January 20, 2018

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.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_20d0fc8c-fb0a-11e7-a9a0-cf3e2f882e73.html)

“Scott made his so-called recruitment mission into a clumsy piece of political theater, taking a gratuitous jab at Edwards for “continuously working to raise taxes instead of reaching a long-term solution for (his) state’s financial crisis.”

Gratuitous? That’s according to “Our Views.”

“Florida growth rate was fourth highest in the nation. Florida population grew by 367,525 people in 2016, to 20,612,439 million, the second largest gain in sheer numbers after Texas, according to new U.S. Census numbers.”

Perhaps Florida is making a bid to join the top ten states Louisiana’s best move to:  nola.com/business/index.ssf/2017/01/states_moving_to_leave_louisia.html .

I want Gov. Edwards to end the 1 cent sales tax he imposed on the people and not increase income or property taxes.

Good grief! The fed just past a tax act that takes corporate taxes from 35% to 21%. Louisiana can stop granting tax waivers to corporations and add $2 billion to the budget.

Does The Advocate have its intelligence in the sand?

To Shannon Chapman:

To resist the imposition of Christianity in civic meetings (a niggling practice according to the erroneous Greece v Galloway, 2014), I like to refer to their organizers and enforcers as Christian gestapo. The lower case "g" perhaps makes it a neologism. An “m” could be used for mafia.

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Mark 1:34 CJB), The Advocate, January 2, 2018, page 5B.

“He healed many who were ill with various diseases and expelled many demons, but he did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew who he was.”

Dean says, “Jesus still has the power to heal and deliver. He can work in your life, too.”

Mark tells us that God does not allow free expression: Demons can occupy a person but can’t speak. That’s mysterious. Then Dean says Jesus can work in your life, too, even though Jesus promises salvation in the afterdeath. Between Mark’s 2000 year-old mysterious and Dean’s opinions about them, I don’t care to spend time on the topic.

Letters

Social democracy (Michie) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_71e4e94a-fbf4-11e7-b5d5-2799e3e84da2.html)

Too many people are signing on to AMO groups instead of accepting the personal authority to collaborate for responsible freedom; in other words, mutual, comprehensive safety and security; in other words, public integrity; in other words, private liberty with civic morality; in other words, justice.

In a civic culture, or with civic justice, all responsible religious institutions, societies, and civilizations flourish, because they serve their believers. I am not a believer and therefore neither tolerate nor impose religious doctrine in civic collaboration. I trust and am committed to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered rather than constructed on assumption, passion, opinion, conflict, coercion, or force.

I do not know the-objective-truth about most facts, events, and actual reality but will not compromise what everybody knows---for example, civic people don’t lie so that they can talk and perhaps collaborate for justice.

Gaming flood insurance (Jacobsen) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_bfede216-fc5f-11e7-acb1-e7240067f906.html)

People of civic integrity don’t build on low ground; Was Jacobsen too cunning to say so?

Columns. (The fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)

  

Passion beyond integrity (Dana Milbank) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_be482e8a-fba1-11e7-a519-d7fc2be34b91.html)

I appreciate The Advocate (unusually) posting online the honestly compromised integrity by columnist Dana Milbank. Milbank builds references that point to Durbin questioning then Nielsen responding under oath: “I did not hear that word used. … I don't dispute that the president was using tough language."

Durbin’s condescension is recorded at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL-viaR6u1I. Nielsen responds (near 1:15), “. . . a lot of cross conversations . . . there was a lot of rough talk by a lot of people in the room.” She paints a picture whereby one person could use profanity and another person perceive or merely claim it came from the President. Such are the tactics of the social democrats, who ruin the Democrats’ chances, and some republicans who grandstand.
  

The people will not yield the American republic to social democracy.

  

Later (about 2:55), Nielsen responds about her Fox news commentary on profanity, “Profanity was used in the room by almost everyone.” 

Of course, there is a lot I do not know. In a world with free and irresponsible press, a civic citizen relies on common sense. In this column, it seems 1) the people cannot trust the collective Congresspersons, 2) Milbank “shreds [his] own integrity” and 3) The Advocate likes Milbank’s sacrifice. I oppose both Milbank's and The Advocate's support of social democracy.

   

Seeking his higher power (Rich Lowry) nationalreview.com/article/455478/donald-trump-shithole-countries-immigration-talks-controversy

Lowry has not discovered that his has the personal judgment by which to do the research and draw his opinion. He seems to be seeking a higher power that will fill his responsibilities.

Perhaps he will always be only a writer rather than a free and responsible journalist.

An AMO priest? (Tabitha Mustafa) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_f3063914-fbf1-11e7-bc4a-fbf7d2aff812.html

I like the prior comments.

This column expresses AMO leadership if not priesthood. The object is to use social democracy to overthrow the American republic---constitutional law.

Saul Alinsky asserted that violence is justified to assert his civil rights; youtube.com/watch?v=OsfxnaFaHWI. Several social factors conflated---especially victim theory and coalition of “oppressed” minorities in order to control votes for the Democratic party. Liberation theory emerged after the 1964-5 civic rights acts to produce Alinsky-Marxist organizations, AMO, that disrupt the civic order and tolerate impassioned violence. However, statutory justice does not grant AMO civil standing; therefore AMO recruits who cause harm suffer the law.

