A civic glossary

Introductory notes:

First, I use “m& p” syntax to express that “m” and “p” are mutually required. For example, facilitate& encourage; or practice& facilitate& encourage.

Second, I use hyphens to invite the reader not to disassemble phrases, e.g, the-objective-truth; also to prevent dangling words; and to indicate nouns modifying nouns. Also forward slash as “or”, e.g., right/wrong.

Third, the goal is words& phrases and their definitions to practice& facilitate& encourage civic-integrity and identify constructed falsehoods.

Fourth, the definitions are chosen so as to appeal to most people’s experiences& observations. Therefore, every person is requested to suggest glossary-improvement.

Fifth, I often start with a definition from merriam-webster.com, then consider other resources like Wikipedia, the most important of which is you, the interested reader. So please comment.

Sixth, I generally state my opinion without hesitation for clarity, but not to pretend to know the-ineluctable-truth. I’m even hesitant to claim I know Earth is like an imperfect globe. I feel more confident in the statement: the earth’s rotation on its axis will unhide the sun in my location’s east again tomorrow.

Seventh, I have just begun to italicize phrases that have separate glossary entries.

The glossary follows.

1)      Acceptance: both individual& collective human progress requires persons to accept factual-reality. It is in each person’s self-interest to accept that they are a human being---a member of the only species that has the awareness and grammar by which to develop integrity. The opposites to human-being include mineral, plant, animal, and spirit. Nourishing an opposite may threaten personal life.

2)      Accommodation: civic-collaboration to connect for the-good, which is physical& psychological justice. A person who chooses to accommodate injustice risks constraint.

3)      A-civic-people: members candidly 1) iteratively communicate, collaborate& connect for RHI during every decade of their lives, 2) use the U.S. preamble's proposition/better for civic-practice, 3) develop civic-morality using physics-based-integrity, in other words, using the-ineluctable-evidence, 4) appreciate past citizens' discoveries and prevent repetition of their mistakes whether traditional/spontaneous, and 5) privately develop any spiritual/religious hopes/comforts in civic-serenity& humility toward whatever constrains the consequences of human choice& action.

4)      Afterdeath: that vast time after body, mind, and person stopped functioning. Accomplishments, losses& injuries remain whether appreciation& regrets are earned/not. Afterdeath is certain to everyone, whereas afterlife is a specter to some people and unlikely to everyone.

5)      Alien-elite: a person or association who acquires political power, in order to enact-or-accommodate opposition to a nation’s stated civic-intentions.

6)      Appreciation: affirmation of a human being's choice to develop civic integrity, in other words, fidelity-to the-ineluctable-truth, rather than conflict-for dominant opinion. Appreciation of a person is tentatively granted, and the other may prevent it by behaving as a mineral, a plant, an animal, or a soul. Mutual appreciation can develop into love, and love shared by two individuals can motivate monogamy for life. Appreciation never lessens love. But attraction is often unappreciated.

7)      Authenticity: personal acceptance of the human individual-power, individual-energy, individual-authority, and individual-duty (HIOPEA) to develop integrity to the-ineluctable-truth. Each human person can& may choose a dependency rather than pursue authenticity.

8)      Autonomy: acting on personal preferences beyond fidelity to the-ineluctable-truth. Psychological maturity adds prevention-of/reform-from self-contradiction. Arrogance toward physics (e.g., jumping off a cliff) often invites woe.

9)      Beliefs: precepts of an intellectual construct to which individuals and members of a society, culture, or civilization comport. Some members doubt the beliefs. A few members prefer to accept that imagination/speculation as potentially wrong rather than to believe a doctrine; they challenge the doctrine and if not censored may cause improvement.

10)   Can& may: physics constrains the human-being’s options for personal satisfaction. For example, a person has not the free-will to fly like a bird. However, human-being has the capacity to develop aerodynamics and jet propulsion. Therefore, they can& may both fly and orbit the earth. Since human being acts on choice, “must” is often inappropriate and “can& may” is expressive.

11)   Chapter XI Machiavellianism: elite politicians& priests in state-church partnerships do anything they want and believers neither rebel nor expatriate; only a dreamer would question the mystery of God’s power (paraphrased/interpreted from The Prince, 1513). A civic-people keep priests& politicians separated, as in separation of church& state. Civic-citizens reject indoctrination/imposition not to serenely, confidently& transparently talk politics or religion.

