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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 in the United-States-republic
continually improves 6 public practices: integrity, justice, safety, strength,
prosperity, and responsibility --- “in order to” motivate good behavior “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
In g-d We Trust
Instigated by the Catholic church group The Knights of
Columbus”, in 1954, Congress added “under God” to the pledge of allegiance and
then in 1956 adopted the motto “In God We Trust”, without losing “E Pluribu
Unum”, “out of many, one”, on the seal and money.
A human invention, “God” divides people in myriad ways -- opposition to Buddhism
and similar ideologies, civic opportunity, secular morality, democracy,
socialism, communism, sacrificial empathy, and other pursuits. Traditionally, “God”,
in its 10,000 variations, inspires violence and war.
The United States republic, in its Constitution, neither advocates nor establishes
God. Its preamble resists religion and race, intending integrity, justice,
safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility
It seems obvious that humankind discovers and positively uses the laws of
physics and its progeny – mathematics, economics, biology, and psychology. Journals
of history and research lend understanding of the consequences of human choice
facing what is unknown. The person who chooses not to earn a living may end up
accepting food a bureaucrat provides or not.
In every generation, the benefits of discovery accelerate so fast that adults
cannot instruct their children how to manage children’s future. Adults may
observe their children’s brilliance and ought not try to impose tradition on children.
Adults ought to practice good which inspires goodness.
The United States republic needs relief from “In God We Trust”. I suggest “In
g-d We Trust”, in order to keep simple, perhaps common-sense, expression of
humility to whatever constrains the consequences of human choice, without
forcing disbelief or “atheism” on anyone.
Simply dropping the motto would miss the chance to accelerate humankind’s march
to responsible authority and power (RAP) to pursue peace on earth.
News
This is another example of activist justices not accepting
the United States republic and its independence from England. While America is
a constitutional republic, England is a parliamentary monarchy.
Chief Justice John Roberts cited English common law from
1608 to justify birthright citizenship, distracting from
United-States-termination of slavery England had helped impose on the colonies.
English law does not negate the United States Constitution,
but Roberts arrogantly imposes English law on the civic faction, We the People
of the United States, as defined by the preamble.
Roberts did it again in Ramos Vs Louisiana, citing a 14th
century English custom -- not part of written law. The English custom is
grounded in the 1900 year-old Koine-Greek report that Yeshua of Galilee chose
12 apostles. Roberts negated the 6th Amendment’s demand that states
provide impartial rather than unanimous juries.
I think Congress should immediately change the US Code to
provide 9 person or at most 11 person juries, in order to reduce court costs
and moreover the lessen injustice.
Can a Supreme Court Justice be impeached for frequently
imposing English tradition that negates the United States republic? I hope so.
Thank goodness Congress may and might undo Supreme arrogance
of unconstitutional stare decisis.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
To John Allen,
I do. And I recommend the motto, "In g-d We
Trust", or better, in order to accept that most people in this republic do
not want to impose worship and praise on civic inhabitants -- believers and
non-believers who accept responsibility, authority, and power to pursue good
which motivates goodness on earth.
Opinion
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-cost-of-comfort-6049279
I feel kin to Mollie Englehart’s creative curiosity. But
trust and commitment overrides faith.
Sumerians, 5500 years ago, observed that the mysterious gods
leave to humankind the responsibility, authority, and power (RAP) to pursue
peace on earth.
Semitic-speakers left Sumer to resist killing humans for
blood-sacrifice to gods, but continued ceremonial blood from animals and fowl.
Factions constructed competitive monotheisms. One invented Yahweh with
remembrance through bloody male-circumcision yet continually disobeyed. Some
predicted a messiah would bring them peace.
A few Jews who knew Yeshua of Galilee, upon his execution,
projected his life onto selected messianic predictions. A church entrepreneur,
Paul, carried pagan-request for exclusion from circumcision. Messianic Jews
co-operated. Yeshua became the blood sacrifice for believers of Paul’s story.
1900 years later, some people believe mystery yet insist on
a doctrine: the Trinity, or the One, or Hashem, or Allah, or Jesus, or Christ,
or other. In public, many speak or write “God”, yet retain their belief.
The ineluctable evidence informs that the laws of physics
and its progeny constrain human choice. We may appreciate and be humble-to
whatever causes physics by not arrogantly deifying it. We can label it g-d and
write “In g-d We Trust”. Even believers may collaborate to discover g-d, in
order to accept RAP to pursue peace on earth.
Faith in God makes me uncomfortable. I cannot escape
humility to the g-d.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-backlash-against-the-screen-6043692
I have written before that the great Jeffrey A. Tucker had
disappointed me. This time, I know why, and find the problem in the last 3
words: outsource our souls.
Since the mystery of soul is personally either rejected or
embraced, it cannot be outsourced. Neither a woman’s ovum nor a man’s
spermatozoon nor a person waiting to be conceived invented soul. The man and
woman may choose not to subscribe to soul-mystery. Soul-mystery is constructed
by church, and the choice to submit to church is personal – cannot be
outsourced.
It took many tries to arrive at this challenge for AI
without invoking "fait", "spiritualism" and such
words: Parents cannot force their
children to forego accomplishments in life in order to favor their afterlife.
AI responded: Parents cannot impose their beliefs about the
afterlife on their children, as each individual has the right to pursue their
own accomplishments and life choices. This respect for autonomy is essential
for healthy development and personal growth.
AI affirmed my opinion, but only after about 25 attempts at
the words. I like to use a coined word, “afterdeath”, but AI could not brook
it.
I think AI is wonderful for people with empowered curiosity,
earned opinion, and vast ignorance, like mine.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Quora
https://www.quora.com/I-have-committed-all-sorts-of-evil-acts-in-my-life-and-have-not-been-punished-is-this-fair,
Wreen Wreenby
I question
the term “evil”. In the first place, it is beneath Homo sapiens. Second, the
public will not long tolerate evil.
I think evil is like barbequing a live cat. Or microwaving a live infant. Or
raping a woman. Or raping a niece, killing her, and burying the body.
I think the civic faction of Homo sapiens have the responsibility, authority,
and power to assure public opportunity so each infant may, before death,
discover and embrace behavior that lessens badness on earth. The civic
faction impacts others who are
subject to the law --- influences passives to engage, resists rebels and
dissidents, aids constraint to criminals, discourages vice, and supports
eradication of evil.
Statutory justice effects execution of evil people. Statutory
justice conforms to the laws of physics, which knows no emotions. Therefore,
justice does not seek fairness. If civil rule arrogates the laws of physics, the
rule is unjust. Thus, the gender-change industrial complex is unjust.
