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  1. one thing to add. a hundred pack of DE blades usually costs me $25 US and lasts for about 30 months. however I do not shave everyday and only clean shave for meetings.
  2. no problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_razor#Variants Open comb vs closed comb for reference:
  3. I'm black but my facial hair isn't very coarse. My skin is very sensitive to razor bumps. A few years ago I started using beard oil daily, even when clean shaven. I use Proraso White shaving creme and a dual edge safety razor with an open comb after a week I stopped getting razor bumps. The moisturizing of the beard oil is probably what did it, but I like the safety razor and the shaving creme.
  4. Wife and I may have separate rooms sometime in the future. we have 5 bedrooms and not really thinking about selling anytime soon. Since the kids left it's been more of a thing. If I don't wear my CPAP mask i can disrupt her sleep. She also has nights where she wakes me with her snoring or movement. She already has 2 rooms for her clothing and knickknacks. I turned one of the rooms into my home office and keep my clothes in there for now. I'm guessing it's just a natural progression of getting older and having the space to do such. Wife's parents had separate rooms for a while. they don't now. My parents had separate beds in the early 70's. when I asked about it over the years I got different answers. "don't want any more kids", "couldn't afford a king size", etc. Wasn't till later I learned my dad had PTSD from his time in Vietnam and would wake up swinging his arms and fighting everything in sight. They were protecting themselves. Dad died this year. Hope to see him in the new world and get to know him without all the baggage of his childhood and his war experience.
  5. So it did. I forgot about this post. Not that it matters but It would be interesting to see exactly when our brothers were released compared to your original posting. A few articles I read (not going to link but easily found) stated that 'evangelicals and others' were released starting in September from Eritrean prisons.
  6. I'm in no danger then. lol i quit wearing my wedding band regularly about 2 years after we got married. I started maintaining equipment that had many snags. no jewelry or loose clothes allowed. After that I worked with electical components and other such things that were snag hazards. It finally got to the point where i kept it on my key ring for many years. I then started wearing it again when we went out. I lost it at some point in the many places we lived after our house fire. It wasn't in any stuff that was returned or that we carried with us. it's okay though, my wife lost her engagement ring 4 years after we got married. She thinks our oldest tossed it in the trash or it ended fell off the sink into something. that was 22 years ago. doesn't bother either of us not to wear them.
  7. I'm in total agreement with you on this. sounds kind of sketchy. Survive the most awe inspiring day since creation after living for years under the yoke of satans world. but WAIT! you can't travel for a 1000 years? this kind of speculation is useless. 1Tim 1:4.
  8. I'll possibly be on the phone tie in long after they open the hall back up. My wife and I talked about this yesterday because she's going back to work full time at the end of the month. I'm very high risk for this doing me some damage if I get it. We are talking separate bedrooms after she goes back to work. We are going to wait a few weeks till after there's no new infections in our area for a good month.
  9. this is a fantastic Idea. I sent the links to both tours to my group overseer. we've been having weekly zoom meetups for our group. seems like a fun thing if we can manage it. Thanks all who posted the links.
  10. Take a long walk without pain. Never had that since I learned to walk.
  11. Public talk was fine. WT was a little disjointed because some have poor internet connections. Also the brother's that had hot mics for reading and moderating kept taking focus every time they burped. Sent my group overseer this link https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360000510003
  12. Illinois in lockdown at 5pm. Cant leave my property till its over except for essential business.  Glad i live on a quarter acre 

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    2. Shawnster

      Shawnster

      Those in the rurals can enjoy their yards and property.  This should help with fight going stir crazy.

    3. Miss Bea

      Miss Bea

      I’ve got to work on this. I know living rural is a blessing. 
      What I did not know is how much I’d desperately miss the meetings. Just doubled my antidepressant! Don’t worry. I was taking a minimal dose.

    4. paulc

      paulc

      Praying for you miss bea.

  13. First day of memorial invitation work. haven't had notice from the BOE that it's cancelled in our area yet.

    wake up this morning to my usual bad weather coughing fits and it's snowing outside.

     

    not about to go out today coughing in the snow even thought the cough will clear up around 10am like it usually does.

     

     

     


     

    1. Miss Bea

      Miss Bea

      With what the website said. It had to do with cancellations until May 1, nothing would surprise me. 
      Instructions on how to privately celebrate the Memorial? 
      Whatever the case, I’m not worried. We will be fine! 

    2. Leon J

      Leon J

      Well just was texted that all activities are cancelled till further notice.  

  14. Since I'm not even good at my native language english, I can't do this. My tablet only allows one instance of the program.
  15. I don't really like the (android) tablet app. As time has gone by it's taken up more and more space and become more processor hungry. My wife's older tablet (2yrs), that she only uses for meetings and service, has had to been reset twice since the update that introduced the study bible. It struggles to play the study bible media. everything else works fine though slow. she may have to buy a newer one, but is struggling with the expense as it's only a few years old. Even though it would actually increase usage, being able to open multiple instances of the app would be nice. Many times during the meeting I will whip out my phone to check another article or look up something in the insight book that just occurred to me. I don't want to do it in the app on my tablet because then i'm stabbing at the tablet trying to get back to my place. at home it's WTlib and my bible. I tried to use the JWL on my laptop and it reminds me of the frustration of the app. I'm thinking about going back to paper copy for the WT study, or at least printing my own. I've tried for a year to get used to it on the screen and my eyes just dont work that way.
  16. Trying to get my dad's affairs in order is a pain. 

