Fidelity to the-objective-truth

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, 1787, text.

To save time, I am changing from a daily post to a weekly post.

Our Views 3/31 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_df99c016-32c5-11e8-89e5-a753b873a745.html)

  

It seems surreal for The Advocate personnel to so stubbornly, irresponsibly ignore Pulitzer-Prize opportunity in order to express erroneous parochialism that is so divided 1700 years after its canonization.
 
On Sunday, most Baton Rouge Christian churches will be divided by celebration of a Jesus that is distinguished by physical appearances. Google “Images of Jesus” to see the majority view. Add “black” and Google redirects you to “. . . in heaven.” I have no quarrel with an individual’s hopes for the afterdeath, but religious hopes have no place in civic morality.
 
There is a culture wherein each human individual is coached and encouraged to discover and embrace his or her inalienable authority to behave. Parents, community, and church may be immoral even criminal (are recent FBI bosses a good example?), but the individual may, by personal experience and observations develop individual fidelity to the-objective-truth.
 
By their responsible examples most citizens (most that I know) already face the other powers that the individual may collaborate-with or contend-with for individual benefits. Those powers---humankind, gods and government---may reform so as to enhance benefits from the-objective-truth, empowering human justice. The reforms are effected by each civically moral individual.
 
The Advocate may join in the effort to establish that culture in Baton Rouge any time The Advocate personnel become attracted to justice rather than freedom of the press.

Our Views 3/29 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_5d06e0b6-31ee-11e8-8ddf-1fcd9d2486a7.html)

  

“Pain is such a universal human experience that Good Friday's observances also can resonate with those of other faiths and with those who claim no religious faith.” That’s an arrogant claim.

Some who accept the human authority to develop fidelity, rather than neglect the personal power and responsibility to behave, perceive a ruinous Christian-history. The ruin is originated by Christianity, and the citizens who made the ruin plain to fellow citizens are bountiful.

Consider 2018 Christian leadership. It is difficult to tolerate the Christian sentiment in light of its consequences respecting slavery and sexual abuse. Both the Catholic pope and the bishop of Canterbury are embroiled in failure to protect children, and this is only the recent edge of 1700 years of Christianity-inflicted injustice. President Trump is understandably vulnerable to #metoo celebrity, a power play based on the world’s oldest profession but now purloined by many 2018 women.

Consider the unfortunate family of erroneously devout 1856 Protestant, Robert E. Lee, writing to his wife:

“The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially & physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is Known & ordered by a wise & merciful Providence. Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild & melting influence of Christianity, than the storms & tempests of fiery Controversy. This influence though slow is sure. The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to Convert but a small part of the human race, & even Christian nations, what gross errors still exist! While we see the Course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who Sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences ; & with whom two thousand years are but a single day. Although the abolitionist must Know this; & must see that he has neither the right or power of operating except by moral means & suasion, & if he means well to the slave, he must not create angry feelings in the master; that although he may not approve the mode by which it pleases Providence to accomplish its purposes, the result will nevertheless be the same: that the reasons he gives for interference in what he has no Concern, holds good for every Kind of interference with our neighbours when we disapprove their Conduct; Still I fear he will persevere in his evil Course.”

What travesty of human justice! Lee embraced erroneous belief in the Holy Bible, which was canonized by men of the Church in 325 AD!!!

I write for the preservation of believers’ comfort and hopes for the hereafter but with abolition of religious servitude in the practice of civic morality: I write to inspire daily justice during life rather than for people's lives in eternity. In a civic culture, tomorrow, it matters not if a Christian thinks that the only way a white person can save his or her soul is to help black Americans reign supreme, so long as the Christian collaborates for civic justice. Or a Christian may think the only way a poor person can save his or her soul is to bolster American economic elitism, so long as the Christian collaborates for civic justice. (I admit, that idea seems untenable, and I expect the elite to label me greedy and envious.)

However, my message is so attainable for a better future I expect everyone to grab it and institute reform in the USA! And I think writers for The Advocate have the same human authority each of us has, even though many of us are traditionally loath to accept the individual authority to collaborate for justice.

Just consider the historical facts that are being ignored in the name of Christianity rather than civic morality, a few of which I share below.

In fall 1774, Thomas Paine moved from England to Philadelphia. In a few weeks, he wrote an essay, “African Slavery in America,” which was published on March 8, 1775 ( thomaspaine.org/deattributed/african-slavery-in-america.html). Paine starts, “TO Americans: That some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, Christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though it has been so often proved contrary to the light of nature, to every principle of justice and humanity, and even good policy, by a succession of eminent men [Dr. Ames, Baxter, Durham, Locke, Carmichael, Hutcheson, Montesqieu, and Blackstone, Wallace, etc., etc. Bishop of Gloucester], and several late publications.”

  

Paine castigated Christians and was accurate in his assessment, “The past treatment of Africans must naturally fill them with abhorrence of Christians; lead them to think our religion would make them more inhuman savages, if they embraced it; thus the gain of that trade has been pursued in opposition to the Redeemer's cause, and the happiness of men.”

How could Lee in 1856 ignore Paine’s arguments and more? Lee embraced erroneous belief in the Holy Bible, which was canonized by men of the Church in 325 AD!!! Let’s skip back to 1852.

Frederick Douglass, on July 5, 1852 (rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945), speaking to an audience that included the President of the United States said, “. . . the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither. While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it.”

How could Lee in 1856 ignore Douglass’s claim to fellow-citizenship? Lee embraced erroneous belief in the Holy Bible, which was canonized by men of the Church in 325 AD!!! Let’s skip further back to 1783.

George Washington, on June 8, 1783 (loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/peace/circular.html), saying farewell to his officers of the Continental army, interjected, only as the general, a message to fellow citizens:

“There are four things, which I humbly conceive, are essential to the well being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States as an Independent Power:

1st. An indissoluble Union of the States under one Federal Head.

