The comment box below invites readers to comment.
Phil Beaver
seeks to collaborate on theineluctabletruth, which can only be discovered. Ineluctable
means: Not to be assailed, avoided, changed,
escaped, mystified, neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, or resisted. Some
people erroneously imagine limiting theineluctabletruth, for example, trying to
change it.
"Civic"
refers to citizens who collaborate for individual
happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.
Civic citizens neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from anyone. Civic
citizens are reliably responsible in connections and transactions.
Consider
writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens
mutual appreciation: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and
paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows: The civic faction, We the People of
the United States, proffer & practice 6 public pursuits —- integrity,
justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility, “in order to” pursue
happiness “to ourselves and our Posterity”. I
want to improve my interpretation by listening-to and considering other
citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787 text,
unless it is amended by the civic-people.
It seems the
Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one with status has challenged
whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this
independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states
deliberately managed by appreciative fellow citizens convinces me the preamble
is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the faction who
collaborate for statutory justice, We the People of the United States.
Every citizen
has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in
the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try
somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the
goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies
grandchildren to both born Americans and legal immigrants. Congressional
freedom of religion, which fellow citizens have no means to constrain,
oppresses freedom to develop integrity. This can be remedied by changing the
First Amendment from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.
Selected theme from this month
During the past two millennia, the Church has promoted
Christ as Israel’s expected Messiah but with the competitive caveat that the
intention is not “the Lord God’s” unity and peace in this world for the tribes
of Israel, but for Trinitarian salvation of souls through personal election by
God’s grace. Neither of these competitive arguments reserves sufficient
humility to theGod, a word combination that expresses singularity. TheGod might
be physics and its progeny, such as forces, chemistries, mathematics, biology, psychology,
and fiction. It might be the ultimate good humankind pursues. Jesus might be
theGod; I doubt it.
I think Jesus was one of history’s greatest political philosophers to the good.
The citizen who observes chaos and does not attempt to offer
civic integrity invites ruin. Fortunately, during my late 70s, I discovered my
expression of Genesis 1:26-28 in both New International Version and Complete
Jewish Bible. The message is: female and male human being is responsible to
rule to the good on earth. Neither theGod nor government will usurp humankind’s
responsibility and power. I think that message evolved from polytheistic Sumer
civilization, 5500 years ago.
The civic Jesus (not Christ) affirmed Genesis 1:26-28 in at
least Matthew 19:3-8 (husband unites to wife), John 10:34 (gods facing death),
and Matthew 5:48 (be Genesis 1:26-28 perfect). Jesus’ process for free speech (represented
as civic forgiveness) is in Matthew 18:15-17. I’ve scratched the tip of an
iceberg of Jesus’ civic influence. “Civic” meand reliable responsibility to the
good in human connections and transactions.
This political philosophy alerts believers to their
self-interest in civic integrity to the good, over and above their comfort and
hopes in the belief that they are saved by God’s election to believe Christ (how
does Jesus perceive the name substitution?) died for their soul, or that the
Messiah will unite their people, or any other spiritual beliefs.
In my ninth decade, know I am not antinomian and hope for a conversation with
Jesus. Perhaps I am in a conversation and civic practice.
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News
Although it seems unjust, your acceptance of their
imposition may and can be turned into a positive.
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Columns and Opinion
The
Sordid History of the Minimum Wage | The Epoch Times
Mr. Tucker,
thank you for at least 2 articles on economic eugenics.
Since Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”, the US government subsidizes people who
don’t work and some who do, at up to 8 or 9 times minimum wage. Consequently,
the eugenics game is pushed to the few who don’t-know-to-apply-for-welfare.
Hard working people are in the economic squeeze between the elites and the
welfare gamers.
Mr. Tucker, please write an article about my concern.
The
Orwellian Assault on the Past Continues | The Epoch Times
A
proverb instructs: truth stands the test of time. The past earned the “attack
on the past for failing” to accept the truth: each human being may and can
constrain chaos in their ways of living and thereby aid rule to the good on
earth.
This
real actuality was observed in Sumer, 5500 years ago, and reported in Hebrew
vernacular 3700 years ago in Genesis 1:26-28: on earth, humankind may and can
choose the good.
One
of humankind’s greatest political philosophers, Jesus, informed: with
intention, a human can develop perfection like Genesis-1’s theGod (word
combination suggests singularity).
George
Washington seems to have pursued perfection, humble as he was.
After
winning independence from England with aid from France and Spain, elites
drafted Washington to preside over the framing of a new nation. He was among
the 39 of 55 delegates who signed the 1787 U.S. Constitution. It proffered
pursuit of statutory justice by the civic faction, We the People of the United
States, standards to be discovered by “ourselves and our Posterity”.
Statues
should be maintained with plaques that memorialize mistakes so that humankind
won’t repeat them. For example, R.E. Lee could have, should have sold all his
property and moved to a non-slave state. Lee Circle could be resurrected with a
plaque.
Abraham
Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, taunted the 7 seceding of 34 states: “justice will surely prevail by the
judgment of this great tribunal of the American people”.
Wrestling
With the Founding in the Culture Wars – Thomas W. Merrill (lawliberty.org),
Thomas W. Merrill
Jefferson was in Paris and consequently missed the 1787
Constitutional Convention. His friend James Madison was on the Committee of
Style, led by Governeur Morris. The five men issued the preamble’s intentions
on September 8, 1787.
The six public
goals had no standards, and the agents would be that faction of We the People
of the Unites States who, in successive generations, accept the task:
integrity, justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility, “in order
to” pursue happiness “to ourselves and our Posterity”. “Ourselves and our
Posterity” would develop statutory justice. Perhaps some of the 5 committee
members understood this. The framers accepted the intentions statement.
I don’t think James Madison accepted
it, because as Congressman, he aided the establishment of deity-construct on
par with Parliament, by authoring the First Amendment’s clauses that grant
freedom of religion to Congress at the people’s expense. Congress’s God was on
par with Parliament’s God. This tyranny can be remedied by replacing “prohibiting”
with “promoting”.
The preamble to
the U.S. Constitution accommodates Genesis 1:26-28: humankind may and can
choose to rule to the good on earth. Intentionally or not, Jefferson and
Madison left it to us to privatize religion so that the civic faction of We the
People of the United States may pursue the intentions stated in the preamble.
We may and can choose to do so.
#USpreambler
Philip
Carl Salzman: Who Is to Blame for the Anti-Semitism of Young Americans? | The
Epoch Times Phillip Carl Salzman
Who is to blame for Semitism? Is Semitism favor to Jews? Why
Jews, a minority of Semites? I think Jews may accept human power.
Genesis 1:26-28 accepts female and male human power to constrain chaos on earth.
The words express no favoritism. I think Christianity influences favoritism. The
Church argues that the Messiah, anointed to unite Israel, is Christ to the
elect, thereby suppressing Jesus’
civic influence to the good. “Civic” means reliable responsibility in human
connections and transactions. Jesus dialogued with everyone, encouraging them
to the good.
Jesus, a Jew and a rabbi, was one of humankind’s great political philosophers,
and people in every generation advance Jesus’ good. Perhaps 80% of earth’s individuals
are positively influenced by Jesus, yet a third of the population bemuse the
world with the Messiah/Christ debate -- excluding non-Judeo-Christians.
It is well established that universities are dominated by
Marxists. The task is to replace Marxism with civic integrity. Reform “these
people” to the good then replace the habitual dissidents and rebels. Statutory
justice, a republic developing just laws, must dominate social justice in order
to establish individual merit to the good as qualification to teach (and to
vote in elections, for that matter).
Under the rule of statutory justice, there is no place for favoritism, and
dissident groups identify themselves by requesting favor.
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What’s
Really at Stake With ‘Harvard’ | The Epoch Times Roger Kimball
Kimball’s
attention to Reb. Stefanik’s question captures the point: No one should equivocate opposing
annihilation of people because of their genes and memes.
Buried
is thought that no one should be forced to favor Semitism.
The
consequences of educating “our young in order to pass along the values of our
civilization” is the chaos we are experiencing and observing. We wandered into
Judeo-Christianity (more than 45,000 sects) when we should have been developing
human being (verb) in order to rule to the good on earth (Genesis 1:26-28). Genesis
1 expresses Sumerian political philosophy: the creator willed that female and
male human-being rather than the gods pursue order on earth.
