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.
We are grateful
to veterans and civic citizens who 1) support the armed forces and 2) personally
collaborate for peace. Thank you for the civic peace we experience.
I wondered if
NFL kneelers might feel chagrin today, and searched for news. It looks
promising:
theblaze.com/news/2017/10/09/group-calls-for-nfl-boycott-on-veterans-day-and-already-has-120000-supporters
.
The constitution
for Great State of Louisiana protects free and responsible expression, and the
people can reform the USA’s First Amendment in that regard. (Requiring a free
and responsible press as well.)
Especially
because of brain injuries, the day may come when NFL reports are history only.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Matthew 18:18-20 CJB), November 11, 2017
(Jesus to disciples) “Yes! I tell you people that
whatever you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you
permit on earth will be permitted in heaven. To repeat, I tell you that if two
of you here on earth agree about anything people ask, it will be for them from
my Father in heaven. For wherever two or three are assembled in my name, I am
there with them.”
Dean says “This is one reason we should be in church with other
believers. Be in church this Sunday.” Notice Dean ignored Verses 18-19, wherein
Jesus tells believers they control both earth and heaven. Perhaps Dean doubts
Matthew’s claims.
I attempted to follow Matthew or Dean religious indoctrination for
five decades. Then I discovered that my wife’s Christian faction (sect) is more
important to me for her than Mom and Dad’s Christian faction for me. My Sunday
school, erroneously in my view, routinely denounced my wife’s faction. I
dropped Mom and Dad’s religion, even though I knew I could not adopt for me my
wife’s religion---other than for me for her.
During two decades of worship with my wife and children I never
assumed I could arbitrarily practice her rituals: I appreciated her too much to
mimic what I had not adopted. I still treasure her rituals for her and would not
change anything about her. Our children, exposed to both factions, as Gibran suggests
(poem, “On Children”), as teenagers announced that each had his or her own
religious thoughts. Another two decades have passed. I would not have
discovered my person without our family.
I discovered that I had, perhaps from age ten, appreciated
the-objective-truth. By dropping the pursuit of self-indoctrination, I realized
that I trust-in and commit-to the-objective-truth, which can only be
discovered.
This morning, for the first time, I recognize the fullness of my
trust and commitment---call it faith but not religion. I do not know what I do
not know and think it’s OK that I do not know what I do not know. I am
comforted to wait for ever-increasing discovery rather than join an association
that feels better to expect, for example, a hereafter. Because I do not know, I
cannot question another person’s hopes and comforts.
I do not want a religion for me, but want to collaborate for civic
peace with people from all walks of life, reserving for each person private
pursuit of personal hopes. By civic peace I mean mutual, comprehensive safety
and security.
Thus, each Sunday, I perceive I am in the world with everyone---both
the civic citizens and the dissidents, whether by innocence or by belief in
criminality or other public offense. I like that feeling but do not want to
impose my faith on anyone who collaborates for civic peace. Let peaceful people
enjoy privacy.
Today, Veterans Day, 2017, I both
can and may recommend my civic thinking without threatening any person’s
hereafter or other personal, private hope.
Letters
Lying legislators (Sanderson)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_0e66d6da-c5a3-11e7-91ec-ab8d774d6bd0.html)
The excess cost
of state department employees is part of the special interest lying that goes
on in government. Only willing people, through voluntary collaboration, may
deliver the justice needed for survival.
My point is so
obvious and most people are so accustomed to waiting for their God or
government to deliver justice that mostly what I get is rebuke. In seven
decades, I have never seen widespread ruin so eminent. Maybe some people will
collaborate at last.
Gissel (Eccles)
theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_2b13e262-c591-11e7-bb16-1fc5290afc58.html)
Ms.
Eccles, it is often difficult to decide your voting preference. I thought Bodi
White was not well spoken, hard-working as he is, and that Ms. Broome’s
speaking skills were an advantage. Voting for him required hope he could and
would reform.
