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 combination
"non-profit" and Gov. John Bel Edwards ought to alert Louisiana
citizens to some pocket-picking politics.
Louisiana
citizens may be especially wary of so-called philanthropists who profit from
the expenditures they hoist on the people under the guise of working with the
administration for state funding.
The Advocate
touts support of taxpayers when the funds actually cost everyone in lost services.
Money spent on broadband for students is not available for children.
I call on The
Advocate to become diligent for the people rather than drumming up support for
Edwards’ loner-initiatives. I don’t trust the partnership.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Exodus 20:7 CJB)
“You are not to use lightly the name
of Adonai your God, because Adonai will not leave
unpunished someone who uses his name lightly.”
Dean says, “God’s name should be honored and praised.”
Maybe so, but which God and how punished?
Maybe using God to defy the-objective-truth, which can only
be discovered, warrants punishment. For example, if someone attacks another for
not holding the same religious belief, the attacker may be defying
the-objective-truth. When I was called “infidel” in Sunday school, it bothered
me for a few weeks. I returned to understand the accuser, then moved on to a
better place.
Letters
Tax plan (Harlan and Mintz) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_8d457af0-d9c7-11e7-bf48-f3c84874eab1.html
and theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_49374218-d9cb-11e7-b622-870f33595f1e.html)
It is difficult
to take these scare letters seriously when foreign investors are buying US
stocks.
Adult
satisfactions and neglect are hurting future generations.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Stupidity (Dan Fagan) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_508a47d6-d9d5-11e7-b4a0-cb3d61470e03.html)
"Currently,
there are approximately 1.6 million people on Medicaid in Louisiana costing
taxpayers $14 billion per year."
Readers who
think that is a true statement are suckers to The Advocate's continual ploy to
pit the people against the taxpayers.
Louisiana has
4.7 million residents. The $14 billion being spent for Medicaid competes with
other services and needs of the 4.7 million people. Medicaid does not come out
of taxpayers’ pockets but from everyone’s pocket. Medicaid recipients out to do
what they can to save Medicaid expenses.
The Advocate,
the Legislature, and the administration cite taxpayers perhaps to fool the
people into thinking they are getting something for nothing. Something from
Gov. John Bel Edwards! It’s a lie.
At least The
Advocate should stop lying to the people.
Other forums
libertylawsite.org/2017/12/06/resistance-and-the-crisis-of-authority-in-american-politics
Wallner touches on the provisions of American republicanism
that have not yet publically surfaced.
So far, the American people, We the People of the United
States, have not claimed their authority. In fact, very few citizens realize
that the preamble to the constitution is a civic contract that divides the
people: civic citizens vs dissidents to just human connections. Dissidence
ranges from ignorance to criminality to evil.
The problem, as viewed by Rose Lane (mises.org/library/discovery-freedom)
is that most people do not want the responsibility of human freedom: Most
people want an authority to take the individual’s responsibility. Therefore,
most people miss their life’s chance at human liberty. Most people miss their
opportunity for human meaning: civic freedom, or the practice of personal
liberty with civic morality. In other words, life’s opportunity to responsibly
pursue personal preferences rather than someone else’s image for the person’s
life.
For example, the elites of America think its OK for many
American children to be born poor. Perhaps they think: There but for the grace
of God go my children. “I’m blessed,” is an accepted, barbaric,
wealth-expression. I do not want a nanny state but do want 1) procreation
licensing so as to civically protect children from adults who will not
appreciate them and 2) balancing GDP so that someone who fills a needed or
wanted service may earn a living plus savings so as to build needed wealth.
The signers of the draft constitution for the USA, rather
than the founders, designed a government that could be developed so as to
foster responsible personal liberty. The signers, 2/3 of delegates, did not,
could not negotiate an ideal starting point, for example, free the slaves.
Also, they knew other provisions would prove to be unjust, so they provided for
amendment, not by democracy, but by republicanism, with its insistence on
reason if not correctness before change.
Fortunately, 229 years ago, nine of thirteen states ratified
the draft constitution, establishing the USA leavng four remaining “free and
independent states.” (Quoting the Treaty of Paris, ratified in 1784.) The USA
began operations with ten states on March 4, 1789. The First Congress
unfortunately re-established legislative factional-Protestantism, giving
elected representatives the customary “divine authority.” The three dissident
states eventually joined the Machiavellianism.
Wellner perhaps misses or obfuscates the point that “we, the
people” did not object to the Christian usurpation of the people’s authority,
and it has been that way ever since May, 1789. America suffers Chapter XI
Machiavelianism: the partnership of church and state that subjugates the people
who cannot brook freedom. In other words, the people who crave an authority to
take their responsibility. The civic agreement offered by the singers to “We
the People of the United States” never was considered, adopted, promoted, and
celebrated by the majority, perhaps because Chapter XI regimes have suppressed
the preamble and still do.
Physical discoveries, like affirmation of Einstein’s general
theory of relativity, in these 229 years have been exponential. Moral discovery
can be brought up to par very rapidly---in a matter of under ten years.
The-objective-truth can only be discovered. For example, Albert Einstein in
1941 pointed out that civic citizens do not lie, because they want to
communicate. See the essay reprinted in samharris.org/blog/item/my-friend-einstein.
