Update: 9/28/25
A mimic: What goodness
brought together let no person divide.
Workshop to
Discover Necessary Goodness That Motivates Good Behavior
Accepting authority, power, and responsibility perceived in primitive
literature and imposed by physics
Civic
citizens defend and preserve each other’s opportunity to pursue necessary
goodness. Civic citizens do all they can to enhance children’s natural desire
to discover and practice good behavior.
Seven seemingly ineluctable principles:
1.
Only the
person may and can constrain chaos in her or his way of living
a.
Higher power – Church, state, or the partnership
of the two, fails every individual
b.
Extant education fails
c.
Each person keeps beliefs humble to whatever
constrains the consequences of choice.
2.
The civic person
is humble to a mystery: necessary goodness at the recent edge of discovery
a.
Civic tradition continually yields to discovered
goodness.
3.
Every human infant innately desires to pursue
good behavior yet many children puzzle over erroneous social influences.
4.
Good behavior defines human being (the practice);
inspires acquisition of wisdom.
5.
Civic citizens do all they can to aid children’s
natural desire to comprehend and intend good behavior.
a.
Lesser species often neglect or abuse the
children.
6.
A civic faction,
We the People the People of the United States, pursues statutory justice* “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Posterity
includes newborn-to-citizens and legal immigrants.
7.
A civic people amend the Constitution when
injustice is discovered; through representatives, civic citizens legislate
reform unto statutory justice.
*In statutory justice, injustice-discovery invokes
legislative consideration to possibly amend the law, while maintaining
obedience to the Constitution.
Preface to the workshop
Dream: The civic people reform every education
institution and function so as to encourage children to comprehend and intend
to develop good behavior during a complete lifetime. Each child pursues
this knowledge through adolescence, unto adulthood, into retirement, and unto
death. Civic people mutually preserve each other’s opportunity to
pursue goodness. They collaborate to accomplish what nations and religions, so
far, failed: legislating and enforcing statutory justice when harm is
discovered or imposed. In other words, a civic people pursue necessary
goodness.
Adults choose to aid children. Adults pursue hopes and
comfort yet practice civic integrity.
Colloquially, “civic integrity”
displaces the “freedom and liberty” slogan: 1) Fellow citizens grant the
Declaration of Independence (1774) takes its accurate status – colonial
declaration of war against England, in order to clarify that the 13-states’
negotiated United States Constitution. Its ratification to 14 states, on
December 15, 1791, marks the beginning of the pursuit of statutory justice to
the USA’s 50 states. 2) Civic citizens do all they can to aid children in their
natural desire for good behavior or, to the mirror, “I do all I can to aid
children”. 3) Civic citizens listen to each other with appreciation, in order
to establish mutual opportunities. 4) Civic citizens develop the law as
statutory justice, in order to avoid and resist harm. 4) Responsibility to
goodness prevails yet does not expect utopia. 5) Cultures learn to regard
“scripture” as opinion about Homo sapiens.
Origin of this
proposal: At Perkins Road Park, Baton Rouge, LA, in Summer 2025 Harry Dunn
with Donovan Gray paused Phil’s walk-in-the-park to tell a squirrel story. Phil
segued to the discovery of the mystery of necessary goodness, which ineluctably
motivates a person to good behavior. Harry and Donovan happily pursued the
ideas. The 3 people agreed to work together to present the story to listeners
in Baton Rouge. Phil immediately began sharing with the two his opinions about
Genesis 1:26-28, which we hereby dub “The Sumerian Perception” to humankind.
We happily cite the Bible as literature with opinions about
Sumerian primitive-discovery of the good and essential because it impacts a
majority of modern Homo sapiens. The Bible is opinion reported between 3700
years ago and 1900 ya. It records consequences of not benefitting from
ineluctable truths that were discovered beforehand. For example, the Sumerians
took responsibility for public welfare at least 5500 ya.
Delights among the Perkins-Road-Park-trio continued and are
expected in the future. We request fellow citizens to aid our journey to
fulfill our goal: impactful and positive presentation of the mystery of
necessary goodness to the city.
Reform from Machiavellian-force to humble-goodness can only
be done by individual people collaborating to good behavior: civic integrity. History
has proved that power higher than a civic people renders chaos. Neither
religion nor government intends to discover and pursue necessary goodness, and
they have together brought the world to 2025-chaos. We three men perceive we
are insufficient civic-citizens, and our first task is to add women to the team,
either as participants or active advisors.
We intend to initiate a global movement grounded in
necessary goodness, each element of which must be discovered as time unfolds.
We have no intention to solicit money, as long as we perceive no benefit to the
world’s children.
Immediate intention: Develop
a Grass-Roots Presentation to Baton Rouge Inhabitants
We propose to develop this movement at Baton Rouge libraries
then present it to Baton Rouge fellows, perhaps at a BREC facility or other
low-cost venue, such as the stadium at Perkins Road Park. Perhaps the city will
fund an event at Galvez Plaza. Perhaps millionaires will fund an event at Tiger
Stadium, LSU.
Workshop approach: Each month, we will present an essential
topic for iteration with the participants, listening for civic improvements;
hope to perceive improvements to the improvements then re-discuss. Continue
this iterative process until all
listeners perceive collaboration has approached the ineluctable* truth:
conclusions from which mutual listeners cannot emerge. Then record the process
and conclusions, knowing new input could restart iterations. We welcome
discussion with groups who have not participated. We invite fellow citizens to
suggest new topics to evidence humankind’s progress toward fulfilling the
Sumerian Perception. For example, we presently have no presentation on
leisure’s impact on goodness.
*Ineluctable: together, not to be avoided, changed, or resisted
(Merriam-Webster online); think of a wrestling hold from which the opponent
cannot emerge. European dictionaries tend to omit “changed” from the triune
constraint.
We will establish and maintain active advisors with
nomination by participants. At least for this first year, advice will be
accepted or shelved by A Civic People of the United States, the Louisiana
corporation founded in 2015.
After this initial year’s extendable meetings, continue the
process from generation to generation – “to ourselves and our Posterity”,
referring to the preamble to the United States Constitution. The quest for
necessary goodness does not expect utopia.
Participation: Participants
leave each meeting with consequences for consideration and possible improvement.
Each person seeks opportunity to modify the path and direction of the work, in
order to pursue humankind’s necessary goodness rather than a narrow view, such
as submitting to higher power or mere force. Every participant’s contribution
is precious to humankind.
If necessary, the current or a previous topic may delay the
next planned topic. Consensus chooses such delay.
Knowledge:
Presenters declare they can only express opinion. That is, much as they pursue
it, they know they do not possess the ineluctable truth. Rather than cite
references, they use key words so participants may independently search Online.
The intention is to include essential happenings without attempting to fully
explain. Our intention is to touch an overview from the Big Bank, 13.7 billion
years ago to the world’s chaos in 2025, but not to explore the depths of
knowledge, such as every detail of Sumerian law codes. Not knowing the
ineluctable truth, we have no desire to persuade: civic citizens earn their
opinion.
Venue:
Goodwood Library, Baton Rouge; 3rd Sundays, October 2025 through
January, 2026, 3 PM until 6 PM excepting October 19 from 4:30 PM until 8:30 PM;
second floor, room 2A, 2B, 2B, and 2A, respectively. Reservations for the rest
of 2026 are to be made in November 2025.
1st Topic: Homo sapiens in charge of order
See Powerpoint presentation for
October 19, 2025.
2nd topic: Consequence of not accepting duty
The complete
Bible reports the consequences when Biblical civilizations do not accept the
Genesis-1 message, for whatever reason. The Bible is literature on par with the
Sumerian codes of law and treaties with other governments.
Genesis 2:4
begins a saga of the G-d seeking a faction’s obedience, branching to factions
who claim obedience is not essential.
1. A king and priest, anointed to solve
the dilemma, is prophesied in Zechariah
6.
2. The faction was disobedient, so G-d
flooded them out, beginning in Genesis 6.
3. G-d made a blood covenant not to flood
the people again in Genesis 8.
4. Centuries later, Israel emerged after
a covenant with Abraham in Genesis 12.
5. Do 10 commandments in Exodus 20 abide
Genesis 1? Advocate necessary goodness?
6. A faction of Israel predicted a messiah
in Isaiah 7 and 53.
7. Israel alienated many peoples,
including Arabs.
8. Hebrews 9, dismissed by Israel, claims
that Christ is the blood sacrifice for all believers, whether circumcised or
not and whether obedient or not.
a. Anyone who acknowledges Yeshua of
Nazareth 2000 years ago is not a Jew, because Jews still wait for a Messiah or
not.
b. Christians project Yeshua onto Old
Testament, scattered prophecy.
i.
“Jesus”
is a miracle-working, western imposition onto Yeshua.
ii.
“Christ”
is the executed then resurrected Yeshua to some, like Messiah to Jewish
Christians, or Christ to Christians.
iii.
Christ
is G-d.
Prophecy, miracles,
and blood sacrifice confound the Bible’s influences to necessary goodness. The
consequence is that differing believers exclude most civic people. The civic
people among the various believers may and can reform use of the Bible story,
in order to facilitate rather than prevent good behavior.
If
Judeo-Christianity collaborated on discovering necessary goodness, and good
behavior became evident, the rest of the world -- humankind -- might be on the
way to order on earth according to Genesis 1:26-28’s Sumerian Perception.
It is important
to limit belief in humility to whatever constrains the consequences of human
choice.
(To be
developed.)
3rd topic: Judeo-Christian
values
Extensive New
Testament reports of Yeshua, the actual person, influencing necessary goodness
that accommodates the Sumerian Perception. Yeshua and Biblical constructs about
miracles, blood sacrifice, and obedience influence 55% of the world’s
population and is a controversial topic to 90% of the world’s Homo sapiens. Judeo-Christian
values repress Yeshua’s influence to goodness with the miracles of “Jesus” and
the “blood of Christ”. Focus on necessary goodness may and can resolve this
worldwide dilemma. Maybe it’s better to drop the controversy and focus on
goodness. (To be expanded.)