Civic
citizens accepting their obligations to constrain chaos in their personal way
of living is a matter of reform, not revolution. The stretch from Sumer’s
polytheism to the competitive monotheism expressed in the Holy Bible is
“corrupt and mendacious”. The idea that Christ shifted favor from Israel to
antinomians leaves the rest of humankind out of the debate. Jesus volunteered
civic advice.
Domestic
reform is a matter for each nation. Global reform could start with the authors
withdrawing the curse against descendants of Hagar in Genesis 16:7-12.
Christianity and Islam can collaborate to achieve this reform.
Academia and those they influence can live with the shame of not suggesting
such reforms.
‘Nature
Rights’ Paganism Advancing in the West | The Epoch Times Wesley J.
Smith
I
appreciate Tucker’s attention to this regression in human being (verb).
Ecuador’s constitution was amended to “nature rights” in 2008. See the
Wikipedia article. Not too long ago, things were so bad human beings were
sacrificed to Pachamama. See The Incas and
Pachamama (tourinperu.com). Also, reports about child sacrifice “known as Capacocha”.
Apocalypse
in the Air | The Epoch Times Jeffrey A. Tucker
As
always, I appreciate Tucker’s opinions.
However,
freedom is a human construct that bemuses otherwise civic people from
responsibility to life.
At
least the polytheistic Sumer civilization, 5500 years ago, recognized that
their gods could not constrain chaos in the way human beings live. Therefore,
the inventors of grammar invented law codes, in order for civic citizens to
constrain dissidents and rebels.
The
codes were impractical, taking hand for hand, and thus disabling the offender.
More practical laws have been developed, but none can overcome the limitations
of human being (verb). For example, one person is not free to enslave another.
Beach dwellers cannot tell a wave to stop, in order to limit damage to their
property. And prayer for favor to a person’s soul in their afterdeath cannot
create either a spirit or its afterlife.
And
Jesus died, but his civic influence lives every time someone benefits from it.
For example, applying Matthew 5:48 to Genesis 1:26-28, which Jesus did in
Matthew 19:3-8, I intend to practice perfect behavior to mirror Jesus during
the rest of my life. I am grateful for Jesus’ civic influence.
Lastly,
there is no joy in truth, which skillful politicians can change by changing the
subject. But people may learn and apply “ineluctable”, which means, not
to be assailed, avoided, changed, escaped, mystified, neglected, obfuscated,
rationalized, or resisted.
Every
human-being has the responsibility to
choose dignity and purpose, and no one can make that choice for them. And
theGod (a word contraction to express humble singularity) to whom we owe
humility is a mystery. Our society is not free and open, because each adult
must responsibly earn the living they want. Economic viability is a progeny of
physics, not a grant by theGod. The first civic duty is to not be dependent on
family, friends, and neighbors. And the internet empowers the weakest human to
ask questions like: What is the
consequence of habitual laziness? Or . .
. dependency? Good as Falun Gong may be,
truthfulness is no surrogate for integrity, compassion does not offset
irresponsibility, and tolerance is pretense of holding higher opinion. The 75th
Anniversary of Mrs. Roosevelt's debacle is an occasion to reform to reliable
responsibilities in self-interest rather than rights. These principles won't
seem foreign once one culture adopts them.
#USpreambler
Carry
on Caroling! Why Bizarre Warnings About Christmas Customs Should Be Ignored |
The Epoch Times
Music’s songs are central to civic life. (“Civic” means
reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions.) Music’s physics
and beauty renew human appreciation, resilience, and humility. Citizens who
work for their way of living have no time to judge, impose, persuade, or promote
factional tradition. Individuals aid civic integrity where there’s opportunity.
Children suffer adult pursuit of war for wealth, imposed by
the partnership of church and state. Neither Genesis 1:26-28 nor the 1787 U.S.
Constitution advocate this way of living.
English loyalists could lead reform to children by eliminating
the 26 bishops’ seats in the House of Lords. The faction We the People of the
United States could lead by amending the First Amendment from “prohibiting” to
“promoting”. Nations who wait to rescue children from adult harm are
humankind’s offenders.
#USpreambler
The
15 Years That Destroyed America | The Epoch Times, Paul Craig
Roberts
I disagree with Roberts’ fallacy, I think: “No person
subject to an income tax owns his own labor.”
While it’s true that consumption, corporate, and property taxes can be used to
supply infrastructure, including pursuit of statutory justice, I think it is a
privilege to earn enough to pay for the way of living you want and to earn
enough extra to pay tax on your income.
It is especially egregious, in my opinion, to create welfare
programs to make avid consumers of the poor, in order to transfer excessive
income to suppliers – entrepreneurs, entertainers, doctors, churches, and
others.
#USpreambler
Low
Stress New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Your 2024 | The Epoch Times,
Emma Suttie
I like the list of recommendations to the individual yet
feel they did not adequately accommodate that a person cannot be happy if they
isolate themselves within their family, friends, and neighbors – live their
life in civic absence. There’s no substitute for open-hearted appreciation to
fellow civic citizens plus commitment to inform and encourage dissidents and
rebels to reform.
Suttie’s set of resolutions seems insufficient, like “mindefulness”, an
egocentric product of “modern psychology”, in my opinion. Take care of me and
let the rest fend for themselves.
I escorted my wife and attended her 4-aspect therapy
sessions, in order to learn how to help her. At home, practicing, I harmed
myself with a cruel statement to her. I asked the therapy institution for aid
and they gave me 4 social-work sessions. I said I wanted this chemical engineer
to be trained in how to assist, never scold.
The 4 sessions were on coping with my situation rather than
the task -- how to support her. I get that I must be mindful of me in order to
accept the real situation. It’s like a parent securing their oxygen mask before
equipping their child. The next requirement may be to persuade the annoyed
child not to remove the mask. But how?
Maybe someone will share my concern and comment.
Book Review:
https://www.thomascreedy.co.uk/book-review-the-christian-doctrine-of-humanity/
I
appreciate your work and the opportunity to converse with you.
Does
any scholar support Ralph Waldo Emerson's assertion in "Divinity School
Address" that Jesus informs us that we have the power to perfect our
behavior during life? It seems to me, the developed intention to mirror Jesus'
civic influence distinguishes human being (verb) from lesser choices:
spiritualism, animalism, criminality, terrorism, and worse. Even Christianity
is questionable, because it uses Christ to compete with Israel's Messiah and
the Lord God. Thereby, it lessens Jesus’ influence. I'm certain I would not
like someone replacing my name with another.
I
write (to myself, because no one comments) on two other blogs,
understandtheknowlede.blogspot.com and cipbr.blogspot.com (massive in
volume).
Quora
I don’t understand “being a ‘human doing’” and want to use “human being” as a
verb to express a response.
So far, most civic citizens in each generation don’t accept
that they are gods facing death. That is to say, each one may and can choose to
act to the good in every decision they make, developing a path to personal,
unique perfection, or the happiness they developed.
With the education departments the world has, it is almost
impossible for individuals to accept that they may and can develop perfection
before they die. Societies train the workers they think they need, failing to
recognize that innovation develops too fast to imagine the needs one generation
in the future. Consequently, it is necessary to reform education so that in
their first quarter century willing persons
acquire the comprehension and intention to develop human being (verb),
rather than wander into animalism, spiritualism, passivism, or worse.
It’s a quarter century not only because human being is a
complex practice, but because it takes that long for the body to construct the
wisdom-building parts of the brain.
The key to the practice is commitment to neither initiate
nor accommodate harm to or from anyone, including self. Harm inevitably comes,
and the civic citizen practices forgiveness and aids prevention of repetition
of the error, regardless of which party erred. “Civic” refers to reliable
responsibility to the good in human connections and transactions.
I doubt a person can develop human being without fully
participating to aid humankind’s responsibility to rule to the good on earth.
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quora.com/Can-an-ideal-society-exist-without-hierarchies-authorities-and-with-complete-equality-Are-there-any-examples-of-such-a-society,
Anon
No. No entity can offer either equality or equity. And the
good may and can rule.
Human being (verb) is too powerful to accommodate
inefficiency, dissidence, and rebellion against reliable responsibility to the
good. A civic people may and can provide order so that dissidents and rebels
against the good do not dominate life and ruin individual happiness. A civic
society pursues statutory justice. Whenever injustice is discovered, the civic
people amend the written law so as to pursue if not provide justice. Thereby,
dissidents and rebels may perceive self-interest in reform. Statutory justice
provides for both dissidence-constraint and termination of habitual rebellion.
No such society exists, but one is proffered in the 1787
U.S. Constitution. It features a republic of, by, and for the civic faction, We
the People of the United States. The civic people may and can accept the power
to rule in the United States. The civic citizens may eliminate a minor
bemusement, freedom of religion to Congress, by amending the First Amendment
religion provision from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.
Also, one of humankind’s greatest political philosophers,
Jesus, may be unhindered by promoting his civic influence to the good, keeping
the mystery of the deity private.
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quora.com/Can-you-explain-how-the-concept-of-fate-works-when-our-actions-determine-the-outcome-of-events,
Anon
Merriam-Webster’s easy definition of “fate” is final
outcome.
Faced with a
mystery, a person who acts cannot speculate the outcome. If the outcome is
negative, they may label it “fate”, perhaps to avoid guilt for acting on a
mystery. Unless attack ensues, no person should act on mystery.
Let me tell a
story. As “master of the house” I have always been alert to strange noises,
whether subconsciously noticed or not. I prepared to defend my family.
Convinced there was an intruder, I took my handgun and slowly surveyed the
house. I noticed a sheer blowing in the breeze – an unexpectedly-open window. I
lifted my handgun and slowly looked under the dining table and saw a shadow. My
son said, “Dad, it’s me.” I did not shoot my son, who had sneaked out then in,
in order to visit a girlfriend.
I did not act on
a mystery and did not think of fate but was glad for the outcome.
quora.com/What-are-inherent-unalienable-and-natural-rights-How-did-these-rights-come-to-be-Is-there-a-specific-entity-or-individual-who-granted-them-to-humanity?
Anon
I don’t know the
ineluctable truth but think the human right is the opportunity to rule personal
living so as to lessen chaos. The opportunity is a human condition only the
individual can accept. Few do.
External forces lessen the
opportunity. For example, a person may and can earn air and food with which to
produce the energy that is necessary for life. They can tolerate crime and
tyranny.
Each person
grants the opportunity to self, and neither church nor state can usurp personal
power.
The 1787 U.S.
Constitution recognizes actual reality and proffers a culture that pursues
statutory justice. The faction We the People of the United States may and can
establish its republic. If not, perhaps another people will do so.
#USpreambler
quora.com/What-is-the-rationale-of-making-a-big-deal-of-the-distinction-between-positive-and-negative-liberty?
Bratha Dan
Liberty and freedom are unfortunate constructs that distract
the individual from responsibility.
Responsibility has 2 aspects: physics and reason, external
and internal, respectively, to each person, to societies, and to humankind.
Physics and its
progeny – forces, chemistries, mathematics, psychology, fiction and the rest –
constrain the external consequences of human choices. For example, the person
who decides to ignore a tornado may lose their life. The person who commits
adultery offends the other party and their potential to originate a human-being;
James’s epistle calls it lawbreaking on par with murder.
Reason constrains
the individual’s choices to act responsibly or not. The criminal rationalizes
harming other people as a necessity to personal survival and collaborates with
the criminal world. The civic citizen commits to neither initiate nor
accommodate harm to or from any person including self. “Civic” means reliably
responsible in human connections and transactions.
The principles stated above originated 5500 years ago in
Sumer, whose kings assumed that their-poly gods left to humankind
responsibility to the good on earth. Semitic scholars mimicked the political
philosophy as competitive monotheism in Genesis 1:26-28’s “so they may rule . .
. earth”. Since then, competitive doctrine has influenced people to vie for
liberty/freedom rather than pursue responsibility to the good.
The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a culture of
doctrine-free, reliable responsibility. There are no standards, so that
“ourselves and our Posterity” may pursue statutory justice – amend the
Constitution to the good when injustice is discovered. So far, the civic
faction of We the People of the United States have not turned from the doctrine
of liberty, in order to pursue personal responsibility.
A milestone of choosing responsibility would occur if the civic faction
effected elimination of Congressional “deity”, by revising the First Amendment
from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.
The individual has no liberty to defy physics or to accommodate civic harm.
Only responsible reliability offers hope for personal happiness.
#USpreambler
quora.com/What-qualities-make-a-leader-ethical-Can-an-ethical-leader-exist,
Anon
An ethical leader neither initiates nor accommodates harm to
or from any person or association. Leaders may choose to lead.
#USpreambler
quora.com/What-are-the-guidelines-for-censoring-someones-message-How-do-you-determine-when-to-allow-free-speech-and-when-to-censor?
Anon
I think there should be no censorship, in order for the
civic faction, We the People of the United States, to let evil thinkers to
expose themselves. I think freedom of the press should be extended to the
individual and that the expresser should be held responsible for any consequences.
Just as the press has the opportunity to reject letters to the editor and other
submissions for publication, the individual has the responsibility to listen to
lies and neither support the liar nor share/promote the lie. If he or she communicates
with the liar or sees the liar, the civic citizen should address the lie
directly, in order to present the liar, whether mistaken or evil, an
opportunity to reform. If harm to or from any person is suggested, the civic
citizen reports the dialogue to first responders.
#USpreambler
quora.com/What-is-the-importance-of-having-principles-and-beliefs-to-stand-for?
Anon
Principles protect
your person from radical rationalizations such as constructed Alinsky-Marxist
ridicule to you. Beware Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO). For example, they
advocate conviction and execution without adjudication. Recall the French
revolution’s 1789 reign of terror and the USA’s looting and murder in the summer
of 2020.
Beliefs suppress a
person’s opportunity to consider ineluctable evidence that their tradition
needs amendment. For example, the Judeo-Christian anointed one debate, Messiah
versus Christ or savior to the good in life vs grace to mysterious soul. Christ
bemuses people from Jesus, who influences collaboration to establish and
maintain human being (verb). As a consequence, lives and futures of countless
children are ruined. It’s past time for Judeo-Christianity to behold humankind
as depicted in Genesis 1:26-28, a 5500 year old Mesopotamian political
philosophy that was first recorded in Sumer. It is time for a third of the
world’s population to behold humankind and collaborate for civic integrity to
the good.
Returning to principles, the human-being is so powerful it takes a quarter
century for her or him to complete the wisdom-building parts of the brain. If
they accept the challenge, it takes as long to acquire the comprehension and
intention to pursue human being (v). It takes a couple quarter centuries of
adult civic integrity to recognize the principles on which the harm of beliefs
is avoided.
The importance of principles over
beliefs is not widely recognized, because no culture teaches its youth to
consider pursuing human being (v). The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers such a
culture; but so far, Judeo-Christianity has dominated. Perhaps another nation’s
people will improve the proposals and establish collaborative humankind.
#USpreambler.
quora.com/Why-did-you-disagree-that-freedom-should-be-defined-as-the-absence-or-coercion?
Jean Rose Garay Retonio
“Freedom” is a political-power motivated construct that
promoters use to bemuse people from civic responsibility. It was especially
effective to coerce Europeans 400 years ago, became a watchword in America’s
war for independence from England, and was lethal as “liberty” in the French
Revolution. “Civic” means reliably responsible in human connections and
transactions. Human being (verb) is the practice of neither initiating nor accommodating
harm to or from anyone, including self. The individual who pursues human being
(verb) takes slight interest in freedom.
The human-being seems a god facing death. A human life is
sustained by breathing air for oxygen, drinking water for kidney and other
bodily functions, and eating nutrients and carbohydrates that are required for
personal functions, including work. Work is required to provide daily food
consumption and provision of water and air for living. Further, a person needs
shelter, clothing, transportation, and other functionalities. All of these
needs are efficiently provided in a reliable market of providers and consumers.
The responsible person participates in civic integrity, pursuing human being.
Each individual is forced
by physics and its progeny to pursue the necessities to sustain her or his
life. Each one is coerced by
efficiency to rely on civic citizens who maintain the market of goods and
services. The individual who takes reliable responsibility
for her or his civic integrity earns their way of living plus enough to pay
local, state, and national taxes to provide and maintain essential
infrastructure including the pursuit of statutory justice.
Justice is required, because some individuals want favor. Civic citizens
provide government and assign them limited responsibility to legislate,
administer, and adjudicate harm caused by dissidents and rebels against
responsibility.
The civic citizen votes for candidates who intend to pursue and maintain
statutory justice in the market, never supporting rights, favor, and other
injustices to self.
I know of no culture that pursues civic integrity. However,
one is proffered in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Perhaps a civic society will
mimic and effect its principles.
#USpreambler
quora.com/unanswered/What-are-common-values-like-strong-religious-faith-respect-for-authority-high-regard-for-amor-proprio-self-esteem-and-smooth-interpersonal-relationships?
Rechelle Mae Gumaru
Ms. Gumaru, I appreciate your question. After 30 years’
self-directed study, I am re-studying the Bible at a liberal Baptist church
from my past. Let me outline the progress.
First, the conclusion, so far, is
that Jesus was one of the greatest past political philosophers, and everyone
can benefit by collaboratively pursuing Jesus’
civic influence. Traditionally, churches advocate “what Jesus taught”, according
to doctrine. For example, Jesus’ process
for forgiveness (Matthew 18:15-17) is a civic process for living “to ourselves and our Posterity” rather than
election to mysteriously favorable afterdeath (Romans 1:1-17). In Jesus’
process, people work, whereas in churches God elects. The difference is taking
responsibility to rule personal life rather than accepting mysterious favor;
work versus mystery; civic integrity versus antinomianism.
Returning to the
outline, these are opinions so far (I do not know the ineluctable truth):
1.
Homo
sapiens (HS) developed during the recent 200,000 to 300,000 years.
a.
Primitive
HS feared unknowns and constructed polytheism for hope and comfort.
b.
At
least one civilization concluded the gods will never constrain chaos on earth.
c.
At
least one culture pursued order under the rule of law.
d.
Competitive
monotheism emerged. Some groups assigned to their God the authorship of the
law. I know nothing about them.
e.
Jesus
improved the law called the Torah.
f.
Civic
integrity requires statutory justice – reform each time an injustice is
discovered.
g.
The
1787 U.S. Constitution accommodates these principles without practice.
2.
Genesis
1:26-28: ruling to good consequences on earth is left to female and male
humankind, who may choose civic integrity. Here are some examples of Jesus’
affirmation:
a.
Accept
Genesis 1:26-28, in order to join the gods facing death (John 10:35).
b.
A
man united as heterosexual pair doesn’t divorce (Matthew 19:3-8).
c.
Be
perfect in Jesus’ image (Matthew 5:48).
d.
Nevertheless,
be humble and don’t mislead anyone (Matthew 18:2-7).
3.
Jesus
discussed the predicted messiah to unite Israel -- not Christ to favor God’s
elect.
a.
Jesus
objected to people not naming him (Matthew 5:48, Mark 8:38).
b.
He
advocated behavior according to his example (Matthew 10:38-39).
c.
He
advocated civic living regardless of gender or ethnicity (John 4:22-23).
d.
He
advocated prefect behavior (Matthew 5:2-19, especially 19).
i. The wealthy may avoid distraction to
worldly pursuits (Luke 18:25).
e.
He
reiterated his civic forgiveness-process (Matthew 5:22-25).
4.
Earnest
contemporaries tried to impose their opinion on Jesus.
a.
Bemused
by history’s mysteries including resurrection of the dead, most Jews thought
Jesus a man yet took interest in stories of his miracles.
b.
His
brother advocated the law and Jesus’ civic forgiveness process (James 5:19-20).
c.
Paul
advocated church under grace (Romans 1:1-17), neglecting civic integrity.
d.
Pilate
could have exercised his civil authority to free Jesus (Luke 23:13-16).
If you decide to consider this report, you will notice that I
work yet do not worry about words in the Bible. (I consider New International
Version and Complete Jewish Bible.) Reporters 2000 years ago had imaginations
on par with 2024 reporters and many more unknowns to work with. For example, 2000
years ago some people still thought the sun was a god rather than a natural
nuclear reactor. I accept the discoveries humankind has accomplished, including
that few reports are trustworthy.
More
importantly, I accept the responsibilities made clear to me by the common sense
of Genesis 1:26-28. Since I may
constrain chaos in the way I live, I can
constrain chaos in the way I live. My lifetime experiences and observations
instruct me that constraining chaos is in my self-interest. Accepting my
opportunity to develop integrity, I do not seek approval to pursue Jesus’ civic
influence. On the other hand, I cannot discover Jesus’ lessons without
listening to and considering the experiences and observations of civic
citizens. When someone prefers Christ/Messiah rather than Jesus, I accept their
choice for them and expect civic integrity towards everyone. Thus, I read Paul
expecting to learn, just as readily as I read James.
About a
third of the world’s inhabitants debate Messiah/Christ at the expense of Jesus’
civic influence. However I think 80% of the people consider Jesus an agent to
the good. The discoveries I have listed above are the consequence of 2 years’
study ending my 8th decade of study. I hope it points to benefits
that can be common to human being (verb): interest in religion’s history,
humility to theGod (a word contraction to express singularity), acceptance of
responsibility, and appreciation for fellow citizens. My hope is to lessen
routine adult destruction of children’s lives.
#USpreambler
quora.com/unanswered/Can-you-explain-the-concept-of-independence-both-in-politics-and-in-life?
Anon
Independence is human responsibility, made obvious to every person in every
generation. Most people don’t perceive the self-interest of responsibility.
People divide themselves on whether they choose to rule their lives to thegood
or not. “Thegood” is a word contraction to express singularity against the bad
in every choice. These key principles are neither taught nor encouraged in any
society.
The political
principle is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28, a 2700 year old Hebrew expression of
5500 year old Sumerian code of law. Politics is public power, and law codes accept
that civic citizens need enforceable statutory justice, in order to constrain
dissidents, rebels, and predators. “Civic” means reliably responsible in human
connections and transactions. Passive citizens suffer the injustices civic
citizens have not yet discovered and corrected plus the harm done by non-civic
citizens and predators. Every adult experiences the opportunity to choose to
develop human being (verb), low as their performance may seem.
The civic citizen
knows Agathon’s principle: neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from anyone or any association. The
civic citizen practices Agathon’s influence in circumstances never faced
before. Jesus taught the no harm principle, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that
Jesus meant it when he instructed: be perfect.
Within these
principles, independence is a civic practice
rather than an egocentric right. The
person who does no harm responsibly earns the way of living he or she wants
plus happily pays local, state, and national taxes in order to establish and
maintain infrastructure, including the pursuit of statutory justice and
national defense. When she or he votes, they pursue self-interest that will
continually increase the civic faction, gradually eliminating evil.
Independence is
not widely practiced, because no society teaches, practices, facilitates, and
encourages responsibility to self as human being (verb). I work to change that,
not as fool, yet perhaps as a dreamer. The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffered
such a society. Maybe another country will mimic it to thegood. I hope the U.S.
reforms immediately.
#USpreambler
quora.com/How-difficult-is-it-to-determine-the-best-values?
Lilitha Dambe
I appreciate Agathon’s civic influence
in Plato’s “Symposium”, published about 2500 years ago. In my paraphrase: A civic citizen neither initiates nor
accommodates harm to or from anyone including self and family. “Civic” means
reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions. Perhaps Agathon
expressed thegood, a word contraction to express singularity.
Interpreting
Agathon’s speech that way, I wondered if Jesus spoke with Agathon some 460
years before Jesus was born. That may sound crazy. But, for all I know, Jesus
meant it when he said, “Before Abraham was born I am.” I don’t think so yet
must be humble about things I don’t know. Before Abraham, perhaps 3970 years
ago, includes before Ibbi-Sin, a king of Ur (b. 4135 years ago). Abraham was
born there.
Regardless, Jesus
knew and affirmed political philosophy and civic advice expressed by kings of
polytheistic Sumer in their law codes. In my paraphrase, The gods leave pursuit
of civic integrity on earth to female and male humankind. This observation,
made clear in every generation, is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28 by Hebrew scholars,
writing about 3000 years ago.
The person who pursues thegood
according to these ancient ideas may habitually choose the best actions.
#USpreambler
quora.com/What-are-the-reasons-for-people-breaking-the-law-even-though-they-know-the-consequences-Should-all-laws-be-followed-even-if-they-seem-unreasonable-at-times?
