Hi Jim,
Best Buy! The Insignia had pretty good reports on the web sites I looked at. These are all pretty new, so there's not a whole lot of time experience with them. I'm happy with this one today.
garybuss
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TV Converter Box Choice?
by garybuss intv converter box choice?.
i need some help choosing which tv converter box to buy.
i have two united states government issued converter box $40 coupons good till 9-9-08. .
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TV Converter Box Choice?
by garybuss intv converter box choice?.
i need some help choosing which tv converter box to buy.
i have two united states government issued converter box $40 coupons good till 9-9-08. .
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garybuss
I got two Insignia NS-DXA1-APT. The government issued coupons worked. Two converters cost $50 cash out of pocket total. So far I like the one I have hooked up. I have much better picture on channels I always got and I get three I never got before. FOX 17 I can't get unless I bypass the converter.
The converter was easy to install. Might have taken one minute. Took longer to read the instructions than to install the converter.
I'll probably get a couple more so I can use the same set up when I use a different TV.
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very important material
by possible-san ini can speak only japanese.
please allow my strange english.
i show you a certain very important material.. .
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Great picture! Thanks!
Here in South Dakota USA, a common location for the Watch Tower Society to rent to hold circuit assemblies was National Guard Armories. All those buildings represented was condemned by the Witness people but the price of rental was cheap and apparently they saw no conflict.
Outside the buildings in fenced areas were inventories of tanks, trucks, and big guns on trailers. In front of the building was a huge gun on a truck trailer on display.
Inside were large state and national flags on display, display cases of military awards, history and memorials. If holding a Jehovah's Witness Watch Tower Corporation sponsored meeting in a National Guard Armory isn't a compromise, I don't know what would be. Where'd they think their rent money went? -
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by FlyingHighNow inhas anyone got advice on what to do when your car headliner starts to lose its adhesive and then begins sagging?
my car is eleven years old and it sags on either side and is now only adering down the middle.
i dont have money to repair it like it should be.
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garybuss
One time I used 3/4" metal banding of the type used to bind lumber and machinery for shipping. I just cut it a little long and let it catch the over door headliner trim on each side. The stuff is sort of spring steel anyway, so it stayed up good.
Eventually I saved up enough to have it replaced by an upholstery shop. The metal bands were a handy place to store paper scraps and unpaid bills while they were there. -
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JWs - the Next Generation
by Olin Moyles Ghost inmy peer group (post-1975 born-in jws) seems to approach the jw religion in a different manner than earlier generations.
now, these folks still believe the wts is "the truth" and if you say anything that sounds "apostate" they start freaking out.
but, make no mistake, these jws are not your parents' witnesses.
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Not one thing on your list is new. It all went down in the 50's and 60's too except lots of Witnesses smoked then too. We had smoke breaks between the meetings Sunday and Thursday.
I partied with a visiting speaker one Saturday night and he had to crawl up the stairs to bed, he vomited all over the floor right before he passed out, and Sunday he gave his talk wearing dark glasses. That was 1962.
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Car mpg performance. Can anyone explain this?
by coffee_black ini have a 2001 saturn sl1.
it has just hit 200,000 miles.
(almost all job related) i get 37 mpg on the highway.
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You wrote: I don't want to take the chance of breaking down far from home.
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Car mpg performance. Can anyone explain this?
by coffee_black ini have a 2001 saturn sl1.
it has just hit 200,000 miles.
(almost all job related) i get 37 mpg on the highway.
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You wrote: I know that the SL1 wasn't really a popular car...but it has been really good to me... I'm keeping it as long as possible....hopefully another year at least.
Why couldn't you keep it 10 more years? Is the body shot? I thought they had plastic body panels. Aren't parts available? Or does your company furnish a car? Here in South Dakota, parts are much cheaper than a new car.
I have a friend who uses 3/4 tom pickups for his roofing business and they put on a LOT of miles. He just replaces parts as long as the bodies are good. Several of his trucks are on their third new crate engine.
If the frame and body are good, everything else just bolts on. I don't drive a lot of miles but I tend to keep good vehicles. My pickup I bought new in 1987, still drive it every day. My car I bought used with 29k miles on it for 11k, 7 years ago.
If I was on the road, I'd probably buy $5,000 cars with 100,000 miles on them. We don't own anything less than 10 years old. I don't invest much $ in depreciating assets.
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The ''truth'' that lead me to question the WTS.
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe truth that leads to eternal life says on page 13:.
we need to examine, not only what we personally believe, but also what is taught by any religious organization with whichwe may be associated.
are its teachings in full harmony with god's word, or are they based on the traditions of men?
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You wrote: . . . when confronted with evidence of grave error, dishonesty, foul play, corruption, etc., they lie and cover up, oftentimes.
I'd say "oftentimes" . . . I'd say, all the time. After oftentimes, then they'd shun my ass because I happened to notice the evidence of grave error, dishonesty, foul play, corruption, etc.
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The ''truth'' that lead me to question the WTS.
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe truth that leads to eternal life says on page 13:.
we need to examine, not only what we personally believe, but also what is taught by any religious organization with whichwe may be associated.
are its teachings in full harmony with god's word, or are they based on the traditions of men?
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I didn't like being a Witness. I didn't like meetings. I didn't like service. I wasn't religious. I thought the literature was boring. I thought the Watch Tower Society writers and promoters were idiots, (dishonest idiots after 1975). The Witness people routinely socially excluded me. The assemblies were expensive to attend, the talks were boring, the people stunk of body odor, and the convention security guards were mean.
What did the Witnesses have to offer me? Not one damn thing!
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Do JWs need the BoE as substitute father-figures??
by navytownroger inwhat in the world really attracts new people to the jws??
most new ones don't know or understand the complicated theology, so i doubt it's that.
is it the love-bombing & friendliness?
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You wrote: I wonder if people who were raised by parents who were very strict & who enforced rigid family rules would be equally attracted to the authoritarian rules of the WTBTS.
Nope! If they're like me, they resist all authority. The last thing we want is more authority over us. I'm not sure what broad profile likes life under a high control group, but most people I know like me who were raised by controlling religious fanatics get a gut full of being controlled by others pretty early in life.
That's why so many of us own our own businesses. Hell, we can't work for anybody else.