Funny isnt it... It always boils down to money with guys like Ding Ding Ding Ding.. But then one always hears that sound of money in the casinos which are not unlike the places Ding visits like the Catholic Church when they pass around their donation plate... Ding Ding Ding...
Hey everything has its place. A friend once took me to lunch at a restaurant in a casino and two quarters I had put in my pocket that were in the ashtray telling self, "Self don't forget to put those in a slot machine after lunch before leaving". Those two quarters provided enough for groceries for a few weeks when things were pretty slack. I generally don't gamble as it is to hard earning it just to throw it away but it did work out that one day.
Churches in NV are said to often accept casino chips as donations. *Oy vey*
Your story can be intuitive or selective recognition.
Christianity ITSELF is based on poorly
and fallaciously forced selective recognition, while Christians DARE to question my PROVEN AND QUALIFIED intuitive gift.
Being what you bring up, it reminds me of a time in my last year of High School where the last month is no longer meaninful to grades and school attendence becomes less and less closer to the final week.
I was infamous for doing the whole skipping out thing done up right- almost like the movie Ferris Bueller. Most kids went to McDonalds, I would go to South Street in Philly and grab a Steak sandwich at Pats, or take the free reimbursed bus trips to Atlantic City Casinos even though I didn't gamble you get the free trip and hang by the water and boardwalk with a fresh hot bag of planters peanuts.
Well one of those last days of High School trying to decide what to do my friend holds a deck of cards pulls one out and asks me, what card am I holding, well when I quickly responded with the right card we both looked like deers in headlights at each other and at the same time blurted out that this meant we had to go to "Atlantic City!"
And yes the only time I ever did gamble(besides stock market *L*) I won Roullette and Slots picking the right machines, but my friend would lose it all back. Luck goes in waves, but my intuitive
skills does not and I've freaked out many a people over the years because of it. People who never heeded my warnings about looming Gulf wars before they joined the Navy, warnings about Saddam, warning about the Baath party's long range goals (now called Isis), warning about living in NO under sea level (hell that's just common sense), warning about bullying in schools causing a rise in shootings, warning about protesting riots, etc etc.
The majority of the MIKra (i.e.the Bible)
is based on story after story of prophets warning people that don't ever listen even as they prove right and helpful all along.
Why have a lifeline from the stable perfected world to come to our unstable imperfect world in your houses if you aren't gonna pick it up and gain insight about good and poor choices by reading the result of their choices to save you from yours?
What else would be the purpose of such book proven to be from that which already knows? Nostradamus knew this and used the secreting of Torah his Grandfather taught him, to help guide his predictions.
He also used methods to enhance his intuitive gifts, one particular one which even the church uses that dates back to the Temple priests.
