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Thanks.

Maybe this is clearer.

 

Thank you for taking the time to send me your email.  Not being of the trade, I’ll admit your invitation for a “pitch” caught me flat footed and I needed to mull it over for a few days.

I have and my first question is what am I pitching?

I’m not sure what you’re looking for.  Please accept these three distinct pitches.

If I’m pitching myself and why I’m worth you taking an interest in me and my writing, I would start with my baseline expectation:  “If we aren’t changing minds, we are failing!”

My “manifesto” (tongue in check, for sure) summarizes the undercurrent in much of what I’m writing about:

“We The People have a moral ethical right – along with a pragmatic need – to learn what scientists have learned about this planet’s biosphere and climate engine without constant dishonest crossfire.

We should not tolerate serious scientists always being drown out by amoral, dishonest, too often slanderous and frankly childishly ignorant arguments – that an astoundingly ruthless PR factory repeats over and over again, without ever learning a damned thing from the evidence in front of us.”

If you’ve read “Merchants of Doubt” you know that over the past decades, the sowing of doubt towards serious science through deception has evolved into a high art-form wielded with vicious ruthlessness and the biggest megaphone money can buy with much success.

I’ve been paying attention since the ‘70s and it seems to me all the while the Left has given Evangelical Faith-Shackled thinking a free pass.  This has lead to their becoming an easily manipulated very powerful, and emotionally supercharged voting block.

I believe a big reason for that is because most lefties are ill-equipped to explain the difference between science and religion, and too timid to take on life, death, afterlife issues.

That is a shame, because we should be vigorously confronting nonsensical beliefs like an afterlife and heaven or hell, or the notion that any petty self-serving human can ever be in a position to pretend they know God’s Will.  Our individual human experiences with a God, whatever that may be, is the most intimate relationship in our human lives, it is non-transferable.

When are we going to start challenging that destructive self-certain childishness?  They’ve been victim to these past decades of free reign for Prosperity Doctrine Preachers who have learned to pimp Jesus’ memory for power and profit.

Not with attacks, so much as with fundamental simple sound challenges and arguments.    Why not encourage then to doubt their faith – after all it is built on fantasy thinking that demands a willful ignorance towards physical reality.

I’m talking about constructive nudges to force some self-reflection and evolution in perceptions, after all the cognitive dissonance must be getting astounding within those brainwashed Faith-shackled minds.

I can say that “I am an Earth Centrist,” then explain what that means and why it’s important and how it touches on our world outlook, our hearts and spiritual needs as we deal with our day to days.

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If I were making a pitch for an article, I’d offer the following summary and ask how many words will you give me and how personal (or not) would you want it?

 

… The missing key is appreciating the fundamental “Magisteria of Physical Reality,” and recognizing both science and religion are products of the “Magisteria of Our Mindscape.”

Science seeks to objectively learn about our physical world, but we should still recognize all our understanding is embedded within and constrained by our Mindscape.

Religion is all about the human Mindscape itself, with its wonderful struggles, fears, spiritual undercurrents, needs and stories we create to give our live’s meaning and make it worth living, or at least bearable.

What’s the point?

Science, religions, heaven, hell, political beliefs, even God, they are all products of the human Mindscape, generations of imaginings built upon previous generations of imaginings, all the way down.

>>> Not to say they are the same thing.  They are not!

Both are equally valid and necessary human endeavors, but they are fundamentally and qualitatively different.

Religion deals with the inside of our minds, hearts, souls and personal struggles.

Science does its best to objectively understand the physical world beyond our ego’s.

Here we are, 2018, sober assessment of physical facts is out of fashion and fantasy thinking in the service of ruthless avarice is in.

Now it literally threatening to topple USA’s government Of The People, By The People, and For The People, in favor of a Me First, power and profits are more important than anything, oligarch run machine.

Well, unless an awful lot of side-liners start getting engaged in our democratic process.

All the while the actual physical creation outside of our conceited little minds keeps on unfolding, following well understood geophysical rules regardless.

Ignore at our own peril.

http://citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2019/04/citizenschallenge-why-you-earth-centrist.html

https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2018/09/key-to-gould-nonoverlapping-magisteria.html

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If I were to make a pitch for a monthly column, I would repeat my “manifesto” and then explain that I have spent over a decade seeking out climate science contrarians to debate, yet after lively starts, they consistently run away to hide.

Thus, I’ve had to resort to Virtual Debates whereby I quote their transcripts and respond to claims made.  My response is a combination of dissecting the rhetorical tricks of their trade, while explaining Earth’s climate complexities that are being deliberately hidden from their audience.  Along with offering copious links back to actual experts on the topic at hand.

So far they win by ignoring me, since I am invisible.  Give me a little visibility.

I would love nothing more than to have a monthly column to dissect some recent contrarian con-job articles or YouTube videos.

https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/p/in-nutshell-jim-steele-proposes-that.html

https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/p/hall-of-shame.html

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I have only taken a few writing courses over the decades, so I understand my work is rough, but I also believe in tough love critique, hurt feelings be damned.  Meaning, I’m ready to buckle down and get more serious, but I need outside guidance and support to take it to the next level.

Thank you for your time and consideration.  Please let me know how I can prove myself to you.

Sincerely,