JamyeJ
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- Oct 29, 2009
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This year my goal was to get involved in the local skeptical movements in the Dallas area, whatever it took. I've been very lucky in that regard to have met some fantastic people (David and Rodrigo and Scott and Susan to name a few) involved primarily in the skeptic side of things.
I find there are huge numbers of people involved in the Freethought community here, with groups of 400 or more members. Atheist organizations are scattered throughout the metroplex and are thriving quite well.
I am primarily interested in the science and critical thought avenue of things, and I was very lucky to be invited to speak to the North Texas Skeptics group a couple of months ago. The group is small (15-20 people) and making strides to getting things up to the digital age.
It has always been the type of person that I am that I strive relatively single-mindedly towards my goals, and I wanted to announce my goals here to encourage anyone else that wants to get involved to contact me, or the NTS group, or I can put you in contact with some of the officers and founders of these groups or protests movements we're working on.
My goals are to do the following (with the help/support/guidance of NTS and my friends)
- Drag North Texas Skeptics into a more digital format to broaden the availability and garner public interest.
- Complete my Richard P. Feynman library for public access on weekends to people interested in borrowing/reading science and skeptical literature.
- Organize a Dallas Skeptics in the Pub
- Present paper on Teaching Critical Thinking in Texas at TAM8
- Publish article in Skeptical Inquirer about Critical Thinking in the Texas Public School System
- Gather people willing to actively protest through letter writing campaigns and public picketing of events like WBC, psychic readings, scientology, and other harmful woo.
So, short of painting my face blue and riding around on a horse with a flag, this is my public call to skeptics of the Dallas area and the surrounding metroplex. GET INVOLVED! Join us, we can do more in great numbers than we can do sitting at home and complaining about the ignorance of the world.
I find there are huge numbers of people involved in the Freethought community here, with groups of 400 or more members. Atheist organizations are scattered throughout the metroplex and are thriving quite well.
I am primarily interested in the science and critical thought avenue of things, and I was very lucky to be invited to speak to the North Texas Skeptics group a couple of months ago. The group is small (15-20 people) and making strides to getting things up to the digital age.
It has always been the type of person that I am that I strive relatively single-mindedly towards my goals, and I wanted to announce my goals here to encourage anyone else that wants to get involved to contact me, or the NTS group, or I can put you in contact with some of the officers and founders of these groups or protests movements we're working on.
My goals are to do the following (with the help/support/guidance of NTS and my friends)
- Drag North Texas Skeptics into a more digital format to broaden the availability and garner public interest.
- Complete my Richard P. Feynman library for public access on weekends to people interested in borrowing/reading science and skeptical literature.
- Organize a Dallas Skeptics in the Pub
- Present paper on Teaching Critical Thinking in Texas at TAM8
- Publish article in Skeptical Inquirer about Critical Thinking in the Texas Public School System
- Gather people willing to actively protest through letter writing campaigns and public picketing of events like WBC, psychic readings, scientology, and other harmful woo.
So, short of painting my face blue and riding around on a horse with a flag, this is my public call to skeptics of the Dallas area and the surrounding metroplex. GET INVOLVED! Join us, we can do more in great numbers than we can do sitting at home and complaining about the ignorance of the world.
