue goodness which motivates good
behavior, oppose Judeo-Christian pretense to Christian apology. Fox News and
other agents are culpable in promoting Jesus Christ with no clue that Yeshua of
Galilee promoted goodness that motivates good behavior.
In the world’s first known law codes, 5500 years ago,
Sumerian kings maintained mysteries yet admonished civic people not to
economically enslave the needy, widows, and orphans. Semitic-speaking
dissidents to power, authority, and responsibility (PAR), 3900 years ago,
converted the Sumerian policy into obligation to feed the poor.
A dissident Semite faction created covenants of non-human
blood sacrifice, in order to bargain for mystery’s favor despite bad behavior,
like keeping the poor dependent.
A smaller Semitic-faction, Israel, turned to
self-preservation when Rome destroyed their blood-sacrificial temple in 70 CE.
Also, the entrepreneur Paul promoted Yeshua, the Galilean
preacher to goodness, as blood-sacrifice for persons mysteriously gifted with
belief. Believers, in afterdeath, would have a soul and favor by the mystery.
Churches debated both Paul’s construct and competitive literature, Bibles, by
400 CE.
Today, there are 4 to 10 thousand Gods. Under each God are
multiple denominations. There are 45 thousand Christian sects, many dissident
to Paul’s constructs.
Marxist-liberation theology, such as socialism, while also
not teaching the poor to earn income with which to pay for the civic way of
living they desire, yet nudges humankind to improve religion. Religion is
action on heartfelt concern without discovering ineluctable validity.
This covers much. Failure during the past 2000 years
dominates in the year 2025, and past generations left to "ourselves and
our Posterity" the opportunity to stop the blood sacrifice.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Nov 26 On
Thanksgiving 2025 we may and can appreciate discovery and practice of goodness which
motivates good behavior.
Nov 17 In
November 2025, the Democrat Party in the United States seems beyond strange --
resisting Constitutional enforcement of laws against terrorism (foreign and
domestic), against child trafficking, against child abuse, and against
illicit-drug supply.
Regarding a civic people’s stand against abuse of children, Jewish literature,
for example, the Book of Joel, offers deep thought I paraphrase, below.
1. Joel 1:3: tell your children from generation to generation
2. Joel 2:2: those who know reform
3. Joel 3:1: sons and daughters foresee
4. Joel 4:3 and 4:19: alien humans abused boys and girls
Joel 4:21 concludes that offenses against children are never forgiven.
Let abusers take note of ancient if not primitive views of goodness versus
badness plus annihilation to evil. Let civic democrats reform their political
party.
Nov 15 We are,
234 years after completing the intended United States Constitution with the
Bill of Rights, failing young Homo sapiens.
Every American may and can own their earned-interpretation of the preamble to
the United States Constitution. I quote:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common
defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America."
My paraphrase (trust and commitment) is: A civic faction, We the People of the
United States, proffer, practice, and may amend 6 public pursuits —- integrity,
justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility --- “in order to”
pursue happiness “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
"A civic" invites other Homo sapiens to suggest-collaboration, in
order to improve United-States-pursuit of statutory justice. “Posterity”
includes legal-immigrants. Neither race nor religion is a preamble-feature.
Inhabitants who don't practice a reliable view of the preamble ought not
receive a license to vote in elections, whether local or national. In other
words, a civic people require a voter-license within their nation.
Nov 8 Which-goodness
motivates good-behavior?
Nov 4 Once there was a man born to parents of reliable,
lower-middle-class materialism and gender-competitive
independent-Protestantism; a communitarianism divided on opinion about imagined
mystery. As an emerging young adult, he examined Hinduism and its theology of
reincarnation and concluded that one communitarianism is enough to occupy a
lifetime and need not prevent civic life – pursuit of peace to humankind.
When he fell in love with a Louisiana-French-Catholic woman, he had no idea he
was entering a third communitarian world.
