Becoming A Professional Gambler

Anyone who takes down a big score while gambling has thought about it.

What would it be like to be a professional gambler?

What would it be like to live in Vegas and gamble for a living?

pro gambler playing roulette - adding chips Now, The King is not going to be the person to stop you from pursuing your dreams.

However, you need to know how many "professional" gamblers live before you make an informed decision regarding your future.

Many professional gamblers are broke or close to it.

Many professional gamblers owe great sums of money to other gamblers - lending and borrowing is very prevalent in the gambling community.

Many professional gamblers go through "boom" and "bust" cycles where they are either doing really well, or struggling just to get by.

Many professional gamblers liquidate assets whenever they are on a downswing. This leads many to have zero in the way of net worth. No houses, cars or other investments. Many have either cash or jewelry as their only assets.

Many professional gamblers live "off the radar", meaning that they don't file taxes or have any other sort of similar activity.

Many professional gamblers are divorced and have broken families.

These are just facts. While not ALL professional gamblers lead this type of lifestyle, most do.

The King's recommendation?

Keep your job and play at night and on the weekends. Take multiple trips to Vegas every year if you want (hey, it's dirt cheap right now). Just don't quit your day job, because this is a tough business.

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Short History of Rich Man

Rich Egyptian

Rich Egyptians lived in large, comfortable houses with many rooms. Walls were painted and floors had colored tiles. Most wealthy houses had enclosed gardens with pools. Inside their homes rich Egyptians had wooden furniture such as beds, chairs, tables and chests for storage. However instead of pillows they used wooden head rests.

Toilets consisted of a clay pot filled with sand. It was emptied regularly. Most important of all rich people owned slaves who did all the hard and unpleasant work!

Egyptians wore jewelery. Those who could afford it wore jewelery of gold, silver and precious stones.

In ancient Egypt as in all early civilizations meat was a luxury and only the rich could afford to eat it frequently. The Egyptians ate sheep, pigs, cows and goats but meat often came from ducks and geese. However fish were plentiful in Egypt.

The Egyptians ate many vegetables including, marrows, bens, onions, lentils, leeks, radishes, garlic and lettuces. They also ate fruit like melons, dates and figs. Pomegranates were quite expensive and were eaten mainly by the rich.

For entertainment the Egyptians loved parties. If a rich person invited you to a feast singers, musicians, dancers, jugglers, wrestlers and jesters would entertain you. Musicians played wooden flutes, harps, lutes, drums and clappers.

At a rich person's banquet guests were given a cone of perfumed fat to put on their heads. It slowly melted leaving the wearer smelling nice.

Egyptians loved hunting and fishing. (For the rich hunting was for pleasure. For the poor it was for food). Men caught birds with nets or by throwing curved sticks. Fish were caught with hooks or harpoons.

Boys from wealthy families sometimes learned to be scribes. They learned by copying and memorizing and discipline was strict. Teachers beat naughty boys. The boys learned reading and writing and also mathematics.

Life Of A Poor People

In the world Life of a poor People is very difficult and painful

1) He wears rags, is weak, no happiness on his face, he is sad, he is frustrated, he is dirty, his clothes are torn and therefore, from he very look on this person we can say that he is a poor man

2) He lives in a mud house, he lives in a hut, he is sleeping under the open skies, he is dumped in some small room,

3) He has got no prescribed items for his breakfast, for his lunch and for his dinner. He is to fill
the belly and whatever is available and at what time that is available, he takes those items offering thanks to the God.

4) It is not necessary that the items he is eating are fresh, hot or preserved for him, but he takes the same without considering the fact that the items shall create some trouble for him and it must be accepted that the bacteria available in his body would counter the bacteria coming from outside and he shall digest whatever he has taken.

5) He has got no arrangement for the summer or for the winter and no science and technology is helping him in these hot days and in these cold days. He has learnt the art of bearing all these colds and all the hot

6) He can remain ill and even then he can work because he has got no money with him to get proper treatment. There are many free hospitals and dispensaries for the poors ,but since no medicines are available in those units, he suffers and there are chances that he may die and very few people shall come to help him.

7) We can recognize a poor person because his children shall not be going to school. They are deployed on work so that they could compensate the lower income of the house. The states have passed laws, but still they are not bothering that the children are in the schools. They have banned child labour, but no machinery has been establish to find out all the children and get freedom for them and if they get such a freedom for them, the state is not interested in taking up the responsibility of these children and therefore, the parents can establish them at another work till they are caught by the state for the second or third time

8) The poor man could be recognized when he is being scolded by the employer.