All of the subjects, including the civic faction suffer their mistakes. The
civic citizen pursues perfect behavior by never repeating a mistake, including
wickedness/vice. However, they are never evil. I doubt you have ever been evil.
If so, never repeat the evil and recall it only in privacy.
I recall breaking a promise to a person but won’t share the details.
#USpreambler,#acivicpeople,#goodnesswhich
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/travis.wyrick.5,
July 5
That's a great story. Thank you, Travis.
I don't think I'll ever get over
Cynthia's beauty, even though at age 83 I hope to live a few more decades. When
her appearance overwhelmed me and I'd say so, she responded, once, "I
know, I know: you're talking about my behavior".
From then on, that's what it meant when I
said it -- except when it was her appearance, like dressed for a Mardi-Gras
ball in Plaquemines LA. Or sitting at a cigar-bar in Baton Rouge when the owner
was so taken he gave her a box of Bailey's-filled chocolates. I did not ask him
if it was behavior or appearance and was just glad he got to observe. She never
ate any of the chocolates.
Thank you, Travis, for stirring memories.
https://www.facebook.com/tikajohnny.mcgee,
July 3
I think our generation is living at the brink of discovery
that God is a unique personal mystery of hope and comfort, grounded in
avoidance. We may neglect our opportunity. People who assign "God"
resist whatever actual-reality the capitalization represents.
Institutions, like nations and religions, who capitalize God do so arrogantly.
And individuals who do so, perhaps honestly, resist humility's appeal. To
assess the mystery as omniscient & omnipotent seems arrogant. Maybe g-d
expresses actual-reality. For now, I like "In g-d We Trust".
Whatever constrains human choices does not correct error. Thus, if a human
successively wrongs another, addresses the incident, accepts guilt, apologizes,
and makes restitution to the victim, the reality of the offensive action
remains, beyond eternity. It matters not if there is life in the afterdeath;
the offense during their lives can't be erased.
Each human has the responsibility, authority, and power to constrain chaos in
his or her way of living. However, each faces opportunity-closing death.
Borrowing from our daughter, the sooner a person chooses "good which
motivates goodness", the better.
https://www.facebook.com/gcleve.wright,
July 3
Our children have the genes and memes of 4 grandparents,
each of whom had 4 grandparents. Third generations have diversity provided by
g-d, which is whatever constrains the consequences of human choice. I don't
know the ineluctable truth.
https://www.facebook.com/missy.munch.marr,
July 3
On a hospital visit last week I got the notion that people
seem to appease/arrogate love by imposing worship and praise on to God mystery
rather than accepting another person's trust in g-d; that is, humbly, whatever
constrains the consequences of human choice. The theist beholds the other with
circular censure: atheist; antichrist; infidel.
Sharing hard-earned opinion is the best I can do, since I do not know the
ineluctable truth.
https://www.facebook.com/maryette.godsell,
July 2
I feel so fortunate to be Mary’s friend, connected on FB. (Thank you, Mary for
researching ancestral connections and discovering me.) I could not have written
the following essay without you influence.
Today’s message and my curiosity opened awareness of the AI-folly that
Canadians, 159 years after declaring unity under England, “prioritize ‘peace,
order, and good government’ over the American ideals of ‘life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness’". AI conflates England’s colonial-war in the south
250 years ago with constitutional-acceptance in the north 44 years ago.
AI imposed its bias to conflate unity of 3 Canadian provinces in 1867 with 13 American
colonies’ declaration of independence from England in 1776. In reality, thirteen
free and independent states in the USA ratified the treaty of Paris on January
15, 1784, accomplishing separation from Parliament. Then,14 American states
ratified the negotiated United States Constitution on December 15, 1791,
effecting the United States republic. Canada is a parliamentary democracy wherein
the law is the supreme authority. Queen Elizabeth
II proclaimed Canada’s constitution on April 17, 1982, making Canada
wholly independent. There is no Canadian equivalent to America’s declaration of
war for independence from England on July 4, 1776.
Canadian provinces united under England in 1867, whereas
globally independent American states (then 14) united in 1791. England globally
yielded-to 13 independent American states in 1783 and proclaimed Canadian
independence in 1982. Independent-unity is 234 years old in the United States
and 44 years old in Canada. The United States may and can celebrate its 250th
birthday on December 15, 2041.
The laws of physics and its progeny – mathematics, economy,
biology, and psychology – hold humankind responsible for peace, order, and good
government on earth. Civic people accept responsibility, authority, and power
(RAP) to constrain chaos in their personal way of living. Civic citizens may
and can encourage their nation to accept RAP. When most nations effect RAP to
pursue peace on earth, humankind will begin to fulfill its duty.
The United States republic intends integrity, justice, safety, strength,
prosperity, and responsibility, abstractly expressed in the preamble to the US
Constitution. Nations separated by oceans cannot imagine the intentions of the
United States republic. Nations continuously attempt to impose democracy on the
United States republic. I think the republic accepts RAP to pursue order on
earth.
I cannot imagine a nation more likely and apt than Canada to join the United
States’ intentions to accept RAP, and I encourage Canadians and Americans to
consider RAP. Together, the North American peoples might establish
independence from their English influences and other alien impositions, in
order to accelerate humankind’s journey to peace, order, and good government on
earth.
https://www.facebook.com/stories/10156793830572853/1015477198011581,
June 27
James is writing to the 12 tribes of Israel, so
"God" is Yahweh or equivalent, perhaps G-d or Hashem. To influence
people like me a First Amendment student, the spelling "g-d" seems
humble to the idea that the g-d knows what I need, I am searching, and would
not dare try to impose my thoughts on the g-d, whatever it is.
https://www.facebook.com/margo.frey,
June 29
I think something in charge of actual-reality constrains the
consequences of choice by Homo sapiens.
The laws of physics and progeny, such as economics, biology, and mathematics
leave it to Homo sapiens to pursue peace on earth. But so far, Homo sapiens
preserve “mentally rehearsing fears” grounded in hope for higher power in both
physics and psychology; government and God.
Naturally, each person has a God they perceive they
influence. Individuals would like to converse with like-minded Homo sapiens but
cannot find a sect that accommodates their particular God. For example, there
are more than 10,000 Gods in society and 45,000 sects in Judeo-Christianity. I
think 2026 benchmarks progress toward comprehension that Homo sapiens may and
can pursue perfect goodness.
Civic citizens imagine they mutually preserve each other’s
opportunity to discover and practice behavior which motivates goodness rather
than badness, such as tolerating evil. However, Trinitarians, perhaps 28% of
the world’s population, can’t imagine any goodness in competitive mono-theisms,
or philosophies, or unchurched societies, or people who are humble to evidence
rather than to rationality.
