Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id GAA15733 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:14:52 GMT Message-Id: <200012200612.BAA18130@mail4.lig.bellsouth.net> From: "Joe E. Dees" <joedees@bellsouth.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:17:26 -0600 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Please allow me to introduce myself... X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi, I'm Joe Dees. Now, what you all perhaps DIDN'T know
about me.
I am a graduate student in Humanities Interdisciplinary (with
only my thesis to complete) at the University of West Florida (my
four tracks are philosophy, psychology, sociology and
anthropology, and my B.A. is in philosophy - I won the Outstanding
Student Award in the College of Arts and Sciences my senior
year). I have had gaps in my attendance, due to medical problems
(devastating cluster headaches, alleviated by a surgery that
corrected a deviated septum, rebroke and reset a badly set broken
nose, and reconstructed malformed sinus passages, as well as
three hernia surgeries, two passed kidney stones and a ganglion
cyst removed from my right wrist), personal tragedy (a divorce
following an eight-year marriage, the deaths of my father and
brother) and the necessity of making money (including teaching
Intro to Philosophy and Comparative Religion at Troy State
University). I am a summa cum laude student, with a 2190 (out of
possible 2400) GRE score (780 math, 770 verbal, 640 logical), the
highest cumulative score ever recorded at my institution, although I
took the test before I became computer literate (my broken nose
was always in books) and I believe that I could do better now. I am
a past member of both Mensa (upper 2% IQ) and Intertel (upper
1%), but found the company pretentious and terminally boring and
let my memberships expire. The professors at my institution
adress me less as a student than as an unsheepskinned
colleague, and my collaboration is constantly in demand (one
example - I furnished the structural evolution and references for a
recent paper on the use of the principles of magick to retain at-risk
children in education, for the head of the ED department - being a
pagan helped). I have an online paper on paganism, entitled
GENDER AND NATURE IN CONTEMPORARY NEOPAGANISM,
online published by the International Journal of Diversity and
Synergy (http://www.nadm.org/journal/journal.htm) as well as on
Witchvox.com.
As a result of the presentation (and reception) of my paper
(which y'all have seen) TOOLS, LANGUAGE AND TEXT: THE
SERIAL ISOMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLIC CAPACITY IN
HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS at the Language Origins Society
annual meeting in Tallahassee, Florida a couple of years ago, I
have been offered a teaching assistanceship at Berkeley while
pursuing my doctorate in the Philosophy of Mind, and am assured
by the present faculty and staff that a professorial position will be
available at my alma mater upon satisfactory completion. My only
problem in this area is that my mother cannot live independently
(diabetes, glaucoma, high blood pressure, arthritis of the hips and
hands) and I made a deathbed promise to my father not to put her
in a nursing home. She is Southern Baptist and my live-in fiancee
is Soka Gakkai Buddhist and they do not get along, and that
relationship has much improvement to achieve before I could leave
Florida and relocate to California for the required period. Luckily,
they are willing to hold the offer open until I am in a position to
accept.
Okay, I've done it; who's next? Let's get to know each other
better!
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