2dly. A Sacred regard to Public Justice.

3dly. The adoption of a proper Peace Establishment, and

4thly. The prevalence of that pacific and friendly Disposition, among the People of the United States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the Community.”

How could Lee in 1856 ignore Washington’s appeal to fellow-citizenship? Lee embraced erroneous belief in the Holy Bible, which was canonized by men of the Church in 325 AD!!!

Lee’s contemporary, Abraham Lincoln, clandestinely joined the Christian folly, hiding tentative regard for the-objective-truth, perhaps not imagining the awful power of erroneous Protestant-ministers’ influence. On March 4, 1781 (avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln1.asp), addressing the CSA’s threat of war, Lincoln said, “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.”

How could Lee in 1861 ignore Lincoln’s subtle warning that the states ratio of 27 USA to 7 seceding-South promise woe if the CSA indeed fired on the USA? Lee embraced erroneous belief in the Holy Bible, which was canonized by men of the Church in 325 AD!!!

It is time for the Christians of the USA to accept individual authority to collaborate for justice rather than pray for God to champion one group’s civic opinion. As the Civil War demonstrated, both sides pray to their god, but the collective authority of men who defend the-objective-truth prevails. The Holy Bible’s passages that condone the slave-master relationship, so far, do not seem to represent either the-objective-truth or God. I do not know the-objective-truth. Perhaps neither Jews nor white Christians but black Americans are God’s chosen people. I don’t think so, and I think that belief begs woe, just as Robert E. Lee’s religious beliefs begged woe including the outcome that was delivered to his family by the USA.

My individual authority to collaborate to benefit from the-objective-truth is only equal to the authority owned by fellow-citizens. However, citizens who work for The Advocate also have individual human authority. I appeal to them and other fellow-citizens to accept human, individual authority. Prayer for relief from pain that is caused by Christianity has not worked and will not work during our lifetimes. (I hope that means another forty-seven years for my individual.)

Civic peace is the responsibility of every human being. Some persons will never accept their personal authority, and therefore a civic culture must have the rule of statutory justice. Statutory justice derives from the-objective-truth, and individual’s opinions about God have no bearing on civic justice. God is for the hereafter: justice is for now.

Tonight, we had crawfish. Seafood gumbo is on deck for Easter Sunday. Have fun, Baton Rouge, and let’s collaborate for civic justice. I trust you: think you will collaborate for justice according to the-objective-truth.

  

TED talk on trust

Our Views 3/28 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_5d06e0b6-31ee-11e8-8ddf-1fcd9d2486a7.html)

  

I agree with The Advocate personnel, and moreover, citizens may at last separate state from ever-present church failure. 

It’s no coincidence that HB 553 waved through a house committee 15-0 despite the harm to Louisiana citizens. Legislators (that’s 15:0) have their own interests at heart.

And ministers have always worked against civic morality. Consider the fifteenth century papal bulls authorizing colonization with agricultural economics using slaves purchased from Africa. Consider the 1850s Protestant sermons extolling slavery as the Christian god’s punishment for sin. See the concluding remark in the CSA’s declaration of secession about a more erroneous religious belief in the USA. More recently, consider the abject, high-school civics failure of Congress’ 1996 DOMA.

The original American harm---governance under the American god---dates from April-May, 1789, when the first Congress deified itself by hiring factional-Protestant ministers to represent them. Congress defied the absence of religion in the 1787 Constitution and its preamble, deeming ministers necessary for their deification in competition with Parliament under the Church of England.

After 229 years of abject failure of “governance under the American god,” it is time for individuals to accept the human authority to demand from American government pertinent morality: civic morality according to the-objective-truth rather than legislative tyranny under the religion-politician partnership that picks the people’s pockets. The tyranny was described in 1513 by Machiavelli in “The Prince,” Chapter XI.
 

Louisiana individuals, this is your life, a brief time in comparison with religion’s near eternity and politician’s temporal opportunity to steal from you. Ignoring 229 years of tyranny begs more woe.

In the future, I hope The Advocate personnel will consider themselves civic citizens who are equally hurt by Chapter XI Machiavellianism. Certainly they are qualified to comprehend my writing and benefit if they accept their existing human authority to be responsible as a well as free.
 

I already wrote to my state representatives to oppose HB 553, but will send them this, too.

Our Views 3/28 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_5d06e0b6-31ee-11e8-8ddf-1fcd9d2486a7.html)

  

It seems The Advocate personnel can’t take a civic view on any of this issue. “The real question has always been”: Who made the 911 call and why?
 
The question was asked the morning after: Is this an AMO (or IAF) fabricated case to highlight President Obama’s last summer in office? Was a well known police-following video crew unaware that AMO leaders who visited Baton Rouge between 2012 and 2016 had an agent place a 911 call regarding an otherwise familiar midnight scene? Did AMO pacify the victim with drugs to enhance the scene, never expecting, yet willing to risk someone’s death?

I understand I am expressing a conspiracy theory, but I remember ACORN (acorn.org). Surely OFA can understand my concern; nypost.com/2017/02/11/how-obama-is-scheming-to-sabotage-trumps-presidency/. The people already know about the drugs, the loaded gun, the arrest record, and the fact of an otherwise teddy-bear kind of person applying stubborn resistance. Who made the 911 call and why?

Who among The Advocate personnel and among the Mayor’s office want to be first responders to apply police training in the next 911 call like that one? I would not authorize any of them to protect me:  I want police employees who want the job and will protect the public no matter what happens.
  
I think it is past time for The Advocate and other personnel to show some empathy to Salamoni and Lake---two men caught in a management failure, their families, and all civic people of Baton Rouge.

Who made the 911 call and why?

Our Views 3/27 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_5f3b7d68-310a-11e8-9c21-e38bcdea5628.html)

  

I requested my representatives to vote for HB 195.

