[Vision2020] my phoney degree

[Art Deco]

Does the PhD program include a course in paragraphing?

Wayne Fox

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ben merkle" <benmerkle@moscow.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:51 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] my phoney degree


> Rose, Wayne and the Visionites,
> First, I would like to say to Rose, "tee hee Brutus?"
> Rose is close, but not quite there. Let me help. There is no US faculty in
> the ETCW. The two Americans who are featured on the webpage are graduates
of
> the school. American success stories. Not sure where you got the idea that
> they were the American faculty, because the webpage is pretty clear about
> what they are doing. Your internet research skills make your concerns
about
> the legitimacy of ETCW kind of quaint. As for my bilocation, I must
confess,
> much to everyone's surprise, that I am not bi. I live here in Moscow. The
> British PhD for theology is usually thesis only. It's not an online PhD.
> It's thesis only. That's just how it works with those crazy Brits. Maybe
you
> should take it up with the Queen, but she might think you're a bit
> provincial. I visited last Summer and turned in my first chapter and then
> visited Oxford and took four credits to apply to my Masters at UI. In
order
> to answer your other questions you'll need to tell me what is ECOW? Please
> do let me know how the University of Wales at Lampeter responds. If you
> don't hear anything, I'll be happy to get some more information for you.
I'm
> sorry that the University of Wales at Lampeter doesn't meet your high
> scruples. They'll be crushed I'm sure. As for Wayne and his concerns about
> me being a fake. I confess, I am a phony. I have recently taken to signing
> some of my work as Ben Merkle GED. But (I'm surprised that Rose hasn't
> googled me on this one) I don't actually have a GED. However, I have
> promised myself that if I manage to get my PhD then I will try for a GED.
> Man it feels good getting that off my chest.
> Dig it,
> Ben
> PS I really shouldn't take all the credit for the Hate Splotch. I didn't
set
> the page up. I don't speak computer. A friend put it together. I have
> written some of the text, but a number of other characters have
contributed
> as well. It is very much a grass roots kind of thing.
>
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