Do you play the lottery?

[The News Crews]

I play each night there is a Powerball or Mega Millions drawing, and only buy one line. So only 10 dollars a week and a little over 500 dollars a year.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Very rarely I'll get a scratcher for a buck or two, I never win shit.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Haven't played in over 5 years, should I?

 

[The News Crews]

Haven't played in over 5 years, should I?

Only if you can spare an extra 520 dollars a year for realistically no return

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Only if you can spare an extra 520 dollars a year for realistically no return

Nah. I pay around 5000 to 10,000 dollars a year on Silver and Gold. It's a much better idea than winning 100 trillion in fiat currency.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I’m going to. My logic:

Winning the lottery is itself a miracle.

All numbers are equally likely regardless of if numbers with meaning to you, a “logic” to how you selected it, or alternatively, a “random” feeling. Play a number that feels meaningful to you; it does not change the outcome in any way.

The odds are impossible no matter if you buy a thousand tickets or one ticket. A miracle is a miracle even if one is slightly less of a miracle, just like there are infinities that are infinite to other infinities. Play one ticket at a time and with meaning. I’m going to do my birthday.

Likewise, play the big prize. Miracle is a miracle.

Pray over that ticket, ritualize it. It is a miracle of providence, not a supernatural miracle. Divine Providence decides who wins or loses. Meditate on that.

If I won, according to how much I won:

10% post tax to charity
- Focus on the wellbeing of the local church denominations I like, Crisis Pregnancy Centers, animal shelters, local schools with eye towards music and mathematics programs, historical preservation societies, wellbeing and integration of the Mexicans

Have a Jew invest most of it in such a way I can comfortably (as a normal middle class person) live off annuities/investment profits

Have some investment in harder wealth like land and gold

Buy a townhouse and a hobby farm (or rural land that could potentially be a hobby farm)

Buy a nice car, keep the old shitbox

Try to arrange for long term wellbeing/security of relatives

Go back to grad school in my actual passion for something to do, Southern Studies or History

World travel fund

Account for maintenance of lifestyle and growth of wealth in all of these things

Mark Twain themed riverboat Southern food buffet palace on the Danube River