I think reciprocity for peace would accelerate if most people accepted as arrogance
all attempts to anthropomorphize the power that constrains Homo sapiens. Attempting to name it “God” is arrogant against both
actuality and humankind.
I propose a transition period for the next few generations, during which civic
citizens require their institutions to adopt the term “g-d”, in order to respect
whatever constrains Homo sapiens. The United States republic can promote “In
g-d we trust” to resist mystery and focus on actual-reality. The Churches could
reform to humility to the g-d, whatever it may be.
Religion is important to people who want it. But religious liberty need not
destroy responsibility, authority, and power to constrain chaos in personal
living on earth.
June 27
The video proffers several lessons in working smart.
First, some animals participate in a violent food chain. [Hippopotamus, as
herbivores, avoid or resist violence to survive. If possible, they will kill
other animals in self-defense, but not eat the meat. However, when food is
scarce, they will eat meat.]
Second, if you are a hyena, join a pack to attack a hippo. Avoid the water’s
edge. Abandon the pack before the hippo jumps in.
Third, if you are a hippo, don’t stray too far from the water when there are
hyenas. If hyenas appear, head for the water before they grab your tail. Lead
them to the crocks. Pause twice; for a hyena-dislodging 180-and-reversal then a
couple seconds for the crocks to grab every involved hyena.
Fourth, if you are a crock and see a hippo, stay in nearby water, as the hippo
may deliver some hyenas for dinner. Cautious hyenas will escape, so crocks act fast.
Is there a reader who notices some omissions in my curiosity? What is the
greater impact of this video?
It’s not covered, but food-chain-surviving-animals face the agony of starvation
in death. About 7 million years ago, hominins emerged and mutated to Homo
sapiens about 0.3 million years ago. They invented writing and grammar only 10
thousand years ago. As the only sapient animal, Homo sapiens may and can intend
more than survive violence only to face death. Persons may plan achievement in
life.
The laws of physics offer persons the opportunity to accept the responsibility,
authority, and power (RAP) to perfect ways of living, in order to assure
posterity the opportunity for a better future. Civic-citizens record and
practice goodness-which-motivates-good-behavior, as statutory justice;
constitutional law; RAP. Subjects conform according to understanding or none.
People who choose to remain animals perish.
We’re living a pivotal day and time, and I hope someone will comment on this
response to Margo’s wonderful post.
June 24
In Acts 15, Paul, a pagan Yahweh-Church entrepreneur, meets
with the small group of Jews who speculate that the executed Yeshua, Judean son
of Miryam and Yosef of Galilee, is the Messiah.
Paul requests relaxation of the Mosaic-law practice of male circumcision, which
the pagans detest. Peter claims that the Jews are hypocrites anyway. John
(Galatians 2) thinks the law should be upheld. James thinks Yeshua's pursuit of
perfection should be mimicked but suggests a compromise to avoidance of blood
or food associated with sacrifice to a g-d plus abstention from wanton sex.
Paul departs with the exclusion from circumcision and the 4-point compromise in
writing, Acts 15:29, and resumes establishment of Pauline Judeo-Christianity.
To instruct us about the past, we have Sumerian political thought, transitioned
from polytheism to Semitic-tribe's monotheism, to Judaism, to
Judeo-Pauline-Church, and to separation of church and state. These happenings
occur 4100 years ago (ya), 3900 ya, 2200 ya, 1900 ya, and 234 ya, respectively.
Combining Genesis 1 vs Genesis 2 and the rest of the Hebrew Bible vs the
Kione-Greek commentary the Church, canonized in 405 CE, we observe that there
is no Christianity -- only Judeo-Christian "new testament" competition
with the Hebrew Bible.
If my post tweaks curiosity, begin to satisfy it by reading "Yeshua"
in both Wikipedia and Grokipedia (preferred). Then, consider that when Yeshua
(read the Complete Jewish Bible version) is represented as speaking with
contemporary persons or crowds, he advocates behavior that lessens badness.
https://www.facebook.com/ Senator Kennedy for 2028, June 23
Coming from Knoxville TN's Protestant dominance, the civic
people of Louisiana happily influence me to think we must first satisfy the
laws of physics then consider personal humility.
While the chemical engineering department at the University
of Tennessee taught me not to allow anything I helped design, install, and
start operating blow up, LSU's Jack Hamilton taught me the principles and
philosophy of humble reporting. His requirement that we read Benjamin
Franklin's autobiography opened my mind to the g-d of America's founding.
The Trump administration, by reducing the funded military
chaplains from over 200 to the 31 who seem to accommodate the g-d, which is
whatever constrains the consequences of human choice, commends the 2026 motto,
"in g-d we trust".
Especially if Senator Kennedy can accommodate the
kavanaugh-question, "Do you believe in g-d?", in appreciation of
citizens rather than subjects, I would consider voting for him in the
republican primary. Then, I'd need to consider his running mate.
https://www.facebook.com/lferranti,
June 23
Unfortunately, Church has never discovered Yeshua, the
PERSON who shared goodness in Judea 2000 years ago. Church is bemused by the
arguments in Acts 15. However, in 2026, it is possible for church to influence
Church to lessen badness.
https://www.facebook.com/rvinci1,
June 23
I agree with Richard’s post for Richard and would go to war
to defend it, because I would also be defending my opinion about the ARROGANCE
of reporters who are paid by the media to attempt to impose democracy on the
United States republic. Democracy, especially social democracy is tyranny over
the minds of the people.
It is important to understand Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s representation of
the United States republic’s elected administration. By accepting citizenship
in the republic, Hegseth accepts his personal image of g-d, meaning whatever
constrains the consequences of human choice. That is, Hegseth accepts the
responsibility, authority, and power (RAP) to lessen if not prevent badness in
his way of living.
In Hegseth’s adult view as I perceive it, while g-d is a mystery, Jesus Christ
influences pure goodness. To live as a citizen rather than a mere subject,
Hegseth employs the RAP he cannot deny.
The United States administration observes that opponents of the republic’s
intentions to proffer freedoms of speech and of religion frequently employ
violence, either psychologically or physically, hoping to effect and promote
unconstitutional behavior. The elected administration does not intend to pay
ministers of violence to counsel the republic’s first defenders. Therefore, it
has reduced some 200 funds for military chaplains to only 31, seemingly those
who seem humble to g-d.
Some 300,000 years’ development of Homo sapiens led to 70,000-year-ago
mysterious explanations of the cosmos as the realm of the g-ds, or heaven,
often counting the sun as a chief g-d. Some cultures 10,000 years ago had
thousands of g-ds to represent both physics and psychology.
