Posted on 09/02/2007 11:40:15 PM PDT by yorkie
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Elwood “Bunky” Bartlett says a New Age book store made it possible for him to become an overnight multimillionaire.
He and his wife, Denise, were on their way to the shop where he occasionally teaches Wicca and Reiki (RAY’kee) healing when they stopped at a liquor store and bought two $5 Mega Millions tickets for Friday night’s estimated $330 million jackpot. On Sunday, he said one ticket was a winner.
“If it wasn’t for this place I wouldn’t have won the lottery,” Bartlett said Sunday at Mystickal Voyage, the New Age shop.
Four winning tickets to the Mega Millions jackpot were sold in Maryland, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia. Lottery officials said Sunday they cannot confirm the validity of Bartlett’s ticket before they meet with him on Tuesday.
“There’s no reason to believe it’s not legitimate, but it has to go through security,” said Maryland State Lottery Director Buddy Roogow, who said he has spoken with Bartlett.
Bartlett, an accountant from Dundalk, said he made a bargain with the multiple gods associated with his Wiccan beliefs: “You let me win the lottery and I’ll teach.” Both tickets he purchased had numbers chosen randomly from the computer.
Bartlett had not decided if he will accept his winnings as an annuity or choose the lump sum cash option. The jackpot could get larger once ticket sales are tallied, Roogow said, but the lump sum payment would be at least $48.7 million, or about $32 million after taxes.
According to preliminary calculations, each ticket would be worth about $82 million if the prize were taken in 26 annual payments.
Bartlett said the money won’t change him, although he plans to invest in Mystickal Voyage. “I’m going to live my life like I have been,” he said.
The odds that any ticket would match all five numbers — 8, 18, 22, 40 and 44 — and the Mega Ball number — 11 — were one in 176 million.
If estimates of the jackpot hold true, it would be the fourth largest in the lottery’s history. It was known as The Big Game when it awarded jackpots of $363 million in 2000 and $331 million in 2002.
Mega Millions tickets are also sold in California, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Washington.
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I may never buy another lottery or powerball ticket again. Somehow, this gives it a ‘dirty’ feel..........
Believe what you want, get naked howl at the moon. If you have the winning ticket you win, no other reason applies.
You’d think 80% of the nation was wiccan, the way the media plays up the splinter groups amongst us. Who cares if he thought he was connecting to a wiccan god? Seriously, is anyone reading the paper or tuning into the news to hear what wiccans have been up to? LMAO, and the media wonders why nobody buys papers and they seldom tune into the news.
LOL- I guess the “gods” do work in mysterious ways!
Don't "bet" on that.
Acts 16:16
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer,
a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us,
which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
Matthew 4:8,9
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain,
and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee,
if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
In a small mid western conservative town, a new bar/tavern started a building to open up their business. The local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers.
Work progressed, however right up till the week before opening, when a lightning strike hit the bar and it burned to the ground. The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, till the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means. The church vehemently denied all
responsibility or any connection to the buildings demise in its reply to the court.
As the case made it’s way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork at the hearing and commented, “I don’t know how I’m going to decide this, but as it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner that believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that doesn’t!”
Interesting because many of the powerball winners around the country have some sort of curse on them it seems. Creepy how much bad fortune happened to so many of them.
I wasn’t going to click on this thread, but that is a great story! Thanks.
United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His StaffIt was dismissed because the Sheriff could not serve process!
54 F.R.D. 282 (W.D. Penn. 1971)."Plaintiff filed suit against Satan and his staff for violation of his civil rights. Among the allegations were: (1) that Satan had on numerous occasions caused him misery and unwarranted threats, all against his will; (2) that Satan had placed deliberate obstacles in his path that caused Plaintiff's downfall; and (3) that by reason of the foregoing acts, Satan had deprived him of his constitutional rights."
"We question whether plaintiff may obtain personal jurisdiction over the defendant in this judicial district .... the plaintiff has failed to include with his complaint the required form of instructions for the United States Marshal for directions as to service of process."
Oh, like he would have been the first person to tell a US Marshal to go to Hell...
Typical bean counter.
Got that right. Numbers before all.
—and before that there was King Saul’s visit to the Witch of Endor-—
All I know is that at the age group I hang with (18-25) I know at least as many people who've dabbled in witchcraft, or various other occult practices, as I have "practicing" Christians. I've tried to convince the ones leaning to far towards the really scary stuff to come back, but hell I almost don't even bother with the vanilla wiccans anymore.
...And it has to insult him greatly when people use divination without his permission. This is God's one trademark signature act which is his alone!
I can't even grasp the idea of "outside of time," and slighty can only hold on to the concept of not being subject to natural laws like, mass, gravity, and weightlesness.
What’s new about a deal with the devil?
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