Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by listening to other people’s experiences and observations. The comment box below invites readers to express 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 dashes in order to represent an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth without addressing possible error, attempting to balance the expression, or apology. The speaker knows he or she is expressing opinion in hopes of collaboratively approaching the-objective-truth.
The
Advocate:
See online at
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Our Views. I appreciate Foster Campbell’s policy
of splitting the check at political meals.
In a
relationship wherein the corporation, non-profit, or philanthropist pays, I
don’t see how the politician can ever express personal integrity, let alone
expect public trust. For example, after a possible Vatican-partnership trip, I
don’t see how Gov. John Bel Edwards can face the people of Louisiana.
Today’s
Thought. Colossians 1:14. I
have stated before that Paul often seems erroneous. Dean’s trust in Paul and
expression, “Thank you Jesus,” encourage antinomianism.
I prefer other representations of
Jesus, such as Matthew 5:48 “Be perfect,” and John 6:38 expressing Jesus’s
intention. I do not consider myself among the elect, yet cannot judge.
Letters:
Courageous
lawmakers (Bienvenu). We may define “the
greater good of the citizens.” Second, what is “citizen”: either exists here,
collaborates for civic morality, or cooperates with established morality?
Single-payer
health care (Russell). A civic people
deny your statement: “Most Americans would agree that we have an obligation to
provide care for those who cannot take care of themselves.”
The problem is that neither government
nor God determines “those who cannot take care of themselves.” Some people
cause their health problems.
Consider the evidences since the First
Congress was seated on March 4, 1789.
So far, most of we the people in
respective states have publically if not privately neglected the civic agreement
that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. “Civic” means
mutual collaboration for the persons’ lives in this place rather than for the
USA, the republic, or its temporal social morality.
Many people look to either government
or God to deliver civic morality. However, about seven trillion man-years of
experience and observations seem to agree with Abraham Lincoln’s suggestion on
March 4, 1861: “Why should there not be a patient
confidence in the ultimate justice of the [civic] people? Is there any better
or equal hope in the world?”
I modified Lincoln’s statement so as to
represent the preamble.
To Patrick DeLaureal: There are some who fall through the emergency-room safety
net. Otherwise, your concern is valid rather than beneath-the-concern of
wage-earners and elites. It is a personal threat to every American.
To
Philip Frady: Many days we see reports of fraud in medical care: collaboration by patients and doctors to take
money from the cloud---the federal money tree that is paid for by taxpayers in
their states.
I
have felt, perhaps erroneously, that my insurer, who has my complete medical
records, acts as a buffer against my doctor and me teaming up to defraud.
Opioid addiction (Forman). "Addiction
is a medical issue, not a moral failure."
This ameliorating opinion really bothers me, especially when it
is an advertisement for a business. From a business viewpoint, the current
opioid attack on people seems to come from moral failures in making and
prescribing the drugs that lead to addiction. So Forman’s statement might be
modified to “and a moral failure by medical businesses.”
Having recovered from heavy cigarette smoking, I know that
inspiration and motivation are keys to overcoming the physical addiction. But I
quit cold-turkey; without "treatment services" beyond my wife's and
friends' support. “Treatment developer” smacks of business opportunism, and in
the ads I have seen about cigarette-strugglers today, treatment services may
exacerbate the battle.
Medical opportunism, it is akin to getting to know a civically
moral person, learning that their religion differs from yours, then telling them
that their life is ruined if they do not convert to your religion. The
proselytizer, the drug manufacturer, the doctor, and the treatment business can
all be villains.
A civic people must be aware.
Cal Thomas column. I do not want or like brotherhood
among elected officials.
I want them to become civically moral according to the
preamble to the constitution for the USA. That sentence is neither religious
nor secular, and it invites civic morality rather than social morality, civil
morality, or religious morality.
E. J. Dionne column. It’s a pretty arrogant writer who can
claim to judge a conscience. But I don’t know what conscience Dionne refers to.
