Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth,
which can only be discovered. 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. 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 June 21, 1788 preamble: We the civic citizens 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. Composing
their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive
whether they are willing or dissident toward its principles.
The
Advocate helped me realize for the first time that press-writers are right in
there with ministers in the competition for used-car-salesman reliability. (I
cannot name a journalist---someone who reliably records events. That may be
because there is so much I do not know, but sometimes I observe conflicts with
the-objective-truth.)
In
this instance, The Advocate publishes, “Baton Rouge voters might prefer that
Landry . . . Sterling.” I think most Baton Rouge voters are more civic than The
Advocate employees who published that claim. By civic, I mean citizens who
collaborate for statutory justice rather than dominant opinion. I think most
Baton Rouge citizens: are dismayed that Mayor Kip Holden’s claim that Baton
Rouge is inclusive was not accepted and promoted by the media; that Louisiana
Gov. John Bel Edwards convicted on world-wide TV two police officers who had
not been indicted; that lawyers rushed in to set up a multimillion dollar suit,
exciting their victims---the Sterling family; that “matters” groups from around
the country came here at extensive expense to the city and state; that evil was
motivated to visit Dallas then Baton Rouge; that LSU President F. King
Alexander created personal promotion with the infamous “Moment or Movement?”;
that, so far, President Obama’s promotion of divisive “lives matter” and his
dreadful comment in Dallas continues with immunity; that local statutory
justice was put on the shelf so that the federal authorities could be in
control, leaving Louisiana and Baton Rouge to investigate the investigation;
that the federal conclusion was insufficient to absorb the shame (the woe
cannot be recovered).
Did
the federal investigation discover who called 911 and why? I think Landry
should take the time required to answer the unanswered questions, and I bet
most voters could care less about The Advocate’s business plans regarding
Sterling. Shame on The Advocate.
The
Advocate justifies releasing prisoners with the hyperbole “bankrupted the
state.”
Louisiana
releasing prisoners, without the reform programs other states have provided,
motivates The Advocate to call on their partner in civic injustice. “Religious
conservative[s] often experience Louisiana’s incarceration crisis through
prison ministries.” Do prison minsters teach and coach prison administrators
like Burl Cain? Does The Advocate suppress this view to help their own
partnership? Why not keep the people alert to actual reality?
I
am tired of my perception of The Advocate’s work. I would like to see my hometown
newspaper at work for the people instead of special interests.
Yesterday, I objected to Boxing Day (a commonwealth practice) as particularly un-American due to fox hunting not being for sustenance. The commoners who came to this country learned hunting (and fishing) for food from the indigenous people. Today, I am learning more about The Advocate’s St. Stephen promostion and assert that on that basis it is even more un-American.
Further to my claim
that America is independent of the British Commonwealth, America is independent
of the Vatican and its fickle, factional, feudal system of saints. St. Stephen
might be the patron of Serbia, a couple towns in Italy, a town in each Belgium
and Germany, and Owensboro, Kentucky. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen
and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saints_of_places.
The latter reference lists patrons of
countries: St. George for England, St. Andrew for Scotland, St. Patrick for
Ireland and, beyond Britain, for examples, St. Michael for France and the
Virgin Mary for the USA. Again, we’d need to apply to the Vatican for modern
listings. (I’ll never forget MWW’s comment in the late sixties: “Oh, no. Just
when my personal religion is being considered the Pope disqalfies some familiar
saints!”) The patron system is important to many Louisiana Parishes.
Folks in St.
Tammany Parish, Louisiana have an indigenous remembrance. “In 1810,
President James Madison claimed West Florida as part
of Louisiana and sent William C. C. Claiborne to claim the
territory. Claiborne established the boundaries of the Florida
Parishes. He created St. Tammany Parish and named it after the Delaware
Indian Chief Tamanend (c.1628-1698),
who made peace with William Penn and was generally renowned
for his goodness. Among the nine Louisiana parishes (counties) named for
"saints" (see "List of parishes in Louisiana"), St.
