Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.
"Civic"
refers to citizens who collaborate for individual
happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or
society.
Consider writing a personal
paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and
paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows: This good citizen practices the U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice,
peace, strength, and prosperity, "in order to” develop responsible
human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.” I want to improve my interpretation by
listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the
original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.
It seems the
Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one 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 disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble
is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who
collaborate for human justice.
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. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to
discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.
Selected theme from this week
In 2021, amend First-Amendment civil-religion to civic-integrity
See the essay below, copied from my Facebook thread, 1/22/21.
News
Responsible-human-independence is being regressed by democrats
(Matthew Vadum, The Epoch Times) (https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-lawyer-ousted-from-law-school_3660303.html)
Eastman enrichened my
comprehension and opinion that Abraham Lincoln was more politician than
responsible-human-being. I especially oppose the Lincoln and Eastman
interpretations of the-God expressed in the 1776 colonists’ declaration of war
for independence from England. There is not one word that derides the English,
Protestant Trinity of 1689, "reformed" from the Catholic Trinity of
1215. The 1776 Declaration expresses the humble-integrity to separate church
from state. And the 1787 Constitution has not one word to lessen the
humble-integrity of the Declaration.
However, I want to persuade both
Eastman and Struppa to consider my view, not to destroy their persons.
Responsible-human-independence is being regressed if January 20 is
not reformed (Emel Akan, The Epoch Times) (https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-prepares-for-one-of-the-most-unusual-inaugurations-in-history_3660200.html)
I object to Emel Akan's perhaps
innocent report on an influencer's opinions, with no objections by Akan. It's a
common practice in today's excuse for journalism. To end the opinion piece with
"because of the CCP virus" is, to me, egregious.
It's not just illegal voting in
some states. It's not the China virus and other aggressions. It's not Russian
hope. It's not Iranian ambition. It's not communism. It’s the Democratic-Party-evil.
The rule of law regressed in the
USA when the U.S. Supreme Court turned political, intentionally or not, in
order to aid the evil of the Democratic Party's promotion of democracy as
equality without discipline. For example, ruining marriage in protection of
dignity and equity to the human ovum.
The Democrats work to defeat the U.S.
proposition: develop the domestic disciplines necessary for
responsible-human-independence. They, the media, and the Justices seem to
encourage innocent people to reject their own gender, perhaps to support
biological entrepreneurs.
The primitive political
philosopher represented in Genesis 1:26-28 commends female&male-humans to
constrain chaos on earth rather than destroy each other over heartfelt opinion.
Observe the humility-toward both
church and state and their separation in the U.S. proposition: The 1776
Declaration and the 1787 Constitution.
Bob Unanue and others speak from weakness rather than
strength and may reform in self-interest (Gary Du, The Epoch Times) (https://www.theepochtimes.com/they-want-to-cancel-our-culture-our-history-our-liberty-goya-ceo_3659453.html)
Fellow-citizen “Robert Unanue,
Goya Foods President and CEO, said on Friday the political left [acts] to take
away God, culture, history, and liberty from the people of the United States.”
“Liberty”, vaunted in the
eighteenth century political consequences of “the enlightenment” and often used
to draw fellow-citizens blood, is license for tyranny. Whereas freedom is a
natural-human condition, liberty is licensed by the winner in conflict. For
example, if I claim, as fellow-citizen, the ability to read and act on the U.S.
Constitution, a Supreme Court Justice claims I have license to submit-to but
neither comprehend nor comment-on the-law. He asserts that Justice-speak is not
American-English and often finds precedence in U.S.-Constitution-negating
English law. U.S.-proffered public-disciplines intend development in both
psychology and practice. If the USA survives, it will practice
responsible-human-independence rather than liberty: freedom-from oppression
rather than liberty-to alienate fellow human beings.
When a believer invokes God, they
assume the others comprehend and accept believer’s higher power. Perhaps
Unanue’s God is Judeo-Christian. Applying discoveries in the past 4 thousand
years, the scripture in Genesis 1:26-28 suggests that female&male-humans
must constrain chaos in the universe. Phil Beaver is charged with constraining
chaos in living during his lifetime. Perhaps some fellow-citizens attempt to
require their God to constrain chaos in their lives. I do not object, as long
as they do not try to impose their God in my life.
The founders in 1776 declared war
for independence from England in humility to each “Nature’s God” (necessity),
“the Supreme Judge of the world” (military power), and “the good People”
(reliability), un-questioning England’s partnership with their
Protestant-Trinity. In 1778, the founders negotiated with France for military
providence. The 1776 Declaration of Independence separates church from state.
To be continued once
Continuation
The 1787 U.S. Constitution’s
framers proffered a culture of religious privacy, integrity, justice, peace,
strength, and prosperity, “in order to” develop responsible-human-independence
“to ourselves and our Posterity.” Nothing in the 1787 Constitution lessens the
1776 Declaration’s humble-integrity in separation of church from state.
Congress, in 1791, in the First
Amendment, codified a U.S.-unconstitutional Congress-theism partnership. The
Judeo-Catholic U.S. Supreme Court continually strengthens the totalitarianism,
recently in Greece v Galloway (2014). Therein, the Justice labeled my sovereign
resistance “niggling”. Christians can be aware that as a non-Christian I reject
St.John-imagined Jesus-directed hate toward me in John 15:18-23. The United States.
