Chapter #0: It doesn't count... or does it count as half?
0.1 Molly
I was 19 at the time. Recently after I'd turned 18 my dad moved 30 miles away from Oberlin, OH to North Olmsted. There was no way in hell I was gonna live with my mom. So I was in a new town [again] after leaving Oberlin, the town I'd lived in for the longest.
So around 19 My uncle sections off the house I used to live in with my dad [we rented from my uncle] into 4 apartments. No, wait, it was the house next door that my uncle lived in. The house we used to live in my uncle sold to this really creepy guy named Cory. We'd gotten a letter that said a sex offender recently moved into our neighborhood.
I'd go to church every Friday night and on Sunday morning and night. I was on the Drama team and was overly dedicated to saving others from the fiery depths of hell. Cause eternal pain and suffering didn't sit well with me. It was something I didn't think even Adolf Hitler deserves, cause he was probably just not right in the head and went through some things. I didn't know what drove him to such things, but I sure didn't want even him to go to hell.
In 9th grade a lot of students would ask me about God. I didn't always have answers to their questions. I never pressed my religion on them, cause I felt it would drive someone away and I wanted to do my best to save everyone from such a horrible fate. I wanted no one to go to hell. No one at all. I'd thought that if given the option to sacrifice myself to save even one person from the pits of hell I'd do such a thing and endure the pain and suffering of hell in their place.
One thing I started doing was I would write down questions a non believer might ask me. I'd written down all the questions I'd already been asked and I used the concordance in the back of my Bible to look up scriptures to find answers to these questions. I also was pro-active about the whole idea [I really really didn't want ANYONE going to hell or suffering] and would make up questions. I tried to come up with the most complex deep questions I could. Then I would research my Bible and try to answer these questions. I'd look online for part of the history of the bible and how the books were chosen. Or find out what was meant in certain scriptures such as when Jesus says to be either Hot or Cold but not lukewarm.
The lukewarm Christian is something I heard people at church say a lot. And the general understanding is that it's someone who's half assed and torn between their worldly desires and their faith. This is wrong. It's not what was meant. In the area Jesus was in when he said that there was a Hot spring and a Cold spring. The Hot water was useful for cooking, soothing aches and pains, etc. The Cold water was useful for drinking and cooling off, etc.. Luke warm water had no use and was more likely to make a person sick [since they didn't have water filtration]. So what is meant to to be useful one way or the other [hot or cold] but don't be useless to the cause [lukewarm]. Others think it meant to be either all for God or not at all, but never half assed. They put people down who tried and failed and constantly tell them God doesn't want lukewarm Christians. This upset me, cause these people were trying but just had their struggles as all human beings do. So that's another reason i read and studied my bible so much.
I'd tell those in church it's okay that they messed up as long as they're still trying and helping out others.
I'd been a Virgin all my life. Never kissed a girl. I never tried to have sex with anyone and never tried to kiss a girl. The bible said to honor thy mother and father. My mom told me I wasn't aloud to date. I didn't date. She also told me that if she's ever in the wrong or does something crazy to tell her and stand up for myself [I've been VERY consistent with that one.].
I was 18 when I wrote this down in my book of things a non believer might say to me: God is all knowing, Omnipotent, Omnipresent. He knows everyone down to every last detail. He knows what's going to happen in the future. He knows what anyone will do given any situation. He knows what choices everyone will make. Also he created everyone down to every last detail. Every person is 100% the way they are cause this all knowing, all powerful, being made them the way they were. God also placed everyone in every situation. He chose who your family is, where you were born, when you were born, everything. So, he knows what decisions you'll make and how you'll react to the circumstances. How things will effect you. Everything.
Free will is a lie. Everything you do is cause and reaction and God is the cause. He knows that D'jimbe living out in a 3rd world country will never hear of his name and never believe in him yet he says people must worship him and believe in him in order to enter Heaven. Why? He knows that Hitler will be influenced by his early life in such a way that he's driven to do horrible things. He knows who he'll meet, the ambition this man has, and what he'll do with it all. He knows he'll eventually cause the deaths of millions. God created him that way and put him in that situation and knew what would come of it. Why?
I didn't have an answer for that. I researched and thought and thought and never came up with an answer for that. It was a contradiction to say people have free will and that this being is all knowing and knows everything they'll ever do. I looked deeper and thought it was fishy that God says he loves unconditionally but then placed conditions on receiving that love. I thought it was fishy that He claims he loves everyone and there are points where it says God hates.
