January 31, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-indisputable-facts-of-reality have not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by learning other people’s experiences and observations. The comment box below invites sharing facts, opinion, or concern. (I read, write, and listen to establish my opinion as I pursue the-objective-truth.)
Note:  I often connect words in a phrase with the dash in order to represent an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth without addressing possible error or attempting to balance the expression.

The Advocate:

Our Views: Iteratively-collaborating to establish A Civic People rather than "uniting God’s people” may help.

 

Developing a spiritual life may seem intended to provide for the spirit in the afterdeath. Preparation for afterdeath may lessen the attention to fidelity for body, mind, and person in civic life. Often, the personal person is lost to the universal spirit, which has never been disproven. In other words, life is lost to benefit the possible afterdeath. Again, the person is sacrificed to the universal soul, whatever that may be.
 

Every adult’s social morality, spiritual reality, and religious pursuits may be subordinated to willful, civic morality. Civic justice may provide the broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security that is necessary for each person to pursue the social, spiritual, or religious preferences that may make his or her life worth living.
 

Some people belittle my writing. In this case, it may seem overboard. However, those who comprehend the above, fresh expression of my "same old song” don’t litter.

Today’s Thought. When Trump visited the Dow Hangar, he joked about being “The Person of the Year,” and asked for a show of hands who thought it should be “Man of the Year.” Most people, perhaps playing the poke at political correctness raised their hands. When he asked for “Person” voters I was one of two who raised a hand. Each human’s personhood is important to me: I know nothing about spirts and such. 

 

Regardless, I think choosing the male pronoun for Holy Spirit is part of the long-standing subjugation of women that We the Civic People of the United States should oppose.
 
I like jokes and humor, but I also like to consider reform of serious oppression: The oppression of women should have ended when they won the vote. That does not mean I condone “feminism.” Women have physics-created obligations to their viable ova, IMO.

Pipeline (Foltz). Thank you for a much needed letter with data supporting the facts.

 

“The Facts are the facts.” Often, “the facts” are in the brains of the opinionated, as writers for the press constantly exemplify. I would like to see the civic dialogue create or adopt language that has more teeth. I suggest the-indisputable-facts-of-reality. The dashes are intended both to convert the phrase into a thought and on repetition invoke the thought efficiently (avoid acronyms).

Variations can be employed. For example, the-discovered-facts-of-reality are more disputable than the-understood-facts-of-reality, which is lesser than the-indisputable-facts-of-reality. I am most interested in the-indisputable-facts-of-civic-reality. For example, a civic people do not lie so that they can communicate (borrowing an illustration used by Albert Einstein).

 

Administrative States (Anderson). The liberal-democrat goose provoked the fiscal-conservative gander. Or the Alinsky-Marxist organizer preceded the constitutional administrator.

Isn’t great (Bell). Ms. Bell, your hopes for America are expressed by your words. I certainly hope the future brings you the shame you deserve today, IMO.

I doubt you have made even one effort to befriend a Muslim as We the [Civic] People of the United States---those who have read and comprehend, trust and commit to the civic agreement stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. (I doubt you understand my sentence.)

Talking to a Muslim neighbor is like pushing a rope. The message perceive is: Sooner or later, Ms. Bell, you’ll submit to Allah. (Whatever that means. I have resolved my concern by taking it to mean that sooner or later Phil Beaver will die. However, I have not heard a Muslim confirm my ameliorating thought.)

I think this is the heart of the Arab conflict: Submission. It can be resolved in the USA only by iterative collaboration for civic justice according to the preamble.

Cal Thomas column. Wow! That’s twelve major points in one week. Thank you for the list.

 

Robertses column.  “. . . a Democratic opponent who failed to elicit anything,” beyond public dismay with witness before the Senate about the Secretary of State lying about Benghazi. “What difference---at this point, what difference does it make?”

It takes two liberal-democrat writers to come up with classic nonsense: “. . . face real reality now.”

Michael Gerson column.  Maybe Gerson considers me gullible. Based on my life, I would not disagree. However, I think these thoughts were great for advocates of the preamble, a civic people, to hear: “We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.”

We the People of the United States also includes dissidents, criminals, evils, and other aliens in addition to a civic people. Gerson’s in there somewhere; perhaps Gerson knows where. He may subscribe to the motto, “What difference does it make?”

