I am a linguist. I attended catechism classes in the local Catholic church on the insistence of my granny, although I was never actually a believer. The first question I posed to the nun at my first catechism class was: “How do we know god exists?” I found Vladimir Colin’s mythopoeia Legendele ţării lui Vam (“Legends from Vamland”; I read a translation, of course) very inspiring in being a non-believer. I’m into languages (the more interesting, the better), music, books, painting, writing, comics,... and into my Ph.D.