And then sometimes when i was 19 I stopped believing. I felt it was an elaborate story that's been used for horrible things. Controlling people with fear. Judging others. I hated that book. I felt violated and lied to. Like all my life I've been told this horrible lie. And then I thought... . o O (Well I guess saving myself for marriage is a silly idea now). I wanted to see what it was like to have sex and get drunk. I wanted to have a girlfriend. I figured I should ask out Ashley White, I really liked that girl. There was no reason for me not to date her at this point.
She had a boyfriend. I knew a girl at work and two girls from school. I liked them and ended up just being friends with them. I started getting frustrated about it all. I asked my cousin Amy for advice on girls and she basically said "just be yourself." I always was myself and thought her advice was silly. I asked a few other girls and they also gave horrible advice... I thought it was all stupid advice but I was polite to them anyway.
I knew there was something out there on this. It was 2003. I knew guys who got chicks all the time and guys who never got even a kiss [me]. And I came up with a plan. I knew somewhere some place someone had the answers and someone could help me out. I knew there had to be something out there. I mean psychology was a field of study on the mind, so surely someone studied the psychology of dating and sleeping with girls.
I had a Gamefaqs account. It was the only message board I went to online where I was talking to complete strangers from all over the world. All the other ones were pretty local, like the Anime club at my school had a message board. I started bitching and complaining about girls. I'd create topics that would whine and complain about how confusing girls were and how I don't get it. I'd do this almost everyday. I was determined to find whatever it was that was out there. I never told my friends that I was looking for this and stopped asking them for advice. I figured they'd think I was crazy if I said "I'm 95% sure that there's someone out there with detailed information about dating. That there's someone somewhere who's been filing away what does and doesn't work and it's based in psychology."
I persisted with the bitching. People would laugh and make fun of me and sometimes guys would give me shitty advice. One guy told me I just gotta buy a girl flowers and buy her dinner. But my older brother never bought his girlfriend flowers or paid for her meals. Actually she paid for him more often than not. Given that, I figured this guy didn't know what he was talking about.
I also went to a lot of college parties. But I never got anywhere with the girls. I never even kissed them. I didn't get it.
And then it happened. One of the most life changing events in my life. I was on AIM talking to a few friends about going skateboarding at some new indoor park.
Zephyre: Hey.
Me: Hi.
Z: Check this out.
Z:
http://www.fastseduction.com/
Me: What is that? Also, who are you?
Z: I noticed your posts on Gamefaqs. I saw you kept posting them. I looked at your profile and got your AIM sn.
Me: Oh, so, what is that?
Z: It's what you've been looking for. You said there has to be something out there like this. Here it is.
Z: I gotta run, start off with the basics and check it out. Just be cool and don't womanize anyone.
Me: Thank you. Take care, I'll stay in touch.
There it was. That thing I'd been looking for. I new it existed. Marvel vs Capcom 2 was actually very inspirational for this. My Older brother would play me in MvC2 and we were on a level playing field. I won just as much as he won against each other. i was a smarter player and her was better at execution and reaction. It evened out. One day he does something weird and gets me in some insanely long combo and I ask "What did you just do?" He explains it with some weird jargon I don't understand. I ask what he's talking about and say to speak English. He says he went on Gamefaqs and read about the game and learned it all in a data base.
He keeps getting better cause he keeps reading all these technical things about the game. All from the internet. I check it out and brush up on my skills. We're talking to each other a month later saying weird things like footsies, traps, otg, dhc, etc.. We're abusing glitches, setting up combo's with assists, and so on. In the arcade people can't even touch us. People who used to whoop our asses. They're asking what the hell we're doing and we tell them and they look at us confused.
I figured that there's is something like that for everything in life.
The internet started spreading all of this around. People were able to share idea's more. Guys gave their buddies dating advice in high school via word of mouth. In person. I KNEW guys did this online. I also knew they had a forum set up somewhere with all the shared information organized and set up for anyone to learn and read. I knew it existed but wasn't sure what it would be called and when I searched for dating advice I always found a load of crap.
Zephyre showed me where it was at. And now I knew what it was called: Pick up.
