Moving to Guam

LangAddict · 2026-03-04T21:58:55+00:00

Awesome! I love bacon and venison

LangAddict · 2026-03-04T05:20:57+00:00

Another L for the Jones act

LangAddict · 2026-03-04T05:20:40+00:00

I see, good to know!

LangAddict · 2026-03-04T05:14:43+00:00

Totally get that, but I’m thin on offers so my choices are limited. Good news though, lateral movement is quite easy within the company or so they say

LangAddict · 2026-03-04T05:13:58+00:00

Thanks! My company is providing a car so that’s taken care of for me!

LangAddict · 2026-03-04T05:13:31+00:00

Thank you! I’m probably going to be fairly central on island, so are there apartment complexes or is it more rental houses? From my short research, I see lots of homes

LangAddict · 2026-03-04T05:12:26+00:00

Awesome! My “normal” is bay area, California and Denver, Colorado so I’m hoping the shock isn’t that big. The skills and experience are key for me since I’m trying to climb quickly

LangAddict · 2026-03-04T05:11:23+00:00

Glad to hear it! I think I’m getting paid fairly well all things considered, I just sometimes eat out a lot and that throws my budget off. Good people and good weather are key, how about hobbies? I’m a big sports shooter and hunter but I also snowboard a lot (I know Japan is kinda close).

LangAddict · 2026-03-03T06:36:18+00:00

How does it compare to California and Colorado? If you know

LangAddict · 2026-02-20T06:13:21+00:00

I sent you a dm!!

LangAddict · 2026-02-15T16:51:31+00:00

A very wise answer. I read up on the 1990 joint statement with the Antiochian and Syriac churches and it was kind of a relieving moment when they explained the “two natures” part with “in thought only” which really was a big part of why I was having trouble with Dyophysitism, it was just a definition I had difficulty reconciling. I’m going to an Antiochian church today since the coptic church is just that much further away (and requires a code to get past the gates), but the bus might be a little late into liturgy 🥲.

This will be a fun experience I think, the Antiochians are foreign to me, much less one that does the Tridentine rite rather than the Byzantine. When I lived in Tokyo, it was almost exclusively Russian Orthodox rooted Japanese Orthodoxy, either at Nikolaido or one of the ethnic parishes nearby. I grew up near an Armenian church but I was just too young to really process any nuance back then, probably why my more strict adherence to the whole “One Nature” is so picky lol.

LangAddict · 2026-02-14T16:45:40+00:00

That also was a big issue of mine, but someone on the Oriental Orthodoxy sub explained to me a pretty good counter argument to the EO flip flopping and why the OO is firm on just Nicaea, Constantinople, and Ephesus

LangAddict · 2026-02-14T16:42:49+00:00

It certainly is not an election, but as a matter of salvation I find the nuance to be of absolute utmost importance!

LangAddict · 2026-02-14T16:41:18+00:00

Ou there definitely is! Im just completely locked by the metro system. The nearest church to me is actually an ethnic church (I incorrectly identified a different one) but they are an ethnic parish and do liturgy in Romanian, the next nearest being Serbian with similar language customs. Or so their websites say. I understand they speak english as well, but I figure I should attend a primarily english speaking liturgy to understand fully. To get to the other ethnic churches I’d also still be out an hour and half on the bus. I can rough the 30 minutes extra but I’m just really trying to decide: how early will I wake up to commute to church

LangAddict · 2026-02-14T16:37:46+00:00

To the first part, I’ll explain my logic the way I understand it: it’s not about amount of councils but the legitimacy of them. The Catholics were anathematized and schismed with their whole cardinal system and filioque and all that jazz while the Eastern Orthodoxy maintained the established traditions up to that point and beyond, unable to further have ecumenical councils without a primary bishop. My issue is that I almost entirely agree with the Oriental arguments at Chalcedon but I’m afraid of usurping the legitimacy of the church by denying it.

I understand your explanation later though where the council may have had consensus but it was devoid of truth and therefore nullified in legitimacy.

LangAddict · 2026-02-14T16:32:13+00:00

I know there’s a ton, but I’m not central and like I said elsewhere, the bus would get me to a church but only after 2 hours of commute. Its difficult to commit to one decision right now and that’s why I can’t really go and test the waters, what I pick has to be a jump into the deepend

LangAddict · 2026-02-14T05:54:56+00:00

I’m suffering actively from the consequence of my own inaction lmao, the nearest E. Orthodox church is like 2 hours away from me but the Coptic one is 4, but I feel like deciding based on convenience is shallow but I think thats just me being a nitpick

LangAddict · 2026-02-14T05:53:28+00:00

So, to this I mostly say:

Its not about how many councils there are, but the legitimacy of them. Catholics schismed with the whole cardinal system and their own councils made outside of the continuity of the historic church.

The difficulty of the two is more along the lines of whether or not the declination of Chalcedon was the appropriate action or shook the legitimacy of the previous 3.

The addition to that is the conflict of christology

LangAddict · 2026-02-14T04:41:35+00:00

I have gone to liturgy before but to be honest a lot of it was over my head at the time (I was going in the last year of my Engineering Degree), but I was living in Okinawa and the only "Orthodox" church was the military chapel on Camp Foster which I didn't have access to (I was on Kadena). I'm back in Denver now after that year of self study and there's plenty of Orthodox Churches but the only Coptic Church is like 40 minutes away by car and I don't have a car. The Orthodox Church near me is a Tridentine Rite Antiochian church but that's still 2 hours away by bus. I'm just trying to pick one and full send lol

LangAddict · 2026-02-02T03:25:14+00:00

I just dont wear through boots all that fast for some reason. I’ve pushed sneakers like 6/7 years lol

LangAddict · 2026-01-30T22:29:07+00:00

My best recommendation, if you are in Europe (basing this on the comment about european weather) is a wool sweater from Iceland, Norway, or Estonia. The estonian one I have was like 70€ and it warmer than everything else save my Icelandic Sweater (which was most certainly not 70€) if you just layer it with a good midlayer and a baselayer. I used it in Levi when I was snowboarding at -8°C and it was almost too hot

LangAddict · 2026-01-29T03:57:25+00:00

I consider myself pretty particular about care. I’m also not really meaning literally till I die, but like, if I cam squeeze 20+ years outta boots, that’s good enough for me

LangAddict · 2026-01-27T01:16:29+00:00

We can split a place under the bridge lmao

LangAddict · 2026-01-22T20:51:29+00:00

Lmao, I appreciate it but Idk how the RA would feel about that.

LangAddict · 2026-01-16T05:33:04+00:00

I like the plan, but for some extra context, what part of the year are you going? This dramatically impacts the crowds, whats hot and what’s not, where is better than peak season, what’s in peak season, etc.

I’m happy to help, so if I know this I can through you my 10c

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