May 12, 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 (TOPS standards up). I agree with The Advocate and Rep. Foil on increasing GPA to 2.75. It will help students raise their goals and succeed in college.
  
Also, I think more students would graduate from high school, and more would qualify for tops with the Child Incentives Program, designed after TOPS but starting 6 months after birth. See cipbr.blogspot.com/2016/09/child-incentives-brief.html .


The Louisiana GDP would rise to unexpected levels. Most of all, children would be coached to take charge of their understanding and intent to live a full life.

  

Our Views (Civil war dignity, May 9). To James R Madden: Thanks, JR. 

Are you saying your school taught you that slavery in this land was imposed by the Catholic Church's doctrine of discovery for God with African-slave-labor for colonization? Further, Protestant kings competed with Catholic kings for colonization of "discovered" lands that were occupied by natives, also for Jesus? Some slave descendants eventually blamed Christianity for their abuses?

Staub School, in Knoxville, Tennessee did not teach these historical facts.

    

Today’s thought (Psalms 118:24). I agree: Life is so wonderful; most people want to be wonderful, including our person; we may make the most of every day.

Letters

  

Sanctuary movement (Bustamante). The sanctuary movement has taught me that philanthropy is a form of circumventing the civil order and creating risk for the people of this country.

It is evil. Whereas we have immigration laws and have always welcomed refugees yet managed the viability for care, the sanctuary movement assists illegal activity such at the risky Mexican coyote business.

  

People ask for evidence that the Catholic Church is a sponsor. I think promotion by the Jesuit Social Research Institute is evidence. In the competition between a refugee and a jobless American, I favor the American and want habilitative services dedicated to him or her rather than an undocumented worker. That is the more humane and economically feasible approach.

I do not think the USA should partner with the Vatican, Protestant churches, and other philanthropy to bring illegal immigrants here to compete for our jobs.

  

Sadow on death penalty (Shreves). Some attorneys seem prone to express more erroneous religious opinion.

In this error, “cases in which the execution of an offender is an absolute necessity . . . are practically nonexistent,” is offered to refute Sadow’s claim that when the necessity is there the execution should be carried out. Shreves' fallacy I think is called "straw-man."

But he also seemed excessive with pretense to know the papal meaning of "practically nonexistent." I take that to mean "existent," but would not claim to know.

I would add prompt execution when DNA evidence adds to the certainty of conviction.

In addition, our DA, Hillar Moore, Jr. stated that he opts for the death penalty in very few cases, which is consistent with Pope John Paul II’s statement, but not the attorney’s interpretation.
 

I still think that was Sadow’s column of the decade, so far.

    

Death penalty column. When DNA evidence completes a conviction, the conscience of the community sometimes requires speedy execution. For example when a person raped and killed a child, the perpetrator should not be given the chance for another brutality.

    

Stephanie Grace column. To John Anaximander Gainey: The agenda is avoidance of the Church responsibility for its 1600 years’ roles 1) in the doctrine of discovery for God and 2) beginning in 1454 the Atlantic Slave Trade for agricultural labor in colonies. The practice was mimicked by Protestant kings (after 1517). The consequences are still ruining lives.

This is also part of history and should be faced without diminishing believers' faith in the Church. In fact, admitting these roles is needed for the benefit of Christianity over the next few decades. For some, white Christianity is Satan and whites are devils. See James Baldwin. The Fire Next Time.

Again. Precisely my point. The Church is without excuse.

When Constantine called on the Catholic Church to canonize a Bible, the physics of slavery was clear to everyone: chains, whips, brutality and rape to slaves with physical burdens to masters and psychological burdens to non-barbaric owners.

The priests were without excuse for not purging the books or passages that seemed to condone slavery as an institution of God, perhaps as punishment for sin to the generations of the sinner (St. Augustine I understand).

Teaching Christianity to the slaves was part of the doctrine of discovery. The slaves and their descendants are as psychologically powerful as other humans. The cruelty, brutality, and immorality perpetrated on slaves by Christians proved to them that Christianity is Satan and Christians are devils.

To get an idea how that comes to be, imagine you are a slave-descent recalling the blood coming from your parent’s body and you are reading Hebrews 12. If that does not suffice, listen to W. F. Buckley’s frustration as war-threats toward James Baldwin starting at 56-58 minutes of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w&t=984s .

The Bible need not suffer for its errors, but believers should know of them and regret them. By some modern theologies, slavery remains God’s institution, but masters are black. That is the history that has been hidden from Mr. Landrieu’s debate.

