September 18, 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:  We the willing people of nine of the thirteen United States commit to and trust in the purpose and goals stated herein --- integrity, justice, collaboration, defense, prosperity, liberty, and perpetuity --- and to cultivate limited services by the USA, beginning on June 21, 1788.

Composing their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive whether they are willing or dissident toward its agreement.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_8f6d7af6-98ce-11e7-bd4c-a3fa61741eb4.html)

I looked up a report and found average composite score for Louisiana at 19.5 rather than 19.6: see act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/cccr2017/ACT_2017-Average_Scores_by_State.pdf. Makes me wonder about the other claims in this editorial.

With a range of composite scores of 14.4 to 26.6, it seems John White and others should be trying to mimic the best parts of the culture that produces the high scores. Why does one culture set the bar at 26.6 and lead in all but one aspirational category?

From my view point, the knowledge exists and the community does a human job of transferring it to the children. Somehow, the child may be coached into perceiving that life, perhaps eight decades, is in the person’s hands, and it is best to take charge as early as possible --- perhaps after one decade of basic learning, another decade of personal-interest discovery, and another decade of specialization so as to ascertain a good starting point for self-discovery over the entire lifetime.

Perhaps John White is working on such reform, but I’m not reading about it.

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Genesis 13:12, CJB)

“Avram lived in the land of Kena‘an; and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, setting up his tent near S’dom. Now the men of S’dom were evil, committing great sins against Adonai.”

Dean says “Bad company can bring bad results. Lot lost his wife and almost his life.”

Losing a spouse and almost a life is commonplace among humans. Dean’s extrapolations beyond the literature statements seem erroneous at best.

I wonder why Dean and The Advocate keep company with each other: Are their motives noble? I don’t think so but, as always, reserve the right to be wrong. Let the-objective-truth prevail.

Letters

The people won (Tramontana) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_d5e98ef2-9829-11e7-bcd0-d3f882c7ed3a.html)

While it is true the Clinton was an awful candidate, I don’t agree that she lost.

I think willing citizens who want the American republic that is offered by the constitution for the USA voted out of office the regime that wants liberal democracy to overthrow America.

None of the traditional GOP candidates intended to restore the American republic, but there is a chance that President Trump will rise to the possibility and is in the process now. The people who are in the resistance are enemies of the American republic.

Don’t forget, it took President Abraham Lincoln almost three years to ascertain that he was in a war and that he needed a general. I think Trump is moving faster.

Pundits poor writers (Robins-Brown

(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_288998ca-9823-11e7-895f-fb4903c0c870.html)

I agree. Recall Walter Williams is an economist, who happens to be a candid writer as well. Thus, there are no journalists who write.

  

Willing citizens are the majority (Larson) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_8e2a8340-9c8f-11e7-ad07-c3d9b76df3ef.html)

  

I nominate Larson’s as the letter of 2017 so far.

I observe the goodwill Larson describes everywhere and can usually tell when goodwill has escaped harm.

 

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

  

Subjugation of Italy’s migrants (Cal Thomas) 

(oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/09/cal_thomas_the_mafia_and_the_m.html)

I wonder if the Vatican influences philanthropy in Italy.

Religion on the bench (Michael Gerson) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/senate-democrats-show-off-their-anti-religious-bigotry/2017/09/14/30f11e5e-9970-11e7-82e4-f1076f6d6152_story.html?utm_term=.4c5189061949

While a judge is a person and a person thinks and some thoughts may relate to religion, religious doctrine should not influence legal opinion.

Senator Feinstein is correct to protect the people from the imposition of religious doctrine onto civic morality. One of the prime issues is abortion, whereby religious doctrine is ruthlessly in opposition to the-objective-truth.

Abortion seems a difficult issue, because men make it difficult. But religious doctrine has no standing in the civic arguments. The way thing are, a woman has sole responsibility in her decision to remain pregnant or not, simply because that’s the way things are; in other words, that’s the-objective-truth.

 

Other forums 

freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~worldwarone/star-spangled.html

Many Americans did not celebrate Constitution Day, September 17, a day to sing the 1814 national anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner.”

  

The lyrics for the national anthem were written in 1777 by Englishman John Stafford Smith (thank you, Rebekah Beaver), just one year after the declaration of independence in 1776.

  

Thus, it is possible that General George Washington was aware of the lyrics when he wrote his farewell to the Continental Army on June 8, 1783. His speech is not well known, but it, more than anything else I have read motivates me to think of him as the father of the USA, my homeland.

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.