Wednesday, November 22, 2017

November 22, 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_0d765ba2-c958-11e7-9d50-070e715d2371.html)
The Advocate continually---almost continuously--disappoints.
  
This morning, someone baits prostitution for Isaacson, who hardly needs a sales department, then switches to advertising for liberal-democrat teachers and professors in general. I exclude liberal arts teachers in K-12 from my complaint.
  
“. . . schools and universities are cutting liberal arts education at society’s peril. Americans shouldn’t have to decide between technology and the arts.”

Here’s my assessment of most liberal arts professors. They are so disconnected from the-objective-truth they don’t seem to realize how far technology has improved the human condition yet how regressive civic morality has been. STEM professors cannot escape the-objective-truth, because discovering evidence that can be demonstrated by other people is their method of study. However, liberal arts imagines a route to utopia and creates a body of theory and says “Let’s go there.”

How many billions of dollars in US education funding been spent on variations of John Rawls' veil of ignorance? How many ways can free-market enterprise be denigrated by communism, socialism, collectivism, communitarianism and their progenies?

Albert Einstein taught liberal arts. In a 1941 speech, his only example of the-objective-truth’s impact on ethics is: civic citizens don’t lie to each other so they can communicate. Einstein did not create such ideas by taking liberal arts classes. He contemplated, during his later years, the source of human psychology and concluded that it is the same as the source of energy, mass and space-time. Further, in the discovery of ethics, there is no place for human goals, emotions, and beliefs: There’s only discovery.

Liberal arts, especially liberal democracy insists that the-objective-truth responds to human reason, rights, and dignity. Like Einstein, who was indeed a genius, the attempt to construct human theory should happen only after a person has established the basic understanding and intent to live a full life.    

To SandraandMichael Evans: Thank you for happily, I hope, helping me make a point and, additionally, supporting exclusion of K-12 teachers in my complaints against many liberal college professors.

The Advocate lamented "cutting liberal arts education." I wrote my understanding of Einstein's 1941 speech, "Further, in the discovery of ethics, there is no place for human goals, emotions, and beliefs: There’s only discovery."

Some fine arts, like music, employ physics to express imagination. Others spring from intellectual constructs, such as creation of the universe depicted in the Vatican.

Imagination is essential to both fine arts and in discovery of the-objective-truth. Study often begins with imagination that a phenomenon has been observed and advances to acquisition of the evidence to prove what was imagined. However, when the-objective-truth informs the student that imagination focused on a mirage, it must be put on the shelf of fine arts, at least until a discovery justifies return to the pursuit of evidence other students may reproduce.

Atheism, for example, is a fine art---so far there's no evidence for it. Humankind may need to employ senses not yet discovered to take that question off the imaginary shelf labeled, "We don't know."
  
Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Matthew 17:5 CJB)
“While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them; and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him!"

Dean says, “We too should take time to hear the Lord Jesus. Take time to read the Gospels.”

I do not condone literature that advocates hate for loved ones in order to adopt ideas, and I don’t accept rationalisms that attempt to convert the choice of “hate” to express concern or other noble motive.
    
Letters

Racism? (Banks) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_171fd5d6-c98d-11e7-a352-e726637d750c.html)

Does “the rubric . . . ensure every candidate is evaluated based on a single standard,” prevent the application of Mayor Broome’s platform---church and dialogues on racism?
  
Is “confirmation bias” a politically correct rubric for racial bias?

I don’t understand Banks’ purpose.

Preservation opinionated (Wampold)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_073c2e92-ccb4-11e7-8c8e-7390e9ac8563.html)

To Ending Wasteful Spending In Government: These tax credits end up as profits for the business. The people (including tax payers) pay it, and it is better to let the people keep the money they earn.

Democrat talking points (Villarrubia)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_3876714c-ca3f-11e7-a384-abc1a02b6f73.html)

I agree. I especially like Villarrubia’s focus on the people instead of the usual “taxpayers.” Taxation by liberal democrats hurts everyone but the parties the Democratic party favors---mostly the Democrat insiders, like the infamous Clinton Foundation.
  
Columns. (The fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
  
A stake in capitalism (Lanny Keller) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/lanny_keller/article_39ab8b00-cb21-11e7-ae45-9f49a9cabadd.html)

To Andy Ringswald: For a citizen “to use the mayor-president's favorite word, unity,” requires signing on for church and dialogues on racism. I won’t go there, and I oppose the pastor’s coalition and the AMO affiliate, Together Baton Rouge. Who elected AMO to intimidate the Metro-Council?

I advocate public use of the agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, as stated. However, I advocate “unity” only as integrity in collaboration for civic justice. Church and dialogues on racism have nothing to do with either integrity or civic justice.
  
Baton Rouge needs to stop special-interest payments so as to maintain the infrastructure. Cut back on CATS and COA, for example. Also, don’t even propose property taxes without sales tax supplements so as to share the cost with all citizens.

I will vote “No” on every pure property tax until I perceive there is civic reform in these parts. No more church and dialogues on racism and Together Baton Rouge.
  

Liberal democrat writers get it but resist President Trump’s commitment to the American people.

Citizens that don’t bone up on the founding ideas for this nation---a people, are not working for themselves in collaboration with President Trump.

A good starting point is General Washington’s uninvited suggestions to fellow citizens. He referred to them as “your Excellency.” Read founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-11404 and perhaps understand why some citizens call Washington the father of the USA.
  
Black stalking horses (Walter Williams) townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2017/11/15/stalking-horses-n2408644

What has the Congressional Black Caucus done for blacks? Williams lists “the grossly rotten education in our big-city schools, mandated minimum wage, 33 black on black murders per police shooting of a black.”

Political hustlers blame [ignore] the fact that poverty and racism were much greater yesteryear, when there was not nearly the same amount of chaos. Also ignored is the fact that the dangerous living conditions worsened under a black president's administration.”

“[B]lack Americans [may] stop being useful tools for the leftist hate-America agenda. White liberals ought to stop feeling guilty so they can be [appreciative] in their relationships with black Americans.”


Deep into my eighth decade, I never warranted guilt, and I walked out of the sixth and final Maxine Crump 2002 performance as indoctrinator in the YWCA’s dialogues on racism. 

No one can impose guilt I did not earn. 

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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