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Hi, Joe-
Thanks for sharing but I, personally, don't hate any body on the list
enough to tell them that much about myself! :-)
For me, I'd rather just focus on memetics and what it portends for us
individually, creatively, and societally.
However, I would be amenable to listening to your explanation as to "why"
you feel it important to introduce ourselves at such a personal level
when the purported objective of this group is a discussion of memetics.
I am certainly ok with the introduction of even very personal matter as
long as it ties back into memetics. But as I like to keep my mashed
potatoes separate from my peach cobbler, I, for one, will vote to keep
the sharing of my personal information to other groups to which I may
belong. I vote for resisting your meme! ( I hope that this doesn't lead
to some "Floridian-type" recount! :-)
SoulSearcher77 aka Vincent Wright
"Joe E. Dees" wrote:
> 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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