October 3, 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_229dac4e-a791-11e7-986f-934700887a51.html?mode=comments)

“We’re praying a lot this week — hoping . . . for the wisdom to understand why . . .”

I’m not among The Advocate’s “we.” The time for prayer and hope for wisdom is long since passed. With prayer and hope America has drifted from republicanism into the brink of liberal democracy; from the rule of statutory law to the chaos of anything goes; from dedication to children to continuous adult satisfaction.

How does a gunman get 19 assault guns into a Mandalay Hotel room? The why is of secondary importance to how he could get by hotel security.

And vigilantism has to be stopped. The why is of secondary importance to how vigilantism is perpetrated?

I stopped hunting years ago, yet maintain my guns and preparedness for self-defense. However, I never had the least notion that my guns were for vigilantism.

Readers woefully know that I lobby for civic morality. Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO) is one of my chief concerns regarding comprehensive safety and security. AMO is a form of vigilantism that recruits protesters to take the risks of AMO disruption while the bosses in remote locations define the cause. Thus, the AMO vigilantism turns unsuspecting citizens into vigilante victims.

With 229 years’ practice of the civic agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, there is lots of evidence that, at most, 2/3 of the people behave so as to conform to the goals stated therein. The majority population is kept from recognizing each other by the theism-politician regimes that dominate governance. With a population of 325 million, it is important for the theism-divided majority of 217 million citizens to realize there are some 108 million dissidents to the American citizen’s civic agreement. Among those dissidents, some are criminal.

We citizens who are willing to behave according to the preamble may promote its civic contract and thereby act to lessen the percent of dissidents due to ignorance or passivity toward the agreement. 

Thereby, the criminals can be more readily identified so as to pose the civic question: Why are your motives criminal, and what can we do to help you increase the majority beyond 2/3 and perhaps approach 99 percent?

To Matthew White: I attended Jeremiah Wright's sermon at Southern University on February 21, 2015 and left there determined to understand. See nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2015/02/jeremiah_wright_tells_a_southe.html .

I have posted in this forum many times sources that report on Alinsky. Most important is Alinsky himself at youtube.com/watch?v=OsfxnaFaHWI. Note especially his justification for violence in the last two minutes.

To Matthew White, again: You quote Alinsky on Alinsky, which is unreliable: his definition of Marxism is narrow.

  

Alinsky's Marxism comes in the form of the victim vs oppressor claims on which he justifies disruption and violence.

 

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Matthew 6:33-4, CJB)

“But seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Don’t worry about tomorrow — tomorrow will worry about itself! Today has enough [trouble or distress] already!”

Dean says “This is a wonderful life verse. Trust and honor the Lord and he will take care of the rest.”

Mysterious hopes and tropes do not solve problems. I think readers should challenge The Advocate for publishing Dean-folly. Shows you what I know about freedom of the press to pursue a business plan.

  

Letters

Family (Rice) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_d6c81146-a485-11e7-a3d1-a3fb89787840.html)

To David Martin: When a corporate president woefully writes so as to mislead the people, the people may object, because they will bear any woe that is coming.

“Family,” according to the-discovered-objective-truth refers to a man and a woman who intend to bond for life and perhaps become parents. Their life-long bonding assures the necessary dedication to help a child transition from feral infant to young adult with the intent and understanding to start on a path of rewarding life over some ninety years. The parents maintain their bond so as to be grandparents to their grandchildren and perhaps beyond. Therefore, it is a bond for life.

Adult satisfactions of various appetites create human bonds of every imaginable configuration, and those adaptations are more cumbersome that the family. People form such bonds for their reasons. However, they should not impose satisfactions of their appetites on the people.

For example, the person who acquires a child so as “to have someone to love me” has potentially abused the child, and any abuse should not be imposed on the people.

Nor should Energy promote that kind of abuse of human persons. Many people in industries that support non-family living may take a harsh view of my opinions and perhaps the-objective-truth, which I do not know.

To JT McQuitty: In other words, the work of LSU Public Policy Research Lab seems mendacity like that described by Oren Cass in "Policy-Based Evidence Making," National Affairs, No. 32, Summer 2017, page 52.

Lock replacement delayed six decades so far (Stark)

(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_cb5b67ee-a48b-11e7-9190-33a5eac0fa64.html)

The reference Stark gave us dates the locks 1923. It seems 45 minute passage typically takes 16 hours --- 5% efficiency.

The cost must be relatively high, but I did not discover the amounts involved. I guess Start knows that the savings would not be significant, and therefore he did not share the numbers with us. Maybe he’ll read my complaint and help.

  

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

  

More to protest (Terry Robinson) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_1994c08e-a385-11e7-ae36-cf8861c39e4a.html)

I am a chemical engineer. The reactors I designed will not blow up. Some of them, before I became involved, could have blown up. One was near Busch Stadium, in St. Louis.

 

Suppose I had told you, Terry Robinson, and all of your followers that before I would take charge of revising the design so that it would not blow up you had to listen to my political views. What would you think of me? Good citizen or tyrant?

 

I think you are tyrants. I will not watch the NFL.

Nor do I regard you as fellow citizens: You seem dissidents to civic morality.

  

Interpretations (George Will) chicoer.com/article/NA/20170930/LOCAL1/170939983

I appreciate this view: “. . . in the spirit of Friedrich Nietzsche: There are no facts, only interpretations.”

I appreciate to focus on unwanted taxation and wage control and don’t recall such a fact-filled column by Will that was not about baseball.

   

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.