9) A man is poor when he has got no savings with him for the rainy days. It is on record that even the state could not provide them security when they are ill, when they are in family way, when are handicapped or are admitted in a hospital for long term treatment.

10) We can locate poor children when they are given books, stationery items, lunch and summer clothes in the schools in presence of the children who have come from rich families and thus the state is trying to condemn these children to inferiority complex from the beginning and such children would never be able to face the children from rich families.

11) We must accept that when the police beat a person in a police station, he is a poor man because rich and powerful people come out from police custody more healthy and happy.

12) We can notice poor people standing in rows and casting their votes, but after this rehearsal, they are pushed back to suffer for another term of five years. They are not allowed to approach the candidates who have won through their votes.

Best Tips for Teen on How to Help the Poor

What can you, a teenager who doesn't have a lot of money or resources, do to help the poor and needy?

More than you think. Most young adults are blessed with the creativity and intelligence to find ways to help others despite limited resources. Here are some tips that can perhaps start the creative process:

1. Give a portion of your allowance each week to a poor and needy person or a cause in support of them

How much is your allowance or your salary from your part-time job? Not much, you might say. The great thing about giving though is that in about 99 percent of cases, you are not restricted to how much you can give to help the poor and needy.

2. Encourage your parents to pay Zakat

Zakat is something too many Muslims neglect. If you are eligible to give Zakat, you must pay. If you aren't eligible, ask your parents about Zakat and if they pay, how and to whom. If they do not give Zakat, respectfully and politely emphasize to them the importance of this necessary pillar of Islam and encourage them to start paying it. Use wisdom and beautiful preaching.
3. Encourage a family Sadaqa (charity) project

Get the whole family to pitch in at least once a month to a worthy cause by organizing a family Sadaqa project. Call a family meeting (if you've never had one of these, this is a great time to start) and discuss your idea. Then come to an agreement on how everyone can help the poor. Whether it's contributing a set amount a week as a group with Dad giving the money to the Masjid after Friday prayers or setting up a box somewhere in the house where family members can privately donate, you all decide.

4. Talk about it in your youth group

What are the first steps in finding solutions to problems? Dua (supplication) then brainstorming and discussion.

At your next youth group meeting, put the difficulties of the poor and needy in your community on the agenda. Simply discuss and brainstorm. You don't have to come up with a plan all at once. But discussing this will start the process and keep it in people's minds.

If you don't have a youth group, get your friends together. Instead of having the usual hang out time one day, substitute this with a formal meeting. Now you have a youth group that can do this exercise.

5. Visit a poor part of town

How many big cities have "poor quarters"? Almost every single one. Sometimes, we need to see the reality of poverty right in front of us to really believe it's there, especially if we live in a financially well-off part of a city.

Go with your youth group to visit these areas. You don't have to necessarily bring money or food for them (although that wouldn't be a bad idea). Talk to the people, if they are willing to be approached, about living conditions and how they ended up there. Prepare yourself for an eye-opening experience.

6. Do a class presentation on poverty

Stumped about what to do for a school assignment? Why not talk about the plight of the poor in your community. Do your research thoroughly. Get statistics on poverty, real stories from books and perhaps even video- or audiotaped interviews of the poor and homeless. Show the human face of poverty. Follow the presentation up with a class collection for the poor.

7. Don't just collect money

There are plenty of basic necessities that people have to meet. Some people can't afford new shoes. So hold a shoe drive (some teens have already done this - read this link about it). Others cannot afford clothing. Hold a clothing drive. Collect the material, arrange for cars, vans or trucks to transport it to where it's needed, then make sure the material is properly distributed.

8. Write about poverty in your school paper

Have you got a knack for writing? Then write about poverty in your school newspaper. Educate your student body not just with words, but photos too, if possible. If you've visited a poor part of the city (see tips above), then you have plenty of material and personal material to write about.

9. Write about Zakat and Sadaqa in your Masjid newsletter

Does your Masjid have a newsletter? If so, dedicate the next issue to the topic of Zakat and Sadaqa and how they help the poor and the needy. You can interview an Imam to get the basics straight. You can also include various charitable causes readers can give their money to locally to help the poor and needy.

If you don't have a Muslim youth newsletter, maybe this can be your premiere edition.

10. Put the information on a website

If you put the above-mentioned newsletter or at least some of the articles online, you 'll probably have more young people reading it than if you limited the information to print only.