It is shocking that journalism, which should chronical moral development has
kept Einstein’s example about lying obfuscated for 76 years. The reform from
social morality to civic morality can begin with Einstein’s example: we don’t
lie so we can communicate. The people may realize that not collaborating for
the-objective-truth is a form of lying. A free and irresponsible press lies,
and journalism chronicles moral discovery as well as physical discovery.
In general, a civic people iteratively collaborate to
discover and apply the-objective-truth. At last, American republicanism has an
authority by which the constitution for the USA may be amended to increase
civic justice: the-objective-truth. Arbitrary political proposals may be set
aside by voluntarily civic people.
The writers in this forum can be instrumental in effecting
this needed, uniquely American reform.
To gabe: gabe, you
routinely express personal subjugation to authority. Human freedom requires
open debate of issues such as civic responsibility to a people’s children. You
just can’t stand the heat of civic debate, so you attack Phil Beaver in a
flash.
Readers who might consider the-objective-truth may consider
Marci Hamilton’s work on abuse. Her books give me the impression that at least
30% of Americans have been involved in abuse, either as victim, perpetrator, or
both.
A civic people (nation) protects its children. Barbarians could
care less.
Just between you and me, your posts
to me are boring; repetitious; suggesting “techniques and methods,” indecent.
§ To gabe
again: gabe, you volunteer for such silliness. It is amusing, though.
A procreation license would be based on the-objective-truth,
which can only be discovered and I do not know. However, humankind has
discovered that the human body does not complete constructing the wisdom parts
of the brain before a quarter century of age. Giving a few years to build
experiences and observations, procreation might be advisable near age 30 or so.
That’s only one of several thoughts I have listed.
Of course there was no licensing when I was conceived. However,
Mom and Dad were great providers and, entering my eighth decade, I would be
glad to live the same path again. The adolescent, young or old, who dies never
having been appreciated motivates a civic people to license procreation.
Dissidents to civic justice can’t imagine the reform, and barbarians could not
care less.
Christians (whoever they are) can be
civic citizens. Civic morality is for the here and now, and Christian morality
is for the hereafter (borrowing from Scalia-opinion). Scalia also did not know
the-objective-truth that has not been discovered.
§ To
timothy: My name is Phil Beaver. You got to “Mr. Beavers” on your own.
My words and phrases are unusual, but they can be understood by
people who want to communicate, clarify and collaborate. You wrote about
another topic on your own.
I wrote “[Very] few citizens realize that the preamble to the
constitution is a civic contract that divides the people: civic citizens vs
dissidents to just human connections. Dissidence ranges from ignorance to
criminality to evil.” You leaped to veneration of ancestors or tradition and
utopianism on your own.
I wrote “Albert Einstein in 1941 pointed out that civic citizens
do not lie, because they want to communicate.” On your own you accuse me of
“social engineering” and “no compunction about the use of coercion.”
I have no problem that you recommend Christianity. Christianity
provides believers hope for the hereafter and is a means of avoiding the
responsibility to be a free human being—to push that opportunity onto their
church and their Bible.
I hope to motivate citizens,
including Christians, to nevertheless volunteer for civic peace during their
lifetimes. People who have no time for civic peace relegate themselves to the
class of dissidents respecting the preamble to the constitution for the USA and
mutual collaboration to benefit from the-objective-truth. On their own, people
who reject civic peace reject the responsible liberty human persons may
discover.
To timothy again: I appreciate the recognition of my name and cannot erase
the willful offenses.
My writing, it is indeed worrisome,
especially because it responds to Wallner's esteemed failures: to understand either the preamble or a civic
people's collaboration for benefits using the-objective-truth rather than
dominant opinion. That does not mean Wallner's thoughts were not useful---just
incomplete.
We the People of the United States,
in 2017, have the benefit of 229 years' both physical and psychological
discoveries since the USA was established by 2/3 of the people in nine states.
(People falsely claim July 4, 1776 as the USA's birthday.)
Our generation has the opportunity
because past generations did not accept it. Most persons in past generations
had not the courage to take responsibility for human freedom. Therefore, we
have no idea what human freedom is like.
I think that in human freedom, most
people collaborate for civic justice, and they develop statutory law that
constrains dissidents using justice rather than arbitrary opinion, such as
religion or none. The rule of statutory justice is what empowers happiness
according to personal preference rather than in subjugation to someone else's
dictates. In other words, the object is personal liberty with civic morality.
Further, it is not only the preamble's division of the people into civic
citizens vs dissidents, the development of statutory justice is key to the
USA's promise.
In a civic culture, every no-harm
religious belief flourishes.
I think the above summarizes what I
wrote earlier and is worth a reader’s time to comprehend then improve.
facebook.com/groups/CapitalAreaAtheists/permalink/1658613850827580/
Some people know that I write for civic peace in our
time. I posit that evolution of the species has discovered, in humankind, the
possibility for and responsibility for freedom.
A free body and a free mind comprise a free person.
Without discovery of evidence for or against an idea, a free person admits that
more ways of perceiving may lie in humankind's future: Perceptions may reverse.
Humility protects the free person from gullibility to
personal wisdom.
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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