April 18, 2017

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, perhaps to share with people who may follow the blog.
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 despite possible error. In other words, the writer expresses his “belief,” knowing he could be in error. People may collaboratively approach the-objective-truth.

The Advocate:  See online at theadvocate.com/baton_rouge

Our Views. The Advocate blasts readers like me as “bloviating” sovereign-citizens. I appreciate Stephen Beck's willingness to converse with citizens.

Instead of pledging for diversity, equality, and civil rights, college professors should be collaborating for public-integrity. I will continue to resist pouring money into the rat-hole-liberal-democracy represented by today’s “higher education.” The goal of liberal-democracy is conflict for chaos. I do not think college students should continue to endure the teachings.

The purpose of the USA is to provide willing citizens the freedom to earn the liberty by which to pursue the peaceful happiness they perceive based on fidelity to the-objective-truth rather than yield to the demands of people who want to live their dreams on responsibility provided from a cloud of mystery and miracles, crime, evil, or other deviation from safety & security. In other words, willing people offer freedom by constraining dissidents so that volunteers for public-integrity may earn the liberty to pursue personal preferences. A person who earns the wherewithal, especially public safety & security, may fly to the moon, if that’s his or her preference.

LSU under F. King Alexander seems incapable of viewing the history of slavery as a 1765 threat to everyone in colonial America and the opportunity offered on September 17, 1787 for everyone today to establish voluntary public-integrity. The opportunity has been substantially fulfilled; for example, then, 5% of free inhabitants could vote, and in 2017, 100% of non-criminals may vote.

Until LSU and perhaps others reform from the stonewalling-ivory-tower-of-liberal-democracy and help establish civic-morality according to the preamble to the constitution for the USA, IMO, LSU does not deserve another dime.

The Advocate could help by perhaps learning then sharing with readers the difference between freedom from dominant-civil-opinion and the liberty to practice civic-justice. The preamble states purpose and aims that may eventually blend freedom-from and liberty-to.

Today’s thought 2 Timothy 3:12. I do not condone tacit approval of attacks on people because of their religious beliefs. Extrapolating Paul’s after-the fact statement, “Jesus shall suffer persecution,” to expectations for believers is Dean’s own boldness rather than Paul’s.

Public-integrity respecting civic-safety-&-security is a civil responsibility having nothing to do with doctrine for salvation in the afterdeath.

Letters

Science (Schell). Ray, fortunately I chose “The Philosophy of Science,” as a B.S. ChE elective. The textbook was by Cecil J. Schneer, 1960. See https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Physical-Science-Cecil-Schneer/dp/B000MRI6TI . It’s one of my treasures, and I regret Schneer’s passing this year.

The course taught me that science is a study, but many students set out to prove their theory and end up in pseudo-reality or the imaginary world their mind created.

Study seeks the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood and used. The-objective-truth exists, and humankind works to understand and benefit from the-indisputable-facts. The earth now seems like a globe . . . certainly. But beware future perspectives.

“Global warming” involves some major unknowns, such as sun spots (sott.net/article/333489-Ice-Age-Cometh-Scientists-concerned-approaching-solar-minimum-could-plunge-Earth-into-deep-freeze ) , predicting that what’s going up won’t go down ( joannenova.com.au/2010/02/the-big-picture-65-million-years-of-temperature-swings/ ) and feasibility of controlling earth’s atmosphere ( I leave that to people who think they know how, but am not likely to agree that they do ). Perhaps that is President Trump’s position: controlling the earth’s atmosphere is not feasible.

As for religion, I see no problem with someone’s claim that God is responsible for everything. However, the intellectual construct that follows needs to conform to the-objective-truth, which I do not know. When someone claims they know or that beliefs are as good as study (e.g., Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, 1958), my doubt kicks in, thanks to CJS, 1960.

To JT McQuitty: JTM, your references are very informative, as usual, especially Haidt's dialectic pairs:

 

(1) Care / Harm

 

(2) Fairness / Cheating

 

(3) Liberty / Oppression [prb: should be either Freedom / Oppression or Liberty / Dependence]

 

(4) Loyalty / Betrayal

 

(5) Authority / Subversion

 

(6) Sanctity / Degradation

 

Could add evidence / supposition.

