August 29, 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 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.  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Genesis 2:16-17, CJB)

“Adonai, God, gave the person this order: “You may freely eat from every tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You are not to eat from it, because on the day that you eat from it, it will become certain that you will die.”

Dean says “Sin is disobeying God. Adam and Eve disobeyed and we are all still paying the consequences.”

Now that this concern is known, pay Dean for lessons on how to obey. By dedicating life to Dean’s teaching, people can have a good afterdeath. Hmmmmm. I don’t think so.

Letters

Mistreated (Smith) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_35ea35f6-8bf8-11e7-b2f7-2747ef4fb464.html)

Thank you, Rep. Smith, for making me aware of the details of your pretense in the name of “public service.”

5G connections (Mackey) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_516229fe-8911-11e7-8653-13bebe822084.html)

Infomercials usually inform, and there was a lot within the word limit. Seems out of place, though.

I appreciate the prompt and found additional information and links to more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G . I especially like introduction to the jargon “small cells.”

  

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

  

Orangeburg, S. C. (Eugene Robinson) sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/25/eugene-robinson-for-the-nation-to-heal-the-confederate-statues-must-come-down/

This is the first E. Robinson column I liked. I guess the authenticity appeals to me: But.

It reminds me of Frederick Douglass’s July 4, 1852 speech. Douglass, at age 34, had freed himself from slavery 13 years earlier. It would be unlikely for Douglass to have a complete historical view so as to continue his “Fellow-citizens” introduction until the end of the speech. In the first place, no historian or psychologist or anthropologist or college professor was teaching the history.

The complete history shows that the American colonists were victims of the Catholic Church’s Doctrine of Discovery with African slave trade to assist with colonization for the Church’s benefit. The practice was extended in “discovery” competition by Protestant kings after Luther’s 1517 objection to Catholic tyranny.

The colonists won the global status of thirteen free and independents states, all thirteen named in the Treaty of Paris, ratified in 1784. Eight were slave states, and many statesmen wrote about the evil hypocrisy of African slavery when freedom from the oppressor had been won. There’s Thomas Paine’s 1775 letter “African Slavery in America.” See constitution.org/tp/afri.htm. And with Benjamin Franklin, Paine formed the Philadelphia Abolition Society.

Once the statesmen took full responsibility for the-objective-truth (even though they would not have used that phrase), their intent was to end slavery, and Douglass recognized that intention. Also, the nation has continued on that path ever since the USA was established on June 21, 1788, when nine states ratified the draft constitution for the USA. However, many people cannot, within a lifetime, overcome their religious beliefs. Robert E. Lee at age 49 demonstrated this in a letter to his wife erroneously claiming that God would emancipate the slaves in His time, perhaps a thousand years more.

It is difficult to fault Douglass for isolating the Church’s evil as “American Christianity.” It’s easier to fault him for not maintaining “Fellow-citizens,” until the end of his speech, in order to show his intent, as a free man, to collaborate to achieve emancipation. All he did was point fingers.

However, E. Robinson has had the privilege to recognize the historical facts and take a responsible position. His column publishes personal failure. It is an egregious failure, because Robinson asked for the duty to represent a free and responsible press.

   

No us-versus-them (Stephanie Grace) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/stephanie_grace/article_333884b2-8c10-11e7-8a99-a3cfb93abe02.html

Pardon me, but Ms. Grace exposes her personal failure: Every day there’s no excuse for us-versus-them. However, Ms. Grace promotes collective-democracy in hopes of defeating the American republic.

On a lighter note, I like her use of hyphens to convert words into an idea. Some readers like to ridicule me for ideas like the-objective-truth.

    

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.