September 8, 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_928ad574-934e-11e7-8974-c7e969949cef.html)

I appreciate The Advocate’s research on the continuing saga of law enforcement problems in Louisiana.

However, this is an opinion page. Why doesn’t The Advocate rake Gov. J. B. Edwards for irresponsibility to Louisiana’s No. 1: the people?

The people of Louisiana need a free and responsible press. I’m urging and shopping.

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 5:12, CJB)

“For you, ADONAI, bless the righteous; you surround them with favor like a shield.”

Dean says “It is a blessing to be a child of God.”

It is egregious for The Advocate to publish such divisive opinion with no counter argument.

  

For example: Every human being is born in the same moral status --- a clean slate. Each person has the psychological power to overcome any evils that exist in his or her community, provided he or she survives the evil.

Letters

Don’t reduce spending (Schell) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_2e7bf606-9355-11e7-9570-e7e2ca46c161.html)

Ray, my friend, the caption invited me to hope for your complaint against legislative spending, but alas, you seem to want the state and others to pick my pocket even more unjustly.

Consider Robert Frost’s thought, “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.” It seems The Advocate favors such opinion: Beware the company you keep.

Lazy denier (Hummert) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_42f9a474-9356-11e7-8af2-13e5c1f7a332.html)

During this dreadful hurricane season, Hummert reminds us of Rahm Emanuel’a infamous quote, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

Writers like Hummert could talk to their mirror and discover that they deny personal fallibility regarding what humankind can do to reverse the cosmic forces acting on the earth’s atmosphere.

One idea I’ve seen that makes sense is to slow down on cultivation of population: Fat chance. See un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/policy/WPP2013/wpp2013.pdf .

One report shows combined renewables at 18% in 2014. See ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GSR2017_Highlights_FINAL.pdf. So one idea is for everyone to “turn out the lights” 82% of the time. But that begs the questions: how desirable is such a life and what future would it promise? Who wants living in the dark?

Hummert and writers like him stonewall widespread ignorance about what humankind should do yet happily pretend that the rest of us are unaware that they are proud deniers.

  

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

  

Obsolete unlawfulness (Michael Barone) (nationalreview.com/article/451015/affirmative-action-college-admissions-must-go)

It’s good for Barone to admit that affirmative action has not worked (for five decades).

However, he could have done more to explain why it has not worked, in order to support the adversely affected citizens. To start, the disadvantaged groups could examine how modern tools may be used to lessen the educational disparities.

Legislative lying (Daniels and Haugesberg) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_f1407d4c-9350-11e7-87cb-471642b9365c.html

This letter is important for women, their viable ova and medical-care professionals. The Church seems to have no concern for either ova or nature's physical and psychological safeguards for ova welfare. Successful ova become persons.

 

Since George Washington’s farewell to the Continental Army on June 8, 1783, it has been clear that theism or none is a private matter an adult may use to address personal, heartfelt concerns. A person’s private hopes are not a civic issue, where “civic” refers to collaboration for mutual, comprehensive safety and security for every decade of each person’s life. In other words, a person’s god is not to be debated in public. Yet theists continue to try to impose the Church's heartfelt errors on the public.

Only a willing people may deliver civic justice. The people may inform themselves, then direct their representatives in the legislature. Any legislator that votes on behalf of the Church should be replaced in the next election. The people who are too busy to manage civic morality notwithstanding their religious hopes may never recover from the Church's well journaled history of evil.

The facts about abortion would astonish a priest. First, natural abortion is a precaution against genealogical and biological errors that could lead to unwanted lives. Only about 1/3 of conceptions survive the inevitability of natural abortion when it is necessary. And a woman’s decision not to remain pregnant is the ultimate element in natural abortion. If this were not so, the responsibility for that decision would rest with the woman. Of course, there is the usual dissident factor MWW refers to as “abortion for fun,” but it accounts for only 7% of abortions.

And the notion that according to the god, life begins at conception is laughable! The single cell that results from fertilization of an ovum undergoes an eight day sequence of cell divisions leading to a blastocyst that is challenged with attachment to the womb. An overwhelming majority do not attach and are discharged from the would-have-been mom’s body, un-noticed because it is at most only pin-head sized.

Separation of church and state has always been essential to civic morality, and the need is more obvious as each moment ticks by. That does not mean that the person whose religion is essential to their civic morality should be disparaged or discouraged --- only that their heartfelt concerns are not subject to public collaboration. Rather they are private.

  

Other forums

theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/calendar/#/details/4th-Annual-Constitution-Day-Celebration/3911322/2017-09-20T19

This Constitution Day celebration, on September 20, at 7:00 PM at Goodwood library, is the global premier of the play, “Sincere Liberty,” by your’s truly, Phil Beaver. The play expresses the-objective-truth as the basis for civic morality. The 90 minute play will be followed with up to 60 minutes Q&A.

 

We ask, how can the-objective-truth be used for an achievable, better future in Baton Rouge?

  

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.