12)   Civic: reliable connections& transactions to living species more than conformity to rules. Communication, collaboration& connection to facilitate& encourage RHI. Fidelity to the-ineluctable-evidence in connections& transactions to& from other individuals.

a)     Civic-behavior: non-church, non-preferential, and non-military domestic order among willing human-beings. They earn their living and pay taxes, including for law-enforcement both to-constrain dependent fellow citizens and to develop statutory-justice. Collaboration rather than cooperation, subjugation, conflict, or domination.

b)     Civic-citizens: practice HIOPEA for integrity from the moment of intention through every decade of their lifetimes and in their locales---for example, in cities, in woods, in outer-space, and in privacy. The civic-citizen neither initiates nor accommodates injury to/from any person/institution.

c)     Civic-culture: most citizens, perhaps 2/3, behave for RHI; mutual, comprehensive-safety& security; responsible private-happiness; and statutory-justice, which is perfect law and its enforcement. In the U.S., the civic-culture needs to include at least 67% of citizens, 67% of associations, and 67% of the states to make possible the 75% representation needed for constitutional amendment.

d)     Civic-integrity: fidelity to either the-ineluctable-truth or “I don’t know” when that is so. Publicly expressing grounded, transparent reasons for personal behavior and adopting any improvements the civic-citizen led public discovers. In the U.S., adherence to personally considered& comprehended U.S. preamble. See "integrity" for more elements of the practice.

e)       Civic-morality: responsibly developing individual happiness under civic-integrity rather than submitting to someone else's view of happiness for you; conforming to the-objective-truth when the-ineluctable-truth is unknown.

f)       Civic-reliability: human being is a function of time more than material and the human condition is vulnerable to circumstantial error: mistakes happen. The human-being who never repeats an error is most reliable.

g)     Civic-self-discipline: developing comprehension-of and advantages-from conformance-with physics& its-progeny: including mathematics, chemistry, biology, psychology, imagination, and fiction. In the U.S., personally practicing the propositions responsibly perceived in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. I perceive: communicate, collaborate& connect for Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare (I prefer to practice& facilitate& encourage integrity, justice, safety, strength, and prosperity, respectively) so as to promote RHI to the continuum of living citizens: "ourselves and our Posterity", including legal immigrants. My application-standard is the-objective-truth when the-ineluctable-truth is unknown.

13)   Civil: compliant with statutory law enforcement; supplants the traditional “social good”/"greater good"/"common good" that demands sacrifice to the elite by the many; some civil law and civilizations may continually improve under humankind's ineluctable march toward statutory-justice. 1 Corinthians 12:7, New International Version, features the phrase. The book was written in 53-55 AD.

14)   Civilization: a monopoly on arbitrary coercion/force beyond the constraints of physics& its-progeny. See society. See government. “Free-will” overlooks the constraints of physics& progeny. For example, a person cannot revise human gender. However, civilization can& may assist gender-acceptance.

15)   Collaboration: inhabitants communicating& behaving so as to establish a-civic-people. A-civic-people transcends no-harm-rules and disallows preferential factions. A goal is mutual, comprehensive-safety& security for individual-happiness with civic-integrity. A collaborative people, by example, encourage dissidents such as criminals& tyrants& arbitrary-dependents to reform. In collaboration, speaker& listener successively exchange roles, speaker becomes LISTENER, in order to discover integrity’s common-ground. For example, love is often unwanted while appreciation is mutual.

16)   Common good: the opportunity-to responsibly-pursue personal-preferences rather than the "happiness" someone else would-like-to impose. No civic-citizen sacrifices for the “common good”. This glossary’s usage is contrary to John Locke’s often extolled political coercion.

17)   Comprehensive fidelity: applying fidelity required by the-objective-truth if not the-ineluctable-truth to each self, with immediate family, with extended family& friends, with the people (nation), with humankind (the world), and in the universe, both respectively& collectively.

18)   Comprehensive-safety& security: The Sumerian civilization suggested that human being entails collaboration for order& prosperity to living species on earth. Each person would contribute their talents. With meritorious slaves, laborers, artisans, administrators, and legislators, their civilization could continually develop statutory-justice, accepting that dependent individuals need time to observe& accept the self-interest of RHI. These 5 millennia later, human being knows more about statutory-justice and seems lost in civil rights rather than personal happiness through civic-RHI. Appreciation, peace& humility motivate RHI. Cannibalism seems extinct except among aliens to the alien-elites, yet slavery persists.

19)   Consent of the governed: political pretense that because you did not object to tyranny you accepted it. The preamble& articles in the 1787 U.S. Constitution endorse the 1776 Declaration's, both military and spiritual, respectively: "the Supreme Judge of the world" expecting providence from France and "Nature's God" rather than England's Protestant Trinity. The 1787 Constitution separates church& state; spiritualism& secularism; metaphysics& physics; opinion& the-ineluctable-truth, according to a more-ancient, non-Abrahamic suggestion in Genesis 1:26-28, which constrains RHI to this world rather than to the heavens. This is the neglected, perpetual intention “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal immigrants. "Consent of the governed" is a British phrase that was obsoleted by the U.S. preamble, so far neglected by the-good of We the People of the United States.

