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 seems
to extol Louisiana as a death destination for people with developed appetites
and no purpose for life beyond age 59 or so. With a newspaper like that it’s no
wonder many Louisianans die young.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Psalms 32:10 CJB), The Advocate, December 30, 2017, page 5B
Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 32:10 CJB), The Advocate,
December 30, 2017, page 5B
“Many are the torments of the wicked, but grace surrounds
those who trust in Adonai.”
Dean says, “You have a choice. Which will it be?”
David describes the wicked as unprotected by grace. A
Christian apologist debates “grace” in
jspark3000.tumblr.com/post/127070305176/what-is-the-definition-of-grace.
Lyricist John Newton, in "Amazing Grace," expressed that by grace
fear both came and left. Merriam-Webster informs us grace is “unmerited divine
assistance given humans for their regeneration or sanctification, a virtue
coming from God.” Regeneration from what regression? Regression coming from
God? Fear coming from God---for removal by God?
David also expressed private action: trust in God. Did the
wicked emerge from the womb not trusting God? If not, how do God-trusting
infants acquire that commitment? Would trust in the fact and integrity of their
own person be an alternative? Which of these options threatens the child with
tyranny? Is tyranny born of mystery? Are mystery and integrity to personhood
both viable routes to civic morality? If so, why demand a choice? And which
choice has the better performance record?
Dean knows what he writes and why. I think his purpose is
tyranny over the minds of humans---an attempt to usurp an individual's civic
authority. He wants to employ the unknown to coerce the choice of trusting
mystery rather than developing integrity. Dean’s unstated mystery is promise of
a good afterdeath regardless of behavior in life. But the reader has the
psychological power to read, consider, and respond. What choice is Dean
referring to? Life or afterdeath? Concern for the afterdeath is a personal
choice which the individual may expose to tyranny. On other words, some
God-choices rob the person of self-discovery. Considering the world population
and the evidence of civic peace, Dean's coercion is not working: mystery for
afterdeath as an incentive for behavior in life is a failure.
My experiences and observations indicate that humans emerge
from the womb neutral to information, understanding, commitment, and energy,
but with insatiable drive for authority. For example, authority over his or her
hands and feet, potentially to walk in a year. Less psychologically powerful
species develop the physical faster; for example, a fold walks within hours or
minutes of delivery. Only the human species has the slowly developing physical
and psychological potential to control personal energy---his or her energy. The
infant begins feral, but I think pure---blameless---perhaps conceived in
unblemished appreciation if not love. Yet the infant's body has not completed the
wisom-building parts of the brain before age 23 (female) or 25 (male).
With coaching in comprehensive fidelity, he or she may
pursue and embrace about three decades of personal development in order to
embark on a lifetime of fidelity. Personal autonomy is a key recognition that
may come near age ten. Fortunate is he or she who emerges a young-adult with
human understanding and intent to responsibly discover his or her personal
preferences during the private use of his or her personal life; to realize responsible
personal happiness rather than the happiness imposed by a tyrannical person or
ideology. By so doing, he or she may collaborate at the leading edge of
humankind’s civic morality. Such a culture cannot be constrained by one man or
one ideology.
Happily, this awareness---personal authority for civic
morality---may happen at any age. The mere recognition unlocks the full power
and intent to avoid repetitive losses and misery. There’s no need for regret or
blame for the path to personal awareness, yet each person must accept in like
intensity the sorrow if past harm is recalled. However, accepting the personal
authority for human good will empowers an achievable, better future.
If a person arrives early, near age thirty, with these first
principles for human living, he or she thereafter seeks self-discovery by
working both to earn a living and to collaborate for civic morality; to
collaborate for human justice in both public and private connections; to enjoy
self-discovery perhaps in the seventh or eighth decade of life. In other words,
just as a person must work for food, a person must collaborate for civic
justice. “Civic” refers to mutually-just human connections, both public and
private; both direct and indirect; both domestic and foreign. In other words,
each human may take personal authority for comprehensive fidelity to statutory
justice. That is, on discovering civil or social injustice, the individual may
express both the need for reform and a viable practice, whether statutory law
is required or not. With a majority of people so motivated, the culture may
continually expand the envelope of civic morality, allowing dissidents to
either reform or suffer constraint, as possible.
In a civic culture, written law and law enforcement are
continually improved so as to conform to the-objective-truth rather than to
mystery or to dominant opinion. Faced with statutory justice (as opposed to
dominant opinion) and its exemplary consequences, the evil person’s physical
and psychological power motivates him or her to reform so as to preserve
personal freedom; mysteries are insufficient to sustain human integrity and
discipline. Spiritualism becomes a matter of private comfort and hope in a
world of unknowns. But private, heartfelt concerns are not imposed on other
people. The cunning use of other people’s spirituality to abuse their
lives---their brief opportunity for responsible freedom---may be lessened;
human misery and loss may be lessened. The power of civic, personal authority
is that the individual neither tolerates nor imposes tyranny over the minds and
hearts of people. Repeating, the person neither imposes nor brooks tyranny,
coercion, or violence.
