<2022-01-29T03:38:14.000Z> Wichawd_Wagnew: i see you're Orthodox. i've been looking into converting to Orthodoxy for some time from a very lax Catholicism. do you mind if i ask you some questions about your faith? if you've written about it before online, let me know where because i don't want you to have to repeat yourself
<2022-01-29T04:17:11.000Z> Ottovonshitpost: I might be able to answer some questions.  I'm on the road ATM can I answer tomorrow?  Ask away just know I'm out hunting this weekend
<2022-02-22T00:15:23.000Z> Wichawd_Wagnew: didn't want to interrupt the hunt. 
<2022-02-22T00:17:35.000Z> Wichawd_Wagnew: were you raised in the orthodox church? if not, how did you convert? was it weird for you?
<2022-02-22T00:20:01.000Z> Wichawd_Wagnew: any advice for me? i don't have any family yet
<2022-02-22T04:20:13.000Z> Ottovonshitpost: Convert, in a church of mostly converts
<2022-02-22T04:20:24.000Z> Ottovonshitpost: Very welcoming
<2022-02-22T04:21:31.000Z> Ottovonshitpost: I don't have much of a Christian background, I went to a mega church for a couple years in highschool then didn't go to church again for 14 years
<2022-02-22T04:22:37.000Z> Ottovonshitpost: So without the "baggage", forgive me for using that term, I came into it knowing it was not American but thinking that that was good
<2022-02-22T04:23:16.000Z> Ottovonshitpost: And I was largely uncritical of Orthodox theology because I didn't know ANY theology
<2022-02-22T04:23:39.000Z> Ottovonshitpost: I just went to church and it felt right like it didn't feel when I went in highschool
<2022-02-22T13:41:13.000Z> Wichawd_Wagnew: cool. that's great. thanks man.
<2022-02-22T14:28:14.000Z> Ottovonshitpost: Went to it thinking Orthodoxy was the most "based" (not a good motivation), became convinced of the capital T Truth of Orthodoxy and recognized that even though the Church is the Body of Christ, a good number of the people making up that Body are fallen and are sometimes NOT based.