Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth,
which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.
"Civic"
refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom 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 to us by the USA. I am willing
to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet may settle on and
would always preserve the original text.
Readers may celebrate The
Advocate’s creative, civic column for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 2018.
“Civic resolve” happily propels the MLK-Jr-dream beyond controversial “civil rights.” Does a human being have the right, for example, to know his or her genealogical heritage, or to know math, or to discover his or her preferences for responsible living (in other words, preferred happiness)?
The human being is so powerful, both physically and psychologically, that it takes three decades, with best coaching, for one to acquire the understanding and intent to continually learn so as to live a full human lifetime. Consider other species. For example, the fold walks soon after delivery, but it takes a baby a year to walk.
For other people or institutions to attempt to civilize or socialize a human being is an imposition on his or her individual, personal energy. Each person has the potential ability and authority to advance civilization, need not suffer repression by the past, and by all means may resist injustice even when erroneous force prevails. A responsibly free person may live at the leading edge of civic morality.
In civic justice---in a civic culture---most human persons accept the authority to spend his or her lifetime to develop personal, responsible freedom, by collaborating for mutual, comprehensive safety and security. The human equalizer is the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. For example, the earth is like a globe and civic people do not lie so they can communicate.
Humility toward the-objective-truth is required in order for a person to develop fidelity. But the human being is endowed with the potential to choose egocentricity---to be dissident, arrogant, criminal, evil, or worse toward the-objective-truth and civic morality. We know more than ever before that some people think crime pays. Some in institutions, such as, in political parties and in the media, think both “leaking” and lying pay.
Civic citizens collaborate for mutual, comprehensive safety and security always and everywhere; in the city and in the woods; in church and on the street; in the courthouse and at home; in public and in private; in identity and in anonymity. In a civic culture, most human persons behave so as to inspire psychological dissidents to reform and to constrain or eliminate physical dissidents.
We hope 2018 marks the year when civil rights becomes an obsolete goal, because most citizens are responsibly pursuing self-discovery while collaborating for statutory justice. In other words, using written law and companion law enforcement that conforms to the-objective-truth---which can only be discovered---rather than competing for dominant civil opinion. We hope 2018 is the year civic resolve becomes collaboration by most citizens.
The American republic may offer the world’s best opportunity for a human person to live at the leading edge of civic morality. The American republic was established on June 21, 1788, by people in nine states, who understood, by experience, freedom-from oppression with liberty-to responsibly pursue personal happiness rather than the dictates of another person or institution. They had civic resolve.
Civic people declared the authority to rebel against the king and his religion, who oppressed them. Then, they learned in four years that they could not depend on either free-and-independent states or religion. They authorized and limited the USA, offering a voluntary civic agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, hoping the other four states would join. On that 1788 agreement, inhabitants divide themselves into two camps: civic authorities and dissidents, for whatever reasons. The right to rebel, as against the monarchy, does not exist when the authority rests with a civic people, as it does in the American republic. The Civil War provides evidence that in America, civic justice comes from the people (see Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address).
No one, least of all Phil Beaver, imposed the opportunity that is offered by the preamble. Each inhabitant of the USA voluntarily behaves for civic justice or not, based on his or her personal authority. The people wait patiently for each human citizen to accept his or her personal authority for civic resolve.
“Civic resolve” happily propels the MLK-Jr-dream beyond controversial “civil rights.” Does a human being have the right, for example, to know his or her genealogical heritage, or to know math, or to discover his or her preferences for responsible living (in other words, preferred happiness)?
The human being is so powerful, both physically and psychologically, that it takes three decades, with best coaching, for one to acquire the understanding and intent to continually learn so as to live a full human lifetime. Consider other species. For example, the fold walks soon after delivery, but it takes a baby a year to walk.
For other people or institutions to attempt to civilize or socialize a human being is an imposition on his or her individual, personal energy. Each person has the potential ability and authority to advance civilization, need not suffer repression by the past, and by all means may resist injustice even when erroneous force prevails. A responsibly free person may live at the leading edge of civic morality.
In civic justice---in a civic culture---most human persons accept the authority to spend his or her lifetime to develop personal, responsible freedom, by collaborating for mutual, comprehensive safety and security. The human equalizer is the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. For example, the earth is like a globe and civic people do not lie so they can communicate.
Humility toward the-objective-truth is required in order for a person to develop fidelity. But the human being is endowed with the potential to choose egocentricity---to be dissident, arrogant, criminal, evil, or worse toward the-objective-truth and civic morality. We know more than ever before that some people think crime pays. Some in institutions, such as, in political parties and in the media, think both “leaking” and lying pay.
Civic citizens collaborate for mutual, comprehensive safety and security always and everywhere; in the city and in the woods; in church and on the street; in the courthouse and at home; in public and in private; in identity and in anonymity. In a civic culture, most human persons behave so as to inspire psychological dissidents to reform and to constrain or eliminate physical dissidents.
We hope 2018 marks the year when civil rights becomes an obsolete goal, because most citizens are responsibly pursuing self-discovery while collaborating for statutory justice. In other words, using written law and companion law enforcement that conforms to the-objective-truth---which can only be discovered---rather than competing for dominant civil opinion. We hope 2018 is the year civic resolve becomes collaboration by most citizens.
The American republic may offer the world’s best opportunity for a human person to live at the leading edge of civic morality. The American republic was established on June 21, 1788, by people in nine states, who understood, by experience, freedom-from oppression with liberty-to responsibly pursue personal happiness rather than the dictates of another person or institution. They had civic resolve.
