Meet + Greet

[earth]

As well as how you found this forum.  I'm curious as I'm sure everyone else is.  I'll start.

Found this forum working a midnight shift and doing a search to see if I could discuss Dostoevsky.

Age:  26
Sex:  M
Location:  Toronto, Ontario
Job:  Currently IT also Graphic Design + Web Design (mainly backend programming)

Hobbies:  writer + musician
Sports:  dragonboating + downhill mountain biking.

[Mogwai]

earth, I was just going to do one of these posts this week!  You beat me to it...  

Age: 26
Sex: Male
Location: Colorado
Job: Freelance web designer
Hobbies: musician, writing, halo on the Xbox, reading, chess (if anyone here plays chess and is pretty good, we should play sometime via email chess or on Yahoo chess)
Sports: golf, tennis, foosball, frisbee golf
Favorite Dost. work: The Brothers Karamazov
Religion: Christianity

Here's a 'template' where others can just cut/paste and fill in the blanks...

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[Golyadkin]

I was assigned to do a report on Dostoevsky for Language Arts class. I just thought I'd try his name with a ".com" after it. And here I am.

Age: 16
Sex: Yes please Male
Location: Houston, TX
Job: Student (10th grade), mod here, and admin at golyadkin.proboards3.com
Hobbies: Computer Games and message boards.
Sports: Football, Basketball, Baseball,
Favorite Dost. work: The Double
Religion: Buddhist (non-practicing)

[axon]

Everyonce in a while I looked for a decent D forum...and finally have found this  

Age: 20 (21 in a few days)
Sex: M
Location: Chicago Burbs
Job: Student @ University of Illinois persuing a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering and English
Hobbies: too many to list....but major (programming, reading, writting, cars, music)
Sports: Basketball and Football
Favorite Dost. work: it is a tie between a few
Religion: Agnostic....family background Roman Catholic

[Ivan]

Age: 22
Sex: Male
Location: Irvine, CA (for the time being)
Job: College Student, but on the side I work maintenance at the apartment complex I live in.  I'm a history major with a philosophy minor...
Hobbies: I don't have much time to do anything but read...
Sports: Same excuse as above, but once upon a time I enjoyed playing basketball and football.
Favorite Dost. work: I've only read three (C&P, Bros. K., and Notes) and I'm a third through Demons.  So far the Bros. K is my favorite.
Religion:  I'm an agnostic atheist  

[axon]

>>I'm an agnostic atheist

haha....I was once talking to a guy (who was also an agnostic, mind you) who told me that an agnostic is just a cowardly atheist....what do you think?

[Golyadkin]

Pity the poor agnostic dyslexic insomniac. He stays up all night wondering if there is a dog.

[Ivan]

was once talking to a guy (who was also an agnostic, mind you) who told me that an agnostic is just a cowardly atheist....what do you think?

I'll tell you in a new thread I've actually been dying to make  ( http://www.fyodordostoevsky.com/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=68 )...  I just want to keep this thread on topic.. which means I should include some piece of personaly information in this post:
My favorite color is Orange, but I only like it in small doses... give me too much orange and I find it obnoxious.

[Alyosha]

Age: 23
Sex: Male
Location: Phoenix, AZ (soon to change)
Job: Graduate Student
Hobbies: Reading, Music, Movies, Politics, Activism, Pacifism, Animals, Languages, Science, Technology, Philosophy, Literature, ...
Sports: Sometimes I'll watch Women's Tennis.
Favorite Dost. work: Brothers Karamazov, The Adolescent, The Idiot, ... (too hard to say)
Religion:  Anti-Bush Christian
   

[Worm]

I found the site while just searching for sites on Dostojewski.

Age: 23
Sex: Masculin
Location: Belgium, Antwerp
Job: factory worker
Hobbies: reading, photography, painting, fluteplayer (2nd year), writing & thinking.
Sports: my work is my sport.  I also bike everyday an hour and a half from and to work.
Music: classical, metal (Slipknot, Marilyn Manson), german industrial (:Wumpscut:), Nelly Furtado, Avril Lavigne, Alanis Morrissette .. and my own flute, ofcourse.

