Carolina University of Theology

According to its website ( www.cut.edu ), CUT is the educational outreach of the American Independent Baptist Association. The site states that while accreditation is not necessary for Christian universities, CUT believes that "high academic standards and ethics are." To facilitate this objective, CUT has "sought and received full accreditation from Accrediting Commission International (ACI), in Beebe, Arkansas, and the American Accrediting Association of Theological Institutions, Rocky Mount, NC."

 

Apparently, their definition of "high academic standards and ethics" differs considerably from your definition and my definition!

Mark

 

If I remember correctly a few years ago Berean first began running the add about "going to seminary once met packing up the family ..... etc". Suddenly...CUT began running an add with the same words. Not even original.

Now prestigious ACI accreditation. Pretty darn impressive. Puts them in the same league as those other schools who ACI will not release the names of. To think that the Graduate Theological Foundation also took this prestigious step.

Sighh. I still miss ACI's picture of the portable Morgan building and the other of Scheel and a couple of elderly ladies in front of a library or some other large public building. I do not believe it was any school they accredited. Do they ever take pictures in front of any mail boxes??

North

 

Those elderly ladies, along with Mr. Scheel, formed the ACI Accreditation Committee. Those serious ladies had many years of expertise in evaluating and recommending eduational institutions.

Remember the TV commercial for Hanes underwear, where the little old lady is stretching the elastic waist band, and says something like "They don't say Hanes until I say they say Hanes?" Similar scenario here. A school ain't ACI accredited until the elderly ladies say so! And them little old ladies don't just approve anything!!

Russell

 

I believe the Carolina University of Theology used to be Carolina Christian University and has had some connection with Dr. Richard Arno of the National Association of Christian Counselors. I believe the American Society of Christian Therapists is one of Arno's organizations.

Jimmy

 

Graduate Theological Foundation broke all ties with ACI. It was a major mistake, and has been corrected...

 

But you will find some who will never let you or GTF forget this "major mistake."

These are folks who live in the past because they do not have the courage to face the future.

As I said earlier, they crucify Christ all over again with their hard hearts and gradiose delusions of importance and intellectual superiority.

Their major problem is self-aggrandisement.

 

Upon first sight it could easily be assumed you are laughing at me.

Upon closer scrutiny it's crystal clear you are engaging in self-effacing humor because of your brutal honesty in this self-revealing thread

http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12790&highlight=googling

You have now joined the ranks of personae non gratae on my "Ignore list."

It gets old dealing with people whose self-hatred and self-contempt is so deeply ingrained, personal satisfaction is only found in the attacking and ridiculing of others.

It would be interesting to discover what you and my other persona non grata so loathe in yourselves.

 

Durn you, Gus. I'm so mad. I got no dancing smilies.

 

Look again, Jimmy. I’m not laughing at you, just at your pomposity and hypocrisy.

As is frequently the case, what is “crystal clear” to you baffles practically everyone else. Needless to say, asking you for clarification or substantiation is an exercise in futility.

Huh? I am somewhat dismayed to find out that I am persona non grata on your “Ignore List.” I was truly hoping to make the list.

Now, Jimmy, you’ve gotten in trouble before for making pseudo-psychological evaluations over the Internet of individuals you have never met. Do you believe such behavior is appropriate for someone who professes to be a mental health professional? Moreover, I did not attack you or ridicule you; I simply expressed my amusement at the way you ridicule yourself.

C’mon, Jimmy, where’s your sense of humor? Why do you chastise me for responding to your posts, especially since this is precisely what you want?

In all other forums, you have removed the ludicrous lines in your sig file that state “M.S., studies” and “M.Div. studies.” Why do you leave them in here, of all places? Perhaps this comment of yours on CollegeHints provides the answer.

• “You know, I really don't care what others think. I just go along with them, say some ridiculous things, and play the gadfly just to see how much time and energy they take responding to me which displays their own insecurities.”

It appears that, by your own admission, it is your wont to mess with people’s heads. Do you believe such behavior is appropriate for someone who professes to be a mental health professional?

If, as per your own admission, you say “ridiculous things,” why should you take offense when we find them droll and amusing? And, trust me, accusing others of self-aggrandizement while listing (not once, but twice) your affiliation with institutions that you only briefly attended (perhaps because their legitimacy stands in sharp contrast to the institutions that actually awarded you your credentials) as well as every school that conditionally accepts you into their doctoral program (perhaps until your transcripts arrive and the true nature of your alma maters are revealed) is both ridiculous and amusing.

Perhaps, before you embarrassingly start (once again) dispensing pseudo-psychological evaluations, it would be better if you would examine your deep-rooted need for attention (and the games you play to cast yourself in the role of a victim) that can no longer (if they ever could) be attributed to immaturity or insecurity, and instead appear to border on the pathological.

 

ACI Drive-by?

Here's a gentle reminder to the regular on this board who apparently lives very near the world headquarters of ACI, in Beebe, Arkansas, and who once suggested he might do a drive-by and perhaps take and post a picture or two. If those two elderly ladies are having tea in the rotunda at that time, so much the better.

 

Reply to Gus

I overreacted, Gus. I do see the humor in your post and it is funny.

The post concerning you came shortly after posting to an obnoxious individual.

Now, Gus, I did not dispense any diagnoses. I simply made some comments.

People make such comments all the time. If I were to say someone is paranoid that is not dispensing a professional opinion, Gus.

