February 21, 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_0b22f44c-165f-11e8-a52b-f7763d2aa98f.html)

I’ve been studying, for about six weeks now, two new discoveries and a relatively old one with a new slant.

First, although our cultures inform us that we must look to higher power because of 1) death and 2) human order, each individual human has the authority over how to spend his or her energy during every moment of personal life. The individual may hope for a favorable afterdeath or accept what will be, much as the flowers do, and focus on justice in life. The individual may develop fidelity to human justice or not. Some adults think crime pays according to their preferred method.

Second, a powerful tool for developing justice is to commit: In every thought, word, and action, “I will first do no harm.” This thought is a commitment more than an intention. If the possibility of harm is imagined, there is pause for more evidence or inquiry for views from affected persons. If harm at last appears, the committed person immediately addresses it.

Concurrently, I have been, for almost two years now, contemplating how a person with integrity may deal with mendacity. I have always thought the right way is to bluntly address falsehood by presenting the-objective-truth when its discovery is well known, admitting that when there has been no discovery I do not know the-objective-truth. However, in social democracy, people merely dismiss ideas. Whether its the Christian gestapo or the Alinsky-Marxist organization, integrity gets no hearing.

Examples may help explain the-objective-truth. For a physical example, the earth, for now, is like a globe, and the flat-perception is long-since obsolete. In a psychological example, a just individual does not lie, so that the people do not have to respond to a lie. In justice, liars cannot communicate, except, if dissenters---persons against human justice---assist the liar.

John Bel Edwards is obligated to the people of Louisiana to produce a balanced budget. He and Jay Dardenne produced an insincere budget, perhaps to put pressure on the legislators who are protecting the people from unneeded new taxation.

Matthew 7:6, is, along with many others, one of those mysterious ideas from ancient literature that the reader may either dismiss or contemplate. I recently imagined that it may instruct the just human not to aid a liar.

It seems to me this “Our Views” is another evidence that The Advocate has little appreciation for its personhood. I encourage legislators to hold fast to the protection of the people of Louisiana from the insincerity that seems evident in Edwards and Dardenne, aided by The Advocate personnel.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Mark 8:38 CJB), The Advocate, February 21, 2018, 7B.

"For if someone is ashamed of me and of what I say in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Dean says, “Christians are not secret disciples. We are glad that we belong to Jesus.”

In the same way, criminals think crime pays and cut-throats think cutting throats pays. I’ll collaborate with civic citizens who are Christians and oppose the other Christians. Dean seems to express dissidence to civic morality.

   

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.