May 30, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by listening when people share 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 1:  I often dash words in a phrases in order to express and preserve an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth despite possible error. In other words, a person expresses his “belief,” knowing he or she could be in error. People may collaboratively approach the-objective-truth.
 Note 2: It is important to note "civic" as in citizens for the people more than for the city.

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Our Views (mismanagement). I perceive the LSU-maintenance problem as a lack of voluntary public-integrity and the question is where the failure is occurring: Louisiana government, LSU, or the people.

I think the people have the opportunity to realize two principles: 1) just as a person may earn a living to have the freedom-from oppression that is readily available in the USA, 2) he or she may work for the liberty-to responsibly live according to personal preferences rather than the dictates of the city, state, and federal governments.

To pursue these two opportunities, participants must stay politically informed and collaborate for civic justice, where “civic” refers to citizens of humankind more than citizens of a municipality or ideology beyond public-security. Civic justice is empowered by fidelity to the-objective-truth.

Both LSU and Louisiana-government have the excuse that the people don’t pay attention to the partnership that erodes the people's “freedom-from” and “liberty-to.”

I hope attention to dysfunction will motivate the people to both 1) consider the purpose and aims stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA and 2) determine personal actions to responsibly pursue “freedom-from” and “liberty-to,” not for some future generation, but for current living.

   

Today’s thought (Proverbs 28:26). Humankind’s noble quest is to discover and benefit from the-objective-truth. For example, the earth once thought to be flat and 4 thousand years old is like a globe and 4,600,000 thousand years old. A civic people don’t lie because they care to communicate rather than to satisfy some mysterious rule.

The person who persuades himself or herself that he/she “knows” God may “watch out” for the-objective-truth. I wonder if Dean is self-deceived. I don’t know.

Letters

Cut taxation for the arts (Stillman, May 29). Joe Diogenes You are claiming that I have no talent.

However, I have talent and perfect it, low as it may be. I repeat ideas in this forum, but never cut and paste: I start from scratch. Thereby, my expressions improve each time.

Let’s collaborate for voluntary public-integrity.

But you don't have the humility to avoid anonymity and thereby publicly own your carelessness. That’s OK with me: to own his each.

 

Violent offenders (Hogan). I’m not convinced public-safety should take second chances with violence.

Services for rehabilitation need to be in place with good performance records before second chances are made available.

Religion is not a rehabilitation: mystery inspires people to bemusement rather than responsibly independent living.

Monuments (Claus). “Removing the monuments . . . is merely a missed opportunity to celebrate the goodness and ability to change of mankind.”

The monuments could have been turned into reminders of a nation overcoming “a more erroneous religious belief”---that the Bible’s verses that condone slavery are valid.

Now that the monuments are gone, people may plan the change to goodness: what must be done?

I hope we collaborate to keep religion, a private practice for comfort and hope in face of the undiscovered, separate from public justice, which is continually discovered through the-objective-truth.

Columns.

Saudi trust (Cal Thomas). Your approach is to appeal to ignoble motives.

In Islam, separating religion from politics is an internal task that only Islam can accomplish.

In America, separating religion from politics is an internal task that only America can accomplish.

I think President Trump started a progressive conversation and that your attitude undermines it. I hope you reform.

  

Trump budget failed (E. J. Dione). I think his budget is based on jobs. We’ll see.

Bad news for Trump (Byron York). It may turn out to be bad news for both Obama operatives in federal offices and the media.

I hope Congress acts to constrain the media. Perhaps not taking that need seriously was Benjamin Franklin’s most serious failure as one of America’s signers of both the Declaration of Independence and the 1787 draft constitution for the USA.

The media take excessive liberty-to publish what they want-to-be under “freedom of the press.” The people may stop them.

Other forums.

Announcement:  theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/calendar/#/details/4th-Annual-Ratification-Day-Celebration/3562296/2017-06-21T19

European envy (WSJ). Sohrab Ahmari in “How Nationalism Can Solve the Crisis of Islam,’ Wall Street Journal, May 27, page A11 reports an interview in Paris with Pierre Manent, political philosopher who defends capitalism.

I failed to mention the statement: “In its communiques claiming credit for terror attacks, Islamic State never fails to mention that the ‘soldiers of the Caliphate’ targeted this nation, which ‘carries the banner of the cross in Europe.’”

The interview-report goes on to propose that nations create a legitimate way for Muslims to join the nation. That will require that Muslims accept the separation of political power from religious hopes and for nations that seek justice to appreciate separation of churches from political power. In justice, the people collaborate for private-liberty-with-civic-morality, where “civic” refers to people who work for public-integrity more than for municipal control and prevent the Chapter XI Machiavellian religion-government-partnerships.

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