Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 28, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday Magazine focus Winn pm from do May 2000 d j but losing not much to winning lottery can be disaster except for the winning a lottery could be a Complete do you want to be a big Winner perhaps youve always dreamed about but could you live with it in real life when people were asked How much Money they needed to be most said 30 to so per cent More than what they the two big winners of an american lottery Are sharing a Jackpot of will that make them a thousand times happier ten thousand times happier or will they have to escape to some secret location and get new identities like witnesses in a police Protection pro Gram psychologists say the stress of Sud Den wealth is As great As sudden it is a life changing Shock similar to being fired or moving to another some lotteries pay out winnings Over Many years to Lessen the Odds of they fear headlines like lotto millionaire now broke and or lottery win Ner loses All in russian do you want people saying that Fate picked and spoiled you that you Are its Favourite Little Darling or As Shakespeare put fortunes could you take the resent ment i recall a draw held for a new car in a Manitoba town some years who won it one of the richest men in slice of life with Sheldon Oberman someone who owned his own car imagine what people were saying about my daughter had a Friend who revealed to As a dark that his Mother had unexpectedly inherited a it took years for the Mother to come out of the a Friend who became suddenly and publicly Rich had to Bear All sorts of i know you made All that some Guys have All the people saw him As different and he he didst have to what was the Point of being productive he had nothing to do but follow his As a big he no longer shared the same motivations and concerns As his his for Good and was his so what a woman once said to me at a if i got Rich id make new others laughed and but i noticed that no one talked to her after my concern is not so much the Shock of sudden it is our pre occupation with becoming a big win if we Are not winners then by definition we Are the Odds Are not Only against the Odds turn us against i recall being in workplaces when the winning lotto numbers were announced and How the gloom set lotteries create a few Lucky hysterics and countless i once won a sizable sum in the Stock i say i won it because i did not earn it and i certainly did not make it Only the government makes i Felt Giddy with i packed some into Sav Ings and blew the rest with remark Able some time later i lost about the same amount and Felt i quit gambling on the All things being whatever plea sure i got from winning was nowhere near the misery i got from i have won some such As awards for my which make me though hopefully not too i know that juries Are commit tees that compare things that often cant be someone else might have won just As As the greeks warn the wheel of Fortune that lifts you up can also pull you i had a Book nominated for a Mcnally an honour that includes from our locally owned Mcnally i thought i was pretty relaxed about the Competition until i entered the theatre and took a seat near the without i reached for a seat huh my subconscious mind 5 the ka1nz family million dollars Tuioi Btu err itch Riata n pop Charles Bennett press Joe Kainz holds the ticket that won him half of a us was warning me to prepare for a bumpy i stayed Cool through the i was even Cool when someone else i was Good Humoured during the recep Tion and i went to bed feeling just the next i woke up feel ing my entire sleep was an Al night review of my worst anxiety some part of me was very perhaps it was my nine year old self who failed half his subjects in Grade maybe it was my six year old self who always struck out at it May have been my three Earold self who didst get a loot bag like All the other the child within me was having a major i didst mind not but i Felt Lousy about Basing ones self esteem on being a Winner or a loser is its a fools game and Only the worst kind of fool would knowingly play but what did i do when friends started a lottery Pool and asked me to join you bet i joined what if they were big winners and i want part of it then you know what everyone would Call and you know what i would Call How could anyone live with that Sheldon Oberman is a Winnipeg see to the the free press welcomes letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone letters May be letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email . Indoor Park for skaters Well on Way i congratulate the free press for run Ning Eva Wei mans Well written and informative May 21 article in favour of our skateboarding kids skateboarders full of i share your opinions and have been working with the City of Winnipeg for quite some time to bring an indoor to our i am Happy to say that we Are Well on our Way to opening a multiplex indoor Park that will Fea Ture inline skating and trick biking i have researched the need for such Park extensively and have been sup ported not Only by the skateboarders but have found numerous churches willing to participate in help ing us to achieve this leaving a few sceptics i believe there is an incredible demand for such a Park and in the it