Anon
I appreciate the opportunity to ponder
this ineluctable mystery: why do people do wrong? I think the cause is personal
fear, chosen folly, predictable failure, and egocentric forgiveness. The fear,
folly and failure are personal choices, and the egocentric forgiveness is
political philosophy. Ignorance is failed education.
Homo sapiens is
about 300,000 years old and developed grammar by which to reason about 10,000
years ago. Two of the recent beneficial political philosophers are Socrates (d.
2422 years ago) and Jesus (d. 1990 years ago). Neither of them wrote, so it is
difficult to earn opinions about what they said and did. Reporters don’t write
the-ineluctable-truth (hyphenated to express a singularity). For example, it’s
shocking to imagine resolving U.S. government lies about January 6, 2020. And
the ancient reporters did not contend with plagiarism – had more freedom of the
press against the people.
Armed with
grammar, homo sapiens could reason about physics*, faith, and statutory
justice. *(and physics’ progeny like math, forces, psychology, and fiction.)
The Sumerians, about 5500 years ago, reasoned that their gods left ruling on
earth to the-good (another singularity) to female and male humankind. They
wrote law codes to empower civic citizens to constrain wrong doers.
Competitive
monotheism displaced polytheism, and developing theisms each constructed a more
powerful God, without retaining humility to whatever constrains the
consequences of human choices, perhaps the-God (another singularity). Law codes
from their God were influential in the constructed competition. Both Socrates
and Jesus died for the beneficial messages they shared with fellow citizens of
the world: each person can pursue civic integrity. “Civic” means reliable
responsibility in human connections and transaction.
Socrates chose to
take the hemlock, in order to defend the rule of law even when it is wrong. A
wrongful court had convicted him of promoting the-good in Athens as the-God. He
defied Athens. Socrates chose death over exile where he could be visited by
friends.
Jesus chose death
rather than to deny his message: Each
person may perfectly rule their lifetime – may choose to constrain chaos in the
way they live. In Matthew 19:3-8, Jesus addresses both the law (the Torah) and
that a human being can pursue the-good like the-God, referencing Genesis 1:26-28.
He was improving the law, as each generation must, as they discover injustices.
Jesus affirmed Sumerian political philosophy: on earth, humankind is in charge.
In Matthew 5:48, Jesus said a person can be perfect.
Would that my
parents and community had groomed me to perfect civic integrity; maybe they did.
It takes 25 years,
a quarter century, for the human body to complete the construction of the
brain, and the wisdom-building parts are the last to develop. Humankind’s benefit
is to educate their youth to comprehend and intend civic integrity for life. If
so, another quarter century of civic participation provides enough experience
and observations to affirm thegood the person perceives. Yet another quarter
century can instill a perception that a little more learning might bring a
sense of wisdom.
By age 10, I
perceived that the Bible contained falsehoods; civic integrity could be pursued
only by discovering and applying the-ineluctable-truth. At age 26, I did not
let Protestantism prevent me from marrying my mate of 54 years, a Louisiana
French-Catholic woman; yet I did not deny fidelity to my person, as I sorted
out the opinions I express above.
I think every
child should leave K-12 education enthusiastically pursuing the civic integrity
to the-good suggested by Socrates’ legacy and the personal perfection Jesus
influences. Each person may and can be a civic citizen for life.
#USpreambler
quora.com/What-is-liberty-Distinguish-between-negative-and-positive-concepts-of-liberty?
Ayush Sharma
In Sumer, about 5500 years ago,
polytheistic kings thought the gods left order on earth to discovery and
practice by humankind, so they developed codes of law by which civic citizens
could constrain dissidents and rebels. Each person was responsible to constrain
chaos in their way of living, and offenses against fellow citizens invited
harsh punishment.
Later, competitive monotheists modified
the codes and claimed they came from their God to benefit their people. After
about 3 millennia, Great Britain opined that theirs was the greatest law on
earth. They used police for domestic force and the military to impose on
colonies and other nations.
People wrote about liberty and freedom
from the yoke of British law. English colonies on the eastern seaboard of the USA
perceive that they had to take responsibility for their governance. They
negotiated with Spain and France to support them in war for independence from
England. Patrick Henry famously said, “Give me liberty or give me death”.
Governments propagandize liberty and
freedom. But the civic faction of We the People of the United States, wants
independence and therefore takes responsibility for her or his way of living.
The responsible U.S. citizen earns enough to pay local, state, and federal
taxes and observes the law. Thereby, they have positive liberty and are not
impacted by propaganda, the “liberty” that bemuses.
#USpreambler
quora.com/Do-people-have-the-right-to-do-anything-that-is-not-illegal-but-immoral?
Kuang Huang
Agathon, about 2500 years ago, suggested
that an appreciative living agent’s greatest power is to neither initiate nor accommodate
harm to or from any person or association, including self. See Plato’s
“Symposium”.
It’s a simple message that is confirmed by
physics and its progeny, such as chemistry, biology, and psychology. A person
can ask the Internet about options they are considering. For example, ask,
“What is the consequence of cheating?” Or alcohol drinking. Or adultery. Or
running red lights. Or not working for your living.
quora.com/What-is-justice-in-terms-of-winning? Santa Santina Gatta M. A. Spiritual Discerner
The polytheistic Sumerians, 5500 years
ago, perceived that the gods leave to female and male humankind discovery and
development of thegood* on earth. The abyss we are experiencing and observing
affirm this perception. [*word contraction to express singularity]
Agathon, about 2500 years ago, suggested
that an appreciative living agent’s greatest power is to neither initiate nor accommodate
harm to or from any person or association, including self. See Plato’s
“Symposium”.
Jesus, humankind’s greatest political
philosopher so far, asserted that the individual can perfect their civic
integrity before they die. Jesus’ civic influence impacts about 80% of the
earth’s population, lessened by the Christ-divided** 32%. [** There are about
45,000 Christian sects.] A few people articulate Jesus’ civic influence. Ralph
Waldo Emerson did in “Divinity School Address”, 1838. I think Harvard contracts
Emerson.
The person who dies, never having repeated
an experienced or observed error dies in victory and justice. See James
5:19-20.
The nation that develops statutory
justice to children rather than wealth to war wins.
I speak, write, and listen to
promote the civic faction, We the People of the United States, proffered in the
1787 U.S. Constitution and repressed in 1791 by British loyalists who demanded
a 1689-English mimicking Bill of Rights. I advocate U.S. independence more than
Anglo-American tradition and think U.S. reform is imminent. One element of the
reform is to eliminate Congressional freedom of religion by amending the First
Amendment to “promoting” instead of “prohibiting”.
#USpreambler
whathaveyoulearnedtoday.quora.com/Can-you-share-some-not-so-common-cultural-values-and-where-they-originated?,
gary c. davis
The
polytheistic Sumer civilization, some 5500 years ago, perceived that the gods
left discovery and actions to order to the good on earth to female and male
humankind. They developed codes of law to empower civic citizens to constrain
dissidents and rebels.
Some
2500 years later, Israeli scholars expressed these principles in monotheistic
terms in Genesis 1:26-28. Jesus studied Genesis and in Matthew 5:48 encouraged
each person to pursue perfect behavior. In other words, Jesus’ civic influence
is this: Each person who develops human being (verb) can perfect their
behavior. This advice makes Jesus the pivotal political philosopher of all time:
the good can prevail when most people intend perfect behavior.
In every generation, people discover Jesus and work hard to understand his
messages, in order to improve their way of living. They accept the mysteries as
unknowns and develop understanding of Jesus’ ideas that seem affirmed by their
experiences and observations. For example, in Matthew 19:3-8, Jesus reportedly
said “be united to” respecting Genesis 1:26-28. Families enjoy enduring
fidelity when man unites lifetime intentions to woman (and her ova).
Most churches expound Christ as savior of souls for favorable aftherdeath,
thereby lessening Jesus’ civic influence. They do not articulate Jesus’ civic
influence to humankind and therefore aid division of “chosen-people groups”.
When I objected, one pastor said, “I use “Jesus” and “Christ/Messiah”
interchangeably.” I don’t think Jesus likes it. And there are some 45,000
Christian sects on earth, not to mention other “chosen” groups.
