Vengeance belongs to Jehovah!

 When I was an early teen I was feared by my classmates who would bully me and my friends. Why? I overcame my fear and hit them back. Actually, I was scared the entire time. I thought I had to handle this. My twin brother would put his feeling of safety into my hands as well. I remember one boy lifting me up with one hand pinning me against the wall. I had stood up for my twin brother and was ready to get beaten to a pulp by this kid. At least my twin brother would be ok.

I was relying on my own wits and weak human muscles to save me. For now, as a man and scores stronger than I was I realize being able to punch someone is not real strength. Rather giving in and using violence or begging them for mercy is true weakness. It is from Jehovah that our strength comes. In fact, other humans can hurt us, even kill us but Jehovah has power over death. Death will soon be done away with.

The end result of all of that fighting and relying on myself was stress, more fear, and I nearly became a felon! 

You see those boys were afraid of me. But one day I refused to be manipulated by them. I refused to fight this kid. They saw that as a weakness and attacked me on the way home. They hit me with a rock cutting me and causing bleeding from right below my eye. I saw the blood and ran home determined to deal with them at a later date.

Well, that date came. Several days later with my parents, I returned to the school. My parents who did not know what was happening were shocked and took immediate moves to aid me. They were going to have me transferred to another school. 

I decided I would take my revenge on those boys. I would bring a knife from home and stab him in the chest with it. So I brought a knife with me hidden in my jacket to the school. Sure enough, I was allowed to collect some items of mine from the classroom. This was my chance! I walked into the classroom. I was in a rage. I walked towards the boy. Then I stopped. The classroom was quiet. I was looking at him through my bloodshot eyes. I was ready to kill him. But, something came over me! It must have been an angel or Jehovah's holy spirit. I reasoned that if I killed him it would be a mistake that would really damage my life in the future. Rage left me. I was empty but I knew I had to leave that classroom. 

You see I would not have been able to go to University and travel to several countries settling in two of them and marrying a beautiful girl from north-central India. Without her, I would not have had the two boys that I have today. Due to her constant prayers to Jehovah, I was woken from my walking-dead-like sleep. Now our boys along with Yogita will be auxiliary pioneering next month. Our boys love me, and my wife loves me and has developed a deep affection for me. 

There is a part two to this post. Vengeance belongs to Jehovah not us humans here on earth. I should have gone to Jehovah in prayer. I should have talked to my parents or an elder. I should not have taken matters into my own foolish hands! I could have been killed at that moment, or later in jail. 

Our friend needed to follow this advice as well!

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Updates

 This year has been a stressful one right at the start. Our friend has enemies that tried to get her to shut down. I think nothing is safe in this world. Nothing is really secure. 

When I pray for Jehovah's help each day I keep this in mind. When I deal with the students. At any time things could go bad, really bad. 

In, this part of the world is very quiet or so it seems. War with China is closer than ever before. North Korea is testing more weapons and speaking very aggressively towards South Korea.

I am happy to report that our go bags are partially ready. I need to add more perishable foods. This will be done this week. I am hoping to get canned spam that I can use to further build up our go bags. The last thing I will get will be a MRE box for each family member.

Then I will just cycle items in and out of the go bags over the months to years. 

I was able to talk to my twin brother. Some things are going well but others are not. Those details do not belong here as they are another story for others to write. 

I am so happy to hear from my Twin brother. We talk more regularly these days.

South Korea and North Korea once again not on good terms. This time North Korea fired multiple shells off of the west coast. They have stated that they will be developing nuclear weapons. China is looking at Taiwan. Taiwan just elected a new president who is pro-Taiwan. So war is brewing yet again, and people are seemingly unaware of these issues. 

In the coming months, I will turn our house into a mini food cache. With grains, water, and other perishables stocked up. Some items are easy to stock up on. I will focus on those. Cheap rice, canned goods, and beans and lentils can be stored as well. 

I am happy to report that our family worship has been continuing up until now. This week we will watch the annual update part 2.