20)   Constitution: fundamental principles and institutions according to which members of a-civic-people discipline their public lives and individually hold accountable to RHI each fellow-citizen, especially those who are in elected/appointed office whether local, state, or federal. Since 1791, the U.S. Congress and Supreme Court award themselves "freedom of religion" and the consequence is divergent chaos. The people are too bemused by “God” to appreciate whatever controls the consequences of human choice& action.

21)   Constraint-from-consequences-of-human-choice: many human-beings, regardless of whether they nourish a personal-God or not, nevertheless appreciate being a part of the wonders of the universe& psychology. Appreciation motivates human-beings to acquire the civic-integrity to choose RHI. RHI favors their life’s contributions.

22)   Dependence: arbitrarily influenced, determined-by, subject-to, or enslaved-to a human-construct. The dependencies include passivism, indolence, civically exclusive spiritualism, infidelity, abuse, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse.

23)   Discipline: a self-interested pursuit of civility. Civility has a rule-grounded sense that often interferes with an individual’s acceptance of discipline. That is, the human-being is too independent to submit to discipline. We suggest RHI, which requires civic-integrity to necessity& justice more than to cultural/legal rules. Parents who encourage RHI more than discipline enjoy success.

24)   Dissident: a fellow-citizen who does not collaborate to achieve statutory-justice. In the U.S., a citizen who has not considered, trusted in and committed to, their interpretation of the proposition that is stated in the U.S. Preamble. The dissident rebukes civic-integrity yet demands the fruits of statutory-justice. The criminal and the tyrant both strive to impede/prevent statutory-justice. The dependents hope gullible fellow-citizens will fund dependent-lifestyles. Tyrants support dependents, in order to maintain tyranny.

25)   Emergence: the process of coming into being. Physics, the object of discovery, emerged before the big bang: E=mC², or a better expression of the event. Before that, there may have been potential energy and unknowns. Mathematics, chemistry, biology, and psychology are offspring of physics. Awareness, language, religion, understanding, imagination, lies, ethics, reason --- everything emerges from physics. I do not know the source of physics.

26)   Emotions: in civic-collaboration, emotions such as anger, stonewalling& tolerance beg accommodation from the-good, the-civic-people, who are collaborating to discover the-objective-truth if not the-ineluctable-truth. In self-interest, there is no room for emotions in the work to comprehend experiences& observations.

27)   Ethics: fidelity to the-objective-truth if not the-ineluctable-truth; the-good principles governing civic-conduct; action for civic benefit more-than for civil justice. Civic-integrity continually discovers the-ineluctable-evidence to ethics. It regresses if arbitrary choice or favor suppresses discovery. For example, promoting belief in the flat-earth theory is unethical, except as entertainment, much like chess. Journalism can& may record discovery of the-ineluctable-truth so that individuals might avoid repeating error.

28)   Expectations: looking forward to the consequences of personal choices. For example, a person may choose to prepare to be an entrepreneur rather than a professional. I am a chemical engineer and was always paid by an employer. I understood during adolescence that I could not take the risks an entrepreneur faces. The human-being is not born with awareness. Their care-providing community influences formation of expectations. Every Education Department can& should influence each person to acquire expectations for their lifetime.

29)   Faith: firm belief in something for which there is no proof. The alternative is to accept that you don’t know the something and wait for discovery. For example, atheism is a leap of faith I cannot take. I trust-in and commit-to the-ineluctable-truth, most of which I do not know. I happily declare “I don’t know” when that is so.

30)   Fidelity: some individuals who accept HIOPEA develop comprehensive fidelity to the-objective-truth if the-ineluctable-truth remains unknown. Fidelity extends to self, to immediate family, to extended family and friends, to the people, to humankind, to the world, and to the universe, both respectively and collectively. It does so without relaxing humility to whatever constrains the consequences of human choice& action.

31)   Free-will: the laws of physics inhibit/prevent some human desires. For example, a person cannot be faithful to two life-partners, nor can a party of 3 establish mutual reliability. Same-sex partners cannot procreate without involving a third party, either directly or technologically. However, a man can& may join to a woman and share fidelity to their union.

32)   Good or the-good: humbly accepting appreciation& peace, in order to behave with RHI.

33)   Government: a monopoly on force, coercion, facilitation; the winner in war or domestic violence.

