Updated 9/14/25
Workshop to Discover Necessary Goodness That Motivates Good Behavior
Mutual civic
integrity preserves citizens’ opportunities to discover and aid civil justice.
Civic citizens do all they can to aid children’s natural
desire to practice good behavior.
Six seemingly
ineluctable principles:
1.
Only the person may and can constrain chaos in
her or his way of living: higher power – Church, state, or their partnership,
fails the individual.
2.
The civic person is humble to a mystery: necessary
goodness at the recent edge of discovery; tradition yields to discovered
goodness.
3.
Every human infant innately desires to pursue
good behavior yet many children puzzle over erroneous social influences; good
behavior defines human being (the practice).
4.
Civic citizens do all they can to aid children
in natural desire to comprehend and intend good behavior; lesser species often
neglect the children.
5.
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.
6.
A civic people amend the Constitution when
injustice is discovered; through representatives, civic citizens legislate
reform.
Preface to the
workshop
Dream: The civic people reform every education
institution and function so as to inculcate in children the comprehension and
intention to develop good behavior for life. Civic people
mutually preserve each other’s opportunity to pursue goodness. They collaborate
to accomplish what nations and religions have failed: the pursuit of statutory
justice when harm is discovered or imposed; in other words, they pursue necessary
goodness. Adults may and can choose to aid children.
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, ratified 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.
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. 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, 31. Delights continued and are
expected in the future. We solicit advisors to aid our journey to fulfill our
goal: 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. We three men
perceive we are insufficient civic-citizens, and our first task is to add women
or a woman to the team, either as participants or as 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
children.
Intention to
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.
Workshop approach: Each month, we will choose 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. We
welcome discussion with groups who have not participated.
*Ineluctable: together, not to be avoided, changed, or resisted
(Merriam-Webster online); think of a wrestling hold from which the opponent
cannot emerge.
We will establish and maintain an advisory committee 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.
After this initial year’s meetings, continue the process
from generation to generation – “to ourselves and our Posterity”, referring to
the preamble to the United States Constitution.
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, 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.
FIRST MEETING (in alternating
green and blue print to follow Powercell slides)
Part I
First Year’s Workshop
Scope
the
participants will direct the actual path.
The Civic People converse,
in order to collaborate
Premise: Humankind regressed to this 2025 abyss yet may
and can responsibly rise to necessary goodness; it is necessary for adults, individually
and collaboratively, to do all they can to aid humankind’s children.
Intention: Reform every education department in the
United States, in order to inculcate in children both the comprehension of
human being (the practice) and the intention to perfect their unique
goodness. Personal goodness can only pursue perfection, because
humankind discovers and affirms necessary goodness at a faster pace.
Method: Develop together a reliable report of
humankind’s journey and discovery so far, in order to observe the consequences of human choices and establish evidence of goodness versus badness. Thereby, create
guidance for avoiding and resisting adult mistakes that also hurt children.
Constraints to
humankind: It seems the laws
of physics and progeny constrain the consequences of human choices; quantum
biology empowers psychology and imagination. Usually, humans discern goodness
based on the ineluctable evidence more than on rational values.
Introduce the root and tree depiction of a civic people’s work. 
Initial 12-month
plan: Consider history’s timeline of
discovery of necessary goodness. This workshop collaborates to simplicity yet
integrity, both as wholeness and as truth, without emotionally or rationally
resisting recent discoveries. Physics yields to neither emotions nor faith.
Part II
Preview of
First Year’s Proposed Workshop Topics
for participants to change as collaboration unfolds.
Timeline
(to be improved by the workshop):
1)
In the beginning,
goodness was necessary even though awareness did not exist.
2)
About 4 billion
years ago (ya), earth’s first biological molecule appeared.
a)
The earth cooled,
biology developed, and species emerged.
3)
A superior species, Homo
sapiens, emerged 200,000 ya as hunter-gatherers
a)
Homo sapiens’ brains
are fast enough to consider, discover and apply goodness
b)
Living in remaining
mystery, they work to discover and invent, primarily hoping to survive
c)
At last, a species
was capable of discovering and pursuing good behavior, late as it may be
4)
Modern humans
developed agriculture 12,000 ya
5)
Semitic language
originated 5800 ya then branched to Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew -- by 4100 ya.
a)
Egyptian, 5000 years
old, is not Semitic.
b)
Sumerian is a
language isolate – not of any family.
6)
Sumerian
polytheistic-monarchies developed codes of law beginning 5500 years ago
a)
Fellow citizens
either chose civil collaboration or imposed harm . . . If so, lost “eye
for eye”.
b)
Civic citizens
assure pursuit of necessary goodness; statutory justice
7)
Semitic-speakers competed
in monotheism 4000 ya
a)
People from Ur segued
from polytheism to a God.
b)
Competitive, elite Gods
repressed goodness.
8)
(In China), 2600 ya,
Kong Qui (Confucius) advocated goodness through rites and ritual
9)
Greeks developed
democracy and Rome a republic, 2500 ya and later
a)
Agathon: goodness
neither causes nor allows harm
b)
Socrates suggested
that goodness enhances a God
c)
Zeno of Citium,
about 2300 ya, advocated essential goodness to divine physics – efficiency toward God
10)
Yeshua, 2000 ya,
reportedly lived and promoted goodness needed to fulfill Genesis 1:26-28, 31.
a)
Divinity schools
obscure Yeshua by promoting God, Messiah, Jesus, Christ, Church, and more.
b)
Marcus Aurelius,
1850 ya, promoted accepting the laws of physics to guide life.
c)
Competitive
believers may and can choose to respond to physics, in order to improve their
beliefs.
11)
A civic faction, We
the People of the United States, proposed independent goodness, establishing a
constitutional republic, in 1791.
a)
The civic faction,
defined by the preamble, pursues statutory justice “to ourselves and our
Posterity”. Posterity includes legal immigrants.
b)
The First Amendment
fails to separate state and Church; resists necessary goodness.
c)
The civic faction
may reform education departments, in order to aid the children.
12)
In 1905, Albert
Einstein explained the sun as a natural nuclear reactor rather than a God. In
1950, “[physics and ethics] stand the test of experience”.
13)
In April 1961
humankind traveled into “the heavens”
14)
In July 2025 at
Perkins Road Park, Baton Rouge, after a squirrel story, by chance,
a)
3 ordinary people
imagined humankind pursuing necessary goodness to inspire good behavior
b) extraordinarily committed to develop an initial,
comprehensive local presentation
Part III. The first
month’s topic: Primitive Sumerian-polytheistic
political philosophy, which monotheists abstractly expressed in Genesis
1:26-28, 31.
And God said, "Let us make man
in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule . . . over all the earth
and over all [life on] earth." And God created man in His image; in the
image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed
them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth
and subdue it, and rule over [all species] on the earth." And God saw all
that He had made, and behold it was very good.
(PRB emphasis and condensation; opinions follow)
Opinions about this Genesis-1 passage:
1.
Genesis 1:26-28 seems
to affirm actual-reality.
2.
Each person may accept
the power, the authority, and the responsibility to constrain chaos in their
actions.
3.
“Our image” implies
both 1) rule to the good rather than a bad and 2) humankind can choose to behave.
a.
“Image” implies
awareness rather than visage.
4.
The Genesis-1 judge expects
humankind to behave.
5.
Note: God plural to
singular: polytheism to monotheism; female and male to one; no ethnicity; no
race; no worship, praise, sacrifice, or coercion.
Genesis
1 invokes broader controversy, including:
1.
New International Version (NIV) uncharacteristically omits “rule
. . . over all the earth”.
2.
Genesis 1:1-2 cites God
and the Spirit of God, omitting Yeshua’s presence, suggested in John 1:1-3.
3.
Genesis 1:1 through Genesis 2:3 leaves/makes humankind
responsible for order on earth.
4.
From Genesis 2:4, God no longer allows humankind to “rule over
all the earth” (Genesis 1:26, except in NIV); comes to earth and wants
obedience.
To collaborate during the coming
month, study Genesis 1:26-28, 31, draw conclusions using your own resources, intending
to suggest improvements on the opinions expressed herein. (Don’t dawdle,
because the next essential controversy is on the way.)
Meanwhile, we will prepare a
timeline: consequences of elite humankind seeking higher power to impose
force rather than pursuing necessary goodness.
Q&A
Second topic:
The complete Bible reports the consequences when Biblical civilizations
do not accept the Genesis-1 message, for whatever reason.
Genesis 2:4
begins a saga of the God 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 God
flooded them out, beginning in Genesis 6.
3. God 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. A faction of Israel predicted a
messiah in Isaiah 7 and 53.
6. Israel alienated many peoples,
including Arabs.
7. 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.
c. “Jesus” is a miracle-working, western
imposition onto Yeshua.
d. “Christ” is the executed then
resurrected Yeshua to some, like Messianic Jews, or Jesus to Christians.
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 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 message.
(To be developed.)
Third topic:
Extensive New Testament reports of Yeshua influencing necessary goodness
that accommodates the Genesis-1 message. Yeshua influences 55% of the world’s
population and is a controversial topic to 90% of the world’s population.
However, the entity Yeshua has been repressed by 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.)
Fourth topic:
European or western thought accommodates Yeshua-improved Genesis-1 responsibility.
For examples,
·
negating
eye-for-eye so as to avoid disabling offenders (to be developed)
·
democracies
and republics instead of kingdoms
·
Magna
Carta
·
John
Locke
·
Edmund
Burke
·
Thomas
Paine
(To be developed.)
Fifth topic:
Humankind’s achievements respecting necessary goodness. Humans 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 learn to accept
civic responsivity,
b.
Dissidents and rebels to the law, who may choose
to reform,
c.
Criminals, who harmed others or their property,
who may be constrained 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 aid necessary government of the other
classes; facilitate reform, constrain, avoid and resist, and annihilate,
respectively. Categorizations are based on practice rather than values.
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).
Sixth topic:
Achievements through science
(to be
developed).
Seventh topic:
United States thought, including the United States Constitution, which
improves western thought (to be developed).
Eighth topic:
Opportunities to amend the US Constitution respecting the Genesis-1
message; Machiavelli Chapter XI (to be developed including indications from the
1774 Congress’ development of the Declaration of Independence).
Ninth topic:
How education departments repress children’s natural desire to acquire good.
The decision to parent a child according to necessary goodness (to be developed
including Kahlil Gibran’s “On Children”).
Tenth topic:
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).
Eleventh topic:
Review and finalize the work.
Twelfth topic:
Organize the first city-wide event (to be developed).
Thirteenth topic:
lagniappe to be discovered.
Flyer (draft attached)
Do you feel your church (like-minded participants) should
reform your religious institution toward pure goodness? Is necessary goodness
an opton?
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 attached)
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