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.
“. . . we’re all bound by
the common promise and predicament of an unpredictable planet. Maybe if we took
that lesson to heart, our civic life right now wouldn’t be as unforgiving . . .
“
I like that statement and think most people in Baton Rouge agree.
Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 34:19 CJB), The Advocate,
January 2, 2018, page 5B.
“The
righteous person suffers many evils, but ADONAI rescues him out of them all.”
Dean says, “Hard times come to God’s people too. God is faithful
to help us in the time of need.”
Chileans gave the pope a hard time over priests abusing adults and
children. Does a righteous person exist?
I don’t think the people of Baton Rouge should have to suffer Dean’s honesty. The thoughts are online at highlandwestmonroe.org/index.php/news-and-articles/20-the-bible-digest-by-g-e-dean, and readers may request a daily email.
I don’t think the people of Baton Rouge should have to suffer Dean’s honesty. The thoughts are online at highlandwestmonroe.org/index.php/news-and-articles/20-the-bible-digest-by-g-e-dean, and readers may request a daily email.
It is easy to avoid evil and crime, but breaking bad habits is
sometimes hard to do.
Letters
Dreamers (Frankel & Kaplinsky) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_b643df0c-fc07-11e7-abad-d714fbb0ba3f.html)
I like the
prior comments and would like to respond to each one (but breakfast waits).
It occurred to
me that letters by civic activists would be more effective if the writers told
the whole story and made a more realistic appeal---an appeal to both political
parties.
As I understand
it, President Trump already ended DACA (being able to because it is illegal)
but gave Congress until March to create a better program. In addition, Congress
is working on an overhaul of immigration, with some good proposals: personal
merit-based entry instead of national quotas; aggressive pursuit of talent the
USA needs; termination of chain immigration; a wall at our southern border to
stop both the coyote business and Vatican philanthropic endeavors as well as
drug streams.
A civic people
of the United States expect the Democrats to be constructive even if Frankel
& Kaplinsky oppose collaboration. Their letter reads like demanding,
disruptive social democracy rather than the American republican rule of law.
Not competitive on education (Gillis) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_410774c6-fc0a-11e7-8921-639139e039a9.html)
The first
sentence is probably wrong, because humankind has learned so much in 50 years,
and Gillis did not define “worse off.”
However, the
rest of the letter ought to effect some changes in Louisiana education.
To start with,
I think students should be deliberately, gradually coached 1) to welcome their
inalienable, personal authority to develop responsible freedom and 2) to
comprehend, understand, and intend personal liberty so as to responsibly pursue
their dreams rather than someone else's plans for them.
So far, most children
are influenced to seek a higher power. Disillusioned adults end up trying to
avoid tyranny. However, a few adults admit to their person the authority for
personal behavior, whether public or private.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Divine government (Cal Thomas)
(townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2018/01/18/al-capone-lives-n2435788)
Coolidge said "no"
to new spending and to government programs that did not directly serve the
people and would not undermine personal initiative. Like President Trump, he
cut taxes significantly. [Coolidge] left office with a surplus.
If the government "shuts down" on Friday, it will not only be the Democrats' fault. Republicans must also share part of the blame for their past failures to inform the public about the dangers posed by big government and big spending, not only financially, but in robbing the nation and its people of their character.”
If the government "shuts down" on Friday, it will not only be the Democrats' fault. Republicans must also share part of the blame for their past failures to inform the public about the dangers posed by big government and big spending, not only financially, but in robbing the nation and its people of their character.”
As always, the principle fault lies with the people who seek
higher power rather than accepting human authority to establish private liberty
with civic morality---in other words, responsible freedom.
The preamble to the constitution
for the USA, ratified on June 21, 1788 by the people of nine states, is a civic
agreement that offers the opportunity for responsible freedom. However, the
first Congress, also representing the tenth state to join the USA, established
a priest-politician partnership in order to restore the Christian idea of
legislative deity.
When most people accept the
human authority to assure a personal living and to collaborate for civic
morality, the USA will establish an achievable, better future. There will
always be dissidents, and only statutory justice may constrain them.
American ideals (Michael Gerson)
(washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-has-revealed-who-he-is-now-its-our-turn/2018/01/15/158ca2a2-fa35-11e7-8f66-2df0b94bb98a_story.html?utm_term=.c704f18a9a66)
I retired from an excellent
company, and there was an unwritten rule:
If the boss was behaving unprofessionally, team up to support the
project and meanwhile appeal to him to reform.
What Gerson supports is a two
party system and social-democrat press that care nothing about the project:
Return (if not establish for the first time) power to the American people.
Most people can perceive the
implausibility of a moral team leaking a salacious comment, let alone blasting
it as Durbin did.
I don’t know but don’t think
President Trump made that statement: I do not like the statement one bit.
However, I dislike Durbin’s aggression and Gerson’s choice even more.
A civic people may end the two-party system in the USA. That would be good, as it would require a super-majority of the people to accept that each individual is in charge of civic morality.
Other forums
libertylawsite.org/2018/01/17/the-divide-between-jefferson-and-adams-on-human-nature-is-ours-too/
Jefferson accepted personal, human authority and therefore learned from both physical research and psychological discovery. He progressed from “sure knowledge” through "reason" to “truth” during seventeen years. He continued in retirement: founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0341. I doubt Adams and Jefferson were equally open to discovery, Adams being more interested in preserving/restoring the past.
In Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787, Jefferson wrote, “Patient pursuit of facts, and cautious combination and comparison of them, is the drudgery to which man is subjected by his Maker, if he wishes to attain sure knowledge.”
In 1791 he wrote, “I . . . hope that . . . our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason”; founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-19-02-0020.
The Terror occurred during thirteen months beginning June, 1793. Thomas Paine published “The Age of Reason” in 1794-5.
In 1804, Jefferson wrote, “No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth”; let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl164.php.
Perhaps Jefferson’s reason v truth was political. “Sure knowledge” seems as apolitical as “the-objective-truth,” which can only be discovered---does not respond to reason.
Other forums
libertylawsite.org/2018/01/17/the-divide-between-jefferson-and-adams-on-human-nature-is-ours-too/
Jefferson accepted personal, human authority and therefore learned from both physical research and psychological discovery. He progressed from “sure knowledge” through "reason" to “truth” during seventeen years. He continued in retirement: founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0341. I doubt Adams and Jefferson were equally open to discovery, Adams being more interested in preserving/restoring the past.
In Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787, Jefferson wrote, “Patient pursuit of facts, and cautious combination and comparison of them, is the drudgery to which man is subjected by his Maker, if he wishes to attain sure knowledge.”
In 1791 he wrote, “I . . . hope that . . . our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason”; founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-19-02-0020.
The Terror occurred during thirteen months beginning June, 1793. Thomas Paine published “The Age of Reason” in 1794-5.
In 1804, Jefferson wrote, “No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth”; let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl164.php.
Perhaps Jefferson’s reason v truth was political. “Sure knowledge” seems as apolitical as “the-objective-truth,” which can only be discovered---does not respond to reason.
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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