11. Collect money in your group

After your next group meeting, pass around a box to collect donations for the poor and needy. Better yet, make this a weekly practice. Make one person responsible for collecting the money and sending it off after consulting everyone on which cause it should be sent for.

12. Organize a youth seminar on poverty

Get a youth-friendly Imam or speaker to come and talk about how Islam has successfully fought against poverty in the past and can continue to do so in the present. Then, after his lecture, hold a workshop with participants and come up with 21 ideas of how the audience and Muslim teens in general can help fight poverty in America and abroad Islamic-ally.

Dealing with Life Ups & Downs

As my experience i feel that LIFE is difficult then the death because we have to face many difficulty in life.We faces many ups and downs in LIFE.

By Elizabeth for XquisitLife
Sacrifice isn't always easy, but the reward is priceless!

By Vicki Ward

Dealing with life’s ups and downs is hard, very hard. Everyone has a different burden, a different schedule and a different way of dealing with their burdens. Some have everything all planned out while the flip side is flying by the seat of their pants. Either way it is a still a hectic rat race with the end of the day winding down and still a pile of unfinished business to attend to. What to do about it? Ask yourself, “If my To Do List is longer than my day, am I doing what is important or only what is urgent?”People do what they want to do. All of us make choices.

Life can be like a roller coaster ride, full of ups and downs. Time with God can help smooth some those extremes. If you spend time with God in the morning you’ll feel refreshed and ready for the new day. If you spend time with Him in the evening, you’ll go to sleep relaxed, resting in His care. Either way, time with your heavenly Father is never wasted

by Debbie Robus
I've had my share of ups and downs in the last 51 years. I know that God will see me through all situations, and I trust Him to do so. And usually, I do not have trouble dealing with life's ups and downs.

But can I be real with you for a minute? For several weeks, I have had an unsettled spirit. I have been bothered and upset by petty things that I knew shouldn't matter. I have acknowledged this as the work of the devil to try to throw me off course. And still, I have struggled with these issues. I have prayed about them and asked for guidance and relief! I guess you could say I have felt as if I were in a "Spiritual drought!" Have you ever felt this way? Have you ever wondered where your deepest joy went and how to get it back again?

Proverbs 16:1-9 tells us "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. (Scripture taken from the King James Version, 1987 printing. The KJV is public domain in the United States.)

I have good news! This passage speaks directly to those of us "wandering in the desert" so to speak. "Commit thy works unto the Lord..." "When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him." In other words, I need to be looking harder for ways to please the Lord. I need to be focusing more on HIS work and HIS goals, and HE will take care of the devil and any forces at work to pull me away from the joy He brings to my life.

I'm sure you are thinking, "yeah, sure... that sounds too easy!" We need to realize that being a Christian doesn't guarantee us a life of joy and warm fuzzy feelings. We must stay constantly alert and pay attention to our Spiritual health, feeding and nurturing it with the tools God provides. I'm not going to tell you that it will be easy - the devil is a strong force who doesn't give up! But, GOD is far more powerful. "My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." (John 10:29 KJV) So be encouraged. "Spiritual droughts" can end, and the flood of God's joy can come again. Life will have ups and downs, but with God on our side, we can handle anything. Recommit yourself to prayer and Bible study and spending time in His presence. Ask God to show you how to best serve Him in your daily living, and see where He leads you! It is my prayer that God's blessings rain down on you and fill you in ways you can't even imagine - and that your life's ups and downs are always under contro

True Meaning of life? Who are we?

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

Is the reality we know a reality imposed to us by nature? Is the reality and the meaning of life a creation of men, such as music, or love or colors (science tells us that there isn't such things as music, harmony or colors in the physic world. Just traveling molecules: «There is not, external to us, hot or cold, but only different velocities of molecules; there aren’t sounds, callings, harmonies, but just variations in the pressure of the air; there aren’t colours, or light, just electro-magnetic waves», said H. Von Foerster.).

Are we - and all living beings - just «survival machines, blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes», as Richard Dawkins states? Are we incapable of knowing beyond the frames imposed to us by nature?

Is there any significance for life in a Universe of billions of stars that ignore us? Is there any significance for life in an Universe whose dimensions and nature overcome our understanding?

Listen to the words of Pascal, in the seventeenth century:

«When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity that lies before and after it, when I consider the little space I fill and I see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I rest frightened, and astonished,
for there is no reason why I should be here rather than there. Why now rather than then? Who has put me here?By whose order and direction have this place and time have been ascribed to me?»Pensees (Penguin Classics)

Listen to Shakespeare and Joseph Conrad:

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep