Do You Phase Or Are You Slowing Down Your Gambling Activity When....

[Lida93]

Muslims do not gamble at all, so you can take that off your thread. For the other religions, I do not think anyone should gamble so compulsively that they would need a break from it during religious activities.

I gamble in my spare time and it does not interfere with my day at all.

- Jay -

The Muslim religion might frown against gambling but that doesn't stop some Muslim faithfuls from gambling in their quiet time. I know a few Muslim friends that observes and keep to the Muslim rites and worship activities but yet they do gamble, but however they don't do that publicly like myself but one thing I know for sure is that they don't gamble within those days of their fasting periods.

To myself, I don't gamble on regular basis or more like a career that I needed a break from gambling at certain religious observation periods and mostly with the holidays that accompany such periods it's even more fun with as you have to play the gamble with a few colleagues that their work schedules don't give the chance of you guys always hanging out together at the casino.

I just believe that whatever thing you do there should be a level of moderation to avoid abuse irrespective of your religious perception about that activity.

[Ever-young]

Did you slow down or are you taking a vacation? how long is your vacation before and after the religious activity?

I am not gambling frequently. So why the need for me to take a break. If I have the time to gamble, I will gamble. If I do not have the time, I will not gamble. My gambling activities is not about festive period. It is about having time to gamble. During the festive period, I might have time to be with friends and gamble together which is fun for me.

It's interesting how you draw your view about gambling, when you say your gambling habit is about being able to make time it rather than feeling like you need to take a break from it simply means you're not and addict but have total control of your gambling life which is very impressive.

And yes gambling isn't something that should be tied to a religious activity or something, I mean gambling isn't an illegal activity that people should hide and do, some countries only prohibit it, not because it's illegal but because of its danger. So whether as a Christian or Muslim or any other religion, you can gamble when you're free even in the midst of a program (not in the middle of a service though, for Christians)

[irhact]

Did you slow down or are you taking a vacation? how long is your vacation before and after the religious activity?

In my case, I usually slow down and stop all my gambling activity, two weeks before the religious activity so I can fully reflect on my religion, and after the religious activity, I usually take a week before I get back to my normal gambling activity.

You participation in this discussion is appreciated.

I always respect my religious activities therefore I don't gamble during this periods, I'll take a break one week before the activity and will also stay some days or one week after the activity. I don't gamble everyday therefore taking a break isn't a big deal for me. I know there are some gamblers that are addicted to gambling and they'll be doing it every time even when they're in their religious places or having a program that they need to connect with their creators but that's their problem not mine.

During this religious periods I'll spend time with my family and friends as most of them are having the same beliefs like me therefore we'll all be free during this period and since are always busy, it's always a good time for us to meet  and catch up with things that are going on in our lifes. I don't like to gamble in public or let anyone close to me to know that I'm gambling therefore I won't think about gambling.

[Betwrong]

I'm talking about religious activity..

The Christians have the Holy Week and it lasts for a whole week.


The other religions I did not mention have activities or festivities that their followers and believers must observe.

Did you slow down or are you taking a vacation? how long is your vacation before and after the religious activity?

In my case, I usually slow down and stop all my gambling activity, two weeks before the religious activity so I can fully reflect on my religion, and after the religious activity, I usually take a week before I get back to my normal gambling activity.

You participation in this discussion is appreciated.

First off, to even consider these things you have to be a religious person. I'm not. I don't want to say that I don't believe in God, but all religious organizations in the world don't satisfy me, so to speak. So my gambling activity isn't affected by any religious events in any way. To be honest, I often don't know why people are greeting me in a particular day.

[Outhue]

When you said holy week I believe you are talking about the fasting period? Both Christian and Muslims always stop their bad habits in this period of time, drinkers, smokers, gamblers, they all stop and go holy for the weeks or months, but after this period is over they return. 

You are to stop your gambling activities if you want to participate in the holy activities, and when the holy period is over you can return, mind you, I believe we are just deceiving ourselves, if you are a real Christian you won't go into anything that's forbidden by your holy book.

Going back to gambling makes me believe that you knew what's wrong and what's right, meaning you are a fake Christian, you are just deceiving yourself, there are millions of people like you, all in the name of God forgives you are intentionally going against his words.