Our Views 3/25 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_b2245756-2df5-11e8-a7c3-9fbbcd6fb7f7.html)

Local media writers lamented the lack of camaraderie and collegiality among Legislators and with Governor Edwards’ administration during the special session.

Legislative and administrative joy seems to have returned with the gambling lobby and the nursing home lobby lavishing cash on elected officials and abusing the people of Louisiana. The Advocate personnel exacerbate the problem by withholding plain talk: ordinary people are being hurt.

The Advocate personnel write about steering “taxpayer dollars away from home-based health care” and cite “a blow to our most vulnerable citizens---and to taxpayers at large.” I guess “at large” means “in general.” Does that equate to the people of Louisiana? Why do The Advocate writers disguise pain and loss to the people by citing taxpayers?

  

What keeps legislators and the Governor from being taxpayers at large? I think its campaign contributions, collegiality and camaraderie---legislative will to hurt people. I want it to end.
 

A better future is possible if the people of Louisiana demand that their representatives collaborate so that the people benefit from the-objective-truth rather than arrogant opinion, especially arrogance emerging from special-interest dollars.
 

Reform for the people is possible if each individual accepts human authority to require Louisiana to use the-objective-truth rather than conflict over special-interest opinion or dollars. 

   

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Proverbs 11:19 CJB), The Advocate, March 31, 2018, 5B.

“Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuer of evil goes to his own death.”

Dean says, “You have a choice. What will it be?”

I choose civic justice for living.

   

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 62:11 CJB), The Advocate, March 30, 2018, 7B.

“God has spoken once, I have heard it twice: strength belongs to God.”

Dean says, “Nothing is too hard for God. He has all power.”

The god of the South asserted that the slave-master relationship is accepted. The god of the North agreed with Frederick Douglass: being a slave is not wanted by anyone.

Military might upheld the North’s opinion. Are we to assume then that Frederick Douglass rather than the Holy Bible represents God’s word? Will God prove that the Holy Bible is correct to condone slave-master relationships?

I don’t think so.
   

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 62:10 CJB), The Advocate, March 29, 2018, 7B.

“Don't put your trust in extortion, don't put false hopes in robbery; even if wealth increases, don't set your heart on it.”

Dean says, “Don’t trust your money. Trust the Lord.”

Dean states a (blasphemous?) non sequitur. David said: Don’t think crime pays.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 56:3-4 CJB), The Advocate, March 28, 2018, 7B.

“when I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God - I praise his word -in God I trust; I have no fear; what can human power do to me?”

I think David expressed a bad idea, but Dean says, “Faith in God will give us victory over fear.”

Each human being has the authority to manage his or her energy for personal benefits. I think taking Dean’s advice is harmful and that The Advocate editors exacerbate the harm by publishing it.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 62:8 CJB), The Advocate, March 27, 2018, 5B.

“Trust in him, people, at all times; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.”

Dean says, “Keep your eyes on the Lord. He will take care of you.”

It seems to me I already have the authority to behave:  I cannot forsake personal duty for Dean’s mysterious idea.  

   

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 60:11 CJB), The Advocate, March 26, 2018, 5B.

“Help us against our enemy, for human help is worthless.”

I think David expressed an erroneous idea, but Dean says, “God can do what no man to do.”

I long since concluded that I cannot subjugate personal, moral responsibility to a god. Yet I do not object to my neighbor’s personal decisions.

Gods are for eternity; each human life ends. Collaboration for peace during life is a human choice and duty.

“Wrestling with God” (Christopher Simon) (issuu.com/campbellpublications/docs/gpp_3.28.18_162247252c34c9, page 4)

I never saw such a mess. It matters not to Simon if a person struggles with God or an angel. He actually imagines a man who accepts human authority would consider a mysterious order to slay his son. And “at some point must submit” is Muslim thinking. In Christianity, it’s voluntary: surrender your will. A Jew is in awe of God. I will die, but have no intentions of ever again denying my human authority to behave with civic morality. In other words, I will not accept Jesus’s condition for salvation: Luke 14:26. I does me no harm if other civic citizens find a way to practice Luke 14:26. There was another article that addresses imposition of fear and bliefs.

‘God: A Human History’ leaves questions on conclusions (Timothy E. Sigur Sr) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/faith/article_8ead3f30-2162-11e8-9588-03c1169861d8.html)

Reviewing Reza Aslan’s book: “Once a person begins a spiritual journey, many roads may be taken . . .In the end . . . we all come to same conclusion: You are God.”

I did not reach that conclusion. I think God is or is not part of the discoverable-objective-truth. In other words, the-objective-truth is discoverable and God may or may not be involved. I do not know.

Sigur asserts that “we must . . . search for God in everyone else.” I don't agree at all: leave civic citizens alone unless called upon. Sigur's expression is similar to Thomas Jefferson’s honest hubris in swearing on the altar of God opposition to imposing on other people’s psychology. Including religious language---altar and God---is in itself tyranny and imposition.

Each human being may develop his or her individual authority rather than assign it to their god or government. Let spirituality, in other words motivation with inspiration, be a private matter, but collaborate for civic morality. That’s what I wish for.

   

Letters

Medicaid fraud (Gardes) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_524ebb5e-311b-11e8-be74-13104dc55aeb.html)

I requested my representatives to vote for HB 88, HB 163, and HB 156 as well as HB 195. Together, they might solve the budget problem.

It is amazing that The Advocate personnel pitch the general legislative session as void of opportunity to solve the budgetary problem. With civic dissidents with press freedom like The Advocate personnel, it is surprising we maintain hope for civic morality.

But we work for a better future; perhaps a responsible hometown newspaper will be part of it.

Catholic discrimination (Connick, Sr.) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_6ef62f94-31c5-11e8-bf26-73682e549e87.html)

Connick’s Catholic complaints are comical.

 

Civic citizens are well aware that clerics cajole customers to support the canon rather than statutory justice. For example, consider the current clerical message to young Catholics: Speak out against the canon but keep the currency coming.

