Ok, I will be the first example of the old member presenting a new invitation (I didn't introduced myself on the old forum, anyway).:)
I live in Russia. Was born in a family of mathematicians and technicians, and was raised in a quite libertarian spirit, being allowed to search for a new information myself and debate it freely. During my adolescence, I had a short period of a devoted Christian faith first, and even shorter period of hardcore atheism second; but after all these worldview-jumps I develop an attitude of honest and intelligent agnosticism, and an interest towards social sciences, humanities and arts. I also became interested in all types of controversies - from scientific and philosophical ones to political and cultural ones.
Formally, I have an education of a lawyer; but, honestly, I never worked as a lawyer (Russia has quite an overdose of lawyers, and finding work was hard). I found a work in a science-and-tech facility. My work is an office one - nothing special; but, thanks to the nature of workplace, I share space with a lot of scientists and technicians. Many of them are very good partners for discussion, and many are secretly interested in the anomalous phenomena and alternative science, and are eager to discuss it with me. They won't "come out" as paranormal proponents in public, however - they are too afraid for their carieers and reputations to do so.
So, this is me. Not an outstanding person, really.
ops: But I made some good (well, I hope so!) contributions to the discussions on the old forum, and going to do it again here.:D
P.S. The butterfly photo which I used as my avatar is made by me, in the park of my hometown. It was difficult not to soo away the butterfly when making a very close photo. But now I have an exclusive sympathetic picture to avatarize me! ;)