October 25, 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_a024429e-b836-11e7-b056-070b54ad8f70.html)

With a few word changes, The Advocate’s “Our Views” could take a different slant.

There’s “short term fix needed for” Obamacare.

Ever since Nancy Pelosi said she had to pass Obamacare to find out what’s in it, “Uncertainty has been bad for insurance companies as much as customers.”

The slant could change from defense of the past to collaboration for now. The Advocate could speak for the people who demand a federal government that is acting for the people. Instead the media and politicians grandstand to defeat the president who was elected by the people, 84% based on US counties and 57% based on Electoral College.

Even “the deplorable” should have the leader when they win the election, and President Trump’s real accomplishments are amazing, despite the swamp. Often, the media interview past officials from the O administration or the W administration, because the media want media view against the people!

Come on, The Advocate, get on board with civic citizens---the people who want comprehensive safety and security according to the-objective-truth rather than competition for dominant opinion and “evidence” constructed to support it. (See Oren Cass, “Policy-Based Evidence Making.”)

To Scuddy LeBlanc: Scuddy, your post motivated my person to ask a question.

  

How many young Americans desperately want and need medical services but do not apply for medical insurance because they don't want the insurance they can buy? They exercise their right to reject the insurance that is marketed even though they have to pay a tax to exercise that market choice.

Every time I think of Chief Justice John Roberts's erroneous opinion that an American can be taxed for not buying a product, I want to start a drive to have him removed from his seat for error so egregious it equates to bad behavior. Roberts swore to uphold the constitution for the USA and breached his oath. The Congress has the power to unseat him for bad conduct.

 

Anyway, you are very good at research. Can you discover how many millions of young people pay the tax so as not to buy a medical insurance product?

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 18:30-31 CJB)

“As for God, his way is perfect, the word of Adonai has been tested by fire; he shields all who take refuge in him. For who is God but Adonai? Who is a Rock but our God?”

Dean says “We can depend on God and His Word.”

After 2.8 million years’ evolution of mankind and 0.0017 million years with the canonized Bible, it seems evident that only willing people can propose and offer civic morality. Any actuality that David imagined must apply only in the afterdeath---that vast time after a person’s body and mind have stopped functioning.  

Letters

Philanthropy’s dark side (McGee) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_1775a1a4-f793-11e6-b342-33c7c5f71bc7.html) RE: Steven McGee letter, October 25, 2017

The dark side of philanthropy is that an individual’s fervor (often a religious institution’s mission) to solve the world’s problems can be imposed on the people of the USA, which tolerates its own adjudicated misery and loss. A person with great desire to save the world bemuses the nation that should be saving its own. In this case, Dave Reichert’s passion for his personal, global goal would lessen care for children in the USA by competing for both funds and attention. See reichert.house.gov/press-release/reichert-bipartisan-group-members-introduce-bill-save-mothers-and-children.

Marci Hamilton’s organization reports that 25% of girls and 20% of boys in the USA will be sexually abused by age 18. See http://childusa.org/ for current work. Read her books to learn more about systematic abuse in the USA. The books show that going beyond age 18, abuse rates in this country are on the order of 1/3, which involves 110 million people.

When I write in favor of teaching human reproduction, how to form beneficial human bonds, and coaching personal autonomy with collaborative association as public school responsibilities, I am writing for a civic people who actually want to establish an achievable better future for the nation's children. It's a matter of civic justice.

I am asking my congressmen to support the people who are abused in the USA. Let future comprehensive safety and security in the USA serve as an example to the world. Improve the lives of 110 million people here and thereby help over 2.5 billion people worldwide. Reject REACH so as to focus on protecting at least 0.9 million infants/year in the USA from abuse by age 18.

Civic bugs (Lemann) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_c579bc56-b83e-11e7-964d-c309d6b828b3.html)

I nominate Zack Lemann’s as the most welcome letter of not only the season but 2017. Too many people try to exploit the public’s innocence rather than share knowledge.

Since bugs don’t have grammar with which to write, they don’t mutually offer ((in face of dissent) a civic agreement such as the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Therefore, it is difficult to say bugs are divided: willing bugs versus dissidents, as we say willing citizens versus dissidents.

Humans evolved from placental mammals, appearing 2.8 million years ago. But bugs on Earth evolved from bacteria over some 4 billion years. That long ago, the simplest bugs thrived in relatively high temperature and low oxygen perhaps first in water then in air.

In about 1999, LSU Professor Ralph Portier and I proposed developing a lindane-eating bug suitable for a site’s soil conditions. Lindane is saturated with equal portions of carbon, hydrogen, and chlorine, and eating that seems strange. There may be stranger bugs on earth.

As Lemann points out, most of us don’t know what’s known about Earth. Therefore, speculating about bugs on other planets might seem wasteful relative to past discovery on Earth.

