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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Teaching religion, philosophy and the likes, writing musi...
  • I have been educated, dead languages and maths, philosoph...
  • From Antwerp, Belgium
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Visiting the small church and waterfalls that are featured in the first part of La Meglio Gioventu and reaching London with a Sailing Yacht

ABOUT ME

I enjoy sports, circus (acro, juggling,..), skateboarding, making music, dancing, writing, reading... Anything that keeps me away from the screens (TV, Mac,..) we're so used and so tied to.

PHILOSOPHY

I always say the truth: not the entire truth, because no one ever does. Saying the entire truth is impossible, materially: we lack the right words to do so. And thanks to this impossibility, truth tends towards the real. I am convinced of the importance of the impossible, that is felt through life experience and eventually adds up to the subject I happen to be.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just entered the CS Project and have no clue on how to participate in this community. I came in touch with CS through a friend, but have been couchsurfing unofficially ever since i was brought to life.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None officially yet.

Interests

I'm very interested in contemporary philosophy such as Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Lacan.. Besides that, I want to know everything about the conflict in the northern part of Iraq and the relationship between Iraq and Turkey, specific focus on the Kurdish question.

  • writing
  • dancing
  • yachting
  • reading
  • tv
  • juggling
  • music
  • sailing
  • skateboarding
  • sports

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: Sigur Ros, Okkervil River, Bon Iver, Converge, Randy, Darkest Hour, Moe Green Specials, Feist, Bob Dylan, Anthony & The Johnsons...
MOVIES: Elephant, Last Days, My own private Idaho, La Meglio Gioventu, Il Novecento, Taurus, Pillar, Paranoid Park...
BOOKS: Revolutionary Road, Walden, Days of War Nights of Love, The History of Beauty, The Passion, Lighthousekeeping...

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