We do a surround sound demonstration in our theater at Bose, and before we start the show we usually hand out ballets to win our top of the line system while gathering more people for the show. I’ve had people refuse to fill out a ticket before because they didn’t want to get on the Bose mailing list. I can understand that. Today though I had a weird one. A man refused to fill out the ticket because, “it goes against our beliefs to gamble.”
This baffled me and led me on an interesting train of thought. I mean, is entering a free drawing really playing a game of chance? You aren’t betting anything. There’s nothing to lose. I don’t think anyone has ever gone to gambler’s anonymous for entering too many sweepstakes. So is that gambling? If so, what’s the definition of gambling? Isn’t everything gambling? I mean I wake up every morning and play a game of chance that I won’t get hit by a bus on the way to work today. Life is one big game of chance. Everything is just one coincidence connected by accident. We put those events together and then make sense of them. Because, let’s face it, if we don’t make sense of things, we go mad.
Of course I don’t think this guy takes more my scientific stance on life with him. He probably thinks everything is predetermined by God or something. But then wouldn’t God predetermine if you’ve won a new Lifestyle system or not? I’m so confused. Someone has got to explain the whole gambling is bad thing to me.
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sorry to add to your assinine questions, but im still not sure who u are?
and i dont undersatnd gambling be wrong either.
my friend cameron is not religious at ALL, he has sex with people he’s not even involved with, he’ll steal, etc etc, but doesnt drink, and i just thoughtit was kuz he thought itwas dumb and i dont blame him for that, then i found out he doesnt gamble either [not even skratch off ticktes which tennessee just got]and he says he doesnt for the same reason he doesnt drnk. i dont understand.
[p.s. who are u do i kno u?]
Oh man, sorry, I thought you knew who I was the last time you asked because I never heard back from you. Ben Merrell, I was in the class below you at HFCS. We had Spanish, Drama, the whole shabang, if you remember. Got your livejournal from Bryen (is that how he’s spelling his name these days?)
oh yeah now i remember! in fakt i remember u telling me last time, im just a dumb idiot 😉
haha sorry sorry.
It’s cool, it’s cool. Glad we’re finally on the same boat. And by same boat, I mean that crazy one in Willy Wonka with the dead chicken floating around in the Twilight Zone.
im a dork.
hahaha yeah or the crazy one in the marilyn manson dope hat video… =P
[it’s just a parady of the willy wonka one in case u dint kno]