Civil Discussion About Religion

Losing in the context of gambling is not equivalent to losing 1 single game. Losing is simply a matter of coming out with less money than you went in with. Like with everything else in life you can mitigate risk. I mean, If you drink too much you're chance of liver/kidney problems are higher. The less you do anything the more you stand a chance of coming out on top. jsarno has said he only plays for 5 min which mitigates the chance of losing tremendously. Take a look at the game of poker. That game requires discipline, patience and the ability to know when to quit.

In the long run though you will lose...everyone loses.

thank you, you are actually proving my point when you say "you don't have to see something to know it exists". that's the exact reason i know god does exist. just like the wind, i've never seen him but also just like the wind, i have seen and felt the effects of him.
we can debate this until we're both blue in the face but the fact is god has changed me, he has made me into a different person, that is a fact you can never argue against. i'm living proof that god does exist.

What were you doing when god was changing you? Sit idle? My take is that you made the necessary changes, god just inspired you.

I am glad for you but the fact of the matter is your "transformation" is not something you can scientifically study to prove the existence of god. In hard sciences anyways but perhaps psychologically and philosophically.

What were you doing when god was changing you? Sit idle? My take is that you made the necessary changes, god just inspired you.

I am glad for you but the fact of the matter is your "transformation" is not something you can scientifically study to prove the existence of god. In hard sciences anyways but perhaps psychologically and philosophically.

thank you for being glad for me. hopefully, one day, you'll understand and then i can be glad for you as well.

god bless

Roulette 101: Pick a number, put down a wager, like $5. If the ball does not land on your #, you lose $5. Since you are down $5 you need to make the original wager plus your total loss. So place a $10 bet on the same number. If you lose the $10 dollars you must put in (at least) $15. You have to have sufficient funds to continue with this way of wagering until eventually your number is the one that the ball lands on. It may take a thousand dollars or more but that's about the only (and simplest) way of making cash in roulette. The key is picking the same number (or group of numbers) until you win AND you always bet more than your total loss thus far.

Roulette 101: Pick a number, put down a wager, like $5. If the ball does not land on your #, you lose $5. Since you are down $5 you need to make the original wager plus your total loss. So place a $10 bet on the same number. If you lose the $10 dollars you must put in (at least) $15. You have to have sufficient funds to continue with this way of wagering until eventually your number is the one that the ball lands on. It may take a thousand dollars or more but that's about the only (and simplest) way of making cash in roulette. The key is picking the same number (or group of numbers) until you win AND you always bet more than your total loss thus far.

Wrong again, Flanders. There are 38 squares on the board (including 0 and 00), but you only get paid 36 times your money for hitting a number.

Do that over time and you're going to lose, guaranteed.

Gambling wins and losses come from repeating the bets over the short run. Over the short run, luck rules the game. Over the long run, the math always wins.

thank you, you are actually proving my point when you say "you don't have to see something to know it exists". that's the exact reason i know god does exist. just like the wind, i've never seen him but also just like the wind, i have seen and felt the effects of him.
we can debate this until we're both blue in the face but the fact is god has changed me, he has made me into a different person, that is a fact you can never argue against. i'm living proof that god does exist.

You need to check your definition of "know" and "believe". Nobody knows for sure if God exists or not. You believe it.

The difference between the wind and God is that there is logical and scientific evidence to prove the existence of wind.

Top Evidences Against the Theory of Evolution (http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/top.htm)

Just click on the link. It will tell you even more.

You call this "proof"???

"There are no transitional links and intermediate forms in either the fossil record or the modern world. Therefore, there is no actual evidence that evolution has occurred either in the past or the present."

That doesn't prove anything. All that says is that evolution has not been proven. It definitely does not say that evolution has been disproven.

PS Don't give me a link to a ridiculous site done by some hack named Doug LaPointe and pass it off as scientific proof.

What a fucking joke. Give me a scientific journal or some other source with credibility. I mean give me an effing break, the Vatican can't even put out anything that disproves the theory of evolution.

LOL this thread is hilarious

LOL this thread is hilarious

I'm glad you find it funny. I'm not really sure how gambling and wind entered the conversation.

Folks, this tread is about me and god and whether I'm going to hell for no longer having faith in him/her/it. A poll is perhaps in order?

I'm glad you find it funny. I'm not really sure how gambling and wind entered the conversation.

Folks, this tread is about me and god and whether I'm going to hell for no longer having faith in him/her/it. A poll is perhaps in order?

Yeah, I was wondering when someone would point out this went way off what the original question was.

If you have no faith, then I suppose you don't think there's a hell in which case why would you worry about going to a place that doesn't exist? Or something like that