34)   HIOPEA: in self-interest, human-beings can& may develop the individual power, the individual energy, the individual authority& the individual duty to-integrity-to the-ineluctable-truth. Positive HIOPEA is neither practiced, nor facilitated, nor encouraged by any existing culture. Not every person accepts HIOPEA: some fellow-citizens choose a dependency: passivism, indolence, spirituality, infidelity, abuse, crime, tyranny, evil and worse. Dependents may reform anytime they perceive integrity as self-interest. Acquiring integrity after practicing honesty comfortable opinion) can be difficult.

35)   Honesty: failing integrity, frequently by not doing the work to comprehend a heartfelt concern. See integrity. For example, to equivocate secularism as atheism seems spiritually erroneous. Likewise not recognizing atheism as a faith seems erroneous.

36)   Human being: each person is born a feral infant. It takes their body a quarter-century to complete the wisdom-building parts of the brain. They may acquire the comprehension& intention to develop their body, mind& person unto human being. However, extant education systems, including community influence, do not alert persons that they may drift into a lesser existence: mineral, plant, animal, or spirit. Human being is the unique goodness each person can& may develop to become a-human-being.

37)   Humble-integrity: the practice by which personal-integrity and corporate-integrity may be measured. For example, a religious institution whose doctrinal-God reserves no appreciation for whatever constrains the consequences of human choice& action lacks humility.

38)   “I do not know”: that statement is the author’s mantra. It means that he is not aware that the-ineluctable-truth has been discovered by humankind. The author prefers to accept& admit not knowing rather than to pretend personal-knowledge. It's like returning to childhood's "What's that" without intending to substitute belief; factual-reality exists to be discovered.

39)   Imagination: assumption that a discovery is beheld; when assumption becomes conviction a mere chimera/mirage can ruin the believer's future. For example, some climate-change modelers unintentionally waste their lives; others are more cautious. Genesis 1:28 suggests mankind responsible to provide peace on earth rather than competitively imagine “the heavens”.

40)   Individual: A single human-being/person. Each human-being has the individual power, the individual energy, the individual authority, and the individual duty (HIOPEA) to develop integrity to the-ineluctable-truth. The human being has the potential to develop self. But individual knowledge-acquisition lags humankind's discovery, preventing perfect personal-knowledge on universal topics. Fidelity to the-objective-truth is the best hope when the-ineluctable-truth is unknown. Without knowledge, it's prudent to admit to self, "I don't know." Not every person accepts that they are a human-being. Options, feasible or not, include mineral, plant, animal, and specter.

41)   Individual happiness: freedom-from both external& internal constraints such that the individual has the psychological independence to-responsibly-behave according to personal preference, without either imposing on another individual or resisting the laws of physics& progeny. Note: "without imposing" implies civic-integrity. Thus, spirituality, a private practice that can-be . . . should-be discussed in a civic forum without mutual risk accommodates the laws of physics. Spirit is not the object of civil debate.

42)   Individual responsibility: the U.S. Preamble's abstract proposition is for willing citizens to take the responsibility to pursue independence-from both-internal& external-oppression so that fellow citizens may develop individual happiness with civic-integrity rather than conform-to/settle-for an imposed way of living.

43)   Ineluctable: not to be avoided, changed, resisted, evaded, or neglected. “Ineluctable” was first published (as a translation) in 1571. Therefore, it surprises me that almost no-one is familiar with "the-ineluctable-truth" (published in 1906 without the hyphens), or better expression. I hold judges law professors at fault for the long-standing obfuscation of “ineluctable”; I could be wrong, but doubt it.

44)   Integrity is a practice more than a product. In one process, confront a heartfelt concern; do the work to confirm the concern is not a false impression; if there's discovery, extend comprehension to how to benefit, in responsible self-interest; responsibly behave, in-order-to benefit-from the discovery; publicly express the reasons for the behavior and adopt any expressed improvements; and remain alert to new discovery that requires change. For example, Einstein's discovery of space-time modified Newton's discovery of gravity. Moreover, political-philosopher-Einstein informed humans not to lie so as to minimize misery and loss more than to observe some arbitrary rule. Honesty may neglect comprehension and thus fail integrity: honesty is insufficient.

