Mega Millions Mania

The odds of winning are an astronomical 147 million to one. That didnt stop hundreds of customers at retail stores throughout America from buying a dream and talking to each other about what they would do if they won!~ Yes, I bought ten tickets myself. Im a gambling addict and a fool who prefers fantasy over reality.A question for evc readers....what would you do with $540 million dollars?I would likely open a 501C3 organization to help youth and build them a fancy basketball court in the inner city. Also I would travel a lot and hire a personal chef and assistant. (also a financial planner, but its unlikely I would spend or lose all of it! )

I would hope that you would at least give it to someone else that could use it rather than letting the black hole of public debt consume your windfall like a leaf on fire

You too are an odd one. You kinda remind me of the sarcasm of Artemis Entreri.I would help many poor folks, but it would be in my timing and method and not based on their pleas and requests.I likely would help people in such a way that they would never know who helped them.And I would never give to any church except maybe my friends Hip Hop church.

Well they had a winner back east. I only can hope that this person deserved the money and was not already rich.

That is indeed what I meant.

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Lottery ticket-holders in Kansas, Illinois and Maryland each selected the winning numbers and will split a $640 million jackpot that was believed to be the world's largest such prize, a lottery official said Saturday.

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Now that I am again disappointed by the reality that is gambling, I feel strongly that I have to make a decision about quitting all gambling. I have done this many times before, usually for no longer than a week or two, and in fact the longest I have ever gone without gambling was 2 months...which happened roughly three years ago. I even had another topic here at EvC called The Philosophy Behind The Twelve Steps which I attempted. Back then, Crashfrog mentioned an alternative...At that time, I was reluctant to consider any other alternative therapy...I had already been brainwashed by the 12 step people..they even had a Christian version known as Celebrate Recovery, a brainchild of Pastor Rick Warren.Muchy more recently, (last week) I was given a book called Rational Recovery:The New Cure for Substance AddictionI have started reading it, and as of this moment have already decided that I want to quit gambling. I went through a bankruptcy, numerous losses of money approaching $100.00 a week for 5 years, and now...as we speak...I find that I need to ask a rent advance from my room mate. The shame is a good sign, according to the author...one needs to start by feeling their addiction. The only step required is to decide that one wants to quit....now and not sometime in the future.