Comments on: Gamble Less http://www.diyfreedom.com/prosperity/gamble-less/ A Simple Common Sense Approach to Creating More Time, More Happiness, and More Success Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:42:49 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Moriarty http://www.diyfreedom.com/prosperity/gamble-less/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Moriarty Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:54:11 +0000 http://www.diyfreedom.com/?p=164#comment-179 From childhood, I was taught that whenever an opportunity arises that permits you to take control of your future, you should seize it. Gambling is the antithesis of this. (Instead of handing control to another person, from whom you might eventually wrest it back, you irretrievibly give it over to <i>chance</i>.) As a native northern Nevadan, I grew up with gambling all around, but never understood the fascination with throwing away money. (I've never visited a brothel either, but that's another story.) On occasion, we'd have company from overseas and my father would show them around. They'd see the glittering casinos at Tahoe and Reno and their eyes would grow wide. My father had a stock response, delivered in his thick German accent: "Ha! You tink dey keep all those lights on by giffing money avay?" From childhood, I was taught that whenever an opportunity arises that permits you to take control of your future, you should seize it. Gambling is the antithesis of this. (Instead of handing control to another person, from whom you might eventually wrest it back, you irretrievibly
give it over to chance.)

As a native northern Nevadan, I grew up with gambling all around, but never understood the fascination with throwing away money. (I’ve never visited a brothel either, but that’s another story.)

On occasion, we’d have company from overseas and my father would show them around. They’d see the glittering casinos at Tahoe and Reno and their eyes would grow wide. My father had a stock response, delivered in his thick German accent:

“Ha! You tink dey keep all those lights on by giffing money avay?”

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