Civic people declared the authority to rebel against the king and his religion, who oppressed them. Then, they learned in four years that they could not depend on either free-and-independent states or religion. They authorized and limited the USA, offering a voluntary civic agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, hoping the other four states would join. On that 1788 agreement, inhabitants divide themselves into two camps: civic authorities and dissidents, for whatever reasons. The right to rebel, as against the monarchy, does not exist when the authority rests with a civic people, as it does in the American republic. The Civil War provides evidence that in America, civic justice comes from the people (see Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address).
No one, least of all Phil Beaver, imposed the opportunity that is offered by the preamble. Each inhabitant of the USA voluntarily behaves for civic justice or not, based on his or her personal authority. The people wait patiently for each human citizen to accept his or her personal authority for civic resolve.
Further to my post on
theadvocate.com, I researched the phrase “civic resolve.”
facebook.com/FreeRangePotential
seems positive and developing.
resolvearchitecture.com/civic---educational.html
offers architecture “to improve the built environment and the human
condition.”
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1017/S146604660303566X
proposes civic resolution of environmental worries
The phrase search yields many
google books, such as, books.google.com/books?id=5NjECgAAQBAJ&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq="civic+resolve"&source=bl&ots=Ju7Omehhe0&sig=6ib6K3YUiW05FbK-XUEcxsw28nw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3sMKi39rYAhVeF2MKHbJTCf8Q6AEIMTAC#v=onepage&q=%22civic%20resolve%22&f=false
about Liberia.
Google’s Ngram Viewer at the year
2000 shows relative usage for justice, morality, justice, and resolve, respectively
to modify “civic” at 200, 60, and 3.
It seems to me The Advocate’s use
of the phrase today is indeed innovative, and I congratulate them, hoping that
does not seem too bold.
Our Views Jan 14 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_725bd794-f708-11e7-ad05-f70e5acfe73a.html)
To GM King: Here's the pertinent line from
the article: "these are needed despite the long-term borrowing costs,
which will sap federal aid that would otherwise go to highways over the next 12
years."
This folly has
three potentials to pick the people's pockets on Gov. Edwards’ fiscal tyranny.
How much federal aid would otherwise accrue in 12 years? What will interest
rates be during the life of the loans? How much will the $600 million estimates
balloon during the projects? Whose pockets are being filled by Edwards' tyranny
over the people of Louisiana? No one can predict the future, so I wonder what
the cost of tyranny will be.
BTW, it seems
evident to me an LSU professor ought to accept his (or her) authority to read
rather than self-delude so as to whine to a civic subscriber to The Advocate. (You
are invited to pay part of my bill for the privilege of reading my opinions,
but I cannot be coerced and do not accept ultimatums.)
Of course, you
are responsible for your authority, whether you accept your responsibility for
freedom or not. Publicizing personal folly is a choice I would not make; work
for an achievable, better civic future is another matter.
Today’s thought, G.E.
Dean (Matthew 28:19 CJB), The Advocate, January 15, 2018, page 5B.
“Therefore, go and make people from all
nations into talmidim, immersing them into the reality of the Father, the Son
and the Ruach HaKodesh.”
Dean says, “This is God’s assignment
for all who follow Jesus. Share the good news.”
Having been there, done that for
five decades, I overcame the “personal wisdom” imposed by Matthew, Dean, and
Mom and Dad.
By experience, I came to understand
the psychological violence in accepting a fellow-citizen’s will to talk only to
inquire, “Neighbor, have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior?” I beg
forgiveness by all the people who faced that question from me and have
reformed. My trust and commitment is placed in the-objective-truth, which can
only be discovered.
That means that I do not know what
I do not know. Thus, in my afterdeath I may meet Jesus. I am prepared but will
not share my plan: Each person owns their human authority, whether they accept
it or not.
Letters
Parental/student
personal authority for responsible freedom (Toranto) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_49ea472a-f701-11e7-9e52-eb056380b053.html)
I appreciate Toranto for writing this
effective letter and The Advocate for publishing it.
The parental/student agreement may be read at einsteincharter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Einstein-Charter-Parent-Student-Handbook-15-16-Elementary.pdf.
Louisiana is privileged to offer the school and could copy some of the ideas
for all state-sponsored schools.
Also, some elements of the agreement
could be added to my proposal for procreation licensing, which may have seemed
delusional before today: The Advocate positively introduced the phrase “civic
resolve.”
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Obsolete moment? (Melinda Deslatte)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_bb87bd7c-f7b5-11e7-8a69-9b481712fc8f.html)
Edwards began
his threats with the idea of ending LSU football. By now, he seems such a disdainful
tyrant. His threats seem empty.
I wonder when
Louisiana writers will start thinking about the impact of the federal tax cut.
Do they have no allegiance to the-objective-truth and no fear of the evidence
of their refusal to admit it exists?
Treason? (Richard Cohen)
washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-michael-wolffs-book-made-me-think-about-hitlers-ascent/2018/01/08/6704cd3e-f4aa-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html?utm_term=.9dc044c3bf18
I have read Cohen this year with
utter disdain. However, this column persuades me that he suffers a treasonous
heart.
The German people, as I understand
it, believed they were a superior race. A civic people of the United States
have no such sentiment. Donald R. Trump has no such sentiment.
President Trump behaves as thought
the preamble to the constitution for the USA is for every citizen who accepts
the personal authority to collaborate to achieve its goals and to either influence
dissidents to reform or, when a dissident is found guilty of harm, to constrain
them---criminals, evils, and monsters. Cohen knows his regard for the agreement
that is stated in the preamble; Trump has his way of confronting liars.
Phil Beaver does not “know” the actual-reality. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth
which can only be discovered. 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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