Her serene confidence and pure goodness so attracted him that he entered
training to position the Church to conduct the marriage. He happily committed
to rear any children in the Catholic faith but intended to modify neither
inculcated “priesthood of the believer” nor “once saved always saved”. Yet, as
he experienced continual conflict and reviewed history’s record of badness, he
would accept mystery without communitarianism, in order to pursue and practice
goodness.
He brooked church-abuse of his curiosity and choices, for 45 more years. When
his wife of 56 years died, the church he had befriended heartlessly slighted
her twice in 6 months. She was not a member -- only the wife of a friend. He
chose civic independence, leaving communitarianism behind so as to befriend
civic human beings.
Closing the door as he departed communitarianism at last, he felt aligned with
the origins of his unique person unified with his wife. The next day, as he
happily maintained the dream (marriage with his wife, his better half and
angel), he felt joy he had never before imagined.
And the face in her portrait on the den-bookcase seemed alive as he and their
daughters sang goodnight to her: Let Me Call You Sweetheart.
https://www.facebook.com/betty.prindle.3, Nov 4
I like a mutually-iterative process. It has 3 phases.
First, the speaker expresses opinion about the object of discussion so well
that the listener comprehends.
Speaker may have to refine words and phrases to find language and grammar
used-by or useful-to listener. Second, once the object is established, the
listener considers personal perspectives that might improve speaker's opinion.
If so, speaker must comprehend, so as to grasp the perspective and either adopt
it, present evidence for rejecting it, or suggest improvement on the
perspective. In some cases, speaker/listener roles swap. This iterative process
continues until both parties perceive they concur.
Third, they discuss whether or not the now shared opinion should be chosen for
action.
Fourth, if the opinion is actionable, do circumstances warrant action?
I hope an iterative process makes sense to some readers. For it to work, both
parties may and can agree that truth is insufficient and to pursue ineluctable
truth. Ineluctable means (my view of Merriam Webster's usage): together, not to
be avoided, changed, or resisted. If the discussion approaches the ineluctable
truth, it has been worthwhile. Typical British dictionaries omit
"change", creating the opportunity to change "truth" by changing
the object.
For example, discussion of the power, authority, and responsibility to order
life on earth can be prevented by introducing the competitive mystery of God.
https://www.facebook.com/gcleve.wright,
Nov 2
After 75 years attempting to learn and practice communitarianism,
I choose to pursue the goodness which inspires good behavior.
To consider a church, I suggest finding their mission
statement, value statement, or church covenant. Read it, and if you are not
willing to trust-in and commit-to it, don't let your shadow grace that
assembly.
One I could not support, for example, is: https://www.christ
covenantchurch. net/church-covenant. Living in my 83rd year, I am not
searching.
Each of us is a person, born to discover and practice
goodness to fellow citizens, and civic parents know that. If a church does not
attest to the pursuit of goodness to humankind (rather than a faction), don't
waste your precious opportunity to serve.
Again:
I agree.
I think a civic people do all they can to aid children in their desire to
discover and practice goodness. This is made clear to adults in the Sumerian
Perception (my expression of mysterious 5500 year old political philosophy),
which is dismissed by a Semitic-speaking faction in Genesis 1:26-28 (maybe 3700
years ago). The rest of the Holy Bible illustrates what happens when adults
don't support children's natural goodness.
Unfortunately, ancient divinity schools started competing rather than aiding
humankind, and today, there 4,000 to 10,000 Gods and 45,000 Christian sects.
None appreciates the Sumerian Perception: female and male Homo sapiens has the
power, authority, and responsibility for goodness on earth.
Having won the war for independence from England, the founders in
13-free-and-independent states in only 7 years considered and specified the
American Perception, ratifying the negotiated United States Constitution on
December 15, 1791. It creates a republic that carefully prevents democracy. Its
intentions are stated in its preamble and provisions for amendment by the civic
faction, We the People of the United States. The intention is statutory justice
to "ourselves and our Posterity"; in other words, unjust laws are to
be discovered and made better if not perfect. No nation and no religion on
earth appreciates the American Perception, as the United States civic faction
does.