Ok, time to go for now. One more class then we will be looking into update number 2.

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South Korea is a ticking time bomb

 This country is in trouble. There is more housing than there are people to actually buy a unit and then move in. People are choosing to live selfish lives. Jobs are here but no one wants them as they are too low paying. Families are in huge debt. A man killed his family and then committed suicide in Iksan last week.

The reason? Debt! He took money to start a business. The business? A coffee shop. This was a very very bad idea! There are coffee shops EVERYWHERE. This means after people try your shop they often go back to the well-established branded coffee shops. So his plan was as bad as opening a fried chicken shop they are EVERYWHERE. So he lost all of his while going deep into debt. 

We think that he might have been putting on a showy display of his means of life. He likely did this knowing that he was sinking into debt. Instead of trying to live modestly and not caring that other people in the community would know of his failure, he hid it.

I am pretty sure he had a "normal car" and house. What I mean is it would have been something similar to what his friends had or slightly better. He took his family on an international trip then killed them and ended his own life when he got back.

All over South Korea, people are living on credit cards. They are making the same mistakes that Americans have made and are still making. eventually, you end up with nothing. During our family bible study, I keep reminding my family and myself that this world is truly dead. all that glitters is actually dull!

People smiling are actually people screaming at the top of their lungs! This country seems so stable but actually like the rest of the world it is actually a tinder box with flint striking it every day!

It was so funny when my wife told her students that Chinese and Russian fighters along with bombers violated South Korean protected airspace and South Korea and Japan scrambled fighters in response, her students were surprised. In the next moment, it was as if she had said nothing. They said nothing bad will happen. I am sure many in Europe were saying the same thing right before Russia invaded Ukraine. 

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Updates

 As it is January 2024 I will be looking to repair my fold 3 and upgrade to the fold 5. I love these phones. They are versatile. It is like having 2 phones in one. The inner screen is very large but not too massive like a tablet. storage is weak because there isn't an SD slot. My Fold 3 had 512 GB. When I upgrade I will get a terabyte. I want to have all of my pictures and videos on one device. With the fold 5 finally the camera is a bit better. Yogita will take the fold 3 (after I get the battery replaced, and screen replaced). The Note 10 will go to George. While the note 8 will be used by Jeyo at the kingdom hall, conventions, when traveling, and monitored usage at home. I am not making the mistake I made with George. Ugh, this world is horrible fortunately my sons serve Jehovah and do their best to obey their parents.

But this will not happen until May or June. So for now maybe I can get the screens repaired and then put this phone in an armored case to protect it. 

Computers I will put 9th or 10th-generation GPUs in the computers the boys use. I might go with AMD of a similar generation. I really want small form factor cards, For Yogita and I we need GPUS with more VRAM. 8 gigabytes minimum. I am on the lookout. When I find a good deal I will put the 1060 6 GB cards in the computers the boys use. I will take my time with these things so that my attention is not totally focused on these things. I will be looking for a shaving kit for George but I need to wait on this as well. Young people change their minds OFTEN. What is cool today is then not something they are interested in later. I know this from my own actions in the past. 

So for tech, I am still going to use old tech. RTX cards are too much fluff. I do like the higher VRAM they have. The games that we play (Yogita and I) need a lot of Vram but not very powerful GPUs.

Our go bags are in the process of getting kitted out. If war or some natural disaster occurred we would be ok for about 3 to 4 days. I am looking to double this with the go bag itself. Then add two days of supplies with an additional satchel that can be easily carried across the chest with more water and food.

So totally if we rationed it, it could last two weeks. In the coming months, I will expand this to have a cache of food and water to extend this to two more weeks but stored in the car and in the house. If we move to India I will rebuild the food and water caches. Food needed canned beans, fruit, spam, with some MREs to round things off. Lastly, I will make sure to have more instant noodles. They are so light and last a long time. I can have a cache in the car and in the house without taking up too much space.

Ok, time to get back to prepping for tomorrow. 

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