Gambling is a perfect fit for those who are not religious, intentionally going back and forth is making your sin massive.

[Gozie51]

Gambling is a perfect fit for those who are not religious, intentionally going back and forth is making your sin massive.

I think this is a good caption for this because there is no point going back and forth of gambling as you are trying to pretend to yourself about your gambling habit during the time that it is not religious reserved season and going back to what vomit you have had.

If someone will drop your habit because of some certain purpose and after picking it up then they are playing a double standard and living a pretentious life style. So it is better to stay with one life style that will make people know where you belong instead of jumping in and out because you don't want people to judge you whereas you are already judging yourself with the habit of dropping gambling and later picking it.

[Natsuu]

I will stop my gambling activities until the religious event is over. It doesn't matter if the event lasts for two weeks or more because I am not an active gambler who often gambles.

Those are the times I relax for a while by not thinking about gambling. And at that time, I will follow the event too and enjoy it with my family. It will be an exciting moment for all of us.

I can back to gambling after the event is over. I can save my allocated funds for gambling because I stop it until the religious event is over.

Right? There's nothing wrong with it. It's a belief so people wont get too attached to worldly things. It's that once you start to distance yourself from gambling during the holy week, you'll learn to analyze what is really important and discipline yourself. The intentional distancing from certain activities during religious events can indeed foster reflection and discipline. It's a unique way to prioritize what truly matters

[Porfirii]

I personally don't slow down during the Holly Week, in fact I use to take a little trip and it is common practice in my country to buy lottery tickets when you are on vacations in a different location.

On the other hand, I have already talked about it several times, but in Christmas we have a special lottery with a 70% of participation,
the biggest by far compared to any other game. So, at least in Spain, gambling activity increases in holidays, no matter if these are religious holidays or not.

[Dewi Aries]

I am not gambling frequently. So why the need for me to take a break. If I have the time to gamble, I will gamble. If I do not have the time, I will not gamble. My gambling activities is not about festive period. It is about having time to gamble. During the festive period, I might have time to be with friends and gamble together which is fun for me.

It's interesting how you draw your view about gambling, when you say your gambling habit is about being able to make time it rather than feeling like you need to take a break from it simply means you're not and addict but have total control of your gambling life which is very impressive.

And yes gambling isn't something that should be tied to a religious activity or something, I mean gambling isn't an illegal activity that people should hide and do, some countries only prohibit it, not because it's illegal but because of its danger. So whether as a Christian or Muslim or any other religion, you can gamble when you're free even in the midst of a program (not in the middle of a service though, for Christians)

Yes because you will not experience any problems if you have the right approach to gambling, meaning that gambling activities will in no way interfere with the activities you have in real life, and healthy people are those who can manage everything according to their portions whether in terms of time or in terms of the amount of budget when you are involved in gambling.

I think it is only those people who take gambling too seriously that make them have to think about how to divide gambling time with other activities in life such as dividing time with religious activities, because for someone who only treats and addresses gambling as an activity that is not too important then indirectly they do not need to have a plan to divide the time between gambling and doing other activities in life, it is very easy for you to do if you have a rational mindset in looking at gambling.

[darkangel11]

I personally don't slow down during the Holly Week, in fact I use to take a little trip and it is common practice in my country to buy lottery tickets when you are on vacations in a different location.

On the other hand, I have already talked about it several times, but in Christmas we have a special lottery with a 70% of participation,
the biggest by far compared to any other game. So, at least in Spain, gambling activity increases in holidays, no matter if these are religious holidays or not.

There's nothing like celebrating holidays with a little bit of special Christmas gambling
I'm not criticizing this but it feels a little funny to me because in some places people see gambling as an offense against religion and, as you're proving, in other places there's tradition that involves gambling during these days of celebration.
I usually do what I feel like doing, so if it's allowed to go to work during holidays, or to drink alcohol, have fun with friends in a pub, why not gamble? We wither limit ourselves in every way and spend time with our families, or we go out and have fun. It depends on the tradition in the place where you live. In my area holidays are just days where you don't have to work and can relax. If you relax playing cards, or watching football, you can do it.

