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The Good Things About Gambling.
Plus, Pros And Cons Of Gambling.
Gambling destroys lives, tears apart families, hurts children.
Addiction grips millions. With online gambling, the situation is worse than ever.
Yet has gambling been given a bad rap? Here, some good things about gambling.
It's a Gamble - Great? Gruesome?
Gambling - Essential, Addictive, Destructive
Love gamble, love tangle
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I'm used to thinking of gambling as horrible. Every day I hear stories of people destroying their lives, and the well-being of their families, because they can't stop gambling. Everything goes. A woman speaks from her prison cell: she turned to robbing banks to pay for her addiction. She doesn't excuse herself. But she couldn't help herself. She wanted to be arrested. Despair.
I've been thinking about gambling differently this past while. Not "pure gambling" (lottery tickets, casinos, online gambling). But gambling as an essential feature of healthy hopeful living that takes us beyond the routine.
Good things about gambling: the gambling impetus that takes us beyond where we are.
My partner and I are building a business. Now, that's a gamble - with our time, our lives. I'm also building this site - Elsa's Creativity Emporium. Another huge gamble with time, energy, creativity. Columbus sailed for America. His gamble: that he would end up in the Far East. He didn't get what he was aiming for - but the gamble paid off for the Europeans.
More good things about gambling. Farmers plant seeds. The gamble: that the season will be good. Designers design. The gamble: that the design will find a market.
People fall in love, and decide to try to make a live with that person - one of the biggest gambles in life.
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On the other hand, many people want a predictable salary. No gambling, please. So and so much an hour. Anything else feels wrong, out of control, dangerous. How can anyone live like that, they shudder and recoil.
An observation. Many people don't want to gamble with work time. They want steady dependable pay. At the same time, they have a hugely developed urge, even an overwhelming urge, to gamble.
But most of the world does live "on a gamble"...
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Love is My Kind of Gamble.
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GOOD THINGS ABOUT GAMBLING * PROS AND CONS OF GAMBLING *
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF GAMBLING * WHY PEOPLE GAMBLE * PSYCHOLOGY GAMBLING ADDICTION. HEALTHY REASONS WHY PEOPLE GAMBLE: LOVE OF A PERSON, A PROJECT, A HOPE.
GOOD THINGS ABOUT GAMBLING: TAKING ON
GOOD DARES, SO THAT
RISK MANAGEMENT LONGTERM INDICATES BENEFITS FROM GAMBLING.
GOOD THINGS ABOUT GAMBLING:
LOOK AROUND. HUMAN ENDEAVORS COUNT ON THE GAMBLING IMPULSE.
IT TAKES BRAINS,
DETERMINATION, COURAGE, CONVICTION, PERSEVERENCE -
AND THE GAMBLING IMPULISE.
Has Gambling Gotten a Bad Rap? Here, Good Things About Gambling,
Pros And Cons Of Gambling, Why People Gamble,
plus Negative Effects Of Gambling, Psychology of Gambling Addiction.
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Good Things about Gambling
Good things abut gambling? Life is a gamble. My building this site is a gamble.
When the boat people left VietNam it was a gamble. It didn't always pay off. Many died.
But the gamble was: something better is out there.
So this is a celebration of all the gamblers before me and around me,
moving toward something better they are sure is out there.
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Good Things about Gambling
More good things about gambling? What about something about a gamble that didn't pay off?
After World War II, masses of Europeans emigrated to Canada and the States.
Their gamble: things would be better. Many went back, at least to visit, and found a rebuilt Europe -
prosperity beyond anything they would have thought possible.
For some, the gamble still paid off: they came to love their new homes. Others lived homesick, or returned home.
Good things about gambling don't mean every gamble turns out well. Or it wouldn't be a gamble.
To take a gamble means we might lose. The best we can do is weigh the odds, to the best of our knowledge.
But unlike gambling addiction, there is hope of achievement, not just winning money, a jackpot .
When I think of good things abut gambling, I realize - this is something I'm still thinking about.
Elsa
October 12, 2008
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GOOD THINGS ABOUT GAMBLING: SOMEONE RESCUES A CHILD. THEY GAMBLE THEY CAN DO IT.
GOOD THINGS ABOUT GAMBLING. WE TRY AND TRY AGAIN INSTEAD OF GIVING UP.
WE GAMBLE WE WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE IT.
GOOD THINGS ABOUT GAMBLING: THESE CONNECT WITH HOPE.
GOOD THINGS ABOUT GAMBLING:
LOOK AROUND. HUMAN ENDEAVORS COUNT ON THE GAMBLING IMPULSE.
IT TAKES BRAINS,
DETERMINATION, COURAGE, CONVICTION, PERSEVERENCE -
AND THE GAMBLING IMPULISE.
HERE: GOOD THINGS ABOUT GAMBLING * PROS AND CONS OF GAMBLING *
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF GAMBLING * WHY PEOPLE GAMBLE * PSYCHOLOGY GAMBLING ADDICTION. HEALTHY REASONS WHY PEOPLE GAMBLE: LOVE OF A PERSON, A PROJECT, A HOPE.
GOOD THINGS ABOUT GAMBLING: TAKING ON
GOOD DARES, SO THAT
RISK MANAGEMENT LONGTERM INDICATES BENEFITS FROM GAMBLING.
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