By studying documents issued from 1720 through 1791, rather than scholar’s books about the documents, and about 17^th-18^th century European writers, I formed the opinion that the American dream is private liberty with civic morality.

A 2/3 majority of 1787 delegates to Philadelphia signed the preamble, which offers the people a civic agreement. However, the First Congress, in 1789 confounded the preamble by re-establishing factional-Protestant legislative prayer to deify their offices at the expense of the people. See Chapter XI Machiavellianism; constitution.org/mac/prince11.htm . Many Americans have neglected the preamble’s civic agreement, and it is erroneously labeled secular when it is areligious.

  

After 230 years of neglect (since the USA was established on June 21, 1788), there is almost nobody around to assert the American dream: civic justice. Tabitha Mustafa is not to blame for expressing un-American opinions or influencing an un-American city council. Mostafa honestly uses AMO tactics to promote social democracy’s chaos rather than the American republic’s march toward statutory justice.

No foreign country, most of all England, understands the American dream:  Individuals accept his or her human authority to behave and to collaborate for responsible freedom. Also, to encourage, by example, dissidents to join and by statutory justice, to constrain harmful inhabitants. They include AMO affiliates such as Together Baton Rouge, OFA and apparently BDS; criminals; evils; and other aliens to justice.

Other Forums

quora.com/Is-there-ever-such-a-thing-as-complete-equality

The social democrats might say so. But they overlook the authority of the human individual to choose justice, a choice some persons reject with equal human power. (Some think crime pays.) Republican governance favors statutory justice rather than the chaos of infidelity.

There are two human aspects to address: the physical and the psychological. The human challenge is to develop individual psychology so as to enjoy chronological maturing according to personal preferences rather than submit to some arbitrary doctrine, such as theism, equality, government control, or dominant opinion. Only a handful of individuals achieve self-discovery, but a better future is possible. (Contrary to appearances, human understanding—the leading edge rather than the totality—-may be increasing, and acceleration of justice could become evident any day now.)

Physically, every ova is a single cell: an equality. However, some ova are either not viable for conception or do not have the potential for human, psychological survival and development. No one knows the statistics on ova viability. However, within the social cultures or civilizations that have emerged, few humans accept the humility to discover their person. Humility empowers both discovery and fidelity.

Some physical considerations about ova inequality are reviewed at 6 Surprising Facts About the Female Egg Everyone Should Know . For example, “[It] is now believed that the egg actually chooses [the spermatozoon] she lets in or not.”

Ova quality declines with the woman’s age. “As women wait longer to have children, more couples have fertility problems due to declining egg quality.” Age and Female Infertility, Fertility Tests of Egg Supply.

Some ova accept fertilization despite biological defects, but physics (or its progeny, biology) corrects itself. Many conceptions do not attach to the womb and pass out of the woman’s body, probably unnoticed. Of the embryo that attach, perhaps 1/3 gestate and survive birth. A small percentage die during the first 30 days after birth. The natural terminations of pregnancy may be thought of as spontaneous abortions. Less than 15% of abortions are for adult fun.

After the fact that all human ova are single cells, cell quality becomes a vast concern: Chances of physical equality are essentially nil. Psychological development lies in the unique journey of the individual newborn.

Turning to the psychological, each human being (whether receiving coaching toward humility and fidelity during the first three decades or not) has the potential to accept personal, human authority to behave and collaborate for responsible liberty. The consequence of majority success would be a culture wherein each human could responsibly pursue the happiness he or she perceives as his or her life unfolds. The consequence for each individual would derive from the cumulative choices and fates along each unique life’s journey. By fate, I mean both encounters with natural calamities like tornadoes as well as woe begged by infidelity. Equality cannot be expected.

Happy is the person who discovers and commits to fidelity to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. Benefiting from the-objective-truth is a life-time work, just as earning a living (with savings for the future) is a lifetime endeavor.

Unfortunately, most of the world’s cultures influence individuals to seek a higher power, usually a government or a God, to determine motivations and inspirations. Many adults have never even thought of accepting private authority for personal behavior. Many theists never consider that justice is hope for life and God is hope for the afterdeath. Consequently, while the world’s physical innovations are astounding, fidelity to the-objective-truth is regressing, at least in rate of practice, if not in comprehension. Humankind suffers chaos, while a small few collaborate for private liberty with civic morality. If most people accepted personal authority for civic morality, the number of dissidents to justice might lessen, by example.

In my response, I have tried to show that equality has two aspects: physics and psychology. The physics involves so many variables derived from a single cell that equality cannot be expected. In psychology, most people submit to a higher power, and thereby their human journey is confused. In other words, they have not accepted their human authority to collaborate for justice and are tortured by subjugation—-they suffer the internal conflict of the strong trying to conform to the weak. Consequently, the world seems regressing into chaos.

I write to encourage people to consider an achievable, better future and commit to it as soon as they accept the possibility of private happiness with civic peace rather than the chaos higher powers deliver. The key is humble fidelity to the-objective-truth rather than egocentricity or subjugation to a doctrine.

In the USA, civic integrity is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, which is offered as a personal, civic agreement. It divides inhabitants into two camps: civic citizens and dissidents.

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.