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.
The Advocate
lamented low voter participation.
The customer—the
citizen---is not offered options that motivate him or her. I guess people feel
they will survive no matter what the future brings. Therefore, they won’t do
the work to know choices to help their future: vote their preference.
General infidelity
to justice has emerged during my half century as an adult, always collaborating
for personal liberty with civic morality. Perhaps infidelity has peaked and
reform is around the corner.
I was perplexed
by the American lie: separation of church and state. I thought I shared the
preamble to the constitution for the USA and collaborated to make it happen. I
spoke of “we, the people,” as though the other party understood. However, when
I began to inquire, many thought it expressed a phrase from the Declaration of
Independence, or was not meant for “their people,” or was secular and thus
anti-American.
The preamble to
the constitution for the USA is a civic contract, and each citizen may know the
paraphrase they would promote for general practice. If so, an achievable,
better future would be on the horizon. Otherwise, it seems to me the moderate
politics (bell curve) of the 1950s will continue toward the bi-model,
right-left statistic we seem to have.
Perhaps American theism is on the wane so that future voters will collaborate to benefit from the-objective-truth rather than conflict for dominant religious opinion. If so, good. At last, this country’s foundation in personal liberty with civic morality---civic justice---may prevail.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Matthew 19:14 CJB)
“However, Yeshua said, “Let the children come to me, don’t
stop them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.”
Dean says, “Be in church the Sunday with your children. You
and they will be blessed.”
Everything emerges from physics, the object of study. In
other words, energy, mass and space-time. Reality, as the-objective-truth, can
only be discovered. Often, imagination leads to discovery, but often, a mirage
inspired the imagination. When what was imagined has not been discovered, its promotion
may be a lie. A civic people do not lie to each other so that they can
communicate.
Self-deception is a common practice, yet human psychology
opposes it. The person realizes his or her ought, even though he or she may
work to avoid it. However, to impose self-deception on others, especially children,
is egregious. I recall again Kahlil Gibran’s poem, “On Children.” katsandogz.com/onchildren.html
Letters
Character building (Sellen) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_6fdaf22e-ca4a-11e7-bfdd-17b15bb618b9.html)
But is Ms.
Harrop interested in the civic agreement in the preamble?
On my daily
blog for Nov 7 I wrote, “I don’t agree with Harrop. A civic culture allows each
person to responsibly develop themselves according to personal preferences.”
Today, I would purposefully revise to “coaches” rather than allows.
There’s great
pleasure in witnessing both teams perform beyond expectations, as we saw with
the Saints, yesterday and LSU Saturday. (My three ladies---wife and daughters,
one arriving during the game---insisted we display their LSU flag along with my
usual big orange “T” on white background.)
Moreover,
there’s great pleasure in striving for a short story to express Martha’s
viewpoint in response to Anton Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle,” or sing Giacomo
Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” so well that President Trump would like hearing the
performance, or play the piano part of Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” so well that
three jazz players would join in.
What’s
disappointing in America is that so few people know their personal paraphrase
of the preamble to the constitution for the USA: What civic agreement would
Harrop trust and commit to?
Pretty sure (Bollinger)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_82302136-ca47-11e7-95b2-0fdfa3c78f48.html)
Bollinger’s
“pretty sure” reminds me of an honest man who lacks the integrity to either
discover the-objective-truth (which can only be discovered) or admit he does
not know. Few people have ever thought to themselves, “I do not know what I do
not know.” In other words, “If I have not experienced it or observed it, I do
not know it.”
I am
delighted to read this morning that combustion-engine innovators are
researching lubricants to increase efficiency and thereby maintain the people’s
opportunity to avoid the high cost of electric cars and its competitive
infrastructure already taking hold.
Liberal
democracy is the worst democracy and democracy is the worst form of government.
Civic citizens collaborate for just statutory law and free-market capitalism.
Thereby, emotionalism cannot make living impractical.
Bollinger’s
scare talk is not working in these parts.
To Philip Frady Let's see now. We went from a 1
horse buggy to 350 HP cars. The EV, promoted by social engineering would
compete at 20 HP to 280 HP, long re-charge times, and additional charging
infrastructure.
Did mind or
emotion prompt your post? Was it humility or hubris?
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Papal contradictions (Kathryn Jean Lopez)
(http://auburnpub.com/columnists/kathryn_lopez/hope-on-display-in-texas/article_52713a8c-2e3f-5ebe-b7f9-9b8c808dd4ac.html)
“. . . pope
emeritus Benedict said in 2007: ‘It is not the elemental spirits of the
universe, the laws of matter, which ultimately govern the world and mankind,
but a personal God governs the stars, that is, the universe; it is not the laws
of matter and of evolution that have the final say, but reason, will,
love — a Person. And if we know this Person and he knows us, then truly
the inexorable power of material elements no longer has the last word; we are
not slaves of the universe and of its laws, we are free.’"
I think Benedict said if we are
slaves to Jesus we are ultimately free from “the inexorable power of material
elements.” It may be true that there’s an afterdeath, but that does not help
the family deal with the elements.
Then, Pope Francis said, "Vulnerability is the essence
of the human person. And this vulnerability needs to be respected, caressed,
healed as far as possible, so that it bears fruit for others."
Lopez has these two men try to convince us that gathering in
a church for senseless slaughter elevates the dead unto their afterdeath and
the family loss “bears fruit for others.”
I don’t understand how Lopez thinks these ideas should be
published. Evil is evil, and evil does not benefit any god.
But she adds her creative thought: “Faith and hope mean
seeing the world as it is and the human person as it was created, and wanting
to love people while helping them reach that same understanding.” If by that
she means, behave with civic morality and let me responsibly pursue my preferences,
that’s OK. However, I think she wants to impose her preferences on me. It won’t
happen. I expect appreciation for my civic morality and do not want her
so-called love.
Ageism (Richard Cohen) washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-rupert-murdoch-destroyed-the-republican-party/2017/11/13/0d41e68e-c8ad-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html?utm_term=.703d640ec9a2
Being 76 years old does not lessen
Cohen’s egregious ageism. This column reminds me of the queer a couple years
ago. He objected to my claim that the-objective-truth informs us that same-sex
monogamy excludes procreation and responded, “Mr. Beaver, drop dead. Please get
it done in 30 minutes.”
I think liberal-democrat writers
are “wearing thin.”
I’ll take a break and not even address
Dana Milbank’s “Little Fredo” bit. washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-jrs-incredible-history-of-dumb-decisions/2017/11/14/928d5c62-c964-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.db04ab2bbb27
Also, Froma Harrop exercised
typical gullibility to her personal wisdom in creators.com/read/froma-harrop/11/17/democrats-though-not-all-learn-how-to-win-elections
Other forums
I posted “More erroneous NFL” at
promotethepramble.blogspot.com.
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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