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08 May 2013, 1:12 pm

Seiyuu Toshio Furukawa, voice of Piccolo in Dragon Ball and Kai Shiden in Mobile Suit Gundam, is a practicing Christian.

Mitsuo Fuchida, also known as "God's Samurai", the lead pilot at Pearl Harbor, became a Christian after the war (WW2).

Toshiro Mifune, who was a famous Japanese actor and Methodist.

Between 1885 and the start of 2012, there have been 58 unique Prime Ministers of Japan. Seven were Christians (three Catholic, four Protestant), a disproportionately high ratio compared to Japan's general population.

Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of Trigun, is a Christian convert, and lots of intentional symbolism can be found in his work

Eiji Tsuburaya, creator of Ultraman and partly of Godzilla, was a Catholic, as are the Tsuburaya family since then

Today, about one to two million Japanese are Christians (about 1% of Japan's population).


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08 May 2013, 7:48 pm

I've heard of increases in marriages between Russian women and Chinese men, partly stimulated by gender imbalances in both countries.

http://englishrussia.com/2011/12/27/ass ... -far-east/

The kids must be cute.



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08 May 2013, 7:50 pm

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I've heard of increases in marriages between Russian women and Chinese men, partly stimulated by gender imbalances in both countries.

http://englishrussia.com/2011/12/27/ass ... -far-east/

The kids must be cute.


especially the girls. OMG!! ! lol

Manchu and Mongolian + Russian girls are the best!!



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08 May 2013, 8:20 pm

You could write a kindle book and sell it on Amazon. :lol:



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08 May 2013, 10:15 pm

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You could write a kindle book and sell it on Amazon. :lol:


"How to find love if you like Asian culture but are attracted to white girls"

Go to Harbin in winter and pick up chicks at the Ice Festival. lol!!



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09 May 2013, 5:43 am

Tyri0n wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
You could write a kindle book and sell it on Amazon. :lol:


"How to find love if you like Asian culture but are attracted to white girls"

Go to Harbin in winter and pick up chicks at the Ice Festival. lol!!


i dont think many people would buy it



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09 May 2013, 6:11 am

Well, not if the book is that short.

We would want a lot more details, plus a reasonable number of sex scenes.

The result might be planeloads of guys heading to Harbin for the ice festival. Plus, lots and lots of Russian-Chinese girls showing up as the ice festival, in hopes of meeting their own Prince Tyrion.



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09 May 2013, 10:22 pm

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Maybe people have other things to do like make lunch.

That's cool to hear about Japanese Christians. We have St. Nicholas of Japan for the Orthodox. My priest told me Japan would be really isolating as there's like no Christians, and told me to go to Russia or Eastern Europe instead.


If you fancy Korea, that country has a far bigger (=majority) Christian population. Not so much when it comes to Orthodoxy though, so you could consider studying to become a priest in Japan and then marry a local Asian person from your parish.

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Toshiro Mifune, who was a famous Japanese actor and Methodist.


Man, I had no clue about that. One of my favourite actors.



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10 May 2013, 12:13 am

TheValk wrote:
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Maybe people have other things to do like make lunch.

That's cool to hear about Japanese Christians. We have St. Nicholas of Japan for the Orthodox. My priest told me Japan would be really isolating as there's like no Christians, and told me to go to Russia or Eastern Europe instead.


If you fancy Korea, that country has a far bigger (=majority) Christian population. Not so much when it comes to Orthodoxy though, so you could consider studying to become a priest in Japan and then marry a local Asian person from your parish.


I was thinking about that, but I highly doubt I'll ever be a priest. But if I'm visiting and meet a girl from the local parish, then hey. My local parish has like zero girls. And then the Greek ones, the kids go to college and then never come back to church again except maybe for Pascha.

Meh.



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10 May 2013, 1:16 am

That's the general tendency the world over I think. People grow up and are immersed in the world, and you have to make the choice which master to serve. The lack of females in church is hardly the case in Eastern Europe (and most probably areas densely inhabited by immigrants from countries where Orthodoxy is the dominant denomination), though, but heritage is something people are used to breaking up with (one question being which heritage). Many prayer books even use feminine inflexions, which should send the idea that their users are expected to be of the fair sex. Greece/Russia/Bulgaria/Romania/Serbia/states likes Belarus and Ukraine with large Orthodox populations are all good destinations to consider, depending on how you feel about the culture in question.

WRT priesthood, if you're determined to go that very narrow way, might as well go all the way I think. You'd do a better job than me if I tried, I'm sure. Not a decision to make on your own by measuring all the ups and downs if you know what I mean. Monasticism is one way of avoiding married life and the numerous difficulties that come with it altogether.



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10 May 2013, 1:43 am

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WRT priesthood, if you're determined to go that very narrow way, might as well go all the way I think. You'd do a better job than me if I tried, I'm sure. Not a decision to make on your own by measuring all the ups and downs if you know what I mean. Monasticism is one way of avoiding married life and the numerous difficulties that come with it altogether.


The problem with priesthood is I don't feel responsible enough to be in a position of power or be a spiritual father and give infallible (well not infallible, but much more trusted than average person) advice regarding the states of people's souls. Oddly lots of people bring up monasticism to me. I really have no desire to be a monk. I also kinda feel like if I became a monk, I'd probably have lots of feelings of resentment toward God, because I'd feel like monasticism would be punishment for my cowardice in telling women how I felt (my problem isn't even really rejection, I just suck at that.)

