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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 09-26-10 WT Study (DEEP THINGS)

  by blondie in

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  .. the deep things of god.

  comments.

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  zid that sign is no longer there, however the read the watchtower sign still is!!!!!
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  Banking Nightmare

  by recovering in

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  i had a horrible experience with bank of america yesterday.

  i needed to deposit cash in my checking account in order to cover a check i had written to cover my mortgage.

  bank of america has decided to close many of their full service banks and replace them with new fangled atm machines.

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  I had a horrible experience with Bank of America yesterday. I needed to deposit cash in my checking account in order to cover a check I had written to cover my mortgage. Bank of America has decided to close many of their full service banks and replace them with new fangled ATM machines. These new machines allow you to deposit cash. However in their infinite wisdom you no longer have a deposit slip or envelope to make the deposit. You just feed the stack of bills into the deposit slot and the machine counts the cash and records the deposit amount. If you agree with what the machine counts you press yes and it issues you a receipt. If however you do not agree the machine is supposed to return your cash. Well the ATM machine I was depositing to malfunctioned. Not only did it not count the deposit (2700.00 $) correctly it could not return the cash. It spit out a receipt saying sorry not all of your items could be processed or returned. Please contact your financial institution, I panicked I guarded the ATM with my life and called the number they gave on the receipt. Well of course I got an automated response. Enter this code; enter account #: DOB; etc. I finally got a human who said they do not handle such claims; they would transfer me to the appropriate department. OK they transfer me to claims. Another Automated response enter this enter that the voice drones on. Ok we are getting somewhere I think. The machine says it is transferring me. The next sound I get out of the phone then tells me the number is no longer in service. I then redial the first number and have to go through the entire process again. This time however I insist that the human I finally get manually transfers me to the claims department and stay on the line till I get a human. I finally talk to the claims person who at first said she would send me a claims form and I would eventually get credited. I say unacceptable and remind her that cash deposits under federal law requires that cash deposits must immediately get credited. She puts her supervisor on the phone that agrees with me and issues me the temporary credit. The funniest thing about the whole thing is what the supervisor said to me as she was apologizing. She saysBank of America has had excellent success with these ATMs and their ability to take cash deposits. We process millions of deposits a day this way and our success rate is 95 %. WTF that means millions are being stuck in cyber hell each year.
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  Any E reader people here?

  by highdose in

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  i'm thinking of getting an e reader but have never used this medium before.

  does anyone have any recomends?.

  also is there any p2p file sharing sites for e reader files?.

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  I love my kindle, i think in the long run, it is the cost effective option. I also like it's user interface is the easiest to use.
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  Why would you buy Weed?????

  by Darth plaugeis in

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  if you had the legal choice... it's friday would you buy a 20 pack of beer or a $20 bag of weed.. the topic of never got drunk!

  made me think would it be better to get stoned or drunk?.

  i can function 100% the next day after being stoned...... i can function ??

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  Moshe I am going to scare you right now. I am a medical proffesional . I wan't to point out some very scarey facts to you. Physicians have a high rate of substance abuse. Conservitive estimates say 8 to 12 % of physicians are impaired. What is even more frightning is that doctors tend to use much more potent drugs including but not limitedto opiods ,and the abuse goes often goes undetected for years. Here is an article i thought you might find interesting.

  http://www.turner-white.com/pdf/hp_jul03_know.pdf
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  Where were you???

  by free2beme in

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  everyone asked, "where were you and what were you doing when you heard about 9/11".

  each story is always detailed and rather complimenting to the storying teller.

  one day i want to hear someone be honest and say something like .... "i had the worst case of diaheria ever and in the bathroom, when my friend knocked on the door and told me?".

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  I was treating patients in the Operating room at St vincent's hosapital in NY. We had to cancel all elective surgurys after this happenened.
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  What amount of Borg demise would you consider victory?

  by Mad Sweeney in

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  there's always a lot of discussion about "bringing down the wts" and how it will "never happen" because they'll just keep going and going.. so here's my question.

  granted that barring some major international changes of a catastrophic scifi nature the wts is going to exist in some shape or form for the next hundred years and probably more, what progress on the "apostate" front would you personally consider a success?.

  would you simply be happy to have all of your blood relatives out?.

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  i wan't them to never be able to hurt anyone else
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  Medical People: Lipitor vs Zocor (Simvastatin)? Which do you recommend??

  by AudeSapere in

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  i know we have a good representation of medically-trained people on this board so i want to put out this question:.

  when treating a person with high cholesterol, which do you prefer: lipitor or zocor (simvastatin)?

  if a person begins treatment with lipitor, is it necessary to use it for the rest of that person's life?

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  You have made an excellent decision AudeSapere. Never rely on antidotal experiences alone. I hope you do your research and go prepared with specific questions for your Drs. We should never take medical advice solely on what we read on a message board. After all ,even medical professionals who may answer you on a MB don’t know your complete medical history (including labs, family history, other meds, physical exam results etc)

  By the way I am a Medical professional and would never be so arrogant as to tell you what the best medication for you is.
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  Medical People: Lipitor vs Zocor (Simvastatin)? Which do you recommend??

  by AudeSapere in

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  i know we have a good representation of medically-trained people on this board so i want to put out this question:.

  when treating a person with high cholesterol, which do you prefer: lipitor or zocor (simvastatin)?

  if a person begins treatment with lipitor, is it necessary to use it for the rest of that person's life?

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  Please make informed choices when deciding whether to use statins or not. You should only make the choice after careful consultation with your own personel physician
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  Medical People: Lipitor vs Zocor (Simvastatin)? Which do you recommend??

  by AudeSapere in

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  i know we have a good representation of medically-trained people on this board so i want to put out this question:.

  when treating a person with high cholesterol, which do you prefer: lipitor or zocor (simvastatin)?

  if a person begins treatment with lipitor, is it necessary to use it for the rest of that person's life?

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  Do not listen to the non medical advice regarding statins. Once a course of treatment with statins is started it is usually a lifetime course of treatment. (the only exception is if you exibit serious side effects ie poor liver function etc) By the way there are many more serious side effects than muscle cramping, these include liver and kidney damage.
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  I am considering to get a sofa bed for extra company in the future

  by asilentone in

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  i have tried sofa beds in the past, they are awful, but i would not be surprised if the quality of sofa beds has improved ever since.

  any suggestions where to get comfortable sofa beds?

  thanks!

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  ou might consider some of the higher end futons I bought one for company and i have found it far superior to sofa beds. The high end futons look just like a couch and the matresses contain a more confortable matress for sleeping