March 6, 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 want to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet would always preserve the original text.   

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 46:10 CJB), The Advocate, March 5, 2018, 5B.

"Desist, and learn that I am God, supreme over the nations, supreme over the earth.”

Dean says, “Be quiet. Remember, God is still God. It is all about Him.”

David had a primitive view of politics. A higher power would award power to a nation. Today, David’s arrogance has spread from nations to entire cultures that imagine their supremacy over the earth.

Dean keeps David’s ruinous arrogance alive and The Advocate is a party to the tyranny over people. The Advocate ought to be more responsible, to say the least.

  

Columns

Two disciplinary actions (John Rosemond) (rgj.com/story/life/2018/02/20/rosemond-take-smartphone-away-sassy-teen/357140002/)

Cut of the cellphone and remove the privacy door until behavior improves for a 30-day period.

 

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Thank you. I'm reading Eric Foner’s book, "Tom Paine and Revolutionary America," 1976. It is helping me understand some fundamental civic debates still prevalent.

For example, independence and republicanism went hand in hand. To many people, "republicanism" was as simple as "not a monarchy," the form of government the states were rejecting. To others, it meant egalitarianism under human rights bestowed upon men by God. The egalitarianism applied to voice in public debate or political power more than economics. One group in Philadelphia had a by-law stating that in political debate there would be no discussion of Divinity (God).

I write to encourage people to collaborate for mutual, comprehensive safety and security based on the-objective-truth rather than opinion and to employ the few goals stated in the preamble to categorize public concerns, keeping religion a private practice for adults who gain comfort and hope without promoting civic harm or injustice.

Abby Ellin, “The Clintons Owe Monica and Apology,” WSJ, March 6, 2018, page A17 (wsj.com/articles/the-clintons-owe-monica-an-apology-1520292148)

Bill and Hillary owe Chelsea more than an apology.

Ms. Ellin overlooked both Chelsea and civic morality: infidelity to your person hurts deepest at home.

The human person faces three powers:  actual reality, civil order, and personal behavior. Only in the latter may the person develop the authority to cultivate fidelity during a lifetime. For the Clinton couple, it’s too late for performance. Apologies, yes; amends, perhaps; performance, no.

 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.