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 want to collaborate with other citizens on
this paraphrase, yet would always preserve the original text.
Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_1fbd96fc-1743-11e8-ae7a-f75321fce1f6.html)
The Advocate on Tuesday reported an ultimatum by the
Legislative Black Caucus, who “took a swing at Republicans for suggesting that
the group had threatened to derail any compromise that didn't meet members'
demands.” The Republicans had slammed Gov. John Bel Edwards for poor leadership.
See
theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_c7421160-1b20-11e8-ba42-7be1f25d0e92.html.
Today, The Advocate chooses sides in the fray:
“Compromise is now a dirty word, particularly in the balky caucus of the House
Republicans. That's been the biggest obstacle to progress — even more than
whatever errors Gov. John Bel Edwards might have made in the process.”
Compromise is inferior to collaboration so as to help the people of Louisiana
rather than conflict for dominant opinion.
It’s The Advocate and the Legislative Black Caucus
against the people of Louisiana. Edwards is a mere pawn. I encourage Edwards to
step aside under the adage: lead, follow, or get out of the way.
I hope The Advocate will reform from its attraction to
social democracy. The USA needs to restore the path to private liberty with
civic morality that was abandoned by dissidents after March 4, 1789, when the
First Congress, representing ten states, was seated. It would not be too
difficult to restore the 1787 constitution for the USA.
For one thing, the Congressional Black Caucus would
need to voluntarily collaborate using the preamble, a civic agreement. The
Civil War made it clear that most white citizens collaborate using the
preamble.
Also, The Advocate could become responsible rather
than merely free, so as to help preserve freedom of the press. I'm ready to
create some restrictions on mendacity with means of enforcement.
Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Mark 9:43 CJB), The Advocate, February
28, 2018, 7B.
"If your hand makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you
should be maimed but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both hands and go to
Gei-Hinnom, to unquenchable fire!”
Dean says, “Hell is a real place. Jesus said so.”
Good grief! I long since perceived real people rejected such
barbaric thinking. It is a travesty that my hometown newspaper, in the face of
a crisis in mental health, publishes such barbaric trash.
It’s hard to prove that The Advocate and G. E. Dean have not
encouraged barbaric acts during past decades! It is past time for them to reform
from promoting harmful ideas.
Letters
Reacting to lies (Ruzicka) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_895fc642-0ac9-11e8-9826-73579d00632e.html)
Ruzicka, your
first political phrase, “our democracy” expresses a popular lie, which
you could easily discover by reading the constitution. You live in a republic,
specifically, the American republic. It is unique in the world, but not
exceptional: The people have neglected the
responsibility to know how to vote for their personal interests. Most people
neglect their personal authority to behave for civic morality.
Now, I know you as a liar. Considering
a wise instruction from an often erroneous book, I should not help a liar
advance his lies; see Matthew 7:6 and consider the metaphor’s pig or dog. In
the past, I would have patiently tried to persuade you to consider the words in
the constitution for the USA: “The
United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of
Government.” After President Trump’s
examples, I am not certain how I would try to communicate with you; I’m reluctant
to let the other party dictate my morality and have not resolved my dilemma on
the point. I think what I might say is, as long as you represent the USA as “our
democracy,” I have no reason to communicate with you. That way, I have not
lied.
Trump lies to liars:
His is a clear message: “I perceive
you have come to me without establishing integrity and your commitment to
express integrity. I hereby make that your problem, while I resume my day’s plans.”
Other forums
libertylawsite.org/2018/02/28/boise-state-universitys-blueprint-for-social-justice-university-radicalism-scott-yenor
I appreciate Professor
Yenor’s post and the five comments so far.
“Who could object to a
university embracing Academic Excellence, Caring, Citizenship, Fairness,
Respect, Responsibility, and Trustworthiness as Shared Values?” An answer is:
anyone who prefers privacy rather than caring; justice more than fairness;
appreciation before respect; liberty rather than sharing; mutual safety and
security more than citizenship; and freedom-from oppression and aspiration to
liberty-to pursue personal happiness rather than the dictates of others.
Many people ponder what
to do about the chaos that has developed. I constantly work to inspire relief
by the people rather than by government or God. Neither one of those
powers—state nor church—usurps human authority.