“under God” arrogates Genesis 1, the 1776 Declaration, the 1787 Constitution,
and the 1787 entity We the People of the United States, 1776s “the good
People”. The theistic phrase “under the-God” would be more humble, yet still
insufficient to citizen-philosophers.
Unfortunately, the otherwise good
people who cannot read Genesis 1 and constrain chaos in their way of living
rather than attempt to consign that duty to their God are negotiating from a
position of weakness rather than strength. It has taken only 234 years for the
Congress-theism partnership to reduce the U.S. to chaos. Fellow-citizens can
stop the ruin this years, 2021, by holding Congress responsible for reform.
The reforms I suggest for 2021
are: 1) amend the First Amendment so as to promote civic integrity rather than
civil religion, 2) restore the 1782 motto “E Pluribus Unum” and apply it to
the-God, Gods, and philosophies that the responsible-human-independents want,
and 3) replace ceremonial prayer&pledge with unison-reading of the preamble
to the U.S. Constitution in municipal, state, and federal civil meetings.
An achievable better future may
emerge if 2/3 of fellow-citizens participate in the reform.
(Posted at the above URL.)
Events
Amanda Gorman, The
Hill We Climb (https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/amanda-gorman-inauguration-poem-transcript-the-hill-we-climb)
As Ms. Gorman began to perform her poem I hoped for light on
civic integrity rather than skin color, assuming that’s what “bronze” referred
to. Moreover, for the occasion, there could have been responsible-human-independence
rather than popular dependency; acceptance of human, individual power, energy,
and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than to tolerate infidelity
to a unique person.
Does she read the Orthodox Tewahedo Bible? Does it teach that
the-God charges female&male, in the-God’s image (perhaps as HIPEA), to
constrain chaos on earth? I hope so.
Some Gorman-thoughts seem to include fellow-citizens. For
example, “Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but
simply unfinished.” I hope her reference is September 17, 1787, which is in
concert with Genesis 1 in encouraging responsible-human-independence to female&male.
But that mood is broken by “skinny black girl” as qualification to become
president.
When she speaks of redemption, I hope she envisions
widespread acceptance of the-God’s Genesis 1 charge: female&male constrain
chaos during your lives. So far, civilizations assume they can manipulate the-God
to usurp responsible-human-independence, and the chaos has diverged unto catastrophe.
The 1787 U.S. Constitution affirms the-God’s charge to
civic-discipline “in order to” develop responsible-human-independence to “ourselves
and our Posterity”. I hope this is the change Gorman will promise to our
children.
Quora
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-good-lack-a-global-definition-that-is-100-percent-accepted?
by Larry Ouma
I
think it’s because people drop the article in “the-good” so as to be vague,
perhaps to protect honesty’s insufficiency to integrity. That is, intentionally
or not, the global influence is to develop and nurture banal appetites rather
than develop the self-discipline to egocentrically pursue the-good.
Socrates
annoyed fellow-citizens by using the phrase “the-God”. Agathon suggested that
the-God’s greatest power is to neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from
any person or god. It may follow that the-good is no-harm. These principles are
2,400 years old. Why aren’t they well known and practiced?
About
1400 years earlier, a Mesopotamian philosopher suggested that the-God charged
male&female humans to have dominion over other living species and to subdue
the earth. It seems most cultures, rather than accepting the necessity to
constrain personal infidelity, spend their power and energy trying to coerce
the-God to assure them safety and security. The-God assigned
responsible-human-independence to male&female human beings.
In
the year 2021, politicians coerce the people to say the Catholic sentiment “In
God We Trust” (1956) instead of the inclusive, colonial motto on the
President’s seal: “E Pluribus Unum” (1782). The Catholics could have urged inclusivity by
suggesting “In the-God We Trust” reserving sufficient humility to avoid defying
whatever the-God is. However, necessity itself does not demand confronting
the-God.
The
entity We the People of the United States suffer the hubris of the U.S.
Congress and their codifier, the U.S. Supreme Court. I encourage the 2021
“ourselves and our Posterity” to amend the First Amendment so as to promote
individual, human integrity rather than impose civil religion.
FB
add on: Did Socrates suggest that practicing
integrity for the-good reserves sufficient humility toward the-God?
https://www.quora.com/Can-the-scientific-method-be-used-to-form-and-evaluate-politicalopinions-on-a-specific-subject-If-so-how?
by Priyam Patel
I
think so.
First,
the scientific method is a process for research to discover the-ineluctable-truth, which exists. Humankind
works to discover and benefit-from it. The product of research is discovery
rather than proof of what is imagined.
Often,
research is disadvantaged with tools of perception that are primitive.
Therefore, the research product is beheld as the-objective-truth. For example, Greeks,
perhaps 2,300 years ago surmised that the earth’s surface was locally curved.
They communicated to observe the same-sized stick exposed to the sun at a
distance of 500 miles apart. The stick with the sun directly overhead cast no
shadow and the distant one had shadow away from the sun at the same moment.
They observed the-objective-truth based on ineluctable evidence. Today, we are
confident in the-ineluctable-truth that the earth is like a globe, because of
satellite photos and other observations.
This example is evidence that psychological research and
physical research conform to the same laws (physics); differing perceptions are
resolved using the-ineluctable-evidence. For example, an ancient (flat) earth
dweller could take offense at islanders arguing that the earth is like a globe:
the horizon is always curved, and no matter how far into the horizon they sail,
they don’t fear falling off an edge. As late as 1838 a flat-earth perceiver
erroneously “observed” that the earth is flat, starting local debate that
lasted 3 decades.
A key psychological debate derives from the power or mystery
that motivates human beings to research the-ineluctable-truth. An ancient
political philosopher, as reported in Genesis 1:26-28, expressed some ideas
that seem doubtable after 4 thousand years of discovery.
Quoting the report, “So God created humankind in his own
image; in the image of God he created him: male and female he created
them. God blessed them: God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the
earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and
every living creature that crawls on the earth.”
In 2021, this mystery can be interpreted as the philosopher
influenced by the Jesus of “Before Abraham I AM” or another proposed
intellectual being. Another way to view I AM is that Jesus’s direct message
was: Human appreciation existed before
Abraham fled Ur to escape the doctrine of human sacrifice. I prefer to think it
is a primitive expression (before discovery that the dinosaurs died out 65
million years ago) that necessity requires female&male
human-beings to constrain the other species and to lessen the earth’s chaos.
Individually, spouses ought to constrain chaos in their families. Meanwhile,
the-God may be regarded with the humility that necessity is driven by more than
the laws of physics and its progeny (regardless of doubt in intelligent design).
There are two keys to the scientific method: First, the
research product cannot refute the ineluctable evidence and the practice must
preserve human integrity. In plain talk, Albert Einstein might have said,
“Research without integrity is ruinous; integrity without research is
ineffectual.”
Lastly, let me say that “social science” is pseudo-research,
because the sponsor seeks to prove a political point and so designs the
research. For example, to gather public opinion that guns should be
confiscated, the researcher advises interviewers to exclude hunters from the
sampling. “Social science” does not pursue the-ineluctable-truth. That’s my
opinion.
FB add on: The scientific method orders research to
discover rather than to prove an opinion. The product is the-objective-truth if
not the-ineluctable-truth. The basis is the-ineluctable-evidence from physics
and its progeny including psychology.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-our-highly-social-brains-make-discerning-the-truth-more-difficult?
by Barbara Young Capalbo
I
don’t think our social brains, which yearn for the-good, are at fault. Our
church-state-partnership dissuades us from the responsible-human-independence
urged in Genesis 1:26-28 and affirmed in our 1776&1787 people’s documents.
Most
people just want to live and leave politics to others. Thereby, they allow the
people who take power in politics to constrain passive-citizens futures.
It’s
all about female&male human beings appreciating each other and constraining
chaos during their lifetimes. Spouses commit to each other before they develop
intimacy and commit to their family for life before they engage in sex. The
female brings and the male enables family, for life unto posterity.
The
earth formed 4.6 billion years ago (BYA). Sex started evolving 2 BYA. Placental
sex emerged 200 million years ago (MYA), and made possible the dinosaurs dying
off 65 MYA. Humanoids emerged 7 MYA. Tools from 3 MYA have been discovered.
Primitive
peoples explained mysteries with metaphysical beings and stories 40 thousand
years ago (TYA), and polytheism prevailed 10 TYA. Almost 5 TYA, Zoroastrians developed
a triad of creator, God of wisdom, and Goddess of fertility. About 4 TYA,
monotheism emerged.
A
Mesopotamian political philosopher suggested (Genesis 1:26-28) that the-God
charged female&male humans, in the-God’s psychological image, to take
dominion over other living species and subdue the earth. Yet most philosophers
continued to construct Gods to urge people to war over others.
The
1954-U.S.-Catholic attitude “In God We Trust” and one people “under God”
distracts female&male human beings from constraining chaos in their lives,
as suggested in Genesis 1. It causes them to renew belief in a President who
accepts responsibility for the office of President then answers the Chief
Justice’s strategic, unconstitutional invitation, “ . . . so help you God?” The
U.S. Supreme Court is culpable in Congress’s 230-years’ tyranny: a
religion-Congress-partnership to pretend egocentric divinity on par with
England’s constitutional Canterbury-Parliament partnership.
I
write to persuade the entity We the People of the United States, the 2021
“ourselves and our Posterity” to amend the First Amendment so as to replace
freedom of religion with encouragement to the civic integrity suggested in
Genesis 1 and the American purpose proffered in the 1776 Declaration and the
1787 Constitution: responsible-human-independence.
The
dependency that is tolerated by the entity We the People of the United States
is imposed by Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court by unconstitutional
tradition.
Thank
you, Ms. Capalbo. If there are no objections, I will add your name and
this date to my appreciations page at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.
FB
add on: The goodness of U.S. social brains will become evident the
moment the entity We the People of the United States terminate the
unconstitutional, immoral, religion-Congress-partnership, by amending the First
Amendment in order to establish civic integrity rather than civil religion. Let
“ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 make it happen. Write to your Senators
and your Congress person.
https://www.quora.com/Why-may-there-be-different-paths-or-routes-to-reaching-the-same-fundamental-truth?
by Oliver Birnso
I
don’t know, but think comprehending the challenge requires specific
words&phrases and I suggest “the-ineluctable-truth” as definitive. The
hyphens are intended to avoid separation of the words that represent the usage.