Edward Pratt column.
Some privacies ought to be appreciated above public interest.
Maybe the photograph turns into Norman-Rockwell-art someday, somewhere. Maybe I'm too emotional.
Maybe the photograph turns into Norman-Rockwell-art someday, somewhere. Maybe I'm too emotional.
Bernard Goldberg column.
Dismantling the GOP and the DNC would be good for America.
We need 2/3
or more of citizens including elected officials collaborating for public-integrity. I’m thinking that will occur to
President Trump if it has not already.
Livingston rebuilding (Page 1B). Local responsibility: Is Livingston recovering
without Louisiana and the USA?
Pointe Coupee schools (Page 1B). Local responsibility: Can Pointe
Coupee reform despite Louisiana and the USA?
Mike Pence and a business woman (Page 4D). This seems a wonderful opportunity to
illustrate the value of the civic morality that overarches both social morality
and religious morality. Herein, “civic” refers to mutual collaboration for life
here and now rather than for the civilizations or traditions one may seek to
fulfill. When a business man and a business woman mutually assume civic morality
there is no potential for lust or subjugation.
My life began in
unnecessary confusion and conflict: I was not coached to think that most people
want broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security so that they may pursue their
private preferences and do no harm. Most people want civic morality: dissenters
risk expectable harm. In social morality, for example, someone who is from a
different civilization seems mysteriously threatening, so like-seeming people
associate. In religious morality, some religions aim to provide favorable
afterdeath---that vast time after body, mind, and person have stopped
functioning. To hope for favor, believers must observe religious doctrine. A
person with civic morality may observe some social moralities and a religious
morality, but few people consciously practice overarching civic morality. In
other words, I was not coached to grow civic morality: Religious doctrine would
supply the overall good.
Perhaps the
rewarding life is guided by a nest of private-fidelities: both respectively and
collectively, fidelity to the-objective-truth, to self, to immediate family, to
extended families, to the people, to the nation, to the world, and to the universe.
Across this nest
of fidelities, a child’s third priority is to Mom and Dad, but as life
progresses, he or she may learn to form bonds with individuals outside the
family. A psychological and physical progression in various bonds may be
awareness, consideration, attraction, concern, appreciation, commitment,
intimacy, sexual-bonding, and procreation. People who react to experiences and
observations know that must humans are subject to attraction, human
appreciation, and hormonal chemistry that can entice physical intimacy when
there is no psychological familiarity. But few people are coached in the
personal authenticity that identifies and protects a nest of fidelities.
Some people are
satisfied with sex as an object rather than for fidelity-bonding. People who
are steeped in Bible influence, especially Paul’s erroneous writing like the
Timothy epistles, may not be coached in faithful human bonding. For example,
Jimmy Carter debated confusion over lust twenty years after his famous quote.
See articles.latimes.com/1996-12-17/local/me-9919_1_jimmy-carter .
What Paul
perhaps missed is tacitly covered in the preamble to the constitution for the
USA in its commitment “to ourselves and our Posterity.” Personal
posterity indicates grandchildren and beyond. Thus, the spousal role is for not
only their life, but for the family that survives them. For the person who is
committed to posterity, there is no room for personal infidelity. Only perfection will suffice.
Thus, when Jimmy
Carter lusted, his infidelity was successively to the-objective-truth, then
himself, then his immediate family, and so on. The authentic man is aware of
these first principles and assumes that the business woman he is with is an
authentic woman who expects him to be faithful to himself. If her behavior does
not confirm his assumption, at the first threat of intimacy---an awkward
question, suggestion, or hormonal impulse---he politely withdraws from the meeting.
His wife knows
this about him and needs no reassurances, yet sharing experiences and impressions,
even if erroneously formed, may be bond-building.
The $1.6 billion (Page 1A). The fed issued the money but Louisiana
is not ready to receive it.
Council on aging (Page 1A). How can anyone vote for taxation by
the Metro-Council? What a mess with each passage.
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