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.
To JT McQuitty.
I agree. And consider the US STEM jobs filled by green card workers. There's
more to say.
I think a good “Our Views” strikes the reader as free and
responsible reporting after one reading, and this column succeeded. I cannot
explain why that’s my thought, and I certainly don’t know the-objective-truth
about it.
I also cannot explain why the column happily inspired this
thought: Focus on what locally divides
us, such as church, racism, and economic classism, voluntarily queues us behind
those in the world who look past local history and arbitrary propriety. Peoples
ahead in the que focus in the education needed to empower young adults with the
understanding and intent to live a complete, rewarding, humane lifetime. In
other words, the fact that Europeans, 400 years ago, traded for African slaves
to aid colonization pales in time to the erroneous Bible, which the Church
canonized 1700 years ago to include opinion that condones slavery. Moreover
those errors need not ruin today’s education for living.
Frederick Douglass said, in 1852, “There is not a man
beneath the canopy of heaven that does not know that slavery is wrong for
him.” But Robert E. Lee believed in 1856: “The painful discipline [the
blacks] are undergoing . . . is known and ordered by a merciful Providence. The
doctrines and miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years
to convert but a small portion of the human race, and even among Christian
nations what gross errors still exist!”
Religion divides us. We fail to develop fidelity to
the-objective-truth in order to discover civic justice for the here and now,
leaving hopes for the hereafter to the herebefore. Confronting this failure, ours
may be the generation that establishes reform.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Matthew 18:6-8 CJB)
Jesus said,“and whoever ensnares one of these little ones
who trust me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his
neck and be drowned in the open sea! Woe to the world because of snares!
For there must be snares, but woe to the person who sets the snare! “So if
your hand or foot becomes a snare for you, cut it off and throw it away! Better
that you should be maimed or crippled and obtain eternal life than keep both
hands or both feet and be thrown into everlasting fire!”
Dean says “Don’t stand between a child and God. Let the
children come to the Lord.”
No man understands the mysteries interwoven in the canonized
Bibles, and some of the ideas appear false. For example, the earth is neither
the center of the universe, nor flat, nor young rather than 4.6 billion years
old. The adult who would presume to train a child in Biblical mysticism begs
woe. Perhaps Dean begs woe. I claim before children and all: I do not know.
Kahlil Gibran warned, “You
may strive to be like [your children], but seek not to make them like you. For
life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.” What if today’s children
will discover what, if anything, controls the unfolding of the universe? I
think Gibran contends with both Matthew and Dean.
Letters
NFL (Jung) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_de9fb9c8-c57d-11e7-87d0-d3b83111c9eb.html)
What’s going on?
Does Jung want to go back to before? It seems to me once a person discovers
they have been gullible to a bad idea, it is best to put the idea aside. The
NFL was a bad idea, and now that that has been made clear, especially with the
brain-damage news, I’ve moved on. It's a matter of choice.
Political propriety (Connick)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_7d0ae730-c57f-11e7-8948-133060332fcf.html)
I agree
that the NFL should uphold its obligations to the USA and with John Well’s
decision and Harry Connick’s support but not Connick’s omission of the protest-how.
I care nothing about the NFL continuing to ruin people’s brains and think
social morality brought us to this civic abyss including undue attention to
errant NFL opinion. However, what persons need is civic morality.
Law
professors, liberal democrats, and religious conservatives continually inform
me that this chemical engineer has not the propriety to comment on much less
oppose civil morality. Connick might be among those who would ignore, even stonewall
my work for civic morality.
Civic
citizens in their states have priority---sovereignty---due to the preamble to
the constitution for the USA. Citizens who observe the civic agreement stated
in the preamble collaborate for justice during mature adult life---that is,
from the time they discover justice until age lessens, then terminates, their
psychological powers and will. Because it has not been promoted, most people
never recognize civic justice: personal liberty with civic morality.
Connick
wrote of protest---time and place---but did not suggest the effective how. Does
he admit he does not know the how? Or does he suggest that the oppressed should
be satisfied for their posterity to enjoy civic justice, say a thousand years
from now? Is he merely satisfied with being elite?
Saul
Alinsky, whose disciples I oppose, including Together Baton Rouge, said he
always opposed violence unless it is the only recourse for equality and dignity;
youtube.com/watch?v=OsfxnaFaHWI.
Connick could address this question: Does the
NFL’s opinion about equality and dignity justify civic violence? I expect Connick
to stonewall my question, just as other socially moral people do.
My
response is: No! Equality begins with the ovum and dignity is developed by a
person. The people can control neither the fertilization of the ovum nor the
implantation, gestation, and delivery of the conception. Neither can the people
control the parenting and coaching of the child. Nor can the people control the
child’s discovery of personal autonomy, collaborative association, and intent
to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth. The people may reform.
Civic
justice can come only from willing people, and the holdup in the USA seems the
elite, wealthy faction of the people. (A living wage seems not the answer.) The
consequence of civic arrogance is human abuse and brutality, as we see daily in
the news.
Status
of the USA (Shamburger) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_a3b681d0-c581-11e7-a374-6f79e235c98c.html)
"Democratic norms" don’t prevail in the American republic. The
Democratic Party has, since 1965 worked hard to socialize Americans. Not only
Americans, but humans in general are too psychologically powerful to sustain
gullibility beyond a few centuries. Sooner or later, humility kicks in, and the
civic people demand reform.
Many of us who voted twice for Trump/Pence saw no hope to recover from
socialism’s momentum in either the established GOP, American theism, or the
Democrats. President Trump offers the possibility to motivate a super-majority
of the people to establish civic morality. In other words, motivate most people
to collaborate for comprehensive peace using the preamble to the constitution
for the USA and the-objective-truth.
The more people consider the possibility for an achievable better future,
the better the chance that Trump will perceive that American theism never was
great: only willing people offer justice. Then civic citizens may supervise a
path to reform.
WSJ, November 2, Page A17. Book review, “Scalia Speaks.” “What’s the
difference between government and religion? Government’s ‘responsibility is the
here, not the hereafter.’” Perhaps Scalia's greatness came from integrity about
that statement.
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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