[Huppercase]

I'm talking about religious activity..

The Christians have the Holy Week and it lasts for a whole week.

The other religions I did not mention have activities or festivities that their followers and believers must observe.

Did you slow down or are you taking a vacation? how long is your vacation before and after the religious activity?

In my case, I usually slow down and stop all my gambling activity, two weeks before the religious activity so I can fully reflect on my religion, and after the religious activity, I usually take a week before I get back to my normal gambling activity.
You participation in this discussion is appreciated.

I don't this is really a big deal to some people because holidays are holidays but there is something special about Holidays, I don't joke about it, I spend it wisely and throughout these period I don't do anything, not work nor do anything that will take much of my time, even if I have a client, I tell them that I'm not available and refer them to others that love to do much work but as for me, a holiday is a break to cool down the brain, spend time with your family or relatives, go to outdoor activities, not everything has to be money and money all the time, gambling is not too fun to me.

Gambling that will make you do research when making picks, look at the head to head, each performance of the team and what there place and because you will be making may picks, you will have to do more of it. When will I have time for my religious activities, it's better to just let's things be as most of the time predictions in this period is always difficult to.win, even the teams will focus on the holiday than the next games they have and will make you lose games.

[dothebeats]

In the season of Lent, I usually take things easy and reflect on the activities that I do. I still gamble, but most of the time I'm out there just minding myself and trying to slow things down, be it work or whatever. I am not a devout Christian nor am I someone who is very religious, but I still follow and observe the activities of Christians all around the world in the season of Lent.

After that though, I still go back to my old habits, with a clear head and understanding that I am not to be consumed by these activities but rather I can put an end to it if need be.

[mirakal]

I have high respect with religion so I make sure I have no gambling activities during that time. And I can’t say that I am slowing down since I’m not into gambling most often, I just gamble when I have this instinct of winning, but the rest of the days I just work on my trades as well as being active in the forum.

Majority of the religions see gambling as a bad habit. So regardless of what kind of religion we are in, it’s normal to see gamblers slowing down their activities to pay respect to their most valuable days in their religion.

[passwordnow]

For the sake of respect whether you're a believer or not and if that's what everybody is doing, I might just stop and wait for sometime to gamble again when they're done and goes back to their old lives. Maybe a day or two will be enough already right with all of these stoppage and paying respect to the religions that everybody has on my neighborhood and relatives? If not, then I'd wait patiently for the time when I resume because if that's what they think is the right thing to do then I'll just go with the flow so that I won't get bashed by these people and will hear that I have no respect for them, for their belief and religion.

Because it's so hard to move nowadays that every single thing of your action will have a counterpart and feedback from anybody. So, with that, we just want to get perfect with those moves so that we will hear no one telling things that are going to make us problematic about it so, it's better to hear nothing and just follow the tradition than to hear something and have a hard-head of not following them.

[STT]

If anything I gamble more on holidays especially the holy ones, I guess this all varies by religion but I dont find there is a conflict especially so long as im not risking anyone's life or livelihood like the next food budget and we'll starve.   That would be pretty grim but betting is often part of church they run lotteries to fund the church expenses and the prizes are quite moderate, its all seen as being charitable as you allow the church to run a small enterprise easy to setup and the prizes can be donated even.

The game ultimately is for fun and thats my overall attitude to gambling, I hope never to take it too serious or I would probably lose more when doing so from nerves!

[oktana]

I’d like to know your honest response to this: do you think gambling is a sin? You seem to be a Christian so answer this. While i hope for your answer, do you stop the gambling because you think it is wrong or you’re trying to pay more attention to the events or whatsoever?

For me if I wanted to gamble anytime I would but i can say that there would be moments when you think that gambling would give you a divided attention or maybe it could be disrespectful to God.

[angrybirdy]

I'm talking about religious activity..

The Christians have the Holy Week and it lasts for a whole week.


The other religions I did not mention have activities or festivities that their followers and believers must observe.

Did you slow down or are you taking a vacation? how long is your vacation before and after the religious activity?

In my case, I usually slow down and stop all my gambling activity, two weeks before the religious activity so I can fully reflect on my religion, and after the religious activity, I usually take a week before I get back to my normal gambling activity.