The-ineluctable-truth
exists and male&female humans work to discover, comprehend, and
benefit-from the research. Research is limited to the available instruments of
perception and the imagination employed to search for ineluctable evidence.
For
example, the Bedford Level experiment (1838) conducted to prove the earth is
flat, did so, under erroneous assumptions (Wikipedia). The ancient Greeks
2,000-years earlier, intending to observe evidence, observed sticks 500 miles
apart at the same time of day. The one at high noon cast no shadow and the
other cast a shadow, proving the earth is a sphere.
When
instruments of perception are imperfect, research discovers
the-objective-truth, and future research may approach the-ineluctable-truth.
“Objective truth” based on ineluctable evidence is not equivalent to
the-objective-truth, as it may involve the researcher’s bias:
the-objective-truth would be reached by anyone and may point-to
the-ineluctable-truth.
https://www.quora.com/What-things-are-absolutely-wrong?
by Binti Chudasama
Of
course I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth.
I
think it is ineluctably wrong to attempt to consign to a God the
responsible-human-independence that necessity requires of human
female&male.
That’s
the entity in the-God’s image that is commended to accept the dominion over
other living species and to subdue the earth. The female brings an ovum and her
spousal male empowers family. The family constrains chaos for life.
A
political philosopher primitively expressed these principles about 4 thousand
years ago; see Genesis 1:26-28. In 2021 language it is separation of church
from state, metaphysics from physics, and mystery from necessity, in order to
empower responsible-human-independence
Since then, civilizations have enslaved themselves to
construct a doctrine by which state can coerce the-God to provide
responsible-human-independence to their race, ethnicity, or political ideology,
in favor against all other civilizations.
Sex began evolving about 2
billion years ago. Placental sex positioned the dinosaurs to die off 65 million
years ago. Humanoids emerged about 7 million years ago, and primitive tools
appeared 3 million years ago. Ten thousand years ago, some cultures explained
the unknowns of physics and its progeny including psychology as mysterious
actions by gods. Maybe 4.5 thousand years ago, Zoroastrians constructed a triad
with creator, God of wisdom, and Goddess of fertility. About 4 thousand years
ago, monotheism entered the debate. The effect has been more chaos rather than
less, because church and state partnerships repress
responsible-human-independence. Machiavelli expressed opposition in The Prince,
1513, Chapter XI.
The culture that tolerates a
church-state-partnership seems absolutely wrong.
FB add on: Genesis 1:26-28, the 1776 colonial declaration of war for
independence from England, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution for domestic
discipline separate church from state; domestic-civics from civil-imposition;
metaphysics from physics; freedom (a human condition) from liberty
(government-license); and privacy from civil-dependence. Why does the entity We
the People of the United States tolerate the theism-Congress-partnership that
was unconstitutionally imposed by Congress in 1791 and codified as traditional
by the U.S. Supreme Court as recently as 2014? Why give an elected official the
option to attempt to consign his or her responsibility for the office to a
personal God, in defiance of Genesis 1:26-28 and 1776&1787s "the good People"
documents?
Let
“ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 amend the First Amendment in order to
promote humble-integrity to the people instead of providing business-support to
institutional theism.
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-ever-a-legitimate-reason-based-on-differing-opinions-to-not-engage-in-a-civil-discussion-Such-as-not-debate-someone-with-different-political-opinions-but-try-to-shut-the-out-of-the-discussion?
by Scott Webb
When
someone discovers I don’t worship their God and thereafter tolerates my
statements or me, I see no reason to offer more than small talk---the weather
or sports.
Such
people have no humility toward the-God, whatever-it-is, and the only thing they
need to figure that out is time alone.
If
they present the opportunity, I point that out. For example, if they say,
“You’re going to hell, and I’ll pray for you” I may respond: Please pray to
the-God that may judge me more than to your doctrine. I try to present a thought that
will echo later.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-there-ever-a-point-where-the-good-of-a-community-is-more-important-to-honor-than-the-good-of-an-individual-relationship-Explain?
by Anne Kristine Flores
The
ineluctably good person neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any
person, including self and family.
Therefore,
if the other in a relationship is causing harm and ignores your objections, not
reporting to first responders lessens your ineluctable-good.
https://www.quora.com/Is-doing-things-in-moderation-overrated?
by Colin Tan
I
think responsible-human-independence (RHI), in order to civically pursue the
happiness the individual wants rather than submit to the way of living someone
else imagines for them. Since some humans think crime pays, RHI requires
individual integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity “to ourselves
and our Posterity”.
To Colin Tan:
Thank you, Mr. Tan, for the question.
I think freedom-from state-oppression is
the natural human condition.
However, a newborn human requires complete
care then coaching and encouragement as they acquire the comprehension and
intention to conduct a complete human life, both chronological (time) and
psychological (fidelity).