 

Regardless, the US Supreme Court is now split 6:3 Catholic to Jew. Together, they represent Judeo-Christianity, leaving no one to represent civic people. Connick might do better to let the mystic clown conceal congressional conflict.
 

I’m no fan of Jim Gill and heretofore had no opinion about Connick.

Ten person majority (Hyde) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_2dd0c936-31c8-11e8-9530-63da81106e55.html)

I think Louisiana’s system is influenced by French law. In criminal cases there, the jury-majority decides: scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2229&context=jclc .

 

I think it is outrageous for the Louisiana legislature to attempt to overthrow Louisiana citizens’ sensible rule. If anything, a move from 10 of 12 to 6 of 9 jurors might effect collaboration on the-objective-truth rather than conflict for dominant opinion. At least each juror might feel more critical to civic morality.

The more important judicial reform is the systematic change from a struggle for dominant opinion to collaboration to discover the-objective-truth.
 
I think judicial reform is begged by the preamble to the constitution for the USA but do not know what the 1787 constitutional articles require. Nor do I know much about the Supreme Court’s often unjust dominance: opinions about opinions upon opinions about meaning.

Columns

Vengeance is for Rigoli’s god (Rigoli) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_2ea85226-311d-11e8-b889-137b2c4f1308.html)

It seems advantageous for all civic citizens to accept that vengeance is for Rigoli’s church’s god.

However, the literature, experience, and observations demonstrate that mutual, comprehensive safety and security, in other words, human peace, in other words, civic justice, has been left to the individual.

That is, every human being has the authority to manage his or her energy during every moment of his or her life, hopefully over eighty years pursuing personal preferences. Some individuals develop the belief that crime pays, so they pursue crime as long as the consequential harm is not discovered and constrained by statutory law and its enforcement. Therefore, some individuals may reform for civic justice.

However, most individuals develop fidelity for life, again according to personal preference. Some discover life goes better if they develop fidelity to the-objective-truth. It’s a comprehensive fidelity that the person extends respectively to immediate family, to extended family and friends, to the people (nation), to humankind (the world), and to the universe, collectively. Some individuals pursue a like fidelity but use their god for help. There’s no objection to the consequence of civic justice, either way.

In my work, I have not encountered a need for vengeance; constraint, correction, even termination of opportunity for harm: yes. But vengeance? No.

It surprises me that a citizen, even a dissident citizen, would offer, in a civic forum, mysterious, religious hopes. I doubt that The Advocate personnel would publish some religious wishes.

I guess I can be grateful for the chance to oppose vengeance, even by someone’s or some institution’s god.

   

Marching in the poor People’s Campaign (David Shribman) (post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2018/03/11/David-M-Shribman-A-new-generation-of-activists/stories/201803110035)

Shribman’s column may express a liberal democrat’s ability to ignore factions of the people. I remember 1968 for the march for the poor and the precursor to the Congressional Black Caucus and President Johnson’s continuation of the great society.

I was so busy transitioning from college to career in chemical engineering I had no idea Alinsky-Marxist organizing was underway and would drive five decades of divergent demand and destruction: chaos.

I hope we are at a nadir and experiencing the ascent to civic morality in the USA. I hope Shribman is for the American republic and not for social democracy.

Exacerbating mayoral mendacity (Grace Toohey) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/alton_sterling/article_e825c226-3102-11e8-8a59-27789b9a4579.html)

Mayor Broome erroneously claims she is determined to deliver “equity and justice.” What’s wrong with justice? Grace Toohey and The Advocate exacerbate Broome’s haste to injustice.
 
The police are authorized by a civic people to protect the public from criminals. The public learned today that the individual who was shot was on felony-parole, carried a loaded 38, and was so drugged his body did not respond to two tazer shots!
 
“. . . Salamoni and Lake responded on July 5, 2016 to an anonymous call . . .” Once the public knows who made that call and why, we’ll be well on our way to defending our authorized protectors from an errant Mayor. Meanwhile, we object to any further pain and suffering to the officers and their families as well as the civic people of Baton Rouge.
 
Grace Toohey and The Advocate seem to want to retroactively change police procedure and take back pay these first responders for public safety. How cruel can writers for the press be? Look to The Advocate personnel---writers, editors and all---for evidence.
 
My heart goes out to every police officer in the city and beyond: Hang in there; a civic people both need and want you, and we have not lost hope that dissidents to civic morality may reform; that's may as in have the opportunity to reform.
 
The Advocate personnel have the opportunity to reform. Mayor Broome? I don't think so, but don't know.

   

To Michael Anthony Gilchrease: I work to promote We the People of the United States: those citizens who trust-in and commit-to the agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. The people's habitual neglect of the goals in that agreement is responsible for the 2018 nadir in civic morality. (I hope that the ascent toward civic morality is underway.)  

  

Steve Allen is smiling (Arthur Hardy) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_a0e254aa-3117-11e8-aaf1-4b692d78cb99.html)

Mr. Hardy is celebrating and sharing a great idea for every one who cares about this dilemma.

Here’s a couple reminders of the importance to Steve Allen (d. 2000) and others who knew the joy of a New Orleans parade:  youtube.com/watch?v=Cq-kjF5ZxcE  and youtube.com/watch?v=ppnr6-m7UGU .

To David Naccari: Leaving the "Lee Circle" name and placing a plaque to say that USA military might and civic morality defeated the CSA's “more erroneous religious belief” (referring to the seven-state declaration of secession) would empower a civic culture.

See Lee’s 1856 letter to his wife to understand the more erroneous religious belief: leefamilyarchive.org/9-family-papers/339-robert-e-lee-to-mary-anna-randolph-custis-lee-1856-december-27.

Philanthropy for ex-convicts (Richard Haase & Michael Williamson) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_2c92e1c8-2e1a-11e8-8cf0-97b23c2be027.html)

I appreciate United Way of SW Louisiana and Louisiana Prisoner Re-entry Initiative. Their goal is to help prisoners establish private liberty with civic morality and save $15 million of $700 million annual cost of incarceration in Louisiana, or 2.1%.

