February 14, 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_83579f28-07a8-11e8-b535-133752df3537.html)

It seems obvious to some citizens that it’s time for The Advocate to examine annual regurgitation of old ideas: The old ideas are not increasing justice.

When thoughts, words, and actions cause harm, it is time to collaborate for an achievable, better future. The Advocate invokes today’s “. . . human condition . . . the boundaries of earthly human life itself . . . how small we are in the scheme of things . . . the narcissism of our politics . . . the narrowness of . . . generosity, the nastiness of [the press].”

  

The impression I get from this editorial is that Ash Wednesday connects Christmas to New Year’s to Easter. Of course the Christian calendar has lots of other events that help distract children from reality, ostensibly to promote ideals. The goal is to constrain the mind of the child so fervently that personal imagination will be controlled for life. Incidentally, whether intentionally or not, the adult will never realize his or her human potential. As a consequence, many adults continue the cycle of childhood inculcations, adapted to adult satisfactions such as Fat Tuesday. (Individuals can’t constrain adult decadence until harm emerges, but decadence ought not be inculcated in children.)

Our library discussions have brought us to an opposing view of the human condition. While humankind is perhaps nearly 3 million years old, the 2018 individual may live about ninety years. He or she is born with the inalienable authority to develop judgement according to personal preferences rather than the dictates of someone else, a government, or an institution. The 2018 local, state, national, and global communities are in confusion and conflict. Many people subjugate their human, behavioral power to a government or a God. Nevertheless, the individual may discover or be coached to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth. As the individual practices fidelity, it becomes clear that human justice is an ultimate value. The just individual disciplines thoughts, words, and actions so as to first do no harm.

We commend The Advocate, along with other citizens, to consider the discipline:  in thoughts, words, and actions, first do no harm.

   

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Leviticus 19:3 CJB)

"Every one of you is to revere his father and mother, and you are to keep my Shabbats; I am ADONAI your God.”

Dean says, “God’s plan is always the best plan. We would do well to heed his word.”

Mystery is easy to express, but for many humans, reality flees both Dean’s and Moses’ words. Better to trust-in and commit-to the-objective-truth, to which mystery conforms.

Letters

Establishing reliability (Moller) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_5721f3ae-0dd4-11e8-baa3-3312db6eae79.html)

Personal care is at least four times more effective than medical care in establishing and maintaining health. Programs that encourage dependence on medical care are not financially viable. In this letter, Moller compromises personal reliability.

Wayward parents (Brown) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_ba7795fc-0abf-11e8-952c-0be82645697c.html)

Child care is not a public function: It's a parental function. Children need responsible parents. Children waiting to be born do not want irresponsible parents or abusive parents.

Publicity (Kennedy) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_c4bf83a6-0ac1-11e8-8f9f-c32d40f4f85a.html)

There are two columns The Advocate carries which I do not read, because I have no intentions 1) to respond to their ideas or 2) to promote interest in the ideas.

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.