People say things like that all the time. You need to sharpen your sense of humor, too, Gus.

Be all this as it may, I failed to place you on my "Ignore List" and after seeing your recent post to me, I will not place you on it.

You can get obnoxious at times, and you can be very acerbic at times, but I have always liked you and continue to do so.

I think you, most of the time, are having fun whereas someone else on here is just downright nasty and mean.

As far as listing my schools, what's the big deal? Many people on here do that.

When I speak of self-aggrandisement, I am not speaking of someone listing their credentials. I am speaking of those who try to intimidate by puffing themselves up as they deride others.

Take care, mi amigo.

P.S. Gus, in the other forums I am limited to the number of characters in the signature lines.

 

Well, then Gus' dx would be correct, wouldn't it?

Actually, I don't mind being a contemporary melancholy Dane!

 

I think that most of us, Bill, will agree that defamation, belligerence, and self-promotion are the hallmarks of millists.

If someone has a known track record of inventing and operating far-less-than-wonderful schools down by the old whatchacallit stream, and claiming to represent far-less-than-real ecclesiastical denominations (judged not by any theological standard but by the standard of current existence or nonexistence);

if someone has a known track record of vituperatively denouncing anyone and everyone who disagrees with him, from Baker Book House to several posters on this board;

if someone has a known track record of calling the old Carpathian (among other things) mentally ill, a male prostitute, a n****r, and a Christ-killer (using more than one language in order to conceal his abuse);

if someone has a known track record, upon reasonable evidence, of being suspected of giving a version of his departure from one school and his non-entry into another (both accredited) which are, uh, creative assertions;

if someone has a known track record, by his own statement and reckoning, of repeatedly giving assurances to the moderators that he will stop this sort of thing and does not, in order to secure "second chances" on this board;

if someone has a known track record of using "repentance" to mean covering his internet tracks but maintaining the behaviors which raise profound questions of truth and intention;

he should not be surprised, nor paint himself as some sort of victim, when his games are subject to polite exposure lest innocent persons be drowned in a cascade of flummery.

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Now, to return this thread to its topic: the Latin illiteracy on the "seal" of CUT is another indication that it is a mill, or else run by semiliterate bozos (not Bosos, my Anselmian friend--but not Friend).

 

I didn't catch this before in your lengthy post. No, I haven't Gus, because I have never made psych evals over the Internet. Show me the proof, please.

I surmise you are refering to a now-defunct DL forum where, in a post, I said you were obsessive, or something like that.

Gus, obsessive is a term anyone can use. I was not making any type of clinical dx.

I was refering to the fact you followed (and still do) me around from forum to forum. Then, you copy and paste my remarks and present them on other forums.

What would you have called someone engaged in this silly behavior?

Anyway, I apologized to you. I guess you don't accept apologies otherwise you wouldn't have brought it up again.

Since you feel I "border on the pathological" and you continue to follow me around from forum to forum, does this make you a "grouppie" of one who "borders on the pathological?"

If it does, what does this say about you?

All in all, Gus, I do like you and think you are a nice fellow with an excellent command of the English language and a tremendous breadth of knowledge when it comes to to DL and other subjects.

 

Wrong!

The prognosis is bad - worst case of penis envy I have ever diagnosed.

The good news is that they can do things about it these days.

 

Certainly, Jimmy, I’ll be glad to comply. Please see this thread.

Not really, Jimmy (please see the above-mentioned link), it was on this forum, and you actually referred (please note the correct spelling) to several members of this forum, not just me.

Of course, Jimmy. But the term you previously employed was OCD, not simply “obsessive.” As I pointed out, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a clinical diagnosis, and not the kind of term someone who professes to be a mental health professional should bandy about willy-nilly.

I follow you around? My, my, my. You do have quite the inflated opinion of yourself, don’t you? Of course, you can’t actually present any proof that I follow you around, can you? Why don’t you take a close look at the forum registration dates?

Moreover, you have previously made the allegation that members of this forum (including me) were following you around from forum to forum (interestingly, it’s in the same thread linked to above). Of course, in that particular instance, you mistakenly (and quite hilariously) thought that posting in the Off-Topic section of DegreeInfo constituted an entirely different forum.

In other words, Jimmy, three years later, you are still making the same delusional accusations. You need help, Jimmy. You simply aren't getting any better. You are, once again, (and contrary to your promises and assurances) engaging in behavior for which, in the past, you have profusely apologized.

I don’t know, but I would call someone who made these kinds of allegations without being able to prove them a liar, although a competent psychologist or psychiatrist might have quite a bit more to say.

Wait a minute. You apologized for behavior you are now denying ever happened? I don't get it. Moreover, if I brought it up again[i/] (isn’t that admitting it has happened before?) it is because you are, once again, engaging in similar behavior.

No, on the contrary, as I do not engage in the activity you describe (nor can you provide any evidence that I do), it actually corroborates the fact that your need for attention (which accounts for the sick games you play to cast yourself in the role of a victim) does indeed border on the pathological.

But it doesn’t, and you can’t prove your assertions, therefore, it only says something about you.

I wish I could say the same, Jimmy. However, truthfulness and honesty prevent me.

Bottom line: New Jimmy, same as the old Jimmy.

 

Well, Gus, I thought that was made on Distancedegree.net, although I couldn't remember the exact wording. But, you are correct.

It was an inappropriate remark for someone in my profession to make.

I will say, however, I would have made that remark had I been an illiterate janitor.

But, again, you're correct.