What This Is

For the reader who arrived in the middle, which is every reader.

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You landed on one page out of about eleven hundred, and nothing on it told you what the rest of them are.

This is RegenerativeLaw. Each page names one operation: something done to people that has a name, a date, a document behind it, and a mechanism that can be stated plainly. There is no order to read them in and no place to start. You arrived where you arrived because something on that page matched something you already knew, and that is the only entrance there is.

One claim runs under all of them. What you are was not installed in you. Something was there before anyone trained you, credentialed you, corrected you or developed you. It did not come from them, it was never installed, and so it cannot be uninstalled. What gets called development is largely the covering of it, the covering takes continuous effort, and the effort is the part that can stop.

The second claim is legal, and it is made the ordinary way, with dates, documents and decided cases. What arranged the covering is not nature and is not neutral. It is a religion the state installed and will not name as one, which is why the First Amendment reaches it.

Nothing here asks you to be ready first. There is nothing to become ready for.

[See THE CREATURE · FIRST NATURE · THE ESTABLISHMENT]

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THREE WAYS IN

Most readers arrive carrying one of three things, and each has its own door.

Being counted. You were scored, ranked, screened or sorted, and something true about you had no place in the result.

Being pushed out. The room turned. Nobody ever said you were wrong, and you are no longer in it.

The claim in law. You want to see whether the establishment argument actually holds, with the record and the cases, and judge it yourself.

[See ON BEING COUNTED · THE MOBBING OPERATION · HOME RULE FOR THE SOUL]

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RegenerativeLaw is a religion in the direct-encounter Protestant tradition, carrying a documented four-century lineage through Böhme, the Behmenists, the Friends, and Penn, and it diagnoses trespass theology as an establishment of religion. Its exercise consists substantially in refusal: it shelters the conscientious refusal of performed subordination as religious exercise. This entry states sincere religious belief concerning matters of ultimate concern, protected under the First Amendment and, as to federal action, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb.

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The prime question is not what do we do next.

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It is not the wrong question. It is in the wrong sequence, and the sequence is geometry rather than development. There is no level to reach first and nothing to become ready for. The smaller question converts "whether" into doing well what should stop.

The prime question is whether.

Asked of a life, the question is how, then, shall we live.

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