About 5500 years ago, one culture, Sumer, perceived that the
g-ds assigned RAP-on-earth to humankind. Chief among their responsibilities was
providing housing and sustenance to the g-ds. Individual cities had patron
g-ds. The next innovation was monotheism: election of a g-d supported by a
church.
In the year of my wife’s death, I discovered that church seems not humble to
g-d so happily became unchurched, after some 75 years’ struggle to find a
church that could accommodate my RAP In humility to g-d, whatever constrains
the consequences of choice.
I can neither deny the RAP I perceive nor assess Richard’s view.
https://www.facebook.com/charlotte.tryforos,
June 23
The entire family shares living!
I am grateful that my life is influenced by the messages attributed to Yeshua,
the PERSON in Judea of 2000 years ago, who shared thought with contemporaries
rather than fulfilled Judeo-Christian images some people advance.
The Matthew 19:5 writer claims that Yeshua rendered a Mesopotamian message to
correct some lawyerly Jews, in my view: a man shall leave the intentions of his
parents and unite his choices to those of his wife, in order to form a new
family.
The Matthew-writer left it to the reader to observe that the united couple may
consider traditions from 4 grandparents, offering opportunity to lessen any
badness to themselves and their posterity.
I celebrate this family of 4 and the 17th anniversary of commitment to
goodness. I am grateful that they all civically share their views.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009118567277,
June 21
I scrolled through some news feeds and spotted "160 out
of 45,000". That's only 0.36%. During what time period? How many got the
flu during same time period before Hegseth made vaccination voluntary. How many
voluntarily took vaccines? Of those, how many got the flu anyway? It makes me
wonder about the impact of vaccines by choice. I no longer elect vaccines,
because the ones I took lessened my health, in my opinion.
As usual the fake news led with "lifts vaccine order" when his action
was to give the troops the option rather than order vaccination.
I think this is another case of socialist democrat communist moguls who pay
reporters who are willing to destroy the United States republic by taking
advantage of the public's privation of the power of statistical lying.
I think democracy, socialism, and communism will continue to fail into the
future, because aliens do not understand the civic American. Americans think
they are made in God's image, which means each citizen has the responsibility,
authority, and power to constrain chaos in their choices in life.
Americans don't give a whit if their neighbor wants democracy to defeat the United
States republic, as long as the neighbor does not get violent over the debate.
PRB again:
Regardless of ever-conflicted social "science",
the United States republic will not yield to the social, democrat, communist
collective.
June 19
My scots-irish family taught me when I was low: Worse things
happened to better people. It has gotten me out of my emotional bed many times.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/,
July 4
Happy 4th of July, the United States republic's Independence
Day.
Homo sapiens (HS) has made astonishing progress since they emerged perhaps 300
thousand years ago (tya). The Space Force intends to place a colony on Mars.
Discovery contends with religion. And so far, good which motivates goodness has
not dominated order on earth. Why?
Sumerian-speakers, 12 tya invented writing and grammar, empowering Homo sapiens
to journal and assess rationalizations, incorporate discovery, and accelerate
research. By 4100 ya, Sumerian cities featured a Ziggurat, designed to serve
polytheism. Some people were killed -- sacrificed, for example, to accompany
royalty to the netherworld. Cities had patron gods.
Some Semitic-speaking neighbors developed monotheisms and sacrificed first-born
infants to beg favor from mysterious Gods, like Molech and Baal.
A Semitic-speaking faction, 3700 ya began to end human sacrifice in their
region by using animal and fowl killings to sacrifice to mystery with many
names: El, Ilah, and Elohim partially gave way to Elyon, Adonai, Allah, and
others.
A Semitic faction adopted “Yahweh” to negotiate mysterious obedience in return
for lordship and peace. Failing, some predicted a messiah would save Israel.
A few thought Yeshua of Galilee was a believers’ messiah – the one-time
sacrifice for everyone elected to believe Yeshua was Yahweh incarnate. An
entrepreneur, Paul, developed churches on this premise. Today, there are 45,000
Judeo-Pauline sects.
Competing cultures traditionally speak and write about "God" to
promote their doctrine. Most Jews express reverence to “Hashem” or “G-d” rather
than “God”. Humility might prefer "g-d".
Observing the journal/history of religious harm in Europe and in the East, the
1787-framers of the United States Constitution banned religious tests to
qualify for office, the most important being civic citizen.
The negotiated and ratified 1791-Constitution neither advocates nor established
a religion. Thus, the United States republic favors discovery.
Capitalism also favors discovery. Innovators privately pursue improvements
until their risks establish evidence of success enough to gain public support.
Then, people who save some of their income can buy stock so as to participate
in entrepreneurial profits. Citizens who are willing to save some of their
earnings may build wealth. Religious believers and non-believers can choose to
participate in capitalism. Children whose parents enroll them in Trump accounts
may choose to benefit from capitalism for themselves and their posterity,
including legal immigrants. Inventors may risk entrepreneurship.
President Donald Trump is impacting global developments to Homo sapiens.
The civic faction in America may and can encourage Mr. President to effect
congressional revision of the US motto so as to include non-religious citizens.
I suggest “In g-d We Trust”, in order to make a global statement that whatever
constrains the consequences of human choice is a mystery that may not reward
worship and praise. This revision would empower believers and non-believers to
embrace the happiness of being a subject of the United States republic, if not
a citizen.
The Middle-East impact might be Persians, Muslims, Greeks, Israelis,
Christians, and others in Iran collaborating to promote peace rather than
compete to impose worship and praise on whatever empowers actual-reality.
On other point: The motto, "Out of Many, One", remains on the seal
and on money, in Latin. I like the thought: out of many Gods one g-d and see no
reason to change E pluribus unum.
July 3
I think our generation is living at the brink of discovery
that God is each believer’s unique hope and comfort as he or she faces mystery.
Speakers who assign "God" to actual-reality and insist-on it resist
humankind’s opportunity to believe while reserving humility.
Institutions, like nations and
religions, who capitalize mystery do so arrogantly. And individuals who do so,
perhaps honestly resist humility's appeal. To assess mystery as omniscient
& omnipotent seems arrogant. Violence, physical or psychological, which is
not in defense is egregious.
Maybe g-d expresses
actual-reality. For now, I like "In g-d We Trust" as a motto which
allows both believers and non-believers to publically collaborate.
Whatever constrains human choices
does not correct error. Thus, if a human successively wrongs another, considers
the incident, accepts guilt, apologizes, then makes restitution to the victim,
the reality of the offensive action nevertheless persists beyond eternity.
Forgiveness does not negate the incident. It matters not if there is life in
the afterdeath; the offense during their lives cannot be erased.