The human being has the individual power,
the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop humble-integrity
to the-ineluctable-truth (ToT). ToT exists, and humankind works to comprehend
and benefit. Individuals can choose to employ HIPEA for the-good. Those who do,
must accept that some don’t and therefore must constrain the harm.
The person who chooses to be a human being
rather than one of the opposites must develop self-discipline to behave in the
self-interest of humble-integrity. The resulting behavior is
responsible-human-independence (RHI).
The proffered proposition in the preamble
to the U.S. constitution calls for 5 public disciplines—-integrity, justice,
peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” develop RHI “to ourselves and
our Posterity”. Religion, a private interest, is not among the disciplines, in
keeping with the separation of church and state primitively suggested in
Genesis 1:26–28. Liberty, state-license, rather than freedom-from oppression,
lessens independence.
If I have opened more questions, let me
know.
https://www.quora.com/Is-doing-things-in-moderation-overrated?
by Alvin Funk
I
think so.
Moderate
drinking can invite adultery in moderation. Celibacy can invite empathy for
moderate
pederasty.
Moderate
negligence can cause divorce.
Any
self-infidelity lessens the human being.
https://www.quora.com/Which-among-the-five-principles-of-ethical-power-of-organizations-pride-persistence-perspective-patience-and-purpose-do-you-usually-apply-in-your-personal-life?
by Angel Apuyan
I
choose humble-integrity rather than pride. For example, I practice commitment
and trust but reserve humility toward the-God, whatever-it-is.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-tradition-so-important-for-some-peoples-political-ideology?
by Devin Swycinsky
The most influential tradition derives from the constitutional partnership
between the Church of England and Parliament: a factional-American equivalent
maintained by Congress and the Supreme Court by English precedent. Magna Carta,
in 1215 established legislative powers by the Catholic Bishop of Canterbury and
the Lords, approved by King John. After the “glorious revolution” the 1689 Bill
of Rights stipulated a Protestant monarchy.
The combination of the 1776 American declaration of war for independence
from England and the 1787 U.S. Constitution proffered separation of church from
state. Human independence is suggested in the Genesis 1:26-28 instruction that
the entity male&female human beings constrain chaos on earth. In other
words, the male&female human entity behaves with
responsible-human-independence.
However, some 1787 framers wanted egocentric divinity on par with
Parliament, and a few, therefore, did not sign the Constitution. They aided the
introduction of unconstitutional factional-Protestant-Congress partnership, at
the expense of the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity”. Congress arrogates
the-God of Genesis 1, the 1776 Declaration, the 1787 Constitution, and the
entity We the People of the United States. The U.S. totalitarianism persists
today as Judeo-Catholicism under the cover of “freedom of religion”. The Court
holds my objections “niggling”.
Some framers had read and accepted Machiavelli, “The Prince” (1513). Chapter
XI explains that in a government with church-state-partnership, the priests and
politicians live high on the hog and the people neither emigrate nor rebel,
inculcating in their children the faith that their God will eventually relieve family
losses and misery. Church-state partnerships enjoy the peoples’ productivity
and military service.
Some of the principal beneficiaries of this tyranny are Justices, some of
whom are Machiavelli-masters. But holding them accountable can only come from
the people who now prefer to assume that their God will cover their Genesis-1-obligation.
It is self-evident that the-God will not usurp human-responsibility.
Only a dreamer would imagine reforming believers to adopt sufficient humility
to behave with responsible-human-independence.
I work daily for that reform, which is possible only by the entity We the
People of the United States, not the church-state-partners. It is unfortunate
that most Justices do not regard themselves as fellow-citizens. They
desperately cling to English precedent at the expense of U.S.-psychological-independence
and imagine themselves above the costs.
FB add on: If you perceive that the vaunted American
resiliancy looks like stupidity, consider Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513,
Chapter XI. See https://constitution.org/2-Authors/mac/prince11.htm less than 5 minute read.
I think so.
Abraham founded Israel, perhaps to escape human sacrifice in Ur and replace
it with animal sacrifice to bargain with the-God for favor to his people.
Through infidelity to the female&male-human entity, he spawned two great religions
that would compete with his own: Judaism would turn chaotic with Christianity
and Islam.
Jesus suggested he existed before Abraham. I think that as a metaphor for
human-appreciation and accept responsibility to me if I am wrong. Before
Genesis, there was polytheism. For example, the kings of Egypt were egocentric
Gods who used slave-labor to elaborate wealth and build pyramids to shelter
their mummified, metaphysical afterdeath-objects. Other cultures also built
pyramids and other attempts to access “the heavens”.
Also, before Abraham, Zoroastrians arguably constructed a religion founded
on a triad: a creator, a truth-God, and a fertility-Goddess. A
primitive-political-philosopher in Mesopotamia reportedly suggested,
interpreting in 2021 comprehension, the following: The-God charges the
female&male-human entity, in the-God’s image, to accept independent
dominion over other living species and to subdue the universe.
Perhaps Jesus (I AM) inspired the philosopher to influence female&male
humans to accept and practice responsible-human-independence. However,
civilizations ignored the-Genesis-1-appreciation and continued to construct
doctrine by which to harness the-God to provide competitive-worldly-advantages.
No culture has ever accepted responsible-human-independence to accomplish peace
in the world.