You participation in this discussion is appreciated.

I will share to you not my own experience but this is my uncle's experience, Since he is developing gambling addiction and his family is devoted Roman catholic, he finds it as a difficult phase in his life every year because when holy week season comes, He and his family are going to province just to commemorate holy week and that means, no more gambling for that week. He is not allowed to do anything related to gambling because for sure his wife will be more angry to him, He said to us that in order for him to stop looking for gambling, he focused his attention on doing other things in the province such as helping with cooking, taking care of housework and going for a walk during holy week. Their family often went to church so that was one of the things he did and believe me, after a few years of this happening to him, he noticed that he was able to limit himself from gambling, unlike when you are in the city , anytime you can go to the casino houses.

[michellee]

I will stop my gambling activities until the religious event is over. It doesn't matter if the event lasts for two weeks or more because I am not an active gambler who often gambles.

Those are the times I relax for a while by not thinking about gambling. And at that time, I will follow the event too and enjoy it with my family. It will be an exciting moment for all of us.

I can back to gambling after the event is over. I can save my allocated funds for gambling because I stop it until the religious event is over.

Right? There's nothing wrong with it. It's a belief so people wont get too attached to worldly things. It's that once you start to distance yourself from gambling during the holy week, you'll learn to analyze what is really important and discipline yourself. The intentional distancing from certain activities during religious events can indeed foster reflection and discipline. It's a unique way to prioritize what truly matters

That's my reasons to leave gambling for a while. I often do this, take a breaks from gambling because I have another activity to do. I don't forces myself to playing gambling often because I know that will affect my finance. With stay away from gambling for a week or two during the holy week, I can attending religious celebrations with my family.

Yeah, that will help me to distracts my minds from thinking about gambling. Even if no religious celebrations, staying away from gambling is a must to avoid addiction and doing other activities. If we can take a breaks from gambling, we will not depends on gambling for pleasure.

We need to manage our times to do many things, not just playing gambling, to balance our life. By doing that, we can use gambling for a fun and enjoy our life.

[Hirose UK]

If anything I gamble more on holidays especially the holy ones, I guess this all varies by religion but I dont find there is a conflict especially so long as im not risking anyone's life or livelihood like the next food budget and we'll starve.   That would be pretty grim but betting is often part of church they run lotteries to fund the church expenses and the prizes are quite moderate, its all seen as being charitable as you allow the church to run a small enterprise easy to setup and the prizes can be donated even.

The game ultimately is for fun and thats my overall attitude to gambling, I hope never to take it too serious or I would probably lose more when doing so from nerves!

Apart from religious activities which are truly sacred, gambling will not actually affect anything, as long as we can become religious believers who can truly prioritize worship then gambling will not be problem whatsoever.
Everything will depend on how each gambler is also religious follower, this will be related to sense of responsibility and also awareness that religious activities or worship are the most important.
However, it is not possible for everyone to do it because everyone perspective and mindset is different, there are many people out there who are religious or have belief in God but do not want to carry out religious activities and worship.

And from what you say there are many truths that can be found in reality.
There are even some areas that do have charity lottery bets and they manage them with the aim of using the profits to help people in need, this will actually still be considered gambling but has very good benefits.

You already have good attitude and from here you can know to determine what is obligatory and what is not and you can even decide what is good and bad for living life.
I myself also have no influence on anything, I know what I have to do and when to do it so there will be no problems related to contexts like this.

[Wexnident]

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Hell no. My family are Christians and so I do tend to follow them whenever there are events and the like related to religious activities but I've never let it restrict me in terms of whatever I want to actually do. I don't think there are any restrictions whatsoever and my family knows I gamble and they never really make me stop whenever such events happen. Ofc I still have the decency to not gamble whenever I'm in the church or when I'm participating in any related events but that's about it.

If anyone were to argue that I'd have to make adjustments to my habits or activities because I'm religious, then they'd better prepare an argument that does not stem from the idea that gambling is being "unholy" or something related since I'd immediately write them off as a religious fanatic, which would equate to needing no conversation since it really isn't going to go anywhere.