Posted on 01/16/2011 3:07:19 PM PST by EveningStar
Buy the winner instead of the Hellman's. Now you are up $50 million.
Sad story all around.
“Buy the winner instead of the Hellman’s. Now you are up $50 million.”
The dirty little catch here is that you have virtually no chance of buying the winner; but over a 99% chance that you will successfully buy the Hellman’s.
Buying one lottery ticket is providing God an opportunity to act on your behalf.
More than that is a tax on the statistically challenged.
He had been a professional announcer before he ended up on skid row.
I hoped it would turn out well for him but I was skeptical. I certainly hear what you're saying about helping those who had "kept their noses clean" too. Unfortunately those masses get passed over.
“Buying one lottery ticket is providing God an opportunity to act on your behalf.”
Does God really need me to buy him an opportunity I wonder?
I think people should be free to play the lottery, don’t misunderstand. I just wouldn’t get any pleasure out of it.
I like your thinking (;-) and for Persevero ...
It was flooding in California. As the flood waters were rising, a man was on the stoop of his house and another man in a row boat came by. The man in the row boat told the man on the stoop to get in and he’d save him.
The man on the stoop said, no, he had faith in God and would wait for God to save him. The flood waters kept rising and the man had to go to the second floor of his house. A man in a motor boat came by and told the man in the house to get in because he had come to rescue him.
The man in the house said no thank you. He had perfect faith in God and would wait for God to save him. The flood waters kept rising. Pretty soon they were up to the man’s roof and he got out on the roof.
A helicopter then came by, lowered a rope and the pilot shouted down in the man in the house to climb up the rope because the helicopeter had come to rescue him. The man in the house wouldn’t get in.
He told the pilot that he had faith in God and would wait for God to rescue him. The flood waters kept rising and the man in the house drowned. When he got to heaven, he asked God where he went wrong. He told God that he had perfect faith in God, but God had let him drown.
“What more do you want from me?” asked God. “I sent you two boats and a helicopter. ;-)”
Ted Williams? The man hit the curve ball, didn’t he?
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