July 1, 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_7f24e8e2-5c19-11e7-b7dc-d7f4af5d1cd2.html#tncms-source=infinity-scroll-summary-siderail-latest)

  

At F. King Alexander’s promotion “Moment or Movement?” on October 4, 2016, I learned from Jim Engster: Marshall McLuhan had asserted that the media control thought and discussion by carefully choosing the leading words. I had commented that the session on “social morality” would be more open if represented by “civic morality,” where “civic” referred to citizens collaborating to live more than to promote the city, an ideology, or classism.

  

In this Our Views, “obviously disturbed . . . gunman,” dissuades the reader from “criminally evil gunman,” or other thoughts that might come to other citizens. Thoughts that might help establish comprehensive safety and security. Not all dissidents are mentally ill.

  

The most heartless seeming thought in this article is “hope [Moore's report] provides closure for the grieving.” The Advocate has not read Jeremiah Wright’s words that were obfuscated by the greedy 2008 media:

  

“When you lose someone that you love, you will weep. When you lose somebody that was close to you, the tears will come; I ain't telling you about nothing that I read in a book somewhere, I’m telling you what I know from personal experience. I'm not telling you what I studied in pastoral counseling, I’m telling you what I have lived – for when the pain of death hits and the pain is deep, when the pain of death hits and the pain is personal, when the finality of death comes crashing in on you, and those words “never again” move from the region of possibility to the heart-wrenching realm of reality, that smile that made your day, never again will you see it. That laughter that lit up your world, never again will you hear it. That wisdom that anchored your soul, never again will you experience it in this life. When that happens to you, my beloved, you will weep. You will cry.” See blackpast.org/2008-rev-jeremiah-wright-confusing-god-and-government.

We do not need to study “the depravity”: We need a supermajority of citizens to realize that humankind is divided: Citizens willing to collaborate for life and dissidents. This distinction is codified in the USA by willingness to trust and commit to the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

The purpose and goals expressed in the preamble apply in 2017 as well as they did in 1787, 230 years ago, and the preamble may serve as that trust and commitment that neither government (Jeremiah Wright’s complaint) nor God (Abraham Lincoln’s lament) inspires civic people to collaborate for civic justice: Only the people can deliver civic justice.

Beyond the police, the mayor, the churches, Together Baton Rouge and other Alinsky coalitions, I commend the civic citizens of Baton Rouge to collaborate using the-objective-truth for comprehensive safety and security as stated in the preamble.

To Marc O’Neal: Thank you for pointing out the severity of the division. But Baton Rouge may learn from history.

Baton Rouge may learn that it is important for citizens to trust and commit to the preamble to the constitution for the USA, a civic agreement. Most citizens may assert: Not on my watch will you secede from a civic people, civic meaning people who collaborate to living every decade of their lives more than for a city or cause or classism.

Consider President Lincoln’s observations and experiences. On December 14, 1860, South Carolina issued its declaration of secession from the USA. The declaration ends with the claim that “public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanction of more erroneous religious belief.” The CSA declaration came 10 days later. On February 9, 1861, the CSA convention of six states elected Jefferson Davis President. Had they not neglected the preamble, a civic people in the CSA may have said: “Not on my watch will you secede from the USA.”

On March 4, President Lincoln, in his first inaugural address directly addressed the CSA, I think incredulous that they would actually go to war with a 7 to 27 state minority and military disadvantage. A perhaps obscure statement is, “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”

Whether Lincoln intended to invoke the preamble’s “We the People of the United States,” or not, his statement support’s Jeremiah Wright’s claim that a people cannot depend on government for justice. However, perhaps Lincoln claims they must look to the common safety and security described by the preamble to establish civic justice.

In his second inaugural address, Lincoln said, “Both [the CSA and the USA] read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.” It may be different now. It seems Wright preaches a prevailing God that has skin and the skin is colored and the color is black. So it seems to me when Wright preaches “Confusing God and Government” he is overlooking the preamble’s path to comprehensive safety and security: Look to the people for civic justice.

Baton Rouge citizens have, by adopting the agreement stated in the preamble, the potential to create a promising future, wherein the division of the population is plain: People who collaborate for comprehensive safety and security vs dissenters. Most Baton Rouge people may choose civic justice.

In another post today, I suggest the Sterling family may drop an unjust law suit.

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 130:3-4, 7, CJB). “Yah, if you kept a record of sins, who, Adonai, could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, so that you will be feared. Isra'el, put your hope in ADONAI! For grace is found with ADONAI, and with him is unlimited redemption.” 

Dean says “Thank God for His mercy. He is willing and able to forgive our sins if we will repent and return to him.”

I did not see anything in the reference that suggests “if we will repent.” Perhaps Dean is being opinionated, arrogant, or mysterious. For all I know, he’s right about it, but I don’t think so. I think it is better to be faithful and not repeat any error that you make.

Psalms 130 may suggest antinomianism, which I don’t trust either. See mintdill.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/the-great-heresies-of-antinomianism-and-neonomianism/ .

Letters.