I don't know what they plan to spend to meet their goal. They invite corporate partners to help. I’m no corporation but would like to help and will contact them. 

News

Erroneous religion’s history (Adelle M. Banks) religionnews.com/2018/03/28/remembering-kings-last-sermon-with-renewed-hope/

Hope is the stuff of religion, but its pursuit engages competition for less error. It is better to collaborate to benefit from the-objective-truth.

Europe’s masterpiece, Christianity, and its treatment of slavery, is the prime example a civic people may reference to pivot to collaboration for civic morality for living rather than religious morality, which proposes comfort and hope for the afterdeath.

The CSA, in its declaration of secession from the USA, begged woe by claiming a more erroneous religious belief justified war. Today, black church claims a religious belief. However, the USA proved that civic justice is the responsibility of the people rather than the American god.

Perhaps because King did not perceive this historical perspective, the five decades after his death have been marked by Alinsky-Marxist organizing (AMO). It produces chaos Martin Luther King, Jr. did not imagine. Barack Obama, today’s prime motivator, now with OFA, understands chaos.

Gov. Edwards’ loses our money again (Mark Ballard) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_e6fee930-2ed3-11e8-b74a-6b929ff18942.html

I like some of the prior comments, especially James Hyde's, excepting the words "society" and "standards". I think private liberty with civic morality is a more individually-collaborative purpose.

The Advocate’s print editor seemed less willing to face reality: Gov. Edwards waste of Louisiana’s money happened again.

  

Civic people understand the reality: Some people prefer same sex sex. However, such choices are private, not public, and the public does not want to be responsible for private affairs.
 
To put this another way, one of the noblest challenges a man faces is to woo a woman, and the noblest act by a woman is judging that she is receiving the attention of a man who understands and is committed-to her collaboration for life with her viable ova---perhaps some 400 over the course of her fertile years. A spousal commit is challenging to form and to maintain. I have never been more frightful yet confident than when I discovered I had met my spouse. I am fortunate.

When spouses commit to each other in monogamy for life, they also commit to the family they intend: perhaps children, grandchildren, and beyond. This unit: the family in monogamy for life is the basic political unit of a civic culture. The empowerment is fidelity, which seems difficult until it is practiced. About 13% of marriages are monogamous for life. The entire family experiences and observes monogamy for life; there is continuity. When monogamy fails, the spouses handle the consequences privately; perhaps they divorce so as to re-marry. However, the impacts on family are private.

Some people, for their reasons, do not tolerate the challenges mentioned above and want a same-sex contract. Repeating, forming a heterosexual monogamy for life is unlikely, and some people won’t wait for a spouse. Understood. However, it is unjust to demand more than acceptance of the decision: the responsibility is private.

I do not know the-objective-truth, but I hope Gov. Edwards and others who insist on discouraging the human quest for family heterosexual monogamy will be more open-minded to a civic culture. There’s no religious challenge here---only civic morality.

  

May 6, 2017 article (Bryn Stole) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/alton_sterling/article_35a61fe6-3285-11e7-8c57-b3adc574afb5.html

To Thomas Winn: I've been in Baton Rouge for over five decades, and my experience and observations are that most citizens have civic morality. They will give you whatever they have when you are in incidental trouble, like a flat tire or such. And they will stay as long as it takes to get the job done.

I think The Advocate personnel are dissidents to American republicanism---the rule of statutory law that is maintained by a relentless pursuit of the-objective-truth. I think most personnel who represent rather than work for The Advocate are social democrats at heart---people who, intentionally or not, want chaos: everybody gets what they want when they want it. Any employees who think I am correct can politely express to the boss their wish for a civic newspaper in Baton Rouge.

The mode of operation by such people is Alinsky-Marxist organizing (AMO). The Advocate routinely gives ink to the local affiliate of Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF); see togetherbr.org/about to learn more about them. Street politics is not new, but the brilliance of AMO tactics is deadly, destructive, and life ruining to recruits left holding the AMO responsibility, while the absent leaders view from afar.

  

Baton Rouge needs a responsible hometown newspaper. What we have is a social-democracy rag IMO. I write to collaborate for reform and am willing to change my opinion.

Long awaited decision (Grace Toohey and Jim Mustian) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/alton_sterling/article_16324d8c-27fe-11e8-9452-c7780c49cd09.html)

  

The cumulative past has taught humankind, in about eight trillion man-years of experience, that neither a person’s god nor government will usurp each individual’s authority to control his or her energy for mutual, comprehensive safety and security during their brief lifetime, hopefully some eighty years. My five decades in Baton Rouge informs me that most individuals here accepted personal authority to behave long ago. Let’s preserve safety and security again.

  

Unbelievable governor (Advocate Staff) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/alton_sterling/article_c985f712-31e0-11e8-8b7d-473d053e27f2.html)

  

The Louisiana governor said, "I continue to ask the people of Louisiana to pray for Alton’s family, the community of North Baton Rouge where he lived, the law enforcement officials who protect us every day, and our great state."

 

Where’s any consideration for the police officers’ families and the people beyond North Baton Rouge? Where’s the uncertainty about the identity and motives of the 911 caller? Is the governor a willful pawn in Alton’s victimization in someone’s scheme to entrap first responders and jeopardize Baton Rouge citizens?

 

Despite the governor’s exclusive god and prayers---his civic dissidence, I hope for relief also for Blane Salamoni, Howie Lake II and their families, as well as all the people.

It seems self-evident that civic morality is a responsibility that is left to the individual human being. Civic fidelity by one person accrues to a civic culture. A civic culture motivates some dissidents to reform. Most people understand civic morality but some don’t.

Expansion or not (Tyler Bridges) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_33cf0394-2ef7-11e8-8127-334fddb2cf3b.html)  

The Advocate reporters has been writing all along that gambling bills intend to increase state revenues from gambling.

