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A PhD in FSM
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So I was brushing up on the history of the Civil Rights movement in the US and got to Dr. Martin Luther King. His PhD was in Systematic Theology.

Translation: he got a PhD in Flying Spaghetti Monster. WTF? :flowstone:

Of all the many absurdities of human endeavor, accredited divinity academic degrees must take first prize, second only to felony-illegal plants. Next we'll have masters degrees in Mud Patty Construction.


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: A PhD in FSM [Re: Diploid]
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Couldn't it be compared to a history or anthropology degree?  Religion can be studied with a dispassionate or secular perspective, even if you are religious.  I dont know, just trying to think of something that can rationalize it.

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Re: A PhD in FSM [Re: Diploid]
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I have a BS degree in Socializing. Please don't hate me.:ass:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: A PhD in FSM [Re: ModusPwnd]
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Couldn't it be compared to a history or anthropology degree?  Religion can be studied with a dispassionate or secular perspective, even if you are religious.

Yes, exactly. It's the study of the history of the FSM.

But there is no PhD for study of the history of the Tooth Fairy or even Santa Claus. Doesn't seem fair to me. :shrug:


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: A PhD in FSM [Re: Diploid]
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Bu there is not PhD for study of the history of the Tooth Fairy or even Santa Claus. Doesn't seem fair to me


Well, when you say it like that... But there is a degree in studying the myths and fairy tales of cultures, isnt there?

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Re: A PhD in FSM [Re: ModusPwnd]
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Sure. But the analog would be a Religions or History degree.

From WiKi: A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of higher education for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy or for other ministry. Since at least the 4th century, there have been seminaries for the training of clergy.

These are the equivalent of degrees in rain dancing not the history of rain dancing. It seems absurd to me that one can earn a real PhD in fantasy.


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: A PhD in FSM [Re: Diploid]
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I am going to get a degree in alien propulsion systems. :yesnod:


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Re: A PhD in FSM [Re: Diploid]
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I read that he was also a communist spy.


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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. --  Bob Dylan
fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: A PhD in FSM [Re: Diploid]
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Diploid said:
But there is no PhD for study of the history of the Tooth Fairy or even Santa Claus. Doesn't seem fair to me. :shrug:



I think there have probably been many PhD's written on the origin of Santa Claus AND the origin of the Tooth Fairy


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Re: A PhD in FSM [Re: Diploid]
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Diploid said:
must take first prize, second only to

This doesn't make sense.  Just a friendly stylistic criticism. :smile:


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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”

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Re: A PhD in FSM [Re: Lion]
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University of Florida has a credited unit on Starcraft in a Masters degree. :tongue2:

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