February 10, 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.   

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Mark 7:21-22 CJB), The Advocate, February 10, 2018, 5B.

" For from within, out of a person’s heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, foolishness.”

Dean says, “This is not a pretty picture, but it is an accurate picture. We all need God’s forgiveness.”

Dean ignores the allegory of temptation in the Garden of Eden. Before the bite on the apple there was purity. The embryo in the mom’s womb and the newborn infant were not guilty of Mark’s list. Also, Dean ignores Plato’s allegory of the cave, wherein all the people are fooled by images, but any one may escape to enlightenment by choosing to develop the human authority over personal energy. See faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm .

The newborn is a person, and some persons discover (or are coached but cannot be taught) to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth. Of the persons so aware and intending, some discover this discipline: in every thought, every word, every act, first do not harm.

The Advocate is a more powerful person than I am. Shame on them for not accepting their human authority to first do no harm. I commend The Advocate to stop publishing Dean’s ideas intended to separate humans from their personal authority to develop fidelity to actual reality rather than mysteries and superstitions. If not, publish something in defense of civic morality or human morality rather than subjugation to a dominant opinion such as American Christianity.

 

The Advocate can use its influence to help establish collaboration for private liberty with civic morality, an achievable, better future in Baton Rouge.

Letters

A biased view from within (Anderson) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_8b1ded7e-0dc1-11e8-9458-c39d362fb158.html)

I’ve been a Baton Rouge citizen for over five decades and am grateful for my experiences at LSU---every one of them. However, I do not support spending another dime as the administration is and with a board of supervisors who cannot face the actual realities.

Why didn’t Anderson praise President F. King Alexander’s symposium to exacerbate Baton Rouge’s controversies of Obama’s last summer in office? See lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2016/09/26momenetormovement.eb.php. I imagine events I recall, like Don Lemon speaking of “slip-it-in” and ladies down front-right giggling. See urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slip%20it%20in. I wonder if the LPB video would correct my recollection. Goodness knows I was not prepared for that. Alexander’s show made me feel like an alien on the campus that should serve Louisiana residents. (I’m one.) I can hear him in my mind, “Phil, I’m sorry you feel that way.” I sorry I suffered Alexander’s representative, Don Lemon.

As far as I can tell, many LSU professors favor competition on racism instead of collaboration for republicanism, social morality instead of civic morality, protecting illegal immigrants instead of promoting the American dream, cashing checks instead of developing discipline, liberation Marxism instead of responsible freedom, adolescent satisfactions instead of fidelity to understanding, white-tower isolation rather than civic collaboration, honesty instead of integrity, cosmopolitanism rather than mutual comprehensive safety and security in this land.

I think LSU should ask itself, as a person, “Am I collaborating for private liberty with civic morality?” If, in integrity, the answer is, “I don’t think so,” then reform before asking to tax the people for LSU’s benefit.

Selective facts (Sternberg) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_f16f51dc-0cf7-11e8-85b6-138b80e8d801.html)

I agree. However, civilly discouraging unplanned and unwanted pregnancies can be approached through procreation licensing instead of publically funded abortion. I’m sincere. It’s barbaric for a people not, through licensing, to protect newborn persons from neglect and abuse. This is not a class issue---it crosses all levels of family income and wealth.

Also, all schools may teach children that procreation is possible when chronological adulthood has not been attained. Therefore, there should be no sexual activity when planning for a child has not occurred. And a girl should be appreciated as a potential crowd---a person with the potential to produce some 400 viable ova. And a boy should be appreciated as a potential man---one who would not dream of threatening a woman with pregnancy or her viable ova with conception, unless the couple is committed to care for the embryo, child, and adult progeny. That’s the education schools ought to offer. It’s part of fidelity to the-objective-truth.

Also, the cartoon obfuscates the embryo to be born for abuse and neglect---born to live a life without appreciation as a person, let alone development so as to warrant respect, and to stop the misery:  being unloved.

Stay with Trump-Pence for now (Amador) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_8a54b7ea-0d00-11e8-b511-f7a9f0e4b00d.html)

Good vote. You can thank me for voting for Trump-Pence against Cruz and the rest of the lame GOP candidates, so that you would get your chance to vote for Trump. I'm staying with Trump-Pence, but want an end to the imposition of Christianity on the people of the USA.

