Flimsy Sanity: Gambling is Fun

Flimsy Sanity

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Gambling is Fun

I thought I never got bored, but I am wrong. Gambling at casino's, bores me. I enjoy going to Deadwood because I like to see how they decorate and the Hills are Magical to me but gambling is a snooze. It is like guessing on a true/false test rather than really knowing the answers. I went one time with a roll of quarters and just put them in a machine, didn't even look to see if I won I was so eager to get rid of the quarters and be done with it.

The gambling that is fun is when you gamble your life. Borrowing against your house to start a business, staying up nights to invent some dodad, playing the stock market, dangerous sports, trying some new variety of seed, beekeeping, motorcycles, hunting especially bow, fishing, living off the land are all incredibly fun. When your decisions affect whether you eat it gets your adrenalin rushing and your daily life achieves an intensity it will never have working for someone. It's the difference between a wild and tame horse or living in a zoo or the jungle.

1 Comments:

  • At 3:10 AM, Blogger Flimsy Sanity said…

    Also eBay is gambling fun. Like Antiques Roadshow in real time. I can teach you grandma's how to do it yourselves- (it isn't fun gambling with other's money or stuff- only your own.)

     

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