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.
Louisiana sponsoring gambling is an issue with which to
illustrate an achievable better future. Therein, a super-majority---We the
People of the United States as defined by the preamble---collaborate to
establish a civic culture using the-objective-truth rather than dominant
opinion.
The civic culture fosters and empowers comprehensive
fidelity. That’s fidelity, both respectively and comprehensively, to
the-objective-truth, to self, to immediate family, to extended family and
friends, to the people (the nation), and beyond. Comprehensive fidelity
empowers personal liberty and thereby national freedom. America is great if
most inhabitants are great.
A promoted opinion is that gambling is fun, but experience,
observations, and the-objective-truth instruct us that the person who gambles
picks his own pocket. Unfortunately, the idea is not unlike the shared needle
threatening life: moderate gambling invites woe. Taking the parlor poker game
with a 2-bit limit to the gambling institution, with fidelity at stake may
turn ruinous.
The Advocate walked around “the elephant in the room.” “. .
. gambling is abused . . . bankruptcy and embezzlement.” “We recognize its
costs.” However, there’s no heart in The Advocate leaving out the child abuse,
broken families, and job costs---the human misery and loss. Also, the mass shooter
in Las Vegas was a gambler, and I wonder if unimaginable desperation led to his
acts of terror.
I don’t know how The Advocate learned $906 million revenues
for 2016. However, I oppose either The Advocate or Louisiana comparing misbegotten
income with mineral revenue of $581 million. I estimate the $906 million
involved $4,050 million in payments to the casinos, video operators and race
tracks. Of that figure, I estimate $2,340 million was profits to the owners. Louisiana
empowers residents to spend on average $100/visit so the state can get $20.
That’s mining personal loss, not minerals.
For July 1, 2015-June 30, 216, I got $708 million income to estimate 2016 gambling cost. See lgcb.dps.louisiana.gov/revenue_reports.html.
(Comprehensive
fidelity is a personal practice that may prevent tobacco use, hazing, public drunkenness,
unwanted intimacy, and other disappointments.)
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Matthew 15:1-8 CJB)
“For God said, `Honor your father and mother,' and `Anyone
who curses his father or mother must be put to death.' But you say, `If
anyone says to his father or mother, "I have promised to give to God what
I might have used to help you," then he is rid of his duty to honor his
father or mother.' Thus by your tradition you make null and void the word of
God! You hypocrites! Yesha`yahu was right when he prophesied about
you, These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away
from me. Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules
as if they were doctrines.”
Dean says “Don’t just go through the motions. Be real. Love the
Lord from the heart.”
Matthew and Dean advocate Jesus competing with a person’s
fidelity to family. I think Matthew erred to so represent Jesus and Dean errs
as well. I reject what the Bible says about Jesus competing with family
fidelity. If I err about the Bible, then I reject Jesus. I do not choose to
follow an entity that competes with family fidelity.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Democratic party’s hypocrisy (Jeff Sadow) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_585b47b4-b9c6-11e7-acfb-03303525fc95.html
To Matthew White: I appreciate the feedback and herein revise my statement to "I'm hoping the Trump-Pence administration will prompt most Americans to collaborate as at least a 2/3 supermajority . . ."
That would
include you, provided you want something like I want: mutual, comprehensive safety
and security so that I can responsibly pursue my personal preferences,
especially my view of happiness, instead of constantly being annoyed, coerced,
forced, threatened or otherwise imposed on by dissidents to civic morality.
I think most
people want something close to a civic culture, as I describe it, but the 2/3
or more are divided by hope that someone else's idea will come true. One
person, a small business owner named Don, said he thinks Americans are divided
by thirds respecting collaboration for civic morality: Active, passive, and
dissident. He and I seem on the same track.
Consider the
couple decades surrounding the establishment of the USA. British colonists had
been writing about their enslavement by England as agents in charge of England’s
colony with African slaves to supplement labor. They met to create the
Continental Congress in 1774 and in 1775 declared the 13 colonies were
independent states. Some of them wrote about liberating the African slaves,
too. Losing the war, they reached out to France, who was in their second 100
years war with England. France (30,000 military) and the States (11,000 army)
defeated England at Yorktown in September, 1781. The King of England signed the
1783 Treaty of Paris, and the thirteen free and independent states ratified it
(and their status) on June 14, 1784.
On June 8, 1783, General George Washington wrote a letter of
farewell to the Continental Army. He added a message to fellow-citizens with
four political pillars he deemed necessary for a nation to survive in the
world:
1. An
indissoluble Union of the States under one federal head.
2. Commitment
to public justice.
3. The
empowerment of peace.
4. Prevalent
goodwill, among the people of the United States, so as to overlook local
prejudices and policies, to make mutual concessions for general prosperity, and
to sacrifice individual advantages in order to establish a culture of
integrity.
He finished his farewell with and expression of
hope to his personal God, which may have been Deist, probably not factional
Christian, and may have been an appeal to the-objective-truth.
Four years later, on September 17, 1787, 2/3 of
delegates to the constitutional convention signed the preamble and the articles
that follow. On June 21, 1788, 2/3 of delegates to 2/3 of the state
constitutional conventions established the USA with the commitment that the
Frist Congress would amend the articles to include a bill or rights. Then, 99%
of free colonists were factional Protestant and 5% of them could vote (20% of
inhabitants were slaves.)
The USA began operations on March 4, 1789 with
ten states, three states remaining free and independent. Within two months, the
First Congress re-established American factional Protestantism by hiring
congressional ministers to help Congressmen establish the appearance of
divinity the English were accustomed to. Institutional religion’s grip on
American civic morality has diverged since then: only 14% of inhabitants are traditional
factional Protestants, and 100% of non-felon adults may vote.
Civic morality comes from willing people. To
establish a civic culture, the historical ratio of 2/3 of citizens may decide
they want mutual comprehensive safety and security so that each citizens has the
personal opportunity to responsibly pursue private happiness rather than conform
or subjugate to someone else’s idea for them. Among civic citizens, religious morality is a private
pursuit.
Please let me know why, if you would choose to be a dissident to
civic morality as described above: I
write to learn.
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.
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