Two documents together-propose such a culture. The 1776 declaration of war
against England expresses the humble-integrity of separating church and state,
or expressing responsible-human-independence, with no complaints against the
English Trinity. The 1787 U.S. Constitution’s text and preamble have not one
word to lessen the civic integrity expressed in the 1776 Declaration. The
Constitution proffers a culture of domestic disciplines---integrity, justice,
peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” develop
responsible-human-independence to the U.S. continuum “ourselves and our
Posterity.”
Civil attempts to arrogate the necessity for female&male-humans to
constrain chaos in their lives (by attempting to assign the responsibility to
their God) has exponentially increased theism, such that in 2021, no two humans
have the same personal God. With insufficient humble-integrity toward whatever
the-God is, individuals invite woe: they refuse to accept
responsible-human-independence.
It is said that the future cannot resist change. I work daily to effect the
establishment of the United States under its people’s proposal that is
proffered in the 1776 Declaration and 1787 Constitution, together.
Readers who are interested may learn more at Voluntary Civic People of Baton Rouge
(massive) and may aid the cause at Quora Spaces “Preamblers” and
“Apperciators”, each barely begun. I write to learn, so please comment.
FB add on: Has Abrahamic monotheism harmed the female&male-human necessity to
constrain chaos to their posterity?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-anti-intellectual-and-science-denial-things-in-the-US-about-Educated-people-seem-to-be-almost-resented-Expertise-replaced-by-this-weird-need-to-not-need-experts-What-has-triggered-this-in-the-USA? by
Chris Guerrieri
Of
course, I do not know.
However,
I speculate that it is the conflation of events before and after MLK, Jr’s
shooting in 1968. Included are black liberation theology, the Thurgood
Marshall-Linden Johnson alliance, Saul Alinsky church power for organized
disruption, black power, the Nation of Islam, the NAACP, the urban league, both
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton students of Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO)
to disrupt, Jeremiah Wright preaching perhaps the Orthodox Tewehedo Bible, DNA
evidence that everyone alive descended from a woman who lived perhaps 150
thousand years ago and a man who was her ancestor by perhaps 100 thousand
years, and most of all, democracy-evil as advanced by the Democratic Party.
When
writing first empowered records of civilizations, some cultures explained the
unknowns of physics and it progeny including psychology through polytheism
rather than philosophy. Zoroastrianism, 6.5 thousand years ago TYA, perhaps
proffered a triad: Ahura Mazda the creator; Mithra, God of covenant, light, and
oath and protector of truth; and Anahita, goddess of fertility, healing and
wisdom (Wikipedia).
About
3.8 TYA, a political philosopher claimed only one God. See Genesis 1:26-28.
The-God charged female&male, in his image, to have dominion and subdue the
earth. With 2021 benefits of discovery since then, we might comprehend that
female&male is charged to provide peace on earth.
Cultures
since then have concentrated on influencing the-God to provide peace to their
people rather than accept the responsible-human-independence suggested in
Genesis 1.
Whereas
R. E. Lee thought abolitionists were evil for proposing to accelerate a
Christian God’s plan to punish black posterity for their ancestors’ sins,
Barack Obama and his followers perhaps think the-God is black, his chosen
people are black, and whites will be slaves, in retribution for the “original
sin” Obama expressed.
I
don’t know the-ineluctable-truth, but can connect dots to support my theory.
Citizens
who accept the charge to constrain chaos in the universe, as primitively
suggested in Genesis 1, take action to provide peace on earth. A first step is
for the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the inauguration of the Democratic Party on
January 20, 2021.
FB
add on: I doubt ex-President Barack Obama agrees with
my Genesis 1 view: v 26-28 suggest responsible-human-independence; or
separation of church and state; or the individual is responsible for peace on
earth; or the female&male human entity constrains chaos in personal
behavior.
https://www.quora.com/What-happens-to-cultures-that-put-equality-before-freedom?
by George Ireland
For the U.S., Democrat Party chaos with domestic
military&mind control from Washington: Rule of law ended with the attack on
the Presidency before January 20, 2017.
View the video of Guatemalan soldiers battling a Honduran
coyote caravan headed for the U.S. southern border.
A Greek leader suggested 2,400 years ago that reliable
fellow-citizens behave for equity under statutory justice. On September 17,
1787, the United States proposed such a culture. However, in Congress, in 1791,
English loyalists to Chapter XI Machiavellianism repressed the Constitution as
“godless” and restored the colonial, factional-American-Protestant-theism.
Perhaps their motive was to establish a
Congress-Protestantism partnership to make Congressmen appear “divine” on par
with the English-constitutional Canterbury-Parliament partnership, with its 26
Protestant-bishop seats. Only the citizens who want equitable freedom under
statutory justice can stop the tyranny.
The world’s literature empowers every citizen to connect the
dots to the 2021, U.S. Supreme Court codified totalitarianism in the USA. When
we read ancient literature, it is important to recognize metaphysical phrases
and revise them to the physical. That’s because metaphysics empowers lies that
physics eventually discloses. For example, Sadam Hussain said George Bush would
find a big surprise: And there were no
weapons of mass destruction after the invasion.
About 4.5 thousand years ago (TYA), Egyptian kings used
slave-labor to shelter an egocentric-God’s afterdeath in a pyramid.
