March 26, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has 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. If you like the wok, share with people who may be interested.
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. It is pleasing that my home-town newspaper, The Advocate, explicitly opposes both “religious proselytizing in public school classrooms” and “masquerading . . . texts ,” calling the perpetrators "dissenters."

Most people may recognize that social morality is for civil associations whereas civic morality (for living persons rather than for institutions) provides the public-integrity needed for persons to secure real-no-harm personal preferences in this place. In particular, theism is a social practice whose members often press for dominant opinion rather than collaborate for civic morality.

The era when theism, a private-pursuit, could masquerade as public-integrity is over, and the sooner the USA makes the transition to discovering the-objective-truth as the basis for broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security the better.

These words and phrases seem radically lofty, yet the practice is achievable and has begun.

James Gill column. In 1776 inhabitants were divided 40% patriots, 40% pacifists, and 20% loyalists.

When the defeated king signed a treaty saying that each of the thirteen states was independent, naming them, many loyalists returned to England, but some stayed.

When the states decided they needed to establish a nation, 1/3 of states representatives dissented. Some of the dissenters were loyalists.

Even today, there are some loyalists. Gill seems among them.

 

I think it is good for dissenters to express themselves. Thereby, a civic people know the opposition.

Stephanie Grace column. Did you notice the other day the governor asked volunteers to house 45,000 flood victims? He is a desperate man.

Mark Ballard column. I would like to see a bill to require high-school classes in fidelity to humanity and how to form beneficial human bonds.

I hope the bill includes “sex partner” along with awkward synonyms used, such as “intimates.” I’m sincere: I would not want the omission to preserve a loophole.

Jeff Sadow column. Thank you for the work to create a great check list:   1) reform cannot “increase the total tax take by state government, 2) tax rates may revert to 2014, or before the $1.6 b and 0.8 b increases and more, and 3) cover more at lower rates so that the state is not responding to special interest groups.

George Will column. For pre-existing conditions cut insurance companies and the fed out and go straight to the state budget with state oversight.

Will’s self-rewarding word silliness could have cut to the chase:  the GOP needs to do the work that instills self-confidence.

Broome (Page 1B). With the products of the advisory team Mayor Broome assembled, I see no hope for Baton Rouge. I advocate formation of St. George City as soon as possible but will not move from this wonderful place. 

 

IMO, black power-and-black-liberation-theology has, over the era of Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO), produced a black-segregation-movement that may be reversed by calamity but not by iterative-collaboration. AMO-followers suffer tyranny rather than freedom.

 

In iterative-collaboration, a people mutually discover and establish the-objective-truth in order to share civic morality rather than social morality. Civic morality acts for each person rather than for the city. We the people in this civic culture are divided---unrelated to race, religion or skin-color---into two groups:  participants and dissidents. Participants at least protect civic morality so each person may practice the liberty to pursue private preference rather that the dictates of government. Harmless-dissidents may be attracted to the culture and willfully reform. Perpetrators of real harm suffer civically-moral-statutory-law rather than dominant opinion.

 

Reared Southern Baptist, at age 30, I spent 15 months working in Greece and learned other Christian factions may be less erroneous than mine. Continuing to work with people from over forty ethnic backgrounds, I learned that other religions may be less erroneous than mine. Reading with the aforementioned experiences and observations, I realized that the-objective-truth may be less risky than theism. I am not alone in these observations, and heretofore, I perceived hope for a civic culture in Baton Rouge: Most people may realize that social morality is insufficient for the civic morality needed for broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security.

 

Experiences and observation less erroneous than mine are held by individuals in Baton Rouge. Our new mayor would do well to turn her back on obviously-erroneous-racism-and-religion as the sources of civic morality and turn to a civic people to establish public-integrity in Baton Rouge. This city has the potential to lead the USA to the civic culture promised by the preamble to the constitution for the USA rather than divide on racism and religion.

 

Leaders who understand the radical proposal to establish public-integrity, which emerged from collaboration by about fifty people at EBRP library meetings since June 21, 2014 and more, could help establish interest in a civic people of Baton Rouge. Public-integrity is a voluntary trust and commitment that focuses on private-liberty-with-civic-morality for each person rather than each person subjugating for the city.

 

Sending criminals to Pinecrest (Page 1A). Injury to workers there should have been expected. The state needs to send criminals to prison.

Tax crisis (Page 1A). The rest of the world will not rescue the people from Gov. Edwards.

Sex for fun (Page 1A). The public should not be funding sex and drug use.

Tax reform hurt (Page 1A). A civic people may look past both the GOP and the DNC and support President Trump in reforming the USA to civic morality or public integrity.

 

By collaborating to discover the-objective-truth the civic people may explicitly separate from the dissidents to the public-morality to facilitate private-liberty.

Fethullah Gulen (Page 2A). The Associated Press cannot be trusted with Turkish news, let alone domestic news.

Press freedoms (Page 13A). It’s an interesting press claim: We are the only institution in the USA which has the propriety to lie. The FBI responds, “Not so.” We lie by our rules, not yours.”

LGBT worries (Page 14A). The worries should reform to fidelity, beginning with private fidelity to the-objective-truth.

Strengthening bonds (Page 15A). Letting opinion about speculations for which no one has evidence be private would strengthen civic morality and public integrity.

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.