Tammany is the only one whose eponym is
not a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, the ecclesiastical
parishes of which formed the basis for the state's civil parishes. In fact,
Tamanend is not known to have been a Christian, and was certainly not a Roman
Catholic. However, he became popularly revered as an "American patron
saint" in the post-Revolutionary period (long after his
death).” See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Tammany_Parish,_Louisiana.
America can be
great because of its unique past collaboration for goodness. By educating both
the young and the immigrants to the neglected American promise, a better future
may be made possible. The neglected American dream is stated in the civic
agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. The
preamble invites human collaboration for mutual, comprehensive safety and
security for everyone, including dissidents. In other words, a culture of
statutory justice. Dissidents either reform to the culture’s example and
statutory law or suffer constraint.
Dissidents
include those who want to change the American republic, for example, into a
European model or Christian style democracy. The Advocate opines for
themselves, but I consider many of their causes, including Boxing Day,
un-American. The Advocate might respond that I am just not among the elite---a
modern Tammany proponent rather than a Cincinnati patron. I argue that on the
basis of trust and commitment to the agreement stated in the preamble, I
represent the elite American.
Members of the
British Commonwealth cannot possibly understand the promise that is offered
Americans and the future greatness that can accrue to the world. Most Americans
may encounter, consider, and accept the authority to personally take the
responsibility for human freedom in both public and private human contacts each
person needs or wants. Just as a person must work for food, a person must work
for statutory justice.
We know that
neither government nor theism seeks to deliver statutory justice: The authority
to discover and establish statutory justice rests with willing persons.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Psalms 32:1 CJB)
“How blessed are those
whose offense is forgiven, those whose sin is covered! How blessed those to whom Adonai imputes
no guilt, in whose spirit is no deceit!”
Dean says, “It is a joy to be forgiven by the Lord. He will
forgive you too if you repent and turn to him.”
David seems to support antinomianism. Dean seems to think offense
might involve guilt. Either view seems unreliable to me. Humans have the
authority to conduct themselves so that other humans depart needed/wanted
connections, whether public or private, in mutual appreciation.
Letters
Actual reality vs emotions (Edmonston,
Dec 23) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_a2e2f16c-e66f-11e7-a9c8-ab0e63bdd067.html)
To Al
Fletch: Your response seems an example
of “social science” reason for existing---fooling the public: in this case, attempts
to benefit from social engineering by the USA to favor the ethanol industry and
consequential special interests such as high compression engines. In other
words the articles you site have statements by vendors and universities using
statistical statements to convince the public, omitting the negative facts.
Additionally, they overlook the comparative costs from potential energy to
delivered energy, wherein ethanol is the loser: That’s why only Brasil and the
USA use it.
For example, car
manufacturers do the best they can with bad legislation. “Ethanol contains approx. 34% less energy per
unit volume than gasoline, and therefore in theory, burning pure ethanol in a
vehicle reduces miles per US gallon 34%, given the same fuel economy, compared to burning pure gasoline. However,
since ethanol has a higher octane
rating, the engine can
be made more efficient by raising its compression ratio. Based on EPA
tests for all 2006 E85 models, the average fuel economy for E85 vehicles
resulted 25.56% lower than unleaded gasoline.” See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel#Dehydration.
Thus, the economy loss was decreased 25%. The 75% loss is being legislated for
what? “Renewables”?
The Oak Ridge
study says, “(note that full useful life emissions have not been
measured) on the FTP, and also within the 4000 mile (6400 km) US06 emissions
limits. Emissions of hydrocarbon-based hazardous air pollutants are higher on
Federal Certification Gasoline while ethanol and aldehyde emissions are higher
on ethanol fuel.” Quite obviously, if you aren’t using gasoline the instantaneous
emissions from gasoline are less, but if you’re consuming more fuel to make up
for the lower energy ethanol, emissions go up. And you have to contend with
ethanol’s affinity for water and the consequential 90-day storage limit.
