Alan L. Wong

Beyond me

On Great Saturday of 2022, I was baptized an Orthodox Christian in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) with St Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia as my patorn saint. In Slavonic style, I am called Porfiriy (Порфирий).

Seek and Ye Shall Find

If you have problems with "Christianity" as you have encountered it, I encourage you to look into the history of whatever worldview you hold (whether it is the teaching of some organized religion or from your own reasoning) and consider why you regard this path as correct. Or, maybe you have just found yourself following the "path of least resistance" and are not particularly attached to the teachings you've been given. Many different things have been called by the same terms and often to understand some one term it is necessary to study a whole system!

Just as different people might mean very different things when they speak of "success" (or "love" or "happiness") so too we can see how the words we use depend on how we understand them—more words can often multiply confusion rather than bring clarity.

How do we sort through all the different teachings of the world, our own opinions and biases, and pressure from all different directions to do all sorts of different things? This was one place I started from—looking at various different teachings, what they claim to be true, and how they know that to be the case...

Ongoing Projects

Beyond Church and my day job, I am involved in a number of projects. It is a goal of mine to make every activity I do somehow be "beyond me" and include others. It is good to do things together.

• Language Study
  Russian, Slavonic
  Greek (Koine, Modern...)
  Latin (and modern Latin-based varieties, e.g. Spanish/French)
• Conquering Cyberspace: I am interested in which technologies are best and extracting maximum value out of useful, available tools.
• Orthodox East Asia (Abroad): As a person of Chinese ethnic lineage, I first studied the civilizations of East Asia before becoming reborn as a Half-Greek, Half-Russian, Exiled to the West. Now I buy take-out Chinese food for Nords who have watched more anime than me. I am working on seeing if other students of East Asian languages/cultures are interested in standardizing some materials to study (translations of Scripture, prayers, and more) so that we may speak the same idiom.

Contact me

You can mail me directly at
captainalan 4t gm4!l d0t com.

You can also reach out to me through social media. I typically don't respond instantly (can't be staring at a phone all day!), but I do respond to nearly all messages I receive within 48 hours. When sending a message, make it clear you aren't a bot 🤖

Social Media

Having multiple channels of communication available can be helpful as you never know when you might have your access privileges revoked.

• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn

I'm a regular on a few Discord servers. Get in contact with me if you would like to know where these places are.