February 12, 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_f16bd19e-0d0e-11e8-bfc2-9b9b69e592be.html)

“That Congress has failed to make hard choices, quarrels endlessly, and then unites in a bipartisan frenzy to run up debt ought to give everybody cause to think — indeed, worry -- about the future of the country.”

The Advocate cowers from its resources on which to opine real solutions to not only a $1 trillion/year deficit budget but the $20.6 trillion current debt; usdebtclock.org. The first Congress deviated to social morality, a temporal satisfaction, and never grasped its purpose: to represent the people in the quest for justice.

Our EBRP library meetings focus on the purpose that was expressed by the signers in the preamble to the draft constitution for the USA. The September 17, 1787 signers were only 2/3 of delegates to the convention, and only 12 states sent delegates. Holding state ratification conventions was approved by the Continental Congress, and the required nine states ratified by June 21, 1788. The USA was then established and the remaining four free and independent states (see the Treaty of Paris, 1783) had the opportunity to join. One joined, so the First Congress was seated on March 4, 1789. In the next couple months, the First Congress reversed separation of church and state by hiring factional-Protestant ministers to represent legislators as divinely authorized according to American Christianity. The First Congress, representing only ten states, in essence restored Blackstone common law, and the USA has struggled to restore the preamble ever since. However, an ever growing portion of the population neglects the agreement that is offered in the preamble and conflict for social democracy rather than collaborate for the American republic.

The preamble divides citizens into two factions:  Civic citizens collaborate for justice while dissidents work for some personal advantage. For examples of how groups vie for power, elites distract the poor from building wealth, theists work “under God,” blacks promote a skin color, and progressives promote emotions rather than justice. (For example, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus#Goals.)

Our meetings over the past five years explored “how to” collaborate for justice using the goals of the preamble. We continually discover new expressions, and a recent one follows. Each citizen has the inalienable authority to spend his or her energy in personal pursuits; he or she cannot be taught but may discover or be coached to commit to justice; in every thought, every word, every act, first do no harm. We considered stating this as an intention, but only performance offers justice; error is neither maintained nor repeated.

Our purpose is to collaborate for an achievable, better future starting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We are a registered non-profit education corporation, but have no intention of raising money, because by definition, the preamble is offered as a voluntary agreement. However, a civic people need public attention through the language used by the media. We work for words and phrases by which the people may collaborate for justice rather than compete for dominant opinion.

  

Maybe The Advocate personnel think they express press-power by ignoring a civic people’s plea. However, from our view, The Advocate, by stonewalling a civic people, exacerbates the hard-choice failures they perceive in Congress. Indeed, The Advocate may help restore the future of this country.

   

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 41:1 CJB), The Advocate, February 12, 2018, 5B.

"How blessed are those who care for the poor! When calamity comes, Adonai will save them.”

Dean says, “God will take care of those who take care of others.”

What folly: Doing the right thing is its own reward, and the-objective-truth does not keep records.

Letters

Gov. Edwards can’t deny the opioid deaths in Louisiana (Mitchell) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_2be9dca2-0dc4-11e8-a06e-5bbfb1460711.html)

  

To Scuddy Leblanc: Mitchell’s obfuscations and opinions do not erase the opioid deaths: theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/crime_police/article_02454308-bb5f-11e7-894a-d3768920ff68.html.

Louisiana deserves better than an administration that obfuscates its failures and proposes more taxation. I wish Gov. Edwards would resign.

Louisiana as a business rather than competitive emotions (Breazeale) (theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013)

I agree with Breazeale: the state ought to serve the people as efficently as viable business serves its customers.

Tableau is a data visualization software; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableau_Software.

RACI is an acronym derived from the four key responsibilities most typically used: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix.

LEAN: Lean manufacturing or lean production, often simply "lean", is a systematic method for waste minimization ("Muda") within a manufacturing system without sacrificing productivity; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing.

Thank you, Mr. Breazeale.

Stay with Trump-Pence for now (Amador, Feb 9) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_8a54b7ea-0d00-11e8-b511-f7a9f0e4b00d.html)

   

Matthew White After my post, how can you start with "if you voted for Trump?"

 

If you are Mathew White . . .

 

Trump's nomination of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch met my expectations, and the list beyond that is amazing in light of the resistance he has suffered.

 

One of my favorite things about Trump is that the conservative quarterly I read, National Affairs, has many essays with statements about cures that will come after Trump.