Each human has the responsibility,
authority, and power to constrain bad choices in his or her actions in life.
However, each person faces opportunity-ending death. Borrowing from our younger
daughter, the sooner a person chooses "good which motivates
goodness", the better.
June 30
Blood sacrifice in the Middle East began with killing
humans, softened to killing animals and male circumcision, then returned to
“the blood of the lamb”.
4600 years ago, Sumerian-speakers
killed citizens and buried their bodies to serve some Sumerian king’s afterdeath.
4000
years ago, Semitic-speakers, Babylonians, had taken Sumer and
substituted animal sacrifice in rituals previously using humans.
3800 years ago, male circumcision
sealed covenants
3500 years ago, human sacrifice was
frowned upon.
3000 years ago, Semitic-speaking Abraham
imagined sacrificing his son
2500 years ago, human sacrifice was
rare in Mesopotamia
1970 years ago, Yeshua of Galilee was
executed
1950 years ago, Paul persuaded Messianic
Jews to exempt pagans from male circumcision
1930 years ago, the second temple
in Jerusalem was destroyed, ending blood sacrifice by Israel, at least until a
third temple is built
Yeshua is rejected by Christians as merely Pauline Christ
and by Jews as a non-entity.
June 19
A dear Facebook friend posted a cartoon pun: Long ago, I
stopped dusting, fearing “dust to dust” could be someone I know.
Setting seriousness aside, dust in an air-conditioned home is often
fabric-fiber, pest-residue, and skin-cells shed from inhabitants and visitors.
Restoring seriousness, I may be the most sincere Bible reader I know. The
Hebrew Bible, after the first chapter, Genesis 1, speculates a power higher
than physics, I’ll borrow from Jewish friends to call it “g-d”, in order to
express my doubt that Homo sapiens can persuade
whatever-might-actually-constrain the laws of physics. Modern researchers
explore many hypotheses that physics controls even human psychology.
Some Orthodox Jews express a power that might constrain physics as “G-d”,
partially to suggest obedience to mysterious omniscience and omnipotence. But
g-d is a mystery -- the one to whom civic citizens of the United States
republic pray.
After Yeshua was executed in 33 CE, a faction of Jews speculated that the
person, Yeshua, was G-d, perhaps g-d. [See at least 5 opinions about
Yeshua-divinity in Acts 15 and Galatians 2, CJB. [”Yeshua” is “Iesus” in Latin
translations of Greek then “Jesus” transliterated in Italy in 1524 -- and is
not a feature of Orthodox Jewish literature. The notion that Yeshua and
Jesus/Christ are synonyms is erroneous.]
Opinions by Paul, Peter, John, and James (Yeshua’s brother) were debated and
broadened by first century speculators. Subsequent generations have
proliferated arguments unto perhaps 45,000 Judeo-Christian sects in 2026.
About 31% of earth’s 8 billion inhabitants claim they are Christian. [As an
example, the many Methodist sects comprise about 1% of the world’s population.]
Like-minded people set aside controversy/conflict in their own scripture by
creating humor which members of the sect can employ to dismiss the message and
humility. Thereby, like-minded groups separate and prevent peace among Homo
sapiens.
Returning to the Hebrew Bible, the suggestion that man was created from dust
comes in Genesis 2:7, NKJV, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living being". Thus woman came from man to be his helper.
However, Homo sapiens had been created -- female and male -- in Genesis 1:27,
“God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and
female He created them”. I doubt the g-d is internally competitive.
Chapter 2 transitions from primitive Mesopotamian polytheism to Semitic
speculation about monotheism. In 2026, we can tell if a being is g-d by whether
or not the entity sheds dead-skin-cells as dust.
Some of us embrace the laws of physics and thereby consider the woman as the
source of eggs which an authentic man (her spouse) may fertilize to aid her in
possible formation of descendants. See Matthew 19:5 with a psychological
perspective. A man unites to his wife and they express the Genesis 1 image of
g-d.
Much as a person may choose their favorite music or professional sports or
none, humans may pursue theism or not; be churched or unchurched. But life goes
better if a family, community, state, nation, and humankind accepts g-d without
imposition yet pursues and employs the laws of physics.
Freedom of speech is needed, but violence, whether physical or psychological,
invites loss. Tyranny over the minds of Homo sapiens is violence.
It seems erroneous to let humor such as puns suppress humility; mystery that
begins with dust may return to dust.
To Cleve:
Ashes to ashes, unlike dust to dust, has no direct Biblical
messages. However, the totality of the Hebrew Bible suggests that the reward
for evil is total destruction rather than eternal torment.
Consider a convicted and sentenced who waived his right to appeal, even after
the community showed willingness to let him live: https://www.wafb.com/story/11333785/convicted-killer-ends-his-appeal/.
It seems G-d influences humans to end misery at death.
Genesis 1 reviews Mesopotamian polytheistic political
philosophy about responsibility, authority, and power (RAP), in order segue to
the Semitic-people’s competition for monotheism, recorded in the Torah.
The Hebrew “Ruach
Elohim” in Genesis 1:2 refers to breath, wind, spirit, life of Elohim. Elohim
is one of the many Hebrew names for G-d.
Torah-comments
in the Tanakh introduce Ruach Hakodesh, English “Holy/Divine Spirit”, in Psalm
51:11 and Isaiah 63:10-11.
To Henry Sieg:
I agree with you, Henry, on both points. I write to learn
from you.
The meaning of Messiah deserves some consideration. In the Hebrew Bible, it
means one anointed to be both king and priest to Israel, after the example of
Melchizedek, who was a Semitic-speaking Canaanite before Jacob was born and
thus neither Jew nor Israelite (Jacobite).
The Semitic-Speaking people, led by Terah to depart Ur in Mesopotamia, were
opposed to the human sacrifices tolerated under the rule of Sargon. They
struggled to stop human sacrifice but continued animal and fowl sacrifice for
blood and meat to bargain with their g-ds.
A couple hundred years later, Moses tried to convince Abraham's descendants
that the g-d wants obedience rather than ceremonial blood. Abraham's grandson,
Jacob (Isarael) through one of 4 spouses, Leah, begot Judah, whose descendants
led to Yeshua, the son of Miryam and Yosef in Nazareth of 2000 years ago.
Paul, in Acts 15, speaking for pagans who oppose male circumcision, convinced a
small group of Jews, perhaps 5, who think Yeshua was Israel's Messiah to
compromise Mosaic law regarding 3 sources of food plus wanton sex. Paul left
the Acts 15 discussion to continue to form his church on Christ rather than
Yeshua. I choose to cite Yeshua rather than either Christ or church
Paul's arguments are debated in the Greek writings canonized as "the New
Testament", a Judeo-Christian slight to the Hebrew Bible. To retaliate,
Orthodox Jews claim Yeshua is not a feature of Jewish literature.