We’ve enjoyed being cat owners and have learned much from them and other animals. Cats seem to have intuition for mutual, comprehensive safety and security. I often thought I knew the demands a meow expressed and always responded to a screech. If cats had the power of grammar, they might be able to convince humans that we need to tend to civic morality even as we responsibly pursue our private hopes and happiness. 

We have the preamble but not the will to trust and commit to it. Let most people be willing.

 

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

  

Late start (Lanny Keller) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/lanny_keller/article_14e44bde-b822-11e7-95bb-7f64573951f8.html

I never expected much from Mayor Broome's platform of church and dialogues on racism. So far she may have decided more reversals than advancements, including losing William Daniel.

Mr. Keller’s perception of “start” may not play out. Civic citizens of Baton Rouge may have to wait another three years for a start.

  

Egregious Congressional Black Caucus (Dan Fagan) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_82a407da-b8d2-11e7-ae23-eba3f6bd51a5.html

I appreciate Dan Fagan and The Advocate for publishing the shocking reality of politics in the style of the Congressional Black Caucus. It was ill conceived when it formed in 1968, and the development of Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO) from those times have not served it well.

In civic justice, the-objective-truth requires a person to not publically favor a doubtable opinion yet humbly pursue personal interests and hopes. The civic rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s was justified by the-objective-truth. However, the black power and black liberation movement that followed is egregious, as civic citizens observe and suffer daily.

Baton Rouge and Louisiana may lead the nation in recovery from the past, because the idea of collaboration for mutual, comprehensive safety and security exists here. However, it is not in churches, non-profits, or in government. It is in the hearts and minds of people who neither brook nor impose force or coercion. It is in the actions of people who trust and commit to the civic agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

We think 2/3 of citizens want a culture with civic morality. The people only need to be aware that there is a plan that is achievable but has never before been expressed. At least in a way that most people can trust based on their own experiences and observations rather than someone’s sermon or ideology:  Only willing people rather than God or government can offer and deliver civic justice. 

Willing people may do so by developing and maintaining the rule of civic law such that the dissidents either choose to join the culture or suffer constraint.

In a civic culture there seems no place for Congressional Black Caucus or any other racism.

 

Economy a continual surprise (George Will) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_82a407da-b8d2-11e7-ae23-eba3f6bd51a5.html

It is good to see George Will turn to something other than foolishly bashing President Trump.

  

Can you imagine what would happen to the US economy if Congress began to think about medical services, medical insurance, and private well-being as separate, personal concerns instead of a government function? It is entirely possible for that much needed reform to occur.

BTW: “Fatal conceit” is akin to hubris, pride, and gullibility, and they could be rated 1, 2, 3, 4 in the list of deadly errors, leaving the so-called deadly sins to fend for themselves. A good remedy is humility.

 

From non-profit to non-profit (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_0d7e448c-b8e3-11e7-9b2a-c39c9eb20e23.html)

Will any landlords get the money? seems an already useless question.

But $0.15 million plus $36 million plus $28.25 million adds up to $64.4 million, so I think it’s an important question.

But I recall in September 2016 flood losses were estimated at $8,000 million, so even $64.4 million seems like 0.8%.

Who will know if $0.15 million just falls through the cracks?

Other forums 

quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-individualism-in-society

Trying to name someone who achieved individualism in society is complicated by word usage—-both “individualism” and “society”.

I’d like to beg relief by changing “society” to “humankind.” Thereby, we may drop at least four restrictions: tradition, civilization, association, and statutory law. Thus, we may talk about individualism within humankind.

Before he or she was a conception, a person was an ovum and a spermatozoon. At conception, one cell formed from two, and the randomized pairing of chromosomes from the two cells created a unique person yet one with characteristics from each the mom and the dad, often predominantly from one. These characteristics are both physical and psychological. So, already, individualism seems impracticable.

Without question, an infant cannot care for himself or herself and is subject to the memes, packets of information, shared by the caretakers. Also, the infant and child become subject to the surroundings whether woods, sea, or municipality. In addition, there’s influence from any associations the caretakers involve in the child’s life. Again, individualism seems excluded.

Depending upon the child’s inclinations toward autonomy, abundant associations might coach the child toward individualism. It would be rare, but the adolescent might independently perceive the psychological power of being human and begin to develop authenticity.

If so, he or she might perceive the importance of collaborative association with other people and become attracted to fidelity. Either by innocent development or through coaching he or she may discover comprehensive fidelity. That is, both respectively and collectively, fidelity to the-objective-truth, to self, to immediate family, to extended family and friends, to the people/nation, to the world, and to the universe.

Without dispute with me, my sister, Dona Bean, d., claimed comprehensive fidelity is fidelity to her God. She and I each fell from the same tree, on collaborative spots.

It seems to me that anyone who has discovered and behaves for comprehensive fidelity practices individualism within humankind. Yet individualism seems an appreciative, connected practice.

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.