If the state gets another 22 cents, somebody has lost 100 cents or a dollar. First, by definition, if the state gets more gambling winnings, expansion occurred. Second, no business is going to spend capital, for example to move to a new location, without expansion of income so as to pay for the new capital. This entire gambling stampeded is for expansion.

Nevertheless, I would like to see a list of the bills, the cost to the gambling entrepreneur, and the justifying revenue increases from each 1) gambling winnings and 2) retail sales such as hotel and restaurant. I’d like the gambling winnings broken down between residential losers and tourist losers.

 

With such data I’d think 1) The Advocate would be earning their keep and 2) I’d have enough information to know what I expect from my representatives.

The people may reform to an achievable better future by collaborating to discover the-objective-truth and using it to effect civic morality instead of being flummoxed by dominant opinion, lobby-money to elected officials, and politically leveraged words and phrases like “voters.” Voters who have no sway when political camaraderie, collegiality, and lobby-leverage kicks in with a legislative session.

Hopefully, after a brief time with a responsible press, citizens knowing the facts, and most citizens writing to their representatives, representatives would agree that they too can be civic citizens rather than lobby-pawns and other conflicting subjects of graft.

To Doug Johnson: Doug, I always enjoy your dry humor.

However, I'd have to know the facts to stop thinking gambling is another infrastructure cost. I don't gamble but think I am paying for Louisiana gambling.

Just as non-drivers contribute to the huge cost of roads and bridges and non-believers pay the net misery and loss to religion, non-gamblers carry the net cost of gambling.

Reform is possible. The human being may develop the individual authority to spend his or her life-time energy for personal benefit. An adult population wherein the majority each accepts individual authority may develop civic morality; in other words private liberty with civic morality; in other words human justice.

So far, cultures have erroneously inculcated the 17th-18th century belief that a human is too weak to behave for personal benefits: Most cultures urge their young to seek external higher power. The dominant external powers are institutional gods and governments, both of which are far weaker than the individual who chose to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth. Consequently, many people spend their entire life seeking a power that could save their life for them. The institutional gods and government collect the fruits of misery.

Since the-objective-truth, so far, has not negated the possibility that God is in charge, the individual who gains hope, comfort, and civic responsibility from his or her god may have in fact chosen God. Nobody knows the-objective-truth about what may be in control. However, the individual controls his or her energy during every moment of life.

If most citizens accepted and developed authority to spend individual energy for personal benefit, the gambling industry could not survive and politicians could not benefit from the public’s weakness.

  

The Church at a nadir? (Nicole Winfield) (washingtonpost.com/national/religion/youth-give-pope-piece-of-their-mind-call-for-transparency/2018/03/24/a9d09a74-2f6c-11e8-8dc9-3b51e028b845_story.html?utm_term=.0fcba75e6220)

Where’s the failure: the Church or the believers?

“. . . the faithful looking elsewhere for peace and spiritual fulfillment.” What is “spiritual fulfillment,” beyond an intellectual construct? If it is inner authority, how can it be acquired from an external institution? Can money buy it? Can worship barter it?

  

Why should an institution “love everyone”? Can someone who is not appreciated be loved? Is love a mutual relationship? Can an individual hate other people in order to love one person?

Why “spread the faith”? Can a person appreciate a person who has not the intent to understand concepts like “vocation” and “discernment”? Can there be “faith” without comprehension and understanding.

The Church has shortcomings but “the Church” is only its believers.

  

Legislators should accept their human authority (Elizabeth Crisp) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_0ca0d588-2f7c-11e8-9e29-1bde908ac324.html)

In a civic culture, that is, a culture of collaboration for justice, legislators both accept and act-with human authority. Newly-elected House Democratic Caucus Chair Robert Johnson, D-Marksville: “I think [Appel’s] comments were unholy.”

Johnson’s comment is un-civic:  To represent piety in legislative debate expresses the speaker’s refusal of individual authority for civic morality. Legislators’ pretense to divinity is obsolete, despite the Supreme Court’s erroneous opinion in Greece v Galloway (21014). Legislators may demand civic morality but holiness is not their purview.

In expressing this view, I speak for a civic people and think that includes many religiously moral citizens. However, legislators who would use their god to express civic opinion are weak citizens and perhaps blasphemers as well.

  

Zoo dilapidation (Andrea Gallo) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_a2a52ac0-310c-11e8-98be-c38dd3c1f0d0.html)

I'd like to see the last previous inspectors' report and the zoo-board's responsive-meeting report.

  

Other forums

quora.com/Why-do-I-dislike-humanity/answer/Phil-Beaver-1/comment/57603316?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=2179206224

Comment on Phil Beaver's answer to Why do I dislike humanity?

Milky Milkybowl

It’s more the fact that as you get older, you realize that everything that comes out of most people’s mouths is stupid, rhetorical and makes no sense, and they spout this on a daily basis, and the fundamental idea that a pro-mankind lover has is slowly obliterated into a case of pure hatred.

To Milky: I recently discovered this articulation: Each individual has the authority to behave according to personal preference in every moment of their life. However, most cultures that have evolved inculcate the pursuit of a higher power: someone’s god or someone’s government. The gods and governments are too weak for the individual human, so as long as he or she does not accept his or her human authority, he or she keeps searching for higher power.

quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-life-66

Original question, “What is life itself?” Answer then: The quest to discover your person’s choices, whether by study, observations, or experiences.

New question: “What is the meaning of life?” Answer now: Each individual has the opportunity to live, develop awareness of the-objective-truth, and discover his or her personal preferences. The person who usually chooses fidelity to the-objective-truth benefits and may have the good fortune to live long. The accumulated benefits of fidelity to the-objective-truth determine the meaning of the individual’s life, good or bad. 

Ray Monk, “Numbers and Letters”, Wall Street Journal, March 24-25, 2018, page C10, wsj.com/articles/maker-of-patterns-review-numbers-and-letters-1521754012.