About 3.8 TYA, in Ur, where some priests practiced human
sacrifice to bargain with their God’s, a political philosopher expressed that
the-God requires responsible-human-independence. In other words,
female&male, in the-God’s image, is charged to constrain chaos in the
universe. Many cultures concentrate on bargaining with the-God to favor their
people, neglecting their lifetime opportunity to behave for peace on earth. The
consequence is exponentially expanding chaos.
About 3.8 TYA, Abraham left Ur to escape human sacrifice and
establish animal sacrifice to the-God. He betrayed the Sara&Abraham
constraint of chaos in life, begetting Ishmael in adultery with Hagar. The
consequence seems to be more chaos.
About 3.3 TYA, Israel, perhaps coincidentally, benefitted
from Egyptian monarchial advantage in preparing for drought.
About 3.1 TYA, Israel made Saul a king.
About 2.6 TYA, Israel suffered the Babylonian exile and
diaspora.
About 2 TYA, some Jews opined that Jesus is the Israel
messiah. Some non-Jews opine that Jesus saves all humans who are elected to be
a Jesus-disciple. Perhaps the literature hides cryptic messages, for example: a
human individual has the power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to perfect their
unique entity before life, mind, and person stop functioning.
About 1.6 TYA, several canonizations are codified. The
Orthodox Tewahedo Bible claims the largest list of books. In the West, the
Catholic Canon is contested by Protestant factions and Eastern Orthodoxy.
About 0.8 TYA, England codified with King John a
Catholic-Lords partnership in constitutional legislation.
Exactly 332 YA, England, in their Bill of Rights requires a
Protestant monarchy.
Exactly 245 YA, the 13 American eastern seaboard colonies,
with words and phrases that are humble to both church and state, hope and
strength, metaphysics and physics, the-God and responsible-human-independence,
declare war for independence from England. Two years later, they negotiate with
France for military providence against their English oppressors.
Exactly 237 YA, the 13 American eastern seaboard colonies
ratified their global status as free and independent states.
Exactly 234 YA, on September 17, 1787, the U.S. proffered
intentions to develop the public disciplines required to establish “ourselves
and our Posterity” as a culture of responsible-human independence. Nothing in
the 1787 Constitution lessens the humble-integrity toward both church and state
that is expressed in the 1776 Declaration. However, 4 year later, Congress
codified an unconstitutional Congress-theism partnership, perhaps for
egocentric “divinity” on par with members of the English Parliament. The
totalitarianism in opposition to Genesis 1, the 1776 Declaration, the 1787
Constitution, and the reliably-independent-humans, We the People of the United
States, has persisted for 230 years, thanks to the tyranny of the U.S. Supreme
Court, most recently in Greece v Galloway, which holds that my dot-connections
are niggling.
Now, in 2021, it is yet to be proven that the Justices were
political in not holding rogue states to account for their Electoral Votes in
the 2020 Presidential election. However, Central-American coyote caravans are
marching to the U.S. southern border in the chaos that is promised by the
Democrat Party. And Fox news is distracting the people with Chinese issues
while the Democrat Party works its evil with the Justices’ approval.
I cringed each time the people’s friend, President Donald
Trump, expressed that the 1954 Knights of Columbus’ “. . . under God” is more
reliable than 1782s “E Pluribus Unum”, which is on the Presidential seal. I
don’t know.
But during my eight decades, I have experienced and observed
the oppression of Judeo-Christianity. And I have thought, written, and spoken
for two decades the urgent need to amend the First Amendment, recently, to end
state support for competitive theism in order to proffer civic integrity, which
can be measured by humble-integrity.
If the Justices allow the inauguration of Joe Biden, I
cannot imagine survival of the USA as humankind’s best hope to abide the
suggestion in Genesis 1: female&male, regardless of any other
characteristic, is charged with constraining chaos in the universe.
Thank you, Mr. Ireland and Aveda King, whom I saw on TV this
moring, for motivating this version of my rant.
Readers who agree with most of the above comprehension of
the past and present can aid reform by contributing at two Quara Spaces, 1)
Preamblers and 2) Appreciators. I introduced their purposes and am waiting for
fellow-citizens to develop them as they deem beneficial. I speak and write to
learn from fellow-citizens. Also, my daily essays are posted each Saturday
evening at cipbr.blogspot.com.
FB add on: It’s not too late for the U.S. Supreme Court
to stop the chaos the U.S. faces, by delaying if not stopping the inauguration
of the Democrat Party (neither China-evil, nor Iranian aggression, nor
Russian-hopes, nor Joe Biden) on January 20, 2021.
https://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-tried-to-explain-your-point-and-proved-yourself-wrong?
by Barbara Young Capalbo
I thought I could describe God. I sat down and wrote “God is
love.” When I came to, my pen was against the wall under my large desk. Maybe I
had blacked out. My heart was racing. I won’t try that again.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-integrity-important-on-matters-you-think-are-seemingly-harmless-or-not-a-big-deal?
Stephanie and Jonathan Knowles and Wahl want an answer
I once made a pact with a friend to abstain from alcohol to
sympathetically aid reform. I got an overseas assignment and knew there would be
lots of wine-toasting. I asked my friend for a 3-week relaxation. Soon, my
friend died in alcohol-related accident. After 3 decades, I know I will never
lose the guilt.