45)   Iterative collaboration: civic people agree to discover the-objective-truth if not the-ineluctable-truth and each apply HIOPEA to develop contemporaneous personal-happiness that utilizes the discovery. Speaker A expresses both Concern A and grounded Solution A. Listener A clarifies Speaker's language and other communications differences, while Speaker appreciates& considers Listener's concerns& collaborates to reach shared language. Then, Listener may have a substitute Concern B &/or Solution B, for which he/she becomes Speaker B. Speaker A becomes Listener B, and the process continues until both parties agree there's a conclusion: a particular concern seems valid, say Concern M in a list that extends to Concern S:  Or the concern was false. They agree on next steps if any, and share their conclusion with the public. They report their activity for inclusion in a civic journal so that their work may benefit posterity.

46)   Justice: acting autonomously in fidelity to the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth. Criminals risk forfeiting personal-autonomy; in other words, criminals are dependent on fellow-citizens for constraint& opportunity to reform. In the U.S., fellow citizens who trust-in and commit to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition expect to develop& experience justice under statutory law. When statutory law is unjust, self-interest requires obedience-to existing law& reform towards statutory justice. Civic-citizens are obliged to develop and maintain statutory justice, and dependent-fellow-citizens have the duty to reform.

47)   Legislative prayer: an elected/appointed government official pretends divine authority despite whatever constrains the consequences of human choice& action (call it the-God), whether it be the source of physics, or an intelligent entity, or an infinite singularity, or other originator. Officials could . . . should express the personal humility of fellow-citizenship. Some legislators turn their backs on the-God to represent their opinion as the "divine"; some witness to their personal-God. Their “divinity” is pretense. Listeners erroneously think the legislator's-God is the listener's-God---both Gods probably defy the-God. So far, the continuum "ourselves and our Posterity" (including legal immigrants) accommodates prayer-tyranny since Congress was seated in March, 1789. They then represented 11 of 13 formerly free& independent states. The states and the people in them immorally accommodate freedom of religion to Congress. See Genesis 1:28, 5,500 years old.

48)   Listen: agree to mutually discover the-objective-truth if not the-ineluctable-truth: clarify a fellow citizen’s heartfelt civic concern& suggestion for improvement; relate to personal experience, observations& preferences; consider verifying the concern; and either agree with the solution or offer an idea that better accommodates each party’s lifestyle in necessity& justice.

49)   Love: an overworked word wherein the subjected person prefers privacy. The preference for privacy can& may be considered& appreciated. Mutual appreciation can& may lead to dialogue. Love is a mutual activity. Attraction, even when it’s mutual, does not justify the claim “in love”.

50)   Meta-: coming after or later. [metaphysics]: reasonable discussion after physical discovery. Fidelity to the-laws-of-physics is essential to reliability. Metaphysics can& should comport to interconnected laws. “Metaphysics” is like “truth” in that its reliability is in the integrity of the speaker. Since Jesus did not write, we have no idea what he suggested. Mark represented Jesus as saying we could take poison without suffering (Mark 16:18). Mark’s writing is unreliable. Through the continuum of experiences& observations, successive generations can& may develop the-metaphysical-Jesus –- sharing to comprehend and benefit from the-good.

51)   Monogamy-for-life: the state or practice of committing to one spouse-hood until its termination by death. The commitment extends to any offspring, whether by conception or by adoption.

a)      Family-monogamy: offspring and their children benefit from spousal-monogamy through both the exemplary behavior of the spouse-hood and the civic-integrity as successive generations emerge.

b)      Spousal-monogamy: the state or practice of intimacy with spouse. Promiscuity arises from betrayal to the chemistry& psychology of attraction& gratification, a material arrogance that bemuses the singular intentions of human being. So far, humankind has not inculcated in its youth that time& duration are self-interests that exceed material satisfactions.

52)   Natural law: the imposition of reason to obfuscate the-objective-truth& pursuit-of the-ineluctable-truth. In Englishman, John-Locke view, Locke's-God is the source of natural law. Locke began Calvinist and perhaps ended Deist, neither one of which seems-to reserve sufficient humility toward whatever constrains the consequences of human choice& action.

53)   Nature: some scholars promote reason as more productive than research for discovery. Also, they deemed nature as undependable. Through evolution, nature does slowly change. And research often is only partially successful, because discovery awaits the invention of better instruments of perception. However, nature operates under the-laws-of-physics, so “physics” is a less restricting term than “nature”.

54)   No-harm/injury religion/spiritualism: institutions/beliefs having no practices that conflict the U.S. Preamble's proposition or its intended offspring: U.S. civil law, U.S. institutions, or U.S. law enforcement. Societies who discover U.S. injustice may lobby for constitutional amendment while observing the law. In other words, when written law does not conform to statutory justice, the law must nevertheless be observed until the law is reformed. Religious doctrine cannot compete with statutory justice.