However,
I had been to several meetings wherein Broome proposed state spending to help
people in need, and she would often end her message with “. . . especially our
black [seniors or students or children or whatever the special-interest]. I
thought she was so transparently racist I could not vote for her. Thinking it a
private matter, I never followed her church interests, but should have.
Her
platform seemed to be church and dialogues on racism. Some black theology is
pure racism, often disguised. I’ve been here for five decades and don’t think
racism will prevail. Yet, it has kept the people bemused since its
establishment by civic citizens in nine courageous states on June 21, 1788.
After that, the people in four dissident states had the opportunity to join,
and ten states started operating as the USA on March 4, 1789, leaving three as
the remaining free and independent states in the confederation of states.
I don’t
know what his opinion would be now, but Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech seemed
to agree with my opinion: The preamble was intended for black slaves and the
articles of the constitution prepared for---expected---emancipation when
economic conditions were right. He was unbelieving at the insolence of American
theism and moral divide 64 years after the preamble had been ratified.
Now, 52
years after the Civil Rights acts of 1964-5, I am appalled at how much we regressed.
I perceive civic collaboration in some quarters, but in others I get the vibe,
“A black cannot trust a white man.” People should not be judged on their skin
color. I yield that sincere statement to no one.
Experience
and observations inform me that when someone expresses, “Phil you are a liar,”
the speaker invokes self-doubt or expresses guilt. Phil, “you are an idiot,”
expresses emptiness. “Phil, drop dead,” is evil. We live in a time that is beyond
strange, but we could change it by practicing the preamble.
To JT
McQuitty: On Monday before the Friday registration deadline, I sincerely
told my friend Hugh that I was so disappointed I was contemplating a bid for
mayor.
Both reliable
and sensible, Hugh said: in that case, you ought to contact a political
consultant and tell him your intentions. I called Roy and presented my
impromptu TV spot, “My name is Phil Beaver and I want to be your mayor . . .”
He responded, “That’s pure John Locke, and it’ll get you nowhere."
He then asked
if I had $5 million, lots of friends, many contributors, and skillfully herded
cats.
My wife was not
particularly relieved by my decision. She had already told me that if I ran and
won she would attend the victory celebration.
Beauty
College approved for TOPS (Musso) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_b2eb7076-c594-11e7-9c33-e329826dfd2e.html)
osfa.la.gov/MainSitePDFs/TOPSTechPC.pdf
Litter
(Pittman) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_2923576a-c593-11e7-b1f8-c3fe9a333646.html)
I am reluctant to speak of litterers as cretins for fear the
distributor suffers cretinism.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Pretend to skip Trump (Michael Barone)
(washingtonexaminer.com/michael-barone-keep-calm-and-carry-on/article/2639315)
I never
imagined Trump would enter the political scene. However, civic citizens are
motivated and the administration’s accomplishments have been amazing. He and
his administration are “calm and carry on through” the swamp and the liberal
media.
The people,
like me, who voted for Trump/Pence twice revised to six years their view of the
time it will take the administration to 1) realize that America never was great
or it would not be in this pit and 2) to turn the politics with the reality that
America will become great.
The sooner the
resistance turns on the light of civic collaboration for mutual, comprehensive
safety and security, the better.
The civic life is too joyful to tolerate the U.S. Congress (Walter
Williams) creators.com/read/walter-williams/11/17/ignorance-versus-stupidity
“. . . we are stupid if we believe
that a politician can produce a better life than that which is obtained through
peaceable, voluntary exchange with our fellow man anywhere on earth.”
I nominate Williams’ conclusion as
quote of the year. Only a willing people may establish collaboration using the
preamble to the constitution for the USA, a civic agreement.
Some voters (E.J. Dione) (washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-democratic-sweep-ushers-in-a-new-political-era/2017/11/08/2bb87676-c4ae-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html?utm_term=.6b3061a84e8e)
Virginia’s 13
electoral votes accounted for 5.6% of Clinton’s loss in 2016. It’s no surprise
that they remain in that camp.
However, it is
not too late for them to reform.
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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