I say, preserve the remaining monuments and put plaques about the real history for all to read. America neither needs nor wants to pope’s apology, but we do need to know that we are all victims of an awful practice that seems condoned by the Bible. We may recover together.

    

Lanny Keller column. Mr. K, I think you are saying: We miss Kip. I agree.

I just cannot be cheerful about 1) dialogues on racism and 2) church.

We can have voluntary public-integrity. I’m naïve enough to think we’re working on it.

George Will column (Trump’s sanctuary order). I like the quote from Animal House, “I think this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!” My thought is that it applies to this column.

President Trump starts negotiations by expressing what he would like to see happen. You may not like Trump’s approach, but I do.

It’s called: talking without lying. Not lying gives the other party the civic opportunity to respond without trying to deal with a lie.

Maybe there’s no place in journalism for not lying.

COA trust (Page 1A). I appreciate Andrea Gallo's reporting and The Advocate for publishing. We need public-integrity.

The story illustrates the dysfunction---elected, expected problem-solvers stonewall each other---that could be solved by voluntary public-integrity, a theory that exists in Baton Rouge after four years of meetings at EBRP libraries involving collaboration by over fifty people. Here’s a brief summary of how it works:

1)    In general, parties for voluntary public-integrity agree

a.     To iteratively collaborate to discover the-objective-truth for Baton Rouge rather than conflict using dominant opinion.

b.    While each person’s God is all powerful and omniscient respecting the afterdeath, the people are responsible for public-integrity. No person will be asked to collaborate about their God.

c.     Both force and coercion are the people’s enemy: collaboration is possible.

d.    The goal is to find a solution that seems to conform to the-objective-truth based on both parties’ experiences and observations.

2)    In a typical application, speakers ask for a meeting to discuss a perceived problem and a solution, Item A.

3)    Listeners agree to meet. They listen, ask questions and make comments to relate Item A to their experiences and observations.

4)    If listeners agree with Item A, the parties move on to No. 7. If not, listeners become speakers to offer Item B. Speakers for Item A become listeners for Item B, with the same listening and clarifying practice.

5)    The role-swapping continues until both parties perceive their needs are met according to the-objective-truth. Neither party cooperates or subjugates, because they collaborated to discover the-objective-truth.

6)    They discover as statement of the concern and the solution that comports to the-objective-truth.

7)    The discussion turns to whether or not there is a need for action. If so, a plan is devised and scheduled, with acting agent for each task identified.

The article expresses the bill sponsors trying to express a management concern and the opponents responding with a customer satisfaction claim: State representatives talked past each other. It seems to me parish problems may be resolved at the parish level, if Metro Council members and the mayor do not stonewall each other. Wrong venue seemed the state’s reaction to this bill.

My work is to persuade the people to manage civic-morality this way. Readers may learn more about voluntary public-integrity at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com/2017/04/voluntary-public-integrity.html .

I don’t know (Page 1B) I hope Landrieu will have a change of heart respecting the remaining two monuments.

Put some plaques attesting to the erroneous canonization of the Bible with passages that condone slavery, so that visitors to New Orleans may read the-objective-truth and not allow religion to justify such barbarity again---ever.

I would not re-mount either of the other monuments, though.

Domestic abuse law update (Page 2A) Congratulations and best wishes for additional approval.

It seems to me past time to promote that guy’s notoriety. Bring it up if he runs for office, but otherwise, forget about it. I certainly won’t write this wish again.

BRAF payoff for proton  (Page 1A) Thank you, The Advocate, for this report.

If I understood, the eventual property (20 years out) ownership by BRAF after grants by the state is an example of how this philanthropy is picking the people’s pockets, and I do not mean only taxpayers. I mean everyone who does not have stock in BRAF Capital.

I don’t know, but could be wrong.

Edwards rebuffed on vouchers  (Page 2A) Voucher schools are administration-expense heavy, but that could be changed in the approval process.

Voter fraud  (Page 3A) The biggest fraud I see is telling people who to vote for. For example, AMO does that. Remember ACORN?

Divided nation  (Page 4A) Andrew Vanacore overlooks the symbols to advance the division and obscure the real problem: This time, God has skin-color.

(Sorry, James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time came to mind.)

Macy’s decline  (Page 15A) Who’ll step up for Macy’s national functions? East River fireworks, Thanksgiving Day Parade?

  

Charles Foster Kane’s reality once sponsored Constitution Day Parades.

