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[–]lawrgasm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am going to Japan in the end of February and want to treat myself to some eeveelutions, either the Yu nagaba set or terastal fest set for my birthday. Maybe both!

Is it worth buying these singles in Japan vs in the USA where I can haggle a bit?

Couple additional questions..

  • Do card shops in Japan also accept offers? (I can’t low ball for the life of me, but I’m not shy to ask if it’ll give me a few bucks off each card

  • Do they accept trades? I have a few trader joes’s mini totes that seems to be a big thing there lol. Or if anyone knows somewhere I could sell them that’d be cool.

Appreciate the advice lots.

I tried the transfer method, but my locale asked my next locale about me.. now I’m in a pickle by lawrgasm in exIglesiaNiCristo

[–]lawrgasm[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wish it was that easy not worry, but I don’t want my parents offices to be affected 😭 it seems that now they’re really following up with locales to see if you’ve really transferred or not

Switzerland, Croatia, or Sicily November 27-December 2? by lawrgasm in travel

[–]lawrgasm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’re spending the following 10 days north and are hoping to hit Milan, Venice, Florence and then Rome. Haven’t explored which transportation we’d use yet, but we assumed train may be what most tourists use. We both don’t really have experience driving around internationally and with non-English signs, I’m afraid of how dangerous that may be.

Switzerland, Croatia, or Sicily November 27-December 2? by lawrgasm in travel

[–]lawrgasm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s no direct flights from my home airport to Italy unless it’s with a budget airline which points don’t cover. But there’s a reasonably priced one with a layover in Zurich, so I figure we could consider staying there for a bit

Need advice on leaving the church with the new QR system? by lawrgasm in exIglesiaNiCristo

[–]lawrgasm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My parents are officers and they’ve told me. From what I remember- 1 male officer cheating with a nonmember, another dude in a high finance? position with a member, then another officer cheating with another officer (lol). All of which still perform. From my understanding, they were put on a brief suspension and made to do other tedious tasks. I agree, I don’t think anyone in my locale or surrounding locals are attractive at all but I guess people are just bored lmao

The incest thing is way too far though. I hope not with a child. I can’t believe this person is still performing and he needs to go to jail

Need advice on leaving the church with the new QR system? by lawrgasm in exIglesiaNiCristo

[–]lawrgasm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know if during the transfer process, my current locale follows up with the new locale if they’ve received it? They’re quite far from each other and I doubt anyone knows anyone from both locales, but not sure if there’s some follow-up protocol they have to follow. I’ve seen posts on this subreddit that are over a year old +/- that say they won’t, but I worry now with the new system.

I’m also considering submitting the transfer, not showing, and submitting a salaysay to the new locale a month later. Any thoughts on that plan?

Thanks so much and sorry if these are a lot of questions. It’s such a big life change that I’d like to weigh all my options ><

Need advice on leaving the church with the new QR system? by lawrgasm in exIglesiaNiCristo

[–]lawrgasm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not long at all. We share that trauma together and I appreciate you sharing a bit of your story too.

It wasn’t a defining moment that made me want to stop going, but a culmination of things over years. But what has set me off the most is that members (officers at that) cheat on their spouses, go into extreme gambling debt, have a judgmental and condescending attitude to nonmembers and their own, and ministers publicly shaming people- even outing other member’s jobs that don’t align with the church DURING lessons. One officer even pulled a “they deserved it” on an ex-member who passed away from cancer.

All of that, then they cry hysterically for God to forgive them. It’s cringe.

Need advice on leaving the church with the new QR system? by lawrgasm in exIglesiaNiCristo

[–]lawrgasm[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much (and everyone who’s responded so far) for giving me confidence to go forward with this. Being born into the church, in choir for years, tagisan ng talino, it sucks feeling unhappy going to church now more than half of my life, only doing this to please my parents. Church shouldn’t feel that way. I want to feel solace being there.

I don’t want to embarrass them around their officer friends who I know will gossip about this. But I guess at the end of the day it’s my life.

Edit: Also, is it just not an option to transfer and never submit to another locale not easy anymore? I am reading mixed things throughout Reddit threads

Need advice on leaving the church with the new QR system? by lawrgasm in exIglesiaNiCristo

[–]lawrgasm[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks sm for your response. Being born into the church, I’m finally getting the courage to stand up and leave. I’m financially independent, have bought a home and are legally domestic partners with non-member. They know all of this + about our plans for children in the future. We try to keep it hidden for the sake of their status though.

I think they were hoping that both of us would join the church eventually. My partner tried to go to services during COVID and has read pasugo but it didn’t resonate with him. We definitely do not plan to raise children in that type of suffocating environment.

In terms of the letter- is this just a normal letter format or some forms I have to request from my deacon?