55)   Objective, or the-objective-truth: the actual-reality that yields to neither faith nor hope nor reason nor force nor words nor Gods but can be amended by new discovery: the-ineluctable-evidence. Humankind can only discover, not construct, the-objective-truth. The truth, Truth, objective truth, the objective truth, literal truth and other forms of "truth" often attempt to defy the-objective-truth. The-objective-truth is the-ineluctable-evidence on which truth is evaluated and the-ineluctable-truth is approached. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted” (merriam-webster.com). Europeans may exclude “changed” from their definition (Collins).

56)   Objective culture: any people who collaborate to discover& utilize the-objective-truth no matter where each member is on their chronological journey& psychological progress toward responsible individual happiness. Not every member of the culture perceives the self-interest of RHI. Appreciative-dependents deserve constraint, encouragement& facilitation to reform to RHI. Some seeming-dissidents are in fact enemies of RHI. When they cause extreme harm/injury in severity/repetition, the objective-culture must either confine or terminate them. Civic-citizens happily maintain statutory-justice so as to invite reform where needed.

57)   Official: person elected/appointed to represent citizens; some officials habitually, erroneously regard themselves superior to fellow citizens. Civic fellow citizens who now accommodate the tyranny may effect reform the moment they intend to. The law is on the civic-citizen’s side; however, time is not, as the current divergent chaos shows.

58)   Personal-perfection: human-being-perfection refers to neither an absolute for the individual nor for a people, but indicates continuously developing integrity and fidelity to the-ineluctable-truth, the person reaching their unique maturity before death and a people assuring that their youth& legal-immigrants (together, “Posterity”) will continually develop integrity.

59)   Personal: of, affecting, or belonging to one person. Because each person is unique, an association of committed& trusting fellow-citizens is nevertheless divided. Both the 1774 Founders of the USA and the 1787 Framers of the United States knew that civic-citizens could only develop integrity. The U.S. Congress hasn’t a clue to the-ineluctable-truth, and the U.S. Supreme Court attempts to preserve English tradition. Only a civic-people can reform U.S. government.

60)   Personal discovery: the path of decisions and the accumulation of choices during life bring a human being to the maturity of existence and the discovery of their person. Happy is the person who discovered and developed fidelity to the-objective-truth if not the-ineluctable-truth. It can only be done civically. Wrong as these claims may be, I would not be motivated to articulate them had I not won my wife’s hand in marriage and lived two quarter-centuries with her, so far. Everything good is her fault. [Joyous face.]

61)   Physics: matter and energy in space-time; I understand E=mC² expresses it. Everything-- even biology, fiction, and ethics--emerges from physics. Imagination often precedes but sometimes retards discovery. For example, math is physics: the metaphysic 2+2=5 cannot be made reliable due to the ineluctable, 2 apples plus 2 oranges is 4 fruit.  Also, see "emergence," above.

62)   Physics-based-integrity:  humankind’s evolutionary discovery of benefits from physics& its-progeny. Benefiting from discovered physics requires, imagination, humility, and objective research.

63)   Physics& its-progeny/physics& progeny: everything derives from physics (see above).

64)   Preamble: the preamble to the constitution for the USA: a civic agreement which some political regimes falsely label “secular”. The civic-citizen's proposition for legislation& organization to practice& facilitate& encourage RHI to living inhabitants, their descendants, and legal immigrants. It is in every U.S. citizen’s self-interest to own a personal interpretation of the proposition and to guide civic-behavior accordingly. People who do not have an opinion about what the preamble means to a civic-citizen ought not be allowed to vote or hold local, state, or national office. For the USA, the civic, civil& legal intentions of the preamble apply to the entire constitution& legal codes. The actor that is responsible for fidelity to the U.S. Preamble is the-good faction of We the People of the United States, a voluntary society within the fellow citizens: a-civic-people. Members of the U.S. Supreme Court ought to be of We the People of the Untied States but unfortunately are not. The preamble proffers 5 domestic disciplines that, by omission, assign spirituality to private pursuit by the individual fellow-citizen. The disciplines in my opinion are: integrity, justice, safety, strength, and prosperity, all for RHI. Citizens divide themselves, civic vs dependent, on the preamble’s proposition. It is a legal statement, which changed the authority in this land from a confederation of states to the people in their states who are willing to take responsibility for the USA, a union of states. Every inhabitant can join a-civic-people.

65)   Property: obscured in John Locke philosophy is the notion that a human-being is a property of God, and government must preserve God’s property. Possessing HIOPEA, the human being cannot brook such mysteries, and therefore, the authors of the American declaration of independence from England cited “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, rebuking Locke’s “life, liberty, and property”. They further rebuked England’s Trinity, citing “nature’s God”. The Anglo-American squabble is folly: Neither God nor government can usurp the human being duty. The duty is RHI to comprehensive-safety& security to life.