Clarence Page column.  Chicago is the home town of Saul Alinsky organizers (AMO) and perhaps its modern prince, Barack Obama. Also, Obama’s Minister Jeremiah Wright of the famous speech, “don’t look to government, look to black theology.”

Also, I do not recall Page mentioning drug wars. Maybe Chicago exempts itself from civic morality.

Page 5B cartoon.  Clinton quote, “What difference does it make?”

Private help (Page 1A). Maybe first time to ask, but private offers have been tendered.

It takes a lot of work (corporate expense) to propose and nothing for government to reject. See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_a452a410-f724-538d-b49b-b21f5d9e071d.html. I hope my state representatives, Claitor and Foil, are not discouraged by past failed efforts.

What’s new on the state reliability scene? Not Edwards, IMO.

I rail against taxes all the time, but I support a gas tax that cannot be spent on anything but road and bridge maintenance. Our roads are dangerous.

LSU scientist (Page 1A). Suggestion: Professor Christopher Austin’s accomplishment on DNA empowers discovery of the-indisputable-facts-of-reality, hereafter The Facts. The Facts exist, and humankind conducts the noble work to discover, comprehend, and benefit, either by technology, risk avoidance, or understanding. With each opportunity to express public thanks for research accomplishments, repeatedly use bold font to draw our attention to the name:  Professor Christopher Austin.

Sally Yates (Page 1A). Does Sally Yates hold the distinction as the first government official to hear the NY accented, “Ya fiaud?” I hope not.

Supreme opinionator (Page 1A). Of course, I know nothing. However, the fact that Neil Gorsuch has been clerk for Anthony Kennedy turns me off. Kennedy is the self-appointed lord of dignity and equality, who in gay marriage opinion ignored the dignity and equality of a child to both stay with the couple who conceived him or her and be reared by a heterosexual couple.

Quebec attack (Page 2A). It is beyond shameful that Tracey Lindeman and Bob Gillies can get through the Associated Press system the early attention to: the suspect “likes” Trump on Facebook. Both Lindeman and Gillies will encounter dishonesty in both their professional and personal lives until they learn the value of integrity. I have written about integrity since Stephen L. Carter's wholly inadequate IMO "The Insufficiency of Honesty" (February Atlantic ): integrity has .... The Atlantic Monthly; May 1996; Letters; Volume 277, No. Without integrity, understanding is impossible.

Donald Trump taught me the value of brash dishonesty to confront dishonesty and thereby express to the dishonest party his or her opportunity to offer Trump integrity and thereby receive tentative-integrity. Trump returns integrity with integrity rather than tentative-integrity; I hope.

“. . . a long simmering debate about race and religious accommodation.” Anyone who asserts that this struggle is limited to Quebec is delusional. See 7-minute video, “Shampoo Summit,” for example.

State sovereignty (Page 2A). IMO, Syria forfeits state sovereignty when its citizens flee violence and destruction. That does not mean I want to take charge of the problem beyond protecting my border from escaping aliens against the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

Iran (Page 2A). No thank you, Barack Obama and John Kerry, for befriending the enemy.

Cut two regulations for each new one (Page 6A). This makes me bullish on America’s people and future prosperity. Prosperity here means prosperity abroad.

Vote fraud (Page 8A). Phillips’ three registrations are from past residence, and two of the three are void. He voted in only his current state of residence. Nevertheless, he recommends a national ID that travels with the person, a good idea.

Boy scouts (Page 8A). Transgender psychology must be dealt with. Anyone whose early psychological influences conflict with the-indisputable-facts-of-reality must deal with those conflicts.

For example, I was reared to be Southern Baptist, contrary to my early personal preference to trust and commit to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. In my youth, I tried to believe the earth is 4,000 years old. Mom and Dad were such good providers, I tried to indoctrinate myself for five decades. Beliefs are for consenting adults rather than children.

I can never recover from my erroneous early influences, yet I have never blamed anyone beyond my own gullibility. Gullibility is the first of the eight deadly errors.

Other dialogues:

Today, someone I have known for over forty years responded to my apology for ebullience with, “I have never seen you grumpy. I mean it: it’s never happened.”

Phil Beaver does not “know”. Phil trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. Phil Beaver is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, an education non-profit. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.