   

Other Forums

quora.com/Is-treating-unequal-things-equally-just-as-unfair-as-treating-equal-things-unequally?__nsrc__=4

  

The USA struggles with these questions, too, I think because the people, after 229 years since hopeful ratification in 1788 and 228 years since federal politics began in 1789, neither understand nor practice the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

My paraphrase is: willing people in our state, in order to achieve the purpose and goals stated herein, specify and limit a federal government to serve each state and the people therein. The aims I perceive, as nouns rather than predicates, include posterity, integrity, justice, fidelity, defense, prosperity, privacy, and lawfulness.

What to do about this neglect of the preamble is the object of my work in two regards: 1) how can at least 2/3 of the people be motivated to use the preamble’s principles and 2) what would willing people’s collaboration do to improve life in the USA, including objective distribution of GNP, both as personal income and corporate profits. Especially the second part of the task requires collaboration by the people.

Being an individual, the only thing I can do about the preamble is write and talk and hope people read and listen. Regarding distribution of GNP, I have a few ideas to propose for collaboration by willing people:

1.    Political power may seek to comport to the-objective-truth, which differs from other versions of “truth” in that it exists and may be discovered but cannot be constructed by humans. Human action may change events, but the impact follows the-objective-truth.

a.     It seems the best economic system is free-enterprise with

                                          i.    Safety nets to accommodate persons who cannot earn their personal living.

                                         ii.    Discouraging laggards from using the safety net.

                                        iii.    Action when population growth is not in balance with free-enterprise.

b.    The purpose of government is to assure willing citizens individual-independence. Willing citizens do the following:

                                          i.    Earn their personal living.

                                         ii.    Collaborate for civic justice or at least cooperate. In “civic justice” both parties provide mutual justice in connections and transactions.

                                        iii.    Privately pursue personal preferences, such as religion or none, fine arts, sports, etc., appreciating the-objective-truth.

                                        iv.    Continually learn so as to reach psychological maturity. In maturity, some citizens may be working to perfect their person. Perhaps examples include:

1.    Mother Theresa

2.    Stephen Hawking

3.    Steve Jobs

4.    The ones I missed

c.     The unwilling citizens include ignorant people, criminals, evils, and others.

                                          i.    Need motivation and inspiration to learn, especially to learn autonomy.

                                         ii.    Criminals and evils must be constrained, perhaps incarcerated.

1.    Always need the rule of statutory law.

2.    To work toward the totality of the preamble’s subject, we the people of the states---the USA may offer:

a.     Education for K-12 on par with the most elite education on earth.

                                          i.    Child incentives to take charge of their person’s leaning.

b.    Child coaching to instill first principles for individual-independence.

c.     Public-integrity so that those who will may pursue perfection of their unique person.

                                          i.    Intense studies for the first two decades to reach understanding and intent to live a full life.

                                         ii.    Understanding to a) contribute to humankind by working and discovering the person’s self and b) saving and investing to accumulate wealth for financial security and retirement.

d.    Assure the dignity and equality of every newborn respecting fidelity to the-objective-truth.

                                          i.    Encourage men and women not to conceive if they do not intend to care for the child and grandchildren for life.

                                         ii.    Provide extra coaching for other families so as to assure role-modelling for the children.

                                        iii.    Provide special psychological care for someone who contests their gender.

3.    With these provisions, there may be a future way of living wherein most persons understand that their future is their responsibility.

a.     They had an equal beginning.

b.    They had equal education and coaching.

c.     The consequences are their responsibilities.

Thus, in public-integrity, equality is a condition of conception, gestation, and birth that should be warranted by the civic order. Thereafter, the civic order should empower individual-independence, or freedom from ideological oppression, and emerging consequences are the person’s responsibility.

I would appreciate comments on this theory for a perhaps achievable better future.

quora.com/Is-liberty-prior-to-equality/answer/Phil-Beaver-1

The purpose of civic order is to assure freedom-from arbitrary oppression. Thereby, each individual may earn the liberty-to pursue (discover & practice) personal happiness rather than an imposed ideology. 

Happiness may be measured as fidelity to the-objective-truth. The-objective-truth differs from other expressions in that it must be discovered rather than constructed on either evidence & reason or imagination & doctrine.

Thus, a person’s outcome is a function of fidelity to the-objective-truth, which is often unknown. Equality of consequences cannot be expected in human living, except insofar as each person accepts his or her unique journey of choices.
 

In summary, freedom-from, liberty-to, fidelity, and the-objective-truth contribute to consequential inequalities among humankind.

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 is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.