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.
In reporting
blatant abuse of judicial authority, The Advocate is writing and publishing for
a civic people: people who accept human
authority. Thank you, employees of The Advocate. A civic people will act on the
report.
Routine
judicial abuse makes it unsettling to even live in Louisiana. And it grounds
the frustration the first responders to crime feel in this state: policemen,
investigators, and DA’s cannot trust judges with first-responders’
accomplishments! Not only that, investigators and DA’s cannot be confident in
the consequences of their hard work:
Judges recycle criminals to the streets!
Today’s
front page article by Lea Skene on witness intimidation seems a companion issue.
One victim, personally comforted by possible higher judgment, nevertheless said,
“It . . . bothers me that (multiple) women have been murdered [to prevent them
from witnessing about the murder of] my son.” For a case like that, Thomas Winn’s
idea “keep [accused] murderers [who
threaten witnesses] in jail till trial” ought to be considered.
Both first responders and the
court system work for a civic people. By civic people I mean people who daily collaborate
to establish civic justice. Their enemies are the dissidents to justice: people who think government owes people a
living, people who think crime pays, and people who chose evil. A key to a
civic culture is a judicial system that is itself civic rather than arbitrary, criminal,
or sinister.
Our culture inculcates in us the
belief that the human being is naturally evil and must have a higher power in
order to behave with fidelity. It’s a ruinous, false teaching. There’s a reason
it takes three fortunate or well-coached decades for a human to transition from
feral infant to young adult with understanding and intent to live a full life. The
reason: The human individual has the
physical and psychological power to accept authority for his or her person’s
behavior. No other living species has this complex authority.
Human, personal authority may be obfuscated by inculcation
of the higher-power theory, but the resulting psychological conflict tortures
the vast majority of humans. Alcohol, drugs, power, and abuse assuage the
misery of life. Influenced by civilization and socialization, they never acknowledge
the human, private authority for fidelity and study how to use it in self-interest.
I shared this post with my state legislative representatives
as a request for relief from vigilantism in the court system. Once again,
thanks to The Advocate people for the report and related opinion.
Today’s thought, G.E.
Dean (Matthew 27:54 CJB), The Advocate, January 8, 2018, page 5B.
“When the Roman officer and those with
him who were keeping watch over Yeshua saw the earthquake and what was
happening, they were awestruck and said, “He really was a son of God.”
Dean says, “Have you made the
glorious discovery that Jesus is the Son of God? I have and it is truly life
saving.”
Who can refute so many mysteries? A
reader may accept that Dean’s life is saved from something.
News Articles
Witness intimidation (Lea Skene)
theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_93a29b58-e390-11e7-89dc-279cae0feb5e.html
Two
opportunities: short term, reform the judicial system, which harms statutory,
first-response law enforcement---from police to DA’s. Long term, but start
right away, separate spiritualism from civic justice. (That includes reforming
legislative prayer, which in 1789 was intended to erroneously deify
legislators---in other words, make them seem chosen by God.)
Broadly consider Skene’s statement, “people are unsure whether the criminal justice system will ultimately keep them safe.”
Humankind has enough evidence to know that spiritualism is an insufficient substitute for the human personal authority to develop beneficial, private behavior. For example, the hope for life in the afterdeath is too mysterious to adequately motivate an individual to develop a full, successful life.
It is futile to try to analyze 4200 religions (google), so I just want to express an opinion: The human individual is the entity among all life that has the potential power, both physical and psychological, to use his or her energy to enhance his or her life. However, our cultures try to civilize and socialize individuals to think that they need a higher power: God, fate, a personal god, a government, a doctrine, a cause, a religion, a family, the community, a force, many coercions, a free market, money, sex, alcohol, drugs, power; on and on. None of these entities can usurp a human being’s authority to behave according to his or her preference.
Each individual has the authority to manage his or her energy, and nothing can usurp that authority, because the human being is endowed with personal psychological power. On this fact, people choose various life journeys to happiness’s as they see it, some to success, some to ruin, some to whatever mystery the government promised, but each to his own choices. Some discover or are coached to fidelity and some follow chaos to ruin.