"Jesus" is a 400 year old English transliteration of the Koine Greek
word for Yeshua, the champion of goodness-which motivates-good-behavior.
The idea of goodness-which motivates-good-behavior is abstractly presented in
the Semitic-speaking scribe's writing in Genesis 1:26-28: female and male human
being, in the g-d's image, have the responsibility, authority, and power, RAP,
to pursue peace on earth. This political philosophy was presented by a Sumer
king 4100 years ago, missed by the Semitic-speaking tribe who left, neglected
by Israel 3700 years ago, and opposed by that infamous entrepreneur Paul, 1900
years ago.
This unfortunate hiding of Yeshua's influence, that is, behavior which lessens
badness on earth, can be undone by the people of 2026 fearlessly discussing
what is known rather than the mysteries churches construct.
https://www.facebook.com/melanieyanyan.zamora,
June 19
Setting seriousness aside, dust in an air-conditioned home is
often fabric-fiber, invading-pest-residue, and shed-skin-cells from the
inhabitants.
Restoring seriousness, I may be the most sincere Bible
reader I know. The Hebrew Bible, after the first chapter, Genesis 1, speculates
a power higher than physics, I’ll call it “g-d” to express doubt that Homo
sapiens can influence whatever-might-actually-constrain the laws of physics.
Modern researchers explore many hypotheses that physics controls psychology.
Some Orthodox Jews express a power that might constrain physics as “G-d”,
partially to express obedience to mysterious omniscience and omnipotence. Thus,
G-d is a mystery.
After Yeshua was executed in 33 CE, a tiny fraction of Jews speculated that he was
G-d. [See at least 5 opinions about Yeshua-divinity in Acts 15 and Galatians 2,
CJB. [”Yeshua” is “Iesus” in Latin translations of Greek then “Jesus”
transliterated in Italy in 1524 -- and is not a feature of Jewish literature.
The notion that Yeshua and Jesus are synonyms is erroneous.]
Suggestions by Paul, Peter, John, and James (Yeshua’s
brother) were debated by first century speculators and subsequent generations
have proliferated arguments unto perhaps 45,000 Christian sects in 2026. About
31% of earth’s 8 billion inhabitants claim they are Christian. [As an example,
the many Methodist sects comprise about 1% of the world’s population.]
Like-minded people set aside difficult issues in their own scripture by
creating humor which members of the sect can employ to dismiss the issue.
Returning to the Hebrew Bible, the suggestion that man was created from dust
comes in Genesis 2:7, NKJV, "And the Lord God formed
man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being".
However, Homo sapiens had been created -- female and male -- in Genesis 1.
Chapter 2 transitions from primitive Mesopotamian polytheism to Semitic
speculation about g-d. Today, we can tell if a being is g-d by whether or not
the entity sheds dead-skin-cells as dust.
Some of us embrace the laws of physics and thereby consider the woman as the
source of eggs which an authentic man (her spouse) may fertilize to aid her in
possible formation of descendants. See Matthew 19:5 with a psychological
perspective.
Much as a person may choose their favorite music or professional sports or none,
humans may pursue theism or not. But life goes better if a family, community,
state, nation, and humankind pursues and employs the laws of physics. Freedom of
speech is needed, but violence, whether physical or psychological, begs loss.
Tyranny over the minds of Homo sapiens is violence.
It is erroneous to let humor suppress humility; mystery that begins with dust may
return to dust.
https://www.facebook.com/PattiGarner,
June 21
Sadly, Patti advances hate on Father’s Day.
In Luke 14:26, the writer claims that Yeshua, the Judean teacher 2000 years ago,
said, “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and
mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes,
and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.” I accuse Luke or whoever
claimed the writing of misrepresenting Yeshua. Similarly, I hold the writer to
blame for John 15:18-19. I do not think Yeshua ever spoke of hate, let alone
represent its use.
Likewise, I decry women who encourage hate. Among civic people, there is no
reason to invent hate.
It’s much like theism. If there were no theists, the word “atheism” would have
no meaning.
June 18
Republicans like me have been aware during life that we live
in the United States republic, uniquely specified so as to prevent democracy.
We perceive the intentions stated in the preamble to the Constitution: :
integrity, justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility "to
ourselves and our Posterity". We celebrate that "Posterity"
includes legal immigrants and our descendants.
We are the civic faction, "We the People of the United States," as
defined by the preamble. We collaborate to assure opportunity for subjects of
the law who are passive, dissident, rebel, religious, criminal, or wicked to
aid statutory justice in annihilating evil.
If that's "redneck", I like that level of education.
https://www.facebook.com/emily.toth.10,
June 18
I pursue humility rather than proud tolerance.
June 16
Does Kurt Vonnegut view President Trump with kindness? I
think so; but I think Vonnegut's sentiment is more appreciation and awe.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/,
June 16
The more I ponder current events in my small world the more
alone together I feel. I read, write, speak, and LISTEN to learn more.
Kipling on women and the laws of physics
It’s almost
Independence Day, perhaps my favorite time of year. Updating my book, at https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/4578211154898336570
, I want to share appreciation for Rudyard Kipling, who, in “The Man Who Would
Be King”, presents the women of the village proving, by drawing blood, to the
emotional men that their constructed king was not a god: The laws of physics constrain the mysteries
men construct to believe. Moreover, the women make sense when the men let
emotions control.
I challenged AI
with the statement, “In ‘The Man Who Would Be King’, Kipling illustrates that
women constrain men's false notions.” Drawing from extant critiques, AI negates
my view (but does not dissuade my opinion).
The renewal
brings me to Kipling’s poem, “If”. Again, I challenged AI, “Kipling's poem
"if" illustrates that Kipling understood women are naturally
sensible.” AI exposed my ignorance of Kipling’s poem, “The Female of the
Species”. Also, I now know his prose quote, “A woman’s guess is much more
accurate than a man’s certainty”. AI articulate secrets Cynthia taught me and
our daughters continue to share.
Using AI to satisfy curiosity
without losing responsibility to think is wonderful!
The Iroquois-speaking 5 nations
Kipling’s work,
cited above, reminds me of the Iroquois Constitution, which I downloaded a
couple decades ago and now read. Amid warring tribes of the American northeast,
during 4000 years, 5 tribes spoke dialects that empowered them to unite in a
participatory democracy. The women of each tribe counseled to choose 2 worthy
men: a Lord and a War Chief. They served in a council of the confederacy and administered
consequential actions. If any Lord or Chief arrogated the Great Peace, they
were dismissed (perhaps from the territory) and replaced by the women.