will Only be a win win i thank you for bringing this Issue to everyone attention and i believe there will be a few More understand ing souls on our Side because of your this indoor Park will be com ing City the sooner the Virginia Sperl Winnipeg Bible quotes misleading Giese rechts letter Bible Clear if you read it free May 18 is mislead ing and contains several Many homophobes quote passages from the Bible that have either been mistranslated or Are out of Date in order to spread their message of people often quote from Leviticus which seems to refer to Homo sexuality As an not Only does the passage seem to have been mistranslated the original hebrew text seems to forbid male Temple pros not All but the passage itself comes from an out of Date holiness code that also forbids eating pig or getting a or wearing clothes made from a mix of i would be very surprised of Aries Brecht had never broken any of these so called holy As for Sodom Ana god clearly states Why destroyed the cities if you take a look at Ezekiel the ant Gay propaganda that seems to come from the Bible can easily be explained if people would just be open to other its about time that peo ple set aside their fear and hate and Stop trying to use the holy Book for their own Craig Ross Winnipeg Bible not last word in response to the May 18 letter by Giesbrecht the Bible is a collection of poems and letters written thou Sands of years ago by various most of whom we know very Little the Complete Lack of extra bib Lical evidence for the miraculous Sto As Well As numerous contradictions and unfulfilled Prophe cies seriously Calls into question Chris Tian fundamentalists claims of the Bible being the divinely inspired word of anybody with Access to the internet can Check these facts out for As for your gods stance on Homo i wonder Why an omnipresent deity is so obsessively through his followers concerned with the sex lives of consenting adults when there Are clearly More important issues attention in this if your god Hast we humans could use a Little help Down you Point to the mythical Story of Sodom and gomorrah As an example of the kind of judgment your so called Loving god chose to impose on Homo but there is an even More disturbing event in this in which god dispatches two Angels to Sodom to warn lot a Man of god of the impending destruction of the City so that he May a group of men demand that the Angels come out of lots House so that they May gang rape associated Petesi an indoor Park is on the Way for Winnipeg inline skating and trick Bike Riding enthusiasts but instead of letting the Angels protect lot gives his two daughters to the men to do with them As they lot is not Only saved from the destruction to follow but is considered a righteous Man by a new testament fundamentalist christians love to Point to the Bible As a family values but there Are numerous exam Ples that Tell a quite different since when has the mass Slaughter of women and or babies ripped from wombs and dashed against All sanctioned by been considered family values you May argue that god has changed his ways even though the Bible says his character Doest by creating a new covenant through the sacrifice of but the new testament has made things even worse by introducing the doctrine of eternal hell for All a punishment More abominable then All the injustices committed on the face of this Earth com no wonder no christians come across As being confrontational when people like Giesbrecht claim to be talking for a deity of this track Winnipeg real christians cant choose i have a question for Gladys Kusmack and other christians like her too Many people speak for free May Why Are you christians christians by definition Are followers of who is this Christ you Fol Low and where did you hear about him from the Bible you say that same Bible clearly Points out that homosexuality is a that same and in fact that same commanded his followers to go out and preach the a gospel that preaches repentance from Christ himself often said to those he helped go and sin no he didst say do your own thing and if i dont agree with ill ignore if someone were sleeping in a Burn ing you try to warn them christians who believe the whole Bible believe sins will Send a person to if i believe your lifestyle will land you in is it really love to say nothing people like Gladys Kusmack like to pick and choose what they read from the As they Are not True christians any More than in a Muslim or a if thou Dost not speak to warn the wicked from his that wicked Man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will i require at thine Ezekiel Jamie Hardy Winnipeg include cyclists in Bridge plans the front Page Accident closes historic Bridge free May noted that the train derailment May fast track structural included in this upgrade should be room for commuting the Arlington Bridge is an important con Nector route for All both motorized and at pre the Bridge represents one of the most dangerous routes in Winnipeg to its narrowness and Lack of shoulders Force cyclists to take the entire Lane or risk their lives to motorists trying to squeeze it is to be hoped that any upgrade of the Arlington Bridge would include sufficiently wide shoulders widened multiuse Beth 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