 

What Americans do not accept, and I write for it all the time, is that the agreement that is offered in the preamble divides citizens into two groups: those who read and accept the agreement and the dissidents. Many of the dissidents are also dissident against human morality.

 

I think President Trump will help clairfy that the consitutition for the USA is not amendable to political parties: It is designed for an aware, informed people who work not only for a way of living but for civic morality during their lives.

   

Columns

A pregnant woman’s responsibility (Kathryn Jean Lopez) (uexpress.com/kathryn-jean-lopez/2018/2/2/moral-cowardice-in-the-senate)

Quoting Dr. Daniel Grossman of the University of California San Francisco, “The nerve fibers that connect the pain receptors to the cerebral cortex, where they would be able to perceive the pain, those fibers aren’t even present until the third trimester of pregnancy – after 26 or 28 weeks.” See nbcnews.com/health/health-news/doctor-just-explained-late-term-abortion-twitter-n842611.

Science is only a study. Its purpose is discovery, and its object is the-objective-truth. Religion is only opinion. People who institutionalize opinion err.

What’s been appalling all these years is the civil abuse of pregnant women based on the claim that life begins at conception; catholiceducation.org/en/controversy/abortion/life-begins-at-conception.html.

The conception travels eight days with cell divisions that lead to a blastocyst that must attach to the uterus. Many conceptions don’t make it and pass out of the woman’s body unnoticed. With all of the biological corrects that physics directs, the entire gestation process involves terminations that amount to 2/3 of known gestations.

  

It is past time for people who want to impose their emotions on pregnant women to stop the abuse. The pregnant woman who makes the dreadful decision to terminate does so on the responsibility and authority she has and cannot deny.

The problem of people aborting for fun (MWW’s way of expressing it), only about 13% of termination cases, may be addressed with education and procreation licensing.
 
Ms. Lopez, you oppose civic morality even though you probably can’t imagine the concept, and pregnant women are among your objects of immorality.

Pope betraying believers (Mark Simon) (wsj.com/articles/who-made-xi-jinping-pope-1518135308)

  

Gov. John Bel Edwards was inaugurated on Jan 11, 2016 and visited the Vatican during Jan 13-20, 2017. I strongly oppose the clergy-politician partnerships that have plagued America since April-May, 1789, when Congress hired factional-Protestant ministers to give legislators the appearance of divine authority. It’s been that way ever since.

The signers of the 1787 draft constitution for the USA offered a document that 1) set the stage for abolition of African slaves and 2) separated church from state, contrary to England’s church-state partnership. The people’s-pocket-picking harm of the church-state partnership is expressed by Nicolo Machiavelli in The Prince, Chapter XI, 1513.

Now, we read of the Vatican’s unholy alliances with Cuba, Venezuela, and China. “Because the Vatican wants a deal more than Beijing does, the Holy See . . . negotiated from a weak position.” He may choose Bishops for China from a list of communists. The harm may reach Louisiana.

In his partnership with the Vatican, Gov. Edwards exposes the people of Louisiana to loss and misery. The Vatican’s problems are expected to be solved in eternity, but the misery of Vatican partnerships comes here and now for citizens who tolerate the imposition.

Louis Farrakhan a magnet for Iran partnerships? (Jeryl Bier) (wsj.com/articles/keith-ellison-louis-farrakhan-and-iran-1518135273)

  

Bier reports a meeting by Congressmen Keith Ellison, Gregory Meeks, and Andre Carson, all members of the Congressional Black Caucus, with Louis Farrakhan and Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, visiting the UN.

Mr. Bier asks if Chuck Schumer will question association with someone who Ellison admits sows hatred and division. As leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, Cedric Richmond may express opposition.

“Even Barack Obama [has] gotten a pass for . . . recently revealed Farrakhan connections.” For example what happened to proposed hearing about Obama sending Iran $1.7 billion cash on Jan 22 and Feb 5, 2016; latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-iran-payment-cash-20160907-snap-story.html.

Were the people who met with Rouhani involved in the Obama payment to Iran? What does Cedric Richmond know about these events?

Other forums

quora.com/What-change-s-in-norms-and-collective-behavior-would-best-serve-the-collective-good-and-most-benefit-society/

  

Each human being has the personal authority to control his or her energy for life. However, few develop the fidelity to the-objective-truth by which he or she may discover his or her person.