That seemed OK to 1790's 99% factional Protestants among 5% voters among the free citizens (80% of inhabitants), but its far from OK with 14% traditional factional Protestants and 100% of non-felons voting.

Let believers who do no harm collaborate for private liberty with civic morality; in other words, 100% of no-harm religions flourish. However, stop people from partnering with the Vatican, with factional Catholics, with factional Protestants, with factional Jews, with factional Muslims, with factional liberation theologists and Marxists, with social democrats, with socialists, with communists, with cosmopolitans, with AMO, with OFA, on and on. Cooperation and subjugation are insufficient: peaceful people need collaboration.

Let citizens collaborate for statutory justice---written law and written law enforcement that continually advances appreciation for the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion. Let the common good be mutual, comprehensive safety and security so that people may pursue the happiness they perceive rather than someone else's dictates for them. Also, so that dissidents may know why their harm invited constraint---may know it is not a matter of dominant opinion, such as American Christianity.

Columns

Thanks, but too forgiving toward James Comey (Bryon York) (washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-republicans-and-those-attacks-on-the-fbi/article/2648199)

What about James Comey? Should he be in jail for originating a leak. Or for usurping the authority of the US Attorney General, even if under her orders to do so? Or for not prosecuting Secretary Clinton?

Other forums

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[About the photos,] I cannot share my life without including MWW: my wonderful wife. To me, she is somewhat depicted by Jane in Charlotte Brontë's, Jane Eyre, 1847.

On further thought about the jewel derived so far in our collaboration, this morning I'm thinking: It's human to err and civic to admit to your person that you erred and that you will not let it happen again. Thus, "human morality" and "civic morality" are near synonyms, but explanation is required. Regardless, they are not synonymous with any of social morality, civil morality, religious morality, democracy, solidarity, tolerance, empathy, and other coercion/force empowered ideals. I'm still looking to improve for widespread, instant understanding the phrase "civic morality" and doubt "human morality" is sufficient.

Only to accommodate, and if necessary constrain, dissidents against mutual freedom, does a civic culture employ statutory justice. Citizens of a civic culture collaborate for private liberty with civic morality.

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Jack Rutherford, Native Roots, 1992

Almost no foreigners and few Americans understand the American dream that is offered to willing citizens in the preamble to the constitution for the USA: private liberty with civic morality; "civic" refers to citizens collaborating to establish and practice statutory justice. Jack Weatherford, in Native Roots, wonderfully empowers Americans to appreciate the indigenous peoples of this continent. And foreigners may glimpse why people are attracted to American without articulating its ultimate, so far neglected, promise: justice.

For example, I appreciate Weatherford's reasoning that the original settlers, as early as 1607, being lower class, knew nothing of hunting. In England, for example, hunting was a lord's sport for revelry---nothing to do with sustenance. The settlers learned the arts of hunting and fishing from initially generous, indigenous people. 

Timothy Ferris, The Science of Liberty, 2010

This book illustrates that there is so much to know that a complete lifetime of scholarship and sharing is insufficient to attain mastery of understanding, especially if the scholar is attentive to details. Note: that sentence expressed an opinion, and anyone who claims I think it was the-objective-truth did not accept this statement.

Ferris is very informed, and I consider this book shear generosity by an exceptional scholar. I appreciate his regard for Ralph Waldo Emerson's expression, "“The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.” Perhaps I will understand Emerson's phrase after reading Robert D. Richardson Jr., “Emerson: The Mind on Fire,” 2015. Until then, I hold to my opinion that "science" is a study with an object, so "science of liberty" indicates the study of liberty. Verity of the study depends upon the methods used; if the method does not detect error, it is not fruitful.

  

But I oppose an opinion Ferris asserts early in his book: ". . . democracy (meaning a state that guarantees human rights to its citizens, who elect their leaders).” I think Ferris promotes an error: social democracy, progressivism, liberal democracy, or other opposition to statutory justice---the goal of the American republic. I think the only defensible human right is to discover and develop fidelity to the-objective-truth. I could be wrong.

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.