American citizens lost
track of the 1787 Constitution for the USA. Some are influenced by foreigners,
who do not realize the USA is unique more than exceptional. For example, some
citizens are influenced by English tradition. The colonists turned statesmen
won independence from England in 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia. In general,
Europeans erroneously work for social democracy. But Americans understand
freedom-from and liberty-to and will not freely go back to before.
The colonists had
experienced freedom-from European oppression and from 1607 through 1765 earned
the liberty-to live according to private preferences yet pursue civic morality.
They declared war for justice more than controversial rights. In 1788, the
people in nine of the 1783 Treaty of Paris’s thirteen free and independent
states authorized a unique nation based on a civic agreement that is offered in
the preamble to the constitution for the USA. By “civic” I mean voluntary, or
without contrived coercion or force. The agreement is in the civic American’s
genes and memes more than articulation.
The preamble offers a
voluntary agreement by individual citizens, and many Americans erroneously
reject it for reasons they may or may not understand. The agreement proposes
collaboration for the American republic rather than democracy or monarchy. The
American republic empowers every individual who collaborates for civic justice
rather than dominant opinion. But most people do not accept their individual
authority for living, and therefore choose some doctrine. Perhaps, by
experience, they discover the doctrine’s evil before their life ends. If so,
they may seek a new doctrine, continuously denying personal authority to live
their life. Some, at last, accept their human authority and behave.
“Everybody knows” that
something is in control of everything, in other words, something is in control
of actual reality. Perhaps the controller is God, or the-objective-truth, or
chaos, or potential energy, or physics, or sheer power.
“Everybody knows” that
with 7.6 billion people on earth, there must be order. Perhaps order comes from
government, cultures, the people, or raw power. Many people overlook—take for
granted—the civic order they practice. For example, almost all people civically
queue to enter a concert.
Thus, there are two
external powers each person must deal with: actual reality and government. But
there’s a preeminent authority that responds to the two external powers: Each
individual has the authority over his or her energy for life—perhaps his or her
ninety years. He or she may develop that authority according to personal
preferences. The collective, individual choices effect humankind’s progress or
regress.
Those who develop
authority may choose to develop fidelity; perhaps a comprehensive fidelity.
That is, fidelity to the-objective-truth, to self, to family, to extended
family and friends, to the people (nation), to the world, and to the universe.
No one knows, but the-objective-truth may involve the God; I doubt it but do
not know.
Not everyone behaves with
fidelity. For example, some people perceive crime pays and therefore abuse
justice until harm is discovered. Then, they may either reform or perhaps face
statutory justice, even annihilation. People who lie don’t realize that they
isolate themselves from the quest for justice.
Humankind seems on a
deliberate march toward statutory justice, which is written law and law
enforcement based on the-objective-truth (actual reality) rather than opinion.
When an-objective-truth has not been discovered, a civic people collaborate for
necessary law according to the theory of interconnected,
discovered-objective-truths.
Having the same
individual authority as other humans, criminals can accept statutory law but
invariably reject capricious, dominant opinion. Criminals may be inspired to
reform when a culture develops statutory justice.
Individuals who have
discovered comprehensive fidelity may begin each day with the commitment: In
every thought, in every word, in every action, I will first do no harm. It is a
commitment more than an intention. For example, if someone has lied to him or
her, he or she identifies and rebukes the lie. If he or she perceives need to
act but imagines harm to another party, he or she discusses the proposal,
listens to the other party’s views, and collaborates to discover beneficial
action or none. These are only examples of recent experiences from my quest to
first do no harm, now in my second month of practice.
I share these ideas with
everyone who will read or listen and hope you will share too, with improvements
I’d like to learn for collaboration. By word of mouth, we can establish an achievable,
better future. One of the keys is each citizen’s individual authority to trust
and commit to the preamble’s civic agreement.
libertylawsite.org/2018/02/28/marriage-market-and-politics-in-middlemarch-george-eliot-classical-liberalism
I am disappointed that
you do not compare “Jane Eyre,” by Charlotte Bronte. Janet lives an uncanny
life of civic rectitude despite potentially devastating Christian impulses.
But that’s only my view.
I would love to read yours.
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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