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Arkansas opens up to lottery. Should I play?

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GojuBrian

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Recently our state (AR) has made the lottery legal. Should a christian play the lottery?

A friend at work won $40 on a scratch off. Another went to Cherokee Casino last week and won $25,000!!
 
Well, I'm not sure what the odds are, but in Canada our 6/49 is 13,983,816 to 1. Do you know how hard it would be to even find that ticket if you were allowed to look for it. It's hopeless. Stick to gambling :lol
Just kidding there. I've learned my lesson well. In fact even the BC 49 has been accused of fraud before...and casinos are thieves...I say that from bad experience. Don't go there any more. (Shills stealing chips, moving your bets, etc.)
Get 10 guys together and start a business...you have more chance of making a million.
 
Brian, as a friend I would recommend against it. When Oklahoma finally got the lottery a few years ago, I decided to pay a $1.00 for a scratch-off ticket. I won $20.00 and was hooked. For several months, I probably spent about $75.00 and won about $150.00, which sounds like a good investment...but it felt so wrong. After those first few months of being hooked, I realized that it was gambling and it was addictive. I couldn't ignore the strong negative feelings I was having about it, so I quit and won't buy lottery tickets to this day.

I stand behind people in line at the convenience stores, watching them pour out sometimes up to $50.00 at a time, usually on Friday paydays, on scratch-offs and Pick 3 and Powerball tickets and all that, and I wonder is it really worth it? That is money that could buy food for the table.

Also, here is a good article (from a prominent Oklahoma CBS news station) about the issues around lottery proceeds going to education:

http://www.news9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10018152
 
Thanks Jojo!

Many years ago I made a trip to Tunaca with some friends and played slot machines. I put 3 $5 coins in each spin and ended up taking away $1200 from a $100 investment. I couldn't wait to go back. After that I always lost what I came with or spent what I won there anyway. I'm no good at gambling and I too have a negative feeling about it.

I'm not going to play. :approve
 
JoJo said:
Brian, as a friend I would recommend against it. When Oklahoma finally got the lottery a few years ago, I decided to pay a $1.00 for a scratch-off ticket. I won $20.00 and was hooked. For several months, I probably spent about $75.00 and won about $150.00, which sounds like a good investment...but it felt so wrong. After those first few months of being hooked, I realized that it was gambling and it was addictive. I couldn't ignore the strong negative feelings I was having about it, so I quit and won't buy lottery tickets to this day.

I stand behind people in line at the convenience stores, watching them pour out sometimes up to $50.00 at a time, usually on Friday paydays, on scratch-offs and Pick 3 and Powerball tickets and all that, and I wonder is it really worth it? That is money that could buy food for the table.

Also, here is a good article (from a prominent Oklahoma CBS news station) about the issues around lottery proceeds going to education:

http://www.news9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10018152
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interesting read the sunshine state has the lotto for yrs and i wonder how much money actaully goes to school. hmm :mad
 
In my country I play "lotto" every week, and I rarely "win" however the money people spend playing goes to local charities, so I don't mind not winning, it just another way of giving to charity, and if I have a win, well, that's a bonus....I see nothing wrong with it.
 
That's understandable. But as soon as I got hooked on the win, that's when I started feeling this sort of guilt, even if my state's lottery proceeds go to education. When my goal was to win more than I gave in, I knew it wasn't charitable giving. As ashamed as I am to admit it, it was nothing short of greed.

I'm not saying everyone feels this way. Playing the lottery surely can be done in just pure fun. But for me personally, it stopped being fun when I realized I was being greedy.
 
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