Against the people, June 18 (Dunbar). (theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/letters/article_55fead76-5125-11e7-b5f0-2741b97f85e0.html)

To Folwell Dunbar: Your poem is fun and seems complete to me, someone who doesn't know and can't judge all that has happened.

One thought seemed unlike my impression:

"But by holding back the river with cement and earth

They denied the delta much of its worth.

Without silt from the Midwest, the land began to sink

And our state’s vast wetlands started to shrink."

It seems to me the coastal land has been subsiding for millennia and for the last 7,000 years the subsidence was offset by alluvial flooding, which ended when the levy system was completed during the last 100 years.

 

Thank you for a nice Saturday morning read.

Let's move to higher physical ground and also work on child abuse in the USA.

Reducing child abuse is the most important project in Louisiana, which ranks around 1000th in the world. There's failure to appreciate every newborn as a potentially elite person and failure to empower the willing child into an elite education. Our education system needs to be turned upside down so that the focus is child enrichment rather than adult satisfaction.

 

Sterling-inspired ambush (Page 1A) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_5d0cd146-5dc9-11e7-bed4-6f2b3845350e.html

Alton Sterling should not have resisted arrest and then battled the police. His failure to obey the police led to Long's inspiration to kill the police officers involved with Sterling. There's a sound case for the Sterling family to withdraw their law suit.

And there is a strong case for legislation against the law-suit cottage-industry derived from vigilante law. It's too easy to stage public-offense events, and perpetrators could care less about the costs, even death, to the public offender.

 Other forums 

libertylawsite.org/2017/04/07/god-talk-and-americans-belief-in-inalienable-rights/

To John Schmeeckle: Comprehensive safety and security comes directly from the preamble to the constitution for the USA. My most recent paraphrase is: Willing citizens in their states routinely, voluntarily, collaborate for connected morality in each and all of continuity (for self, children, grandchildren; beyond), integrity (both reliability and wholeness), justice (assure freedom-from oppression), fidelity (uphold obligations), defense (prevent or constrain harm), prosperity (earn the liberty-to pursue choices), privacy (discover & pursue harmless personal goals), lawfulness (conform to law and reform injustice), and cultivate the constitution for the USA.

It is amazing to me how many changes I have made since I started this practice for June 21, 2014, now dubbed annual commemoration of Personal Independence Day, that day in 1788 when nine states had ratified the draft constitution for the USA, establishing the nation.

The preamble has been falsely labeled a secular sentence, because it seemed to some to oppose religious freedom. However, the preamble has no reference to religion, thereby leaving it to willing citizens to be religious or not and still trust and commit to the preamble for civic justice. “Civic” refers to citizens who collaborate for living during every decade of their lives more than for a municipality, tradition, ideology or competitive opinion, reserving personal matters for privacy. No one subjects their beliefs to public collaboration.

Temporal validity of the Declaration of Independence is the reason it is obsolete. So much has been discovered in these 241 years! In the first place, we discovered that everything emerges from physics, the objective of study more than the study. That is, energy, mass and space-time from which everything on earth emerges. (That’s the point of Albert Einstein’s 1941 essay, referred to earlier. His only example to make his point is that willing people do not lie to each other so that they may communicate. How not lying derives from physics is the subject of another essay or book, and I’ve written a lot about it already. I try to avoid the shock from “physics” the subject to lying by writing the-objective-truth, which stands on its own merit. Einstein asserted that not lying derives from physics rather than “natural law” or God’s law. I agree with Einstein: civic morality does not derive from God. (To understand these references requires reading them.)

To expect the world to appreciate war “authorized” by “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” is obsolete. To debate my statement is necessary for social reasons but not for civic reasons. In other words, civic morality overrides, social morality, religious morality, and dissident civilizations. For example, issues concerning salvation of the soul are not involved in collaboration for comprehensive safety and security or trust and commitment to the preamble.

Readers will find in Emerson’s “Divinity School Address,” Emerson’s reference for the message that Phil Beaver has the opportunity to perfect his person, and the citation is not Cicero, unless by mystery. Check it out, please, and tell me to whom Emerson attributes the insight that I am that psychologically powerful but did not suspect it before reading Emerson.

It seems to me the first task is to persuade the adults who vie for dominant opinion that comprehensive safety and security may be established using the-objective-truth. Based on history and the world’s current nadir in civic morality, I hope to involve 2/3 of adult citizens, with the customary 1/3 dissidents. With exemplary living by a super-majority, the youth will follow, delighted with the hope for peace after some 7 trillion man-years of conflict over dominant opinion.

Of one thing I am certain. My message cannot be shared by coercion. That is so not because civic morality is such a change from social morality: Each person may recognize the value of comprehensive safety and security only from experience and observations when that idea is in existence. And civic people (defined above) neither impose nor brook coercion. As far as I know, even though safety and security, happiness, freedom, liberty, individuality, social order, civility, truth and lots of words and phrases exist, none of them express comprehensive safety and security, which seems attainable, even though perhaps no people have ever tried it.

Thank you for opening this iceberg of ideas for collaboration for a better future.

  

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.