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01-10-2016, 06:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-10-2016, 06:57 AM by NH watcher.)
Lotteries, meant chiefly for entertainment and diversion, are also most sinister creations of man. I remember fondly watching the movie "Bruce Almighty," where Jim Carrey laments all the prayers that he is burdened with once he is given the powers of God. He quickly develops a system to organize them on his computer, and starts to read the first couple ... growing so completely bored by everyone's pleas and desires, he simply answers "Yes" to all the prayers, turns off the computer, and goes to bed. The next day, the world around him is in chaos.
And those whose lottery prayers he answered, all won, but since all won, millions upon millions, the multi-million dollar prize was reduced to only a $1 or so for each winner.
Or so too the movie "Bedazzled" with Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley, where the Devil (Hurley) gives Fraser a series of wishes, after he signs his soul away to her. Fraser asks to be the most powerful, the most wealthy man on earth, and Hurley makes me a drug kingpin in Colombia, who shortly after getting the identity, is hunted down by the military and arrested. Fraser is confounded ... why would she do such a thing? Hurley very appropriately and calmly says, "all you told me was to be the most powerful, most wealthy man on earth ...," "you never specified that your power and wealth be legal."
No wonder Jesus told His disciples, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his very soul?"
And those whose lottery prayers he answered, all won, but since all won, millions upon millions, the multi-million dollar prize was reduced to only a $1 or so for each winner.
Or so too the movie "Bedazzled" with Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley, where the Devil (Hurley) gives Fraser a series of wishes, after he signs his soul away to her. Fraser asks to be the most powerful, the most wealthy man on earth, and Hurley makes me a drug kingpin in Colombia, who shortly after getting the identity, is hunted down by the military and arrested. Fraser is confounded ... why would she do such a thing? Hurley very appropriately and calmly says, "all you told me was to be the most powerful, most wealthy man on earth ...," "you never specified that your power and wealth be legal."
No wonder Jesus told His disciples, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his very soul?"