The American Perception of 234 years ago improves the Sumerian Perception of
5500 years ago.
I hope Mr. President will emphasize the 234-year-old American Perception, next
July 4, when we celebrate 250 years since Thomas Jefferson invented "life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" to rebuke Englishman John Locke,
King George, and Parliament. Europe and its loyalists in this land have never
stopped trying to defeat the American Perception.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#SumerPerception
Whitehouse
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ , Nov 20
Dear
Mr. President:
Re:
Nigeria as CPC.
Thank
you.
Today,
I watched much of the House-Subcommittee debate on your renewed designation of
Nigeria as a country of particular concern. I agree. My deep concern may seem
strange.
Religion
promotes human-arrogance against a mystery: God. Each church who “knows
God" lacks humility. Past generations left to your administration the
opportunity to replace the proud chaos of “freedom of religion” with pursuit
and practice of goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
After
45 years trying to embrace Mom and Dad’s Protestantism plus the
Louisiana-French-Catholicism precious to my wife, Cynthia, I dropped out for 27
years, in order to discover my person.
Then,
observing that some Americans wanted to persecute United-States-Christians, I
attended and financially supported my neighborhood Baptist church for 4 years.
On All Souls Day, November 2, 2025, the pastors did not commemorate Cynthia’s
passing on May 17, 2025, because “she was not a member of the church”. There’s
only one chance to neglect my wife’s passing; my shadow will never grace that
church again.
The
United States republic seems enslaved to religion. The civic faction, We the
People of the United States, may and can improve by amending the First
Amendment to, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or [promoting] the free exercise thereof . . . “.
In the
meantime, you, Sir, can further unlock your national and world-wide Excellence
by expressing trust-in and commitment-to
goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior.
If
so, today’s world, if not ultimate humankind, will appreciate you greatly.
Sincerely,
Phil
Beaver
Nov 9
Dear
Mr. President:
Re:
appreciating Congressional rules while assuring Constitutional law.
First, thank you for your letter
addressing the Charlie Kirk tragedy and loss to this nation.
In my family, with wife and 3 children,
the claim “you don’t comprehend” always produced brick-wall-loss; alienation
tragically delays family-collaboration. It disturbs me that both Republicans
and Fox News fruitlessly claim Democrats are crazy, because Democrats support
violence. I write to suggest your administration charge Republicans and Fox to
calmly, plainly address the Democratic Party’s wily audacity: destroy the
United States.
The founders didn’t perceive yet intended
the United States republic to discover and practice goodness which inspires
good behavior --- “to ourselves and our Posterity” (quoting the preamble to the
Constitution). [“Posterity” includes willing immigrants, both by entry and by
assimilation.] The framers negotiated that governance by democracy had to be
prevented so specified what I call “the American Perception” (1791) --- civic
citizens in their states authorize and constrain a republican nation.
The framers and First Congress considered
many European political thinkers. Montesquieu advocated liberty and influenced
bloody revolution. John Locke hoped Deism could constrain Christianity. Edmund
Burke promoted individual responsibility. American George Washington won
American independence and led the United States to responsibility.
Anti-American Europeans have never understood Washington’s civic faction, We
the People of the United States.
The civic faction mutually preserves
personal opportunity to goodness, while aiding a civil republic. Democracy
mistakenly equivocates civic integrity and civil obligation; goodness and
obligation; goodwill and violence.
The European opposition, during the past
seven decades combined liberation theology and Marxism, in order to defeat the
United States republic using global collectivist-violence. This is made clear
by the past couple decades when partisan politics has suppressed the civic
faction, not only in the United States, but abroad.
