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  • Citizenschallenge-v.3 replied to the topic looking for a beating, er help in the forum General Discussion 5 years, 3 months ago

    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’m not sure what you’re looking for, so I’m offering two distinct pitches.

    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 own egos’.

    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.

    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 like to go where the wheels of faith-based delusional thinking hits the blacktop of reality.  The Climate Science contrarian community’s outpouring of coordinated malicious fraud.

    I have spent decades seeking out climate science contrarians to debate, yet after many 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 dedicated to dissecting selections of the endless firehose of ignorance dependent contrarian fraud showing up in articles and 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’m not schooled in writing and understand my work is rough, but I keep striving to improve, I believe in tough critique, hurt feelings be damned.  Meaning, I’m ready to buckle down and get more serious, but I need outside feedback and support to take it to the next level.

    I have a third pitch, I have been proactively keeping up on climate science, along with Earth sciences and Evolution since the early ’70s.   I would love an opportunity to be a climate science researcher, since I have the background to find facts and articles and to put them into the context of our living Earth and daily lives.

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

    Sincerely,

     

    Further background,

     

    https://   fourcornersfreepress   com/columns/

    I do some blogging,

    http://   citizenschallenge.blogspot   com

    https://   confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot   com

    http://   whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot   com

    Durango Telegraph – Caught Red-handed stealing land – April 4, 2019

    http://    no-villageatwolfcreek.blogspot   com/2019/04/caught-red-handed-stealing-land-vwc.html

    Reflections On Justice Sotomayor’s Confirmation Process

    http://    citizenschallenge.blogspot     com/2009/08/reflections-on-justice-sotomayors.html

    An Essay Concerning Our Weather

    Humanist; November 1995

    http://     connection.ebscohost     com/c/articles/9511065740/essay-concerning-our-weather