Do your Roman Catholic parents or grandparents gamble?

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My spouse and I are not gamblers but recently curiousity got the best of us and we took a day trip to Turning Stone Casino in rural NYS. We were shocked by the tobacco smoke and the SEA OF WHITE HAIR. I mean everyone appeared to be 60+!! During lunch we wondered just how many 65+ people are spending their social security checks as ‘pin money’ on the slots and tables in the casino. Do your Catholic parents gamble?
 
My grandparents like to play the lottery every week, but judging by the size of their house and property values in San Luis Obispo, I’d say they aren’t gambling away the nest egg any time soon. My uncles will play the occasional poker game for smaller sums of money (buy-in is $20, so that’s all you can lose). Hrumph, they won’t let me play anymore since I took them all a few years ago (I learned a good poker face at a young age with them teaching me :cool: )

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Out of the 48 family members here in Colorado on my mom’s side I’d say half play poker of varying forms at family gatherings. Some of those also play regularly with friends throughout each month. None travel to the hills for the casinos but on very rare occasions and none play the power ball or lottery with regularity.

None of these family members have a problem with gambling. However, on my dad’s side there is one uncle who is a recovering alcoholic for 10 years or so now and who has switched his addiction to lottery scratch cards and the hills for the casinos, though he does not play poker or blackjack 21.
 
we gamble on everything. at least 3 separate pools going on over March Madness. we bet on baby due dates and weights, all sports events and leagues including the grand-kids t-ball, turn every card game and board game into something that needs poker chips (try this with Risk), household chores (run like the Grand National) you name it.
 
Our Catholic group decided to visit a nursing home as a charity and community involvement event. In a sence, we did this in light of Jesus command to love love the least of His brothers and visit the poor and alienated. We decided to play bingo with the residents.

I, being a busy person, continued to visit with the residents as the bingo game began. I felt that it was this communication, with those who spent many hours alone, which was the real reason I was there. Did the residents ever straighten me out. I was blasted by the group of residents and given dirty looks for talking during such an important event such as bingo.

My aunt and uncle, in their late seventies, know all the Church and non-Church, bingo halls in thier area. They know where the best pots are. It is a big part of their lives.

Elderly people certianly take their gambling, even when it is only bingo, very seriously.

Peace in Christ,
Steven Merten
www.ILOVEYOUGOD.com
 
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Binney:
My spouse and I are not gamblers but recently curiousity got the best of us and we took a day trip to Turning Stone Casino in rural NYS. We were shocked by the tobacco smoke and the SEA OF WHITE HAIR. I mean everyone appeared to be 60+!! During lunch we wondered just how many 65+ people are spending their social security checks as ‘pin money’ on the slots and tables in the casino. Do your Catholic parents gamble?
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OH MY GOSH

How could anyone support turning stone…they are a blight on the face of the earth…they did so many illegal things and “help” the community by doling out small amounts of money to schools…

They did some really dirty trick in order to get that land through the Onieda Indian land claim…including nearly land-locking some farmers, not respecting tenant’s rights in buildings they purchased and promised to keep the tenants for the length of their lease, and some only sort-of leagl things…its a horrible mess…

I wouldn’t go there if my life depended on it…
 
Never, ever. No lottery tickets, no Las Vegas, no Atlantic City, no bingo, no raffles.
 
I have once gone to Vegas for a trade show and it was my first time at a casino. Was I disappointed! Where were the ladies in evening gowns and the guys in tuxedos? Where were the civility and the joy of living large? Nowhere in sight, just a bunch of losers betting their trailers off in worn, casual clothes. A pathetic and sad view… 😦

I’ve also been to Detroit after that and it then didn’t surprise me that the casino was surrounded by prostitutes.

Maybe other casinos, such as those in resorts, aren’t like these, but these experiences left me the impression that vice attracts vice and then compounds them.

It’s like bars: nothing wrong in drinking sparingly, but places that serve booze have the same pathetic atmosphere.

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