You like to travel? Get your ass to Wisconsin, then.


Good read - I'm amazed that I knew that much about you


Silver

 

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Lone Wolf was actually a childhood find. Can't remember when I got my first book, but it was pretty early. It was actually what inspired me and my friend to write our own 'choose your own adventure'-type stuff.





That's a little less interesting, I suppose. The church I grew up with was not what you'd see from most modern-day Catholic institutions; it was very dour and dark, and about the only thing you'd hear during Mass was the coughs of the old and the hiss of their oxygen tanks. When I was very small, I'd go with my grandmother to a local senior center or to the basement of the church and sing little songs for the elderly. I think most of the people I was friends with that weren't my age are dead now.


I was an altar boy (insert molestation joke here) until I was about 15. Funny story - when I first started doing it, I was quite a restless kid (I once fainted in church because I was bored as hell) and I tied the communion bells to the sash of my robes and rang them that way. People were not amused, but I sure thought it was funny as hell.


I was never really religious in terms of the nitty-gritty scripture and rhetoric and whatnot; as you have already read, I was into the debauchery and womenz and whatnot, but I did do quite a bit of community service. We worked in soup kitchens on Hilltop in Tacoma (which at the time was still pretty notorious), and assisted the elderly or homebound in repainting and beautifying their dilapidated hovels. As I got older, we did stuff for the few younger kids too...easter egg hunts and haunted houses and crap like that.


We haven't been back to my original church since grandma died, however - mom just can't take it. Nowadays, about the only time I set foot in a church is when the gf demands that I accompany her

 

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good read. thanks.

 

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I have to ask, and I promise no more followups or anything preachy from me.


Do you still believe in God or was church just a bigone instituation that should have ended with the fall of Rome?

 

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I still believe in God, and I don't believe that church is a bad thing and that everyone who feels that they need it is stupid or anything like that.


I believe that religion and spirituality, at its core, is between an individual and God. If they feel that they need or they are more comfortable in a community of individuals who believe the same way they do, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, I also feel that there is nothing wrong with those who do not feel that they need that sort of religious community or institution in their spiritual life.


The only rule I've ever believed should be followed universally is to help another human being with their trip through this life as you can, whether it be on a personal level, monetarily, or just making them laugh and feel good. Of course, if you've read all that previous crap I wrote, you can tell I'm not always the best follower of my own limited moral compass

 

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Good read as always DE

So when are you going to finish the story of Max Fox


and in memory of the good 'O'l days of FF

DE is it Monday yet??? and where is my story


also when are you going to do a story on Zygran of WOW not that WOW will ever be as good as AC


Now DE stop slacking and start writing

 

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WoW just doesn't have the nice backstory or individualistic feeling that AC did. Max was customizable to the point that I could write a story about him, and the lore was flexible enough to allow for it. WoW is nothing like that. In fact, I pretty much only continue to play WoW because my guild members are so incredibly freaking awesome it isn't even funny.


I miss a lot of stuff about AC...but not the levelling grind

 

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This is a great life story! For such a young person to have so much respect for his 1) grandmother and 2) mother, is totally awesome! I pretty much raised my two sons (21 and 24) by myself and we are pretty close.


You are one year younger than my oldest son and I could swear you two had the same elementary school teacher....or my son had her evil twin - my son went to Beachwood Elementary on Ft. Lewis, WA though and graduated from high school in 2000.


Thanks for sharing - you seem like a fine young man...considering your escapades!