Would You Buy Lottery Tickets In Front of a Jehovah's Witness??? (page 2)

run dont walk

buy one, heck i'd buy them one and see if they take it.

HadEnuf

Well sure! I'd even buy one FROM a JW!

(But I don't buy lottery tickets anyway so guess that's what they call a moot point.) Cathy L.

run dont walk

brings up another question minimus ..........

does any one remember hearing at the Kingdom Hall, how it was wrong to buy lottery tickets, but if someone bought you one and GAVE it to you, it was NOT gambling. and was ok.

Valis

Better Yet! Would you buy a lottery ticket and give it to them? eheheh....

edited cuz....arrrrghhhhh!! run don't walk get out of my head!

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

I had heard a story when i was younger and still at the kingdom hall, how a brother had won approx $1,000,000 dollars, and he was privately reproofed, and the matter was not to be discussed anymore. And he never even missed a meeting.

How do you privately reproof someone, when all the congregation knows about it, that one kinda baffled me.

HHHHmmmmmmmmm, did he just make a big contribution that month ???

minimus

Vals, do you think the Society would take a million bucks if it was derived from gambling???........From Minimus who just spent 20 and made 40.

Valis

Hell no minimus...all that "dirty" money would get stuffed somewhere between books of the bible and thusly cleansing it in the blood of the lamb....voila'!

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

wasanelder

Hell Yea!! They gamble all the time when they have money in the stock market. Just wish i would win it sometime.

magnolia

When I was still a JW, I did just that. Due to a fight my ex-JW-husband and I had...I bought a lottery ticket....turned around and standing right in front of me was an older "Sister" with her mouth on the floor. Well.....what do you say? "Want to share the profits"?

Anyway, I had to stand there and listen to a 5 minute lecture from her......THEN SHE TURNED ME IN! She told the Elders in her hall, they called the Elders in my hall. After the next Sunday meeting, two Elders approched me and said they needed to talk to me about it. They were really cool about it....in fact they laughed about it with me. Saying that what are the odds that another Witness would be standing right there as I bought the stupid ticket. I should have won with those odds in my favor.

They asked me if I had ever bought a lottery ticket before this one....NO was my answer. They asked me if I was ever going to buy a lottery ticket again....NO was my answer....and they dropped it. But, they DID HAVE to call the Elders in the other hall and tell them they talked to me so they could go back to that Sister and tell her.

Now that I am df'd, I buy lottery tickets weekly.....no matter who is behind me!

boa

funny you should ask. I just told my wife this morning that i'm gonna buy a lottery tickey - it would be the first one in my life, and we chuckled about it.

Still not sure if i'm gonna do it if I know another witness is watching but then again, whatever.

After drifting to this point with the org for the last five years, i'm quickly heading towards taking my family and leaving all the mumbo jumbo behind

Maverick - love the cigar story. I finally had one 3 yrs ago - first time trying smoking which is something I normally hate, but ohhhh was it fine (so was the rye i was having!)

boa

Would You Buy Lottery Tickets In Front of a Jehovah's Witness???

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