Greek Pope Casino

Into my first month of Greek and almost halfway through the first module. My initial gungho-ness is now tempered with realism as I struggle with masculine, feminine and neuter forms of words. Things I should have known from primary school like pronouns, prepositions, nouns, adjectives had to fished out of a remote memory. Others had to be freshly born. I have no inkling what are indicatives, subjunctives, predicate ... (faint)

Just last week, I started dreaming in Greek for 2 nights consecutively. Of course, the dreams were simple, since my Greek vocabulary is rather limited at the moment. Suffice to say, I decided to take a break from Greek vocab for a while.
It's almost like the other time when I dreamt I was pregnant. (occupational hazard) ... I actually was more upset that I was an unwed "father" rather than with the fact that I was actually pregnant ... anyway ...

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So the Pope passed away. Thoughts ran through my mind as I wondered if such a great saintly man had gone to heaven. Such pomp and ceremony at his funeral...
I came to the following conclusions -
1) Great works do not guarantee entry into the Lord's bosom, regardless of how high a pedestal one is placed in.
2) A real relationship with the Lord is the key

So is the pope in heaven ? I hope so. I hope he had a real living relationship with the God that he represented to the world.

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So the casinos are here to stay, after they are built, that is.

So much huffing and puffing by everyone.

It's kind of funny that people are grappling with the issue of gambling with the casinos when everyone is already burning their pockets with 4D, Toto, Turfing etc.
Nobody seemed to mind these.

So what's the issue ? Gambling or casino ?

I wonder if anyone has considered setting up a church within the integrated resorts ? Or would that be too taboo ? Or would that be being "salt and light" ?

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