(alt zossima).
Monk in
Fyodor Dostoevsky's
masterwork The Brothers Karamazov. Zosima was Dostoevsky's
attempt to "
compel people to admit that a pure ideal
Christianity is not an
abstraction, but a vivid
reality, possibly near at hand, and. that
Christianity is
the sole refuge of the
Russian land from all its
evils."(Gibson, Alexander Boyce. The Religion of Dostoevsky. Philadelphia: The Westminster
Press, 1973. 169.) Zosima found
evidence of
God in the witness of "
active love", and sought to propagate the
idea.
Also the pseudonym of a relatively unkown but friendly hacker. (not cracker).