4th topic: Homo sapiens’ quest for statutory justice
European or
western political thought accommodates Yeshua-improved Sumerian Perception. Outline:
·
improving
Sumerian law codes started 5500 years ago under polytheism headed by a goddess
·
A
Semitic-speaking group left Ur to escape human sacrifice, 4000 ya, and wrote
Genesis 1.
·
Genesis
2 then Moses’ law further subjugated women, 3400 ya
·
Cyrus
Cylinder, 3000 ya, Persian abolition of slavery, and the Roman republic instead
of kingdom
·
Papal
bull authorizing Portugal to trade African slaves to the Americas, 1455
·
Magna
Carta, 1512
·
John
Locke, 1690
·
Edmund
Burke, 1790
·
Thomas
Paine; “African Slavery in America”, 1775
·
The
Treaty of Pairs; ratified by Congress to 13 independent states in the USA, 1784
·
The
negotiated US Constitution, ratified to 14 states December 15, 1791
·
Ralph
Waldo Emerson; “Divinity School Address”, 1838; persons can pursue perfection
·
Marx,
1848
·
The
civic faction of America ends slavery in America, 1865
·
Marcuse
(1965) and Cone (1970)
·
WikiLeaks
, 2006, documents reveal governments’ resistance against human responsibility
·
A
Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana corporation, 2015
·
Workshop,
“Discovering Necessary Goodness”, 2025
(To be developed.)
5th topic: appreciating necessary goodness.
Humankind
classify themselves according to harm they perpetrate or none:
1.
Civic citizens practice necessary goodness and
influence civility, impacting,
a.
Passives and divines, who may awaken to civic duty,
b.
Dissidents and rebels to the law, who may choose
to reform,
c.
Criminals, who harmed others or their property,
who may be constrained and provided aid to reform, along with
d.
The wicked, who perversely abuse others, e.g.,
sex trafficking, and
e.
The evil, who perpetrate atrocities, such as
microwaving babies, inviting annihilation.
Civic citizens collaborate to aid necessary governance with the
other classes; influence, facilitate reform, constrain, avoid and resist, and
annihilate, respectively. Categorizations are based on practice rather than
values; intolerance of oppression. Practice follows comprehension and
intention. Thus, a person born into a criminal community may accept his or her
desire for good behavior and therefore pursue comprehension of necessary
goodness.
(to be
developed).
6th topic: Achievements through science
(to be
developed).
7th topic:
United States’ proposal
The United States
Constitution improves western or European thought (to be developed).
8th topic:
Opportunities to amend the US Constitution respecting the Sumerian
Perception; Machiavelli Chapter XI (to be developed including indications from
the 1774 Congress’ development of the Declaration of Independence). First
Amendment’s inadequacies; religion, speech, press. Majority jury votes, 9:3 in
criminal trials.
9th topic:
How education departments repress children’s natural desire to acquire goodness.
The decision to parent a child according to necessary goodness (to be developed
including Kahlil Gibran’s “On Children”).
10th topic:
Wellness
Physical
Diet
Exercise
Work
Psychological
Reading and writing
Motivation and inspiration
Civic integrity
11th topic: Conclusion: Since the Sumerian Perception,
humankind constructed “higher powers” – governments, churches, and ideologies –
they brought the world to chaos. For 5500 years there have been billions of
victims and oppressors, and humankind has not accepted the authority, power,
and responsibility to provide order on earth. Despite the endless details that
could distract fellow citizens from the overview, this workshop developed and
intends to expand, most individuals may perceive that only the civic faction of
the people can accept the duty to reform their associations so as to discover
necessary goodness to humankind and encourage, facilitate, and empower good
behavior. The civic faction, continuously pursuing good behavior, seems to be
the ultimate constraint-on and hope-for humankind.
Proposals for the first city-wide presentation:
Necessary Goodness in a Confused
World: how adults may and can aid children in the pursuit of good behavior
during life. (to be developed).
12th topic:
Review and finalize the work.
13th topic:
Organize the first city-wide event (to be developed).
Flyer (attached)
Obsolete:
Do you feel your church (like-minded participants) should
reform your religious institution toward pure goodness? Is necessary goodness
an option?
Do you long to justify the claim that you do all you can to
aid children’s natural desire for goodness?
If so, join our
12 month-project to develop a theory of necessary goodness that inspires and
motivates good behavior. Our intention is to share the results with Baton Rouge
in about two years, or in 2027.
Our audience is civic people -- Baton Rougeans who pursue
good behavior as they understand it.
We need a steering committee to help design the 11
presentations for accurate, precise, and deep impact toward comprehending and
reporting necessary goodness in human being (the practice).
Participants will, by mutually listening for shared concerns
and empathy, direct the steering committee.
Please consider contributing to this work.
Volunteer registration (draft in
process)
Active Advisors
Family:
Holly Beaver, Rebekah Beaver, Minta Marionneaux, memories with deceased loved
ones
Friends:
Nicholas Ortego
Possible Help to Phil
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