The Petra Zone

Is the lottery wrong? If you had three dollars to spend and you purchased the winning ticket, what would you do with it?

I don't think playing the lottery is wrong. I don't play because my wife won't let me. But if I played and won the loto, I would buy as much land as I could, and start a rescue foundation for animals and use the money for that.

I've done scratchers before. I've also gone to the casino a handful of times and I used to do pay to play sports pick ems and fantasy football leagues. I never spent much on the lottery scratchers or at the casinos, but I spent a fair bit on the pick ems and the fantasy football leagues.

I don't think it's wrong. It can sure lead to wrong.

If I won, I would fund PDC for production, distribution and promotion through at least 2024.

Jonathan wrote:I don't think it's wrong. It can sure lead to wrong.

If I won, I would fund PDC for production, distribution and promotion through at least 2024.

And then start a grassroots campaign for presidential election in 2028.

Dang, Jason. I was going to wait to announce my campaign, but you blew the lid off it.

Now I suppose I should either start formulating opinions on issues, or just allow myself to be a corporate puppet.

ya know, if I would win the lottery I`ll just say this: still wouldn`t be enough for what I need and want to do

I guess I would start a bussiness about something, I don`t know, I would investigate.

I will use a large portion of my lottery winnings to make sure I win the lottery in the first place.

As you have noticed, lottery prizes continue to get bigger and bigger. There seems to be almost a "Moore's Law" of lottery prizes. So I figure by 2020 lottery prizes will be approaching the billion dollar mark. If not, by 2020, I'll just make sure to win several of them, which will accomplish the same purpose.

Then I will take the money and pour a large portion of it into researching the technology to send data backwards through time. Then, I will transmit the winning lottery numbers backwards through time to myself, which is how I will make certain that I win the lottery in the first place.

Brilliant, isn't it?

Impossible you say? Well if it's impossible, how did I win the lottery? Huh? Tell me that!!!

Now, "Knot," say you. "Isn't your church opposed to gambling?" Sure we are. But I won't be gambling. In order for something to be "gambling", there has to be risk involved. Buying Treasury Bonds or Certificates of Deposit isn't "gambling", because the risk is fairly small.

In my case, the risk will be negligible. When I buy the lottery ticket/s, I will already know for certain what the winning numbers are. There will be no risk whatsoever of loosing. So, it isn't "gambling".

So then you might reply, "But wouldn't it be fraud? Or cheating? Doesn't it amount to theft?"

Really? I challenge you to look up the rules to your state's lottery. Tell me, do the lottery rules specifically forbid the use of time-travel technology?

NO THEY DO NOT!!!! Therefore, no fraud is occurring.

That's what I will do WHEN (not if) I win the lottery.

I'll let you know when my future self sends me the winning numbers. Of course, I won't tell you what they are.

I play the lottery occasionally, I've never won more than $2 What would I do if I won big time? Hmmmm...Hard to say for sure unless it really happened, but I probably would help fund some worthy causes. And I would quit work...Why bother to work if you don't need to?

Jon is right...I don't think it's wrong in and of itself, but like just about anything else it can lead to wrong.

Shell wrote:I've never won more the $2

That's because you weren't playing fast and loose with the space-time continuum. You know the old saying,

"You can't make a time travel omelet without breaking a few space-time continuity streams."

You could be right about the space-time continuum thing, knot. I'll have to keep that in mind. It would be nice to win some big bucks...