Pursuit
of Jesus’ civic influence is practiced, without articulation, because a few
people want to live without either initiating or accommodating harm to or from
anyone. A value the world needs is expressed in Jesus’ dialogues with people,
hidden between developments of competitive monotheisms that occupy most of the
Bible.
Jesus’ civic influence can and may reverse the chaos that now accelerates in
the world.
#USpreambler
quora.com/Why-is-virtue-so-hard-and-vice-so-easy? Earth Robert
Humankind, homo sapiens for over 200,000
years, has known since Sumer civilization in Mesopotamia some 5500 years ago
that female and male human-being is responsible
for order on earth. Responsibility begins with the individual constraining
chaos in the way they live. This actual reality is more evident now than ever
before.
Parents rear their infants to earn their
way of living and don’t take time to track experienced and observable
consequences of choices in their locale. The don’t keep track of what their
children must do to take responsibility. However, elites with the time to
observe realize that civic citizens can be controlled through notice about
factors to fear and promises to remedy the threats. Busy earning their way of
living, most people yield their power to either choose fear or take
responsibility for their welfare. The elites, pretending to serve, live high on
the hog and the people neither rebel nor leave the country. This system works
efficiently when political elites partner with church, in which case the people
think their God is in charge and will eventually relieve them of the tranny
they suffer. Because parents school their children in the faith, the abuse is
continued from generation to generation. Consequently, adults war for wealth at
the expense of children.
The evidence for this claim is
ineluctable: not to be avoided, changed, or resisted. The word “ineluctable”
has been published since 1571, and it was used with “truth” in 1906. Yet most
citizens have never encountered the phrase the ineluctable truth. Judges and
lawyers and journalists “protect” the people from the ineluctable truth.
Governments extol to the people freedom,
liberty, and rights rather than responsibility for order in the way they live.
Consequently, adult vices that children learn from their parents and neighbors
become children’s hopes for adulthood. No facet of any education system teaches
children how to develop human being (verb). The human-being is the most
powerful species on earth. Civic responsibility is in the adult’s best
interest.
The Internet changes the situation. No
longer must the people look to church and state for information on how to
develop human being (v). Youth has the innocence by which to judge liars by
their lies and cling to self-reliance to pursue the good. Look to the world’s
youth to lead the reform from church-state partnership to government of by and
for the civic faction of We the People of the United States.
The youth know that virtue rather than
vice is in their self-interest, and they intend to live life rather than wait
for afterdeath.
#USpreambler
quora.com/How-should-humanity-use-knowledge? Eye of Unity
Female
and male human being (verb) controls living on earth. Neither a God nor a
government can constrain chaos here. Only humankind has to power to discover
theineluctabletruth (a word contraction to express humble singularity) and how
to apply it to thegood (another singularity).
Civic citizens know this, whether they articulate it or not. But few know
“ineluctable”. Members of a civic culture neither initiate nor accommodate harm
to or from any person or association, including self and family. They aid the
discovery and pursuit of statutory justice as well as technological progress:
work to colonize a planet and to relieve children from adult pursuit of wealth
and war.
They facilitate and encourage reform to errant civic citizens and aid the
annihilation of evil. They pursue perfection by not repeating human error.
Female and male human being employs knowledge to aid thegood.
#USpreambler
https://www.quora.com/Is-a-moral-action-or-thing-necessarily-good? Yazan
Human
being (verb) neither initiates nor accommodates harm to or from any person or
association including self. Thus, choosing to do harm opts to not be a
human-being. The human-being has the power to constrain chaos in her or his way
of living.
An
individual may and can learn morality both by experiencing and by observing the
consequences of choices and actions. The Internet gives the individual the
power to explore ideas. For example, search “What are the consequences of
habitual alcohol consumption?” Try “religious zeal” and “religious
fundamentalism”.
Wikipedia
is a great source for pursuing bases for choosing thegood (a word contraction
for singularity). For example, someone in my Sunday school class said we are
chosen. I did not like the explanation so searched “chosen people” and found a
Wikipedia article. I think female and male human-being constitutes the chosen
people.
Life
is so short: I think every individual may and can learn to choose thegood and
not repeat the bad if they make a mistake.
#USpreambler
quora.com/How-does-power-manipulate-human-freedom-and-security? Mahmud Murtada
Mr.
Murtada, you ask a timely question. Thank you.
I
think security contradicts human freedom and power manipulates the oxymoron.
Only female and male human-being among all the species has the power to order
the earth to thegood (a word contraction to express singularity). Accepting
that power necessitates reliable responsibility, which churches and government
discourage. Politicians denigrate citizens as flawed, and priests say the
parishioners are sinners.
The
citizen invites personal harm when she or he accepts repression of personal
power to constrain chaos in the way they live.
The
civic citizen aids safety and security, in order to encourage and facilitate
the unique happiness each fellow citizen responsibly pursues.
More importantly, the civic citizen neither initiates nor accommodates wealth
and war that ruin children’s present and future.
#USpreambler
quora.com/How-can-one-maintain-moral-principles-in-a-society-where-others-do-not-value-morality-Is-it-possible-to-be-a-good-person-when-those-around-you-are-not?
Anon
I
think so. Every person has the opportunity to discover and pursue the
self-interest of civic integrity. “Civic” means reliable responsibility in
connections and transactions. Unfortunately, individuals are so reluctant to
articulate this principle it is often expressed as “Do the right thing”, which
only implies benefits to self.
Furthermore,
“the right thing” is often grounded in civil law or religion, neither of which
is reliable. Priests and politicians intend to grow their church or office
rather than serve civic integrity. The people tolerate these tyrannies because
they do not accept human power to choose thegood (a contraction of words to
express singularity in each situation).
Every individual has to power to constrain chaos in the way they live. Today’s
earth is steeped with worldly habits – lies, alcohol, drugs, and sex. The civic
citizen rejects and discourages worldliness without being offensive.
For
example, my church knows I accept the mystery called “God” without objection or
characterization, oppose using “Christ” to argue against hope for the Messiah,
and think thegood is aided by Jesus’ civic influence. Yet I feel welcome when I
attend church events. I also feel welcome at the Jewish Film Festival, and in
conversation with other Christian sects, Muslims, Hindus, Taoists, Buddhists
and non-believers I know.
I am guided by a principle I paraphrase from Agathon, in Plato’s
“Symposium”: Neither initiate nor
accommodate harm to or from any person or association. Sometimes I call first
responders, because I am not qualified to address public problems.
quora.com/unanswered/At-what-point-should-we-stop-trying-to-prove-ourselves-right-or-wrong-and-instead-accept-things-as-they-are?
Anon
Each
individual may and can accept that they have one opportunity to choose to
pursue human being (verb) or suffer animalism or wander in mystery.
Humankind evolved unto homo sapiens some 200 to 300 thousand years ago and
invented grammar 10 thousand years ago. Grammar empowers reason and talk, by
which female and male human being may choose to rule on earth to thegood (a
word contraction for singularity). Each individual may and can choose to
constrain chaos in their way of living.
A
man may and can choose to unite to a woman to conceive children, rear them, and
prepare to assist with their grandchildren, in order to aid humankind’s march
to thegood they can achieve. Thereby each descendant may and can responsibly
pursue the happiness they perceive.
Unfortunately,
education systems do not impart these principles to youth and adults, so the
world is in chaos. I think we have reached the abyss and 2024 will enjoy a
turnaround. If not, encouraging reform to thegood rather than nourishing the
bad and tolerating evil cannot be allowed to prevail unto termination.
#USpreambler
quora.com/Is-justice-based-on-morality?
By Vladimir Pidorasovich
Mr
Pidorasovich, your question is timely. I doubt yet offer my best. Both justice
and morality are grounded in human standards. Homo sapiens is 200 to 300
thousand years into development.
I think observations and experiences we can report in 2023 affirm the 5500 year
old political philosophy initiated by successive kings of Sumer civilization in
Mesopotamia. They invented codes of law that successively pursued reliable
responsibility among citizens. Irresponsible action invited harsh penalty.
Humankind has been gradually improving those codes of law and other
contemporary political philosophies ever since. The Sumerians were polytheists.
