One of the cases I have been involved with recently was featuring one group of fighting cock breeders in the city, at ‘war’ against another group of similar trade and industry and both were vying for supremacy. I was not, I am not, and will never be a fighting cock breeder myself, excuse me, for, with due respect to both parties, I think it’s a foul giving a fowl more expensive necessity than the kind I do in my own body.
Both groups are not your typical hoi polloi, as they’re members of society’s bourgeois class like those written about by somebody named Tolstoy.
In this war, I have to exercise better discretion and judgment with every move, for I’m just a pawn in the game of kings, bishops and rooks, ready to be disposed of. I know I don’t need only to calculate my every step, but I have to make sure the sure win option will always be the one I’d pick.
I don’t have to play the game these breeders, who are also betting aficionados, play in flight. Like placing bets on one winged gladiator but uncertain who’d win the fight. Of course, they can’t go for both protagonists or on both they would delve, unless their only purpose in life is simply to fool themselves. Gambling is only two things: in it, one either loses or wins. And most of the time, gamblers would turn out losers in the end.
There may be some in the world called “lucky” people, but not for long and they are few and far between. You may wonder why although they’re the bad kind yet the same have more blessings. “These are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches,” as Psalms 73:12 has said. But Apostle Paul admonished, “What shall we say then, shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid…” (Romans 6)
I wasn’t born a gambler; I knew that since I was a kid, for I was afraid to lose even when only a beer tin crown was our bet. No wonder many times in the past did I let opportunities of the heart to pass, but realizing the situation now sans any rush, it turned out everything “[worked] together for good” indeed for those who believed and loved.
But the ultimate end of all things depended solely on all of our choices in life anyway. If we did not weigh it then carefully the result of which later would turn out unfavorable very most likely.
There are now a lot of self-confessed wise men armed with the best argument but only according to the finite mind of men, which disputes the existence of God, Hades and Heaven. And I remember long ago in Kirayan the then young pastor Elbern Latorilla’s preaching. It was something like if we would do it like cockpit bettors and gamblers then bet that it’s true that there is God, Hell and Heaven.
For granting arguendo everything in the end is myth and farce indeed, then, at least you lived life according to morals, law, order, respect, love and decency. But what if you had bet otherwise and it turned out that it would be true, as it is written and believed to be, that Christ will come and judge everyone, imagine the terrible and horrible outcome of losing miserably.
You bet, the choice is no brainer. Whether you are or no gambler.
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