June 20, 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 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" refers to citizens who collaborate for the people more than for the city.

  

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_8ac6acc4-54fa-11e7-ae14-7b1b87a78015.html)

The 70% is undefined, and the administration will not provide the accounting so that the public can follow services to inmates and victims.

 

Today’s thought (Joel 2:28 CJB). “After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.”

Dean counters, “We need the Holy Spirit to move on us and in us. Pray for God to work in your life.”

It seems arrogant to pray for God to do what God says he already did. I think justice is my duty and will not follow Dean’s advice.

Letters.

People need health insurance (Todd). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_5b00b506-52df-11e7-8dbd-0be4de63ca80.html)

Todd writes propaganda for her business interests. People need health care, and healthy lifestyle is at least four times more effective than medical care respecting wellbeing.

During the past century, the entrepreneurial proposition of spreading risk of unaffordable health services, called “insurance,” has changed. Through government mismanagement, insurance has morphed into medical service to the poor class, while the shrinking middle class still pays its bills.

Correcting government mismanagement is never a pleasant process. However, one thing is certain. Ms. Todd’s anecdotal citation, is merely a lucky case. Far more people are suffering under Obamacare than are benefiting.

  

Columns.

Monuments attack (Walter Williams). creators.com/read/walter-williams/06/17/rewriting-american-history

Most Americans have never understood the real history let alone the competitive mendacities historians create. An individual can substantially cut through the revisions of history by creating and researching a timeline.

“George Orwell said, ‘The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.’" Applying this idea, it seems logical to say America has never been great, because Americans have never understood their opportunities.

As I wrote in opposition to Mayor Landrieu’s New Orleans tyranny, I expanded my timeline of slavery-history beyond the discovery of America, reaching the Code of Hammurabi, 3800 years ago. I discovered that 2017 Americans are victims of the canonization of the Bible during 300 A.D. to 400 A.D. Then, the physics of slavery were plain---chains, whips, brutality and rape to slaves and both psychosocial and physical burdens to masters, and guilt to owners. 

Nevertheless, the popes who erroneously authorized inclusion of books that condone slavery did so by ignoring the-objective-truth.

Fifteenth century popes exacerbated the error by authorizing first Portugal then Spain to import African slaves for agricultural colonization of the Americas under the unjust doctrine of discovery. Then Protestantism came on the scene and got involved in the immoral practices, both African slave purchases and invasion of native lands.

Christianity may be OK for salvation of the soul, but it is too immoral to provide civic morality. Only the people who want comprehensive safety and security may collaborate for justice, and if they understand the forces that divide them, they can collaborate.

It is insufficient to damn me, as James Madison might, for opposing the erroneous influence of Christianity on civic justice. What’s important is for most Christians to oppose Christian institutions that insist on salvation of the soul for some deaths, unintentionally ruining lives for the many who are living. That is, most Christians may save their souls as well as collaborate for comprehensive safety and security as a public practice.

Mayoral integrity (Page 2B). http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_f03a8028-5520-11e7-a689-2b92af11987c.html)

Ms Broome may demonstrate that Baton Rouge runs well on the mayor's church and the mayor's dialogues on racism. Then she can talk about integrity, and the YWCA can chip in.

Fat chance!

Barbaric treatment of seniors (Page 1A). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_57ac6b24-551f-11e7-bdfd-4bd3229a29e3.html)

Ranking 51^st in a nation that ranks perhaps 25^th equates to 1300^th in the world! I call that barbaric and attribute it to the Louisiana Legislature and Administration for favoring a business—the nursing home lobby.

In the coming special session to balance the Louisiana budget without the draconian sales tax, no new taxation of the people is acceptable. Only reduction of favors to businesses is on the acceptable agenda.

Global temperatures on cosmic cycles (Page 3A). abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/energy-chief-carbon-dioxide-prime-driver-warming-48134405

I continually write that the Associated Press and writers like Matthew Daly cannot be trusted, and they honestly express their lack of integrity in this article. Quoting, “Recently, The Associated Press sent Pruitt's comments to numerous scientists who study climate. All seven climate scientists who responded said Pruitt was wrong and that carbon dioxide is the primary driver of global warming.” Why would the AP conduct and report a clandestine collection of propaganda? What is the AP motive?

The AP seeks input from a nonprofit membership organization with approximately 1.1 million members and online activists, known for its legal action, scientific petitions, creative media and grassroots activism. Biological evolution has progressed on earth for some 2 billion years without non-profit organizations, and the-objective-facts always overrule arrogant opinion.

Perry has wisely moved past the question of global warming to ask "what are the policy changes that we need to make to affect that?" The AP retreats to Barack Obama’s idea of giving away America’s options by letting the United Nations persuade us to submit to them. Not a good idea.

 I encourage the AP and its writers to continue exercising freedom of the press to try to fool the people. However, people who want comprehensive safety and security may take action against barbaric rates of child abuse in America and take council from writers like Oren Cass, “How to Worry about Climate Change,” National Affairs, No. 10, Winter, 2017, page 115. Basically, if you live near the ocean and 3 inches per year rise in sea level (whether by subsidence or whatever) threatens you, move to higher ground. Meanwhile, do what you can to help children, forgetting the AP agenda.

London’s Protestant-parliament-partnership (Page 8A). abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/driver-plows-crowd-london-mosque-injuring-10-48128312

Prime Minister Theresa May’s claim, “We will not let this happen,” begs the response: It already happened.

Mayor Sadiq Khan, promoted “shared values of tolerance, freedom and respect" and "’zero tolerance’ for hate crimes.”

The failure of the Protestant-parliament-partnership was predictable in Peter W. Edge, “Religion and Law,” Agate Publishing 2006, which proposed to accommodate Sharia law. Mixing religion, a personal practice and civic justice, a public practice, has never been feasible. That seems the fundamental dilemma with Islam: It seems first a political governance and second a religion. It seems up to the majority of Muslims to collaborate for public justice so that religious privacy may flourish. Readers cannot trust the Associated Press to lobby for safety and security.

A civic culture may happen when most citizens want and collaborate for comprehensive safety and security.

Other forums 

quora.com/Why-do-so-many-human-beings-resist-and-refuse-to-grow-up-when-they-reach-adulthood/answer/Phil-Beaver-1

Too many people miss the most deadly error: gullibility. The shield against gullibility is humility. However, it takes hard work to comprehend the-objective-truth.

For example, early islanders could imagine that the earth was not flat, but people on land were confused by the possibility of falling off the edge of the earth. They were not willing to do the work to discover that the earth is like a globe.

Again, people died from over exposure to the sun and therefore were persuaded that the sun was a God. Smart people saw that most people were easily persuaded to think something else was in charge. Politicians capitalized on the idea and partnered with the priests to control the people.

Thus, there developed constructs with priest-politician-partnerships that the people believed would help them to a promising future, even a future in their afterdeath, which no one has ever observed, yet billions of humans expect.

This theory is explained by Machiavelli in “The Prince,” Chapter XI. I refer to it as Chapter XI Machiavellianism. Only a dreamer would think it can be overcome.

I think the priest-politician-partnership can be overcome when most people collaborate for comprehensive safety and security as the transcendental public integrity, fully aware that there will always be dissidents. The secret to success is humility and fidelity respecting the-objective-truth rather than egoistic gullibility.

Announcement for tomorrow at 7:00 PM, Goodwood Library, 4^th Annual Ratification Day celebration: 

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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.