 

I am reminded of David Hume, who wrote something like, "Does Haidt's work show that twice two is four? Yes, good: no, put it in the trash heap."

 

First, we have to know what morality Haidt is studying. It seems to be the morality of emotions. Emotions seem private---to be shared only on mutual agreement.

 

What a person needs when facing a tornado is the-objective-truth. I'm in the path? Get in the cast iron bathtub in the center of the first floor.

 

Similarly, in a conversation with another person, don't lie, so that they will be able to respond to the-objective-truth. The-objective-truth does not yield to reason, belief, work, study, or any other human endeavor. It simply is. Humankind looks to evidence as the indicator for the-objective-truth.

 

Medicaid poll subjective (LeBlanc). Scuddy is correct.

 

Pollsters call me. I want my opinion heard, so I start. The moment I am forced into a yes or no regarding a subjective question, I hang up. My opinion is excluded from the results by the subjective question rather than my opinion.

 

It's like being asked, would you prefer being arrested for drunkenness on Jack Daniels rather than Budweiser: Yes or No?

Don’t honor Sherman and kick Carville out (Johnston). I guess I had them, but I cannot recall neighbors this stubborn/uninformed. Carville is a good neighbor with a good idea. His proposal is grounded in representative-maintenance-of-statutory-law rather than liberal democracy.

 

For 1700 years, Christians have interpreted Bible passages as though slavery was an institution of God. In the 1850’s, ministers in the South preached black slavery an institution of God. Everyone observed the physics of slavery---chains, whips, guns, brutality and rape to slaves with both psychological and physical burdens to masters, and ministers in the North stopped returning escaped slaves to the South.

 

The USA has been in charge of trying to recover from slavery imported here as an African commodity sold to five European countries and their colonists, taking independent charge of an ongoing effort to recover from slavery 230 years ago---during the summer of 1787. Every willing inhabitant is responsible for the recovery, as stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

 

But 74 years later, the South unconstitutionally seceded from the USA and fired on Fort Sumter. North white church accepted war with South white church to settle erroneous Bible interpretation. The USA is preserved yet still struggling over Bible interpretation. Bible interpretation!

 

I’d like to challenge Johnston and others to answer the question, “Is slavery an institution of God?”

 

If, “No,” I’m ready to agree. If, “Yes,” I have more questions waiting for iterative collaboration.

Cal Thomas column The death penalty is a gruesome strawman for abortion.
 
It’s like making the victims of murder Thomas’ personal objects. Shame on you, Mr. Thomas.

Coastal restoration (Bradberry). This infomercial is great if the future will agree. But consider the poor planning when the levee system was installed.

Michael Gerson (American soul). American soul was ruined during the last 8 years. Time to work on civic justice and let phantasms take care of themselves.

  

Police reform (Page 1B). The reform needed is in the judicial system. Judges need to support the police rather than entrap them in the impossible.

 

Also, protestors may be required to provide insurance against damage, injury and disruption that they may cause.

Broome deputy (Page 1A). Only Broome knows why she is taking a chance on a man with such a blemished record.

 

Broome's management claims---dialogues on racism and church---brings to mind an April, 1864 comment: “I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events. God alone can claim it.”

The statement, well-grounded or not, holds no matter how things turn out.

Domestic violence (Page 1A). Please approve HB 27 and HB 223.

Somebody please tell Gene Mills there’s no place for religion in voluntary public-integrity.

The Associated Press cannot be trusted (Korea, Page 1A). Ken Thomas and Jill Colvin write, “America’s implied threat of force isn’t new, nor is hope for engagement.”

 

Where’s the justification for claiming America hopes for engagement? Who can interpret hopes?

 

“America’s plan to deploy a missile defense system in South Korea” is good strategy for allies in the area and should be partially funded by them.

Phil Beaver does not “know” the-indisputable-facts. 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, education non-profit. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.