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lotto: the atheist's religion
"hope is the denial of reality"
to me, this basically means that you should base your decisions in life on the best available information at the time, and not be dissuaded/propelled into action and/or belief by unsubstantiated nonsense, false hope, or dreams not based somewhere in cold, hard, real life.
So why do I feel compelled to waste my cold hard cash each week on 1:2,000,000 (or more) odds?
Anyone else gambling on stupid odds? (and no, I don't mean jennypie taking cock in her grungel from 50 blokes without a condom).
Gambling on stupid odds is fun as long as you're being entertained by a cheap thrill.
I buy the occasional scratch off ticket and play craps because I find it fun.
I thought this was gonna be another thread for geeks to argue on the internet about religion.
i play occasionally. simple entertainment.
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN "hope is the denial of reality" to me, this basically means that you should base your decisions in life on the best available information at the time, and not be dissuaded/propelled into action and/or belief by unsubstantiated nonsense, false hope, or dreams not based somewhere in cold, hard, real life. So why do I feel compelled to waste my cold hard cash each week on 1:2,000,000 (or more) odds? Anyone else gambling on stupid odds? (and no, I don't mean jennypie taking cock in her grungel from 50 blokes without a condom). |
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| Originally posted by verndogs |
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN 1:2,000,000 (or more) odds? |
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| Originally posted by Project-K Those are the odds of winning a big lot, but some people don't really care about that. If you play regularly you actually do end up winning a lot of smaller lots (20, 50, etc). I know people who play lottery and actually have slightly positive profit margins from it. Personally I just hate the idea of introducing luck to any aspect of my life when I can do without it. |
if i wanted to win tiny amounts of money that i earn in an hour or so at work, id play roulette.
Never got into buying actual lotto tickets. I'm a scratch ticket fiend.
i cant help it, every week i think to myself, "this is my week" but it never comes. one day...
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| Originally posted by eROs.au i cant help it, every week i think to myself, "this is my week" but it never comes. one day... |
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| Originally posted by Ian damn right. And it IS a 42 million pounds triple rollover this week |
oh hell yes I'll take just the prize below the main one, I'm not greedy, just enough to pay the mortgage, travel and become a lady of leisure.
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN "hope is the denial of reality" to me, this basically means that you should base your decisions in life on the best available information at the time, and not be dissuaded/propelled into action and/or belief by unsubstantiated nonsense, false hope, or dreams not based somewhere in cold, hard, real life. So why do I feel compelled to waste my cold hard cash each week on 1:2,000,000 (or more) odds? Anyone else gambling on stupid odds? (and no, I don't mean jennypie taking cock in her grungel from 50 blokes without a condom). |
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| Originally posted by jennypie It's grunDLE, you fuckin' fag. |
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| Originally posted by Ian oh hell yes I'll take just the prize below the main one, I'm not greedy, just enough to pay the mortgage, travel and become a lady of leisure. |
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| Originally posted by Ian damn right. And it IS a 42 million pounds triple rollover this week |
There are two choices. Believe in an intelligent creator, or not. Both decisions rely on faith. Atheists can not prove god does not exist, which would be a logical fallacy anyways. Theists can not prove god does exist. Both axioms rely on faith to build their syllogisms. So an atheist is no different than a theist in their reliance on faith.
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| Originally posted by Sushipunk What will you buy me if you win Ian? |
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| Originally posted by Ian I dunno. Some of that Fosters we hear so much about |
I kill you in the face!
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| Originally posted by Krypton There are two choices. Believe in an intelligent creator, or not. Both decisions rely on faith. Atheists can not prove god does not exist, which would be a logical fallacy anyways. Theists can not prove god does exist. Both axioms rely on faith to build their syllogisms. So an atheist is no different than a theist in their reliance on faith. |
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| Originally posted by Krypton Both axioms rely on faith to build their syllogisms. So an atheist is no different than a theist in their reliance on faith. |
Here we go!
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| Originally posted by wotyzoid Here we go! |
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| Originally posted by verndogs Gambling on stupid odds is fun as long as you're being entertained by a cheap thrill. I buy the occasional scratch off ticket and play craps because I find it fun. |
NICKEL SLOTS!!!!
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| Originally posted by Krypton There are two choices. Believe in an intelligent creator, or not. Both decisions rely on faith. Atheists can not prove god does not exist, which would be a logical fallacy anyways. Theists can not prove god does exist. Both axioms rely on faith to build their syllogisms. So an atheist is no different than a theist in their reliance on faith. |
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN firstly, you obviously missed the point of this thread. secondly, youre wrong, ive shown you that youre wrong, lets not get into this yet AGAIN |
There was a professor in my chem department who had to pay taxes every year on the earning he pulled in off of scratch offs. He had some sort of system down that worked because the last year I heard about it he pulled in over 30,000 from scratch offs and it was only about September so he had a few more months.
Personally I'd play the big lotto here, but I already pay taxes. Property taxes on the house alone are in excess of $8000 so fuck em if they think they're getting anymore.
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