Many books are written to help people help themselves to fidelity. Many speak of truth. However, I have not found the book that points to fidelity to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. For example, by discovery we know the earth is not flat. By experience, we know that civic people do not lie to each other, because they want to communicate (Albert Einstein, 1941). On the other hand, we know from experience that we lie to ourselves. We thereby express to fellow-humans that we have subjugated our private, human authority. The pain and misery on their faces expresses commonality of sentiment: everyone wants to receive fidelity. Let me restate: Every person wants appreciation that is expressed by fidelity to the-objective-truth.
No one has grounds to doubt that their personal god will reward them in the afterdeath. And no one has reason to doubt a person’s view of their own afterdeath. For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s view in “Divinity School Address,” or Michael Polanyi’s in “Personal Knowledge,” or Benjamin Franklin’s octogenarian view that he’d know soon enough, or, on the negative side, perhaps Saul Alinsky’s joke about organizing Hell. The afterdeath has nothing to do with fidelity for civic justice.
However, most people may learn or may be coached (it cannot be taught) that, as humans, each individual has the authority for their behavior, and while by unlawful behavior they may subjugate themselves to statutory law, they cannot abrogate civic morality to a higher power.
In personal behavior, there is no higher power than the human individual, each one of whom faces death.
To state it as a theology, the human being is a god facing death. By fidelity to the-objective-truth he or she may extend life and by infidelity he or she may invite death.
Broadly consider Skene’s statement, “people are unsure whether the criminal justice system will ultimately keep them safe.”
Humankind has enough evidence to know that spiritualism is an insufficient substitute for the human personal authority to develop beneficial, private behavior. For example, the hope for life in the afterdeath is too mysterious to adequately motivate an individual to develop a full, successful life.
It is futile to try to analyze 4200 religions (google), so I just want to express an opinion: The human individual is the entity among all life that has the potential power, both physical and psychological, to use his or her energy to enhance his or her life. However, our cultures try to civilize and socialize individuals to think that they need a higher power: God, fate, a personal god, a government, a doctrine, a cause, a religion, a family, the community, a force, many coercions, a free market, money, sex, alcohol, drugs, power; on and on. None of these entities can usurp a human being’s authority to behave according to his or her preference.
Each individual has the authority to manage his or her energy, and nothing can usurp that authority, because the human being is endowed with personal psychological power. On this fact, people choose various life journeys to happiness’s as they see it, some to success, some to ruin, some to whatever mystery the government promised, but each to his own choices. Some discover or are coached to fidelity and some follow chaos to ruin.
Many books are written to help people help themselves to fidelity. Many speak of truth. However, I have not found the book that points to fidelity to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. For example, by discovery we know the earth is not flat. By experience, we know that civic people do not lie to each other, because they want to communicate (Albert Einstein, 1941). On the other hand, we know from experience that we lie to ourselves. We thereby express to fellow-humans that we have subjugated our private, human authority. The pain and misery on their faces expresses commonality of sentiment: everyone wants to receive fidelity. Let me restate: Every person wants appreciation that is expressed by fidelity to the-objective-truth.
No one has grounds to doubt that their personal god will reward them in the afterdeath. And no one has reason to doubt a person’s view of their own afterdeath. For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s view in “Divinity School Address,” or Michael Polanyi’s in “Personal Knowledge,” or Benjamin Franklin’s octogenarian view that he’d know soon enough, or, on the negative side, perhaps Saul Alinsky’s joke about organizing Hell. The afterdeath has nothing to do with fidelity for civic justice.
However, most people may learn or may be coached (it cannot be taught) that, as humans, each individual has the authority for their behavior, and while by unlawful behavior they may subjugate themselves to statutory law, they cannot abrogate civic morality to a higher power.
In personal behavior, there is no higher power than the human individual, each one of whom faces death.
To state it as a theology, the human being is a god facing death. By fidelity to the-objective-truth he or she may extend life and by infidelity he or she may invite death.
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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