Freeman Dyson in Maker of Patterns reviewed his childhood letters and states “I not only forget things, I also remember things that never happened.”

“Mr. Dyson’s time in Princeton was spent largely attempting to convince a skeptical Oppenheimer of the merits of Feynman’s theory. It took a while, but when he succeeded he was rewarded with a lifetime’s appointment at the Institute, in Oppenheimer’s words, “for proving me wrong.”

Makes me wonder if Dyson made that up.

Joseph Crespino, “Who Is the Real Atticus Finch”, Wall Street Journal, March 24-25, 2018, page C3, wsj.com/articles/who-is-the-real-atticus-finch-1521729187

“In the 1930s . . . A.C. Lee . . . reported favorably on southern sheriffs and local officials who protected black prisoners from would-be  lynchers.”

Fraser Nelson, “The UK Is Doing Just Fine, Thanks”, Wall Street Journal, March 24-25, 2018, page C1, wsj.com/articles/the-u-k-is-doingjust-fine-thanks-1521819089.

  

“As the Princeton political theorist Jan-Werner Muller has observed, populism is primarily a form of rhetoric, not a political agenda [a fist for the establishment]. [Following] the Bertolt Brecht poem: ‘Would it not be easier . . . To dissolve the people/ And elect another?”

“A new Tory MP, Kemi Badenoch . . . democracy is like sex: If it’s not messy, you’re not doing it right.” Seems like #metoo solicitation.

Joseph Epstein, “The American Dream as Nightmare”, Wall Street Journal, March 24-25, 2018, page C10, wsj.com/articles/class-matters-review-the-american-dream-as-nightmare-1521754095

“As Churchill said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others,” so one might say that capitalism is the worst form of economic organization except for all the others. Steve Fraser, author of “Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion,” would heartily, adamantly, profoundly disagree. Primitive capitalism, mercantile capitalism, extractive capitalism, industrial capitalism, Keynesian capitalism, corporate capitalism, global capitalism, Mr. Fraser has yet to come upon a capitalism he doesn’t despise.” See thenation.com/article/capitalism-disaster-all-seasons/.

A 1960s Mississippi marcher from Long Island, Fraser has leftist worldview.

Americans traditionally think European classism did not exist in “the New World, where classes were providentially banned from the beginning.”

“Where others find progress, [Fraser] sees subterfuge.” He wants to reform GDP distribution but does not specify how. Epstein’s experience in Little Rock Arkansas is that the poor learned how to sue each other rather than the economic abusers. He writes, “Human nature is generally not the revolutionary’s most reliable friend.” [Phil, this the same old Hobbes’s story. Instead, the people may be educated from ground up for individual authority to behave for personal benefit.]

Fraser dreams of utopianism, but may take note of the two-lined poem, “Those who in Elysian Fields would dwell, / Do but extend the boundaries of hell.”

Peter Thonemann, “The Divine in Daily Life”, Wall Street Journal, March 24-25, 2018, page C7, wsj.com/articles/pantheon-review-the-divine-in-daily-life-1521837425

Thonemann: “My own reasons for attending synagogue might be profoundly meaningful to me---loyalty to my wife, dealing with personal grief, an instruction in a dream---while bearing no relation whatsoever to the ritual’s official ‘meaning’."

To each his own, but I think a culture, wherein loyalty to self more than any other authority assures loyalty to wife, is achievable and individually desirable.

  

With a culture of mutual, comprehensive safety and security, hereafter, security, so that each individual may responsibly pursue personal preferences for happiness, there may emerge civic morality that accommodates the societies and associations that people choose. In other words, humankind needs a transcendent society, the society of security, that accommodates all responsible human associations.

quora.com/What-is-wrong-with-our-society-today

I can only speak for my individual, now in my mid 70′s, but I think the preventer is religious beliefs.

It has taken perhaps 2.8 million years to develop religious cultures. They have never been compatible with each other and thus are dissidents-to civic morality. “Civic” refers to individuals living in private liberty with public (and private) morality. An individual cannot live some eighty years trying to establish compatibility among humankind when it has taken some eight trillion man-years to establish dissidence.

However, a better future is immediately available if each human will accept the authority to behave so as to establish public morality or security while maintaining personal beliefs.

Mom and Dad were great providers and Southern Baptists. By age ten, I trusted-in and committed-to the-objective-truth, which exists and can only be discovered, without facing the conflict with what Mom and Dad wanted. The-objective-truth does not respond to human intellect; but the consequences of human decisions conform to the-objective-truth. (I’m writing this in my mid 70’s—-can’t verify things from age ten.) But it took me four decades to overcome religious indoctrination from my youth.

I fell in love with a French-Catholic woman. Thank goodness I did not comprehend that Baptist church and Catholic Church understand that each other is doomed to hell. I now know that if I had been aware and still wanted monogamy with my wife, she had and has the personal authority to marry me. I think I would have exercised fidelity to her, too, but cannot say. Monogamy for life was a serious choice.

However, after about a quarter-century of marriage, I realized her Catholicism for her is more important to me for her than my Baptism for me. I dropped out of Christianity for me and discovered my fidelity to the-objective-truth over a couple decades’ study.

This personal story is only to explain how I came to the work to establish civic morality with private liberty, in other words, human justice. The choice to be religious is for mature adults rather than children.

  

I think with a culture of security, responsible societies may flourish.

Nathaniel Tokich

  

For me if security was switched to accountability I’d be game. From my perspective security inherently invokes use of force, while I’m not against the use of force. I would much prefer accountability than passing on responsibility to someone else.

Phil Beaver

I’m not certain I understand.

I don’t go to Mardi Gras parades because I know they risk participant’s safety. I am accountable and have not asked the police to protect me. Nevertheless, I want the police to protect me if I decide to go.

In my work, I always accommodate the police, because I think there will always be people who think crime pays.