66)   Posterity: future citizens including descendants plus legal immigrants.

67)   Psychological maturity: independence from both internal and external constraints excluding catastrophic events resulting from physics; achieving fidelity to the-objective-truth if not the-ineluctable-truth.

68)   Public education: in my intentions, continuously practices, facilitates& encourages individuals to transition to persons who practice& facilitate RHI to fellow-citizens.

69)   Public morality: the totality of civic-integrity& dissident-dependency.

70)   Race: racism should be an artifact of the past. Human physics--mtDNA—informs that everyone descended from one of the women who lived 140,000 to 200,000 years ago and a perhaps younger male descendent of an even more ancient man. That is, Adam& Eve were not contemporaries. No-harm ethnicities& cultures flourish among a civic people; that is, in a civic culture. The person who falsely accuses another of racism opposes the U.S. Preamble's propositions. Persons of all races are prudent to accept that they are human-beings with the HIOPEA to develop integrity and to so behave. Genesis 1:28 says nothing about race.

71)   Religion: belief derived from faith, reason, revelation, doctrine, or assumption. Some beliefs erroneously conflict physics. Religion is often conflated with spiritualism/other-worldliness, which also often conflicts with physics. Religion is hope/comfort without the-ineluctable-evidence. Theisms may reserve sufficient humility so as not to rebuke whatever constrains the consequences of human choice& action. Religion is a practice: assume a heartfelt concern is valid, develop a plausible theory, adopt the theory as doctrine, and never research to discover whether the concern is reliable or not. For example, possession of a soul or spirit is an assumption. No one has ever confirmed soul-existence, either during-life or in-the-afterdeath. An alternative is to perfect the person before body and mind stop functioning.

72)   Responsible-human-independence (RHI): the U.S. Preamble proposes that a-civic-people, We the People of the United States, willingly communicate, collaborate& connect to-provide 5 public practices to encourage& facilitate the opportunity-to develop RHI "to ourselves and our Posterity". Errant citizens, such as criminals, may be motivated to reform by example more than by exhortation, coercion, or force. Only the human-being has the individual opportunity, power, energy, and authority (HIOPEA) to develop RHI.

73)   Rebuke-cycle: practicing Leviticus 19:17-18 with a modern view, "Rebuke your neighbor frankly [in-order-to appreciate him/her] as yourself." Conversely, upon receiving rebuke, appreciate the opportunity to discover the-ineluctable-truth according-to necessity& justice. In a civic-culture, the cycle of civic appreciation --- perceive harm/injury, rebuke, consider, reform, forgive, is repeated as often as harm/injury to or from the parties is observed. The person who tries to avoid, change, or resist rebuke, invites woe. The rebuke cycle operates on appreciation by both parties.

74)   RHI: see responsible-human-independence, above.

75)   Secular: neither spiritual nor metaphysical nor areligious: necessary& just according to the-ineluctable-truth.

76)   Sexual-promiscuity: the person practices material satisfaction. Through careless sexual-intimacy, they voluntarily forego their opportunity for monogamy-for-life. Promiscuity terminates the ultimate-experience empowered by spousal-monogamy for life.

77)   Society: an association based on consensual coercion. The society of human-being is coerced by necessity& justice for survival. There will always be persons who risk annihilation for reasons they don’t comprehend. In a civic culture, 3/4 of societies assure that at least 3/4 of their members use HIOPEA for integrity. In a civic-culture, criminal& other dependent-societies suffer statutory constraint. It is critical to understand that "social" conformance denies RHI unless contemporary-RHI is appreciated; that is, tradition is no substitute for RHI. Also see civilization.

78)   Soul: a bemusing, metaphysical expression of the human-being's perfected person. Some cultures consider perfection requires death. Cultural evolution, so far, does not encourage& facilitate personal perfection before death, so few individuals intend to perform during life; few persons accept RHI. Just as a person is unique, their path& attainment is individual. They can& may develop unique-perfection the moment they intend to.

79)   Spiritual tranquility: personal peace; individual acceptance that spiritual/religious hopes and comforts, precious as they are, do not control whatever is responsible for the unfolding of events (I doubt it’s chaos and think it’s physics). Therefore, beyond potentially sharing the mystery of the-God, the purely spiritual person is not able to collaborate in public forums. No civic citizen in a public forum attempts to impose their personal-God/doctrinal-God on either fellow citizens or whatever constrains the consequences of human choice& action (call it the-God). The-God apparently leaves to humankind sole responsibility for justice, and rebuking the-God invites woe. Attempting to assert that the-God will provide justice lacks humility. For me, this has been the most difficult acceptance: It's OK to forego Mom and Dad's competitive, Baptist religions in order to reserve to me sufficient appreciation for the-God. I speak and write about my civic obligations under the U.S. Preamble, and share but do not impose my inspiration& motivation, trust& commitment, or “faith”, in public. I advocate the practical Jesus. Convinced as I may seem, I do not know the-ineluctable-truth.

