The American dream so far wasted on competitive theism

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_0cc0b63a-efe1-11e7-b4d1-eb0514678a7b.html)

Springing from this threatening cold, The Advocate expresses: “how much we need each other.”

To put it another way, so far, or, as of 2018, humankind learned that of all the species, only the human individual has the authority to collaborate for justice in each of his or her public and private connections, direct and indirect. The individual possesses both the physical ability and the psychological power to control his or her energy for justice.

Contrary to Mayor Broome’s arrogance (article, Page 1A), neither church, nor dialogues on racialism, nor governments can usurp the individual who accepts the human authority to live on the leading edge of civic morality: civic justice.

When nature threatens the individual, the first duty is to take care of self. The second is to consider other people; share your concerns and actions; for those who can’t help themselves, provide the help.

I have always learned from fidelity to family and friends, especially by learning their favorite pursuits and trying to support the benefits or lessen the misery and loss. For example, my music collection consists of the other people’s favorites I like. Fidelity became more essential when I met MWW, who never doubts either my humanity or hers.

Sharing increased many-fold when I started EBRP library meetings. We promote use of the preamble to the constitution for the USA rather than vainly claiming “we, the people.” Steve Crump recommended the library. Reginald Farlow, Mary Stein and staff fantastically help.

A person can’t be everywhere, but the experience multiplied again, when I joined Lorraine Davidson’s Gumbo Book review club. In many ways we seem opposites. For example, I trust and am committed to what can be discovered (which may or may not include Jesus during the afterdeath: there may be only dust). But Lorraine, Wernel Mack, others and I seem to share intent to open our lives to an achievable, better civic future.

Another opportunity exists in The Advocate online comments. Fred Bear invited me to read “God is Red,” by Vine Deloria, Jr. A few books later, I’m reading “Native Roots,” by Jack Weatherford. JT McQuitty constantly refers readers to essential articles for civic understanding. Ed Smith recommended (to me) Michael Polanyi’s “Personal Knowledge.” Polanyi and I also seem opposites. Often, I learn from online posters who invite me to drop dead or constitutional law professors who stonewall the idea of civic justice based on what may be discovered.

Here’s what I feel I have learned. Willing people of the USA may 1) reset to June 21, 1788, when nine of thirteen state conventions ratified the constitution, establishing the USA and hoping the people of the other four states would join, and 2) apply what has been made evident as of 2018. For example, civic people don’t lie to each other. Most people use public integrity to address actual-reality, even though few would articulate the practice. (Albert Einstein observed that willing humans do not lie to each other so they may communicate.)

By explicitly resetting to the civic agreement that is stated in the preamble, 2018 can be an era changer---a redirection after 229 years of wandering in American theism rather than accepting human authority for personal, responsible liberty---perhaps the neglected American promise that perhaps is now being tacitly addressed.
  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 33:8-10 CJB), The Advocate, January 2, 2018, page 5B.

“Let all the earth fear Adonai! Let all living in the world stand in awe of him. For he spoke, and there it was; he commanded, and there it stood.  Adonai brings to nothing the plans of nations, he foils the plans of the peoples.” (Same as yesterday.)

Dean says, “God wins!”

David speaks of fear and awe. Dean converts fear to the sacrifice of people in a mysterious contest with God. I think Dean suffers. I hope others do not share the misery and loss.

The Advocate seems to express press-freedom from woe. Maybe they think by publishing Dean they are inviting readers to reject Dean’s partnership with blasphemy. I encourage The Advocate to reform---at least publish something actually real to counter Dean’s fantasies.

Letters

Liberal-democracy vs rule of statutory law (Arcement) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_f395db5a-efe9-11e7-971a-5739228c7a9c.html)

I think Arcement underestimates the liberal-democrat’s honest, barbaric intent by citing a staged, emotional excuse:  hysteria. I experience nothing but wicked cunning in my exposure to liberal democrats. Their favorite tactic is relentless, off-topic ridicule to disguise stonewalling.

The liberal democrats, seemingly including the majority of individuals employed by The Advocate (that’s right: The Advocate is people, who perceive freedom of the press but some express no responsibility), think the future belongs to the people who want constructed chaos rather than conformity to actual reality. They sincerely want to replace American republicanism with liberal democracy; socialism; communism; in other words, other nation’s ideas for Americans. Satisfaction-seeking adults barbarically turn children into victims.

  

Humankind has shown that the human being, above the weaknesses of all the other species, has the physical and psychological power to push the envelope of discovery: to fly not like birds but using aerodynamics and propulsion. Imaginations like the time machine and gods have not been discovered. However, during the past seven decades, adults have been whetting appetites unto moral regression.

The envelope of civic morality is constrained by the same physics that constrains space travel. For example, the lie that an individual has the skills to run red lights is disproved each time vehicles consequentially collide. In another example, a person claims the knowledge, awareness, and preference for promiscuity rather than fidelity but encounters imposed pregnancy or STD. Again, humans know that gestating adults taking mind-changing drugs harm fetuses yet some adults abuse their progeny.