    My nephew and his wife have been stellar in all this. However my mother hasn't been cooperative in the least bit.

    the latest thing is to have a memorial in a hall central to where he and mom lived in southern California so that all their long time friends could come by.. However since he never went to a hall after he was moved to california and nobody from Idaho transferred his card. upon contacting the CBOE there they didn't have a clue as to who he was with all the mergers. so his local BOE can't confirm that he was ever a witness. flip side in this is my mother isn't cooperating with anyone. 

    so instead of a memorial at the hall where my only sister in the truth and her only son in the truth we have to do something else. 

    fortunately a brother handed me the outline for that particular talk and I or my brother will do it once we can all arrange to meet some place in the spring.
     

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    2. Stormswift

      Stormswift

      One foot after another my dear ... I can't give advice on this but I can give our love here from NZ and hope it all sorts itself quickly.

    3. JennyM

      JennyM

      Ask wisdom in prayer. Its upsetting but  Jah will help u bear it. 

    4. Miss Bea

      Miss Bea

      You are doing fine. Under the best of circumstances, a death is hard on everyone. 
      Do something that brings you comfort, and realize soon this type of stress will be a thing of the past. 
      And, I’m sorry for your stress. Talk to your Father, pour your heart out, and try to just move on. 

  17. I should add that he was opposed most of my life but was baptized several years after i left home.

    He then succumbed to effects of his ptsd from the Vietnam war and dementia.  

     

     

    1. JennyM

      JennyM

      to change your negative thoughts about your father is that having pstd is not easy. I had it for more than a decade.. Its really hard. I was abused by my ex and whenever I saw men (my father's friends) knocking on the gate, bad memories are coming on my mind. Are they going to hurt me?  

      In my mind, I think that all men are bad, evil and dominating. 

      Anyway, well at least, hes at rest now. Its just hard for everyone to live in this system especially for those who don't have Jehovah. 

  18. My father is dead. Had to kick my mother out of the house to go see him and her grandchildren that cared for him before it was too late.

     

    Long story to why this was but suffice to say its not been an easy 53 years (my age).

     

    They've had a turbulent history.  Result is an extremely fragmented family that barely talks to each other.

     

    My nephew is my only reaffirmation of hat the resurrection promise provides a hope.

     

    Haven't talked to my dad in 20 years except for the time he threatened to kill me for taking my mother in when no one else would. 

     

    He who is making all things new will fix this. 

     

     

     

     

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    2. hatcheckgirl

      hatcheckgirl

      Very sorry, my brother. My deepest condolences and may Jehovah keep you strong in faith and comfort you..🌹

    3. Leon J

      Leon J

      Thank you all. By "kick my mother out" i mean had to force her to fly out to California so she could help my nephew take care of legal matters.  She didn't want to go.

       

      They separated 5 years ago because my father's dementia and ptsd was making him violent. 

      My nephew was able to make sure he got to his doctors visits and took his medication. 

       

      Meanwhile I took in mom temporarily until things got sorted out. Took longer than expected.

       

       

    4. bagwell1987

      bagwell1987

      Sadly we can't choose our family only make do with Jehovah's help. Recently discovered how liberating it is when I really throw all my burden's on Him, his way of helping me endure was done with unbelievable love. Hope you feel this love from Him as well.

  19. well I think there would have been a deeper problem than just shift work if that was the case. in my case: I made all the meetings I could. participated in the ministry with the kids and my wife as much as they actually desired to at the time, but there were other things beyond spiritual obligations that I missed. My wife has a rather large family so almost every weekend from the beginning of spring till school started. there was a wedding, baby shower, graduation, home congregation gathering, anniversary party, etc etc etc. And of course funerals as dear ones passed on. there was no human way to work and sleep properly and go to all these things with the family so I didn't. took a lot of heat and my wife took a lot of flak because I wasn't around but... now that the third shift life is behind me I'm still subject to being the person that's never there when I show up at family or congregation things. It wasn't that I didn't want to be there in most cases. I just couldn't go without ruining my priorities for the day.
  20. I worked 3rds, 10 - 8 4 nights a week for 10 years. Didn't interfere with meetings but it did interfere with my relationship with my family. Im pretty much a stranger to them at times. Looking back it wasn't worth it to me.
  21. just finished with the regional. fun three days except for the leg cramps. I propose a 2 minute stretch after each talk.

    1. Miss Bea

      Miss Bea

      Okay, for me. Pickle juice works. I got the worst leg cramps ever. I’m not at home. It was horrible. (Actually bruised a bit) From the plane ride, or what, I do not know. (I’m seven hours from home, courtesy air) 

      Upstairs I went. My daughter had Dutch pickles. (Yep, her husband is Dutch.). Worked. 

      I will take some in a tiny container to sip on , if necessary...thanks😊

      (I’m in Canada, not Holland!) 

      Ours is the end of August, first of September 

    2. A fellow servant

      A fellow servant

      No doubt you thoroughly enjoyed the convention.  Such upbuilding, faith strengthening talks and videos.   Keeps us going this troublesome system of things.  

  22. I'm pretty much the same way. our movie and book collection was in our "family lounge" basically a place off my office where we all sit and chill. it's by definition messy and chaotic. My sci-fi and sports stuff that wern't office decorations were there as well. During a small family cookout/gathering of about 30 people... My wife's aunts new husband at the time (that whole string of words is odd and they are still married) took it upon himself to wander around and make comments about our movie choices and wall hangings. then stood slackjawed when two of her cousin's who are elders went down and joined the super mario brother's tournament that the kids were having. He's mellowed a bit.
  23. Orca's are fascinating. so far I've learned that each pod has it's own language and their own hunting styles and prey. The language thing is interesting because the Orca's that were raised in captivity would be considered illiterate if introduced to a wild pod.

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