It seems these considerations would suggest that “grace”
transfers to God the human responsibility for civic freedom. Leaving civic
morality to God seems a lazy, mysterious approach to human integrity and
discipline. For 3000 years the Biblical mysteries have been utilized by
political regimes. The Christian factions have conflicted for over 1700 years.
So far, mystery does not seem a viable option to inspire the physically and
psychologically powerful human being to acquire integrity and discipline.
Perhaps personal authority to establish responsible civic freedom through civic
morality offers an achievable, better future. In other words, perhaps private
liberty with civic morality is possible. Perhaps widespread human authenticity
is the only path to integrity.
Comprehensive fidelity is an alternative that can be
acquired by experience and observation. Fidelity is a choice that cannot be
taught or imposed but can be coached and encouraged. The preamble to the
constitution for the USA offers the people the civic agreement to so develop
civic morality. The preamble’s agreement, was created by the unique world events
that led to the establishment of the USA on June 21, 1788. It offers governance
by people who accept civic authority rather than by the cities, the states, or
the nation.
But the civic agreement has been erroneously, tyrannically
suppressed as “secular” by 228 years under theism, beginning with
Congressional, legislative prayer in April-May, 1789. The US Supreme Court’s
affirmation of this tyranny in Greece v. Galloway (2014) means nothing to the
individual who wants to accept authority for civic morality; private liberty
with civic morality; fidelity in human connections, both public and private. A
person in charge of his or her civic authority cannot possibly be niggling: the
court is a failure. When most people practice integrity, discipline, and fidelity,
the local, state, and federal governments must serve the people.
While I condone neither David’s way of thinking nor Dean’s,
one cannot be human without considering comprehensive integrity, discipline,
and fidelity. Every human has a choice, whether the USA carries the political
burden “under God” or not.
Accepting authority for personal civic morality rather than
civilization’s tyranny is a private decision. I think civically moral behavior
is possible for both believers and non-believers. However, the believer's
institution must conform to statutory justice for living, in order for the
believer's path to survive. In justice, there is no place for attempting to
usurp a person's civic authority.
Letters
A Christian can be civically moral (Perilloux) (Dec 30)
A “civic” person
collaborates for mutual, comprehensive safety and security.
Einstein
informed us that civic people do not lie to each other so they may communicate.
Civic people hope to influence dissidents to justice to reform because of the
better way of living they may observe in a civic culture. A civic person would
not approach a civically moral person and say: “Your public behavior is Okay
for your lifetime, but your person is doomed in the afterdeath. I know how to
save your afterdeath for favored status.”
A Christian
knows their afterdeath will be favored, but would not dare predict another
person’s afterdeath. Civic persons do not lie to each other, and they privately
hope each person will enjoy a favorable afterdeath.
Froma Harrop (Hebert) (Dec 30)
Harrop seems to
have no appreciation for writers.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Fascism not favored (Walter Williams)
(creators.com/read/walter-williams/12/17/fascism-and-communism)
Merriam Webster informs us
that fascism exalts nation and often race above the individual. In the USA, movement is toward communism through taxation and
regulation.
President Trump has
attacked both taxation and regulation during his first year. The people who want
private liberty with civic morality may support further reduced taxation and
regulation. However, to make America great, a civic people may end the policy
of theism-politics-partnering---may separate civic morality from church;
collaboration for desirable life from prayer for favorable afterdeath.
Congressional Black Caucus harms its constituents (Jeff
Sadow) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/jeff_sadow/article_45cc32d8-eb59-11e7-9557-8b5d0a016e2b.html
I agree.
Also, every citizen ought to be
voting for his or her personal interest rather than for someone else’s cause.
Alabama (Bernard Goldberg)
townhall.com/columnists/bernardgoldberg/2017/12/19/if-only-the-gop-had-nominated-a-conservative-dogcatcher-in-alabama-n2424194
Goldberg does not seem to realize that President Trump is getting
things done despite both the GOP and the DNC. I expect his success to continue,
because most Americans understand the unique combination here: freedom-from
oppression and the liberty-to pursue personal happiness rather than the
dictates of some person or some ideology.
Goldberg is just another clueless liberal-democrat. I wonder if it
occurred to him that some readers would modify: “So the [Democratic Party] wasn’t
really going to be celebrating even if [she] had won in [the USA].”
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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