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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

My nickname means "nothing". I try to avoid getting boxed into identities. My posts reveal my interests and experiences, sometimes to get more information from others. I prefer conversations and don't care to "argue." We see and reveal only what we are, even if it's nothing more than camouflage.

"Being is nameless and immediate." -Basilides

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps for nothing; it refuses nothing; it observes being observed. -After Chuang Tzu

"Whatever one knows, he knows for himself only and he should keep it secret. As soon as he reveals it, contradictions appear, and if he begins to argue, he will lose his equilibrium, while what is best in him will be, if not annihilated, at least shaken." -Goethe

"In fact, it is the secretions of one's innermost self, written in solitude and for oneself alone that one gives to the public. What one bestows on private life - in conversation...or in those drawing-room essays that are scarcely more than conversation in print – is the product of a quite superficial self, not of the innermost self which one can only recover by putting aside the world and the self that frequents the world." -Proust

"Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that calls for quite a different schooling." -Walter Benjamin

"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into pets." -Derrida

"Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to the birds," -Barnett Newman

"... people were not listening, they were trying to understand." -Lacan

"Atrocity we survived lives on in the mind not by the ugliness of the violation but by the fairness, or at least wholeness, of what was violated." --Richard Eder


To avoid the risk of detection,
he travelled to an alien land
whose tongue was different from his.
Their rejection of him seemed
simply a mis-understanding.
He knew it would have been far worse if they
had accepted him; that would have
proven him a stranger to himself.


Megertes nelkul elunk, es felreertesekbol vagyunk csak ismeretesek. --Peter Ban

"Rationem ex vinculis orationis vindicam esse."