These 5
Iroquois-speaking tribes were among 574 now recognized by the U.S. Bureau of
Indian Affairs. The Iroquois Constitution shares the secret Cynthia taught me:
a man unites to his wife, and they collaborate, in order to flourish. Consider Michael
Bublé’s cover of Leon Russell’s “A Song for You”.
Iroquois-reading
renewed my enthusiasm for Independence Day and the consequential 234 years
operation of the United States republic. Kenilworth Subdivision hosts a parade
each July 4th. I saw some young and old couples here, and shared my
anticipation. They did not seem to understand or care about my speech; but the
ideas will linger ‘till the 4th. I felt I had served my purpose: increase local
interest.
Celebrating our daughters’ entertainment choices
There’s no way I
would have chosen to watch any of President Trump’s 80th birthday
celebration, featuring a UFC spectacular. Hurrah! We caught the last two
matches and were impressed with the examples of resiliency. As far as I know,
resiliency can only be practiced during life: it’s not an option for afterdeath,
or soul.
I tested AI: “Justin Gaethje appreciates the women in his
family.” He credits the mothers in his family for his success and has not yet
chosen a woman to join. He recently said, "my dad is my father”.
A French wrestler Ciryl Gane, won
the heavyweight division at UFC Freedom 250, June 14, 2026. It was a global
championship, featuring 6 of 14 wrestlers with 4 foreign nationalities.
I am grateful that Rebekah chose to
watch the end of the historical event, with closing interviews.
Every Homo sapiens infant should
learn from parents and society that they are destined for great accomplishments
yet face death (see Kipling, the Hebrew Bible, and the reported teaching of
Yeshua of Judea, 30 CE).
Disappointing writers
Some people seem
to know everything that happened in the past, and I look to them for guidance. A
great one, Jeffrey Tucker, wrote that we must divorce ourselves from electronic
information sources and AI. That’s like saying since space travel is viable we
need to go back to wooden wheels for ox-pulled platforms. What each of us must
do is learn to use AI to lessen badness on earth. Curiosity-to goodness is
served by AI if the user is resilient to their intentions. Goodness is the
beneficial choice. Perhaps Tucker is distracted by the mystery in his article,
“outsource our souls” as though church is not outsourcing.
Churches disappoint
Recently, UU
pastors wrote opinion that supports wickedness if not evil. One led their
church to stop reading the Declaration of Independence and the other influenced
their church to teach sexuality to youth.
Primitive peoples perceived that
life originates from the woman and that the man must assister her in
conceiving, gestating, delivering, rearing, and teaching their youth, so that
in adulthood descendants can handle the changes that happened on earth. By
mimicking monogamy practiced by beavers and golden eagles, Homo sapiens can
flourish in each generation. Neither beavers nor eagles nourish fantasies --
dedicate their lives to mystery. Sex is not intended for self-gratification.
UU was one of the
options on my long road to accepting that my unchurched status existed before
Dad fertilized one of Mom’s viable eggs. I’m glad I lived long enough to drop
out of church competition and feel I have always been guided by the goodness
Yeshua the Judean seems to express. Yeshua affirmed the laws of physics, but
writers opine otherwise.
Another church discounts Cynthia and our children. Still another discounts me.
Life cannot be outsourced. I'm happily unchurched and pursue behavior which
lessens badness.
https://www.facebook.com/nathan.ryan1,
June 14
As eternal friend of Hugh Finklea (d. 2023), I witnessed
that most UU members can't perceive that civic citizens of the United States
republic are intolerant of proud tolerance. When someone holds their opinion
above physics' integrity, the typical American thinks "Oh pity" and
changes the topic to the weather or LSU sports.
Happily, the Trump administration speaks, "Oh
pity", giving the tolerant proud opportunity to consider integrity to the
laws of physics.
Hugh, like all the others, waited to be born, with neither
theism nor intention to the physics that produced his embryo. Only when his
person encountered community did he come to grips with theism's constructs.
Unable to rebuke the laws of physics, Hugh chose to claim he was an atheist. I
tried to persuade him not to accept that construct, asserting that it existed
only to satisfy theists.
I hope he is reading as I write and knows that I discovered
the thought: behavior-which-lessens-badness. I think Hugh, more than anyone
else I met so behaved.
Perhaps Ruth expressed intolerance for tolerance, but I have
not asked her.
https://www.facebook.com/carolyn.m.beaver,
July 5
I appreciate this reduction of my ignorance, Carolyn . . .
makes me wish I had seen every movie that contains a noble thought for Homo
sapiens -- the species in charge.
I don't agree with everything I do or say
and regard President Trump the same way. But I will forever admire how he
weathered the law of physics affecting Washington, D.C. on Independence Day,
2026.
They say behind every great woman there's an
authentic man. Egocentric as I may be, my imaginings respecting behind the seen
events last night reminded me of Cynthia's reaction when I feared signing a
contract to build our home -- after nearly 10 years' delay due to our planning
then Jimmy Carter's prime interest rate.
Addressing my fear, Cynthia calmly said,
"That's not the man I married". We enjoyed her preferences plus our
children's choices for their rooms for 40 years.
June 14
This experience becomes even more beautiful when communicating
a suggestion to one of your teachers, living or dead.
For example, discovery of Yeshua, the Judean teacher 2000 years ago, who was
obscured by that church entrepreneur, Saul of Tarsus, eventually empowered me
to message Ralph Waldo Emerson about "Divinity School Address": If
you, Sir, had discovered Yeshua and related his communications with persons and
crowds as promoting behavior which lessens badness, your writing would have
more impact.
And just yesterday, 2-decades' friend and mentor, Christine, at
facebook.com/christine.arnold1 prompted my thought: "I accepted
humility-to whatever constrains the consequences of human choice". That
thought has been in me for months now, but it took Christine's post to pull it
out of me. I thanked her.
And Plato's Agathon spoke not of love/appreciation but of
behavior-which-lessens-badness.
Socrates, you could have promoted behavior-which-lessens-badness, setting aside
the Euthyphro dilemma and perhaps your proud demise.
And behold your influence, Carolyn.
Whitehouse
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/, July 5
Dear Mr. President:
Please
share with Mrs. Trump our gratitude for her enduring presence for last evening’s
challenging reactions to the weather.
The happening reminded me of a time when my wife’s strength was critical to me.
Hearing my fear to sign a home-construction contract she and I had designed and
negotiated, she quietly said, “That’s not the man I married.” I signed and we
enjoyed our home for 40 years -- until she died at 84 years old.
The poets say, “Behind every great woman, there’s an authentic man”. Thank you
both for your example.