Favorite Dostojewski work: The Adolescent.
Religion: In theory, Catholic.  I'm not very fond of talking about religion.
Status: unmarried, single.  I live in a small studio, that i've bought myself in the beginning of this year.  I take care of myself.
Interests: too much to sum up.  Basically, everything.  Every few days i just open my encyclopedia at a random page and start reading what intrigues me .. at every page there is usually something that honestly captures my attention.
A few thoughts:
- I don't know what to do with my life, and the clock is ticking.  Help.
- I am quite a calm guy.  Some people have told me that i'm a dangerous person, though ...
I'm smart, largehearted (how many people that i've made laugh enormously hard, i can't recall, it's too much), try to be strong .. and just try to do my best to get through the various waves that flap in my face during the Great Swim through the ocean of life ... which i question everyday of my life lately.  I hope i'll get at a good shore someday.
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Earth:
What is "Dragonboating"?

[Lev]

Age: -- somewhat young.
Sex: F
Location: Texas, US -- nothing remotely to do with cowboys or westerns!

Job: Student: I have a lot to learn yet, but I enjoy history, philosophy, theology, literature, political theory, art, music, etc. -- student of all, master of none, really . I like picking up on other people's ideas (books included) and determining what I agree with or disagree with and why.

Hobbies: Reading, classical guitar, gardening (lately anyway), extra studies (whatever interests me at the time), classical music (not exclusively but mostly) -- and slowly building up a personal library (now that's a hobby).
 
Sports: heh heh... not really. I like being outside but no organized sports for me.

Favorite Dost. work: Depends on which one I'm reading (I temporarily forget how wonderful the last few were) -- but I'm thinking I do really like TBK most -- I think. I like what somebody said about it all being one long book. At the same time, I haven't read them all so I am not sure. I'd love to explain exactly why I am drawn to his works so much but I'm not sure I know! Can't you appreciate genius without understanding it completely? Genius is practically an atmosphere . I'm trying to pin down the things I like, though.

Religion: Christianity -- I don't officially associate with any religious group -- just the basic text  . Though a bit ecclectic, I turn out quite "orthodox" in major things, though I'm open to anything that can be proven. I enjoy talking or writing about it, or anything else for that matter (it helps me formulate what I really think). Some of the answers to this one were funny -- Golyadkin, my dear fellow Texan, you're complaining about Ivan but how can you be a "non-practicing" Buddhist? Don't they cancel eachother out? I could be wrong but it does sound funny!

Other things: I think I write too long (emails, posts, everything) -- I suspect I am not quite normal (Dostoyevsky makes me think I might be though ) -- and... I like too many things so I am not very specialized. Thus, I am almost aimless. The word that means everything generally, means nothing exactly... Yet I do atleast have a general direction , if that's any comfort.  

[earth]

Earth:
What is "Dragonboating"?

Dragonboating is a sport where you have 22 people in a long boat called a dragon boat.  10 on the left and 10 on the right paddling.  A coxswain at the back and a drummer at the front.  It's amazing and extremely fun.

Were I in Belgium I'd see if you want to go out for beers you have a lot of the same interests as me.

:Wumpscut: is awesome although I haven't heard much of Rudy's new stuff.  Wreath of Thorns was my last pickup.  I'm a huge fan of Embryodead.

Let me throw out a bunch of industrial bands:

Leaetherstrip
Haujobb
Forma Tadre
Covenant
Die Krupps

Oh and hey everyone I've been working a lot lately so haven't been around but I have been lurking

[kol]

Age: 16

Sex: F

Location: Changsha, China

Occupation: student

Interests: All the things about Slovenia *don't you noticed I'm using a Slovenian name? *, reading books, musician, watching football games, etc.

Sports:Football..my fav team is Juventus, Tottenham, Slovenia NT.. I really love football, though I'm not good at it at all

Favorite Dost. work:The Idiot

Religion: none *for now*

Favorite color: Navy blue *that's why I use it in my every post, if don't like..please nevermind *

[axon]

welcome Srecka, glad to have you here!

[kol]

welcome Srecka, glad to have you here!

Thanks
 
and I think here is the best forum   *not kidding*[/color]