Neither the Republican Caucus nor Fox News
expresses the American Perception: amending unjust laws as they are discovered
pursues statutory justice to children and their descendants. In other words,
the extant generation aids its children and their descendants. Improving codes
of law started 5500 years ago in Sumer civilization, located where Iraq is
today.
Since the Democrat Party votes together,
the liberation-Marxist collective perceives destroying the Constitution by
ignoring it. It is the audacity of audacities. You, Sir, with unique ability to
plainly address badness and evil can defeat the collective by addressing the
Democrat Party’s behavior: Democrats express that We the People of the United
States is a pawn of the two-party system. By violent un-constitutionalism, the
Democrat Party intends to defeat the Republican Party; We the People of the
United States is to be defeated by social democracy.
I
hope this helps you choose effective words for this season of goodwill to all.
Sincerely,
Phil
Beaver
Nov
6
Dear Mr. Vice-President:
When a fellow
perceives she or he can help a civic citizen, sharing is the only way to initiate
possibility, and therefore, I write to you. The chief point I want to make is
that July 4, 2026 need not, ought not overshadow celebrating the 250th
anniversary of ratification of the United States republic on December 15, 2041.
At
age 82, reading and writing in hopes of resolving church divisions that lessen
humankind, I perceive personal lessons worth sharing.
As
a deist, Thomas Paine wrote in 1776, “I thank GOD that I fear not.”
Paine was using “GOD” to appeal to every civic soldier’s belief, presuming that
non-belief, so called atheism, is not influential. I don’t think “GOD” serves
humankind’s responsibility to speak with meaning. In the first place, GOD may
not want worship, or praise, or to usurp human responsibility. It seems prudent
for human beings to reserve humility.
I recently devised and alternative
to gods: “whatever constrains the consequences of personal or social choice” to
reserve humility respecting power, authority, and responsibility (PAR). I feel
informed by Genesis 1:26-28: Phil Beaver may and can pursue goodness in his way
of living.
I feel fortunate that my curiosity
and perseverance survived 75 years’ search for higher PAR that would lessen
chaos in my way of living. I recently discovered and pursue goodness that
motivates good behavior and therefore perceive hope if not joy. Neither state
nor church can usurp personal opportunity to practice goodness.
My wife of 56 years, Cynthia Ann
Marionneaux Beaver, recently died. I hope reincarnation is in my future. I will
find her and articulate marrying to-her rather than with-her (Matthew 19:5, NIV
and NKJV). Her surname will be mine unto our three children and perhaps theirs.
If I get a second life with
Cynthia, I will influence family to goodness rather than to divinity. As
husband, I sought to aid Cynthia’s opinions without giving up pursuit of my
person. I attended pre-Cana but did not convert. Thus, I did not give up my pursuit
of goodness. In their teen years, I asked our 3 children to consider Baptist belief,
concerned that in Catholic Mass they innocently self-judged they were “GOD’s
people”.
This brings me to the tragedy in
Charlie Kirk’s relative youth. I conjecture that he did not comprehend Matthew
19:5. He risked life-commitment to-wife-and-children-unto-descendants, in order
to express personal beliefs. GOD responds in actual-reality rather than to
beliefs. Too often, the unexpected is brutal. I speculate Charlie is able to
view his unattended duty on earth from his seat in heaven. The horror and tears
won’t stop. Our sympathy does not help. I don’t know the ineluctable truth.
Belief and non-belief have been at
odds during the 200,000 years Homo sapiens have dominated life. The ongoing
DEI-vs-Judeo-Christianity-crisis is only the latest.
However, the Trump-Vance administration
may and can lead the civic faction of We the People of the United States to
establish and maintain pursuit of goodness that inspires good behavior, leaving
churches and states opportunity to aid rather than divide humankind.
Perhaps you will use goodness to dominate
July 4, 2026. I hope you will set the stage for celebrating ratification-of the
United States republic, on December 15, 2041.
Sincerely,
Phillip Beaver
225-907-8658
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople
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.