Sincerely,
Phil
Beaver
Dear
Mr. President:
Thank
you for your great speeches on July 3 and July 4.
Thank
you for openly expressing personal religion. George Washington seemed Deist and
Judeo-Christian; Thomas Jefferson practical Judeo-Christian or Unitarian;
Theodore Roosevelt moralist Judeo-Christian; Abraham Lincoln from iconoclast
before the Civil War to petitioner to an unknowable, active God, after
illness-deaths of two sons. You, Sir, seemed a moral iconoclast until you
survived impeachments and severe assassination attempts to express gratitude to
Jesus Christ.
You
profess a faith I cannot join. At age 83, I daily contemplate death, which I
hope to resist for another few decades of happiness leading to joy.
I
say this, not to lessen your faith, but to reiterate a motto for the United
States republic: “In g-d We Trust”.
Writing
“g-d” accepts the unknowable, in order to commit to collaboration for peace on
earth -- regardless of religious hope and comfort -- to believers and
unbelievers alike. Moreover, "g-d" assuage the perhaps 10,000 names
on earth people perceive when they hear or read “God”. And "g-d" empowers
integrity about actual-reality -- whatever constrains the consequences of human
choice.
In
actual-reality, neither government nor religion can offer and no one has the
right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Every individual, group,
city, state, nation, and humankind yields-to the laws of physics and its
progeny: mathematics, economics, biology, psychology, and all else. Religion
purports to defeat physics, for example, save believers from death.
The
laws of physics involve statistical variations. For example, chromosome pairing
results in 3 sexes: male, female, and intersex. Some intersex people may
procreate, usually with technological assistance; some cannot. About 5 people
among 10 thousand are born intersex. Persons who allow intersex reality (the
third possibility) to influence them to attempt gender-change enter enslavement
to the gender-change industrial complex. Spokesperson Caitlyn Jenner could
become a candidate for a uterus transplant.
The
person who chooses to believe an institution can save them from death likewise
enslaves themselves and believing descendants. The Hebrew Bible teaches that
Semitic-speaking Adam was created with eternal life. However, he disobeyed
Elohim, invoking death. Subsequent generations adopted Yahweh and were still
disobedient. A faction predicted a messiah would influence them to obey. A
small group believed Yeshua the Galilean of 2000 years ago was Israel’s
messiah. But Paul convinced 5 Jews to relax Mosaic law, in order to allow
pagans to join the religion. Entrepreneur Paul created his own religion:
Judeo-Christianity.
Communism
rejects enslavement to Judeo-Christianity. Education is the way to defeat
communism as well as Pauline folly. Both believers and non-believers of all
religions and governments may and can collaborate to share economic
flourishing. Your faith-based office could share these ideas more effectually.
The transition to collaboration for global peace can happen during your life
and mine.
I
object to “God Bless America” and embrace “g-d Bless America”. In g-d We Trust.
Regardless, I pledge allegiance to the republic and to its flag, under
statutory justice.
Sir,
thank you for being Donald J. Trump.
Sincerely,
Phil
Beaver
June
29
Dear Mr. President:
I write a book, perhaps, “Behavior Which Lessens Evil on Earth”, or daughter,
Rebekah’s title, “Good Which Motivates Goodness”. Family and friends,
citizens/subjects whom I know, and you, Sir, motivate me to share my hopes,
comforts-in, and humility-to g-d: whatever constrains the consequences of
choice Homo sapiens takes.
In appreciation, in g-d we trust -- no supplication/entreaty. We appreciate the
United States republic’s intentions to discover and positively employ g-d. We
thank first responders, who preserve our opportunity to discover g-d. We
persevere yet reserve humility to g-d.
History shows coalition in “God” is mysterious. Yet
there’s no burden if a civic citizen chooses faith in his or her God, by
whatever name they use. “Civic” expresses behavior which appreciates and
preserves other persons’ opportunities to practice goodness which motivates
good behavior on earth.
Sumerian-speaking Homo sapiens in Mesopotamia 5500
years ago discovered responsibility, authority, and power (RAP) to pursue peace
on earth. A Semitic-speaking tribe left there, 4000 years ago to resist nearby
human killings for blood-sacrifices to bargain with gods. A Semite faction used
blood variations like animals, fowl, and male circumcision, in order to bargain
with Yahweh, rather than accept RAP.
Hebrew literature predicts a messiah will redeem them
from continual disobedience to Yahweh’s overtures. A minority among the
messiah-faction thought Yeshua of Galilee was Israel’s messiah. Paul, a
champion of church argued 1900 years ago that Yeshua was the one-time sacrifice
for all Homo sapiens of faith in the Shepard’s-blood story. Paul created
Judeo-Christianity, suppressing Yeshua-influence.
Faith in blood sacrifice divides about 2/3 of Homo
sapiens, leaving 1/3 with faiths including faith in actual reality, or in g-d.
Viable religious liberty cannot exclude civic-citizens who chose faith in g-d.
Together, civic citizens pursue statutory justice
which constrains uncivil subjects, who resist evil. Civic citizens aid civil
adjudication, in order to eliminate discovered evil. I think favoring faith in
Judeo-Christianity is error that motivates Church-liberation-theologies like
DEI, Marxism, wokeism, and Alinsky-Obama-organizers.
I think Homo sapiens is the only species which can
pursue public-viability rather than government-affordability. Entrepreneurial
intentions to colonize Mars make folly of 1900 years impositions on Yeshua, the
Judean person who influenced Galilean-contemporaries to perfect personal
goodness before ineluctable death.
Your recent military-chaplain-reform seems a first
step toward appreciating Homo sapiens who choose faith in reality rather than
long-constructed and maintained mysteries, impactful as they may be. Including
people of faith in the laws of physics and its progeny negates the pejorative
terms “atheist” and “agnostic”. Theists have no envied-standing in the United
States republic, under your reforms. Changing from God to g-d would advance the
United States republic’s pursuit of peaceful statutory justice.
Your global influence to reciprocity may be
strengthened by impressing the Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East
(Arabs, Israelis, and others) that efforts like the Abraham Accords can extend
back from 3700 years ago to 5500 years ago, in order to include
Sumerian-speakers’ ancestors and all the others, like Farsi-speaking peoples
and Greeks. When diverse people compromise to “God”, brains and hearts are not
humbled to g-d, an entity that doesn’t seem to want surrender, submission, or
subjugation rather than RAP to pursue peace.
This week, we are celebrating “the shot heard around
the world” 250 years ago. You may and can effect religious responsibility and
reciprocity that in a matter of 3 generations can accelerate the Homo sapiens journey to peace.
Sir, I could not have written this without your
leadership in my life.
Thank you,
Phil Beaver
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.