Hebrew
scholars, 3000 years ago, expressed the Sumerian principles in competitive,
monotheistic terms in Genesis 1:26-28: Female and male humankind may and can
choose to rule to the good on earth. Jesus read and affirmed Genesis 1 and
asserted, in Mathew 5:48: Be perfect in order to reflect the image of the
creator. I use lower case “creator” to confirm that I do not know, beyond
thegood (a contraction to express singularity), what constrains the
consequences of human choices.
I think each generation, aware or not, encounters Jesus’ civic influence and
continually improves. “Civic” means reliable responsibility to thegood in human
connections and transactions.
It
seems the vision of Sumerian Genesis 1:26-28 is flourishing and order to life
on earth and Jesus’ influences civic perfection. Constraining choices so as to
aid responsible living seems moral. Cautioning fellow
citizens who do not aid living seems a necessity. Restoring order when someone
caused disorder seems just.
Thank
you for the question, Mr. Pidorasovich
#USpreambler
I think justice and morality are well served by 2023 improvements on Sumerian
political philosophy summarized in Genesis 1:26-28 and by humankind together
perusing Jesus civic influence.
quora.com/What-are-the-contributions-of-philosophy-to-humanity?
I
think, philosophy, formerly a discovery process, unintentionally developed into a knowledge base
that never resolves meaning: What have
scholars published about the fundamental facts humankind considers? But
conclusions are left to the reader. Unfortunately, the consequence is neglect
of integrity.
My favorite knowledge reference is the Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy. I rarely consider others. I go to “plato” to learn what scholars
have written about a topic. Consider 2 examples: “ineluctable” and “truth”.
First, I hold
that “ineluctable” means: not to be assailed, avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, obfuscated,
rationalized, or resisted. Searching, plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=ineluctable,
we find only 10 articles. They cite “ineluctable” regarding each promotion,
finitude, duties, outcome, laws, Zeus’ plan, deficiency, limit, consequence,
and representation. There’s nothing about either ineluctable evidence or the
ineluctable truth. I render the latter as the singularity theinelutabletruth. I
tried another grammar trick to accomplish the singularity:
the-ineluctable-truth, but readers don’t like novel use of hyphens.
Both “ineluctable truth” and “the ineluctable truth”, like
“truth” can be changed by subjective objectification. For example, Bill Clinton
infamously responded, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”,
then skillfully explained. The prosecutor had not presented theinelutabletruth.
Second, the current plato search
on “truth” yields 1810 documents. See plato.stanford.edu/search/search?query=truth.
The first article, “Truth”, does not include the word “ineluctable”. That can’t
be held a fault within philosophy, because philosophers work hard to avoid
judgement. They seem to have the convention that the reader can review global
thought and form their own opinion. The rub is that the scholarly presentation
is not global; it only reviews “peer approved” literature. By all means, a
retired chemical engineer’s blog is no reference for discussion of “truth”,
even though chemical engineers are trained to make certain their equipment
designs will not blow up or otherwise injure life. Yet scholarly hypocrisy is
exposed by the ten articles mentioned above that modify 10 somethings using the
word “ineluctable”. I hope there’ll come a day when I repeat this research and
discover “the ineluctable truth” with an article featuring philosophical
completeness. Stanford could consider this a request.
Meanwhile,
some philosophers may know that a chemical engineer thinks they could improve
their service to humankind by not censoring the faction of We the People of the
United States who do not seek philosophical endorsement. Open their hearts to
public literature, such as letters-to-the-editor or commentary. Serve freedom of expression more than favor scholarly publication. I think
every citizen would benefit from encountering the word “ineluctable”, its
history, its controversies, its competition, and choose their own usage. Every
judge, every lawyer, every politician, every preacher, every educator, indeed
every adult may and can know the word “ineluctable”.
I think it would be interesting for someone asked to take an oath to ask the
judge, “Am I to witness to theineluctabletruth?” I speculate only a few judges
would welcome the question.
#USpreambler
quora.com/What-does-it-mean-to-work-for-your-freedom?
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is necessary for freedom. It takes 10 hours to view the entire series, but each
episode should be given time for reflection on 2 questions. First, what does it mean to pursue
human being (verb)? Genesis 1:26-28 suggests female and male human being
accepts the opportunity to choose thegood (contraction for singularity) in
order to rule on earth. (Incidentally, Mathew 5:48 suggests pursuing perfection
in choosing to rule to thegood.) Second,
once a human-being chooses to oppose harmful behavior, how can they rule to
thegood?
Upon viewing this series, I thought freedom is a matter of
reliable responsibility. People who let religious zeal prevent them from
learning to swim risk drowning. A woman is attracted to a man who unites to her
for life. A man whose is broken by his spouse’s death can find freedom in
death. Communal solidarity invites ruin. Possession of property may and can
accommodate necessity.
Importantly, civic integrity is grounded in ineluctable
evidence. “Civic” means reliable responsibility in human connections and
transactions. “Ineluctable” means: not to be assailed, avoided, changed, escaped, neglected,
obfuscated, rationalized, or resisted.
Neither
theGod, nor a government can usurp the individual’s opportunity to discover theineluctabletruth,
use it to thegood, and thereby pursue responsible uniquehappiness.
#USpreambler
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This is my 80th annual celebration of goodwill among
humankind, and my short answer is: accept personal opportunity to
aid the good humankind achieves and pursue, to personal and
corporate benefit, Jesus’ civic influence. “Civic” means reliable
responsibility in human connections and transactions.
I think I accepted some clues during my 78th year, after
studying two questions, articulated perhaps in my 4th decade. The questions
are: 1) what does it take to pursue human being (verb) and 2) is an American
citizen different? My answers to those questions (too much for this forum)
ground my response to your question:
1. Accept that you are an individual and may and can choose
to constrain chaos in the way you live. Rise above the lesser species, such as
animals and spirits: rule to the good on earth.
2. Do the work to comprehend and intend the morality that
would achieve your happiness on earth.
3. Trust-in and commit-to perfectly not repeating error,
whether observed or experienced.
4. Comprehend and practice forgiveness, a process involving
talk, resolution, collaboration, and reform.
In addition to what humankind has discovered during my
lifetime, I ground my opinion on 2 fundamentals gleaned from ancient
literature.
First, some Mesopotamians, starting 10,000 years ago, assumed that the gods of
polytheism left the responsibility to rule on earth to humankind and left clues
in their codes of law and treaties with other city-states. Semites in
Mesopotamia competed in constructing monotheism and a faction developed a
concept of perfecting their law. See Genesis 1:26-28, expressing a perhaps 5500
year old political philosophy.
Second, a singular thinker combined these concepts to assert that individuals
may and can perfect their behavior before they die. Read Matthew 5:48 as
reflection on Genesis 1:26-28.
I think these non-religious principles are accommodated by the 1787 U.S.
Constitution.
#USpreambler
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Thank you.
One thought: "love" is overworked and often
neither wanted nor sincere.
Everyone wants to both receive and extend appreciation and
treasure its mutual sincerity.
Consider being an agent of change toward an achievable better future.
In my life, the source of my interest in
"appreciation" rather than "love" comes from Agathon's
speech about Eros in Plato's "Symposium". Not everyone would
view Agathon's speech as I do. My paraphrase summary is this:
Appreciation's greatest power is that it can neither initiate nor
accommodate harm to or from any person or association, including self.
Thank you for reading my thought,
Phil Beaver
#USpreambler
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Please cover Leon Russell's "A Song for You". The world deserves to
experience your art with that sentiment.
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Morality
may and can conform to reality to the good. The civic faction, We the People of
the United States, continuously pursues actual reality -- of, by, and for
“ourselves and our Posterity”.
#USpreambler
https://www.facebook.com/vramachan,
Jan 22, 2024
I appreciate being informed of this long-developing
competitive movement and don't know how to feel about things unknown to me.
I oppose Christian nationalism, favoring reliable responsibility in human
connections and transactions.
I could be wrong but felt that Kish Seth and I shared the pursuit of a civic
society. When he wanted to comment on soul, he would pause and say he knew
I had more concern for person before expressing his
thought. I learned from him. Talking during a few decades, we explored
competitive ideas but never expressed harshness to each other. I miss him.
