Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA17733 (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 17:15:27 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745B9E@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Please allow me to introduce myself... Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:48:45 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Thanks for the biog., Joe.
I'm sure there are those on the list who'd rather keep themselves to
themselves, personally speaking, and others, including me, who will throw in
personal anecdotes on occasion (as in the beard and hair threads...).
I think it's fair to say more broadly to all contributors, would-be
contributors, and lurkers, that background (professional, educational, or
otherwise) isn't relevant as long as you've got something to say. So, even
if you don't have the same kind of educational attainment as Joe hopes to
achieve, or some of the contributors have actually already achieved, don't
feel put off from contributing.
Unless of course you're going to contribute something stupid... :-) (I know,
I know, people in glass houses...)
Vincent
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> From: Joe E. Dees
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 6:17 am
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Please allow me to introduce myself...
>
> 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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