I am leaving covers for a while

I just thought being on covers would make me want to gamble. Thats the only reason I would want to stop coming on here. I dont want to stop gambling but I am not winning any money from it so I dont see the point anymore.

You are right.  Get off covers if it makes you do something you don't want to.  If you are a recovering alcoholic you wouldn't want to be hanging out at a bar would you?  Self control is the best way to do things but for some it also requires that you don't set yourself up for failure.

Good luck, whatever you decide.  I had to stop gambling for several years in my early twenties because I was a gambling degenerate and I decided my family came first.

BOL Leg!  I really don't gamble very much, or very often, just got tired of all the stress.  It has been about a month, and I haven't missed it at all!  Just fun stoppying by here once in awhile to see the old crowd, what is going on, and all the funny shit.

there is no time like the present

Hopefully, God will point you in the right direction.

 BOL

No one likes a quitter...


j/k   hang in there dude  BOL  

I didn't say I was leaving forever. I just said a while. I want to take a break from gambling until I get other things straightened out in my life.

I think what you need is to smoke some great weed & watch 20 straight hours of The 3 Stooges. Then go to  www.pornrabbit.com

Leg you've always been a real honest straight forward guy here in Covers. You don't need luck....you'll be fine.

I went strictly to one bet a day and it dramatically calmed my nerves and bad habits.

We're all human and creatures of habit -just takes awhile to break into a new routine and try not to be hard on yourself. Ancient Chinese say 42 exact days to break anything in your life that needs fixing. I honestly live by that.

Interesting. They also say it takes 21 days to make a habit.

Care to quote any verses backing up these statements ? Jesus was a wine drinker himself, but warns us of the pitfalls of drunkeness not drinking.

My weekend schedule! 

 

can i ask when exactly you put it on her? cause i dont think she is going to win man.  Sorry to hear that.

I think its very good that you are going to church and trying to clean up your act. I wish u the best.

i dont think christ or the bible condemns gambling, drinking, smoking... only if its excessive.

Dude you just need to stop the porn. No wonder you cant get a girl interested. You have NO agression in your eyes or your body. Girls smell that on you. Its fucking wierd i know but trust me its like a sixth sense. Trust me just stop the porn and that fierceness(what i call it) will return and so will confidence and youll be beating girls off with a stick. Now that includes jerking it homie. So no porn, no jerking, give it maybe a month about youll see what im talking about.

Either way GodBless

AAAAH, MELTDOWN!  NO NO NO NO

COVERS is NOT the problem.  I've literally been gambling dollars once every few days on the little things that I know fit my M.O. (my best plays - when I actually gamble I hunt for plays and end up betting half the board because I 'HAVE TO') and I'm on covers all the time.  I used to drink a ton (while posting on covers at that time) and now I very rarely have more than 2 beers (wedding tomorrow is one of those special occasions though) and still post on covers.  Just stick to the GD... when you go back to the forums when you have been disconnected from the games it will actually be humourus all the bad angles you see.

Onto the god thing... just my opinion of course but...

GOD is not PUNISHING you for being bad.  You live like shit, and you reap what you sew.  I know in your mind you have good intentions, you're probably even a pretty good guy, but that doesn't mean that GOD is going to make your life good when you don't put in any work trying to improve yourself and get wasted all the time and jerk off all day to ragingstorm's thread.

This god, the guy with this arms raised in the air and a halo over his head who watches down on you from the clouds, is seriously on the level of the tooth fairy IMO.  If you are going to be religious put a little thought into it - I don't have any idea what people would label me, religiously, I wouldn't want to name it anything anyway, if its even anything other than plain atheism (I don't know, don't care what it would be labeled like I said) but I do think there is something greater keeping things in line on some level - whether that is karma (whether that means a running tally of what will get you back in the end, or simply that your decisions and other inputs create your material ends that you are looking for), the sun and the solar system around us (which we have discovered, which rules that out for most people), or the most likely -- something that is just way over our heads.

Its just my opinion, but why bother with the rules, punishments, sinning, and 'Gods plan'?  Legwand, you and I both know that when it comes down to it you can always just make compromises or justify your actions in your own mind to get around the rules, after all, Jesus will wipe the slate clean if you think he should, right?    The way of living that makes sense to me is simple - treat people how you want to be treated, have a little more respect for yourself and try hard as it may be to do the same for the people around you, and don't be fucking stupid.  Here's a good way to decide if an action that you are thinking might be morally wrong: if it were a rule that EVERYONE in the world made the same decision in your position would there be problems and chaos or not?  I can't remember if that was from Kant or John Stuart Mill or some other philosopher whose name I will never remember even though it is actually a way that I live my life, but if you think about it you'll see that its actually pretty genius.  The only flaw IMO is the same as any moral philosophy - compromises.  Let's say your thinking about driving home drunk... if everyone did the same thing every time they got drunk it would be chaos.  BUT you start saying "well... I'm only 5 miles from home and I'm probably only a few drinks over the legal max, if people could drive home drunk within 5 miles it wouldn't be so bad."

The moral of the story (no pun intended) is that ultimately YOU determine everything at this point.  YOU decide what is right and wrong and YOU will create your immediate future so YOU need to make a decision about who you want to be.  As as it is, the rest of your life starts today, I hope its a good day for you Legwand

I hate how every time I put time and thought into a post I end up coming back at some point to say something about weed...

...but a joint probably wouldn't hurt things Watch your favorite movie and chow down on some munchies and enjoy yourself a little bit.  Even you don't have to be stressed out all the time... relax a little -- then go do something.

If weed is so relaxing, why is it that yesterday on the news I read that a warning has been issued for Americans to curtail their vacationing to Jamaica due to potential violence? 

Just something to think about.

Did you really just relate the physical effects of smoking weed to the inherent drug violence created by prohibition and the staggering class differentials in Jamaica?