Encourage children to accept being human, the most powerful species

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 write.

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.
 
A personal paraphrase of the preamble by & for Phil Beaver:  Willing people in our state routinely, voluntarily collaborate for comprehensive safety and security: continuity (for self, children, grandchildren & beyond), integrity (both fidelity and wholeness),  justice (freedom-from oppression), defense (prevent or constrain harm), prosperity (acquire the liberty-to pursue choices), privacy (responsibly discover & pursue personal goals), lawfulness (obey the law and reform injustices); and to preserve and cultivate the rule of law for the USA’s service to the people in their states.
 
Composing their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive whether they are willing or dissident toward the preamble.  
   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_62cac4a4-6be2-11e7-9d18-a716c28eb279.html)

When you’re the 48^th ranked state in the nation that is perhaps 22^nd in the world, you’re perhaps 1100^th in competitiveness.

Louisiana needs a step change in management of public education. I suggest focus on coaching children to take charge of their two-decades’ transition from uninformed to understanding and intent to live a full life of some ninety years.

To enter young adulthood with such preparation requires personal discovery of autonomy/human-authenticity at perhaps age 10, collaborative association at perhaps 13, and at perhaps at age 16 choose a human-service role that matches their initial preferences and prepare to excel in that career. The willing young adult views his or her years of service as a vehicle for developing psychological maturity and perhaps perfecting the person they have chosen to be. Fidelity is the key to a life of fun and success.

This message seems strange to most people, because political regimes inculcate the ideas such as that each human is strongly drawn to appetites rather than potentially the most psychosocially powerful species on earth. Humankind seems capable of perfection, and some thinkers have said: You can be perfect.

The Louisiana education system caters to adult appetites rather than the psychological potential of the children. The practice borders on psychological enslavement of the state’s own young in a cycle that cruelly punishes adults. A willing people can lessen the human loss misery with the above described education or better.

When viewed from the belief, humans can be perfect, this and my other messages turn from adversarial to motivating, as they are intended. The key to a fun life is fidelity.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 139:23-24, CJB)

“Examine me, God, and know my heart; test me, and know my thoughts. See if there is in me any hurtful way, and lead me along the eternal way.”

Dean says “Pray this prayer and watch God work in your life.”

David and Dean test God and would influence me to follow. But beyond doubt in them, I trust and am committed to the-objective-truth.

Letters.

The Advocate was misleading (Kimbrough). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_ded36748-6ca7-11e7-92e8-4fe42161cd48.html)

The subject article, at theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_91ff0c1c-5783-11e7-8780-9b9d47ca1749.html, seems to report the decision, severity, and basis of the warning issued by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCC).

“Southern received the sanction because the school missed benchmarks related to its faculty, student achievement, "institutional effectiveness," and student complaints.”

Rebekah Allen seems to be reporting on SACSCC’s warning rather than her opinions in stating, “Southern University was warned last week that it could lose its accreditation that is required for the school to offer degrees and receive federal dollars.”

Perhaps Kimbrough owes Southern University an apology for drawing unwarranted attention to Sothern’s unfortunate times in order to advance Kimbrough’s cause. At least, that’s how I feel, and I am only a Baton Rouge citizen who critically reads his home-town newspaper---no other stake in the issue.

  

Columns. (The fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)

  

Trump not a GOP person (Rich Lowry). nationalreview.com/article/449720/republican-health-care-bill-looming-disgrace

“The ascension of Donald Trump was supposed to change everything in the GOP.”

That’s wishful thinking by the GOP. Trump merely beat the GOP candidates. Only 40% of post-election Republicans supported Trump.

Those of us who voted for Trump twice had no ambitions for the GOP. Also, some of us did not trust the slogan “great again,” hoping Trump would in time figure out that America never was great. We hated to see him take on the “God bless America” propaganda for Americans and yet hope he will reform.

However, we voted the hope that his election would either directly (by him) or indirectly (by the path his election changed), establish comprehensive safety and security. President Trump ends many speeches promising safety and security. That’s the easy goal. Recognizing the possibility for comprehensive safety and security is where a willing people come in, and that is what we work for.

Trump smears Sessions (Jules Witcover) baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0725-witcover-20170721-story.html

Witcover likes his word “smear.” However, he overlooks President Trump’s loyalty to we, the willing people, as defined in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

Bill Clinton taught the world the value of lawyerly posturing, victoriously putting the heat on the prosecution by debating the meaning of “is.”

On the other hand, Sessions, too aloof to risk the hot seat, conveniently recused himself. It’s not the kind of civic morality that is inspired to never, never, never give in to the enemy, borrowing from Churchill.

How can Witcover cite the name “James Comey” without questioning nanny-state privation of integrity? Perhaps it’s a regression to nanny-state honesty.

Wrong metaphor (Savoie and Stevens) theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/article_7416de2c-6e5e-11e7-9fe1-3b55a9132954.html

Such bald yet amateur propaganda: “If we can send a man to the moon, surely this country can ensure older Americans, cancer patients, survivors and those at risk of getting cancer have quality, affordable and available health coverage.” How'd that last phrase get there?

A man to the moon is a limited project. Buying insurance for citizens who could buy insurance is an unlimited, unsustainable obligation. Some citizens have unlimited appetites and some medical care providers have unlimited desires.

With such ignorance, it is amazing that AARP and ACS don’t fire ghost writers.

  

Desperado (Michael Gerson) washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-breathtaking-surrender-to-russia/2017/07/20/bde94e10-6d6c-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?utm_term=.f18fb461bfc0

Gerson’s desperation may come back to bite him, but I can’t imagine how. Freedom of the press involves no constitutional limits.

In order to support the purpose and goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, a willing people may iteratively collaborate for statutory constraint on media writers who create their own fantasies. Once the construct is proven to be a phantasm, fine the writer ten times his annual salary, for example.

 

Civil service only goes so far (Page 1A) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_bdcdba58-7080-11e7-b0aa-1fcfd370ae81.html

When the civil servant retires, the public has no choice but to hope for continuation of the good service. Best wishes, Mr. Dabadie. Best wishes, Baton Rouge.

 

Catholic Church growth (Page 1B) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_02be85d2-7088-11e7-8e43-aff7dd3322ae.html

I have no objections against a person’s religion. However, since no two believers have the same personal God, and since no individual believer wants to iteratively collaborate about the power and promises of their personal God, religion has no place in mutual collaboration for civic morality. By “civic” I refer to willing citizens who collaborate for comprehensive safety and security during every decade of their lives rather than for favor during their afterdeaths or for dominant opinion in the community.

My idea may seem strange, but that is because no one has believed that willing citizens may provide civic justice, as proposed in the preamble to the constitution for the USA and as envisioned twice by Abraham Lincoln. Regimes have encouraged the people to erroneously believe their personal God will prevail.

In 1861, Lincoln appealed to the menacing CSA, “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? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.”

And in 1863, Lincoln envisioned “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Willing people of 2017 have the opportunity to effect comprehensive safety and security for mutual living. If not Baton Rouge, where? If not now, when? If not us, including Catholics, who?

Changing to the article, with a population of 227,715 city, 446,753 parish, and 802,484 (2010) greater area, a Catholic population of 235,000 or under 29% in the area seems reasonable. The growth rate from 172,000 in 50 years is 0.6%/yr. The area population in 2000 was 705,973, so area growth was 1.29%/yr in those 10 years, or 215% of the 50-year Catholic growth rate.

I suspect that the hidden figures inform a recently declining Catholic population. Maybe clarification will be forthcoming, but insiders don’t always disclose the facts.

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.