I feel that way about buying extra warranties for my car, but not for insurance. I know they are both a type of insurance, but they are different forms. Auto insurance usually insures you for things beyond your control, like another driver damaging your car, or you damaging someone else with your car. In that case, yes, I definitely want insurance for the possibility that I might do a huge amount of damage to someone else that I would not be able to pay for.
But that is not what warranties usually cover. As far as I undertand it, warranties usually protect you against the product breaking through no fault of your own. You can probably buy warranties that cover theft and damage for which the buyer is at fault, but for the sake of semantics, I would put that into the category of insurance.
I never buy warranties. My thinking is this: Essentially it is a bet between me and the company giving out the warranty. They are betting that they won't have to shell out the bucks, and I am betting that they will. Since the vendor has way more data upon which to base their bet (it is their product), I am betting that it probably isn't a good deal for me to bet against them.
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When the Christian missionaries brought their faith to the people of northern Europe, they ran into some resistance, as the Christian faith did not mesh well with the local customs. So, being adaptable fellows, they conflated the idea of the cross as a focus for worship with the European's focus on the tree as an object of worship - making the tree and the cross one and the same symbol.
One of the reasons that Christianity spread so far and wide, is due to this creativity on the part of those spreading the gospel.
Religion is always fun to debate on/.;). That said, I will offer my extremely humble opinion. In my own experience, and correlating that with all that has been written (including the Gospels) - what Jesus was getting at is that the Kingdom of Heaven (or simply, Heaven) is right here, right now, available to you immediately. The trick is finding a way to see and experience it. If you can see that the World is a wonderful, sacred, infinitely mysterious and beautiful thing, then you have entered the Kingdom of Heaven. How do you manage to do that? You may only know what path is right for you.
As for the Heaven of when-you-die - that is an inscrutable mystery. Nobody knows what happens to your spirit when you die. This fact is an important lesson in itself. The fact that no one knows, gives our lives a distinctively uncertain feeling. I think that one of the paths to the Kingdom of Heaven is learning to live and thrive with this constant uncertainty. Really, it is about freedom. Are you going to live frightened of dying all your life, in a little locked box, or are you going to live your life, free in heart and mind?
It's the doppler effect, sometimes referred to as red shift (though that would be when you are speeding away, I think). If you were speeding towards a red sign, it would appear blue if you were going fast enough. Though, you would have to be going pretty damn fast.
It is important to note that AT&T has an opportunity to gain just as many customers as anyone else from this. People on other networks might be interested in switching to AT&T. From this point of view, dragging their heels would not make much sense. My guess is just that they are getting way more requests than they had expected, and are having huge technical problems.
Note that on their home page links to their wireless plan have been dead for the last two days. I doubt that is something they meant to do. My guess is that life over at the AT&T wireless offices for the last week have been a chaotic nightmare, with everyone getting about three hours of sleep each night. I bet it is just a big mess.
On another note, it seems that if there is going to be true number portability, there should be some sort of national database that is shared. Who would administer this, I don't know, but having each carrier have separate databases gives me some hints as to how much of a technical mess this system could turn into.
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But that is not what warranties usually cover. As far as I undertand it, warranties usually protect you against the product breaking through no fault of your own. You can probably buy warranties that cover theft and damage for which the buyer is at fault, but for the sake of semantics, I would put that into the category of insurance.
I never buy warranties. My thinking is this: Essentially it is a bet between me and the company giving out the warranty. They are betting that they won't have to shell out the bucks, and I am betting that they will. Since the vendor has way more data upon which to base their bet (it is their product), I am betting that it probably isn't a good deal for me to bet against them.
One of the reasons that Christianity spread so far and wide, is due to this creativity on the part of those spreading the gospel.
Religion is always fun to debate on /. ;). That said, I will offer my extremely humble opinion. In my own experience, and correlating that with all that has been written (including the Gospels) - what Jesus was getting at is that the Kingdom of Heaven (or simply, Heaven) is right here, right now, available to you immediately. The trick is finding a way to see and experience it. If you can see that the World is a wonderful, sacred, infinitely mysterious and beautiful thing, then you have entered the Kingdom of Heaven. How do you manage to do that? You may only know what path is right for you.
As for the Heaven of when-you-die - that is an inscrutable mystery. Nobody knows what happens to your spirit when you die. This fact is an important lesson in itself. The fact that no one knows, gives our lives a distinctively uncertain feeling. I think that one of the paths to the Kingdom of Heaven is learning to live and thrive with this constant uncertainty. Really, it is about freedom. Are you going to live frightened of dying all your life, in a little locked box, or are you going to live your life, free in heart and mind?
It's the doppler effect, sometimes referred to as red shift (though that would be when you are speeding away, I think). If you were speeding towards a red sign, it would appear blue if you were going fast enough. Though, you would have to be going pretty damn fast.
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It is important to note that AT&T has an opportunity to gain just as many customers as anyone else from this. People on other networks might be interested in switching to AT&T. From this point of view, dragging their heels would not make much sense. My guess is just that they are getting way more requests than they had expected, and are having huge technical problems.
Note that on their home page links to their wireless plan have been dead for the last two days. I doubt that is something they meant to do. My guess is that life over at the AT&T wireless offices for the last week have been a chaotic nightmare, with everyone getting about three hours of sleep each night. I bet it is just a big mess.
On another note, it seems that if there is going to be true number portability, there should be some sort of national database that is shared. Who would administer this, I don't know, but having each carrier have separate databases gives me some hints as to how much of a technical mess this system could turn into.