The-objective-truth exists and can only be discovered. It does not respond to reason, yet reason must be employed in order to understand the discovery, benefit, and expand the interrelated past discoveries. Also, it seems that the more humankind understands the more discoveries emerge.

Humankind represents some eight trillion man-years of discovery, and each person may enjoy about ninety years within which to develop fidelity. With about thirty years to acquire basic knowledge, understand it, and embark on young adulthood intending to live a full life, the quest for understanding and intentions may optimally end only upon death.

These noble ideas cannot be taught, so, so far, few people live developing fidelity. However, coaching is possible, and that is the change I hope to see: adults coaching children: each one has authority over his or her behavior and may develop fidelity to the-objective-truth.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52  messaging with Kashif Zamon

And I am interested in your ideas, especially on social morality (such as religious morality) versus civic morality.
 
I have an American, factional-Christian background and think Christian institutions erroneously conflict with civic morality. Christians ought to demand support in their hopes for afterdeath yet likewise require their religious institution to conform to mutual, comprehensive safety and security for living. In other words, Christians may demand that Christian institutions conform to civic morality.
 
How does your background impact your vision of civic morality?

Again:

Dr Muhammad Kashif Zaman, dear friend, please don’t call me “sir,” as I do not feel that my person is the focus: Civic morality and other phrases you and I may develop that promise peace are important. Also, what I write is the product of collaboration with more than sixty people who have been willing to dialogue, either positively or by rebuke, either covertly or under anonymity.

I think it is wonderful that you are an independent dentist and a Masters of Philosophy scholar at university, with a thesis on quackery. I found on Google maps the intersection of five thoroughfares that must be near your dental office. It is exciting.

I am merely a citizen in my town and only read, write, and converse to establish civic morality here. I lead two meetings each year at local libraries for collaboration. Many of the sixty people I mentioned above attended those meetings during the last four years, with attendance from one person to at most fifteen. I copyright my essays to guarantee that I can write my own ideas in the future, and I write a daily blog for the same purpose: Things I post online I can retrieve, even if the online site disappears.

Our principle goal is to establish public integrity in the USA, by persuading most people to read, comprehend, understand, adopt, and collaborate in order to effect the civic agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. In my paraphrase, intended to represent what I commit to and trust yet treasuring the original version there are nine goals. It took me about fifteen years of related studies to become that serious about it, after my first essay on it.

I thought reading your constitution’s preamble might be a good place to start in my desire to respond to your request. The preamble seems to aim to satisfy Sunni Islam, which I do not want to lessen, yet about which I am definitely dissident. My work, beginning with the spirit of our preamble and the little I know about the people who signed the draft constitution for the USA on September 17, 1787, would establish private liberty with civic morality. In private liberty, the human being assumes his or her inalienable authority to develop the wisdom to establish and maintain fidelity to the-objective-truth. Neither God nor government would usurp a person’s authority. People who propose to usurp that authority speak and act for themselves in trying to persuade the person to yield to that authority.

Thus, if I lived in Pakistan, I would be seeking to separate church from state. There’s no contradiction there, because that is what I work for in the USA. I want to amend our constitution’s First Amendment to protect thought, a human duty and authority, instead of religion, an institution. My essay making this proposal is dated August 7, 1999, and it was published in the local newspaper.

I think a wonderful “assignment” you might agree to is for you to study the preamble to the constitution for the USA to understand its simplicity yet adequacy in stating the obligations a national government should fulfill for a civic people, those who trust-in and commit-to the agreement that is stated therein. I could dialogue with you anytime you wanted if you agreed to conduct this study. Trust me: The preamble is far more complicated that it immediately seems. In the first place, its subject is “We the People of the United States,” which refers to the people in their states, but once the USA was established on June 21, 1788, those people became also the people of the USA. Thus, a federal republic where in the people may collaborate for civic morality in both their state and the USA.

I have read your preamble, and have the opinion that it opposes private liberty with civic morality. The commitment to Islam alone usurps the human individual’s authority over how to spend the energy entailed in his or her lifetime. Yet I am convinced that civic people in Pakistan want public morality as well as the opportunity to practice spirituality as they personally prefer---in other words, civic people perceive the authority to pursue their happiness rather than what someone else has in mind for their life. The human being demands the authority to be both civic and spiritual, and neither government nor a religion’s God can usurp a civic person’s wisdom.

  

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.