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Warranty information uses God to explain natural disasters?
July 18, 2010 at 6:18 pm
"Further, the warranty does not cover: Acts of God such as fire, flood, hurricanes and tornadoes"
We just bought a Fan and this sentence was in the warranty paper. I can't believe that they actually say that God is the cause for fires, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes. And that's on a warranty paper. What do you all think about it?
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RE: Warranty information uses God to explain natural disasters?
July 18, 2010 at 6:21 pm
what if someone who was clearly not a god set your fan on fire? would that still be an act of God?
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RE: Warranty information uses God to explain natural disasters?
July 18, 2010 at 6:29 pm
(July 18, 2010 at 6:21 pm)Cego_Colher Wrote: what if someone who was clearly not a god set your fan on fire? would that still be an act of God?
Lol. I'm gonna guess a Christian typed that warranty. Because if it was a normal person, it'll be something like :
"Further, the warranty does not cover: fires, floods, hurricanes or tornadoes." Or something on the lines of that.
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RE: Warranty information uses God to explain natural disasters?
July 18, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Oh dear me, the ignorance is overpowering in this corner.
Acts of God is a traditional legal term to describe what you might call acts of nature.
It is used today for consistency - and for the fact that lawyers and law change very, very, very, very slowly when it comes to procedure, precedent, etc,.
It does not mean a Christian wrote the warranty - merely a lawyer wrote it.
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RE: Warranty information uses God to explain natural disasters?
July 18, 2010 at 7:29 pm
This just proves that there are a lot of really batshit insane people in the world.
I wonder though, if your fan did catch on fire, would they make you prove that god did it? You would truly be a fucked monkey then.
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RE: Warranty information uses God to explain natural disasters?
July 18, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Wow. Couldn't they have just said "acts of nature" then, instead of saying "acts of God." They could have made much fewer people angry.
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RE: Warranty information uses God to explain natural disasters?
July 18, 2010 at 8:21 pm
I can't stand the "acts of god" bullshit. He takes the credit for everything.
Like when that young boy who survived the aircrash. The only survivor and they called it a "miracle". So what do they call all those who didn't survive? "Non-miracle"?
God is a faggot. 
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Warranty information uses God to explain natural disasters?
July 18, 2010 at 8:34 pm
(July 18, 2010 at 7:29 pm)Rhage Wrote: This just proves that there are a lot of really batshit insane people in the world.
I wonder though, if your fan did catch on fire, would they make you prove that god did it? You would truly be a fucked monkey then. No, you're misinterpreting it completely. Acts of God is an old, old legal term meaning things that happen in nature. And no, unless a bolt of lightning struck and set your fan on fire, it is not an act of god (nature).
This really is not a hard concept to grasp. Like the phrase "Goddamnit" doesn't mean "Oh Lord, I beseech thyself to damn thee to hell" colloquially as much as it means more of "I am annoyed".
You know how gay no longer implies happy and carefree, but homosexual? Language changes by common usage. And some language does not change.
(July 18, 2010 at 7:31 pm)Nitsuj Wrote: Wow. Couldn't they have just said "acts of nature" then, instead of saying "acts of God." They could have made much fewer people angry.
They could throw out centuries of legal definitions, get sued, have an expensive case, only to have a judge look at them and say "Why did you not use the correct legal term?"
Be real.
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RE: Warranty information uses God to explain natural disasters?
July 18, 2010 at 8:54 pm
People never heard of the term "Act of God". I agree with Synackaon on this subject. You can't be offended by every usage of God in everything. It gets kind of ridiculous to think that way. I can't believe people freak out over that term used.
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RE: Warranty information uses God to explain natural disasters?
July 18, 2010 at 10:21 pm
(July 18, 2010 at 8:34 pm)Synackaon Wrote: (July 18, 2010 at 7:29 pm)Rhage Wrote: This just proves that there are a lot of really batshit insane people in the world.
I wonder though, if your fan did catch on fire, would they make you prove that god did it? You would truly be a fucked monkey then. No, you're misinterpreting it completely. Acts of God is an old, old legal term meaning things that happen in nature. And no, unless a bolt of lightning struck and set your fan on fire, it is not an act of god (nature).
This really is not a hard concept to grasp. Like the phrase "Goddamnit" doesn't mean "Oh Lord, I beseech thyself to damn thee to hell" colloquially as much as it means more of "I am annoyed".
You know how gay no longer implies happy and carefree, but homosexual? Language changes by common usage. And some language does not change.
Syn, I know that. I was just being facetious. It's a little something I do from time to time.
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