80)   Statutory collaboration: the journal of a civic culture’s achievements& failures toward human justice. Probably, the press/media is not reliable for this journal. Maybe Wikipedia is taking the task, but they seem leftist. Quora.com seems on a good path of development. Maybe the members of my Sunday school class and church will take the baton.

81)   Statutory-justice: law and law enforcement that conforms to the-ineluctable-truth; judicial perfection. The U.S. Preamble's implied proposition is to improve the law so as to achieve statutory-justice. Judicial perfection is not attainable on legal precedent and “ourselves and our Posterity” must reform the Court so as to discover the-objective-truth leading to the-ineluctable-truth. Also, Congress can& may legislate according to the-ineluctable-evidence. For example, physics demands that the woman have the choice to remain pregnant or not, because she is the sole agent of gestation and delivery. Legislative-responsibility for abortion-independence to the woman rests with Congress; it seems constitutional amendment is required.

82)   Supernatural: imagination/speculation so far unexplained by discovered physics; attributed to a God-mystery. Supernatural morals seem indeterminate --- mysterious. Mystery empowers spirituality, religion, conflict, and chaos. Physics does not yield to metaphysics/mystery.

83)   The-God/the-God-mystery: human-beings do not know what controls the consequences of their choices--- chaos, physics, intelligence, an infinite singularity, or whatever. Articulating “The-God”, "Whatever-God-is", “the-God-mystery”, or better can avoid the babel& hubris of theism's "God". Humility toward the unknown seems prudent. Something constrains the consequences of human choice& action

84)   Theism: a human-construct intended for belief in a God/Gods. Physics seems to neither affirm nor deny some theisms. People often cheerfully discuss God, each thinking they represent their-God rather than behold the other party's God, neither party perceiving humility toward the-God:  the consequence is babel by a pair/a crowd. One remedy is to accept the mystery of the-God and enjoy RHI in serene-confidence (thank you, Cynthia Ann Marionneux Beaver, my wife). Transcendently, something seems to constrain the consequences of human choice. For example, often a lie and the liar are outed by the laws of physics: semen’s DNA on a blue dress, for example.

85)   The-objective-truth: see at "objective".

86)   The U.S. Preamble: see preamble.

87)   Tradition: moral principles that were imagined by ancestors. Ancestors can never imagine civic morality for their descendants, yet descendants may maintain awareness of the path toward human integrity so as not to repeat woe due to traditional error. For example, there are more erroneous religious institutions, such as more erroneous Christianity.

88)   Transition: the human infant is feral& dependent. It takes a quarter-century/more for them to transition to a person with the comprehension& intention to live a complete life or not. By complete I mean discovering the self-interest in perfecting their person. Some persons never acquire the intention to be a human-being.

89)   Transparency: civic-debate requires RHI by parties to the discussion. Agents who have not the civic-integrity to pursue the-ineluctable-truth are not aware that their attempts to hide favoritism are transparent to the RHI-culture. Despite ubiquitous secretive-practices, transparency is in personal self-interest.

90)   United States: originally, willing people in the 9 free and independent states whose state constitutional-ratification conventions voted “yes, with amendments” establishing the tentative USA on June 21, 1788. Operations began with eleven states in March, 1789 and so far expanded to 50 states. Complying with ratification, the First Congress, politicians rather than framers, re-established colonial-English tradition as much as possible and negotiated the Bill of Rights. It’s ratification by 10 of 14 states in 1791 completed the established USA. It’s English-tainted by the politically elected Congress rather than the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention. A future “ourselves and our Posterity” can& may reform the U.S. to lessen if not eliminate erroneous English traditions.

91)   Voluntary citizen:  A civic culture happens when a majority of citizens view collaboration& connection for statutory justice as essential to independence. The civic-citizen earns the living they want, so as not to have to express gratitude to neglectful bureaucrats.

92)   Voluntary public integrity: most fellow-citizens accept HIOPEA to develop civic-integrity rather than to accommodate injustice.

93)   Willing people: citizens who trust-in and commit-to the preamble’s disciplines; the civic people in the USA; The entity We the People of the United States as defined by the U.S. Preamble.

 

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