I studied quite a bit and at some point I felt I lacked the moral and ethical self control. Ethics were a very grey area at that point in my life. I didn't want to hurt anyone so I stopped. I went with the basics. I didn't learn too much nlp. I didn't want to fuck up anyone's head. Z was my guide. I'd ask him about the morality of it all and tell him about the nights I had out at the parties. he'd give me feedback.
And one night I was tired of drinking and not getting drunk. I wanted to get drunk.
I went to a few parties that night and ended up at a house party off of main street. The first couple of parties I went too I tried the kino thing but was really awkward with it. I also used to anchor a lot. I'd touch a girl on her shoulder whenever she laughed and do 5 counts of this before doing it when she wasn't laughing. Looking back now, with all the new information I've learned about body language and tell tell signs etc. I could've gotten laid a lot. I just didn't know how to read the signs or what to do to progress.
So this party on main street there's a table with booze on it and a guy is mixing drinks behind it. he's charging about $3 a drink.
me: I've never been drunk before and I wanna get drunk.
Him: What kind of juice do you like?
me: I like Orange juice, it's my favorite.
Him: Everclear screwdriver it is!
I paid him $3 and downed my drink, which didn't have any taste of alcohol in it. I didn't feel any different.
me: I'm not drunk yet. Get me another one.
Him: sure.
$3 more bucks I down another.
Me: I guess I'll try one more. I'm still not feeling anything.
He pours me another and says it's on him. I leave him a $2 tip.
him: How're you feeling? *smile* [a very friendly smile]
Me: I still feel the same, actually. I guess I don't wanna drink anymore, I'm not getting drunk. What's it feel like when you're drunk anyway?
Him: It takes some time to settle in. You'll know when you're drunk.
Me: Okay, I'll take your word on it.
I hit the dance floor and there's this really hot Asian chick. I was really into asian chicks back then. I'm dancing with her. At this point I had learned that just moving along to the beat of the music and grinding on a girl is all one needs to dance really. I'd still never kissed a girl. THEN IT HAPPENS!! I feel different and my balance and vision are off. I fall backwards while I've got my hand around her waist. I land on the couch and she's on my lap.
Without thinking I put my hand down her pants and start to finger her. She's moaning a little bit. I'm rubbing around and I'm not really sure what to do, but I like having my hand in her pussy. with my other hand I start groping her tits and she pulls her shirt up. I start sucking on her tits. I'm loving it. Then she leans in and we start making out [first kiss]. I'm making out with this really hot Asian chick and fingering her and she's moaning. I'm playing with her tits too. This is really fucking fun. Eventually we stop and she says she has to go to the bathroom and I'm sitting there in bliss. I"m trying to think but my mind is running slow.
I start to understand things and think about balance. Balance is sometimes effected by the eyes but one can adapt. I remember a drill we did in track and field where we stood on one leg and closed out eye to work on balance. I think I don't need to see to balance. I stand up and I feel wobbly. I Think about how I feel. I get a feel for walking around. After a few minutes I get the hang of it and I'm not so wobbly anymore. The hot asian chick is back and we're making out again and she tells me her name is Molly.
I tell her I'm Nick. She mentions the back room is empty and I say that's cool and we make out more. I just keep making out and the party is over and I'm leaving. I've got the hang of walking and thinking inhibited at this point. I walk home and get on the computer. I go to my journal and put in the password. It's on todays current date. I write something like "Today was nice, I went skateboarding, blah blah blah." Really generic shit. Then I go to the year 3003 on the same date and write down what happened. How I had my first kiss and fingered a girl. I sniff my fingers and like the way they smell. I talk about the Zephyre.
Note: My journal had a password that was a word I never speak and has no relationship to anything I ever talk about. It also had 3 random numbers in it that weren't connected to numbers I had in sports, my birthday, or anything really. Not even a prime number [since people knew I was fond of primes]. Then after getting through the password there was an entry for the current year. This current date entry talked about light hearted things I did during the day. Like skateboarding or working out.
After that if you looked at entries set 1,000 years in the future it said what I was thinking about and went really in depth with personal things I had going on. All because one day my older brother started reading my journal that was a notebook. After he'd read it I created an encoded alphabet that had 50+ characters in it. Things like Vowels weren't always present in words. I also made up my own short hand that I wrote with in my encoded alphabet. And there were characters that represented words or idea's. I had a key for it all, but spent time every day memorizing it and doing drills. once I had it memorized I destroyed the key.
No one but me would ever read it.