I attend a Sunday school class, Nomads, that behaves like that.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, Jan 20, 2024
Reading Acts 15, NIV and CJB: Apparently, political
activists Paul and Barnabas traveled to Jerusalem, where James and Peter,
representing Israel, worked out a compromise: Gentiles may and can observe a
limited Torah, specifically excepting circumcision, yet requiring 4 practices:
no food sacrificed to idols, no blood, no strangled meat, and no sexual
immorality. I don't know much about the consumption-of-food-issues, yet sexual
immorality seems evident. It entails adult actions that abuse ova and children.
Perhaps the
James-Paul negotiation in Jerusalem some 1900 years ago is the origin of
"Judeo-Christianity". Now, all private believers may and can know to
publicly pursue “that the rest of mankind may seek [the good]” (Verse 17). But
Pauline Christianity does not seem to embrace the compromise.
Christianity seems
to accommodate antinomianism in broad application: spiritual, civil, civic, and
especially sexual. Also, that Judeo-Christian believers accommodate killing
children for the sake of temporal adult satisfactions may and can be reformed
by the civic people.
I prefer to accept
the mystery of theGod as the good, Israel’s hope for a Messiah, and
Christianity's hope for favor in the afterdeath (that indefinite time after
body, mind, and person stop functioning), yet to pursue Jesus’ civic influence
to the good on earth. We observe Jesus' influence in choices to the good versus
consequences of dissidence and rebellion. This generation collaborates to
colonize a planet: there seems no excuse for rejecting Jesus' civic peace (not
to limit Jesus' urge to perfection).
The wanton killing
of children may and can be stopped.
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman January 16, 2024
Kennedy seems
accurate, precise, deep, and good. I hope I get the chance to vote for him.
Right now, it seems it will be Trump again.
https://www.facebook.com/mick.kassem,
Jan 15, 2024
Jesus never met a stranger and shared the good with everyone
who'd listen to him. He said we are in charge of the good on earth (affirming
Genesis 1:26-28, NIV and CJB). He informed us that we can perfect self if we
intend to (Matthew 5:48). In Matthew 19:3-8, he said civic integrity happens
when a man unites TO his wife. In short, Jesus was one of humankind's greatest
political philosophers, and Constantine obfuscated Jesus' civic influence when
he promoted Paul's Church. The civic faction, We the People of the United
States, can bring the civic Jesus to the classroom by privatizing religion. A
minor action is to amend the First Amendment's religion clause to
"promoting" instead of "prohibiting".
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, Jan 12, 2024
From
infancy, in 1943, I was totally ignorant --- especially unaware of the
ineluctable truth.* As experiences and observations happened, I began to accept
flaws (notice then reject error) in order to choose to pursue the good.
Mom
and Dad and their community presented their competitive views of the Bible as
God’s will and serenely tried to impose mysterious church doctrine.
I
must have been about 10 years old, my large maternal family hoping that I would
join their legacy of preachers, when I decided to read the first page and the
last page of the Holy Bible, KJV. The first page astounded me. The last page
awakened me.
At
Revelation 22:18-19, I thought: The God I can choose is not so weak as to
threaten human-beings. I think my reaction was born of good will toward civic**
human-beings and mysteries to the good.
Now
80 years old, I am open minded toward “theGod”, my term for whatever constrains
the consequences of human choice and action. I perceive flaws in KJV and in the
Complete Jewish Bible’s competitive Gods: creator God (Genesis 1 and later);
Adonai/the Lord God (Genesis 2:4 and beyond); Ruth’s Chemosh and other Semitic
Gods; Egyptian deities: Arabian deities; Satan; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
Messiah/Christ; Jesus; and God. I think every doctrine should reserve humility.
I pursue the laws of physics and progeny to sustain my life, and think Gods are
personal defenses against undiscovered or misunderstood actual reality. I would
not lessen any civic person's hopes and comforts.
I
now think the Bible contains flawed views of humankind’s research and
development to the good. I study at a church, in order to hear and benefit from
“flaws” other people advocate. I listen to civic citizens and consider the
reasons for their beliefs. Sometimes I think they are projecting their
good-will on a Bible God. If I share their viewpoint, I consider changing my
pursuits. I encourage everyone to consider Jesus' influence on the individual.
Meanwhile,
I do all I can to defend and preserve my family’s opportunity to practice civic
integrity – to benefit from the consequences of our responsible choices. I
don’t know, but think I always seek to mirror Jesus’ civic influence and hope
to face his assessment. He tells us we can prefect our behavior, difficult as
the task may seem.
This
essay was initiated in a conversation about pride in Bible flaws, on January
11, 2023 with Phillip Chialastri, in Baton Rouge.
*
Ineluctable means: Not to be assailed, avoided, changed, escaped, mystified,
neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, or resisted (9 modifiers in my list).
Merriam Webster omits assailed, escaped, mystified, neglected, obfuscated, and
rationalized (6 omissions). Collins omits those modifiers plus
"changed". English has used “ineluctable” since 1571 during a
decades-long debate with "inescapable". Google books used
“ineluctable truth” since 1906. It is shocking that few people use “the
ineluctable truth”, a singularity. I think judges, lawyers, ministers, and
politicians protect this secret. Some people, like chemical engineers,
carpenters, and police are trained to discover ineluctable evidence and use it
precisely, accurately, deeply, and responsibly.
**“Civic”
means reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions, especially
to self and immediate family.
https://www.facebook.com/mick.kassem ,
January 12, 2024
I read an excerpt from Kafka's Metamorphosis with a group at
Goodwood Library in the mid 1990s. Beforehand, I had remarked to my Sunday
school class that God could have handled Pilot, who said Jesus was innocent,
freeing Jesus. The class broke up, I think to avoid addressing my point: God
can handle any decision an individual makes at any time in history. In 2023, I
perceive that I am a stranger in a strange land yet share my folly without
objecting to other civic citizens' follies.
#USpreambler
https://www.facebook.com/tony.medlin,
Jan 6, 2024
It is wonderful to monitor Mardi Gras so close by. With
modern conveniences, we don't have to miss the music.
I appreciate your "like" on my page. I wonder if there's a fit in
your education work for lectures on "A Civic People of the United
States"? That entity is the faction of citizens in every generation who
have done the work to comprehend and intend to aid the goals of the 1787 U.S.
Constitution, stated in its preamble.
#USpreambler
xhttps://www.facebook.com/corteeny,
January 1, 2024
The speaker does not share enough information about the
reason for leaving for this to help me. I don't feel I have left anyone.
But consider Colonel Sartoris "Sarty" Snopes, the protagonist in
William Faulkner's "Barn Burning";
https://archive.org/stream/WilliamFaulknerBarnBurning_20180508/William%20Faulkner%20Barn%20Burning_djvu.txt.
He left his family at age 10 -- walked into the woods, because he had
experienced justice for the first time in his life. He turned his back on
imposed loyalty, in order to join humankind. Joining humankind is in a person's
self-interest.
On another note, I am keenly interested in Jesus' peace. John, in Chapter 14:27
reports that Jesus said to his apostles, "Peace I leave with you; my peace
I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be
troubled and do not be afraid." I cannot define Jesus' peace beyond
"not as the world gives", since I think in human terms. However,
because I pursue Jesus' civic influence rather than church doctrine, I am not
afraid.
I do not want to persuade anyone to think as I do and especially do not want to
lessen anyone's hope and comfort for their soul. However, I encourage everyone
to consider Jesus' civic influence. For example, consider Matthew 5:48
regarding Genesis 1:26-28. Then consider Matthew 19:3-8 and notice "be
united to" respecting Genesis 1:26-28. I doubt it, but if I get a second
chance, I will ask Cynthia's agreement and PaPa's permission to sign my
marriage certificate, Phillip R. Marionneaux.
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“Progressive Era” opposition to indoctrination is good. But
“uninhibited by Christian strictures” seems unjustly restrictive; the world is awash
with religions. Christianity’s offense against the good obfuscates one of
humankind’s leading political philosophers: Jesus. The Church hid Jesus in the
God mystery, attempting to substitute their Christ. What does Jesus think about
Christ?
Inquiry cannot be free – must discover reality. Researchers
may and can discover and conform-to
actual reality, rather than accept and
purport to-resolve mystery they accept or imagine.
The U.S. Constitution proposes to pursue perfect civic
republicanism – statutory justice – rather than democracy. Only the civic
faction, We the People of the United States, can accept and effect U.S.
intentions. Neither God nor government can usurp humankind’s responsibility.
#USpreambler
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.