As far as Russia/etc, it's a possibility. Who knows. Part of what prompts me for Japan is I had a dream one night regarding going there. It's really just a burning curiosity more than anything. I feel like if I went to Japan, I'd either totally love it, or totally hate it, but not in between. Eastern Europe I feel like if I went there I'd be pretty "meh" about the whole thing. I mean, I have 1.7gb in "loose" Japanese music (not albumed) on my computer, and only 365mb of "loose" Russian music. Hmm, I could maybe get a Russian wife and live in Japan on a farm in Hokkaido? Eh? Be pretty cool.

I'd be OK with marrying non-Orthodox as long as she was still Christian and respected Orthodoxy. If I stayed in America that's what's likely to happen.

I don't know, probably not worth thinking about all this anymore.



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10 May 2013, 1:55 am

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WRT priesthood, if you're determined to go that very narrow way, might as well go all the way I think. You'd do a better job than me if I tried, I'm sure. Not a decision to make on your own by measuring all the ups and downs if you know what I mean. Monasticism is one way of avoiding married life and the numerous difficulties that come with it altogether.


The problem with priesthood is I don't feel responsible enough to be in a position of power or be a spiritual father and give infallible (well not infallible, but much more trusted than average person) advice regarding the states of people's mortal souls. Oddly lots of people bring up monasticism to me. I really have no desire to be a monk. I also kinda feel like if I became a monk, I'd probably have lots of feelings of resentment toward God, because I'd feel like monasticism would be punishment for my cowardice in telling women how I felt (my problem isn't even really rejection, I just suck at that.)


Don't do it, if you don't want it. There are other options. From what I know about you posting here, here is what you should do, as long as you're fairly competent to live by yourself (actually, very).

1. Make a fake diploma from a good state university like UVA. Make a fake transcript with a pirated version of Adobe Acrobat just for kicks, though it's highly unlikely they will ask for it.

2. Make an embellished resume

3. Make a fake CELTA Certificate, or better yet, do a real CELTA course if you can find one. If you don't know what that is, google it.

4. Go teach English at either a second-tier city university or a language mill like Omeida Language College in Yangshuo, China, or Aston.

A first-tier university will check your degree and references. The places like I mentioned don't. PM me if you need links to job boards with all these jobs posted. I can also advise you on which ones are semi-credible. I didn't end up teaching English in China, but I went there for that purpose originally and ended up doing something else, but I'm familiar with the process.

Once you've got a few years of experience, a first tier university may hire you without checking your stateside stuff, just based on your experience in China.

Things are pretty backwards in China. The Chinese fake their degrees and stuff all the time. There are even consulting firms set up to serve as proxy references in some instances. My company did a little of that with respect to U.S. universities checking references and stuff. It's part of the local culture to embellish one's credentials, so you shouldn't feel to bad doing it. It's a cultural difference and part of the Chinese "face culture." Seems awful as a Westerner, but live there for a year or two, and you'll see it's just a different culture.



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10 May 2013, 2:08 am

Self-rejection should be the only solution for your self-deprecation. Nobody's going to priesthood with a sense of infallibility since there are greater forces at work here, ones you will have to trust - but you'll have to work hard. Got a relative about to graduate from a seminary and he's far from having the easiest time but I feel it's the sort of thing that he was born to do, and he's got a background similar to yours (lots of physical labour).

I wouldn't recommend going into monasticism as a way of punishing yourself or thinking it will put an end to your difficulties - some of the same ones will be present and more, but you'll be able to focus on some of the problems you're already aware of and are trying to work around.

re: Asian women, have you seen what they look like in their 40s or so? You won't be married to somebody resembling a J-Pop idol for too long, and you two won't bear children of expected appearance if she's undergone plastic surgery.



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10 May 2013, 2:36 am

Go tyrion route 1000knives!! Go go go!!

Not for the Asian girls! But for the career.



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10 May 2013, 8:25 am

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re: Asian women, have you seen what they look like in their 40s or so? You won't be married to somebody resembling a J-Pop idol for too long, and you two won't bear children of expected appearance if she's undergone plastic surgery.


My grandma has Native American face wrinkles, since I am part Native American, and so is she and my dad. I actually have seen a 40 year old Asian lady, they don't seem bad looking at all. I don't know why but this old looking Asian lady walked in a goodwill we were shopping at once, and she was kind of attractive, whereas this one asian girl from college wasn't and she looked pretty youthful.


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10 May 2013, 8:50 am

appletheclown wrote:
TheValk wrote:
re: Asian women, have you seen what they look like in their 40s or so? You won't be married to somebody resembling a J-Pop idol for too long, and you two won't bear children of expected appearance if she's undergone plastic surgery.


My grandma has Native American face wrinkles, since I am part Native American, and so is she and my dad. I actually have seen a 40 year old Asian lady, they don't seem bad looking at all. I don't know why but this old looking Asian lady walked in a goodwill we were shopping at once, and she was kind of attractive, whereas this one asian girl from college wasn't and she looked pretty youthful.


Asian women age better imo, assuming they don't eat a Western Diet.



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