The actual reality is that fidelity is better than liberal-democratic chaos. Just as each citizen needs to work for their food in order to be free, citizens need to collaborate for statutory justice. That is, laws with enforcement that is based on discovered reality rather than dominant opinion. In other words, based on the-discovered-objective-truth or the indisputable reality rather than intellectual constructs. The human individual is so physically and psychologically powerful that he or she will circumvent arbitrary opinion. In other words, even criminal individuals are too powerful to subjugate to nonsense.

Note also that people who earn their food and collaborate for civic morality do not fall for the errant adult ploy “I nourished some bad habits while I was young and therefore have this list of problems. Please contribute to my non-profit for my relief.” Nevertheless, civic people do all they can to help individuals who cannot help themselves.

The human individual has the physical and psychological power to take authority for his or her energy for living in responsible freedom. On this principle, the people are entering a step change in achievable, better future. Fidelity is so beneficial it offers its own rewards. This message is reaching children and adults, some by the consequences of personal error. Fortunate is the person who, by innocence or by coaching, embraces the authenticity of fidelity to the-objective-truth yet responsibly pursues personal happiness rather than the dictates of a municipality, a religion, or a doctrine, for example, liberal democracy rather than statutory justice.

Energy vs gambling (Browder) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_137bbe88-e687-11e7-9802-176d26d1df88.html)

President Trump is acting for the people's responsible freedom.

Political engineering is ruinous. President Obama blew $0.535 million on Solyndra then went on to spend $90,000 million on “green jobs.” See washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/10/04/a-closer-look-at-obamas-90-billion-for-clean-energy/?utm_term=.8d65ccf09cfc and cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/despite-39b-annual-govt-subsidies-solar-produced-05-electricity.

Government proposes to game speculation on the future. Often, politicians employ falsehoods to promote a foreign idea, e.g., Brazil’s expensive ethanol for fuel. What the people need is practical energy to support discovery of economically viable methods for the future. To put it another way, it makes no sense to bet now on what may survive the viability competition. The winning method may not even be known. Gambling is a bad practice.

Also, in Louisiana, the people are too smart to equate state revenues from "gaming" with revenues from natural resources. Everyone knows that mining natural resources and charging some $ 500 million in state taxes does not equate with gambling’s $ 900 million taxes on picking the people’s pockets of over $ 4,000 million. The losses cause misery and pain in many extensive families.

Just as the federal administration has acted for the people in curtailing both bets on green energy futures and speculations on viable control of the earth’s temperature, Gov. John Bel Edwards needs to curtail Louisiana’s gambling industries for an achievable, better future for the people. The state ought not be making 22 cents on a dollar of human misery.

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

  

Trump entrapped the DNC (Rich Lowry) (politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/20/nancy-pelosis-tax-apocalypse-216155)

At last, Lowry shares a point of interest. With corporate tax cut permanent and middle-class tax cut reviewable, the DNC stubbornly entrapped themselves. Perhaps it was President Trump’s idea, and that is why the GOP praised him so profusely.

The DNC now realizes, “[We could have collaborated.] If 10 years from now, Democrats for some reason don’t agree . . . to extend the middle-class tax cut . . . it will be shame on.”

Fact is, the DNC has nothing but shame in 2018. Primarily shame for nominating bad candidates for office---candidates intending to build the party rather than serve the civic people, as defined in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

Spending (Dan Fagan) theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/dan_fagan/article_0a3489a4-efe2-11e7-8321-3bf074380c37.html

I think Fagan erred to neglect the latest Angola Prison scandals and call on Gov. John Bel Edwards to resign for administrative failure. See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_ae157b84-2475-11e7-aaab-2fffe40c0bf4.html , August, 2017.

Also, federal money intended for 2016 flood victims is still held by Edwards. (Give the state relief from Edwards.)

Actual reality does not occur to the writer (Michael Gerson) washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-tonya-and-you-too/2018/01/01/6a1be488-eccd-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html?utm_term=.e49a3513dba9

It seems to me that by not inventing a definitive phrase like the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered, Gerson contradicts himself.

In the first place, “tabloid television” is the actual reality and always was. That’s a natural result of 227 years with a free press that has no pressure for responsibility. In other words, the First Amendment needs revision to “a free and responsible press.”

Haste is the media’s bread and butter, and correcting error is not part of the business plan. The anonymous source who did not have authority to speak is the mainstay of media hubris. Indeed, “There is no such thing as truth.” However, the press is subject to the-objective-truth every time it is discovered.

As for the Harding story, every human has the physical and psychological power to behave in moral justice in every transaction. Once a person realizes that, he or she accepts the human authority to collaborate for personal liberty with civic morality.

When the screen-player blames the people, she represents the movie-script. It’s an opinion created by a writer. I doubt Kerrigan agrees.

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.