You know, lately, I've really gotten into betting. It turns out that this is a really good way to make some extra money. I have made a lot of money over the past month. It seems to me that the most important thing is to be able to control your emotions. Because when the losses start, you want to win back. This should not be allowed! For a long time, I tried to find a convenient betting site and then my friend told me about 百家樂 教學. This is a really user-friendly and beautiful site. Do you think it is possible to make money with betting all the time?

You should read A THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS by Thorsein Veblen, published in 1899. It is one of those very important forgotten books. Veblen notes the same kind of things about religion. He also has important observations about the super-wealthy, and about glass-bead playing academia.

The gambler can go to church before the casino and pray to win. Even if be goes broke he will say it was gods plan, and if he has a windfall he will thank God.But either way God wins.

I would add banks to this. Every time I see a large bank, built in Federal style, with elaborate trim moldings, to me it says, "LOOK what we built with your fees!!!"
I love my credit union.

Every church I've ever seen has its hand out. I don't get why ANY intelligent people would tithe 10%. Some of the televangelists are the worse, living in mansions. WTF

Being a Scot, it goes against the grain to waste anything , money especially, so I’ve never been attracted to gambling in any form. The only time I’ve ever been in a casino was in Macao which is an island where the Chinese from Hong Kong travel by hydrofoil to gamble, as Casinos are not permitted in HK. The Chinese are inveterate gamblers and the former Portuguese colony of Macao is awash with casinos. The hydrofoils which ferry passengers constantly back and forward, do great business too. All the gambling in HK is controlled by the HK Jockey Club which holds the license for all gambling on horse racing, football matches and lotteries. At Happy Valley, the racetrack rakes in colossal revenues.

Is there a similarity between gambling establishments and churches? In the respect that they are both addictive and both hold out promises of great rewards if you invest in them...then yes! The only real difference I see is that in the case of gambling there is a possibility of receiving an immediate reward in the form of winnings in the here and now, whereas with religion it’s more like you buy the chips, but you can’t cash in your winnings until the hereafter!

One diff is that churches have clocks in them and casinos don't because they want you to lose track of time while you are losing your money...

Yes, it’s true. All of these problems are the epidemic we have in our world in regards to addictions and mental issues.
I see it everywhere. And these issues feed off the imagination that leaving reality and trying to “escape” will somehow fix us.

I so wish this easy-to-understand link could get to high school kids, that the books listed right at the bottom makes it to their school libraries, in the hope that it would encourage good debate at school level. ...so they, the future generation, would continue to raise eye opener topics such as these and eventually rid the world from all these fairytale gods and stories which continue to hold the majority of our current world hostage (in bondage).

Any time you go to a town, especially a smaller town, the biggest, fanciest buildings will be the churches. Major cities not included.

I can agree. I always avoid women in the St. Louis area who claim they like to go to "the boat." It's a riverside gambling boat. Easy to see who really has your money. I do confess that I play the lottery but this is the same thing. They win and usually you do not, but if you have no ticket then you will not win either. I gamble with lottery but never very much.

Yep a fool and their money are soon parted. They are both crap and I cannot believe how otherwise intelligent humans can fall for such nonsense.

I don't gamble or go to church so I'm OK

Yup that's right

Same thing can be said for the venues of any form of entertainment, including professional sports.

But you might get some good out of a casino. Last week my friend saw the world title fight there for free.

There's a saying here in vegas, casino's are not built by winners. And church's are the same. A fool and their money are soon parted, and there are a lot of fools in the casino's and churches.

Yes, to borrow a phrase , you're preaching to the choir . We know this . We're atheists , aren't we ?