Who in the world is using ethanol? “The world's top ethanol
fuel producers
in 2011 were the United States with 13.9 billion U.S.
liquid gallons (bg)
. . . and Brazil with 5.6 bg . . . accounting together for 87.1% of world
production,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_by_country. “The first
production car running entirely on ethanol was the Fiat
147, introduced in
1978 in Brazil by Fiat. Ethanol is commonly made from biomass such as
corn or sugarcane,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel. Obviously, America is
influenced by the corn industry and Brazil is influenced by the sugarcane
industry.
“A study by
the International
Institute for Sustainable Development found there was no economic or environmental benefits
to ethanol fuels, and the sole motivation for E85 was to subsidize the corn
industry. Total CO2 emissions for the production and use of E85 was higher than
total CO2 emissions for the production and use of gasoline,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E85.
Rep. Graves has the ability, desire, and performance of acting for the people (except imposing minister’s sermons in town meetings). What is your interest and motivation, Mr. Fletch?
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
A liberal-democrat hope (Lanny Keller)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/lanny_keller/article_7deebaf0-e677-11e7-b49f-f7a3a28c17ba.html)
How can The
Advocate support Gov. Edwards' failure to make the people of Louisiana No. 1?
I understood
the announcement. I understood the poll reports---they're images of the polls
that have Hillary Clinton president of the USA. Did the poll include even one
flood victim still displaced? Any policemen? Any Baton Rouge residents?
I have personal
authority about fact vs fiction; promise vs performance; honesty vs integrity;
success vs failure; leading vs reacting.
Mr. K's
surprising conclusion seemed more mysterious prayer than objective hope: “[The]
2019 governor’s race might not seem like a sure thing for the GOP.”
I’m scratching
my head again, Mr. K.
To Julius
Dooley:
I appreciate
"TRUTH" and would like your detailed explanation. I think “Truth”
seems to deify, but all caps does not. I work on "truth" all the
time.
I gave a talk
in 2006 or so, "Faith in the Truth." Today, I write about trust-in
and commitment-to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered.
I learned that
many people equate "faith" with "religion," and therefore,
they cannot understand my message. So I use "trust-in and commit-to."
The content of
the talk might suggest the-objective-truth to some people, and one person,
Harold Weingarten, a teacher in general and PhD in chemistry, asked, I recall,
"What truth are you advocating: absolute truth, ultimate truth, God's
truth, or Phil Beaver's truth?"
Over the
subsequent decade, I considered alternatives and found that all of them,
including Harold's four require evaluation: For example, one cannot conclude
the ultimate truth has been reached without some sort of process with a
conclusion based on evaluative criteria. Also, none of the standard short
cuts---revelation, reason, proof, disproof, or tradition---hold up to
discovery.
The study we
refer to as “science” is a process but not a conclusion or product, even though
a technology or invention may result. When the study is over, the student fully
expects a future discovery to change the view of the-objective-truth.
Inventions become obsolete.
Even
“objective” and “actual” are insufficient modifiers and “reality” is
insufficient. I concluded that the article "the" is essential and
wanted to invite the reader not to separate words essential to my expression:
the-objective-truth.
The-objective-truth
exists and can only be discovered, and humankind is the only species with the
physical and psychological power for discovery. For example, civic people do
not lie because they want to communicate. It seems everything in the universe
began 14.8 billiion years ago, beforehand there may have been only potential
energy, and knowbody knows if "why?" is a valid question. Humankind
continues to study the "how".
Because of
grammar, the individual human may accept the authority to discover
the-objective-truth either by experience or observation. Fidelity to the-objective-truth
cannot be taught. Yet a (willing) student can be coached to discover and
benefit from comprehensive fidelity to the-objective truth.
I would
appreciate your comments on these ideas, too.
Phil Beaver does not “know”
the-indisputable-facts, or actual-reality. 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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