Think You Know Conversion?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Any time Congress approves spending for war, one member of Congress, chosen by lottery, should be assigned to the battle zone.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You are an eternal optimist, the most optimistic “person” I know. Your glass is never less than half full, even when I see only drops in the bottom of the glass. You probably haven’t even given up on the Washington Nationals this season in baseball. It’s easier for you to be optimistic, I imagine, given the fact that you are God.

Whenever we humans are involved, your optimism faces serious challenges. Our human track record in matters of righteousness, mercy, peace, justice and simple goodness is not much basis for optimism. But you know there’s a bit of you in all of us, so you never give up hope. You think we can move closer to your lofty goals for us as your children. Some might question how realistic you are. I won’t do that; I’ll just pray that you’ll enliven that part of you that’s in us so we prove your optimism is well founded.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Do you think she’ll notice the tints in my hair?”

[Doesn’t matter who “she” was, He never said it.]

D. Blog: Word of the Week – “Conversion”

1. I thought I grasped the meaning of this word, but am grateful to www.lectlaw.com for expanding my understanding:

CONVERSION - Torts. The unlawful turning or applying the personal goods of another to the use of the taker, or of some other person than the owner; or the unlawful destroying or altering their nature.When a party takes away or wrongfully assumes the right to goods which belong to another, it will in general be sufficient evidence of a conversion but when the original taking was lawful, as when the party found the goods, and the detention only is illegal, it is absolutely necessary to make a demand of the goods, and there must be a refusal to deliver them before the conversion will be complete. The refusal by a servant to deliver the goods entrusted to him by his master is not evidence of a conversion by his master.

The tortious taking of property is, of itself, a conversion and any intermeddling with it, or any exercise of dominion over it, subversive of the dominion of the owner or the nature of the bailment if it be bailed, is evidence of a conversion.

In Equity. The considering of one thing as changed into another; for example, land will be considered as converted into money and treated as such by a court of equity, when the owner has contracted to sell his estate, in which case, if he die before the conveyance, his executors and not his heirs will be entitled to the money. On the other hand, money is converted into land in a variety of ways as for example, when a man agrees to buy land and dies before he has received the conveyance, the money he was to pay for it will be considered as converted into lands, and descend to the heir.

2. Then we have an insurance company’s understanding, which, to me, confirms that the insurance industry claims more power than it should: