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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on July 24, 2018, 11:09:12 PM

It is mostly the church groups and other conservative activists who puts activities such as alcohol consumption and gambling in a bad light. But the biggest irony is that these people are the biggest alcoholics and gamblers, but they do it in secret.

Not all of these church groups and other conservative activists are alcoholics and gambling addicts, there are still some that is in the right path but still, I am really disappointed with those leaders of religions that is doing something that they must not do.

Gambling is not forbidden in our church but a lot of people are portraying it negatively since we are betting money. It is not even banned in our place but the parents are saying it is not a good thing to do. Some people just do it for fun, and don't get me wrong we are just betting cents.

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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on July 24, 2018, 11:09:12 PM

It is mostly the church groups and other conservative activists who puts activities such as alcohol consumption and gambling in a bad light.

Not only them but there are also conservative families who are taking a bad look at gambling and portrays it most of the time as something bad and unacceptable.

Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on July 24, 2018, 11:09:12 PM

But the biggest irony is that these people are the biggest alcoholics and gamblers, but they do it in secret.

That's how life goes, the more someone talks about something it's either he's protecting or covering some secret.

I think you meant to say, the more someone talks against something, and I agree with you because it is true about any forbidden thing or a thing regarded as a bad one. Gambling is just one of the things, which are very bad to you when abused, but can be tolerated or even bring you benefits if used properly. For example, one glass of wine per day considered good for your health in general, but no one would deny that alcohol abusing is a social and medical problem. Gambling as it is shouldn't be portrayed negatively, but the abusing of it definitely should.

Thanks for the correction. Very well said about the example, if its used properly you can have some good time and benefits on it.
But if you have used it on the wrong way and abused it, you are definitely doing it on the opposite way and results will be seen by the crowd and will put all the blame to gambling.
Not because an individual is careless but because of gambling itself.

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Quote from: spiker777 on July 02, 2018, 12:36:35 AM

In some ways it's a great time for gambling. There are a lot of new casinos and sportsbooks opening lately that give out some really nice welcome offers. But there are also a lot of scam sites looking to take advantage of the hype. I think if you are digilgent, and use as many welcome offers and bonuses as you can get, then it's a great time to be playing, and only likely to get better soon as poker takes centre stage.

Despite this, gambling still gets a lot of negative association due to the horror stories of it ruining peoples lives. The media is mostly geared towards sharing the two extremes of the spectrum, e.g. huge winners and huge losers, it forgets that the 99% of players fall somewhere in-between, neither losing too much money, nor winning much either.

Gambling is not good at all and that is the reason that it is portrayed negatively everywhere in the world. There is no benefit of gambling but addicted gamblers cannot quit it easily. A gambler has no respect in society and even in his own home. There are many more bad results of gambling and due to these things gambling is always treated negatively.

Seems, you're getting too far. How did you say gambler has no respect in society and his/her own home? LOL. Just because gambling is portrayed negatively doesn't mean the gambler has no respect. Gambling has nothing to do in being disrespectful of one person.

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Quote from: Daimon88 on June 28, 2018, 03:24:39 AM

I think it is bigger addiction than that of drugs because it can happen that the drugs supply discontinues due to some reasons but these gambling casinos will never be stopped or banned in the country where gambling has more followers because these casinos are paying huge amount of taxes to the governments as well as other amounts.

I would not say it is bigger addiction than drugs since most of the time; the both of them actually play in the same way since they are the kind of addiction that renders their victim irresponsibly useless anyway.

Most psychologists believe that it is the same part of the brain affected by drug addiction that gambling addiction also tends to affect which is more like playing with the mind until it ruins. People's mindset towards gambling is what sets in the addiction, and looking at the fact that the possibility of losing is huge, I still wonder why a lot of people take such risk when there could be better risks to take.

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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on July 24, 2018, 11:09:12 PM

It is mostly the church groups and other conservative activists who puts activities such as alcohol consumption and gambling in a bad light.

Not only them but there are also conservative families who are taking a bad look at gambling and portrays it most of the time as something bad and unacceptable.

Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on July 24, 2018, 11:09:12 PM

But the biggest irony is that these people are the biggest alcoholics and gamblers, but they do it in secret.

That's how life goes, the more someone talks about something it's either he's protecting or covering some secret.

I think you meant to say, the more someone talks against something, and I agree with you because it is true about any forbidden thing or a thing regarded as a bad one. Gambling is just one of the things, which are very bad to you when abused, but can be tolerated or even bring you benefits if used properly. For example, one glass of wine per day considered good for your health in general, but no one would deny that alcohol abusing is a social and medical problem. Gambling as it is shouldn't be portrayed negatively, but the abusing of it definitely should.

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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on July 24, 2018, 11:09:12 PM

It is mostly the church groups and other conservative activists who puts activities such as alcohol consumption and gambling in a bad light.

Not only them but there are also conservative families who are taking a bad look at gambling and portrays it most of the time as something bad and unacceptable.

Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on July 24, 2018, 11:09:12 PM

But the biggest irony is that these people are the biggest alcoholics and gamblers, but they do it in secret.

That's how life goes, the more someone talks about something it's either he's protecting or covering some secret.

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Quote from: spiker777 on July 02, 2018, 12:36:35 AM

In some ways it's a great time for gambling. There are a lot of new casinos and sportsbooks opening lately that give out some really nice welcome offers. But there are also a lot of scam sites looking to take advantage of the hype. I think if you are digilgent, and use as many welcome offers and bonuses as you can get, then it's a great time to be playing, and only likely to get better soon as poker takes centre stage.

Despite this, gambling still gets a lot of negative association due to the horror stories of it ruining peoples lives. The media is mostly geared towards sharing the two extremes of the spectrum, e.g. huge winners and huge losers, it forgets that the 99% of players fall somewhere in-between, neither losing too much money, nor winning much either.

Gambling is not good at all and that is the reason that it is portrayed negatively everywhere in the world. There is no benefit of gambling but addicted gamblers cannot quit it easily. A gambler has no respect in society and even in his own home. There are many more bad results of gambling and due to these things gambling is always treated negatively.

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Gambling according to religion is Haram or forbidden and almost the whole world forbids it, because gambling will have a negative impact and will harm yourself.
and in addition, if gambling continuously leads to an uncontrolled addiction that will make the loss even fall into poverty, winning gambling is just a luck factor and does not keep winning and eventually losing.

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It is mostly the church groups and other conservative activists who puts activities such as alcohol consumption and gambling in a bad light. But the biggest irony is that these people are the biggest alcoholics and gamblers, but they do it in secret.

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Because as the elders say, "gambling are for bad people only". With that mind set of people, they tend to pass that mind set to their community, making that community a hater for gambling. While in some places of the world, they potray gambling as their source of income. Like in L.A, they portray gambling people as the high class because they can play in casinos. It really depends on you on how the word 'gambling' means to you, is it bad or good? It's your choice.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on July 22, 2018, 11:51:14 AM

Gambling is just like smoking or drinking alcohol. The individual who participates in it may lose his money and health. But at the same time, these activities contribute huge amounts of money to the government coffers.

Bullshit government doesn't make shit from most of the gambling activities, only some states in USA has legalised gambling but in majority of the world there are unregulated sites which is one reason why house edge for gambling sites are so low as they don't have to share anything with the government

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Quote from: Sithara007 on July 22, 2018, 11:51:14 AM

Gambling is just like smoking or drinking alcohol. The individual who participates in it may lose his money and health. But at the same time, these activities contribute huge amounts of money to the government coffers.

It gives money to the government through taxes but to the user of those two that you mentioned are mostly losing everything to the user. Unlike in gambling, it may not lose any health related to the gambler. And these beliefs that has been passed for generations believed that gambling was always negative and it will never bring good to the people. That's partly correct but it will only happen if the gambler is really greedy and want to be rich quickly. Everyone has been oriented with the possible result so its portrayed negative all of the time.

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Quote from: NewCryptocasinos on July 24, 2018, 05:04:05 AM

Probably because of the side effects if you over do it.
but its the same with a lot of things, a glace of wine on a Friday is fine, right.

But a bottle per days is not so great.

Gamblers who are obsessed to get money easily through gambling will usually not be concerned about the risks they might get in the future. The one thing that will keep him going is the dream of getting rich with little effort. They forget that with such habits they can get such deep regret. Yes, do gamble once a week will be better than doing it daily. But if it is possible, not doing it at all will be the best!

Gambling got its bad name all over the world since there are already a bunch of bad examples in regards with the gambling side effects. Not only the gambler itself who will suffer from this type of game. People near the gambler could be affected as well ( family members, friends, neighbour, and so on ).

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Probably because of the side effects if you over do it.
but its the same with a lot of things, a glace of wine on a Friday is fine, right.

But a bottle per days is not so great.

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Quote from: aishyoo17 on June 27, 2018, 05:53:42 PM

Because its a way for wasting money instead of making your money useful like spending it the right way. And gambling attracts greediness and all the negative things a gambler can do.

Sure, but it depends on the context: there are greedy people losing money, and unfortunately this is a majority and that is why it has such a general negative feedback. It is like with alcohol. There are abusers and they created all the bad press.

But there are also people who use it as a not-so-regular pleasure in a mild manner and I don't see anything wrong with it.

Gambling is portrayed negatively wherever in the society because it cause bad consequences to the people who don’t know how to control their gambling habit. Many families and relationships was broken because of gambling. It is also a reason to commit crime when an addicted gambler ran out of money to gamble. And mostly of the gamblers are also drunkard and lost their mind when drunk. That is why gamblers have negative impact in the society.

Well, the negative thoughts of people among gambling has never change then. Many people haven't seen any good effect of gambling in the society because of what we've witness in our surroundings that gamble can cause trouble and problem when a gambler becomes addicted to the said vices.

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It is not always portrayed bad tho. There are a lot of games that shows gamblers as the better part versus the casinos. There a lot of movies like 21, like oceans (even tho its about the thiefs and not gamblers its still against the casino owners) like rain man etc etc where people are shown as the protoganist and not the bad guys. So I guess it all kinda depends on why you gamble and not how you gamble. If you have a noble cause, gambling can be portrayed positively.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on July 22, 2018, 11:51:14 AM

Gambling is just like smoking or drinking alcohol. The individual who participates in it may lose his money and health. But at the same time, these activities contribute huge amounts of money to the government coffers.

Yeah, gambling its perceived negatively because its an addiction and it can be very hard to come off it. Also, in most cases individuals can't stop themselves and end in very bad situations like selling even people dear to them, never mind selling their home.

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Gambling is just like smoking or drinking alcohol. The individual who participates in it may lose his money and health. But at the same time, these activities contribute huge amounts of money to the government coffers.

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Since gambling has been used ever since people already had their negative thoughts about GAMBLING, Gambling is actually portrayed in movies as an evil thing, gamblers = drug lords, criminals, serial killers, etc. As you can see that in most movies that GAMBLING is an evil act, since you are using money over money, skill over skill, wit over wit, and in some certain cases wherein your opponent loses it turns out into a royal rumble, this is what most movies portray about gambling, and this is one of the reasons why gambling is portrayed negatively.

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Quote from: aishyoo17 on June 27, 2018, 05:53:42 PM

Because its a way for wasting money instead of making your money useful like spending it the right way. And gambling attracts greediness and all the negative things a gambler can do.

That wasting of money is actually one thing that gambling will always be known for. The thing is that almost every gambler want to win, but higher percentage of gamblers lose with just very tiny percentage winning most of the time.
Looking at that kind of statistics, a lot of people still gamble anyway and still end up looking for what they possibly may never be able to get which is winning not forgetting the fact that the possibility of getting addicted in the process is so much there as well.

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