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.
"but
ultimately a source of money that pays for more comprehensive sharing of
intelligence and its analysis . . . is going to be part of a longer-term
solution."
Really? Is that
The Advocate policy-based opinion or a lobby to restore LSU-study funding? Is
it slyly another slight of law enforcement---like taking a knee?
I think
attention should turn to the judicial system. The opinion-making institution
that woefully fails the people’s first responders----police, investigators, and
DAs.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Matthew 7:15 CJB)
“Beware of the false prophets! They come to you wearing
sheep's clothing, but underneath they are hungry wolves!”
Dean says “The Bible will show us who really is speaking for
the Lord.”
For some 1700 years, the Bible passages that condone slavery
if not capturing slaves have remained un-repented without remorse. I prefer
Frederick Douglass’s statement: “There is not a man . . . that
does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”
Letters
Teacher retirement (Vicknair)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_329cea26-adde-11e7-9f6b-43f0ae281200.html)
To Scuddy LeBlanc: Vicknair is in a position to refute Aldeman’s and Bellweher
Education Partners’ claims using dollar facts rather than rhetoric. Since she
did not, I think the facts refute her opinions.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Kennedy apology (Fagan)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_17438a2c-adda-11e7-aba5-137703fa4eb9.html)
I agree with
Fagan’s opinions excepting one: He should reform, then write to Ms. Lohan and
ask her to accommodate his visit to her to explain his behavior and to beg
forgiveness.
NFL an enterprise of the past (Ransburg)
theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_c30b55e6-addb-11e7-aee0-d38e5e1b6fc5.html
With writing like this, the NFL had
better reform quickly.
Responsible press (http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_56a5184e-aeb0-11e7-9710-cb2fe0660cfc.html?mode=comments)
Is the
attorney's name a matter of public record? If so, the press need not allow the
attorney to deny the information: it's a matter of a free and responsible press
versus a freely biased press.
Other forums
“It is this loyalty, shaped by
habits of consent that leads citizens to obey laws, even when they disagree
with those laws because in due course they can change them through
representative government. The EU project aims to dispense with this loyalty to
a democratic nation-state, but what would it put in its place?”
In these few words Reinsch expresses
the contradiction that bemuses the American citizen and its political regimes,
retarding yet not stopping progress toward civic morality. The USA is a
republic, not a democracy. Justice is pursued by willing citizens—those people
who either tacitly or explicitly collaborate to achieve the goals of the
preamble to the constitution for the USA.
European Christianity of the 15th
through 19th centuries plagued America with the scourge of slavery. Now, American
theism maintains the division. Theism is a private practice for the individual
who believes. Theism cannot be imposed on a nation, without begging woe.
The 13th Amendment did not happen
because erroneous religious beliefs were corrected. The 13th amendment happened
because the American people accepted the-objective-truth about slavery: The
chains, whips, guns, brutality and rape to slaves; physical and psychological
burdens to masters; and guilt to owners. Prayers in the south and prayers in
the north were answered neither by interpretation of the Bible nor its gods but
by the tribunal of the American people.
The preamble, often disparaged as a
secular sentence is neutral to religion—leaves it to the individual to settle
personal concerns such as the afterdeath and other mysteries of heartfelt
concern to some but not to others. The preamble offers the individual the
opportunity to responsibly collaborate for civic justice in order to have the
liberty to pursue personal preferences, such as theism or none, and if theism,
Christianity or not, and if Christianity Trinity or Unity, and if Trinity
Catholic or Protestant, and so on. No civic body may question the religion of a
peaceful person, and no person will attend a public debate about their God.
What, then is the quest of people
who are willing to use the preamble, under which the rest of the US
constitution and its labyrinth of opinion progresses? The preamble guides
willing people toward the discovery of and benefits from the-objective-truth.
The preamble divides citizens into two groups: the willing and the dissidents
to the-objective-truth. The explicit goal is mutual, comprehensive safety and
security rather than dominant opinion.
The USA is a republic, and willing
American citizens cannot be dissuaded to democracy.
To gabe:
There you go, strawman gabe, defending Europe, the author of the Bible and its
mountains of interpretation when my comment addresses Reinsch’s erroneous
implications that the US constitution can be amended by Christian democracy. Willing
people in the US (at least 24% of Americans, but perhaps 2/3, are on an
ineluctable march toward civic morality rather than religions opinion.
In cheap one-line humor about horse
and oats and ponies, you would ridicule my work if not my person, which is a
low form of retreat referred to as “ridicule” by Alinsky-Marxist organizations.
However, ideas do not yield to ridicule. Yet your comments empower Reinsch to
say “thanks” (I think for the distraction from addressing the-objective-truth,
whatever it is, your humor provided).
That seems to be a systematic,
cooperative practice in your comments.
Contrary to the writings of scholars, a willing people conform to the-objective-truth rather than the common language of the people. That’s the point of the slavery lessons being played out in the USA. According to the-objective-truth, slavery is evil, no matter what the Bible says.
The willing people as defined by the preamble conform to the-objective-truth and establish civil laws to either guide or constrain dissidents or incarcerate criminals.
The imposition of theism onto civic morality retards the ineluctable march toward civic morality, but cannot stop it. Willing people will establish mutual, comprehensive safety and security.
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.