Today, out of self-interest I am a teetotaler in mourning
for my friend: Never lie, in order to lessen pain, loss, and misery.
https://www.quora.com/Are-internal-moral-conflicts-necessary-for-a-persons-development? By Anatoly
Murzintsev
I firmly opine: not so.
Parents who accept their child as a person who intends to
develop into a human being rather than tolerate an opposite (animal or plant),
coach and encourage the child to acquire the comprehension and intention to
live a complete human life--both chronologically and psychologically.
The human being has the individual power, the individual
energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop his or her person unto
his or her unique perfection. To do so requires the self-discipline to develop
humble-integrity in thought and deed rather than tolerate infidelity to self.
Humility derives from necessity, whatever its cause. For
example, if a person needs to warn beach goers that a tsunami is coming and
they must move to highest ground as soon as possible, they need not explain
what caused the tsunami. On the other hand, a person need not introduce another
to metaphysical concepts such as soul. No human being knows that soul is
ineluctably-true, and the other’s metaphysics may be perfect already.
Appreciation of these principles came from Agathon, as I
view his speech: The ineluctably-good person neither initiates nor tolerates
harm to or from any person or association, including self and family.
FB add on: Soul
is a metaphysical entity. The other person’s metaphysics may be perfected:
Nobody knows.
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I seek fellow-citizens with an improved view of the-good and
who appreciate the-God.
Most
people in Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court during U.S. history and in 2021
seem divergently busy negotiating religion for us and freedom for them.
We, "ourselves and our Posterity" of 2021, have
self-interest in amending the First Amendment to promote civic integrity rather
than civil religion. Individual citizens choose either civic integrity or
infidelity-to-self and thus divide themselves: therefore, unity is not an
attainable goal. There must be civic standards and civil constraints:
appreciation to the-God and discipline to the-good.
The above syntax, the-good or the-God, is restated political
challenge by Socrates about 2,400 years ago, in Athens, Greece. Did Plato, who
wrote about Socrates, read the perhaps 1,400-years earlier suggestion by a
political philosopher in Mesopotamia (reported in Genesis 1:27-28)?
The message, in 2021 awareness, seems: Necessity, or
personal-good, constrains male&female human-beings to flourish in dominion
over other living species and to subdue the earth. (The philosopher was unaware
that dinosaurs had died off 65 million years earlier.) Male&female humans
develop responsible-human-independence, in humble-integrity to the-God (perhaps
the-good).
In U.S. intentions, church is separated from state in order
to establish responsible-human-independence. The U.S. proposes to develop
civic-discipline in humble-integrity rather than impose
civil-unity--totalitarianism.
The founders, in the 1776 declaration of war against
England, established humble-integrity by representing "the good
People". They did not disparage the British Trinity, then Protestant
(1689) but formerly Catholic (1215). The appreciated “Nature’s God” for the-human
power, energy, and authority to self-discipline. They appealed "to the
Supreme Judge of the world" to confirm war-intentions. In 1778, they
appealed to France for military providence. In words and deeds, the "good
People" affirmed Genesis 1's charge to independently constrain chaos
during life. The founders separated church and state.
In 1787, the framers, negotiated intended domestic
rule-of-law: the draft U.S. Constitution. They issued not one word to diminish
the humble-integrity expressed by the founders, by the Mesopotamian
philosopher, and by Socrates. (For all we know, the Jesus of "before
Abraham I AM" influenced all the ancients who advocated independent
humble-integrity. If that is so, who could object?) The framers, moreover the
signers, separated church and state.
Only 39 of 55 framers were signers, and some of the 16
dissenters approved of neither separation of church and state nor of "our
Posterity" (of both the 1776 and the 1787 "ourselves") to hold
elected and appointed officials (local, state, and national) accountable to
humble-integrity then and into the distant future.
Egregiously, the first Congress, in 1791, created an
unconstitutional religion-Congress-partnership perhaps to compete with the
egocentric "divinity" claimed by the
Canterbury-Parliament-partnership in England. Since then, the U.S. Supreme
Court has codified the totalitarianism against the entity We the People of the
United States. Greece v Galloway (2014) dubs my concerns "niggling".
Egocentrically-superior to fellow-citizens, Justices are
informed by Nicolo Machiavelli in "The Prince" (1513) that officials
in a church-state-partnership can live high on the hog and citizens will
neither emigrate nor rebel: Fellow-citizens are busy negotiating with their
personal God for distant-relief from the loss and misery to their posterity.
Unaware-believers neglect the-God, and the-good goes wanting.
Let 2021 be the year We the People of the United States hold
Congress accountable to end their partnership with religion: amend the First
Amendment in order to promote humble-integrity to the-good rather than
religious-hubris against the-God.
@RepMattGaetz Jan 20, about
9:45 AM
I appreciate you. I propose an achievable better future: The
GOP leads U.S. reform to 1776&1787 intention, spoiled by 1791 Congress:
Responsible-human-independence, or separation of church and state per Genesis
1:26-28. Four decades' work came to fruition writing to Pres. Trump.
Phil
Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth 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.
