8.2 Earthquake strikes Los Angeles
Category 5 Hurricane Hits Miami
Tornadoes Rip Through Chicago

Natural events are supposedly listed as "Acts of God" by insurance
companies who are trying to prevent paying out after natural
disasters. But my question is this, how much would an insurance
company pay before hand, that is before the natural disaster has
happened?

Would they pay a cent for this information or would they let it happen
and then try to recover? A true "act of God" is the birth of a child,
a person who is cured from a disease, and other beautiful things. It
is not torrential rains that wash away people and property, tornadoes
that flatten entire towns, and fires which consume houses and
forests. The mere mention that these are "Acts of God" have me
wondering which God they are talking about?

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:21:58 -0700, Zeus yahoo.com>
wrote:

You mean for advanced information that the disaster is coming?
I'd point out we had a few days warning that Katrina was going to hit
New Orleans.

Unfortentely too many failed to realize that not everyone
in New Orleans had an SUV they could hop into to get out
of the target of the storm.

On Oct 4, 11:21 am, Zeus yahoo.com> wrote:

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:21:58 -0700, Zeus wrote:

Being a time-atheist, I think something is wrong here.

A line? You mean a direction, a path, a physical something or an
shorthanded abstract put in place of a physical impossibility?

Since I do understand, I think, what you mean by a "time line" I
don't mean that you, and only you, are wrong. We all share this idea of
'time' going in a 'line'.

What you are saying here though, in this interesting post, is that
the limits of physical space (can we say the universe?) must also limit
what then must be physical time. Yet time is something we can only measure
in relative, dare I say, subjective concepts, like mathematics, and not
very well at that. Even atomic clocks have to take 'leaps'.

When we see light from a star, are we traveling in time or is the star?
If, or since, light has speed nothing we see is immediate but a reflection
of past matter, so are we now and always traveling in the past, at least
at a conscience and scientific level? IOW, we have not yet traveled to the
present so our line can never start there. Maybe the senses are more
important than we think (there is humor somewhere in this).

In article 4ax.com>, Don'tbother...sendtousenet says...

In newsreading01.news.tds.net> Ted J L wrote:

Yeah, but it says a LOT of other stupid things too. It has dozens of
verses supporting slavery, for instance, which just proves it was
written by a bunch of ignorant sheep herders and not by any sort of
enlightened deity.

"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear.  Serve
them sincerely as you would serve Christ."  (Ephesians 6:5)

Nevermore

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