I want the chance to consider accountability as you view it herein.

I have a similar problem with the word “respect” which many people demand these days. I do not think respect can be considered when there is no appreciation. Same with “love.” There can be no love without appreciation.

Please give me some more for understanding.

Nathaniel Tokich

In the United States where I am from the police are not mandated to protect you, only to uphold the law.

That is a very large distinction. Getting stabbed in the subway? Police in the other cabin watching? You’re on your own!

I know people that even when someone was breaking into their house, stealing their car, or being physically assaulted in public with law enforcement officers nearby they received no help what so ever. This is not specific to one area either.

When I say be accountable I’m pointing out that everyone part of the community should be actively taking responsibility for their choices and the condition of others. See someone being assaulted in public, an accountable person will would step in to assist. Someone scammed a neighbor? An accountable person would investigate. Is someone restricting your rights? Accountable individuals will rise to the call to protect those rights.

Accountability is to own one’s choices, to take responsibility for one’s environment and themselves, and to actively pursue solutions to issues on behalf of their community. Accountable individuals will justify and defend their choices instead of just expecting someone else to do so for them.

That’s my perspective of accountable.

Phil Beaver

I appreciate the explanation. I also am an American.

US law is designed by the people to protect the innocent. The police are assigned by the police to enforce the law. The police act on harm more than suspicion. A couple of my experiences might help explain my view.

Years ago, a neighbor was cross with me and called from another state and ended by saying he was going to meet me at the swimming races the next day and beat me up. I told him that I had no intentions to fight and would report his threat to the police. I reported the call to the police and never heard from the neighbor again.

A guy was intimidating me in an online forum, and I called the police for advice. They said they could do nothing, but that I should be cautious and report back any suspicious events in my next few days.

There are bad police and guard services. For example, the person who stayed outside during the recent school shootings in Florida was a bad cop.

But back to accountable. I am deeply considering your perspective in application to an idea I recently expressed and consider profound: In every thought, every word, and every action, neither initiate nor tolerate harm. I derived this statement from the Hippocratic Oath plus Agathon’s speech in Plato’s “Symposium.”

So far, in thinking about “nor tolerate harm,” I had not expanded the thought to accountability, but thanks to you, I am now doing so.

Accountability is not easy. I now recognize that in my simple experiences, I was civically accountable. So were the police. So were the other parties: neither one of them carried out their threats.

I’m reminded of another experience. I was at an outdoor music event. I noticed the disappearance of a lady, but her purse was sitting on the ground. I wondered if it could be a bomb. Keeping the purse in sight, I notified a policeman nearby. He came back with me, saying that the lady would probably return. Just then, she came in sight.

I could have screamed, “Bomb,” and cleared the area. I could have thrown my body on the purse. I think I was accountable.

However, if there had been a bomb and explosion, I would feel differently for both myself and the policeman.

 quora.com/What-are-the-characteristics-of-a-civilized-society

“Civilized” has at least two distinctions: conforming to either the civilization or the law. Merriam-Webster online seems to judge the law according to civilization. Nevertheless, the standards must be known before your question can be answered.

This is a secondary reason I prefer to write about civic morality rather than social morality. Civic morality addresses connections and transactions between two individuals, whether they be persons, institutions, or nations. I advocate private liberty with civic morality, in other words, justice.

  

My use of “civic” is readily understood as acceptable if not usual with the expression that civic citizens behave morally whether they are in the city or in the woods and whether municipal rules, religious doctrine or tradition is consistent with morality or not. Morality is discovered as conformity to the-objective-truth.

To understand my writing, readers must accept the words and not convert them to their words. Often people respond converting my well-defined “civic” to “civil” then terminate the dialogue, frustrated with my “insolence”. Also, people respond with talk about objective truth. Law professors, political scientists, and other self-styled-scholars readily take their leave when they encounter a writer’s well-defined word or phrase.

Societies like that require propriety according to them and thereby exclude themselves from civic collaboration. The hubris of stonewalling may be a form of lying to self, never realizing the other party views pride with pity.

One of the ironies of civilization is that recovered victims look on unreformed oppressors with pity. I work to motivate such people to talk to each other—-not in the hereafter, but now, while they can establish private liberty with civic morality.

quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-social-change-and-cultural-change

Google answers as follows:

Social change refers to any significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and cultural values and norms. By “significant” alteration, sociologists mean changes yielding profound social consequences.

Culture change is a term used in public policy making that emphasizes the influence of cultural capital on individual and community behavior. It has been sometimes called repositioning of culture, which means the reconstruction of the cultural concept of a society.

Thus, social change is within the society, whereas cultural change addresses the community of societies. Yet both definitions seem coercive.

Individuals have (but may not accept) the personal authority to pursue their preferences. Thus, public policy may not influence the individual.

I exercise my individual authority to resist society’s coercion when I deem it erroneous. I write to establish collaboration for civic morality rather than social coercion. I think civic morality may be commonplace in the near future, and if the majority of individuals practice civic morality, they will establish an overall culture of civic morality wherein other pursuits, such as the religious culture or the spectator sports culture may flourish. However, the crime culture may decline, because the civic culture motivates criminals to change.

I think social change is an urge and cultural change is a development.

quora.com/Why-are-the-natural-looks-of-men-considered-acceptable-by-society-while-women-have-to-wear-makeup-and-dye-their-hair-to-look-okay-from-society-s-perspective?

Women dress to compete with women. It stems from other considerations in their natural collaboration with their viable ova, which may number around 400 during the fertile years.

Because she (perhaps without articulating) anticipates a family, she wants a spousal relationship that promises comprehensive safety and security: to mate with a reliable husband and father.

Again, perhaps without articulation, she seeks a man who understands the female-ova collaboration, would threaten neither her nor her viable ova, and intends monogamy for life of the family: wife, children, grandchildren and beyond.

A man who develops fidelity dresses for comprehensive safety and security.

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.